1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,880 Thank you for listening to this message from LifeHouse Church. 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:19,200 Good morning, good morning, good morning. 3 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:25,160 Listen, turn to the person beside you, tell him you're pretty warm this morning. 4 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,640 Go ahead and just tell him you're pretty warm. 5 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,240 I'm going to tell you why, I'm going to tell you why. 6 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:34,440 Our furnace was acting up this morning and we came in here with 63 degrees. 7 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,760 I just checked it, it went up 7 degrees since you've been in the room. 8 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,320 Come on, yeah, this is a hot crowd right here. 9 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,780 Listen, it's good to have you at LifeHouse if you don't know who I am, I am Pastor Kipp. 10 00:00:44,780 --> 00:00:46,840 This is Baptism Sunday. 11 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:53,760 We love this time of year, actually each time of the year when we do baptism, we love getting 12 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:58,080 together and celebrating what Jesus has done in lives and we're just here. 13 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,920 Thank you for coming out, I know there's lots of family that came in this morning for those 14 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,520 who are being baptized and we just appreciate having you here this morning. 15 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:11,400 We just want you to enjoy as we go into God's word and then we'll baptize at the end of 16 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:12,400 the message. 17 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,480 I'm going to ask if you'd bow your heads right now, I just want to pray over God's word, 18 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,240 over the reading of his word and that you might receive it. 19 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,600 Father, we come to you today, God, we thank you for your word, God, that is truth and 20 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:27,880 in his life and Lord, we just ask you, Lord, minister to our ears and our hearts and God, 21 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,040 we would open up and hear what you have to say. 22 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,120 Lord, we thank you for the word that guides us and directs us in truth and Lord, we will 23 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,600 not fail to give you praise and glory for all that you're doing today. 24 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,400 In Jesus name, everybody said together, amen, amen. 25 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,360 Well, listen, it's good to have you. 26 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:47,480 I want to read a little something, this is something I came across this week and it says 27 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:52,520 this Adam Zeeman, a professor of cognitive and behavioral neurology wrote this about 28 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:57,800 amnesia and memory loss and the relationship actually to epilepsy. 29 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:03,000 Zeeman mentioned two patients, Peter and Marcus, who described their amnesia in very similar 30 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,160 terms. 31 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:08,520 One said, my memory of the past is a blank space. 32 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,640 I feel lost and hopeless like I'm trying to explore a void. 33 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:16,300 Both described how disconcerting it is to look at photos. 34 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:20,720 Even though they recognize themselves, they have no recollection of the moment. 35 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,800 One said it's kind of like reading a biography of a stranger. 36 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,120 He's conscious of recent memories slipping away from him like ships sailing out to the 37 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,160 sea in the fog, never to be seen again. 38 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,960 Two things stand out in Zeeman's essay. 39 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:41,920 First, without memory, it's hard to cling to an identity and second, it's difficult 40 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:46,480 to have hope when we don't know our past. 41 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:51,360 Zeeman explained the inability to remember the past greatly impedes someone's ability 42 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,160 to even imagine a future. 43 00:02:54,160 --> 00:03:00,880 Amnesia, memory loss, forgetting, right, can greatly increase someone's ability to have 44 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:05,680 hope for the future and to stay steadfast in their identity and who they are. 45 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,480 And I would agree, I totally would agree. 46 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,040 I want you to turn to someone this morning one more time, it's the last time I'm going 47 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:12,040 to do it. 48 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:13,840 Turn to somebody right beside you and say, do you remember me? 49 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:14,840 Do you remember me? 50 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,840 Come on, say, do you remember me? 51 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:17,840 All right? 52 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,280 This is important. 53 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,040 You might need to ride home today. 54 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:22,040 All right? 55 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,160 Listen, I've been around those who have suffered from memory loss. 56 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,160 I don't know if you've ever experienced that. 57 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:28,160 And it's unsettling. 58 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:29,840 It shakes people to the core. 59 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:35,280 When I was 16 years old, we used to do play a little bit of backyard football in our neighborhood. 60 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:36,920 When I say neighborhood, I live down in the country. 61 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:41,240 It was one road, literally, that connected into another road way out the line. 62 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,280 But a bunch of us guys, we'd get together sometimes and we'd just play some backyard 63 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:45,280 football. 64 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:50,120 And one particular game that we set up, we came to, it was not like all the normal times 65 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,520 that we got together and just threw the football around. 66 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,360 This particular time, one of the guys in the group invited a group from a different place. 