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 We've been going through a series on church and we're coming towards the end of the series now.

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 We've gone through what is the people of God? The people of God is us and we must spend time together.

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 We should not stop meeting, not neglect to meet each other, to stir each other up in love and good works.

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 And then we talked about what it meant to be the temple of God since the beginning, since the garden, the garden of delight, the garden of Eden.

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 God's been finding a way for us to access him again.

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 And what do the people of God do? They worship, which is what Gabe aspect was a few weeks back as well.

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 And then we carried on to talk about what it meant to be a family, a household, members of the household of God.

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 And today we'll finish with talking about what it means to be following the mission of God.

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 But maybe just a question just to start. Can I just have a show of hands?

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 Who is currently or has been in full time ministry before?

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 There we go.

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 Oh, there we go.

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 I think the lawyers know what I'm trying to do here.

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 Queenie and Juju.

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 Okay.

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 My goal today, I see you.

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 My goal today is to convince you or to rather to remind you.

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 What am I trying to remind them, Juju?

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 We are all ministers of God.

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 Whoa.

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 Yes.

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 You're going to leave here today and you're going to be reminded that you are in full time ministry.

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 And there is one company that you work for.

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 And that company is called KOG.

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 It's called the kingdom of God.

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 And in your company, you have been seconded to be a CEO, to be a training director, to be a doctor, to be a doctor.

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 I don't know what you do, Dr. Alex, these days.

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 But to be a long lunch guy.

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 Imagine that.

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 Imagine if you were actually in full time ministry.

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 Imagine that actually that's what your life is about.

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 That everything you do is about working for God.

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 Why does the church exist?

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 Why does it need to exist?

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 It really needs to exist because we're here to spread the news of Jesus, as Nathan prayed for me at the end.

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 You look back all the way to Genesis 1.

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 Let us make man in our image.

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 Let them have dominion over creation.

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 Let them subdue creation to spread my glory so that creation would look like me, would bear my image.

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 That's essentially what we were called to do.

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 Adam and Eve were called to cultivate, to work and keep the garden, to grow the garden so that creation would bear his image.

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 That's really the purpose that has now been passed down to us.

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 You see, when Jesus came and they couldn't find him in Luke 4, they said, well, actually, I must go to the next town because this was the reason I was sent, to go.

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 And in John 20, when he's talking to these disciples, these followers, he says, I was sent and now I send you.

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 In Acts 1, where he says, you will be my witnesses to the ends of the earth.

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 There's this idea that we have to keep moving the message along.

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 That's why we gather and then we scatter.

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 That's why we have to keep moving.

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 We are the salt of the earth.

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 We are the light of the world.

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 We add flavor to the people around us.

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 We add flavor to the communities around us.

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 We bring light into places that are filled with darkness.

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 You, me, but most importantly, you are in full-time ministry.

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 Does that make sense to you?

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 Does that terrify you?

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 The church is supposed to be the vehicle for mission.

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 We're supposed to grow.

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 KFCI was started about 10 years ago as a smaller group.

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 And I remember, actually, I speak to those who are part of the gathering or KFCI.

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 There was almost a sweet spot in the community.

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 It was around 50 people.

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 And actually, sociologists would agree.

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 There's something about 50 people that just everyone's known, everyone's cared for, everyone's familiar with one another.

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 And often, I'll hear, I miss those days.

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 I miss those days when it was just a small group of people.

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 Because church was, we just knew each other.

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 We cared for each other.

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 Do you remember those days?

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 And then, the next question that I ask myself is, well, what if that church stayed that exact same way?

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 And in 10 years on, we're still in the same place.

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 Would that church still be a healthy church?

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 The answer is no.

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 Because if that church was as good as we remember it to be, then it would have had to grow.

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 In order for an organism to stay alive, it must grow.

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 And if it doesn't grow, then it starts to become stale.

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 Then it starts to shrink in on itself.

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 And suddenly, you don't have a strong, healthy, vibrant, growing church anymore.

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 That's part of what the church should be doing.

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 So my prayer is that we'll continue to grow.

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 To continue to have more people coming in.

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 Why?

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 So that they would become disciples of Jesus.

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 So that they would go from being guests, to friends, to family.

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 All to be disciples of Jesus.

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 A family expecting guests is what this church is.

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 Today, we're going to focus on what it means to be a guest.

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 Pastor Gabe has a favorite quote.

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 Well, he has a favorite pastor.

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 And his favorite pastor is a guy called John Piper.

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 And he has a favorite quote that he always shares.

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 What's the quote?

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 What's the quote, Gabe?

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 Missions exist because worship doesn't.

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 Missions exist because worship doesn't.

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 Missions exist because worship doesn't.

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 If the prime call of the church isn't actually a mission, though that said,

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 Tim Keller would also say every single ministry within a church must have a missional focus.

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 Every single ministry.

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 Even a formation ministry, there's like discipleship.

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 We're going to focus on you, building you up.

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 Why?

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 What for?

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 To send you out.

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 So even though there is a formation element, there must be a commissioning.

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 There must be a deployment almost.

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 Every ministry that we have, the one that is the deepest Bible study and the one that is further out,

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 every single ministry must have a missional focus because that's the point of the church.

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 The point of the church isn't, of course, the ultimate goal is not missions, is what Piper says.

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 The ultimate goal of the church is worship, to point people to worship God.

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 But there is outside and sadly inside, there is a lack of worship of God, which is why we were so convicted when Gabe preached.

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 Because we're not worshiping God enough.

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 We're not loving him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.

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 So there's a call here to worship and mission exists because worship does not.

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 So we must keep going.

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 We must keep moving.

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 Since the very beginning, Adam and Eve grew again.

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 What happens in Genesis 12?

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 Abraham.

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 What's he called?

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 Hey, your nation, your family, your people are going to bless the nations.

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 It's not the Israelites.

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 You guys are going to have it good and you're going to be protected.

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 You're going to rule the world and you're going to stay amongst your own.

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 No, it's that you will bless and you will move out to the nations and you will bless.

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 You fast forward to Jeremiah when they're in exile.

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 What's he still saying?

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 God is still saying, seek the welfare of the city.

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 Bless the city.

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 Continue to allow this blessing to move through to the rest of the world.

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 You look at Daniel in exile, living in Babylon.

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 What's he doing?

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 He is still being a blessing.

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 He's still living a way that's modeling what it means to have faith and trust in God.

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 This has been since the beginning.

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 Are we living as full-time ministers to going out and sharing that good news of Jesus?

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 With that in mind, we're going to go back to a passage which is in 1 Peter.

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 So open up your Bibles to 1 Peter 2.

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 We're going to have, is Janice going to read for us?

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 Janice is going to read for us 1 Peter 2, verse 1 to 11.

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 I've also been told that we need a little bit of time to get there.

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 So 1 Peter 2.

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 Trevor, you're there.

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 What page number is it?

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 965.

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 Though some versions are slightly different, but you can have a go.

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 Page 965.

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 Can I invite us to stand for the word of the Lord?

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 1 Peter 2, 1 to 12.

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 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

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 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk that by it you may grow up into salvation.

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 If indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

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 As you come to him, a living stone, rejected by men, but in the sight of God, chosen and precious.

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 You yourselves, like living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ for a stance in Scripture.

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 Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.

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 So the honor is for you who believe before those who do not believe.

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 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.

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 They stumble because they disobey the word as they were destined to do.

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 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into the marvelous light.

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 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people.

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 Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

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 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

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 This is the word of the Lord.

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 Praise be to God.

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 Please take a seat.

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 Thank you, Janice.

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 Thank you.

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 There is so much here.

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 I encourage you to keep this page open, but we will flick through a few other passages as we go from here.

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 That is loaded.

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 When we're talking about what it means to be the people of God, to be the temple of God, to be the household of God, you look at this and you see, wow, this is a high calling.

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 I'm not just a teacher or a dentist or a banker or a student.

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 I am part of the chosen race.

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 I'm a part of the royal priesthood.

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 I'm part of the holy nation.

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 I'm set apart in a different kind of way.

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 We are all built different.

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 What does it mean here?

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 So it starts with now you are supposed to bless.

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 Now, it makes me think that actually Adam and Eve were the first priests.

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 In fact, they would be described as the first priest kings.

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 They had dominion over creation and they were supposed to subdue it and to rule over it.

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 So they were the first priest kings.

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 And then what happens is we are supposed to basically, these priest kings are supposed to create this space, maintain this space, cultivate this land so that people would encounter the holy and living and glorious God.

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 That was the role of the king.

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 If we have to go back to this because it's a fascinating passage in Exodus.

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 So if you go back to me with me to the beginning of the Bible, not Genesis, but to Exodus chapter 19.

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 I want to show you the original call here that God has for his people.

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 And as I read this to you, you'll notice the parallels, the similarities with what he's saying here with what he told us in 1 Peter 2.

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 So Exodus chapter 19, we'll start from verse 5.

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 We'll say this.

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 Exodus chapter 19, verse 5.

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 Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples for all the earth is mine.

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 And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

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 These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.

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 So he's talking to these people and saying, you are going to be a kingdom of priests.

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 He says to us right now that you are all in full-time ministry.

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 You are all part of the kingdom of priests.

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 That means whatever he's given you, whatever place he's put you in, you're supposed to be a priest in that place.

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 I did not grow up wanting to be a pastor.

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 I grew up wanting to be a teacher, a secondary school PE teacher.

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 Or actually, yes, absolutely, a basketball player.

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 That is what I was supposed to be.

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 Well, actually, I originally liked football.

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 But then when I got to nine years old, my mom was like, you need to play basketball because you're quite short.

