WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.919 Our text this morning is Ephesians chapter 5. 00:00:07.179 --> 00:00:16.000 Two weeks ago I had the privilege of going to the Social Security office to get a new Social Security card. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:21.679 ! I walk into the office and the Federal Security guard calls me over real politely. 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:28.320 He quietly tells me that the knife in my pocket needs to go back to my vehicle. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.299 I was shocked for a number of reasons. 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:33.399 First, for his request. 00:00:33.500 --> 00:00:35.619 Second, that I actually had my knife in my pocket. 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:37.980 I don't usually carry one around. 00:00:38.120 --> 00:00:42.439 And third, it's only about two inches long, so I don't know. 00:00:43.620 --> 00:00:50.039 He saw the shock on my face and he proceeded to tell me that weapons are not allowed on Federal property. 00:00:51.299 --> 00:00:56.579 If you've never been to the Social Security office, the new location in Gainesville, it's in an office building. 00:00:57.780 --> 00:00:59.359 Below it is a doctor's office. 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:00.820 The law office next to it is a law office. 00:01:00.820 --> 00:01:03.640 So how in the world am I on Federal property? 00:01:04.140 --> 00:01:08.760 Because I'm pretty sure the law office and the doctor's office are not Federal offices. 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:16.920 When I walked through the door into the Social Security office, I was stepping into and onto Federal grounds. 00:01:18.500 --> 00:01:20.539 That moment, I was on Federal ground. 00:01:20.659 --> 00:01:23.680 I was told by the Security guard and there was nothing I could do about it. 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.920 I had to abide by his laws. 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:31.180 In all honesty, there's probably signs posted that I didn't see. 00:01:32.100 --> 00:01:33.640 I'm sure there are signs posted. 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:40.180 I would make an argument this morning that the same effect should occur when people come in contact with us. 00:01:40.780 --> 00:01:49.939 That when they come in contact with us, we should have signs up figuratively that people know exactly who we are, where we stand, and that we are Christians. 00:01:49.939 --> 00:01:55.920 We are adopted sons and daughters of the King. 00:01:56.399 --> 00:02:04.359 So friend or foe, enemy or acquaintance should know exactly where we stand. 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:08.900 I'm afraid that too often our signs aren't even up. 00:02:09.780 --> 00:02:13.780 I'm afraid too often the doorways aren't marked in our lives. 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:20.060 And there's no difference between us and the world, between Christians and the world. 00:02:20.780 --> 00:02:26.259 A couple of weeks ago, Nathan talked about six things to look for in a healthy church. 00:02:27.139 --> 00:02:31.659 One of the things he mentioned was missional church, to find a church that is missional. 00:02:31.659 --> 00:02:42.740 A church that believes that everyone, as Christians, are ministers sent into the world to build the kingdom of God for the glory of God. 00:02:43.780 --> 00:02:47.979 I would argue that living missional lives is how the signs stay out. 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:51.159 It's how everyone knows where we stand. 00:02:51.300 --> 00:02:53.400 Our doorways are marked. 00:02:54.359 --> 00:02:58.379 And people will know exactly where they are and who they are in the presence of. 00:02:58.379 --> 00:03:07.879 I am not advocating prideful arrogance because we are adopted kings, adopted sons and daughters of the King. 00:03:08.539 --> 00:03:13.319 I'm advocating a sincere life changed by the Gospel. 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:19.579 I would also argue that being missional is not this one thing we do. 00:03:19.579 --> 00:03:26.460 It's not this event that we put on or this outreach that we do or this particular Bible study that we study. 00:03:26.460 --> 00:03:37.420 It isn't the specific way that you talk or the clothes that you wear or the way that you choose to live a certain time. 00:03:38.180 --> 00:03:40.120 Being missional is life. 00:03:40.939 --> 00:03:46.900 It is a life that has been changed by the Gospel and is now compelled to love all. 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.700 Friend and foe, neighbor and family, enemy and companion. 00:03:51.699 --> 00:03:55.439 Missional is our subject this morning. 00:03:56.519 --> 00:04:05.019 My goal is for all of us to be moved, convicted and compelled to put up a sign and make ourselves known to the world. 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:08.780 Ephesians 5.1 is our text this morning. 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:09.899 One verse. 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:12.079 And it reads, 00:04:12.079 --> 00:04:16.620 Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children. 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:18.139 Let's pray together. 00:04:18.139 --> 00:04:18.219 Amen. 00:04:18.219 --> 00:04:18.219 00:04:18.219 --> 00:04:18.219 00:04:18.219 --> 00:04:18.219 00:04:18.219 --> 00:04:18.219 00:04:21.699 --> 00:04:26.399 Gracious Heavenly Father, 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:28.639 hallowed be Your name. 00:04:30.099 --> 00:04:31.300 Your kingdom come. 00:04:31.379 --> 00:04:32.560 Your will be done this morning. 00:04:33.719 --> 00:04:37.319 I pray that You would speak through me. 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:41.639 That the words that are spoken would not be my words, not my opinions, not my thoughts, 00:04:41.719 --> 00:04:43.439 but be Your words to us this morning. 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:50.939 That we would hear Your words and we would follow Your words with obedience, whatever that requires. 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:51.959 Repentance. 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.920 A step in being a little more bold. 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:59.519 Whatever that is, God, we would be moved by Your word this morning. 00:05:00.819 --> 00:05:02.759 The Gospel has already changed our life. 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.920 It's already made us new creatures. 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.680 God, I pray that it would change our actions as well. 00:05:12.779 --> 00:05:14.259 We would not hinder that from happening. 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:17.800 We ask that You move this morning. 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:19.500 That You would speak to our hearts. 00:05:20.139 --> 00:05:23.620 Your Holy Spirit would continue to move in this room and in our gathering. 00:05:24.180 --> 00:05:25.599 I pray this in Jesus' name. 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:26.639 Amen. 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:26.779 Amen. 00:05:26.779 --> 00:05:27.219 Amen. 00:05:28.419 --> 00:05:31.339 So let me define missional for you. 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:37.119 The definition I want to use is from a book entitled Community by Brad House. 00:05:37.219 --> 00:05:37.659 He says, 00:05:37.799 --> 00:05:46.699 Missional is to participate in the mission of God as a response to the Gospel through proclamation and practice. 00:05:47.599 --> 00:05:55.379 So, participate in the mission of God as a response to the Gospel through proclamation and practice. 00:05:55.379 --> 00:06:01.519 Before we dig any deeper into the ground of missional living, we must look at the Gospel. 00:06:01.659 --> 00:06:03.279 The end of the definition says, 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:07.500 As a response to the Gospel through proclamation and practice. 00:06:08.180 --> 00:06:11.779 A missional life lives in response to the Gospel. 00:06:12.699 --> 00:06:20.120 The life-changing act of the Father sending His Son to earth to live a sinless life. 00:06:20.459 --> 00:06:21.459 Romans 8.3 00:06:21.459 --> 00:06:25.000 For God has done what the law we can by the flesh could not do. 00:06:26.039 --> 00:06:31.239 By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin. 00:06:32.219 --> 00:06:40.939 God the Father sent His Son to earth to be sin, to bear the wrath of God for us, His body, the church. 00:06:41.799 --> 00:06:45.560 We are undeserving and in fact we did not desire Him. 00:06:46.259 --> 00:06:48.560 He showed us favor for His glory. 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:50.459 He showed us grace. 00:06:50.819 --> 00:06:51.480 His grace. 00:06:51.579 --> 00:06:54.819 Because He is a merciful and gracious God. 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:57.980 Now, as children of God, we sit here. 00:06:58.839 --> 00:06:59.980 We sing songs. 00:07:00.100 --> 00:07:01.379 We go to work during the week. 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:02.579 We sit in a classroom. 00:07:02.980 --> 00:07:10.279 And because of Jesus, our standing with God is as if no sin had ever been committed. 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:16.019 Because our sin was taken away and given to us was Jesus' righteousness. 00:07:17.859 --> 00:07:22.239 Some may say that we were neutral recipients of the grace of God. 00:07:22.339 --> 00:07:26.139 That we do good and we do bad and it just kind of evens out. 00:07:27.139 --> 00:07:33.259 The law tells us that we were actually in overdrive, driving the opposite direction of God. 00:07:33.259 --> 00:07:37.500 Running from Him as sinners in rebellion of Him. 00:07:38.719 --> 00:07:40.399 We weren't just undeserving. 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:44.599 We were guilty and deserving of the full wrath of God. 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:49.339 And He showed us grace by sending His Son for us. 00:07:49.339 --> 00:07:52.859 God the Father has sent His Son. 00:07:54.239 --> 00:07:58.939 And in John 20, 21, it says that Jesus then sends us. 00:07:59.259 --> 00:08:04.079 He says, as the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you. 00:08:04.799 --> 00:08:06.099 Not just His apostles. 00:08:06.599 --> 00:08:07.699 Not just the disciples. 00:08:08.359 --> 00:08:10.699 But all Christians are sent. 00:08:11.699 --> 00:08:15.379 We are sent in the world, as Romans 8 tells us, 00:08:15.379 --> 00:08:19.040 as ambassadors of Jesus, as ambassadors of the Gospel. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.060 This is missional living. 00:08:22.779 --> 00:08:25.319 In response to the Gospel. 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:26.420 From the Gospel. 00:08:26.740 --> 00:08:27.699 Out of the Gospel. 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:29.899 Because of the Gospel. 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:31.659 This is missional living. 00:08:33.139 --> 00:08:34.460 Ephesians 5.1 says, 00:08:34.460 --> 00:08:38.899 Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children. 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:42.220 I want to unpack the second part of the verse first. 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:43.899 As beloved children. 00:08:43.899 --> 00:08:48.179 We are beloved children because of the Gospel. 00:08:49.299 --> 00:08:50.779 Romans 8.15 says, 00:08:51.139 --> 00:08:54.240 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, 00:08:54.539 --> 00:08:58.319 but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons, 00:08:58.419 --> 00:09:00.959 by whom we cry, Abba, Father. 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:03.100 Ephesians 1.5 says, 00:09:03.620 --> 00:09:08.960 He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ. 00:09:10.220 --> 00:09:11.579 Ephesians 1.5 says, 00:09:11.579 --> 00:09:12.500 Through Jesus Christ. 00:09:12.500 --> 00:09:13.240 For what part? 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:14.440 His entire life. 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:15.500 Sinless. 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:17.820 Perfect sacrifice for us. 00:09:18.820 --> 00:09:20.779 Turn to Hebrews 9.10. 00:09:21.899 --> 00:09:23.399 I'll show you something really quick, 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:24.659 and then we'll come back to Ephesians. 