67 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,320 And we were all around 16, 15 years old. 68 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,440 The group that came, I don't know what he was thinking. 69 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,160 They were like 20-year-old men. 70 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:04,160 All right? 71 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,220 And we're like, we're going to die in this game. 72 00:04:06,220 --> 00:04:07,520 And we almost did. 73 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:13,320 We came out of that game with one broken nose, one blown out knee, one kid cut his leg open. 74 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,680 The tack would have been to the woods, actually, literally, and cut his leg open. 75 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,600 He had to go get 20-plus stitches. 76 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,440 And my buddy Steve had a concussion. 77 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,360 And he got just about knocked clean out. 78 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,160 And the game ended. 79 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,640 And I remember him getting up. 80 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,720 And he had no idea where he was. 81 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,200 He had complete memory loss, complete amnesia of the day. 82 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,760 He didn't know where he was. 83 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:38,960 He didn't know who we were. 84 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,760 And he didn't know how to get home. 85 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:42,520 We lived on a one-lane road. 86 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,480 He had a 50-50 shot, right? 87 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:46,480 He didn't know how to go home. 88 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:47,720 And he didn't know how to get there. 89 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,160 Of course, we hauled people off to the hospital. 90 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,320 But he had amnesia for the day. 91 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,120 He couldn't remember a thing. 92 00:04:54,120 --> 00:05:00,280 And I remember him standing there so stunned, so unsure, so undecided, not knowing what 93 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,440 to do because he couldn't remember. 94 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:03,980 He couldn't think of it. 95 00:05:03,980 --> 00:05:09,000 And this is why Jesus gives us constant reminders in Scripture. 96 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,960 All through God's Word, he gives us things so we don't forget. 97 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,720 So we know where we belong, who we belong to, and what we're supposed to be doing, right? 98 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,320 One of those things he gives us is communion. 99 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,800 When we take communion, we take of the bread and the fruit of the vine, then he said, do 100 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,700 this in remembrance of me, right? 101 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:27,120 Make sure you remember the cross. 102 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,880 Make sure you remember where salvation came to you. 103 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:30,880 He told parables. 104 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:32,440 He told stories all the time. 105 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,280 So it would stick in your memory. 106 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:36,920 So you know how it works in the kingdom of God. 107 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:37,920 That's what's in the parables. 108 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,320 If you look at the parables, you'll find out how it works in the kingdom, right? 109 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,440 He gives you the Word of God that's there for a reminder. 110 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,760 He gives us the Holy Spirit. 111 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,120 God comes to dwell within us. 112 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,600 When we come to salvation in God, he comes and literally lives within us. 113 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,480 And how many know the Holy Spirit can remind you of some things, amen? 114 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,600 Yeah, he helps me all the time, right? 115 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,600 And baptism reminds us who we belong to. 116 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,920 When we make a public declaration of who we belong to, that's what baptism is all about. 117 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,680 We belong to Christ. 118 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:11,520 And in Matthew 25, Jesus once again gives us a reminder of what we're supposed to be 119 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:12,520 doing. 120 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,120 So if you've got your Bibles, you can go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter 25. 121 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,160 If you don't have a Bible with you, that's perfectly fine. 122 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,480 We're going to put it up on the screens and you can read along. 123 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:25,560 Matthew 25 verse 31 says this, when the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the holy 124 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:30,800 angels with him, then he will sit on his throne of glory and all the nations will be gathered 125 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:36,760 before him and he will separate one from the other or one from another as a shepherd divides 126 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,400 his sheep from the goats. 127 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:43,760 And he will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left hand. 128 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:48,520 Then the King will say to those on his right hand, come, you blessed of my father, inherit 129 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,320 the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 130 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,280 Now I want you to listen to this next part. 131 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:56,000 For I was hungry and you gave me food. 132 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,320 I was thirsty and you gave me drink. 133 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,560 I was a stranger and you took me in. 134 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:02,360 I was naked and you clothed me. 135 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,800 I was sick and you visited me. 136 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,000 I was in prison and you came to me. 137 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,320 Then the righteous will answer him saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you 138 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,200 or thirsty and give you drink? 