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 You need to grow taller.

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 And, of course, I guess we existed in a time where DNA had not been invented or discovered yet.

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 So she thought me playing basketball would make me taller.

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 Actually, the evidence is unclear.

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 It might have worked.

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 I might have been five foot.

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 But why did I get there?

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 Oh, that's why I get there.

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 I did not want to be a pastor.

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 So thank you, Ken, for reminding me.

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 There's a basketball game this afternoon, by the way.

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 But what if, and I don't know whether you've dreamt of being a pastor before, but what if you actually are a pastor?

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 What if you are actually an apostle?

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 What if you are actually a teacher and an evangelist, as we see in Ephesians 4?

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 What if you are actually part of the royal priesthood that actually serves a purpose and that God has placed you where you are right now so that you would be a priest?

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 And what is a priest?

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 A priest is someone who creates and maintains a space for people to encounter God.

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 What if that was the definition of priest?

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 And if that is the definition, then what if we all have that duty and responsibility and heart and passion to create these spaces where people will encounter God?

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 That is what you're supposed to do.

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 You are all in full-time ministry.

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 You are all priests.

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 That sounds a little bit intimidating.

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 That sounds a little bit overwhelming.

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 We feel a little bit distant.

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 But in Exodus 19, you see the whole of the Israelites were to be a kingdom of priests, to point people to the one God.

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 What happens, though?

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 Chapter 19, if you fast forward to later, into chapter 32, 33, they do point people to a God.

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 But what's the God?

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 It's a golden calf.

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 It's a statue.

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 And so you see that's where the problem comes.

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 We were supposed to be, like Adam and Eve, cultivating, pointing people to the glory of God.

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 Yet we decide we know better.

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 We're going to do our own way.

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 We're going to choose our own way.

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 We're going to point to another way.

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 And the Israelites fall into the same trap.

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 We were supposed to point people to God, but instead we point people to other gods.

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 The small gods.

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 And so what does God have to do?

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 I wanted you to be the priest.

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 Okay, but you can't.

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 So then he appoints new priests.

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 He appoints Aaron and his sons to be the priests.

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 But even for them to be the priests, they have to go through this whole, whole process of consecration to get themselves ready to mediate, to maintain this space for the other people to encounter God.

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 And that's where you get all the laws.

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 That's where you get all the rules.

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 That's where you get the tabernacle.

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 That's where you get the temple.

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 That's where you get all these things with priests assigned to try and maintain, to work and keep the temple.

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 To handle the sacrifices.

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 To handle the animals.

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 All to do what?

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 To get people to this place where they would encounter this holy, holy God.

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 Let's flip back to 1 Peter now.

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 We look at that passage and it's calling us to live in a different way.

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 So at the beginning of chapter 2, it says,

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 We are supposed to be living stones.

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 So the first thing that jumps out to me is that we're supposed to be living.

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 We're supposed to be alive.

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 When someone walks in here and they don't know God, they're supposed to feel life.

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 They're supposed to see it.

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 How many of us have walked into a church and we have not felt life?

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 We have walked into a beautiful church building, a cathedral.

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 But there is, it feels more like a cemetery.

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 Often surrounded by a cemetery in England.

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 But we're supposed to be living.

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 We're supposed to be moving.

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 Keller talks about the church needing to be an organism as well as an organization.

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 But so often we get to a point where we're growing, where we were filled with life,

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 but eventually we have to organize that life.

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 And before you know it, we have paperwork and we have bureaucracy and we have red tape.

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 And suddenly we become an organization and we lose the life part.

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 But an organism is supposed to grow.

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 An organism is supposed to give life.

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 It's supposed to be connected to life.

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 We are supposed to be living stones.

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 And interestingly, it says here, verse 5,

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 You yourselves, like living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood,

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 to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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 We kind of know about sacrifices.

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 They definitely knew about sacrifices, about the animals.

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 But then you must also say, if you know scripture well enough,

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 Wait, hold on a second, Peter.

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 What are we talking about sacrifices?

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 I thought Jesus already sacrificed once and for all.

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 I thought he was all that we needed.

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 Well, that's the thing.

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 It says spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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 What is acceptable through Jesus Christ?

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 Well, it is recognizing that Jesus has done whatever it is that needed to be done.

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 We could never do it by ourselves.

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 But there is still a way to live in response to that.

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 There is still a holiness that we must pursue.

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 We know that we will all fall short, but we are all justified by his grace freely as a gift.

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 And that should compel us to live in a certain way.

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 So in Romans 12, it says this,

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 Therefore, in view of God's mercy, offer yourselves up as what?

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 Living sacrifices.

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 And what does it say after that?

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 Do not conform to the patterns of this world.

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 But be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

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 And by doing so, you'll know what the good and perfect will of God is.

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 How many of us are wondering, what is God wanting us to do in our lives?

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 What's the purpose?

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 What's the mission?

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 Well, therefore, in view of God's mercy, you look at what Jesus did first.

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 You start with going, I'm not going to conform to the patterns of this world.

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 I'm not going to ask the same questions that the world asks.

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 I'm not going to pursue the same goals that the world pursues.

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 I'm going to be transformed.

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 I'm going to swim against the current.

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 What else is a sacrifice?

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 I think about Psalm 51.

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 What is a sacrifice that's acceptable and pleasing to God?

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 A broken heart.

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 A contrite spirit.

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 So that's the sacrifice we're talking about.

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 We're not talking about you must do better to become a better Christian so you can access God.

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 No, no, no.

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 Jesus has already done that once and for all.

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 Hebrews 10.

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 We talked about this.

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 But what he's saying is the sacrifice he needs from us now, the sacrifice that pleases him,

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 is just one of a broken heart, a broken spirit, a contrite heart.

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 God, I need you is all he needs to hear.

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 And through Jesus, I can now access you.

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 That's the most important thing.

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 That's the part that he needs.

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 We as priests.

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 How many of us have met priests or pastors who are like, hmm, I don't know if you have a broken heart.

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 I don't know if you have a contrite spirit.

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 There's a pride in you that makes me uncomfortable.

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 Right?

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 But if we're to be priestess, so imagine you feel that about your pastor.

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 Imagine how people feel about us.

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 Well, how people feel about you.

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 How do your colleagues feel about you?

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 Oh, I'm a Christian.

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 Oh, that means you're stuck up.

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 That means you're a hypocrite.

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 That means you have these high standards for everyone.

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 What if we walked in and people would go, well, that person is filled with grace, but also truth.

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 They're not afraid to speak the truth, but somehow it's always wrapped in love and grace.

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 How do they do it?

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 How do they rebuke me, but somehow I feel lifted up?

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 That's what we are striving for.

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 That's what we are hoping to do.

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 So that's verse five.

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 It says we have to live in a way where we offer spiritual sacrifices.

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 And then later it says that you were a chosen race, royal priesthood.

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 And from this, what are you supposed to do?

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 Verse nine, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you.

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 What's that saying?

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 That's calling people to worship.

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 That's saying, hey, there's only one who is good.

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 It's not me.

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 It's not you.

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 It's not this.

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 It's not that.

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 It's God.

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 I'm calling you.

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 I'm proclaiming to you his excellencies, and I'm going to call you to worship him.

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 That is all.

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 So part of being this living stone is one, living a way that is a living sacrifice, holy and set apart.

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 But the second is to actually point people to worship, which is where the John Piper quote comes in.

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 People are worshiping all kinds of things outside.

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 We are prone to worshiping all kinds of things.

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 And yet we as a church, the mission that we have is to proclaim his excellencies.

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 How do we do that?

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 We do that in just basically sharing the goodness of God in our lives.

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 When we have something good, you can't help but share it.

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 You just can't.

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 When was the last thing that you had that was really good that you thought, I must share this?

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 I have a good friend of mine, Abraham Chan.

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 We have a shared love for matcha latte because we're quite weak, so we don't do coffee very well.

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 So they say time and timing, and he says, I must take you to this place.

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 And actually, I've taken a few of you to this place, which is Machali, which is just PP3.

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 Oh, the best matcha latte.

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 So I can't help.

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 Anyone who says they like matcha along with me, I'll tell them about this place.

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 Because it's just, the matcha is just good.

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 And if you're extra manly like me, you will go for the strawberry matcha latte.

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 Oh, it's just, I mean, sometimes when I take fellow guys, I say it quietly.

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 Can you add the strawberry in?

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 Love the strawberry.

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 But when you have good stuff, you just can't help but share it.

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 But when we found out, when Paul and Kelly and I found out that one parking receipt at Pacific Place can be shared amongst three cars,

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 we started a WhatsApp group to talk about it.

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 And then we would share, who's got the receipt today?

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 When Agnes bought her new electric car, she couldn't help tell me how good that electric car is.

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 Building Yahweh's dreams is what we're doing.

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 Take some time, take some time.

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 You'll get there, guys.

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 When you have something good, you can't help but share it.

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 Imagine what that looks like for you.

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 Okay, you're in full-time ministry now.

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 Right?

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 This second, you're in full-time ministry, Shane.

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 You're in Damien, Hank, Uday, Bernard.

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 You're in full-time ministry.

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 You go into your assigned workplace.

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 How do you share that good news?

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 How do you share it?

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 What does it look like?

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 And what is the good news?

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 That we were out in darkness, but we were caught out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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 In the verse 12, it says this.

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 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers,

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 they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

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 So when people who don't know God look at us, they should look at us different.

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 That's what Jesus was talking about in Matthew 5 in the sermon.

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 He's saying, people, you're the salt of the earth.

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 You are the light of the world.