00:09:25.259 --> 00:09:26.379 Hebrews 9.10. 00:09:26.379 --> 00:09:40.299 Chapter 9, verse 11. 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:44.960 But when Christ appeared as a high priest for the good things that have come, 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:47.240 then through the greater and more perfect tent, 00:09:47.340 --> 00:09:48.220 not made with hands, 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:49.600 that is, not of His creation, 00:09:50.059 --> 00:09:53.259 He entered once for all into the holy places, 00:09:53.259 --> 00:09:56.000 not by means of the blood of goats and calves, 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:57.460 but by means of His own blood, 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:00.259 thus to securing an eternal redemption. 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.019 For if the blood of goats and bulls, 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:06.939 and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of heifer, 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:09.419 sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:12.159 how much more will the blood of Christ, 00:10:12.259 --> 00:10:14.179 who through the eternal Spirit, 00:10:14.580 --> 00:10:17.000 offered Himself without blemish to God, 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.820 purify our conscience from dead works, 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:21.419 to serve the living God. 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:23.480 Now, what I want to show you is, 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:24.460 in verse 12, 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:26.460 He says He entered once for all. 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:29.080 Once and for all. 00:10:30.460 --> 00:10:31.559 Look at verse 12. 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:33.100 Or, I'm sorry, not verse 12. 00:10:33.299 --> 00:10:33.879 We just read that. 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:35.659 Verse 26 in chapter 9. 00:10:37.460 --> 00:10:39.980 For then He would have had to suffer repeatedly 00:10:39.980 --> 00:10:41.200 since the foundation of the world, 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.500 but as it is, He has appeared once for all. 00:10:45.500 --> 00:10:46.440 Verse 28. 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:48.860 So Christ having been offered once 00:10:48.860 --> 00:10:50.480 to bear the sins of many. 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:51.559 Chapter 10. 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:52.860 Verse 10. 00:10:53.179 --> 00:10:55.419 And by that, 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:56.679 will we have been sanctified 00:10:56.679 --> 00:10:58.820 through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ 00:10:58.820 --> 00:11:00.299 once for all. 00:11:01.419 --> 00:11:02.700 And again, in verse 12. 00:11:02.980 --> 00:11:05.259 But then Christ had offered for all time 00:11:05.259 --> 00:11:08.220 a single sacrifice for sins. 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:11.179 You have been adopted once and for all. 00:11:11.179 --> 00:11:12.019 It is over. 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:14.480 You're always part of the family. 00:11:14.659 --> 00:11:15.659 You will not be let go. 00:11:15.659 --> 00:11:17.879 You will not be discarded. 00:11:19.139 --> 00:11:20.639 Once and for all. 00:11:20.719 --> 00:11:21.600 It is finished. 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:22.799 You are a child of God. 00:11:23.199 --> 00:11:24.240 And Ephesians 5. 00:11:24.299 --> 00:11:24.639 1 says, 00:11:24.719 --> 00:11:27.120 A beloved child of God. 00:11:27.199 --> 00:11:28.639 And nothing will change that. 00:11:31.100 --> 00:11:32.559 We are children of God. 00:11:32.659 --> 00:11:34.059 And we are to imitate God 00:11:34.059 --> 00:11:36.620 as children of God. 00:11:36.620 --> 00:11:39.159 I started thinking about my kids 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.039 and the imitation of me 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:41.980 that they do. 00:11:43.179 --> 00:11:43.980 They do it. 00:11:44.860 --> 00:11:46.220 If you don't have kids yet, 00:11:47.139 --> 00:11:48.360 here you go. 00:11:49.100 --> 00:11:51.259 I've got an experiment for you. 00:11:52.100 --> 00:11:53.620 Parents, try this at home. 00:11:53.700 --> 00:11:54.720 See how long it takes. 00:11:55.100 --> 00:11:56.259 Siblings, older siblings, 00:11:56.460 --> 00:11:57.159 try this. 00:11:57.820 --> 00:11:58.879 And then when you have kids, 00:11:58.980 --> 00:11:59.460 try it. 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:02.840 Do some goofy dance move 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:04.500 and see how long it takes them 00:12:04.500 --> 00:12:05.480 for them to add it 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:06.180 to their repertoire. 00:12:07.139 --> 00:12:07.780 It will happen. 00:12:07.980 --> 00:12:08.560 I've seen it. 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:10.519 It will happen. 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:11.759 It won't take long. 00:12:13.060 --> 00:12:14.040 Kids and children 00:12:14.040 --> 00:12:15.780 imitate their parents 00:12:15.780 --> 00:12:16.860 for the good 00:12:16.860 --> 00:12:18.160 and for the bad. 00:12:19.160 --> 00:12:21.120 Children also trust their parents 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:22.080 and are in complete 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:23.420 dependence of them. 00:12:24.460 --> 00:12:25.019 They're dependent 00:12:25.019 --> 00:12:26.200 for all their needs. 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:28.120 You don't see a four-year-old 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:29.300 shopping for groceries, 00:12:30.300 --> 00:12:31.000 but they have them. 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:32.860 You don't see a ten-year-old 00:12:32.860 --> 00:12:34.080 shopping for insurance, 00:12:34.860 --> 00:12:35.860 but they have it. 00:12:36.259 --> 00:12:37.740 You don't see a fourteen-year-old 00:12:37.740 --> 00:12:38.759 shopping for a house, 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:39.740 but they live in one. 00:12:41.259 --> 00:12:43.500 Guys, we are beloved children of God. 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.019 We must be dependent on Him 00:12:46.019 --> 00:12:47.080 and Him alone. 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:49.679 Children also are nurtured 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:50.519 by their parents. 00:12:51.940 --> 00:12:53.559 The love and support they need 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:55.759 is there from the parents. 00:12:56.299 --> 00:12:57.740 The touch and feel they need 00:12:57.740 --> 00:12:58.200 is there. 00:12:58.940 --> 00:13:00.019 Let me take a moment here. 00:13:00.019 --> 00:13:02.259 Some of you don't have parents. 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:04.259 Some of you haven't received 00:13:04.259 --> 00:13:05.039 nurture from them 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:06.059 in a really long time. 00:13:06.220 --> 00:13:07.919 Maybe your dad has never said, 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:08.539 I love you. 00:13:09.340 --> 00:13:10.840 Maybe he's never hugged you. 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:13.139 Maybe your mom has never 00:13:13.139 --> 00:13:14.039 complimented you 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:15.579 or told you that she loves you. 00:13:16.379 --> 00:13:17.679 Maybe you never have had 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:18.519 real parents. 00:13:19.620 --> 00:13:20.399 Be comforted. 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:21.860 Be comforted 00:13:21.860 --> 00:13:22.799 because this verse 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:23.759 is for you. 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:26.799 As beloved children, 00:13:27.460 --> 00:13:28.159 He loves you 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:29.759 and He wants to nurture you. 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:31.819 He wants to hold you 00:13:31.819 --> 00:13:32.779 and take care of you. 00:13:33.620 --> 00:13:34.579 Your Heavenly Father 00:13:34.579 --> 00:13:36.079 can and will 00:13:36.079 --> 00:13:37.019 fill that void. 00:13:38.339 --> 00:13:39.600 Allow Him to heal you. 00:13:39.779 --> 00:13:40.600 Allow Him to be 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:41.620 your nurturing Father. 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:44.259 Allow Him to heal you. 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:46.039 Let go of whatever 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:46.899 is hindering you 00:13:46.899 --> 00:13:48.219 from that happening. 00:13:50.219 --> 00:13:51.719 Children are taken care of 00:13:51.719 --> 00:13:52.620 by their parents. 00:13:52.620 --> 00:13:54.919 and we are taken care of 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:55.960 by our Heavenly Father 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:58.419 as beloved children 00:13:58.419 --> 00:14:00.460 imitate God. 00:14:01.019 --> 00:14:02.320 So how do we imitate God? 00:14:02.340 --> 00:14:04.039 Without digging down deep, 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:05.519 we know there's some things 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:06.679 that we just can't do. 00:14:07.220 --> 00:14:08.419 We can't redeem 00:14:08.419 --> 00:14:09.360 a people. 00:14:10.100 --> 00:14:12.820 We can't forgive sins. 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:15.240 That is where the Gospel 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:16.120 comes into play. 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:18.419 That is where the Gospel 00:14:18.419 --> 00:14:21.079 works. 00:14:21.839 --> 00:14:22.919 I looked at just 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:23.959 the book of Ephesians. 00:14:25.740 --> 00:14:26.819 Just one book. 00:14:27.659 --> 00:14:28.439 And I went through 00:14:28.439 --> 00:14:29.219 and I marked 00:14:29.219 --> 00:14:33.059 what God does. 00:14:33.139 --> 00:14:33.539 If we're going to 00:14:33.539 --> 00:14:34.159 imitate Him, 00:14:34.219 --> 00:14:35.339 let's see what He does. 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:36.559 So real quick, 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:38.819 kind of a quick run through 00:14:38.819 --> 00:14:39.699 of Ephesians. 00:14:39.979 --> 00:14:40.819 Six chapters. 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:42.860 In chapter 1, verse 3, 00:14:42.980 --> 00:14:45.259 God blessed us in Christ 00:14:45.259 --> 00:14:47.139 with every spiritual blessing. 00:14:47.139 --> 00:14:49.679 chapter 1, verse 4, 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:51.240 He chose us in Him 00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:52.960 to be holy and blameless. 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:55.620 Chapter 1, verse 5, 00:14:55.699 --> 00:14:57.939 He adopted us as sons. 00:14:58.779 --> 00:14:59.559 Verse 7, 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:01.379 He redeemed us 00:15:01.379 --> 00:15:02.659 and He forgives us. 00:15:03.699 --> 00:15:04.419 Verse 11, 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:06.480 He has given us 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:07.159 an inheritance. 00:15:09.500 --> 00:15:10.659 Verse 17, 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:12.939 He gives us a spirit 00:15:12.939 --> 00:15:14.460 of wisdom and revelation 00:15:14.460 --> 00:15:15.879 in the knowledge of Him. 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:17.679 He makes it possible 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.320 for us to know Him. 00:15:20.019 --> 00:15:21.419 In chapter 2, verse 4, 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:23.320 He is rich in mercy. 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:24.259 He is merciful. 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:27.059 Also, verse 4, 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:28.460 He has great love. 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:31.480 Verse 13 of chapter 2, 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:33.600 He gathers His children close. 