139 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,320 When did we see you a stranger and take you in or naked and clothed you? 140 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,800 Or when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you? 141 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,680 And the King will answer and say to them, well, surely I say to you and as much as you 142 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,840 did it to the one of the least of these, my brother, you did it to me. 143 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,520 Then he also will say to those on the left hand, depart from me. 144 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,480 You cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. 145 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:39,480 For I was hungry. 146 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:40,480 You gave me no food. 147 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:42,120 I was thirsty. 148 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,360 You gave me no drink. 149 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:44,480 I was a stranger. 150 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,460 You did not take me in naked. 151 00:07:46,460 --> 00:07:48,720 You did not clothe me sick and in prison. 152 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:50,280 And you did not visit me. 153 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,960 And they will answer him saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or stranger 154 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,400 or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you? 155 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:03,120 Then he will answer them saying, as surely I say to you and as much as you did not do 156 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,720 it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me. 157 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:12,480 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. 158 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,920 What was Jesus reminding of us? 159 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:16,580 What was he trying to show us? 160 00:08:16,580 --> 00:08:20,120 What was he bringing back to our memory? 161 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,720 What was he trying to break us out of our amnesia about? 162 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,120 We're supposed to help others in need. 163 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:32,600 As Christians, one of the things that we should be engaged in on a regular basis is big part 164 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,480 of God's mission, right? 165 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:39,960 It's not the only thing in his mission, but it is a big part of his mission is that we 166 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,760 are to go and help others in need. 167 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:47,120 And Jesus said it in Matthew 28 as well, when he was getting ready to leave this earth and 168 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,320 go back to the father and send the Holy Spirit. 169 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:53,480 He said, you go into all the world and preach the gospel to everyone, teaching every nation, 170 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:54,480 right? 171 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:55,800 Teaching them everything that I taught you. 172 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,480 And you go and you go to them and you serve. 173 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,160 How are we supposed to be doing this? 174 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,940 We do this by caring for someone else. 175 00:09:03,940 --> 00:09:05,380 Look to the person to your right. 176 00:09:05,380 --> 00:09:07,320 Look to the person to your left right now. 177 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,320 That's the people you're supposed to be caring for. 178 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,720 Out beyond these walls, those are the people that you're supposed to be caring for. 179 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:20,280 The gospel message is really about helping to heal others, to help others in their time 180 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:21,560 in need, right? 181 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:24,720 Help others to get healthy in Jesus' way. 182 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:25,720 It really is. 183 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:32,860 And if we're not doing that, if we're missing that, we've got amnesia. 184 00:09:32,860 --> 00:09:35,520 We forgot what we're supposed to be doing. 185 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,460 Who we're supposed to be doing it for, right? 186 00:09:38,460 --> 00:09:41,120 Maybe even who we belong to. 187 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:45,880 We're here to help others heal, to get healthy. 188 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,120 And if we're not, church, we're missing it, right? 189 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,720 As a church, as a body of believers, even as a Christian individually, Jesus spoke these 190 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,400 words to clear up my amnesia. 191 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,760 That we might, you know, that we might go forward and do what He said. 192 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:01,840 And He spelled it out in no uncertain terms. 193 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:05,900 He didn't leave any room for like, He didn't leave any, you know, well, I wonder what Jesus 194 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:07,200 was really saying here. 195 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,080 He didn't leave any wiggle room in all this. 196 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,920 He said, for I was hungry and you gave me food. 197 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,680 I was thirsty and you gave me a drink. 198 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:14,680 Stranger, you took me in. 199 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:17,000 I was naked and you clothed me. 200 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,160 I was sick and you visited me. 201 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,120 I was in prison and you came to me. 202 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:23,920 Notice the general theme here, right? 203 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,000 How I know it doesn't have anything to do with me. 204 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,400 It has to do with someone else. 205 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:33,720 I should engage myself in the work of somebody else's benefit. 206 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,940 Moving them towards healing, moving them towards health in Jesus, moving them to meet some 207 00:10:37,940 --> 00:10:42,320 basic need, it could be spiritually, it could be mentally, it could be socially, it could 208 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:46,080 be relationally, it could be physically, it could even be financially. 209 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:47,080 That's what Jesus said. 210 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:52,240 And He said, go do it, wherever you're at, whatever sphere of life you're walking in. 211 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:58,760 I just got the opportunity the other day to talk with a couple of folks who run a business. 