1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,440 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,560 Good morning, good morning. 3 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,040 Turn to somebody give them a high five. 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:17,040 Tell them it is good. 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,280 It is good to be in God's house this morning. 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:21,560 Come on emphasize good. 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,000 It is good. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,560 It's dry in here. 9 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:25,560 Amen. 10 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:26,560 Amen. 11 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:27,560 Amen. 12 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:28,560 No rain in here. 13 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:29,560 Just God. 14 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:30,560 No rain in here. 15 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:31,560 No rain in here. 16 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:32,560 No rain in here. 17 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:33,560 Amen. 18 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,040 Listen, I just want to take a moment and talk about the campus that is launching October 19 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:38,320 15th. 20 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:44,440 And we are just watching as God unfolds and prepares and we are still believing for a 21 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:49,840 few more people from this Carlisle campus to get on board and come up to the East Shore. 22 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,800 I only want you to do that if God's speaking to you about it. 23 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,680 We're not trying to recruit, we're looking for people who are God is speaking to to come 24 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:02,680 Help out for six months at that campus and be part of the launch team into that community. 25 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,680 Again, we're starting up in two weeks up in the Linglestown area. 26 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:07,680 We're excited about that. 27 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,680 And we've got a meeting that's taking place Thursday, October 5th. 28 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,680 You want to write this down if you're interested. 29 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,680 If you want to see the campus, the East Shore campus, Thursday, October 5th at 630 p.m. 30 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:23,680 at the East Shore location, we're going to have an organizational meeting and really talk to the launch team 31 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,680 about what's going to take place in the future. 32 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:27,680 I couldn't be more excited. 33 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:29,680 I love when God does new things. 34 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:30,680 He's a birth in this new thing. 35 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,680 He's been birth in this in us for a man over a year now. 36 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,680 So we are excited about what God's going to do. 37 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:41,680 Just wanted to let you know, you need to be aware of what's taking place and God is good. 38 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:42,680 Amen. 39 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:43,680 Amen. 40 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:49,680 Well, listen, today is the I'm going into the final chapter of Second Timothy, Chapter 4. 41 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,680 And over the last couple of weeks, I don't know if you caught on to this or not, but we've been working through the book 42 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:59,680 of Second Timothy and we've really just preached the message out of literally every chapter along the way. 43 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,680 And just to give you a little bit of background, if you've been with us last couple of weeks, you know the background. 44 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:09,680 But Paul is writing from a Roman prison to a young man named Timothy, right? 45 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,680 A young pastor who is an emphasis. 46 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:18,680 And in this particular portion of the letter, he's given just more than just a little bit of encouragement 47 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,680 for Timothy to use his God given gift. 48 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,680 He's really getting ready to close out the letter and it's a little more than just some encouragement. 49 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:26,680 I don't know. 50 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,680 Has anyone ever given you more than just a little bit of encouragement? 51 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:31,680 Anybody ever prompted you on a little bit? 52 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,680 My parents used to do that when I needed to do my chores. 53 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,680 They gave me a little more than in some encouragement, right? 54 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:40,680 Their tone of their voice raised. 55 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:45,680 They got a little more intense about the whole thing and intensely. 56 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,680 And they would they would let me know like, hey, this matters, right? 57 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:49,680 This is important. 58 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,680 Well, that's kind of what's happening in the letter here in Second Timothy. 59 00:02:53,680 --> 00:03:00,680 Paul is charging Timothy to use his gift to teach and to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. 60 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,680 And this is not just a little rah rah session, right? 61 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,680 It's not just, hey, come on, let's do it's not an attaboy kind of thing. 62 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,680 This is not just a little verbal kick in the pants. 63 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,680 Anybody ever get a verbal kick in the pants? 64 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:14,680 Anybody get a verbal kick in the pants this week? 65 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:15,680 Raise your hand. 66 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:16,680 All right. 67 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,680 This is grab you by the lapel, right? 68 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,680 Get you hold by the lapels and grab your shirt. 69 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,680 And now I know this is in a letter and I think Paul might have done this. 70 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:27,680 I don't know. 71 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,680 I can ask him someday when I get to heaven, but I think Paul might have grabbed Timothy by the lapel. 72 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,680 God in his face and said, I need to stir something up in you. 73 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:36,680 I need to encourage you. 74 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:37,680 All right. 75 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:38,680 I need to give you a little more. 76 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:39,680 Pastor Andrew, come here a second. 77 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,680 I want to give you just a little demonstration of what this is. 78 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:43,680 Now, he's a lot bigger than me. 79 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,680 So I'm going to do this with a little less intensity. 80 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:47,680 Right. 81 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:48,680 But it's this kind of thing. 82 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:49,680 Right. 83 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,680 I think Paul would just say, come on, Timothy. 84 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:52,680 All right. 85 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,680 Man, you're a little flinchy this morning. 