00:15:35.019 --> 00:15:35.960 Verse 14, 00:15:36.059 --> 00:15:37.039 He is our peace. 00:15:37.419 --> 00:15:38.320 He unites. 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:40.139 Verse 16, 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:41.259 He is peacemaker. 00:15:41.259 --> 00:15:43.779 Verse 22, 00:15:44.179 --> 00:15:46.139 He continues to work. 00:15:47.740 --> 00:15:49.059 In chapter 3, verse 2, 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:50.379 He is the giver of grace. 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:52.779 Chapter 3, verse 8, 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:55.580 He is bearer of unsearchable riches 00:15:55.580 --> 00:15:56.600 in Christ. 00:15:58.179 --> 00:15:59.740 Verse 19 of chapter 3, 00:15:59.939 --> 00:16:02.240 He has love that surpasses knowledge. 00:16:03.939 --> 00:16:05.200 Chapter 4, verse 1, 00:16:05.259 --> 00:16:06.059 He calls. 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:08.779 Verse 7 of chapter 4, 00:16:08.819 --> 00:16:10.039 He is the giver of grace. 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:13.519 Verse 16 of chapter 4, 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:14.879 He is the head of the body 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:15.839 and He makes it grow. 00:16:16.579 --> 00:16:17.860 This is what God does. 00:16:18.139 --> 00:16:19.539 Verse 21 of chapter 4, 00:16:19.599 --> 00:16:20.459 He is truth. 00:16:21.740 --> 00:16:22.480 Verse 32, 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:23.360 He forgives. 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:25.599 Chapter 5, verse 2, 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:27.620 He has made a sacrifice for us. 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:28.699 Verse 8, 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:29.980 He is the giver of light 00:16:29.980 --> 00:16:32.079 so that we can walk in light. 00:16:32.839 --> 00:16:34.039 Chapter 5, verse 23, 00:16:34.139 --> 00:16:34.779 He is the Savior. 00:16:34.779 --> 00:16:36.600 Verse 29, 00:16:36.819 --> 00:16:38.939 He cherishes the church. 00:16:41.059 --> 00:16:42.339 Chapter 6, verse 4, 00:16:42.379 --> 00:16:44.059 He disciplines and He instructs. 00:16:45.179 --> 00:16:45.819 Verse 8, 00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:47.059 He is the giver of good. 00:16:48.019 --> 00:16:48.679 Verse 10, 00:16:48.740 --> 00:16:50.240 He is strong and mighty. 00:16:51.620 --> 00:16:52.519 Verse 24, 00:16:52.659 --> 00:16:54.559 He has an incorruptible love. 00:16:55.459 --> 00:16:57.519 Now there's 65 more books in the Bible 00:16:57.519 --> 00:16:58.480 that we should go through 00:16:58.480 --> 00:16:59.860 and figure out what God does. 00:16:59.860 --> 00:17:02.240 Because that's just one of them 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:03.860 and it's a daunting list. 00:17:04.220 --> 00:17:06.779 How in the world can we imitate God? 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:09.920 The answer is by being missional. 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:12.900 In response to the Gospel. 00:17:13.660 --> 00:17:14.180 Missional. 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:15.960 The definition is to participate 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:17.240 in the mission of God 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.579 as a response to the Gospel 00:17:19.579 --> 00:17:22.640 through proclamation and practice. 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:23.860 See, our message, 00:17:24.180 --> 00:17:25.120 it can redeem. 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:28.099 We can forgive because of the Gospel. 00:17:28.439 --> 00:17:30.399 We can love because of the Gospel. 00:17:31.719 --> 00:17:32.859 And when we do so, 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:36.079 we live in response to the Gospel. 00:17:37.379 --> 00:17:39.579 So that list there that I just ran through, 00:17:39.619 --> 00:17:40.779 that's what God does. 00:17:40.979 --> 00:17:42.279 That's what God does. 00:17:42.339 --> 00:17:42.699 So then, 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:44.139 what is His mission? 00:17:44.739 --> 00:17:45.619 In other words, 00:17:45.719 --> 00:17:47.739 why does He do those things? 00:17:49.419 --> 00:17:51.079 God's mission can be summed up by, 00:17:51.419 --> 00:17:53.319 God's mission is to be glorified 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:55.039 by making Himself known. 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:58.579 So how does He accomplish this? 00:17:59.339 --> 00:18:00.159 God's mission, 00:18:00.259 --> 00:18:03.099 be glorified by making Himself known. 00:18:03.879 --> 00:18:05.159 Well, He accomplishes this 00:18:05.159 --> 00:18:06.199 by sending Jesus 00:18:06.199 --> 00:18:08.519 to redeem His people, 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:09.939 to build His clean kingdom 00:18:09.939 --> 00:18:11.199 and to glorify the Father. 00:18:12.159 --> 00:18:14.379 And then by Jesus sending us. 00:18:16.299 --> 00:18:17.679 Jesus sending us, 00:18:17.719 --> 00:18:20.339 as we read in John chapter 20. 00:18:20.339 --> 00:18:22.919 Matthew 28, 00:18:23.099 --> 00:18:24.359 verse 18 through 20, 00:18:24.459 --> 00:18:25.299 is the Great Commission. 00:18:26.980 --> 00:18:28.819 These are our marching orders. 00:18:31.259 --> 00:18:33.480 Verse 18 of Matthew 28 says, 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:35.980 All authority in heaven and on earth 00:18:35.980 --> 00:18:37.039 has been given to Me. 00:18:37.940 --> 00:18:39.880 Go therefore and make disciples 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:41.299 of all nations, 00:18:41.900 --> 00:18:43.740 baptizing them in the name of the Father 00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:45.420 and of the Son 00:18:45.420 --> 00:18:46.759 and of the Holy Spirit, 00:18:46.900 --> 00:18:48.099 teaching them to observe 00:18:48.099 --> 00:18:49.519 all that I have commanded you. 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:50.160 And behold, 00:18:50.660 --> 00:18:51.640 I am with you always 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:53.960 to the end of the age. 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:56.140 These are our marching orders. 00:18:56.539 --> 00:18:58.759 We are sent into the world. 00:18:59.860 --> 00:19:00.819 And this go here 00:19:00.819 --> 00:19:02.340 is in our going. 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:03.559 Or as we go, 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:04.680 as we walk, 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:05.579 as we work, 00:19:05.700 --> 00:19:06.620 as we sing, 00:19:06.740 --> 00:19:07.660 as we talk, 00:19:08.819 --> 00:19:09.559 make disciples. 00:19:10.940 --> 00:19:12.120 The good news here 00:19:12.120 --> 00:19:13.920 is we see this list. 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:15.140 We've read through that list 00:19:15.140 --> 00:19:15.799 of Ephesians 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:16.779 of what God does. 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:18.419 We see this Great Commission. 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:19.419 The good news is 00:19:19.419 --> 00:19:20.639 that we don't have to do 00:19:20.639 --> 00:19:21.480 anything new. 00:19:23.779 --> 00:19:25.099 We don't have to create 00:19:25.099 --> 00:19:26.059 a new program 00:19:26.059 --> 00:19:27.319 to reach the lost. 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:28.500 All we have to do 00:19:28.500 --> 00:19:30.059 is join God 00:19:30.059 --> 00:19:31.700 in what He's already doing. 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:33.599 Join Him 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:35.079 on His mission. 00:19:35.639 --> 00:19:36.839 He's already working. 00:19:37.399 --> 00:19:39.259 He's already making Himself known. 00:19:41.099 --> 00:19:42.539 We have been invited 00:19:42.539 --> 00:19:43.779 to join Him. 00:19:43.779 --> 00:19:45.819 We join God 00:19:45.819 --> 00:19:47.940 by living missional lives. 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:49.500 By imitating Him 00:19:49.500 --> 00:19:50.619 out of the Gospel 00:19:50.619 --> 00:19:52.819 and not for the Gospel. 00:19:54.299 --> 00:19:55.519 Out of the Gospel, 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:57.720 not for the Gospel. 00:19:59.099 --> 00:20:00.579 The definition was 00:20:00.579 --> 00:20:02.119 in response to the Gospel 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:03.299 by proclaiming 00:20:03.299 --> 00:20:04.480 and practicing 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:05.700 the Gospel. 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:08.500 The church is the messenger. 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:11.000 The universal church. 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:12.399 Not Christ's family church. 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:13.660 Not Church of Dahlonega. 00:20:13.779 --> 00:20:15.359 Not First Baptist of wherever. 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:16.920 The church. 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:18.019 The big church. 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:18.799 Capital C. 00:20:18.940 --> 00:20:20.099 Is the messenger 00:20:20.099 --> 00:20:21.460 of salvation. 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:22.500 Not the means 00:20:22.500 --> 00:20:23.480 of salvation. 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:25.039 So we proclaim 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:26.700 the message 00:20:26.700 --> 00:20:27.639 of salvation 00:20:27.639 --> 00:20:28.220 to the world. 00:20:28.639 --> 00:20:29.639 God sends us. 00:20:29.740 --> 00:20:30.879 Jesus has sent us. 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:31.720 And we proclaim 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:32.720 the message 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:33.819 of salvation. 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:35.559 In Luke chapter 4 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:36.920 verse 43, 00:20:37.139 --> 00:20:37.859 Jesus says, 00:20:37.859 --> 00:20:39.179 I must preach 00:20:39.179 --> 00:20:39.919 the good news 00:20:39.919 --> 00:20:40.439 of the kingdom 00:20:40.439 --> 00:20:40.979 of God 00:20:40.979 --> 00:20:41.979 to the other towns 00:20:41.979 --> 00:20:42.559 as well. 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:44.519 For I was sent 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:46.219 for this purpose. 00:20:47.459 --> 00:20:48.240 Jesus was sent 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:49.579 to preach the good news. 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:50.659 The good news 00:20:50.659 --> 00:20:51.419 about Himself. 00:20:52.459 --> 00:20:53.179 And we then 00:20:53.179 --> 00:20:53.699 are sent 00:20:53.699 --> 00:20:54.259 to preach 00:20:54.259 --> 00:20:54.939 the good news 00:20:54.939 --> 00:20:55.579 of Jesus. 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:58.799 As John chapter 20 00:20:58.799 --> 00:20:59.819 verse 21 says, 00:20:59.919 --> 00:21:00.519 As the Father 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:01.159 has sent me, 00:21:01.779 --> 00:21:02.559 Jesus speaking, 00:21:02.959 --> 00:21:03.519 even so 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:04.500 I am sending you. 00:21:05.339 --> 00:21:06.119 So as the Father 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:06.779 has sent me, 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:08.019 I then am sending 00:21:08.019 --> 00:21:08.640 you out. 00:21:09.539 --> 00:21:10.960 We are to imitate 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:12.140 God by joining 00:21:12.140 --> 00:21:14.200 Him in His mission. 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:16.359 By joining Him. 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:16.539 See, 00:21:17.460 --> 00:21:18.359 missional is not 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:19.259 this new idea. 00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:20.940 Missional is not 00:21:20.940 --> 00:21:21.880 this new buzzword, 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:22.579 although it is 00:21:22.579 --> 00:21:23.240 a buzzword. 00:21:23.619 --> 00:21:24.559 It is a popular 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:25.420 word to speak 00:21:25.420 --> 00:21:26.619 in Christian circles. 