1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,440 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:19,640 Happy Thanksgiving. 3 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,440 Anybody tell you that yet this week? 4 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,000 Come on, Happy Thanksgiving. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,720 Let's give the one who deserves all the thanks glory and honor. 6 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:28,720 Would you do that? 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,080 Would you stand at your feet one more time? 8 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:32,080 Can you stand up? 9 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:33,080 Just give God glory. 10 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:34,080 Come on, do it like you mean it. 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:35,080 Lord, we give you praise. 12 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:36,600 We give you glory and honor today. 13 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,360 We thank you, God, that we can be in the house and hear your word 14 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,280 and we'll just not fail to praise you all week long. 15 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,200 In Jesus' name, everybody say together. 16 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,200 Amen. 17 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,400 Church of Robes, you can sit right back down. 18 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,120 It's good to have you here this morning. 19 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,160 It's good to have my son-in-law, Brad, my daughter, Jenna, 20 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:54,280 and my granddaughters in the house. 21 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:55,560 Yeah, come on. 22 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,780 Yeah, good to have them back home. 23 00:00:57,780 --> 00:01:00,240 They're down there in Passion at Atlanta, Georgia, 24 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,520 serving at Passion Church down there and doing an amazing job. 25 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,600 But it's good to have them home because they're always life-housers, 26 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,200 whether they're there or not. 27 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,840 So yeah, so it's so good to have them back. 28 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,520 But listen, this is Thanksgiving week. 29 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:16,960 This is a week that you should spend time reflecting on the grace of God, 30 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:18,640 the goodness of God. 31 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:20,640 This is a time to be thankful, right? 32 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,120 All this week is a time to be thankful for the Lord's provision in your life 33 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,680 and what God's placed in your hand and the things that he's doing in your life. 34 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,040 This is a great week to take inventory. 35 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:35,440 I don't know if you've ever taken inventory, but just to stop and recount, right, 36 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:36,440 what God has put in your head. 37 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:37,800 That's what they do in inventory. 38 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:39,320 They count stuff, right? 39 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:43,080 Go back and count all the things that God has done over the years 40 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,240 and maybe even just in this year in your life, right? 41 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:51,560 A week of gratitude, a week of saying, okay, God, thank you for all that you've done 42 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,440 for purchasing my salvation, right? 43 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,760 But with your own blood, a week of Thanksgiving. 44 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,040 It's a week to do that. 45 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,320 And it should be that kind of week. 46 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,080 It should be a week of celebration, a time together with friends and family. 47 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,640 But we should thank God all week long. 48 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,000 And how many of we do that in different kind of ways in our family? 49 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,560 Some of you have different traditions, Thanksgiving traditions. 50 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:19,440 But most all of us, now, I won't say everybody, but most everybody has a Thanksgiving meal. 51 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:20,440 Amen. 52 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:21,440 Come on, say amen. 53 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:22,440 Yes, okay. 54 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,560 So you have this Thanksgiving meal in some traditional way, right? 55 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,200 You might have some traditional meal that you put together. 56 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,840 And some of you will partake in that and you'll bring friends and you'll invite family 57 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,400 and you'll have everybody come together at a certain time. 58 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,960 It'll be lunch or at supper time or somewhere along the way. 59 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,640 And we get together and we partake of a meal. 60 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:42,800 And that can usually consist of turkey. 61 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:43,800 Not always. 62 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:44,960 Some of you are ham people out there, right? 63 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,720 It'll be turkey or ham. 64 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,120 And some of you will have stuffing and gravy. 65 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,120 Amen. 66 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,120 Come on. 67 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,480 Some of you will have, Thanksgiving's all about the stuffing, right? 68 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:54,480 And the gravy. 69 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:55,880 Some of you are going to have potatoes. 70 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:56,880 Some of you will have sweet potatoes. 71 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:57,880 Some of you will have regular potato. 72 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,240 Some of you will have the twice baked potato. 73 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:01,240 All right. 74 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,720 You'll have sauteed greens of some kind, some veggies, cranberry sauce. 75 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:07,320 Are you getting hungry yet? 76 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:08,320 All right. 