86 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,680 I appreciate that. 87 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:02,680 You know, it was Paul with this intensity and this passion and this firing of no holds 88 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,680 barred right at the end of his letter, as much as he could within a letter. 89 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,680 And I think that's where he was going in Second Timothy, Chapter four, verse one. 90 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,680 I'm just speculating. 91 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,680 But as you read this, I think you're going to see the intensity in this. 92 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,680 Let's pray before we read God's word. 93 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:17,680 Lord, we thank you for this day. 94 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:18,680 I thank you for each one that's in the house. 95 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,680 God, each one that's listening online. 96 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,680 God, as we get ready to launch the campus, God, in a few weeks, it'll be there as well. 97 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:28,680 God, I pray that your hand would just speak, that your word was speaking to our hearts 98 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,680 and your hand would be upon us. 99 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:32,680 And Lord, we give you glory in Jesus' name. 100 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:33,680 Amen. 101 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:34,680 Amen. 102 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,680 Well, Second Timothy, Chapter four, verse one. 103 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,680 And it says, now listen to the language here. 104 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:45,680 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living 105 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,680 and the dead at the appearing of his kingdom. 106 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,680 Can you feel the intensity? 107 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:57,680 Paul say, I charge you, Timothy, therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who 108 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,680 will judge the living and the dead at the appearing of his kingdom. 109 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,680 Listen, if your parents talk to you about your chores like that, how many know they'd 110 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:04,680 be intense, right? 111 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,680 I charge you to take the garbage out, right? 112 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,680 Before the, before the judge, before the living and the dead. 113 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:12,680 That's what he's saying. 114 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,680 I charge you before Jesus Christ. 115 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,680 I charge you before the Lord. 116 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,680 Can you feel the weight of what he's saying? 117 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:25,680 Can you feel the heaviness of this charge, the intensity in his words? 118 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:27,680 And then he hits him in verse two. 119 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:32,680 He says, he says this to Timothy, he says, preach the word, preach the word, preach the 120 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:33,680 word. 121 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:34,680 This is the gift that I've given you. 122 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:41,680 Preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, exhort with all 123 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,680 the long suffering and teaching. 124 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:45,680 This is intense. 125 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,680 This is Paul in a coaching moment, right? 126 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:50,680 Laying it on Timothy. 127 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,680 He's he's he's he can't be there in person. 128 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:57,680 So in a letter, as much as he can muster is kind of that a grab you at the lapel kind 129 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,680 of moment, you know, just getting a hold of him. 130 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,680 And then he says in verse three, for the time will come, he's given him the reason for the 131 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:10,680 time will come when they those that Timothy is speaking to will not endure sound doctrine, 132 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,680 but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they keep up for themselves 133 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,680 teachers, and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables. 134 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:25,680 But you, Timothy, must be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of 135 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,680 an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 136 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,680 Paul was giving Timothy his current reality, right? 137 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:33,680 That's what a good coach does. 138 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:38,680 He's telling his current reality, maybe his future reality, and he's telling them preach. 139 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:43,680 And then with all the passion and muster that he can, you know, the zeal that Paul can stir 140 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,680 up, he's pushing him. 141 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:51,680 Use your gift, engage in the mission, engage in the gift that I've given you a gift that 142 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,680 Timothy was both commissioned and positioned to use. 143 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,680 And it's intense. 144 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:02,680 Paul is no doubt about what he's trying to communicate to this young minister. 145 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:08,680 And this morning I want to spur you along to engage in the mission of God that you both 146 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:09,680 been commissioned and positioned for. 147 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:10,680 God's put you in a position. 148 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,680 And I don't know if you know it or not, but he's commissioned you to use your gifting. 149 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:19,680 And I kind of want to verbally grab a hold of your lapels this morning with some intensity. 150 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,680 And I say that verbally because I don't want to physically do that because some of you look 151 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:24,680 like you could punch me. 152 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:25,680 All right. 153 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,680 Some of you look like you if I grabbed you by the lapels, you just hit back. 154 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:29,680 Right. 155 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:34,680 But I want to verbally grab you by the lapel and say, hey, stir up the gift of God that's 156 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:35,680 in you. 157 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:36,680 Right. 158 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:37,680 And I know what you might be thinking. 159 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,680 You might be thinking, man, I just got a coffee and came in this morning to hear a nice sermon. 160 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:42,680 Right. 161 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:44,680 I just came and settled in. 162 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:45,680 It's raining out. 163 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:46,680 I'm not a preacher. 164 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:47,680 Right. 165 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,680 I'm not called the vocational ministry. 166 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:50,680 I'm not a teacher. 