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:28.259 Missional is 00:21:28.259 --> 00:21:29.000 the command 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:29.799 of God. 00:21:30.619 --> 00:21:31.359 It is the way 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:32.380 that we must, 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:33.319 must, 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:34.420 live our 00:21:34.420 --> 00:21:34.880 lives. 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:36.259 So then, 00:21:37.140 --> 00:21:38.200 how do we live 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:39.500 missional lives? 00:21:39.840 --> 00:21:40.620 How then do we 00:21:40.620 --> 00:21:42.300 live missional lives? 00:21:43.220 --> 00:21:44.200 First of all, 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:46.120 by being intentional 00:21:46.120 --> 00:21:47.460 in proclaiming 00:21:47.460 --> 00:21:48.120 and practicing 00:21:48.120 --> 00:21:48.820 the Gospel. 00:21:50.060 --> 00:21:50.640 Here is why 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:51.360 I chose 00:21:51.360 --> 00:21:51.700 the word 00:21:51.700 --> 00:21:52.259 intentional. 00:21:52.840 --> 00:21:53.019 See, 00:21:53.060 --> 00:21:53.460 we have been 00:21:53.460 --> 00:21:54.120 given a new 00:21:54.120 --> 00:21:55.120 life as Christians. 00:21:55.900 --> 00:21:56.360 But as 00:21:56.360 --> 00:21:57.080 Romans 7 00:21:57.080 --> 00:21:57.840 taught us, 00:21:58.420 --> 00:21:59.220 we still have 00:21:59.220 --> 00:21:59.620 the same 00:21:59.620 --> 00:22:00.180 corrupting 00:22:00.180 --> 00:22:00.620 thoughts 00:22:00.620 --> 00:22:01.420 and desires. 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:03.779 And Romans 8 00:22:03.779 --> 00:22:04.539 tells us 00:22:04.539 --> 00:22:05.660 that we have, 00:22:06.500 --> 00:22:07.500 we no longer 00:22:07.500 --> 00:22:08.160 are condemned, 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:09.240 but we still 00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:10.099 sin. 00:22:11.420 --> 00:22:12.639 So we have 00:22:12.639 --> 00:22:13.559 the sin 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:14.539 and the corrupting 00:22:14.539 --> 00:22:15.000 thoughts and 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:15.920 desires still 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:16.559 in us. 00:22:16.879 --> 00:22:17.980 We're battling 00:22:17.980 --> 00:22:18.940 it in us. 00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:21.039 So missional 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:22.200 living requires 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:23.240 intentionality. 00:22:23.579 --> 00:22:24.259 We have to be 00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:25.039 intentional and 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:25.519 determined 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:27.240 to live it out. 00:22:27.899 --> 00:22:29.059 We have to make 00:22:29.059 --> 00:22:29.859 a point to be 00:22:29.859 --> 00:22:30.279 missional. 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:31.720 have to be 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:32.259 disciplined, 00:22:32.779 --> 00:22:34.639 to be determined 00:22:34.639 --> 00:22:35.559 and to be devoted 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:36.579 to being 00:22:36.579 --> 00:22:37.240 missional. 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:38.920 We have to 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:39.839 continually remember 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:40.480 that we are 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:41.240 the sent ones. 00:22:41.379 --> 00:22:42.160 We are sent 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:43.259 with a purpose. 00:22:44.859 --> 00:22:45.879 We are invited 00:22:45.879 --> 00:22:46.539 by God 00:22:46.539 --> 00:22:47.339 to join Him 00:22:47.339 --> 00:22:47.819 in what He 00:22:47.819 --> 00:22:48.740 is already 00:22:48.740 --> 00:22:49.539 doing. 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:50.539 That He's 00:22:50.539 --> 00:22:51.420 already doing. 00:22:51.980 --> 00:22:52.319 He has 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:53.039 invited us 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:53.960 to join Him. 00:22:54.940 --> 00:22:55.380 This, 00:22:56.059 --> 00:22:56.720 right there, 00:22:56.779 --> 00:22:57.620 that right there 00:22:57.620 --> 00:22:58.480 should ease 00:22:58.480 --> 00:22:59.279 some of our 00:22:59.279 --> 00:22:59.880 fear and our 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:00.340 uncertainty. 00:23:01.380 --> 00:23:02.460 We join God 00:23:02.460 --> 00:23:02.900 in what He's 00:23:02.900 --> 00:23:03.180 doing. 00:23:04.140 --> 00:23:04.900 We then 00:23:04.900 --> 00:23:05.799 imitate Him 00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:06.759 and live 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:07.640 missional lives 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:08.360 in response 00:23:08.360 --> 00:23:09.100 to the Gospel. 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:10.360 So here, 00:23:10.660 --> 00:23:11.120 at Christ's 00:23:11.120 --> 00:23:11.680 Family Church, 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:12.340 one of the ways 00:23:12.340 --> 00:23:12.700 that we are 00:23:12.700 --> 00:23:13.779 intentional is 00:23:13.779 --> 00:23:14.240 by meeting 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:14.799 in community 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:15.259 groups. 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:17.480 We meet in 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:17.940 community groups 00:23:17.940 --> 00:23:18.559 during the week. 00:23:19.460 --> 00:23:19.980 The purpose 00:23:19.980 --> 00:23:20.519 of community 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:21.279 groups is not 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:21.799 to have a 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:22.299 mid-week 00:23:22.299 --> 00:23:23.500 Bible study. 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:24.480 Even though 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:25.519 that's good. 00:23:26.539 --> 00:23:27.259 It's not 00:23:27.259 --> 00:23:27.620 to meet 00:23:27.620 --> 00:23:28.000 together 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:28.600 and fellowship 00:23:28.600 --> 00:23:29.460 over food. 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:31.079 Even though 00:23:31.079 --> 00:23:31.660 that's good. 00:23:32.059 --> 00:23:32.480 It's not 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:32.860 to meet 00:23:32.860 --> 00:23:33.200 and bear 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:33.840 one another's 00:23:33.840 --> 00:23:34.160 burdens. 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:35.200 Even though 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:35.819 that's good 00:23:35.819 --> 00:23:36.160 and that 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:36.640 happens. 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:37.799 The main 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:38.319 purpose 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:38.920 of community 00:23:38.920 --> 00:23:39.480 groups is 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:40.100 to reach 00:23:40.100 --> 00:23:40.960 the community 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:41.779 for Jesus. 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:43.920 To minister 00:23:43.920 --> 00:23:44.460 together 00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:45.220 to glorify 00:23:45.220 --> 00:23:45.660 God 00:23:45.660 --> 00:23:46.559 by making 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:47.700 Him known. 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:48.819 We have 00:23:48.819 --> 00:23:49.600 three community 00:23:49.600 --> 00:23:50.380 groups right now. 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:51.039 We have 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:51.440 two in 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:51.880 Dahlonega 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:52.319 and one 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:52.720 down in 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:53.220 Gainesville. 00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:54.259 We want 00:23:54.259 --> 00:23:54.519 to make 00:23:54.519 --> 00:23:55.140 the communities 00:23:55.140 --> 00:23:55.500 we are 00:23:55.500 --> 00:23:56.180 in better 00:23:56.180 --> 00:23:57.620 in response 00:23:57.620 --> 00:23:58.000 to the 00:23:58.000 --> 00:23:58.340 Gospel. 00:23:59.539 --> 00:24:00.039 We want 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:00.819 all of 00:24:00.819 --> 00:24:01.140 Christ's 00:24:01.140 --> 00:24:01.340 family 00:24:01.340 --> 00:24:01.660 church 00:24:01.660 --> 00:24:02.259 to proclaim 00:24:02.259 --> 00:24:02.819 the Gospel 00:24:02.819 --> 00:24:03.220 and live 00:24:03.220 --> 00:24:03.559 it out. 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:04.299 We want 00:24:04.299 --> 00:24:04.960 all of 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:05.279 Christ's 00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:05.440 family 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:05.740 church, 00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:06.440 every person 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:06.799 in this 00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:07.059 room, 00:24:07.140 --> 00:24:07.480 to be part 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:07.700 of the 00:24:07.700 --> 00:24:07.960 community 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:08.259 group, 00:24:08.579 --> 00:24:08.880 so that 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:09.279 we can 00:24:09.279 --> 00:24:09.880 better the 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:10.220 community 00:24:10.220 --> 00:24:11.220 because of 00:24:11.220 --> 00:24:11.680 the Gospel 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:14.019 and for 00:24:14.019 --> 00:24:14.400 the glory 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:14.860 of God. 00:24:16.019 --> 00:24:16.640 We want 00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:16.900 to make 00:24:16.900 --> 00:24:17.500 an impact 00:24:17.500 --> 00:24:17.799 in our 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:18.299 communities, 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:20.100 not for 00:24:20.100 --> 00:24:20.539 Christ's 00:24:20.539 --> 00:24:20.740 family 00:24:20.740 --> 00:24:21.140 church, 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:21.579 not for 00:24:21.579 --> 00:24:22.039 our name, 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:22.339 but for 00:24:22.339 --> 00:24:22.940 His name, 00:24:23.579 --> 00:24:24.059 for His 00:24:24.059 --> 00:24:24.460 glory. 00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:26.500 Each group 00:24:26.500 --> 00:24:27.579 is praying 00:24:27.579 --> 00:24:28.200 for ministry 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:28.859 opportunities 00:24:28.859 --> 00:24:29.460 to serve 00:24:29.460 --> 00:24:30.000 the community. 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:31.000 We're 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:32.399 looking for 00:24:32.399 --> 00:24:33.099 opportunities 00:24:33.099 --> 00:24:33.899 to see where 00:24:33.899 --> 00:24:34.539 God is at 00:24:34.539 --> 00:24:34.819 work, 00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:35.420 to see where 00:24:35.420 --> 00:24:35.779 we can 00:24:35.779 --> 00:24:36.480 join Him, 00:24:36.759 --> 00:24:37.279 where can 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:38.200 we minister 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:38.639 to people 00:24:38.639 --> 00:24:38.960 who are 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:39.399 in need. 