212 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:03,480 And their business, if you thought of their business, and I'm not going to reveal it because 213 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:10,360 I didn't get their permission to and I didn't ask, but they run their business and if you 214 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:14,960 thought of their business, you'd never think, well, man, that really relates to Christianity. 215 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,960 What they're doing and the way they're making a living and how they're gaining income for 216 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:23,560 their family, you wouldn't in a million years think that's related to ministry in some way. 217 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:28,040 But they'll tell you, if you talk to them, you'll tell, oh man, they're like, we do this 218 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:30,360 to make a living and this provides for my family. 219 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,720 But they're kind of like, this is just the front, man. 220 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,580 This is just so we get to talk with people. 221 00:11:34,580 --> 00:11:36,820 This is just so we get to point people to Jesus. 222 00:11:36,820 --> 00:11:38,860 We get the opportunity to help people out. 223 00:11:38,860 --> 00:11:40,800 And that's literally how they see it. 224 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,800 They see it as an income stream, yes. 225 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,560 But they see everything that they do is a way to help other people and to minister to 226 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:47,560 them. 227 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:49,720 And they'll sit and tell you stories of how that all works out. 228 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:50,720 I love to listen to them. 229 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:51,720 I love to talk about it. 230 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,120 How many of you remember Duck Dynasty? 231 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:55,680 Come on, where are the hillbillies in the house? 232 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:57,640 Yeah, all right, come on, Duck Dynasty. 233 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,120 Between 2012, 2017, right? 234 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:01,120 Phil, Willie, right? 235 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:02,120 Uncle Si. 236 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:03,720 Come on, give me some tea, right? 237 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:05,440 Chase, Jade, right? 238 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,720 And even now his daughter Sadie, she speaks all over the place. 239 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,800 I don't know if you know this or not, but Willie authored a book, right? 240 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,280 Called God Speller. 241 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:17,080 And if you want to read a book, he's all about telling people about Jesus. 242 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:22,840 He totally uses his platform from Duck Dynasty so he gets to tell people about Jesus. 243 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,840 Hundreds and hundreds of people. 244 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,400 He's led to the Lord. 245 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:30,560 Jesus was reminding us that we're supposed to be helping others. 246 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:34,200 Get healthy, get whole, get full in Jesus. 247 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:35,200 Amen? 248 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:36,200 Amen. 249 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,640 We got something here at LifeHouse, we call it the health wheel. 250 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:43,120 And if you know what that is, just set 20 minutes aside and I'll be glad to explain it 251 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:44,120 to you. 252 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,160 I'd love to talk with you about it. 253 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,280 But in the middle of the health wheel, and you can think about a bicycle wheel, right? 254 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:52,680 We talk about this in LifeGroup leaders particular, but if you think of a bicycle wheel, right? 255 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:54,840 In the middle of the bicycle wheel is a hub. 256 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:59,080 And in the middle of our hub, in our drawing that we have, is spiritual health. 257 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:00,080 That's Jesus, right? 258 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,800 If you want to get healthy, the hub, the center of that is you got to get with God. 259 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:05,400 You got to get in relationship with God. 260 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:06,400 You got to know God. 261 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,880 But then there are spokes that go out, right? 262 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,240 Probably maybe a motorcycle wheel. 263 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:12,880 Come on, Ken's sitting back there right now. 264 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:14,600 He's going to relate now. 265 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:15,600 All right? 266 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:16,600 There's motorcycle wheel, right? 267 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,680 Because there's six spokes that go out from that. 268 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:22,120 And you got to understand, God's all about you being mentally, socially, relationally, 269 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,780 physically healthy, financially healthy, emotionally, all of it. 270 00:13:26,780 --> 00:13:29,080 This is what we're supposed to be engaged in. 271 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:34,200 And this is what we're supposed to be doing. 272 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,240 And I want to do this because I want people to come to Christ. 273 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,800 How many know if I help you, it's temporary help, right? 274 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,800 If you call me up and you say, Pastor, I need your help with something. 275 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:43,800 You got to move something. 276 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,800 You need help lifting something. 277 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,360 And I'll call for other people that got stronger backs than me. 278 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:50,720 But we'll show up at your house. 279 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,120 How many know that's a temporary help, right? 280 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,840 But it can be in the temporary help that I get the opportunity to tell you about somebody 281 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:58,880 who can change your life forever. 282 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,680 And his name is Jesus Christ, right? 