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 When people see your good works, they'll give glory to the Father in heaven.

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 Acts chapter 2, when that church is getting together and they're devoted to teaching, fellowship, breaking bread and prayers,

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 what happens?

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 They are glad and generous.

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 They are filled with reverence and awe.

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 And then everyone sees and they have favor amongst all people.

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 When was the last time a non-Christian looked at you and thought, you are just different and I like you?

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 There is something different about you.

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 How about we make it our goal for non-believers to look at us and go, you are weird.

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 You're just weird.

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 The way you don't gossip when we gossip, that's just weird.

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 The way you're not fighting for that promotion is just weird.

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 The way you are not anxious when we are really anxious, that's just weird.

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 Let's talk about this at the really practical level of how we live our lives out as full-time ministers of the kingdom of God.

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 Often it's just the small things.

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 I won't put him on the spot, but there's an introvert in my life group who's a doctor,

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 who when we were talking about this and saying, how does that look?

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 And he said, well, I just stop gossiping.

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 I just stop taking part in those kinds of things.

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 At the beginning of chapter two, it says malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, slander.

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 I just stop myself and I don't talk about those things.

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 I don't join in.

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 That itself is already weird enough.

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 That already shocks the people enough.

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 What if we were to grow up to be mature followers of Christ and that we were just weird?

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 When Christina and I met, she was a university student who lived a different life.

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 She is not the same Seymour that she is now.

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 And there was a time where actually 1 Peter 4 remains to be her life passage.

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 And I'll read it to you.

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 So if you're already in 1 Peter 2, then it's easy for you.

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 It says this.

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 And then verse four, it says this.

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 With respect to this, they are surprised when you do not join them.

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 They are surprised when you do not join them.

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 And I remember when she had left that life behind, we had people reaching out to her saying,

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 Why are you not around?

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 Why don't you go to the same things that we do anymore?

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 And actually, it wasn't just from judgment.

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 It was from, how did you get out?

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 Help me get out.

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 I want to choose a different life.

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 I want to choose a different way.

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 When people look at us and they see that they're weird, see that we're weird,

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 can they be also surprised that we are just different?

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 All right, question time.

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 So this is a passage that we've been looking at,

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 and it shows us that we are supposed to be priests.

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 We are the royal priesthood.

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 But there's another passage in the Bible that we should all at least know

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 when it comes to what it means to live a life of Christ.

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 We are commissioned out.

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 And we are supposed to go out to be missionaries.

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 What is that passage?

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 Where are we looking?

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 I'm going to give you 10 more seconds before I point out,

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 I'm going to pick on Gabs.

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 Or Paul.

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 You got it?

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 Matthew 28.

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 Matthew 28.

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 Matthew 28.

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 What is Matthew 28, Gabs?

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 Wow, you're going to read it to us.

00:26:50.100 --> 00:26:50.340
 Yeah.

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 A great commission.

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 Go, therefore.

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 Let's turn there.

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 Let's go, therefore, to Matthew 28.

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 When we are talking about us being disciples of Jesus,

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 we must go, we must remember,

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 again, it's the thing that Jesus says.

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 If you get everything else,

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 there's the great commandment and there's the great commission.

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 There's the great commandment and there's the great commission.

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 It's Matthew 22 for the great commandment.

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 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

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 And love your neighbor as yourself.

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 And then Matthew 28.

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 Now go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations.

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 This is the passage that should thrust us into mission.

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 It should cause us to live.

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 If we are to be serious about being disciples of Jesus, by the way,

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 which is what we talked about last week,

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 that you are following the way of Jesus, the discipline of Jesus,

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 then you must know this passage,

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 that go, therefore, to make disciples of all nations.

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 So let's have a little look at that.

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 So it says this.

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 Go, therefore.

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 Let's see.

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 Matthew 28, verse 18.

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 And Jesus came and said to them,

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 All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,

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 baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit,

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 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.

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 And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age.

00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:02.639
 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations.

00:28:03.220 --> 00:28:05.039
 Last week we talked about what a disciple is.

00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:07.940
 Someone who abides in his word, John 8.

00:28:08.139 --> 00:28:10.500
 Someone who loves other people, John 13.

00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:12.460
 And bears fruit in John 15.

00:28:14.639 --> 00:28:18.899
 My own metric, and I shared this with a group of our fellowship a couple weeks ago,

00:28:18.900 --> 00:28:21.540
 my own metric when I know that I am making a disciple

00:28:21.540 --> 00:28:23.820
 and when I am successfully discipling you

00:28:23.820 --> 00:28:26.700
 is the moment you turn around and you start making your own disciple.

00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:29.780
 That moment, when your disciples make disciples

00:28:29.780 --> 00:28:31.840
 is when you realize that you've just made a disciple.

00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:33.900
 That's it.

00:28:34.580 --> 00:28:36.380
 It's 2 Timothy 2.2 when Paul says,

00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:39.340
 Hey, what I've taught you, can you then pass on to someone else

00:28:39.340 --> 00:28:40.800
 who will then pass on to someone else?

00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:42.880
 There's four generations in one snapshot.

00:28:43.280 --> 00:28:44.220
 That's discipleship.

00:28:44.220 --> 00:28:48.160
 When we are poured into and we pour out basically immediately.

00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:51.480
 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations.

00:28:52.140 --> 00:28:53.420
 And of course it says, go, therefore.

00:28:53.700 --> 00:28:54.980
 And if you've been in church long enough,

00:28:55.019 --> 00:28:56.120
 you will have heard the pastor say,

00:28:56.380 --> 00:28:58.319
 when there is a therefore in a passage,

00:28:58.480 --> 00:28:59.700
 you have to ask what is therefore.

00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:02.380
 And go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations.

00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:03.600
 What's the line just before it?

00:29:04.259 --> 00:29:07.480
 It's all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.

00:29:08.579 --> 00:29:10.640
 But then I then ask the next question,

00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:11.539
 well, why, how?

00:29:11.539 --> 00:29:13.879
 How does he have all this authority?

00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:15.180
 Then you have to go further back.

00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:17.359
 And you look at your paper Bible

00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:21.180
 and you'll see the passage just before that is the resurrection.

00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:25.899
 That he has defeated the thing that we are most afraid of.

00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:27.240
 Death itself.

00:29:27.819 --> 00:29:30.460
 He has shown us there is something beyond the grave.

00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.500
 That there is something beyond what we see in this world.

00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:35.879
 And he's shown us, he went there and he came back

00:29:35.879 --> 00:29:37.119
 and he's told us about it.

00:29:37.299 --> 00:29:40.000
 And that's why he has all authority in heaven and on earth.

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:41.940
 And that's why he now holds the keys.

00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:44.420
 That's why we don't have to be scared of death.

00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:46.779
 That's why we can grieve when we lose a loved one,

00:29:46.940 --> 00:29:48.079
 but we still have hope.

00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:53.740
 Because he's defeated everything that we've ever been afraid of.

00:29:55.180 --> 00:29:57.180
 And because of that, he has now has all authority.

00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:00.380
 And because of that, we must go.

00:30:01.960 --> 00:30:03.119
 Because of that, we must go.

00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:07.539
 And make disciples of all nations.

00:30:10.539 --> 00:30:11.759
 The question is, why don't we?

00:30:14.139 --> 00:30:15.179
 What stops us?

00:30:17.479 --> 00:30:18.179
 Question time.

00:30:18.259 --> 00:30:20.439
 What stops us from following this?

00:30:21.399 --> 00:30:23.779
 Making disciples of all nations?

00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:26.719
 Sam, what thoughts do you have?

00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.779
 What do you think stops us as a body from following this Great Commission?

00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:36.519
 The part that we see that says,

00:30:36.980 --> 00:30:39.380
 all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Jesus.

00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:41.539
 This picture of authority given to Jesus.

00:30:41.980 --> 00:30:44.400
 Sometimes people don't feel that we have that same authority.

00:30:44.660 --> 00:30:44.819
 Yeah.

00:30:46.100 --> 00:30:46.500
 Yeah.

00:30:47.339 --> 00:30:48.240
 That is so true.

00:30:48.420 --> 00:30:49.299
 What Sam just said was,

00:30:49.660 --> 00:30:53.460
 the picture is all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Jesus.

00:30:53.460 --> 00:30:56.059
 And we think, Jesus, that's all well and good.

00:30:56.500 --> 00:30:57.420
 You have the authority.

00:30:57.920 --> 00:30:58.480
 We do not.

00:30:59.180 --> 00:31:02.160
 If I go and live out my life, my faith in my workplace,

00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:04.120
 and I have that same authority,

00:31:04.299 --> 00:31:05.319
 I could lose my job.

00:31:06.740 --> 00:31:08.059
 I could lose my friendships.

00:31:09.059 --> 00:31:11.440
 That's definitely something that we hold on to.

00:31:11.900 --> 00:31:12.940
 That we are afraid of.

00:31:13.819 --> 00:31:16.860
 Caleb, why else do we think we struggle with following this?

00:31:16.859 --> 00:31:21.359
 I was just looking at the previous verse where it says,

00:31:22.159 --> 00:31:23.719
 when they saw him, they worshiped him.

00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:25.479
 But some still doubted.

00:31:26.579 --> 00:31:27.779
 Which, like, first of all, is crazy.

00:31:28.219 --> 00:31:31.519
 But we still have our doubts.

00:31:31.939 --> 00:31:34.500
 And those doubts, once again, comes to what Sam was saying,

00:31:34.579 --> 00:31:37.799
 how we don't recognize that he has the full authority.

00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:41.240
 And we put our worship in something else.