77 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:09,320 Come on. 78 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,120 Some fresh warm bread with butter melting on it. 79 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:12,600 And you're going to have all this. 80 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,080 And you'll celebrate for the day. 81 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,040 And that's only to be followed by a barrage of desserts that are followed the whole thing, 82 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,040 right? 83 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:21,040 It could be pumpkin pie. 84 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:22,040 It could be cakes. 85 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:23,040 Come on. 86 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,040 It could be cookies. 87 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:25,040 Have I mentioned pumpkin pie? 88 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:26,040 Right? 89 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:27,040 Come on. 90 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:28,040 Right? 91 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:29,040 Yeah. 92 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:30,040 Turkey. 93 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:31,040 Come on. 94 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,040 All of it. 95 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:33,040 It's all together. 96 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:34,040 And you'll come together and you'll celebrate. 97 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,520 And at every one of these Thanksgiving meals, there is somebody who cooked, baked and prepared 98 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:39,520 that meal. 99 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:45,920 And there's the skilled chefs in the family come together or just one who comes together, 100 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:46,920 right? 101 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:47,920 And makes the meal. 102 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:54,360 Somebody who has an eye to create a culinary delight of some kind for you to eat a little 103 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:55,360 later. 104 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,360 Someone who knows the favorite dish that you have, right? 105 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,080 That's going to happen. 106 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:06,280 And they got the eye to cook, bake or prepare something and make sure that it is ready. 107 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:07,680 Say ready. 108 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,280 It's ready for whoever's going to consume it. 109 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,360 They've got this knack. 110 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,760 Sometimes it's a process that they go through that they've done many times, right? 111 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,560 Some of them just have this eye. 112 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:20,760 They'll look in the oven, right? 113 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:21,760 They don't time it. 114 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:23,280 They don't do anything with those timers. 115 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:25,640 They look in, they know it's just right. 116 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:26,640 Right? 117 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,800 They got this weird ninja baking intuition. 118 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,800 You ever be around someone like that? 119 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:31,800 Right? 120 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:37,980 They just got a baking intuition and they know what it is when it's ready. 121 00:04:37,980 --> 00:04:43,520 When it's ready for consumption and very similar in God's word. 122 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:48,720 There's a portion of scripture that helps us understand when somebody is ready to consume 123 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,840 the gospel of Jesus Christ. 124 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:55,600 Somebody who doesn't know Jesus, somebody who's never called Jesus Lord in their life. 125 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,320 There's a way to know when they're ready to partake, when they're ready to hear the message 126 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:05,160 of Jesus, when they're ready to find out that they're lost and undone, right? 127 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,600 And there's somebody who loves them more than they could ever even dream or imagine. 128 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,640 They'll be ready for the rescue that God provides for all of us, right? 129 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:14,840 He rescues us from sin. 130 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:19,440 They'll be ready to hear about new life and a birth in Christ Jesus. 131 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,480 They'll be ready to find out. 132 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,680 And I believe every follower of Jesus who desires to tell another person about Jesus 133 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:30,560 Christ, who has this thing inside of them that wants to testify what God's done for 134 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,320 them so they can see somebody else set free. 135 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:39,560 We all want to know when is that other person who doesn't know Jesus ready? 136 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:40,560 When are they ready? 137 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:44,680 Ready to be served up the greatest message of their lives. 138 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:45,680 When are they ready? 139 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:50,240 Because like in so many other ways in life, we can know when somebody's ready to receive 140 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:51,240 something. 141 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:52,240 We really can. 142 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:53,480 I have five grandchildren, right? 143 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:58,520 When Christmas comes and we're getting gifts out, how many I know when they're ready. 144 00:05:58,520 --> 00:05:59,520 All right. 145 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,320 They tell me we're ready, Poppy. 146 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:02,320 All right. 147 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,160 They come with gifts, you know, arms out. 148 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:05,160 We're ready to receive. 149 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:06,160 Right. 150 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:07,760 We're ready to get it. 151 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,200 And some of you, how many of you know when somebody's ready for a hug? 152 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:12,200 Right. 