283 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:03,760 I can give you a little food, a little water. 284 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,200 I can feed you for a day or an hour. 285 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,360 But I can take you to the one who will, you'll never run out of bread. 286 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,440 You'll never thirst again in your soul. 287 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,400 You'll never thirst again. 288 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:18,000 It's absolutely beautiful what Jesus says in these instructions because if we all engage 289 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,180 in this, do you know that nobody goes uncared for? 290 00:14:22,180 --> 00:14:24,640 In the house and out of the house. 291 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:25,960 Nobody goes uncared for. 292 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,800 Hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, right? 293 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:29,800 How many know? 294 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:30,800 Yeah, come on. 295 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:31,800 Naked. 296 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:32,800 Cover that up, right? 297 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,360 Caring for the sick, going to the prisoner. 298 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:42,080 Understand and as we think about this, understand that hunger, thirst, nakedness, homelessness, 299 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:46,080 illness, imprisonment, it can take on different forms. 300 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:47,960 It can be literal, right? 301 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:48,960 It really can be literal. 302 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:50,240 That's a big part of it. 303 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,920 How many know hunger is a very real thing? 304 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:53,920 It's true. 305 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:59,320 There are 735 million people that face chronic hunger in the world. 306 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,280 9.2% of the population. 307 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,120 That's almost one out of 10 people in the world. 308 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:06,120 They're hungry. 309 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:07,120 They're suffering from hunger. 310 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:08,120 Thirst is a thing. 311 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,880 Two billion people don't have safe drinking water on the face of the earth. 312 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,680 I know of ministries. 313 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:14,880 They go drill wells. 314 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:15,880 They go into a community. 315 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:17,520 They don't ask anything in the community. 316 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:18,520 They pay for it themselves. 317 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:20,520 They go in and drill wells and get fresh water. 318 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,040 And while they get them fresh water, they tell them about the king of kings and the 319 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:24,040 lord of lords. 320 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:30,280 In the USA, 582,500 people are homeless today. 321 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,560 That's hard to believe in the United States. 322 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:37,200 150 million worldwide have no place to call home. 323 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,800 Sick and body, ill, countless. 324 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:44,320 Countless people around us dealing with issues in their body and physical needs. 325 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,040 Imprisoned, this blew my mind. 326 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:53,800 1.2 million people in the United States are currently in jail or in prison somewhere. 327 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,360 It's staggering. 328 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:56,960 There's literal need. 329 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:58,800 You don't have to run around. 330 00:15:58,800 --> 00:15:59,800 There's a literal need. 331 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,200 But how do I know that it goes beyond the literal need? 332 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,880 Somebody can be imprisoned in their heart. 333 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:07,560 They can be imprisoned in their minds. 334 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,040 They can be imprisoned in their soul. 335 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:14,240 They can lie dying of hunger in their spirits and souls. 336 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,480 I know some people that sometimes you can go visit them, right? 337 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:22,000 You go visit the stranger and they're so lonely, they're dying inside. 338 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,000 They're dying. 339 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,040 They're starving for authentic family. 340 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,420 They're looking for a place of real community. 341 00:16:27,420 --> 00:16:29,560 They're looking for somebody who cares. 342 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:30,800 Just cares, right? 343 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,160 No support system. 344 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:37,360 Those who are sin sick and the enemy has trashed their lives, messed them up and they don't 345 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,520 even know that there's a God who wants them to be whole, right? 346 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,920 There's hidden, there's unseen arena of all these things. 347 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:48,920 There's the physical side and there's a hidden side of all of it. 348 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:53,320 And I don't know if you've ever been in prison before, but I have. 349 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:54,320 Just a visit. 350 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:55,320 Okay? 351 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:56,680 I've been in prison. 352 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:02,080 Back when I worked a secular job, I worked for a company and I did service type work 353 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,560 and I used to go into some of the state prisons. 354 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:09,120 And I don't know if you've ever gone into a state prison or a jail, but it's a weird 355 00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:10,120 thing. 356 00:17:10,120 --> 00:17:15,560 You walk in and you have to go into a certain area and those bars close behind you and they 357 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,440 latch and you know there's no way out. 358 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,120 It's a weird feeling. 359 00:17:21,120 --> 00:17:25,800 And it's an odd thing to know that there is no way out of this place. 