167 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:54,680 I just walked in here with my coffee to hear a sermon. 168 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,680 But I got some intense news for you. 169 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:03,680 If you're following Jesus, Jesus has a mission that he is commissioning you for and that 170 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,680 he is uniquely positioned you for. 171 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:07,680 Amen. 172 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,680 And the beautiful thing with all this is the beautiful thing is, is that the mission is 173 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,680 the same for every follower of Jesus Christ. 174 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:17,680 We might have different roles in the kingdom of God. 175 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,680 We might have different positions or different responsibilities. 176 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:25,680 Our kingdom activity might look different from one another, but the mission and the objective 177 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,680 is all the same. 178 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:28,680 Paul knew it. 179 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:29,680 Timothy knew it. 180 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:35,680 Millions of Jesus followers across the globe know this because Jesus spoke it to his disciples 181 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:37,680 right before he left this earth. 182 00:08:37,680 --> 00:08:41,680 And then he equipped every believer after he left this earth. 183 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:42,680 All right. 184 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:46,680 He spoke it before he left and he equipped believers after he left. 185 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:52,680 If you got your Bible, you can flip over to Mark's chapter 16 verse 14 and says this, 186 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:53,680 say later, later. 187 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:54,680 All right. 188 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:55,680 That's how he starts off. 189 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:56,680 Later, he appeared to the eleven. 190 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:01,680 Jesus appeared to the eleven disciples as they sat at the table and he rebuked their 191 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:06,680 unbelief, unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not believe those who he had seen 192 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:08,680 him after he had risen. 193 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:13,680 And he said to them, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 194 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:18,680 He who believes in his baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned. 195 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:21,680 And these signs will follow those who believe in my name. 196 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:22,680 They will cast out demons. 197 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:24,380 They will speak with new tongues. 198 00:09:24,380 --> 00:09:25,380 They will take up serpents. 199 00:09:25,380 --> 00:09:29,320 And if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them. 200 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,980 They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. 201 00:09:31,980 --> 00:09:36,640 So then after the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven and sat down 202 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:41,080 at the right hand of God and they went out and preached everywhere. 203 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:46,080 The Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying of signs. 204 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:47,080 Amen. 205 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,880 The mission is simple. 206 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,240 Jesus saved us from death, hell and the grave. 207 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,280 He saved us from our sins. 208 00:09:55,280 --> 00:10:01,160 Our job is to go out and reach others and lead them to Jesus so they can be saved as 209 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:02,360 well. 210 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:03,360 That's it. 211 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:04,360 Right. 212 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:05,360 That's the mission. 213 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,240 You're saved and he lifted you up. 214 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:13,160 So your job is to go out and reach others so that they can be saved so you can tell 215 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:14,160 them about Jesus. 216 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:15,160 Right. 217 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:16,160 Get people to Jesus. 218 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:17,160 Raise them up in Jesus. 219 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:18,680 Does it sound complicated? 220 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:20,240 No, it's not. 221 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:21,240 Right. 222 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:22,240 It's not complicated. 223 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,820 You don't need a special degree. 224 00:10:23,820 --> 00:10:28,520 You don't need to take 120 hours of classroom time to get all this right. 225 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:29,520 To get it right. 226 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,900 The mission is clear for every believer. 227 00:10:31,900 --> 00:10:36,120 Do anything and everything necessary to bring people to Jesus Christ, to bring them into 228 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,800 the kingdom of God. 229 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:38,800 That's the mission. 230 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:43,480 And if it weren't weird, I'd have you grab the person beside you by the lapels this morning 231 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,440 and get in their face and say, this is the mission. 232 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:47,440 Right. 233 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:48,440 This is the mission. 234 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:50,680 We'll go out and find people who don't know Jesus yet. 235 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:51,680 Some of you want to do it. 236 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:52,680 I can see it in your eyes. 237 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:54,080 You just want to get a hold of them. 238 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:55,080 Right. 239 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,920 You want to grab them and tell them this is the mission. 240 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,880 Listen, we can't get off task, church. 241 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:03,980 We can't allow ourselves to get distracted from this. 242 00:11:03,980 --> 00:11:09,160 We can't get lost in the how we're going to do this and forget about why we're doing this. 243 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,160 Right. 244 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:11,960 Somehow we got to get connected. 245 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,240 We got to keep focus. 246 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:19,360 Someone brought the gospel to you and Jesus rescued you from the place that you're in. 247 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,760 Our job is to do the same thing. 248 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,000 We're taking Jesus to somebody else so they can get rescued. 249 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,080 We do the same thing that somebody else did for us. 250 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:32,080 People listen, people spoke into my life and changed my life. 251 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:33,400 They brought me to Christ. 252 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,000 I owe them for that. 253 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,600 I really do. 254 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,920 To tell them at least thank you for bringing me to Jesus who saved me. 255 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:41,920 Right. 