00:31:41.379 --> 00:31:41.519
 Yeah.

00:31:43.319 --> 00:31:44.879
 There's a fear that we don't have the authority,

00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:47.720
 and then there's just the doubts that we all have.

00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:50.880
 Where actually, did...

00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:53.140
 Do I actually...

00:31:53.140 --> 00:31:54.300
 Do I know enough about the faith?

00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:55.540
 Is one question that we have.

00:31:56.740 --> 00:31:58.920
 Do I actually believe enough of what this is?

00:31:59.220 --> 00:32:00.380
 There's just constant doubts.

00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:02.160
 And I'll be the first one to share with you.

00:32:02.560 --> 00:32:05.340
 Sometimes, especially when my daughter asks me questions about the faith,

00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:06.840
 I'm like, I don't know the answer to that.

00:32:08.520 --> 00:32:09.280
 I don't know.

00:32:09.900 --> 00:32:12.400
 I was speaking to a pastor's kid this last week,

00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:14.160
 and every time I meet a pastor's kid,

00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:15.660
 I'm just all over them,

00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:17.800
 and I want to ask them questions about just how they live and everything.

00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:18.100
 Why?

00:32:18.180 --> 00:32:20.800
 Because, of course, I've got kids growing up in my house,

00:32:20.840 --> 00:32:22.460
 and I just have so many questions for them.

00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.840
 And then one of the pastor's kids just said,

00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:27.080
 well, I'd ask my dad a lot of questions,

00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:29.680
 and he'd be open to answering them.

00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:31.640
 But if he didn't know the answer, he'd always say,

00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.820
 hey, actually, I don't quite know how to explain this to you right now,

00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:35.940
 but let me get back to you.

00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:36.800
 And he always did.

00:32:38.320 --> 00:32:39.580
 It's okay to have doubts.

00:32:39.580 --> 00:32:40.779
 It's okay to say,

00:32:40.779 --> 00:32:43.440
 I actually don't know the answer to that question.

00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:46.460
 It's okay when you meet someone in your family,

00:32:46.579 --> 00:32:48.099
 in your friendship circles, in your workplace,

00:32:48.220 --> 00:32:49.079
 who asks you a question,

00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:50.539
 and you're like, oh, that's such a good question.

00:32:50.940 --> 00:32:52.599
 Can I get back to you about that?

00:32:53.059 --> 00:32:55.180
 And then what you mean is then you're going to come,

00:32:55.259 --> 00:32:56.940
 and you're going to find Pastor Gabe,

00:32:57.059 --> 00:32:58.839
 and you're going to ask him these questions.

00:32:59.220 --> 00:33:00.799
 And you're going to ask him, hey, what's that?

00:33:01.539 --> 00:33:04.460
 Or you go on to where everyone goes on to these days

00:33:04.460 --> 00:33:06.319
 to find the answers that you need to find.

00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:09.220
 And often you'll find AI gives good framework,

00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:11.339
 good outlines for some of these answers.

00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:13.639
 Of course, you have to double check them afterwards.

00:33:14.179 --> 00:33:14.899
 But there are ways.

00:33:14.980 --> 00:33:16.039
 But the main point is this.

00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:17.519
 It's okay to have those doubts.

00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:18.879
 And it's okay to say you don't know.

00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:22.200
 And then it's okay to still continue.

00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:24.099
 Because even though there are things you don't know,

00:33:24.159 --> 00:33:25.419
 there are a few things that you do know.

00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:27.439
 And I love that this passage follows the resurrection.

00:33:27.579 --> 00:33:29.500
 Because there's one thing that you can hang your hat on,

00:33:29.659 --> 00:33:31.019
 and that is the resurrection of Jesus.

00:33:31.500 --> 00:33:33.019
 So I don't know how that works.

00:33:33.019 --> 00:33:36.299
 I don't know how he created this in six days and did this.

00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:37.500
 But I'll tell you what.

00:33:37.859 --> 00:33:39.400
 And I don't know why there was a big fish,

00:33:39.879 --> 00:33:40.940
 and that somehow it could eat someone,

00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:42.160
 and then three days later spit them out,

00:33:42.379 --> 00:33:43.160
 and that person still says,

00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:45.980
 there are some things that I need to go and look into.

00:33:47.259 --> 00:33:48.980
 But actually, if the resurrection is real,

00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:51.299
 then all of those answers can be solved.

00:33:52.500 --> 00:33:54.099
 You go back to the resurrection of Jesus,

00:33:54.220 --> 00:33:56.240
 how there was a Jewish man 2,000 years ago.

00:33:56.839 --> 00:33:59.680
 And somehow, he said that he would die and then rise again.

00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:01.019
 And then it actually happened,

00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:03.060
 where he was killed by the people

00:34:03.060 --> 00:34:05.320
 who were the most expert at killing people back then.

00:34:05.580 --> 00:34:08.099
 And somehow, the tomb is empty.

00:34:09.539 --> 00:34:11.900
 And despite all the conspiracy theories,

00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:13.280
 despite all the different ways,

00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:16.200
 somehow, no one can explain away that there is no body,

00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:18.340
 and that there were 500 witnesses to this,

00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:19.800
 and that lives are transformed.

00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.079
 The people who were cowards and traitors beforehand

00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:25.579
 now turned around and were willing to die for this.

00:34:25.860 --> 00:34:26.860
 Something happened.

00:34:26.860 --> 00:34:30.420
 And somehow, 12 Jewish men

00:34:30.420 --> 00:34:34.579
 led to faith just spreading around the world.

00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:36.660
 One man.

00:34:37.140 --> 00:34:38.720
 This man, whether you believe him or not,

00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:40.400
 he died and then he rose again,

00:34:40.460 --> 00:34:41.380
 and he split time in half,

00:34:41.420 --> 00:34:42.640
 and we are in 2026,

00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.380
 because it's 2,026 years since he was born.

00:34:47.059 --> 00:34:48.500
 You can hang your hat on those things.

00:34:48.740 --> 00:34:51.440
 So you can admit that there are things that you don't know,

00:34:51.640 --> 00:34:53.260
 but then you hold on to the things that you do.

00:34:53.860 --> 00:34:54.820
 And there's the big picture,

00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:55.860
 there's the resurrection of Jesus,

00:34:55.860 --> 00:34:57.460
 but then there's just all our picture.

00:34:58.260 --> 00:35:00.160
 Oh, I was in darkness,

00:35:00.620 --> 00:35:02.980
 but he then brought me out of this darkness

00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:04.200
 into his marvelous light.

00:35:04.539 --> 00:35:07.019
 I can't answer those questions

00:35:07.019 --> 00:35:08.860
 that you're asking just yet,

00:35:09.180 --> 00:35:10.900
 but I can tell you what he's done in my life.

00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:12.980
 And that's all that matters.

00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:16.099
 Fear, doubt.

00:35:16.680 --> 00:35:18.039
 How can we overcome all of them

00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:20.640
 to be part of this kingdom of priests?

00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:22.679
 How can we follow Adam and Eve,

00:35:22.739 --> 00:35:23.199
 and then Abraham,

00:35:23.359 --> 00:35:23.920
 and then Jeremiah,

00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:25.900
 and then Moses and Joseph,

00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:27.420
 and then Peter,

00:35:27.799 --> 00:35:28.119
 Paul,

00:35:28.859 --> 00:35:30.659
 and then Billy Graham,

00:35:31.539 --> 00:35:32.339
 and then Pastor Johnny,

00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:36.199
 and every single person in this room.

00:35:36.299 --> 00:35:37.779
 How can we be part of that?

00:35:38.539 --> 00:35:40.539
 What's it going to take for me to convince you

00:35:40.539 --> 00:35:42.199
 that you are actually in full-time ministry,

00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:44.099
 that just as Nathan prayed at the beginning,

00:35:44.099 --> 00:35:46.380
 that you cannot take your job away

00:35:46.380 --> 00:35:47.339
 with you into heaven.

00:35:48.460 --> 00:35:50.739
 Whatever role that God has assigned you right now,

00:35:51.219 --> 00:35:52.319
 that is temporary.

00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:54.719
 And we live in a day and age

00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:55.839
 where actually people don't stay

00:35:55.839 --> 00:35:57.219
 in their one career that long anyway.

00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:00.239
 What if it doesn't matter

00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:01.440
 what career we're actually in?

00:36:03.259 --> 00:36:04.319
 What if you've been placed

00:36:04.319 --> 00:36:06.519
 exactly where you are right now

00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:08.639
 to be a priest to others?

00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:11.279
 Just to finish a little bit

00:36:11.279 --> 00:36:12.219
 on this Matthew 28.

00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:13.460
 So,

00:36:13.879 --> 00:36:14.420
 go therefore,

00:36:15.059 --> 00:36:16.500
 the preceding is all authority.

00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:17.859
 The preceding that

00:36:17.859 --> 00:36:18.739
 is the resurrection.

00:36:20.179 --> 00:36:21.839
 But we also miss the final bit

00:36:21.839 --> 00:36:22.440
 because we say,

00:36:22.799 --> 00:36:23.859
 go therefore and make disciples

00:36:23.859 --> 00:36:24.400
 of all nations,

00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:25.719
 baptize them in the name of the Father,

00:36:25.819 --> 00:36:26.420
 Son, and the Holy Spirit,

00:36:26.759 --> 00:36:27.900
 teach them what I have commanded you.

00:36:28.359 --> 00:36:28.719
 And then we're like,

00:36:28.759 --> 00:36:29.059
 okay.