153 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:18,240 If you go to hug somebody and they go, you know, I did that with the teenagers here once 154 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,760 when I come out, you give them a little side hug and they're like, like hugging a board. 155 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:23,820 You know, they're not ready for it. 156 00:06:23,820 --> 00:06:25,520 They're not coming out with arms open wide. 157 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:26,520 Right. 158 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,240 Now, some of you, some of you adults will do that. 159 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:29,240 Right. 160 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,200 But you know when someone's ready. 161 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,400 Some people are ready for a compliment. 162 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,760 How many of you have ever complimented somebody and they just can't take a compliment? 163 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,840 You compliment them and they just they divert. 164 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:40,760 They go talk about the soup or the weather or something. 165 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:41,760 I don't know. 166 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:42,760 Anything they can find. 167 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:43,760 Right. 168 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,100 But how many of you know, some of you are like, some people are ready for a compliment. 169 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:48,840 They get a compliment and they're like, more please. 170 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:50,720 Come on, just bring it on. 171 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:52,760 I'll take everything you got. 172 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:53,760 Right. 173 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:58,120 And we know there's a way to tell when somebody's ready. 174 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,120 And it's this way. 175 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:04,360 If you go this portion of the gospel, you can start to find out when somebody's ready 176 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:05,400 to hear about Jesus. 177 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,840 So if you got your Bible this morning, I want you to turn to Luke, Chapter 10. 178 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:09,960 We're going to start at verse one. 179 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:14,760 And while you're flipping and turning and getting to that spot in your Bibles or digital 180 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,780 device, whatever you're using, I'm going to pray over your ears as you hear God's word. 181 00:07:18,780 --> 00:07:20,120 So Lord, we thank you for this day. 182 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:21,800 Lord, we know that your word is blessed. 183 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:22,960 We know that your word is truth. 184 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:24,480 We know that your word is life. 185 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,600 And Lord, we just come right now ready to receive. 186 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,640 God, I pray that our ears would perk up. 187 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,900 God, that our hearts would be ready to be written on and God, that we would hear the 188 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:32,900 truth that's in your word. 189 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:37,640 And Lord, we'll just not fail to give you praise all week long in this week of thanksgiving. 190 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:38,640 And we thank you. 191 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:39,640 And everybody said together. 192 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:40,640 Amen. 193 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:41,640 Amen. 194 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,120 Luke, Chapter 10, verse one, and it says this, after these things, the Lord appointed 70 195 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:50,200 others also and sent them two by two before his face into every city and place where he 196 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,040 himself was about to go. 197 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,640 Then he said to them, the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. 198 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,320 Therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 199 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:06,720 Go your way, behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves carrying either money bag, knapsack 200 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,760 or sandals and greet no one along the road. 201 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:14,920 But whatever house you enter, first say peace to this house. 202 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,720 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on it. 203 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:23,000 If not, it will return to you and remain in the same house, eating and drinking such things 204 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,920 as they give for the labor is worthy of its wages. 205 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:32,320 Do not go from house to house, whatever city you enter and they receive you, each such 206 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:37,960 things are set before you and heal the sick there and say to them, the kingdom of God 207 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:39,900 has come near to you. 208 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:43,960 But whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say 209 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:48,560 the very dust of your city, which claims to us, we wipe off against you. 210 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:52,360 Nevertheless, know this, that the kingdom of God has come near you. 211 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:59,640 But I say to you that is more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. 212 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:06,000 Jesus has given some final instructions to 70 of his followers, 70 believers that he 213 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,640 is about to send out into the cities. 214 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,560 And he's not just sending them to any city. 215 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:16,320 He's sending them to the cities that he himself is going to go to following this group. 216 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,080 So he sends them out two by two and he tells them when you go out, I want you to go into 217 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:21,080 each city. 218 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:25,240 I want you to heal the sick and I want you to introduce them to the gospel. 219 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,920 I want you to introduce them to the idea of the Messiah who was himself, Jesus. 220 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,680 I want you to introduce him to the idea of the kingdom of God. 221 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:41,680 And Jesus begins this whole portion of scripture by giving them what I call send off instructions. 