256 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:46,040 Everyone is engaged in the same mission and you might still be thinking, listen, I'm not 257 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:47,040 a preacher. 258 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,920 I'm not one of the original 12. 259 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,520 I don't even really like talking in front of people. 260 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:52,520 Right. 261 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:53,520 So how do I do this? 262 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:55,440 Some of you maybe just got saved. 263 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,960 You've maybe only been saved for a week, a month, maybe only a year. 264 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:00,720 And you're thinking, how do I do this? 265 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:01,720 Right. 266 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:03,800 At a minimum, how do I do this? 267 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,440 Well, I can tell you this. 268 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:06,840 Paul did it all the time. 269 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:07,920 Timothy did it all the time. 270 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:11,280 I've watched hundreds of Christians do all the time and I've seen people who have been 271 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:14,800 saved for less than a day do this. 272 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:22,040 Every follower of Jesus can testify to how Jesus personally saved them. 273 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:23,560 You can testify. 274 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:24,560 You can speak. 275 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:28,600 If you're following Jesus, even if you've only been saved for a day, right. 276 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:34,800 And how if Jesus, you're following Jesus Christ and he has saved you from your sins and you 277 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:40,360 know that you've got a secure future in him, that he has has washed you clean, that one 278 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:44,360 day heaven will be your home, that one day you're going to walk with him and you can 279 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:45,800 walk with him and talk with him now. 280 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,320 And one day you're going to physically do that with him. 281 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:54,200 If you know that in your heart, if you remember getting saved, if you remember that God has 282 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:55,880 raised you up, right. 283 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:57,880 You've got a testimony. 284 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,800 You've got to, you got a story to tell. 285 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,800 So who have you told? 286 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:03,800 Who have you told? 287 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,560 Who have you testified to? 288 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:10,400 Some of the best testimonies happen right after the fact, right. 289 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,640 You know, listen, when the news goes out, they, when the news goes out, they don't wait 290 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:15,840 till three weeks later, right. 291 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:16,840 To report something, right. 292 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,240 If there's a house that caught on fire, they're going over to the neighbors. 293 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:21,240 What'd you see? 294 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:22,400 What'd you see? 295 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:23,400 Tell me what you saw. 296 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:24,400 Right. 297 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,680 And the neighbors go, Oh, there's flames, you know, and they caught on fire. 298 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:30,240 And there were fire trucks and they're telling the whole story. 299 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,880 And I ran across and helped out, you know, they're telling and they don't wait till they 300 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,160 don't go three weeks later and say, Hey, there was a fire three weeks ago. 301 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:38,160 What'd you see? 302 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:39,600 All right. 303 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,760 You can start right away. 304 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:46,240 If Jesus has done something for you, you can testify to what he's done. 305 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,120 You don't have to have teaching skills and preaching skills. 306 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,160 You don't have to be ordained to tell your story. 307 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:52,160 You just got to tell it. 308 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:53,960 You just got to speak it. 309 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,000 The beautiful thing is I've seen people do this right after they got saved and they're 310 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000 amazing. 311 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,400 They're just so excited about what Jesus did for they go tell everybody. 312 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:01,400 Right. 313 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:02,400 They're just going place to place. 314 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,520 They don't sometimes they don't even know what they're talking about, but they just 315 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:08,320 go tell somebody about Jesus and we need to do that. 316 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:09,960 And here's the beautiful thing. 317 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,360 Here's the beautiful thing about telling your story about testifying. 318 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,640 If you go testify, people will not argue with your testimony. 319 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:23,560 Do you know that they're not going to argue with your testimony because it's your story. 320 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:27,680 They're not going to argue about your story because it's your story. 321 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:31,360 One of the messages that you hear in the world these days and has been for some time now 322 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:32,920 is this message of tolerance, right? 323 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,720 Which we're supposed to tolerate everything as a whole different message. 324 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,160 I'm not going there this morning, but use that to your advantage. 325 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,320 By the way, they'll listen to your story. 326 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,520 They'll listen to what you have to say. 327 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,520 They'll they may not agree with you. 328 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:50,840 They might accept or reject what you're saying to them in their mind, but they will graciously 329 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,840 listen to what you have to say. 330 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:57,960 Tell them this story about what Jesus did in your life. 331 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,800 And I know there are people here who've got all kinds of different stories, right? 332 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,720 Some of you are thinking, I've been in church since I was like this tall. 333 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:07,960 I got saved when I was five. 334 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,200 I've been following Jesus ever since. 335 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,160 I don't have a really cool, crazy story, right? 336 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,320 I've just been walking with Jesus all along the way. 337 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,840 That's the most awesome story in the world. 