360 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,520 I can't get out of here if I tried. 361 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,640 It's just impossible. 362 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,560 You can't get out beyond those bars. 363 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:38,960 And you realize that the only way you're stepping out of that imprisonment is somebody on the 364 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:43,760 outside hitting a button and that door coming open. 365 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:48,160 Somebody on the outside with the key, somebody on the outside that can unlatch it and let 366 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:49,160 you out. 367 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:50,600 It is an eerie feeling. 368 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:55,200 But I can't tell you how many people are walking around you day in and day out and they are 369 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,320 in prison in their hearts. 370 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:03,380 They are locked up and they need somebody on the outside who cares. 371 00:18:03,380 --> 00:18:04,960 Somebody who's going to walk up. 372 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:05,960 Right? 373 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,160 And we cannot have amnesia in this church. 374 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,480 I cannot have amnesia as a Christian. 375 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,880 The Word of God, how many know the Word of God re-centers you? 376 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,760 Do you know what it is to get re-centered? 377 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:17,760 How many of you ever get off Kilter? 378 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:18,760 Anybody know what that is? 379 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:20,960 Come on, I'm using some Western PA here. 380 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:21,960 All right? 381 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:22,960 You get off Kilter. 382 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:23,960 Right? 383 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,940 If you take off in a plane from New York and you're heading to LA and if you get off just 384 00:18:27,940 --> 00:18:32,800 a couple degrees in your flight plan, you're not going to land where you're supposed to 385 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:33,800 land. 386 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:34,800 You're not even going to be close. 387 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:35,800 You can get off Kilter. 388 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,120 The Word of God bumps you back on course. 389 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:39,120 It will bump you. 390 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:40,120 It will center you. 391 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:41,120 Right? 392 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:43,280 And it helps you understand what we're in for. 393 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,760 The fight is in front of us to care. 394 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:47,760 It really is. 395 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:52,040 Ephesians 6-12 says this, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principality, 396 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,720 against powers, against rules of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness 397 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,080 in heavenly places. 398 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:58,640 Our fight is not with people. 399 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,140 Our fight is with the enemy. 400 00:19:00,140 --> 00:19:01,320 Our fight is with evil. 401 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:02,720 Our fight is with Satan. 402 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,880 And our job is to care and get them to Christ. 403 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:08,840 It's bringing light into the darkness. 404 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:09,840 Right? 405 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,840 It's being able to walk up. 406 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:13,840 Listen, such were us. 407 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:14,840 Right? 408 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,560 How many know we were all in prison? 409 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,280 The Word of God, we were all bound up by sin. 410 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:20,280 Every one of us. 411 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:21,840 The Word of God says that and declares it. 412 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:24,480 But we've been set free by the Master. 413 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,160 He's unlocked the door. 414 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,200 And it's our job to help others. 415 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,040 I've got to get them to Christ. 416 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:39,280 But they're going to remain shackled, bound, sick, lost, homeless, hungry, naked, in prison. 417 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,520 Can't get amnesia. 418 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:43,520 We got to move forward. 419 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:44,520 Amen, church? 420 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:45,520 Amen. 421 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:47,520 Man, shortest message you're ever going to hear me preach. 422 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:51,200 I'm going to ask you to stand this morning. 423 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,400 I could go for a while yet, but I'm not going to. 424 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:54,400 We got some things to do. 425 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,400 I'm going to ask you to stand. 426 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:56,400 I want you just to bow your heads. 427 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:57,400 And the worship team's coming, and they're going to begin to get ready. 428 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:04,400 And if you would, just in a reverent moment, just close your eyes. 429 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:05,400 Just so you can focus. 430 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:06,400 Just so you can think. 431 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:13,400 And you don't get distracted with what's beside you today. 432 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,960 But ask yourself, right? 433 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,280 This re-centered me this week. 434 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:18,280 I hope it re-centered you. 435 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:22,400 If you're following Jesus as Lord and Savior, don't forget about what this part of the mission 436 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:23,400 is all about. 