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:42.799 We want 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:43.240 to love 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:43.619 the people 00:24:43.619 --> 00:24:44.220 of Dahlonega, 00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:45.200 love the 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:45.539 people of 00:24:45.539 --> 00:24:46.079 Gainesville, 00:24:46.079 --> 00:24:46.960 and 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:48.199 surrounding 00:24:48.199 --> 00:24:48.859 areas of 00:24:48.859 --> 00:24:49.279 those 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:50.859 to make 00:24:50.859 --> 00:24:51.639 God 00:24:51.639 --> 00:24:52.299 known. 00:24:53.679 --> 00:24:54.019 Big 00:24:54.019 --> 00:24:54.619 tasks. 00:24:55.319 --> 00:24:55.759 Big 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:56.699 tasks. 00:24:56.980 --> 00:24:57.299 But we 00:24:57.299 --> 00:24:57.740 serve a 00:24:57.740 --> 00:24:58.339 bigger God. 00:24:59.259 --> 00:24:59.559 And He 00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:00.119 has called 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:00.960 us to 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:01.599 join Him 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:02.519 on His 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:02.919 mission. 00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:05.439 And He 00:25:05.439 --> 00:25:05.939 will enable 00:25:05.939 --> 00:25:06.460 us to do 00:25:06.460 --> 00:25:07.119 exactly what 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:07.460 He wants 00:25:07.460 --> 00:25:07.960 us to do. 00:25:08.179 --> 00:25:08.799 We just 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:09.079 have to 00:25:09.079 --> 00:25:09.960 trust and 00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:10.279 obey. 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:11.359 If I 00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:11.619 say 00:25:11.619 --> 00:25:12.299 Metropolitan 00:25:12.299 --> 00:25:12.919 Tabernacle, 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:13.259 you guys 00:25:13.259 --> 00:25:13.480 know what 00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:13.740 I'm talking 00:25:13.740 --> 00:25:14.000 about? 00:25:14.579 --> 00:25:14.879 No. 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:17.240 Metropolitan 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:17.919 Tabernacle 00:25:17.919 --> 00:25:18.339 is the 00:25:18.339 --> 00:25:18.839 church that 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:19.500 Charles Spurgeon 00:25:19.500 --> 00:25:20.839 preached and 00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:21.339 was pastor 00:25:21.339 --> 00:25:21.759 for over 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:22.500 40 years 00:25:22.500 --> 00:25:23.639 in London, 00:25:23.859 --> 00:25:24.119 downtown 00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:24.559 London. 00:25:27.439 --> 00:25:28.220 In the 00:25:28.220 --> 00:25:29.139 1800s, 00:25:29.339 --> 00:25:29.819 the Industrial 00:25:29.819 --> 00:25:30.579 Revolution was 00:25:30.579 --> 00:25:31.119 coming through. 00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:32.199 And listen to 00:25:32.199 --> 00:25:32.599 some of the 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:33.259 problems that 00:25:33.259 --> 00:25:34.019 London faced. 00:25:35.139 --> 00:25:36.119 The Industrial 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:37.119 Revolution began 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:37.679 in the United 00:25:37.679 --> 00:25:38.419 Kingdom in the 00:25:38.419 --> 00:25:39.119 latter half of 00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:39.799 the 18th 00:25:39.799 --> 00:25:40.159 century. 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:41.220 And by the 00:25:41.220 --> 00:25:42.179 1850s, 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:43.079 its effects 00:25:43.079 --> 00:25:43.879 pervaded 00:25:43.879 --> 00:25:44.379 England. 00:25:45.099 --> 00:25:45.500 In this 00:25:45.500 --> 00:25:45.980 period of 00:25:45.980 --> 00:25:46.279 great 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:47.240 industrialization, 00:25:47.420 --> 00:25:47.960 people left 00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:48.619 their farms 00:25:48.619 --> 00:25:49.059 and small 00:25:49.059 --> 00:25:50.180 towns and 00:25:50.180 --> 00:25:50.920 flocked to 00:25:50.920 --> 00:25:51.299 London, 00:25:51.819 --> 00:25:52.319 Manchester, 00:25:52.500 --> 00:25:52.779 and other 00:25:52.779 --> 00:25:53.220 cities. 00:25:53.900 --> 00:25:54.460 As people 00:25:54.460 --> 00:25:55.420 congregated in 00:25:55.420 --> 00:25:56.140 vast numbers, 00:25:56.599 --> 00:25:57.000 the old 00:25:57.000 --> 00:25:57.940 infrastructure of 00:25:57.940 --> 00:25:58.660 London lacked 00:25:58.660 --> 00:25:59.640 the capacity and 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:00.420 resources to 00:26:00.420 --> 00:26:01.519 attend to the 00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:02.180 needs of the 00:26:02.180 --> 00:26:02.799 new crowds. 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:04.400 The influx of 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:04.900 people into 00:26:04.900 --> 00:26:05.480 London meant 00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:06.960 not only a 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:07.480 spike in 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:08.299 laborers and 00:26:08.299 --> 00:26:08.720 factories, 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:09.380 but also the 00:26:09.380 --> 00:26:09.759 number of 00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:10.599 under-resourced 00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:10.900 women, 00:26:11.500 --> 00:26:11.880 children, 00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:12.819 orphans, 00:26:12.819 --> 00:26:13.559 and widows 00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:15.119 exploded in 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:15.419 London. 00:26:15.939 --> 00:26:16.639 The city was 00:26:16.639 --> 00:26:17.259 in crisis. 00:26:17.859 --> 00:26:18.299 The leaders 00:26:18.299 --> 00:26:18.759 didn't know 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:19.319 what to do. 00:26:19.939 --> 00:26:20.539 They saw the 00:26:20.539 --> 00:26:21.139 mountain of 00:26:21.139 --> 00:26:22.200 needs that 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:22.819 confronted them 00:26:22.819 --> 00:26:23.379 from every 00:26:23.379 --> 00:26:23.779 angle. 00:26:24.579 --> 00:26:25.159 Thus, in the 00:26:25.159 --> 00:26:26.779 1850s, a lot 00:26:26.779 --> 00:26:27.279 of London 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:28.500 churches did 00:26:28.500 --> 00:26:29.099 what a lot of 00:26:29.099 --> 00:26:29.939 American churches 00:26:29.939 --> 00:26:30.619 have done during 00:26:30.619 --> 00:26:31.279 the last 30 00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:31.619 years. 00:26:31.700 --> 00:26:32.939 They fled the 00:26:32.939 --> 00:26:33.279 cities. 00:26:34.159 --> 00:26:34.879 These churches 00:26:34.879 --> 00:26:35.439 moved their 00:26:35.439 --> 00:26:36.339 locations to the 00:26:36.339 --> 00:26:37.679 outskirts of 00:26:37.679 --> 00:26:38.019 London. 00:26:38.019 --> 00:26:40.240 Now, we 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:40.700 don't deal 00:26:40.700 --> 00:26:43.039 with overpopulation 00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:43.599 here in 00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:44.240 Dahlonega and 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:44.779 Gainesville. 00:26:45.139 --> 00:26:46.000 We don't deal 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:46.339 with the 00:26:46.339 --> 00:26:47.299 Industrial Revolution 00:26:47.299 --> 00:26:48.240 coming through 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:49.720 our area. 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:53.299 But like 00:26:53.299 --> 00:26:53.920 Metropolitan 00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:54.619 Pabernacle, 00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:55.160 they had a 00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:55.759 decision to 00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:55.980 make. 00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:57.099 We have a 00:26:57.099 --> 00:26:57.700 decision to 00:26:57.700 --> 00:26:57.900 make. 00:26:58.559 --> 00:26:58.940 Are we going 00:26:58.940 --> 00:26:59.200 to be 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:00.579 intentional and 00:27:00.579 --> 00:27:01.639 live in response 00:27:01.639 --> 00:27:02.000 to the 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:03.519 gospel, or are 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:03.799 we going to 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:04.319 ignore the 00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:04.759 needs of 00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:05.279 people and 00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:06.500 ignore God? 00:27:08.019 --> 00:27:09.500 This is our 00:27:09.500 --> 00:27:10.079 decision to 00:27:10.079 --> 00:27:10.379 make. 00:27:13.619 --> 00:27:14.559 We ignore 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:15.160 problems. 00:27:16.139 --> 00:27:16.900 We stub our 00:27:16.900 --> 00:27:17.900 noses sometimes. 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:20.680 When are we 00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:21.000 going to get 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:21.359 involved? 00:27:22.619 --> 00:27:23.059 When are we 00:27:23.059 --> 00:27:23.819 going to live 00:27:23.819 --> 00:27:24.619 intentional, 00:27:25.379 --> 00:27:26.660 missional lives? 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:28.379 Are we going 00:27:28.379 --> 00:27:29.119 to fear the 00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:30.299 growing gay and 00:27:30.299 --> 00:27:30.980 lesbian culture 00:27:30.980 --> 00:27:31.440 because we 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:31.879 don't know how 00:27:31.879 --> 00:27:32.539 to love them? 00:27:33.099 --> 00:27:33.500 Are we going 00:27:33.500 --> 00:27:34.559 to ignore the 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:35.259 growing drug 00:27:35.259 --> 00:27:35.720 culture? 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:37.480 Or are we 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:38.000 going to fight 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:38.640 it and love 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:39.059 those who 00:27:39.059 --> 00:27:39.359 are in the 00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:39.720 middle of 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:39.880 it? 00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:40.880 Are we 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:41.160 going to 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:41.920 embrace the 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:42.539 art culture? 00:27:42.660 --> 00:27:42.859 Are we 00:27:42.859 --> 00:27:43.079 going to 00:27:43.079 --> 00:27:43.619 just be like 00:27:43.619 --> 00:27:44.200 most churches 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:44.680 of the last 00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:45.200 century and 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:45.740 ignore it? 00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:47.400 These are 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:47.920 questions that 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:48.400 we have to 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:49.519 ask and 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:50.539 answer because 00:27:50.539 --> 00:27:51.720 we are in 00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:53.579 Northeast Georgia. 00:27:56.579 --> 00:27:57.279 Are we 00:27:57.279 --> 00:27:57.720 going to live 00:27:57.720 --> 00:27:58.599 missional lives 00:27:58.599 --> 00:27:59.500 that are 00:27:59.500 --> 00:28:00.039 intentional, 00:28:00.700 --> 00:28:01.240 that are in 00:28:01.240 --> 00:28:02.279 response to 00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:03.279 the gospel? 00:28:04.779 --> 00:28:05.299 Read what 00:28:05.299 --> 00:28:06.359 Metropolitan 00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:06.740 did. 00:28:06.740 --> 00:28:09.380 Metropolitan 00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:10.160 Tabernacle 00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:11.279 pastored by 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:12.019 Charles Spurgeon 00:28:12.019 --> 00:28:12.640 decided we're 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:13.220 not going to 00:28:13.220 --> 00:28:13.640 do that. 