00:36:29.279 --> 00:36:30.299
 And by then we're freaking out

00:36:30.299 --> 00:36:30.659
 because we're like,

00:36:30.699 --> 00:36:30.900
 actually,

00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:32.039
 we're not doing any of those things.

00:36:32.279 --> 00:36:33.500
 We're not actually making disciples.

00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:34.759
 We're not actually living in a way

00:36:34.759 --> 00:36:37.119
 that is overcoming our doubts and fears

00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:38.420
 and actually sharing the good news

00:36:38.420 --> 00:36:38.680
 of Jesus.

00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:39.800
 And then we kind of just stop there

00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:40.880
 and we kind of just meddle

00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:41.840
 in this place where I'm not

00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:42.460
 making disciples.

00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:43.440
 I've been told to do this,

00:36:43.500 --> 00:36:44.519
 but I'm not really doing it

00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:45.960
 because I can't,

00:36:46.579 --> 00:36:47.360
 because I'm not good enough,

00:36:47.420 --> 00:36:48.639
 because I'm not smart enough,

00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:50.079
 because I'm not devoted enough.

00:36:51.059 --> 00:36:52.200
 I think it's also because

00:36:52.200 --> 00:36:53.380
 we missed the final passage,

00:36:53.539 --> 00:36:54.720
 the final part of this passage.

00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:56.460
 And the very end of this passage

00:36:56.460 --> 00:36:57.079
 says this,

00:36:57.960 --> 00:36:58.920
 teaching them to observe

00:36:58.920 --> 00:36:59.760
 all that I have commanded you.

00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:01.159
 And behold,

00:37:01.900 --> 00:37:03.099
 I am with you always

00:37:03.099 --> 00:37:04.880
 to the end of the age.

00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:08.740
 What if you were a full-time minister?

00:37:09.140 --> 00:37:10.660
 What if you were part

00:37:10.660 --> 00:37:11.660
 of the royal priesthood,

00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:13.680
 going to where you're supposed to go,

00:37:13.940 --> 00:37:15.300
 but you don't go alone?

00:37:16.980 --> 00:37:18.660
 What if you remembered

00:37:18.660 --> 00:37:19.780
 and truly believed

00:37:19.780 --> 00:37:20.840
 the final part of that,

00:37:20.940 --> 00:37:21.180
 which is,

00:37:21.300 --> 00:37:21.539
 behold,

00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:22.640
 I am with you

00:37:22.640 --> 00:37:24.240
 to the end of the age?

00:37:26.220 --> 00:37:28.240
 That when you go into your field

00:37:28.240 --> 00:37:29.220
 to work and keep

00:37:29.220 --> 00:37:31.340
 whatever he has called you to do,

00:37:31.579 --> 00:37:33.000
 that he is right there with you.

00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:35.079
 The reason you have the authority

00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:38.159
 is because there's a lion behind you.

00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:40.340
 What if that was the case?

00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:43.039
 Would that change your perspective

00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:45.019
 on when you were going in?

00:37:46.539 --> 00:37:48.719
 My favorite Disney film of all time

00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:50.760
 is arguably Lion King,

00:37:51.300 --> 00:37:53.440
 followed closely by Brother Bear.

00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:55.420
 Really cute film.

00:37:56.380 --> 00:37:56.960
 There's this moment

00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:58.139
 in the elephant graveyard

00:37:58.139 --> 00:37:59.300
 in Lion King, right?

00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:01.719
 Where Simba's messing around

00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:02.699
 and just being an idiot.

00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:04.960
 And then the hyenas come

00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:06.960
 and then he tries to roar

00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:09.420
 and it's just meow.

00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:11.239
 And it doesn't work

00:38:11.239 --> 00:38:12.119
 and they laugh at him

00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:13.039
 because hyenas laugh.

00:38:15.380 --> 00:38:16.840
 And then he tries it again.

00:38:18.099 --> 00:38:19.079
 But this time,

00:38:19.179 --> 00:38:19.920
 Daddy's behind him.

00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:21.099
 This time,

00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:22.980
 Wafasa is behind him.

00:38:23.900 --> 00:38:25.079
 And they tremble.

00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:29.380
 What if you've been going into your graveyard

00:38:29.380 --> 00:38:33.480
 acting like Simba fighting alone?

00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:36.539
 What if you've forgotten

00:38:36.539 --> 00:38:38.259
 this final part of this Great Commission?

00:38:40.539 --> 00:38:41.759
 And what if you remember

00:38:41.759 --> 00:38:43.360
 there's actually a lion behind you?

00:38:44.099 --> 00:38:46.420
 There is actually the King of Kings behind you.

00:38:47.420 --> 00:38:48.360
 There is actually,

00:38:48.659 --> 00:38:49.960
 you are a priest,

00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.159
 but there is a great high priest

00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:53.139
 behind you.

00:38:54.300 --> 00:38:55.500
 A great high priest

00:38:55.500 --> 00:38:57.260
 that sympathizes with your weaknesses,

00:38:57.400 --> 00:38:58.900
 that has been tempted in every way,

00:38:59.000 --> 00:38:59.740
 just as you are,

00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:01.920
 and yet was without sin.

00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:04.900
 And that actually,

00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:05.780
 he's the one

00:39:05.780 --> 00:39:07.380
 who is going to work through you.

00:39:07.680 --> 00:39:08.360
 He's the one

00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:09.559
 who's going to give you the words.

00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:10.599
 He's the one

00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:11.280
 that's going to give you

00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:12.440
 the perfect case study.

00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:13.820
 And what is the perfect case study?

00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:15.320
 1 Corinthians talks about this.

00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:15.659
 Paul says,

00:39:15.700 --> 00:39:17.139
 it's not going to be your words.

00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:19.539
 It's not going to be

00:39:19.539 --> 00:39:21.800
 how you explain necessarily

00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:23.639
 everything about Jesus

00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:24.720
 to your colleagues

00:39:24.720 --> 00:39:25.460
 through your words.

00:39:26.619 --> 00:39:27.980
 But it's the power of the cross.

00:39:29.260 --> 00:39:30.820
 So it's not lofty speech or wisdom.

00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:33.940
 It's not being a great speaker.

00:39:34.780 --> 00:39:36.059
 But it's simply you

00:39:36.059 --> 00:39:37.420
 going to people and saying,

00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:39.780
 Jesus died for our sins

00:39:39.780 --> 00:39:40.880
 and he rose again.

00:39:41.159 --> 00:39:42.800
 And the power of that cross,

00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:44.840
 that good news,

00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:46.860
 that gospel changes everything.

00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:48.800
 That's the lion that's behind me.

00:39:48.860 --> 00:39:50.619
 That's the Mophasa that's behind me.

00:39:50.680 --> 00:39:51.800
 What if we operated

00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:53.420
 from that point of view?

00:39:54.539 --> 00:39:55.559
 What if we did that?

00:39:56.559 --> 00:39:57.400
 Then I think we'd stand

00:39:57.400 --> 00:39:58.240
 a better chance

00:39:58.240 --> 00:39:59.619
 to be the kingdom of priests

00:39:59.619 --> 00:40:00.400
 that he calls us to,

00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:01.980
 to be the royal priest.

00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:02.680
 Royal.

00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:05.260
 You're a child of God.

00:40:06.240 --> 00:40:07.680
 You're a co-heir with Christ.

00:40:08.260 --> 00:40:09.160
 You're not doing this alone.

00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:10.240
 God help you

00:40:10.240 --> 00:40:10.940
 if you're doing it alone.

00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:12.400
 It doesn't work,

00:40:12.460 --> 00:40:13.280
 but if his Holy Spirit

00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:13.760
 is in you.

00:40:15.460 --> 00:40:16.440
 So I always go back

00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:17.300
 to John 16, 8.

00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:20.820
 When we are going to someone

00:40:20.820 --> 00:40:21.400
 to share with them

00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:21.840
 the good news,

00:40:21.900 --> 00:40:22.380
 what we're hoping

00:40:22.380 --> 00:40:23.340
 is that they will be convicted

00:40:23.340 --> 00:40:24.240
 of sin and righteousness.

00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:26.680
 That through our words,

00:40:26.760 --> 00:40:27.700
 which are necessary,

00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:28.139
 by the way,

00:40:28.139 --> 00:40:29.079
 you cannot spread the gospel

00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:29.980
 without using words.

00:40:30.059 --> 00:40:30.879
 You must use words.

00:40:31.379 --> 00:40:31.980
 You must show them

00:40:31.980 --> 00:40:32.519
 how to live,

00:40:32.739 --> 00:40:33.319
 how you live,

00:40:33.500 --> 00:40:34.159
 and then you should

00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:34.759
 use your words

00:40:34.759 --> 00:40:35.519
 to explain to them

00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:36.480
 why you live in the way

00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:37.619
 that you are weird.

00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:40.699
 But then,

00:40:41.359 --> 00:40:41.940
 Jesus says,

00:40:42.059 --> 00:40:42.960
 I'll send my helper

00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:43.819
 to be with you,

00:40:43.859 --> 00:40:44.619
 my Holy Spirit.

00:40:44.859 --> 00:40:45.639
 He is the one

00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:46.400
 who's going to convict them

00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:47.119
 of sin and righteousness.

00:40:47.659 --> 00:40:48.359
 I can't tell you

00:40:48.359 --> 00:40:49.119
 the amount of times

00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:50.159
 where I come up here

00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:51.359
 or I go into any kind of setting,

00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:52.319
 give a great talk,

00:40:52.379 --> 00:40:52.960
 give a great speech,

00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:53.799
 have a great conversation

00:40:53.799 --> 00:40:54.239
 with someone,

00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:54.959
 and I think

00:40:54.959 --> 00:40:55.759
 that I've compelled them

00:40:55.759 --> 00:40:57.099
 to be a follower of Christ

00:40:57.099 --> 00:40:58.459
 and it just falls on deaf ears

00:40:58.459 --> 00:40:59.919
 and I thought it was a great talk

00:40:59.919 --> 00:41:00.599
 and they didn't

00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:01.239
 and it's okay.