338 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:23,680 You know, can you imagine just talk to somebody who doesn't know Jesus at all and you say, 339 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:28,000 Jesus saved me when I was young and he began to speak into my life and I began to learn 340 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,420 his ways and he began to step me through and he walked me through this and he walked me 341 00:15:32,420 --> 00:15:33,420 through that. 342 00:15:33,420 --> 00:15:36,360 And they're going to be like, wait a minute, you're telling me when you were a kid, you 343 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,360 got saved and God began to speak to you. 344 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,840 You're like, yep, he began to speak to me. 345 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,000 When you were a kid, when you were a kid, you began to hear from God. 346 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Yep. 347 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,080 I began to hear from God. 348 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,920 When you start telling the story, people want to hear from God. 349 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:51,520 They really do. 350 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:55,700 People that are out around you or you could be completely opposite. 351 00:15:55,700 --> 00:15:58,600 Maybe you didn't follow Jesus since you were this high, right? 352 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,580 Maybe you didn't know on the pews and the chairs when you were a kid. 353 00:16:01,580 --> 00:16:03,640 Maybe you didn't go to church at all. 354 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:07,760 Maybe you got steeped in the world and you got wrapped up in sin and your life was a 355 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,160 train wreck or something in between, right? 356 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,840 And you came to Christ and all of a sudden Jesus set you free. 357 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,760 How many know you have a story to tell? 358 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:21,280 You got something you can tell them like, hey, I was here and I was messed up in my 359 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:22,280 head. 360 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:26,320 I was messed up because of sin and Jesus walked me out and now I am free. 361 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:31,560 I am whole and God's still working on me, but he's going to get me there one day, right? 362 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,520 You can start telling that story and it's amazing. 363 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,320 And people are listening and like, really? 364 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,480 Yeah, really? 365 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:40,480 It's your story. 366 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:45,800 See, I'm a pastor and I can get into Bible discussions with people. 367 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,840 People love Bible wars, by the way, right? 368 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,160 I can get into a theological discussion with somebody and they'll argue all day long with 369 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:52,160 me. 370 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,920 They'll go back and forth, but they're not going to argue your story. 371 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:58,880 They can't minimize your story and you need to not minimize Jesus in your story. 372 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:00,380 We do that all the time. 373 00:17:00,380 --> 00:17:02,460 We minimize Jesus in our story. 374 00:17:02,460 --> 00:17:03,660 Don't do it. 375 00:17:03,660 --> 00:17:04,660 Tell them. 376 00:17:04,660 --> 00:17:08,640 Tell someone that hasn't heard yet what Jesus has done in your life. 377 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:13,320 Remember, just tell them, listen, I remember what Jesus did. 378 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:14,320 Come on. 379 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:15,320 It's true. 380 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:20,480 Now, you remember I said at the beginning that Jesus gave him the mission before he 381 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,080 left, but he also empowered them after he left. 382 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:29,080 Well, 50 days after Jesus was resurrected from the dead and 10 days after he ascended 383 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:34,400 into heaven, something took place called Pentecost in Acts chapter two and Jesus told him it 384 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:35,400 would happen. 385 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:39,240 He said, guys, I want you all to go, all you that are following me, I want you to go to 386 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:40,720 Jerusalem and just wait on the promise. 387 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:41,720 All right. 388 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,160 Have you ever seen one of those social media videos like this? 389 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:46,160 Just wait for it in the bottom. 390 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,280 How many of you just got to stop and wait for it? 391 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:49,280 Right. 392 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:50,960 He's like, just wait for it. 393 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:51,960 Just wait for it. 394 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:53,400 You know, something's going to happen in the video. 395 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:54,400 Just wait for it. 396 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:55,400 That's what Jesus did. 397 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,440 The disciples, he's like, you just need to go to Jerusalem and just wait for it. 398 00:17:58,440 --> 00:17:59,440 All right. 399 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:00,440 Just wait for it. 400 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:01,440 Just wait for it. 401 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:02,440 And they do. 402 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,360 And in Acts chapter one, verse four, it says this and being assembled together with them, 403 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:10,480 he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to just wait for it. 404 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:11,480 Right. 405 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:15,080 To wait for the promise of the father, which he said, you have heard from me for John truly 406 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,160 baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. 407 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:19,520 Not many days from now. 408 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,160 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, saying, Lord, will you at this 409 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,000 time restore the kingdom to Israel? 410 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,360 They're still thinking about Israel. 411 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:29,600 He said to them, it's not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father 412 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:34,480 is put into his own authority, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come 413 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,840 upon you and you shall be my what? 414 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:38,840 Witnesses. 415 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:39,840 Say it. 416 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:45,180 Witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in a Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. 417 00:18:45,180 --> 00:18:47,280 What do witnesses do? 418 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,800 They testify. 419 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,600 They testify. 420 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:57,600 Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to believers so you can be empowered to be a witness. 421 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:02,440 So you are empowered in telling your story of what Jesus has done for you. 422 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:03,760 He empowers that. 423 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,640 I hear Jesus followers do this all the time. 424 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:07,880 They're just shocked out of their minds. 