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:14.420 We're going 00:28:14.420 --> 00:28:14.740 to stay 00:28:14.740 --> 00:28:15.099 here. 00:28:15.579 --> 00:28:15.960 We see 00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:17.079 this as an 00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:17.599 opportunity 00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:19.079 for the 00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:19.519 gospel. 00:28:20.519 --> 00:28:21.000 Metropolitan 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:21.759 Tabernacle 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:22.420 looked at the 00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:22.880 needs of the 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:23.380 people in the 00:28:23.380 --> 00:28:24.440 city and 00:28:24.440 --> 00:28:24.980 began to 00:28:24.980 --> 00:28:25.620 engage in 00:28:25.620 --> 00:28:26.120 helping them 00:28:26.120 --> 00:28:26.420 with their 00:28:26.420 --> 00:28:26.859 problems. 00:28:27.460 --> 00:28:27.960 The problems 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:28.259 of the 00:28:28.259 --> 00:28:28.620 desperately 00:28:28.620 --> 00:28:29.240 poor were 00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:29.539 the most 00:28:29.539 --> 00:28:29.960 pressing, 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:31.460 so Metropolitan 00:28:31.460 --> 00:28:32.059 Tabernacle 00:28:32.059 --> 00:28:32.859 leaders created 00:28:32.859 --> 00:28:33.819 almshouses for 00:28:33.819 --> 00:28:34.220 people who 00:28:34.220 --> 00:28:34.700 lost their 00:28:34.700 --> 00:28:35.319 jobs and 00:28:35.319 --> 00:28:35.920 needed time to 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:36.400 get back on 00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:36.779 their feet. 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:37.920 The poor 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:38.480 houses in 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:39.320 London operated 00:28:39.320 --> 00:28:40.019 in terrible 00:28:40.019 --> 00:28:40.700 conditions, 00:28:41.600 --> 00:28:42.019 but the 00:28:42.019 --> 00:28:42.779 almshouses of 00:28:42.779 --> 00:28:43.279 Metropolitan 00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:44.039 Tabernacle 00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:44.660 provided a 00:28:44.660 --> 00:28:45.120 crucial 00:28:45.120 --> 00:28:45.820 alternative. 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:47.100 The church 00:28:47.100 --> 00:28:47.800 also built a 00:28:47.800 --> 00:28:48.300 large number 00:28:48.300 --> 00:28:48.900 of homes for 00:28:48.900 --> 00:28:49.400 the elderly 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:49.860 where they 00:28:49.860 --> 00:28:51.500 would care for 00:28:51.500 --> 00:28:51.940 them and 00:28:51.940 --> 00:28:53.960 help them die 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:54.500 with dignity 00:28:54.500 --> 00:28:55.140 and peace. 00:28:55.700 --> 00:28:56.160 The church 00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:56.740 created an 00:28:56.740 --> 00:28:59.340 orphanage where 00:28:59.340 --> 00:29:00.380 they educated, 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:01.240 cared for, 00:29:01.320 --> 00:29:01.680 and fed 00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:02.600 thousands of 00:29:02.600 --> 00:29:03.000 orphans. 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:03.720 they created 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:04.400 homes for 00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:05.000 single mothers 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:05.579 who had lost 00:29:05.579 --> 00:29:06.099 their husbands 00:29:06.099 --> 00:29:06.519 and helped 00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:06.960 them find 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:07.480 employment. 00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:09.059 Metropolitan 00:29:09.059 --> 00:29:09.660 Tabernacle 00:29:09.660 --> 00:29:10.299 started a 00:29:10.299 --> 00:29:10.799 school for 00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:11.460 pastors from 00:29:11.460 --> 00:29:13.380 rural areas to 00:29:13.380 --> 00:29:13.859 receive a 00:29:13.859 --> 00:29:14.319 theological 00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:15.220 education and 00:29:15.220 --> 00:29:15.940 help clothe and 00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:16.539 provide books 00:29:16.539 --> 00:29:16.980 for these 00:29:16.980 --> 00:29:17.599 impoverished 00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:18.059 pastors. 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:19.259 They started 00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:20.119 programs for 00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:20.759 businessmen to 00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:21.140 use their 00:29:21.140 --> 00:29:21.680 entrepreneurial 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:22.460 efforts to 00:29:22.460 --> 00:29:23.019 expand the 00:29:23.019 --> 00:29:24.000 kingdom through 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:24.920 their businesses. 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:26.180 Now listen to 00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:26.500 this. 00:29:27.779 --> 00:29:28.339 Metropolitan 00:29:28.339 --> 00:29:29.160 Tabernacle's 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:29.880 influence spread 00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:30.759 so quickly 00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:31.359 throughout the 00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:32.339 poor and all 00:29:32.339 --> 00:29:32.659 the way up 00:29:32.659 --> 00:29:32.859 to the 00:29:32.859 --> 00:29:33.619 class ladder 00:29:33.619 --> 00:29:33.919 to the 00:29:33.919 --> 00:29:35.179 aristocracy. 00:29:35.859 --> 00:29:36.379 It got to 00:29:36.379 --> 00:29:36.919 the point that 00:29:36.919 --> 00:29:37.619 if Metropolitan 00:29:37.619 --> 00:29:39.039 Tabernacle had 00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:39.720 shut down at 00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:40.759 any point during 00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:41.819 that decade of 00:29:41.819 --> 00:29:42.699 grappling with the 00:29:42.699 --> 00:29:43.500 problems of the 00:29:43.500 --> 00:29:44.419 Industrial Revolution, 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:45.759 the city of 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:46.819 London would have 00:29:46.819 --> 00:29:47.459 been crippled. 00:29:49.059 --> 00:29:49.839 They would have 00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:50.619 grieved the 00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:51.159 loss of the 00:29:51.159 --> 00:29:51.720 Tabernacle. 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:53.159 Can you imagine 00:29:53.159 --> 00:29:54.299 serving the needs 00:29:54.299 --> 00:29:54.799 of the city, 00:29:54.919 --> 00:29:56.059 being so attuned 00:29:56.059 --> 00:29:57.139 to the common 00:29:57.139 --> 00:29:57.859 good for the 00:29:57.859 --> 00:29:58.439 sake of the 00:29:58.439 --> 00:29:58.859 gospel, 00:29:59.639 --> 00:30:00.199 that your city 00:30:00.199 --> 00:30:01.019 would grieve 00:30:01.019 --> 00:30:01.779 if you picked 00:30:01.779 --> 00:30:02.500 up and 00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:02.879 left? 00:30:07.500 --> 00:30:08.399 Are we going 00:30:08.399 --> 00:30:09.480 to live 00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:11.019 intentional lives 00:30:11.019 --> 00:30:13.019 in response to 00:30:13.019 --> 00:30:13.440 the gospel? 00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:15.059 Another way of 00:30:15.059 --> 00:30:15.680 living missional 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:16.460 life is having 00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:17.359 ownership of the 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:18.059 gospel and the 00:30:18.059 --> 00:30:19.279 mission of God. 00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:20.680 Have you ever 00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:22.180 rented a car 00:30:22.180 --> 00:30:24.000 and found 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:24.779 yourself treating 00:30:24.779 --> 00:30:25.420 it worse than 00:30:25.420 --> 00:30:25.940 you would your 00:30:25.940 --> 00:30:26.279 own? 00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:28.240 You get in it 00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:28.680 and the first 00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:29.319 thing you look at, 00:30:29.379 --> 00:30:29.779 and this might 00:30:29.779 --> 00:30:30.180 just be the 00:30:30.180 --> 00:30:30.519 guys. 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:31.320 You get in it 00:30:31.320 --> 00:30:31.880 and you look at 00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:32.060 it and you 00:30:32.060 --> 00:30:32.460 look and see 00:30:32.460 --> 00:30:32.960 how far the 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:33.840 speedometer goes. 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:35.480 120, 125, 00:30:35.820 --> 00:30:36.060 what are we 00:30:36.060 --> 00:30:36.460 looking at? 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:37.360 And then you 00:30:37.360 --> 00:30:38.160 say, let's see 00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:38.620 what this baby 00:30:38.620 --> 00:30:39.000 will do. 00:30:40.380 --> 00:30:41.220 We do this 00:30:41.220 --> 00:30:41.700 because it's 00:30:41.700 --> 00:30:42.320 not ours. 00:30:43.080 --> 00:30:43.840 We don't have 00:30:43.840 --> 00:30:44.700 ownership of it. 00:30:44.740 --> 00:30:45.400 We don't care 00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:46.340 as much about it. 00:30:46.360 --> 00:30:47.279 We don't think 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:48.400 about it as much 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:48.940 and we certainly 00:30:48.940 --> 00:30:50.100 don't live for it. 00:30:51.180 --> 00:30:51.799 It's the same 00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:52.480 with the gospel 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:52.960 and the mission 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:53.460 of God. 00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:55.039 If the gospel 00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:55.519 and the mission 00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:56.420 of God are just 00:30:56.420 --> 00:30:57.720 religious activities, 00:30:57.900 --> 00:30:58.299 if they're just 00:30:58.299 --> 00:30:58.919 things that we 00:30:58.919 --> 00:30:59.500 do that just 00:30:59.500 --> 00:31:00.579 happen on Sunday, 00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:01.919 there's no 00:31:01.919 --> 00:31:02.339 ownership. 00:31:03.339 --> 00:31:03.899 If there's just 00:31:03.899 --> 00:31:04.779 another activity 00:31:04.779 --> 00:31:05.519 on our list 00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:06.599 of responsibilities, 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:09.059 there's no 00:31:09.059 --> 00:31:09.460 ownership. 00:31:10.339 --> 00:31:11.379 You abuse it, 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:12.279 you ignore it, 00:31:12.339 --> 00:31:12.819 and you don't 00:31:12.819 --> 00:31:14.240 live for it. 00:31:14.879 --> 00:31:15.359 But if, 00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:17.119 if you have 00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:17.579 ownership, 00:31:17.779 --> 00:31:18.419 you take care 00:31:18.419 --> 00:31:18.759 of it, 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:20.059 you love it, 00:31:20.399 --> 00:31:21.359 you cherish it, 00:31:21.899 --> 00:31:22.839 like your car, 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:23.720 you baby it, 00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:26.319 and very seldom 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:27.180 do you floor it. 