00:41:02.500 --> 00:41:04.019
 But I can also tell you

00:41:04.019 --> 00:41:04.699
 there's so many times

00:41:04.699 --> 00:41:05.279
 where I come away

00:41:05.279 --> 00:41:05.439
 and go,

00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:06.279
 I don't know if I answered

00:41:06.279 --> 00:41:06.919
 that right at all.

00:41:07.479 --> 00:41:08.599
 I don't know if I actually gave,

00:41:08.699 --> 00:41:09.879
 that sermon was not good.

00:41:10.939 --> 00:41:11.779
 And I walk away

00:41:11.779 --> 00:41:13.519
 and then it's those moments

00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:14.579
 where someone comes up to me

00:41:14.579 --> 00:41:14.759
 and says,

00:41:14.859 --> 00:41:16.759
 I was so touched

00:41:16.759 --> 00:41:17.500
 by what you just said.

00:41:17.579 --> 00:41:17.619
 I said,

00:41:17.619 --> 00:41:17.819
 really?

00:41:18.500 --> 00:41:19.159
 I wasn't.

00:41:20.959 --> 00:41:21.559
 What touched you?

00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:22.559
 And then they would share,

00:41:22.759 --> 00:41:22.980
 oh,

00:41:24.279 --> 00:41:24.480
 oh,

00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:25.039
 it wasn't me.

00:41:26.219 --> 00:41:27.019
 I'm only Simba.

00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:28.599
 It's Mufasa

00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:29.719
 who's doing the actual work.

00:41:30.420 --> 00:41:31.519
 I just have to be there.

00:41:32.340 --> 00:41:33.259
 I just have to be

00:41:33.259 --> 00:41:34.059
 that chosen instrument.

00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:34.820
 He's going to play it.

00:41:35.980 --> 00:41:37.340
 What if I could convince you

00:41:37.340 --> 00:41:38.320
 that we are all

00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:41.440
 actually in full-time ministry?

00:41:41.799 --> 00:41:42.900
 I'll tell you a final story

00:41:42.900 --> 00:41:43.619
 before I wrap up.

00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:45.639
 There's a story in Mark 4

00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:47.519
 where Jesus is hanging out

00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:48.139
 with his disciples.

00:41:48.279 --> 00:41:48.420
 Actually,

00:41:48.460 --> 00:41:48.940
 I'll turn to it.

00:41:49.259 --> 00:41:50.099
 And Mark 4,

00:41:50.219 --> 00:41:50.799
 verse 35

00:41:50.799 --> 00:41:51.420
 is where I'm going.

00:41:51.779 --> 00:41:52.699
 If you wanted to follow.

00:41:53.900 --> 00:41:55.519
 And Jesus,

00:41:55.840 --> 00:41:56.059
 again,

00:41:56.139 --> 00:41:57.400
 as we have established,

00:41:57.759 --> 00:41:58.799
 not only is he sovereign,

00:41:58.980 --> 00:41:59.940
 not only is he lord,

00:42:00.219 --> 00:42:01.559
 not only is the light of the world,

00:42:01.779 --> 00:42:02.880
 he is also a troll.

00:42:03.719 --> 00:42:04.639
 He is a troll

00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:06.460
 because he goes to his people

00:42:06.460 --> 00:42:07.099
 on that day

00:42:07.099 --> 00:42:07.900
 when evening had come.

00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:08.299
 He says,

00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:09.400
 let us go across

00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:10.139
 to the other side.

00:42:12.219 --> 00:42:13.579
 Which is fine

00:42:13.579 --> 00:42:14.279
 because he's surrounded

00:42:14.279 --> 00:42:15.440
 by a bunch of experts

00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:16.619
 who can navigate

00:42:16.619 --> 00:42:17.340
 the waters well.

00:42:17.779 --> 00:42:18.460
 But they didn't know

00:42:18.460 --> 00:42:18.920
 the storm

00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:20.000
 that was coming at them.

00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:21.019
 And leaving the crowd,

00:42:21.019 --> 00:42:22.400
 they took with him

00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:22.900
 and them

00:42:22.900 --> 00:42:23.719
 and just as he was

00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:24.440
 and other boats were there

00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:26.000
 and a great windstorm arose

00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:26.460
 and the waves

00:42:26.460 --> 00:42:27.420
 were breaking into the boat

00:42:27.420 --> 00:42:27.980
 so that the boat

00:42:27.980 --> 00:42:28.820
 was already filling.

00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:30.320
 But he was in the stern,

00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:31.440
 asleep on the cushion.

00:42:32.900 --> 00:42:33.699
 He was being a troll

00:42:33.699 --> 00:42:34.780
 and they woke him

00:42:34.780 --> 00:42:35.500
 and said to him,

00:42:35.579 --> 00:42:35.840
 teacher,

00:42:35.980 --> 00:42:36.659
 do you not care

00:42:36.659 --> 00:42:37.400
 that we are perishing?

00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:37.960
 And he woke

00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:39.079
 and rebuked the wind

00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:39.539
 and sea

00:42:39.539 --> 00:42:40.759
 and said to him,

00:42:41.139 --> 00:42:41.860
 peace be still.

00:42:41.980 --> 00:42:42.759
 And the wind seized

00:42:42.759 --> 00:42:43.699
 and there was a great calm.

00:42:44.179 --> 00:42:44.800
 And he said to them,

00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:45.780
 why are you so afraid?

00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:46.880
 Have you still no faith?

00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:47.740
 And they were filled

00:42:47.740 --> 00:42:48.260
 with great fear

00:42:48.260 --> 00:42:49.019
 and said to one another,

00:42:49.140 --> 00:42:49.800
 who then is this

00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:50.660
 that even the wind

00:42:50.660 --> 00:42:51.720
 and sea obey him?

00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:54.099
 If you have been in nature,

00:42:54.220 --> 00:42:55.700
 if you have been on the waters,

00:42:56.160 --> 00:42:57.240
 you will know how great

00:42:57.240 --> 00:42:58.400
 the power that is

00:42:58.400 --> 00:42:59.480
 that comes from creation.

00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:00.320
 You can just,

00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:00.599
 I mean,

00:43:00.640 --> 00:43:01.300
 you can watch a movie

00:43:01.300 --> 00:43:02.220
 and you can see storms

00:43:02.220 --> 00:43:03.140
 and it terrifies me.

00:43:06.160 --> 00:43:07.300
 And yet in that moment,

00:43:07.380 --> 00:43:08.039
 Jesus is asleep.

00:43:08.260 --> 00:43:08.519
 In fact,

00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:08.960
 he was the one

00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:09.579
 that took them there

00:43:09.579 --> 00:43:10.920
 because it was his idea.

00:43:11.700 --> 00:43:12.340
 They didn't have to.

00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:13.519
 So clearly he was

00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:14.260
 showing them something.

00:43:15.500 --> 00:43:16.380
 And of course,

00:43:16.539 --> 00:43:17.840
 the teaching there is always,

00:43:18.260 --> 00:43:19.420
 Jesus is in your boat.

00:43:19.500 --> 00:43:19.920
 I don't know

00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:21.120
 what you're going through right now

00:43:21.120 --> 00:43:21.960
 at your workplace,

00:43:22.120 --> 00:43:22.740
 in your homes,

00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:23.579
 whatever it is,

00:43:23.860 --> 00:43:25.700
 that Jesus is in your boat with you.

00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:27.660
 He's in it with us here.

00:43:27.980 --> 00:43:28.780
 I remember preaching

00:43:28.780 --> 00:43:29.340
 on this passage

00:43:29.340 --> 00:43:30.480
 and meditating on this passage

00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:31.100
 during COVID

00:43:31.100 --> 00:43:32.800
 when things were not going great

00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:33.600
 for our city.

00:43:34.579 --> 00:43:35.180
 And I was like,

00:43:35.200 --> 00:43:35.600
 it's okay.

00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:36.720
 There is a storm.

00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:39.140
 But Jesus is in the boat

00:43:39.140 --> 00:43:40.280
 with us.

00:43:40.740 --> 00:43:41.320
 We're good.

00:43:42.600 --> 00:43:43.260
 Have faith.

00:43:43.780 --> 00:43:44.700
 Do not have fear.

00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:46.240
 And then it was someone

00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:47.300
 actually on my Young Life staff,

00:43:47.660 --> 00:43:48.000
 so Gabs,

00:43:48.019 --> 00:43:48.900
 you definitely will have heard of this,

00:43:49.140 --> 00:43:50.920
 who actually shared something

00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:52.059
 in this passage to me

00:43:52.059 --> 00:43:52.500
 that I was like,

00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:52.720
 oh,

00:43:52.720 --> 00:43:53.980
 I had not seen that before.

00:43:55.300 --> 00:43:55.579
 See,

00:43:55.680 --> 00:43:56.460
 we as Christians,

00:43:56.660 --> 00:43:58.280
 we as those who are followers of Christ,

00:43:58.380 --> 00:44:00.000
 we as those who are the people of God

00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:00.760
 or the temple of God

00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:01.980
 and the members of the household of God,

00:44:02.200 --> 00:44:04.039
 we have Jesus in our boat with us.

00:44:04.260 --> 00:44:05.760
 And our goal is to trust him.