425 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:08,880 Right. 426 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,400 They'll say, I got into a conversation with somebody and I started talking to him about 427 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,360 Jesus and I don't even know what happened. 428 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:14,960 All the words just started coming. 429 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,640 I just started speaking to him and the words started flowing and I don't even where it 430 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:19,640 all came from. 431 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:20,640 I know it didn't come from my head. 432 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,080 It's just, I couldn't even believe it. 433 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:23,640 I don't even remember everything I said. 434 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:24,840 You know why? 435 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,440 The Holy Spirit's empowered you to do that. 436 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,420 That's part of why the Holy Spirit came. 437 00:19:30,420 --> 00:19:32,900 To empower you to be witnesses. 438 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:34,860 To empower you to testify. 439 00:19:34,860 --> 00:19:35,860 That's why they say it. 440 00:19:35,860 --> 00:19:37,360 That's why, and they're shocked out of their minds. 441 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:39,080 They're like, it was just the coolest thing ever. 442 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:40,960 I'm like, yeah. 443 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:41,960 It's Holy Spirit. 444 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:42,960 Right. 445 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:43,960 It's not you. 446 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:44,960 It's him. 447 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:46,400 It's him working through you. 448 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,840 Just step out of faith and tell somebody. 449 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:49,840 Testify. 450 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:50,840 Tell them their story. 451 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:51,840 Amen. 452 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:52,840 Amen. 453 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:53,840 Let's jump back to Paul and Timothy. 454 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,800 Paul, intensely telling Timothy to engage in the mission. 455 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,640 Second Timothy 4.2, preach the word. 456 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:00,640 Right. 457 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,160 Be ready in season, out of season, convince, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and 458 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:05,160 teaching. 459 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:06,160 I want to take just a few minutes. 460 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,360 I don't know if I've ever done this before, but I want to take a few minutes just to talk 461 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:10,360 to teachers and preachers. 462 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:13,680 The rest of you, if you want, you can just sip on a coffee for a little bit. 463 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:14,680 All right. 464 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,720 Some of you, God has gifted you to teach and to preach. 465 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,840 I don't think I've ever done this in a message. 466 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,480 I don't think I've ever really kind of commissioned people who have a calling on their lives to 467 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:26,480 teach and preach. 468 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,200 But I got to speak to you for a couple of minutes because God compelled me to do this. 469 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:30,200 All right. 470 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:31,960 I'm calling out to the teachers. 471 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,960 This is a grab you by the lapel kind of moment, by the way. 472 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:35,960 All right. 473 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,280 Some of you are gifted to teach. 474 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:42,960 Some of you are gifted to preach and you are at some level of that gifting. 475 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,720 You could be at the, at the level of exploring, right? 476 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:50,000 You could be at the place like you kind of know God's prompting you to teach and you've 477 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,840 got this ability and you've got this thing that's gnawing at you inside and you know 478 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:59,000 that that you want that you're supposed to instruct people and you got this thing that's 479 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,000 working on you and it's kind of stern in you. 480 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,800 Some of you got that on the preach, right? 481 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,760 The preach side of this, that some of that thing that's inside of you that's stirring 482 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:13,280 and some of you are on the front end of that thing and you need to not ignore that. 483 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,880 You need to hear God's you need to hear God's call. 484 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,720 You need to hear God's voice in that. 485 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,600 You got, you got to let, you got to let me grab you by the lapel this morning and kind 486 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:27,040 of get in your face just a little bit about that because some of you I am convinced in 487 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:32,320 this house God is calling you out to teach and you need to start moving that direction. 488 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,280 You might not have everything you need right now. 489 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,120 You might not have all the tools you need. 490 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:40,360 You might need to get some biblical instruction so that you can go out and teach. 491 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:41,700 You might be at the beginning. 492 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:43,660 You might be somewhere in the middle, right? 493 00:21:43,660 --> 00:21:45,120 You've had the biblical instruction. 494 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:46,120 You've had the time. 495 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:47,120 You've people. 496 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:48,840 You know what happens with this kind of thing? 497 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,320 What will happen is you'll start teaching something somewhere along the way, right? 498 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,800 Whether it's official or not and all of a sudden the people in the body of Christ begin 499 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:56,920 to recognize it. 500 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,920 I remember when I first did this, I was scared to death to get in front of people, but I 501 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:05,280 taught some classes and I remember I taught these classes and I remember an older gentleman 502 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,520 coming up and he's telling me you got a gift, you know, and he started stirring up what 503 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:13,320 was already in me and I knew it, you know, and he said you got a gift in this. 504 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,600 You got to start using this for the kingdom. 505 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:16,600 That's what will happen. 506 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,360 You'll start and you might be somewhere in the process. 507 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:20,360 You might be at the beginning. 