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:29.579 You find yourself 00:31:29.579 --> 00:31:30.559 caring for it, 00:31:31.140 --> 00:31:31.900 wanting to take 00:31:31.900 --> 00:31:32.460 care of it, 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:33.640 cherishing it, 00:31:33.940 --> 00:31:34.980 because it's yours. 00:31:35.819 --> 00:31:36.180 Well, 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:37.000 I'm here to tell you 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:37.640 that the gospel 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:38.120 and the mission 00:31:38.120 --> 00:31:39.960 of God is yours. 00:31:40.620 --> 00:31:41.579 It is yours 00:31:41.579 --> 00:31:42.720 and it is mine. 00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:44.680 Ephesians chapter 1. 00:31:44.740 --> 00:31:45.240 Flip back to 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:46.200 Ephesians chapter 1 00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:46.640 real quick. 00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:46.640 00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:57.460 Ephesians chapter 1 00:31:57.460 --> 00:31:58.040 verse 3. 00:31:58.940 --> 00:31:59.160 It says, 00:31:59.220 --> 00:31:59.860 Blessed be the 00:31:59.860 --> 00:32:00.540 God and Father 00:32:00.540 --> 00:32:01.340 of our Lord Jesus 00:32:01.340 --> 00:32:01.880 Christ, 00:32:02.320 --> 00:32:03.160 who has blessed 00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:04.200 us in Christ 00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:04.860 with every 00:32:04.860 --> 00:32:05.700 spiritual blessing 00:32:05.700 --> 00:32:06.280 in the heavenly 00:32:06.280 --> 00:32:06.820 places, 00:32:07.780 --> 00:32:09.000 even as He chose 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:09.800 us in Him 00:32:09.800 --> 00:32:10.280 before the 00:32:10.280 --> 00:32:11.040 foundation of the 00:32:11.040 --> 00:32:11.240 world, 00:32:11.320 --> 00:32:12.420 that we should 00:32:12.420 --> 00:32:12.980 be holy 00:32:12.980 --> 00:32:13.940 and blameless 00:32:13.940 --> 00:32:14.540 before Him. 00:32:15.620 --> 00:32:16.420 In love, 00:32:16.420 --> 00:32:17.259 He predestined 00:32:17.259 --> 00:32:18.220 us for 00:32:18.220 --> 00:32:18.960 adoption as 00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:20.300 sons through 00:32:20.300 --> 00:32:21.039 Jesus Christ 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:22.759 according to 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:23.120 the purpose 00:32:23.120 --> 00:32:23.720 of His will, 00:32:24.140 --> 00:32:24.779 to the praise 00:32:24.779 --> 00:32:25.480 of His glorious 00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:26.300 grace with which 00:32:26.300 --> 00:32:27.060 He has blessed 00:32:27.060 --> 00:32:28.100 us in the 00:32:28.100 --> 00:32:28.480 Beloved. 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:29.539 In Him, 00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:30.279 we have 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:30.720 redemption 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:31.220 through His 00:32:31.220 --> 00:32:31.519 blood, 00:32:31.620 --> 00:32:32.039 the forgiveness 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:32.720 of our 00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:33.360 trespasses 00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:34.340 according to 00:32:34.340 --> 00:32:34.700 the riches 00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:35.460 of His grace, 00:32:35.740 --> 00:32:36.140 which He 00:32:36.140 --> 00:32:36.880 lavished upon 00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:37.980 us in all 00:32:37.980 --> 00:32:38.480 wisdom and 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:38.860 insight, 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:39.580 making known 00:32:39.580 --> 00:32:40.160 to us 00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:40.840 the mystery 00:32:40.840 --> 00:32:41.100 of His 00:32:41.100 --> 00:32:41.340 will, 00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:42.200 according to 00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:42.820 His purpose 00:32:42.820 --> 00:32:43.340 which He 00:32:43.340 --> 00:32:44.480 has set forth 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:45.200 in Christ 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:45.960 as a plan 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:46.759 for the 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:47.259 fullness of 00:32:47.259 --> 00:32:47.700 time to 00:32:47.700 --> 00:32:48.400 unite all 00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:48.819 things in 00:32:48.819 --> 00:32:49.000 Him, 00:32:49.120 --> 00:32:49.500 things in 00:32:49.500 --> 00:32:50.600 heaven and 00:32:50.600 --> 00:32:51.640 things on 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:52.059 earth. 00:32:52.460 --> 00:32:53.299 It is 00:32:53.299 --> 00:32:54.059 personal. 00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:55.519 This 00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:56.079 salvation, 00:32:56.340 --> 00:32:57.039 this adoption 00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:58.259 is personal. 00:32:58.480 --> 00:32:58.799 It's just 00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.160 not an 00:32:59.160 --> 00:32:59.680 activity. 00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:01.779 No one 00:33:01.779 --> 00:33:02.400 is adopted 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:02.900 without it 00:33:02.900 --> 00:33:03.700 being personal. 00:33:04.460 --> 00:33:04.720 Britain, 00:33:04.819 --> 00:33:05.240 my oldest 00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:05.880 is adopted 00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:06.539 and it 00:33:06.539 --> 00:33:06.860 has been 00:33:06.860 --> 00:33:07.380 personal. 00:33:08.740 --> 00:33:09.240 Her life 00:33:09.240 --> 00:33:09.500 has been 00:33:09.500 --> 00:33:10.680 affected by 00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:11.279 her adoption 00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:11.660 for the 00:33:11.660 --> 00:33:11.920 good. 00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:14.240 Let's be 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:14.640 honest. 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.120 it is 00:33:16.120 --> 00:33:16.580 personal. 00:33:17.420 --> 00:33:17.800 But, 00:33:18.460 --> 00:33:19.160 we cannot 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:19.860 believe the 00:33:19.860 --> 00:33:21.240 gospel without 00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:22.040 being moved 00:33:22.040 --> 00:33:22.900 to action 00:33:22.900 --> 00:33:23.759 by it. 00:33:24.360 --> 00:33:25.120 We cannot 00:33:25.120 --> 00:33:27.360 believe the 00:33:27.360 --> 00:33:28.860 gospel without 00:33:28.860 --> 00:33:29.680 being moved 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:30.720 to action 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:31.800 by it. 00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:32.420 See, 00:33:32.520 --> 00:33:33.400 we know the 00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:34.060 commandments of 00:33:34.060 --> 00:33:34.340 God. 00:33:34.840 --> 00:33:35.660 We know the 00:33:35.660 --> 00:33:37.160 love that God 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:38.000 has for us. 00:33:38.380 --> 00:33:39.080 And in turn, 00:33:39.180 --> 00:33:39.520 we're supposed 00:33:39.520 --> 00:33:40.020 to have for 00:33:40.020 --> 00:33:40.360 others. 00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:40.860 We know 00:33:40.860 --> 00:33:41.280 these things. 00:33:41.360 --> 00:33:41.700 We know 00:33:41.700 --> 00:33:42.480 God's mission. 00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:43.680 And because 00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:44.259 we do, 00:33:44.539 --> 00:33:45.240 we must 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:46.059 act. 00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:48.099 In the book 00:33:48.099 --> 00:33:48.599 Community 00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:50.200 that I quoted 00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:50.579 earlier, 00:33:50.660 --> 00:33:50.860 it says, 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:51.240 when our 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:52.039 hearts beat 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:52.579 in rhythm 00:33:52.579 --> 00:33:53.319 with His, 00:33:53.980 --> 00:33:54.500 we begin 00:33:54.500 --> 00:33:55.019 to see His 00:33:55.019 --> 00:33:56.200 mission and 00:33:56.200 --> 00:33:56.680 are ready 00:33:56.680 --> 00:33:57.380 to take 00:33:57.380 --> 00:33:57.860 ownership 00:33:57.860 --> 00:33:58.819 of it. 00:33:59.500 --> 00:34:00.299 I see it. 00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:01.299 Do you see 00:34:01.299 --> 00:34:01.960 God's mission? 00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:03.299 Do you see 00:34:03.299 --> 00:34:05.819 why He's doing 00:34:05.819 --> 00:34:06.440 what He does? 00:34:06.539 --> 00:34:07.079 Why He 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:08.300 redeems a 00:34:08.300 --> 00:34:08.619 people? 00:34:08.619 --> 00:34:10.559 to glorify 00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:11.299 Himself by 00:34:11.299 --> 00:34:12.159 making Himself 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:12.559 known. 00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:14.920 Ownership is 00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:15.799 marked by a 00:34:15.799 --> 00:34:16.259 get-to 00:34:16.259 --> 00:34:17.960 sacrifice and 00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:18.779 not a got-to 00:34:18.779 --> 00:34:20.980 out of duty. 00:34:22.059 --> 00:34:23.000 Ownership is 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:23.940 a get-to. 00:34:24.019 --> 00:34:24.779 We get to be 00:34:24.779 --> 00:34:25.539 part of God's 00:34:25.539 --> 00:34:25.859 mission. 00:34:26.359 --> 00:34:27.219 We get to 00:34:27.219 --> 00:34:27.779 join Him. 00:34:27.940 --> 00:34:28.639 We get to 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:29.239 love people. 00:34:29.619 --> 00:34:30.299 We get to 00:34:30.299 --> 00:34:30.739 live the 00:34:30.739 --> 00:34:31.579 gospel out for 00:34:31.579 --> 00:34:32.460 others to see. 00:34:33.079 --> 00:34:33.940 We get to 00:34:33.940 --> 00:34:34.639 be on mission 00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:35.799 with God. 00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:37.279 We get to 00:34:37.279 --> 00:34:37.839 join Him in 00:34:37.839 --> 00:34:38.420 the work that 00:34:38.420 --> 00:34:38.740 He is 00:34:38.740 --> 00:34:39.180 already 00:34:39.180 --> 00:34:39.559 doing. 00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:41.440 There is 00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:41.820 not a 00:34:41.820 --> 00:34:42.260 got-to 00:34:42.260 --> 00:34:42.960 attitude in 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:43.340 ownership. 00:34:44.720 --> 00:34:45.240 It is a 00:34:45.240 --> 00:34:45.700 get-to 00:34:45.700 --> 00:34:46.760 sacrifice for 00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:47.380 His glory 00:34:47.380 --> 00:34:47.760 and His 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:48.079 name. 00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:50.780 Own the 00:34:50.780 --> 00:34:51.280 truth of 00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:52.139 God and 00:34:52.139 --> 00:34:52.579 get in the 00:34:52.579 --> 00:34:52.880 game. 00:34:54.619 --> 00:34:55.260 It is 00:34:55.260 --> 00:34:56.460 real and 00:34:56.460 --> 00:34:56.740 it is 00:34:56.740 --> 00:34:57.200 personal. 00:34:58.280 --> 00:34:58.700 Here's some 00:34:58.700 --> 00:34:59.159 good news 00:34:59.159 --> 00:34:59.440 though. 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:01.039 Here's some 00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:01.519 really good 00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:01.860 news. 00:35:02.460 --> 00:35:03.019 God has 00:35:03.019 --> 00:35:03.860 created us 00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:04.599 for His 00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:05.300 good work. 00:35:06.180 --> 00:35:06.720 Ephesians 00:35:06.720 --> 00:35:07.420 chapter 2 00:35:07.420 --> 00:35:08.099 verse 10. 