00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.079
 Our goal is to say,

00:44:08.200 --> 00:44:08.480
 oh,

00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:10.200
 I want to have faith.

00:44:10.420 --> 00:44:10.559
 Lord,

00:44:10.600 --> 00:44:10.940
 I believe.

00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:11.980
 Help my own belief.

00:44:11.980 --> 00:44:13.679
 You will get me through this storm.

00:44:13.940 --> 00:44:15.280
 And we are many people here

00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:16.619
 who I know God has taken us

00:44:16.619 --> 00:44:17.619
 through different storms,

00:44:17.699 --> 00:44:18.559
 who has been on our boat

00:44:18.559 --> 00:44:20.039
 and we find great comfort in that.

00:44:20.260 --> 00:44:21.300
 And that's why we trust him.

00:44:21.460 --> 00:44:22.280
 That's why we follow him.

00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:23.320
 That's why we worship him.

00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:25.960
 But then my staff at the time

00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:26.860
 showed me this

00:44:26.860 --> 00:44:27.880
 and I thought was fascinating

00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:28.980
 in Mark chapter four,

00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:30.800
 verse 36.

00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:33.539
 So Jesus says in verse 35,

00:44:33.659 --> 00:44:34.940
 let us cross over to the other side.

00:44:35.300 --> 00:44:35.960
 And so they go.

00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:37.940
 And leaving the crowd,

00:44:38.019 --> 00:44:38.940
 they took him with them

00:44:38.940 --> 00:44:40.220
 in the boat just as he was.

00:44:41.220 --> 00:44:42.940
 And other boats were with him.

00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:46.619
 And other boats were with them.

00:44:48.039 --> 00:44:48.820
 I was like,

00:44:48.940 --> 00:44:51.820
 these guys had Jesus in their boat

00:44:51.820 --> 00:44:53.659
 and they were terrified.

00:44:53.659 --> 00:44:57.579
 But spare a thought

00:44:57.579 --> 00:44:59.259
 for those who were in the other boats.

00:45:01.179 --> 00:45:02.539
 Spare a thought for those

00:45:02.539 --> 00:45:04.159
 who out of desperation and hunger

00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:05.519
 wanted to keep following Jesus

00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:06.839
 so they will follow something,

00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:08.079
 just cling on to some kind of hope.

00:45:08.299 --> 00:45:08.980
 And so they went on

00:45:08.980 --> 00:45:09.879
 to the waters with them,

00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:10.739
 but they didn't have

00:45:10.739 --> 00:45:11.319
 the King of Kings

00:45:11.319 --> 00:45:12.319
 and the Lord of Lords with them.

00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:14.679
 They must have been

00:45:14.679 --> 00:45:16.079
 even more terrified.

00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:20.279
 Sometimes we as the church,

00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:22.239
 we focus so much on our own boat.

00:45:22.380 --> 00:45:23.139
 Jesus, are you with me?

00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:23.960
 Are you with me?

00:45:24.500 --> 00:45:25.299
 Are you going to get me through this?

00:45:25.819 --> 00:45:26.259
 Are you going to help me

00:45:26.259 --> 00:45:26.840
 get the job that I want?

00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:27.279
 Are you going to help me

00:45:27.279 --> 00:45:28.059
 get the partner that I want?

00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:29.019
 Are you going to help me

00:45:29.019 --> 00:45:29.500
 get better again?

00:45:29.759 --> 00:45:30.400
 Jesus, can you come

00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:30.980
 and look after me?

00:45:31.279 --> 00:45:31.840
 And Jesus is like,

00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:34.179
 steady, calm.

00:45:34.420 --> 00:45:35.340
 I'm in your boat.

00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:38.239
 What you've forgotten

00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:39.299
 is that there are other boats

00:45:39.299 --> 00:45:39.819
 on the lake.

00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:42.360
 And if you spend in,

00:45:42.799 --> 00:45:43.319
 this is what,

00:45:43.739 --> 00:45:44.239
 you're an average

00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:44.860
 of the five people

00:45:44.860 --> 00:45:45.819
 that you spend the most time with.

00:45:45.820 --> 00:45:46.900
 And I hope those five people

00:45:46.900 --> 00:45:48.480
 are good influences on you

00:45:48.480 --> 00:45:49.300
 who will pull you

00:45:49.300 --> 00:45:50.420
 to be more like Christ.

00:45:51.059 --> 00:45:52.160
 But I also hope

00:45:52.160 --> 00:45:53.000
 that you spend time

00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:53.740
 with people who

00:45:53.740 --> 00:45:56.080
 are not followers of Christ.

00:45:56.500 --> 00:45:57.820
 Because if you spend enough time

00:45:57.820 --> 00:45:58.920
 and you are curious enough

00:45:58.920 --> 00:45:59.840
 and you ask enough,

00:46:00.100 --> 00:46:00.880
 you will see that

00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:02.120
 it is dark out there.

00:46:02.900 --> 00:46:04.519
 It is hopeless out there.

00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:06.760
 There is despair out there.

00:46:06.840 --> 00:46:08.260
 There is pain out there.

00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:11.059
 Can you just take your gaze

00:46:11.059 --> 00:46:12.120
 off your own boat

00:46:12.120 --> 00:46:12.660
 for a second?

00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:14.080
 Because Jesus is in your boat.

00:46:14.200 --> 00:46:15.039
 Jesus is in our boat.

00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:16.320
 But there are those out there

00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:17.420
 who are on the lake

00:46:17.420 --> 00:46:18.239
 in the storm

00:46:18.239 --> 00:46:20.480
 without him there.

00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:23.960
 Can we spare a thought for them?

00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:26.940
 That is why we need

00:46:26.940 --> 00:46:27.480
 to go on mission.

00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:30.759
 Some of you

00:46:30.759 --> 00:46:32.539
 will be like Hudson Taylor

00:46:32.539 --> 00:46:33.920
 and go to a foreign land

00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:35.980
 and share the good news

00:46:35.980 --> 00:46:37.500
 to a completely new nation

00:46:37.500 --> 00:46:38.159
 and watch

00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:40.039
 the kingdom of God spread.

00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:41.159
 Some of you

00:46:41.159 --> 00:46:42.239
 will be like Jackie Pullinger

00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:43.319
 who get on a boat

00:46:43.319 --> 00:46:43.719
 in England

00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:44.459
 not knowing

00:46:44.459 --> 00:46:45.639
 where the Lord's

00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:46.239
 going to take her

00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:47.659
 and eventually ends up

00:46:47.659 --> 00:46:48.779
 in the Kowloon Wall City

00:46:48.779 --> 00:46:50.339
 and spreads the gospel there.

00:46:50.979 --> 00:46:51.779
 Some of you

00:46:51.779 --> 00:46:52.799
 will be called

00:46:52.799 --> 00:46:54.479
 to Pacific Place

00:46:54.479 --> 00:46:56.699
 to your chambers

00:46:56.699 --> 00:46:59.719
 and that is where you work

00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:01.879
 as a full-time minister

00:47:01.879 --> 00:47:03.039
 a priest

00:47:03.039 --> 00:47:04.879
 of the Most High God.

00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:06.179
 Some of you

00:47:06.179 --> 00:47:07.019
 will be called

00:47:07.019 --> 00:47:08.299
 to your university campus

00:47:08.299 --> 00:47:09.019
 in TKO

00:47:09.019 --> 00:47:10.699
 and that will be it.

00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:12.439
 That will be your job.

00:47:15.319 --> 00:47:16.119
 This mission

00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:17.019
 should you choose

00:47:17.019 --> 00:47:17.939
 to accept

00:47:17.940 --> 00:47:21.380
 is filled

00:47:21.380 --> 00:47:22.820
 with ups and downs

00:47:22.820 --> 00:47:25.059
 but he says

00:47:25.059 --> 00:47:25.740
 behold

00:47:25.740 --> 00:47:27.539
 I will be with you

00:47:27.539 --> 00:47:28.740
 till the end

00:47:28.740 --> 00:47:29.679
 of the age.

00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:30.300
 Let us commit

00:47:30.300 --> 00:47:31.820
 to being missionaries

00:47:31.820 --> 00:47:33.679
 that point people

00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:34.440
 to worship.

00:47:35.220 --> 00:47:36.099
 I want to finish

00:47:36.099 --> 00:47:37.019
 with a

00:47:37.019 --> 00:47:38.440
 quote.

00:47:39.420 --> 00:47:40.340
 Just off the back

00:47:40.340 --> 00:47:41.139
 of the Piper quote

00:47:41.139 --> 00:47:42.099
 where mission

00:47:42.099 --> 00:47:43.260
 exists because worship

00:47:43.260 --> 00:47:43.720
 does not

00:47:43.720 --> 00:47:44.900
 Piper carries on

00:47:44.900 --> 00:47:45.440
 and says this

00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:47.380
 when this age

00:47:47.380 --> 00:47:47.840
 is over

00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:49.019
 and the countless

00:47:49.019 --> 00:47:50.220
 millions of the redeemed

00:47:50.220 --> 00:47:51.420
 fall on their faces

00:47:51.420 --> 00:47:52.320
 before the throne

00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:52.700
 of God

00:47:52.700 --> 00:47:53.860
 missions will be

00:47:53.860 --> 00:47:54.320
 no more.

00:47:54.920 --> 00:47:55.679
 It is a temporary

00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:56.420
 necessity

00:47:56.420 --> 00:47:57.780
 but worship

00:47:57.780 --> 00:47:58.679
 abides forever.