508 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:21,360 You might be here. 509 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:25,140 You may be maybe you maybe you taught before the word of God. 510 00:22:25,140 --> 00:22:29,680 Maybe that was something that God stirred up in you and it's stirring again, you know, 511 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,940 and it's starting again and life got in the way and you got busy doing things, right? 512 00:22:33,940 --> 00:22:37,540 Because that's how God has you in a different season for a little while and then he starts 513 00:22:37,540 --> 00:22:40,240 bringing it back around and he says it's time. 514 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:41,480 It's time again. 515 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:42,960 It's time to start teaching. 516 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:43,960 It's time. 517 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:45,200 So come out. 518 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:46,200 It's true. 519 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,600 And God calls and draws. 520 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,080 He was doing this with Timothy. 521 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:54,880 Timothy, he's telling him it is teaching and preaching in you, Timothy, right? 522 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,260 And some of you will just have the teaching. 523 00:22:56,260 --> 00:22:59,960 Some of you are going to have the teaching and the preaching and if it and I'm calling 524 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:06,920 you out this morning, I don't have time to unfold the importance of this completely. 525 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,480 I got a matter of fact, I'm gonna ask the praise team come up and while they're coming, 526 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,320 I'm just going to unfold one piece of this. 527 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:18,960 Why this is so important and why this matters and why you can't ignore this stir that's 528 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,280 inside of you. 529 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:26,560 All right in Hebrews chapter five verses one through 11, the writer of that book, which 530 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:31,960 is actually believed to be Paul is giving a bit of a discourse and he's talking about 531 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:38,280 the priesthood within the body and he's speaking along the lines of listen, the priesthood 532 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,400 was really came the priesthood. 533 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:44,460 God assigned the priesthood in the Jewish culture through the line of Aaron. 534 00:23:44,460 --> 00:23:47,560 So Aaron's descendants were all of the priesthood. 535 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:52,240 They were the ones that were to act as the priest, but he goes on to speak about Jesus 536 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,440 being from the order of Melchizedek. 537 00:23:54,440 --> 00:24:00,080 So he's kind of going into some deeper things in God's word and he almost stops himself 538 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,620 in the middle of this and he speaks in this manner. 539 00:24:02,620 --> 00:24:04,520 He says this in Hebrew 512. 540 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:09,540 He says for though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you 541 00:24:09,540 --> 00:24:14,520 again the first principles of the oracles of God and you have come to need milk and 542 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:20,040 not solid food for everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness 543 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:24,320 for he is a babe, but solid food belongs to those who are of full age. 544 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:29,160 That is those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and 545 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,160 evil. 546 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:36,480 Therefore leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, 547 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:41,320 not laying us again the foundation of repentance from dead works and faith towards God. 548 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:46,940 We need teachers and preachers because people need to move from milk to meat. 549 00:24:46,940 --> 00:24:51,560 They need to move from the soft food to the deeper things of God. 550 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:56,760 We need teachers and preachers who will engage so that the believers that come into the kingdom 551 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,920 can hear the word of God and they go from the milk. 552 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:02,120 You can't live on milk forever. 553 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:03,120 Amen. 554 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:05,560 We give it to babies. 555 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:06,560 Babies need milk. 556 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:07,560 Right? 557 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,640 My granddaughter, she needs milk and she's on that. 558 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,000 But how many know somewhere in the first year of life, right? 559 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,520 You start shoving a banana in their mouth. 560 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:20,400 Come on, you start squishing up food and you start moving them towards solid food and you 561 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,240 talk to them and say, one day you'll buy a steak. 562 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:24,240 It's awesome. 563 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:25,240 Right? 564 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:30,960 You're going to put some A1 on that thing and you're going to love it. 565 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,000 You start moving them from here to there. 566 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,760 That's what teachers and preachers do. 567 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,560 That's what you're commissioned to do. 568 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,200 It starts in the children's area over here. 569 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:45,000 Do you know that most people get saved before the age of 12? 570 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,200 There's ministry happening over here. 571 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:48,680 Big time. 572 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,640 Big time. 573 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,000 Come on. 574 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,600 You're moving them from milk to meat. 575 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:59,880 So here's the thing, I'm actually staying this morning. 576 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:08,160 At a minimum, at a minimum, at a minimum, the mission is to testify of what God has done. 577 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,600 At a minimum. 578 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:17,080 Some of you, some of you, God's stern in you to teach and to preach. 579 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:18,080 This is a kingdom thing. 580 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,000 This is a body of Christ thing. 581 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,000 And I'm going to ask you to do something. 582 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,200 I'm going to ask you to come forward this morning. 583 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:25,600 I think we need to pray together. 584 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,000 There's something about moving forward. 585 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,280 If you would, if you're new this morning, I know this might be a little uncomfortable. 586 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,280 It's fine. 587 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,760 You can just stay right where you're at if you want to. 588 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:34,760 We're just going to pray. 589 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:35,760 That's all we're going to do when we get up here. 590 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:42,120 We're going to pray together. 591 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:43,120 Just move up close if you can. 592 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:45,640 Some of you don't mind getting near me. 593 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,680 Get up close so others can come in behind. 