00:35:08.420 --> 00:35:09.119 For we 00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:09.760 are His 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:10.599 workmanship 00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:11.559 created in 00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:12.200 Christ Jesus 00:35:12.200 --> 00:35:13.619 for good 00:35:13.619 --> 00:35:14.700 works which 00:35:14.700 --> 00:35:15.440 God prepared 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:16.139 before Him 00:35:16.139 --> 00:35:17.000 that we 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:17.619 should walk 00:35:17.619 --> 00:35:18.500 in them. 00:35:18.980 --> 00:35:19.260 Not only 00:35:19.260 --> 00:35:19.639 has God 00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:20.500 created us 00:35:20.500 --> 00:35:20.840 for His 00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:21.360 good work, 00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:21.920 we are 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:23.019 equipped for 00:35:23.019 --> 00:35:23.360 His good 00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:23.579 work. 00:35:23.680 --> 00:35:24.460 Chapter 4 00:35:24.460 --> 00:35:26.220 verse 11 00:35:26.220 --> 00:35:26.760 and 12. 00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:27.059 And He 00:35:27.059 --> 00:35:27.500 gave the 00:35:27.500 --> 00:35:28.000 apostles, 00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:29.000 the prophets, 00:35:29.300 --> 00:35:30.019 the evangelists, 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:30.680 the shepherds, 00:35:30.740 --> 00:35:31.180 and teachers 00:35:31.180 --> 00:35:32.860 to equip the 00:35:32.860 --> 00:35:33.840 saints for the 00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:34.700 work of the 00:35:34.700 --> 00:35:35.059 ministry, 00:35:35.059 --> 00:35:35.739 for building 00:35:35.739 --> 00:35:36.599 up the 00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:37.400 body of 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:37.880 Christ. 00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:38.960 Not only 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:39.519 has God 00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:40.320 created us 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:40.639 for this 00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:41.039 work, 00:35:41.279 --> 00:35:41.639 not only 00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:41.920 has He 00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:42.420 equipped us 00:35:42.420 --> 00:35:42.719 for this 00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:43.019 work, 00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:43.539 but He 00:35:43.539 --> 00:35:44.480 empowers us 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:45.799 and compels 00:35:45.799 --> 00:35:47.059 us through 00:35:47.059 --> 00:35:47.619 the gospel. 00:35:47.619 --> 00:35:48.059 Again, 00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:48.880 Ephesians 00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:49.799 chapter 3 00:35:49.799 --> 00:35:51.619 verse 20 00:35:51.619 --> 00:35:52.279 and 21. 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:53.539 Now to Him 00:35:53.539 --> 00:35:54.380 who is able 00:35:54.380 --> 00:35:55.179 to do far 00:35:55.179 --> 00:35:55.960 more abundantly 00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:56.619 than all 00:35:56.619 --> 00:35:57.099 that we 00:35:57.099 --> 00:35:58.079 ask or 00:35:58.079 --> 00:35:58.579 think, 00:35:59.159 --> 00:35:59.739 according to 00:35:59.739 --> 00:36:00.320 the power 00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:01.260 at work 00:36:01.260 --> 00:36:02.140 within us. 00:36:02.600 --> 00:36:03.059 To Him 00:36:03.059 --> 00:36:03.760 be glory 00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:04.039 in the 00:36:04.039 --> 00:36:04.720 church and 00:36:04.720 --> 00:36:05.180 in Christ 00:36:05.180 --> 00:36:05.460 Jesus 00:36:05.460 --> 00:36:06.280 throughout all 00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:06.940 generations 00:36:06.940 --> 00:36:08.320 forever and 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:08.620 ever. 00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:09.120 Amen. 00:36:10.680 --> 00:36:11.400 God has 00:36:11.400 --> 00:36:12.019 created us 00:36:12.019 --> 00:36:12.340 for His 00:36:12.340 --> 00:36:12.620 work. 00:36:13.059 --> 00:36:13.700 He equips 00:36:13.700 --> 00:36:14.260 us for His 00:36:14.260 --> 00:36:14.640 work and 00:36:14.640 --> 00:36:15.360 He empowers 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:16.000 us for His 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:16.539 work through 00:36:16.539 --> 00:36:17.059 the gospel. 00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:18.039 There is no 00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:18.800 reason to 00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:19.120 fear. 00:36:19.539 --> 00:36:20.160 There is no 00:36:20.160 --> 00:36:20.900 reason to 00:36:20.900 --> 00:36:21.260 worry. 00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:22.039 There is no 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:22.780 reason to 00:36:22.780 --> 00:36:23.160 doubt. 00:36:23.900 --> 00:36:24.460 There is no 00:36:24.460 --> 00:36:25.160 reason to 00:36:25.160 --> 00:36:25.660 question. 00:36:26.300 --> 00:36:26.600 He has 00:36:26.600 --> 00:36:27.340 created us 00:36:27.340 --> 00:36:27.760 for His 00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:28.140 work. 00:36:28.139 --> 00:36:30.099 He has 00:36:30.099 --> 00:36:30.739 equipped us 00:36:30.739 --> 00:36:31.039 for His 00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:31.400 work and 00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:32.099 He empowers 00:36:32.099 --> 00:36:33.179 us for 00:36:33.179 --> 00:36:33.339 His 00:36:33.339 --> 00:36:33.539 work. 00:36:33.759 --> 00:36:33.940 It is 00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:34.639 why the 00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:36.099 verse 1 00:36:36.099 --> 00:36:36.539 of chapter 00:36:36.539 --> 00:36:37.159 5 says 00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:37.719 and walk 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:38.400 in love. 00:36:38.659 --> 00:36:39.059 We can 00:36:39.059 --> 00:36:39.559 walk in 00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:40.139 love because 00:36:40.139 --> 00:36:40.539 He has 00:36:40.539 --> 00:36:42.539 equipped us, 00:36:43.579 --> 00:36:44.299 created us, 00:36:44.359 --> 00:36:44.839 and empowered 00:36:44.839 --> 00:36:45.440 us to be 00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:46.079 able to do 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:47.519 just that. 00:36:49.879 --> 00:36:50.699 Missional is 00:36:50.699 --> 00:36:51.799 participating in 00:36:51.799 --> 00:36:52.440 the mission of 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:53.659 God as a 00:36:53.659 --> 00:36:54.879 response to 00:36:54.879 --> 00:36:55.519 the gospel 00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:55.940 through 00:36:55.940 --> 00:36:56.539 proclamation 00:36:56.539 --> 00:36:58.059 and practice 00:36:58.059 --> 00:36:59.799 that is 00:36:59.799 --> 00:37:00.179 missional. 00:37:00.500 --> 00:37:01.139 We join 00:37:01.139 --> 00:37:01.799 God in 00:37:01.799 --> 00:37:02.099 His 00:37:02.099 --> 00:37:02.500 mission, 00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:03.960 on His 00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:04.360 mission. 00:37:04.659 --> 00:37:05.099 We don't 00:37:05.099 --> 00:37:05.659 create a 00:37:05.659 --> 00:37:06.179 new mission. 00:37:06.940 --> 00:37:07.639 We join 00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:08.179 Him in 00:37:08.179 --> 00:37:08.500 what He 00:37:08.500 --> 00:37:09.259 is already 00:37:09.259 --> 00:37:09.659 doing. 00:37:10.799 --> 00:37:12.019 That is 00:37:12.019 --> 00:37:12.380 missional. 00:37:12.980 --> 00:37:13.380 When we 00:37:13.380 --> 00:37:13.759 are living 00:37:13.759 --> 00:37:14.139 missional 00:37:14.139 --> 00:37:14.619 lives, 00:37:14.799 --> 00:37:15.579 by imitating 00:37:15.579 --> 00:37:16.019 God, 00:37:16.099 --> 00:37:16.480 people will 00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:16.739 know. 00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:19.639 Like when I 00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:20.139 walked into 00:37:20.139 --> 00:37:20.960 the Social 00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:21.960 Security office 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:22.759 and I was 00:37:22.759 --> 00:37:23.279 told I was 00:37:23.279 --> 00:37:23.739 on federal 00:37:23.739 --> 00:37:24.119 ground. 00:37:24.659 --> 00:37:25.199 Nothing I 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:25.500 could do 00:37:25.500 --> 00:37:25.980 about it. 00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:27.719 I just 00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:27.960 knew. 00:37:28.059 --> 00:37:28.380 I guess. 00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:28.679 I was 00:37:28.679 --> 00:37:29.059 told and 00:37:29.059 --> 00:37:29.400 I knew. 00:37:30.179 --> 00:37:30.659 I was on 00:37:30.659 --> 00:37:30.980 federal 00:37:30.980 --> 00:37:31.500 property. 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:33.019 People will 00:37:33.019 --> 00:37:33.900 know immediately 00:37:33.900 --> 00:37:35.320 we're living 00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:35.679 missional 00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:36.179 lives. 00:37:37.299 --> 00:37:37.779 You're 00:37:37.779 --> 00:37:38.219 a Christian 00:37:38.219 --> 00:37:38.920 on mission. 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:40.279 On God's 00:37:40.279 --> 00:37:40.799 mission. 00:37:41.500 --> 00:37:41.940 That is 00:37:41.940 --> 00:37:42.139 being 00:37:42.139 --> 00:37:42.480 missional. 00:37:43.299 --> 00:37:43.599 Being 00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:43.920 missional 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:44.799 begins and 00:37:44.799 --> 00:37:45.360 ends with 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:45.860 the gospel. 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:46.820 We are 00:37:46.820 --> 00:37:47.759 sent from 00:37:47.759 --> 00:37:48.820 Him for 00:37:48.820 --> 00:37:49.099 Him. 00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:50.400 We have 00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:50.940 been chosen 00:37:50.940 --> 00:37:51.779 for His 00:37:51.779 --> 00:37:52.179 mission, 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:53.000 for His 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:53.519 glory and 00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:54.000 His name. 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:54.119 God. 00:37:55.019 --> 00:37:55.179 See, 00:37:55.219 --> 00:37:55.639 the gospel 00:37:55.639 --> 00:37:56.260 compels 00:37:56.260 --> 00:37:56.619 us. 00:37:57.119 --> 00:37:57.760 It empowers 00:37:57.760 --> 00:37:58.139 us. 00:37:58.500 --> 00:37:58.679 And it 00:37:58.679 --> 00:37:58.980 is the 00:37:58.980 --> 00:38:00.000 message we 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:00.360 share. 00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:02.659 Let us be 00:38:02.659 --> 00:38:03.079 on mission 00:38:03.079 --> 00:38:03.619 with God 00:38:03.619 --> 00:38:03.980 and for 00:38:03.980 --> 00:38:04.280 God. 00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:06.320 That is 00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:06.679 missional. 00:38:07.219 --> 00:38:07.760 Let's pray 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:08.019 together. 00:38:08.460 --> 00:38:09.860 Let us 00:38:09.860 --> 00:38:10.139 desde 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.139 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.139 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.139 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.139 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.139 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.139 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.139 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.139 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.139 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.139 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.139 00:38:10.139 --> 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