00:47:59.039 --> 00:47:59.539
 Worship therefore

00:47:59.539 --> 00:48:00.300
 is the fuel

00:48:00.300 --> 00:48:00.900
 and the goal

00:48:00.900 --> 00:48:01.380
 of missions.

00:48:01.780 --> 00:48:02.639
 It's the goal

00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:03.039
 of missions

00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:03.860
 because in missions

00:48:03.860 --> 00:48:04.700
 we simply aim

00:48:04.700 --> 00:48:05.800
 to bring the nations

00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:06.619
 into the white

00:48:06.619 --> 00:48:07.280
 hot enjoyment

00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:08.099
 of God's glory.

00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:09.980
 The goal of missions

00:48:09.980 --> 00:48:10.679
 is the gladness

00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:11.260
 of the peoples

00:48:11.260 --> 00:48:12.059
 in the greatness

00:48:12.059 --> 00:48:13.280
 of God.

00:48:13.659 --> 00:48:14.320
 You fast forward

00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:14.900
 to the end

00:48:14.900 --> 00:48:15.619
 brothers and sisters

00:48:15.619 --> 00:48:16.260
 in Revelation

00:48:16.260 --> 00:48:17.039
 chapter 7

00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:17.440
 you'll see

00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:18.200
 every tribe

00:48:18.200 --> 00:48:18.639
 and tongue

00:48:18.639 --> 00:48:20.099
 every nation

00:48:20.099 --> 00:48:21.720
 worshipping him.

00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:23.380
 Our goal

00:48:23.380 --> 00:48:24.300
 is to play a part

00:48:24.300 --> 00:48:24.840
 in that.

00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:25.539
 God doesn't need

00:48:25.539 --> 00:48:26.180
 us to do it

00:48:26.180 --> 00:48:27.119
 but he invites

00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:27.619
 us to do it

00:48:27.619 --> 00:48:28.119
 because he knows

00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:29.220
 how it will fill us up

00:48:29.220 --> 00:48:30.139
 it will mould us

00:48:30.139 --> 00:48:31.039
 to be more like him

00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:32.119
 but that's where

00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:32.800
 we are heading.

00:48:34.820 --> 00:48:35.619
 Would we join

00:48:35.619 --> 00:48:37.039
 that journey now?

00:48:37.180 --> 00:48:37.740
 Would we join

00:48:37.740 --> 00:48:38.579
 that party now?

00:48:40.019 --> 00:48:40.820
 So go therefore

00:48:40.820 --> 00:48:42.200
 make disciples

00:48:42.200 --> 00:48:42.800
 of all nations

00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:43.480
 baptise them

00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:44.119
 in the name

00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:44.539
 of the Father,

00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:45.460
 Son and the Holy Spirit

00:48:45.460 --> 00:48:46.260
 teach them all

00:48:46.260 --> 00:48:48.320
 that I have commanded you.

00:48:48.659 --> 00:48:49.420
 Behold I will be

00:48:49.420 --> 00:48:49.780
 with you

00:48:49.780 --> 00:48:50.320
 to the end

00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:50.860
 of the age.

00:48:51.059 --> 00:48:52.280
 We are the people

00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:52.659
 of God

00:48:52.659 --> 00:48:56.079
 who act as the temple

00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:57.059
 of God

00:48:57.059 --> 00:48:58.659
 members of the

00:48:58.659 --> 00:48:59.460
 household of God

00:48:59.460 --> 00:49:01.460
 inviting the presence

00:49:01.460 --> 00:49:01.840
 of God

00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:03.719
 to call people

00:49:03.719 --> 00:49:04.400
 to the worship

00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:05.380
 of God.

00:49:06.380 --> 00:49:06.940
 That

00:49:06.940 --> 00:49:08.760
 is the church.

00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:10.260
 that

00:49:10.260 --> 00:49:11.560
 I hope

00:49:11.560 --> 00:49:12.260
 I pray

00:49:12.260 --> 00:49:15.040
 is what we are

00:49:15.040 --> 00:49:15.300
 about.

00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:18.580
 This is where

00:49:18.580 --> 00:49:19.000
 I'll stop

00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:20.800
 and before we

00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:21.880
 respond in song

00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:23.240
 I want to ask you

00:49:23.240 --> 00:49:26.240
 what's the Lord

00:49:26.240 --> 00:49:27.120
 speaking to you

00:49:27.120 --> 00:49:27.500
 about?

00:49:29.560 --> 00:49:30.480
 What is the fear

00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:31.360
 or what is the doubt?

00:49:33.300 --> 00:49:33.960
 What are the

00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:34.500
 distractions?

00:49:34.500 --> 00:49:36.300
 What are the

00:49:36.300 --> 00:49:36.900
 little gods

00:49:36.900 --> 00:49:39.340
 that you've been

00:49:39.340 --> 00:49:39.900
 chasing after?

00:49:41.019 --> 00:49:41.920
 What's the anxiety

00:49:41.920 --> 00:49:42.360
 that you've been

00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:42.719
 feeling

00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:44.340
 in this storm?

00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:47.519
 Would you

00:49:47.519 --> 00:49:48.079
 submit yourself

00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:48.840
 to the King of Kings

00:49:48.840 --> 00:49:49.380
 and Lord of Lords?

00:49:50.059 --> 00:49:50.739
 Would you trust him?

00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:51.820
 Would you follow him?

00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:52.820
 Would you obey him?

00:49:53.699 --> 00:49:54.360
 Would you call

00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:54.900
 the nations

00:49:54.900 --> 00:49:56.039
 to worship him

00:49:56.039 --> 00:49:57.400
 and him alone?

00:49:59.059 --> 00:49:59.719
 Spend a moment

00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:00.079
 of quiet

00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:00.860
 before we respond

00:50:00.860 --> 00:50:01.219
 in song.

00:50:01.219 --> 00:50:01.300
 Amen.

00:50:01.300 --> 00:50:01.300


00:50:01.300 --> 00:50:01.300


00:50:01.300 --> 00:50:01.300


00:50:01.300 --> 00:50:01.300


00:50:01.300 --> 00:50:01.300


00:50:04.500 --> 00:50:31.159
 So Lord,

00:50:31.219 --> 00:50:32.039
 we re-surrender.

00:50:32.039 --> 00:50:32.119
 Amen.

00:50:34.500 --> 00:50:36.780
 Every day

00:50:36.780 --> 00:50:37.840
 we re-surrender.

00:50:40.780 --> 00:50:41.579
 We count the

00:50:41.579 --> 00:50:41.900
 cost.

00:50:43.980 --> 00:50:44.739
 Take up our

00:50:44.739 --> 00:50:45.019
 cross.

00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:48.480
 And we

00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:49.019
 follow you.

00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:03.019
 Holy Spirit,

00:51:03.099 --> 00:51:03.300
 would you

00:51:03.300 --> 00:51:03.739
 guide us?

00:51:04.500 --> 00:51:05.500
 Lord,

00:51:05.500 --> 00:51:09.900
 we are your

00:51:09.900 --> 00:51:10.239
 children.

00:51:10.460 --> 00:51:10.880
 We are your

00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:11.280
 people.

00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:13.079
 We are your

00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:13.380
 temple.

00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:21.420
 And we

00:51:21.420 --> 00:51:21.860
 commit to

00:51:21.860 --> 00:51:22.380
 following your

00:51:22.380 --> 00:51:22.659
 mission,

00:51:23.199 --> 00:51:23.800
 which is to

00:51:23.800 --> 00:51:24.639
 seek and save

00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:26.199
 the lost.

00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:30.519
 So use us,

00:51:30.579 --> 00:51:30.679
 Lord.

00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:30.739
 Lord,

00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


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00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:30.739


00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:32.739
 Lord,

00:51:32.739 --> 00:51:36.019
 we accept

00:51:36.019 --> 00:51:36.879
 your invitation,

00:51:37.319 --> 00:51:37.899
 your mission,

00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:38.659
 your commission

00:51:38.659 --> 00:51:39.119
 to us.

00:51:44.759 --> 00:51:45.399
 As we

00:51:45.399 --> 00:51:46.159
 finish gathering

00:51:46.159 --> 00:51:46.539
 here,

00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:48.239
 and as we

00:51:48.239 --> 00:51:49.000
 scatter back to

00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:49.459
 the places

00:51:49.459 --> 00:51:49.899
 that you've

00:51:49.899 --> 00:51:50.439
 called us to,

00:51:51.899 --> 00:51:54.379
 remind us,

00:51:54.439 --> 00:51:54.519
 Lord,

00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:54.919
 this week

00:51:54.920 --> 00:52:01.800
 that we are in

00:52:01.800 --> 00:52:02.559
 full-time ministry,

00:52:03.059 --> 00:52:03.980
 ambassadors of

00:52:03.980 --> 00:52:04.200
 heaven,

00:52:05.200 --> 00:52:07.780
 the chosen race,

00:52:08.019 --> 00:52:08.760
 royal priesthood,

00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:09.780
 the holy nation,

00:52:10.700 --> 00:52:11.400
 proclaiming your

00:52:11.400 --> 00:52:11.960
 excellencies,

00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:13.180
 living stones

00:52:13.180 --> 00:52:14.780
 pointing to the

00:52:14.780 --> 00:52:15.260
 cornerstone.

00:52:15.260 --> 00:52:18.500
 you are the

00:52:18.500 --> 00:52:19.020
 one and only,

00:52:20.460 --> 00:52:21.260
 and we

00:52:21.260 --> 00:52:21.800
 worship you.

00:52:24.580 --> 00:52:25.340
 In your name

00:52:25.340 --> 00:52:25.740
 we pray.

00:52:26.980 --> 00:52:27.420
 Amen.