594 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,640 Everybody up front. 595 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,440 Come on, move up, move up, move up, move up, please. 596 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:55,840 Thank you. 597 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,000 Move over if you can a little just so we can spread out. 598 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:04,720 I know we've got a lot of people here this morning. 599 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:05,720 I want you to hear me. 600 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:06,720 I want you to hear me. 601 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:12,640 I'm going to talk to teachers and preachers first. 602 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,640 I'm calling you out this morning. 603 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:15,640 Calling you out. 604 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:20,620 Grabbing you by the lapel. 605 00:27:20,620 --> 00:27:27,400 If God is gifting you in this or if He's pulling you out to develop that gift in you, you need 606 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,680 to tell someone. 607 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:36,760 If you don't verbalize it, if you don't verbalize it, if you don't name it, it is so easy to 608 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,360 shove that thing back down. 609 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:40,360 You're going to go to lunch this afternoon. 610 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:42,400 You're going to eat some food. 611 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,240 You're going to get all cozy, pull a blankie up over you in this rain. 612 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,800 You're just going to forget and just try to let that thing slide by. 613 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,560 I can tell you for a fact that God will bring it back around, by the way. 614 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:53,560 He will. 615 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:54,560 His callings are without repentance. 616 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,560 That's what the Word of God says. 617 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:57,560 All right? 618 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,400 So you might as well just act on it now. 619 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:01,600 You need to tell somebody. 620 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,480 I want you to come to one of the pastoral staff in this church and let them know. 621 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,360 Our job is to help you walk through that. 622 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:09,360 That is our job. 623 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:10,360 All right? 624 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:12,240 Hopefully we don't fail you in any way in that. 625 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,640 Our job is to help you walk through what God has gifted you with. 626 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,880 So I'm calling you out. 627 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:22,800 I'm not going to grab you physically by the lapel, but I would if I could. 628 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,680 You need to walk in this. 629 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:25,680 Paul did it to Timothy. 630 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,120 He said, preach the Word. 631 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:29,120 Teach the Word. 632 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:30,120 All right? 633 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:36,040 At a minimum, for all of us, we are to testify. 634 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,040 We are to testify. 635 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,680 We're going to all pray together right now. 636 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:40,680 All right? 637 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,160 I want you to bow your heads. 638 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,960 This is calling it out. 639 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,320 Father, I come to you right now. 640 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,280 I pray for each one in the house this morning that's here. 641 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,200 They are not here by accident. 642 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,120 God, this is God ordained. 643 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,920 Lord God, you work this all out on their behalf. 644 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:02,680 Lord God, I pray right now you stir up the gift that are in some. 645 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,920 Lord, some, they need to engage in teaching. 646 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,240 They need to engage what you've put in their hearts and what's in their minds. 647 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,960 Some need to just relaunch again back into what you've already have in them and what 648 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,440 they've already worked out, what they've already practiced. 649 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:16,840 They're not here to come here or to preach. 650 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,960 They're to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. 651 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:19,960 They are to speak out. 652 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:20,960 They're gifted in it. 653 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:21,960 They need to use it. 654 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:22,960 God, I pray right now. 655 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,360 God, work in their hearts. 656 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:25,760 God, use them in this. 657 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,560 Lord God, step them out, Lord, and help them launch forward. 658 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,280 God, I pray this in Jesus' name. 659 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:32,520 In Jesus' name, do this. 660 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:33,520 God, I believe. 661 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,160 God, I know you set us aside for seasons sometimes. 662 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,160 I understand that. 663 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,280 God, if it's a God ordained season, we understand that. 664 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:41,280 We get it. 665 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:42,280 Lord God, that's a thing. 666 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:47,720 But Lord God, right now, if you're tugging on hearts, God, pull them out and push them 667 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:48,720 forward in this. 668 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,920 Help them see past all the circumstances. 669 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,800 God, and lean on what you're speaking to them. 670 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,280 Lord God, in Jesus' name. 671 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,200 Jesus, I ask that you would stir up the testimony in us. 672 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,200 God, the story. 673 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:06,800 God, whether we got saved 40 years ago, four years ago, or four days ago, God, stir up 674 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:07,800 that story. 675 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,320 God, let us tell of what you're doing in our lives. 676 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,320 Because God, it is powerful. 677 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:14,920 Holy Spirit, you will. 678 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,680 You will bind together with that testimony. 679 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,840 You will empower that testimony. 680 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,840 It won't just be a story. 681 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:22,840 It'll be you. 682 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:23,840 Lord, I ask this in Jesus' name. 683 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:24,840 In Jesus' name. 684 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:43,840 In Jesus' name. 685 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:56,480 Amen.