437 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:30,000 God said, you know, the Word of God literally says one day when we stand before Jesus, He's 438 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,560 going to have sheep on the right and goats on the left. 439 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,920 And He's going to tell those who are on the right to come into my kingdom and those on 440 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:36,920 the left to depart. 441 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,400 That's what the Word of God says. 442 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,040 And then He went on to describe what they should be engaged in while they're here. 443 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,040 Right? 444 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,040 We're saved by grace. 445 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,040 It's a gift. 446 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:50,280 But God said to engage in this. 447 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:51,280 Engage in this activity. 448 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,280 So are you engaged in this? 449 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,920 Father, we come to you, Lord, in the matchless name of Jesus Christ. 450 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:56,920 And Lord, I thank you. 451 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:01,000 God, we have the opportunity to read your Word, God, to be in the house, and Lord, to 452 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,560 hear and to worship you and God, to feel your presence. 453 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:07,120 But this morning, Lord, we come and God, I just ask you to re-center us. 454 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:12,920 God, as a church, as individuals in this body, help us to remember, Lord, that it is your 455 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,000 call for us to go and care about our neighbor. 456 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,400 God, it's to go and love our neighbors, ourselves. 457 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:19,640 Jesus, you told us that. 458 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,120 And Lord, it's got to be real. 459 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:22,400 It's got to be tangible. 460 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,880 It's got to be not just a concept or a precept or something in our head and our minds, but 461 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,920 something we physically go do. 462 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:29,920 Something that we engage in. 463 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,720 And Lord, I pray that you just continue to give us opportunity. 464 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,000 We hear so many stories so often. 465 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,960 Lord, God, one more time. 466 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,520 God, give us opportunity in this. 467 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,760 And Lord, God, help us not to be so centered in our own hearts and minds, Lord, that we 468 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,240 don't hear you. 469 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:45,920 God, guide us and direct us in this. 470 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,760 And Lord, if there's one in the house this morning, Lord, that does not know you as Lord 471 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,800 and Savior, maybe they came in this morning. 472 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,320 They didn't even realize they could know the God of the universe. 473 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:56,920 The creator of all things. 474 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:03,200 They never, no one ever told them that you sent your son Jesus to pay the price, to pay 475 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:08,320 the ransom for the sin that separated us from God in the first place. 476 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,240 And that He gives us as a free gift and all we have to do is believe on His Son. 477 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,040 All we got to do is engage in this. 478 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,340 And the God of heaven will come into relationship and we will hear from Him. 479 00:22:17,340 --> 00:22:18,880 We will know Him. 480 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,960 And one day we will walk into His kingdom. 481 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,680 We'll be part of His kingdom for all of eternity. 482 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,400 If you don't know that, no one ever told you that. 483 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:28,400 You can know today. 484 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,520 And it's up to you. 485 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,040 This is between you and God. 486 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,040 But you can make a decision. 487 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,440 You can acknowledge Him as Lord and Savior. 488 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,960 You can acknowledge Him as creator and you can realize that He paid the price to bring 489 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:42,240 you back into relationship. 490 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,480 He loved you that much that He sent His own Son to die. 491 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,320 To pay the price for sin so that He could come back into relationship with you. 492 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,560 And so you could know Him. 493 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,240 If that's you in the house, I want you just to pray a simple prayer. 494 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,880 Lord, I realize that I'm separated from You. 495 00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,600 I realize that I'm lost. 496 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,320 I realize that I don't know You. 497 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,280 I realize that I've not been in relationship with You but I want to be in relationship. 498 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:07,320 I want to know You. 499 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:08,320 I want to hear You. 500 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:09,720 I want to experience You. 501 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,020 I recognize that Jesus paid the price. 502 00:23:12,020 --> 00:23:15,600 Your Son paid the price so I could have that right and privilege. 503 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,320 And Lord, I just ask You into my life today. 504 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:19,960 I commit to follow You. 505 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:24,560 I commit to learn about You and to come into that relationship with You. 506 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:31,560 And Lord, we just give You praise and glory in Jesus' name. 507 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:32,560 Amen. 508 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:41,560 Thank you for tuning in to this message from Life House Church. 509 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,600 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 510 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,680 If you have been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with 511 00:23:49,680 --> 00:24:12,320 us as we love God, love people every day, visit our website at www.lifehousecog.com.