222 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:47,260 He's given them send off instructions and he starts off with the reality of the journey 223 00:09:47,260 --> 00:09:49,120 they're about to take. 224 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:53,280 Jesus doesn't just give them a bunch of hype and motivational speech. 225 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:57,160 He doesn't make this last thing a big rah rah session. 226 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:01,400 How many of you can do a rah rah session when you get some people out like go team go. 227 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,520 And they all go running out right through the tunnel. 228 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:04,520 That's not what he's doing. 229 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,760 He doesn't sugarcoat the mission that's in front of him. 230 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:10,760 He doesn't make it nice and sweet. 231 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,500 So hopefully they don't back out at the last minute. 232 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:17,280 He says clearly to them that this is not going to be all peaches and cream. 233 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,180 Now he doesn't use that term knowledge. 234 00:10:19,180 --> 00:10:21,320 He said this is not going to be skipping through a park. 235 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:22,520 Not that I've ever done that. 236 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:23,520 Right. 237 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,040 Well he says I'll be skipping through a park. 238 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:26,080 You kind of get my point. 239 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,040 This is not going to be all roses and sunshine. 240 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:30,040 Right. 241 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:35,000 It's Jesus gives them the deep reality of what they're about to step into. 242 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:40,200 He was letting him know that the gospel is incredibly important and it's worth every 243 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,520 bit of effort that we ever put in to get the gospel out. 244 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:48,080 Because sharing the gospel will not always be easy. 245 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:49,080 Amen. 246 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,480 It's not always easy. 247 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:52,480 It's not. 248 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:59,960 You know when we share the gospel or any portion of the gospel it might not always be easy. 249 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:03,560 It might not always be well received. 250 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:08,280 Some people are ready and some people are not so much. 251 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:09,280 Right. 252 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:15,480 In verse two in this portion he's talking to the 70 and he gives them a little bit of 253 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:16,480 their reality. 254 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:22,560 He says then Jesus said to them the harvest truly is great but the laborers are few. 255 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:25,280 He's given them the reality of the mission that's in front of them. 256 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:30,040 He says this is most definitely an amazing thing to go do and you need to go do this 257 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,040 but I'm not going to give you a rah rah session. 258 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:36,640 I'm going to let you know that this is going to be possibly overwhelming work for you. 259 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:37,640 Right. 260 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,200 So there that there's so much harvest out there. 261 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,000 There's so many people to reach. 262 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:48,200 There's so many people to talk to and there's going to be so few laborers and so few people 263 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:54,400 who are willing to get out of their comfort zone and go talk with someone about Christ. 264 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:59,060 And he said it might even look a little bit like a colossal task in front of you. 265 00:11:59,060 --> 00:12:04,940 It might look like something that's just a bit too hard to get past and there's probably 266 00:12:04,940 --> 00:12:08,680 not going to be enough workers right to make it happen. 267 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:10,760 How many know that's not a rah rah session right. 268 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,080 None of you are going rah rah right now. 269 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:14,080 Right. 270 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,480 You might think well well that's not very motivational but Jesus was doing them a huge 271 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:19,480 favor. 272 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,480 He was giving them the reality right. 273 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:25,400 He was giving them the stark truth of what's in front of them before you begin because 274 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,520 here's the deal if you know the truth about the challenge that's in front of you if you 275 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:33,680 understand the truth about what you're about to step into how many of you can prepare to 276 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:35,340 get there right. 277 00:12:35,340 --> 00:12:37,540 You can make sure that you got everything you need. 278 00:12:37,540 --> 00:12:38,740 You can armor up. 279 00:12:38,740 --> 00:12:40,440 You can store up. 280 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,780 You can do whatever you got to do to get ready to go in and Jesus was saying listen I'm sending 281 00:12:44,780 --> 00:12:46,200 you out two by two. 282 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:47,600 You're going to go into every city. 283 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,600 It's not you're going to it's going to look overwhelming the amount of people you got 284 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,920 to talk to and the people that you need to reach and you're not going to have enough 285 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:55,560 laborers to get to the harvest. 286 00:12:55,560 --> 00:12:57,520 But I'm telling you I'm going to equip you. 287 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:58,940 I want you to go. 288 00:12:58,940 --> 00:13:03,160 And he continues into verse two the rest of verse two he says therefore pray the Lord 289 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:04,440 of the harvest to send out laborers. 290 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,300 He says man pray for some co-workers pray for some people are going to come along. 291 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:09,300 Go your way. 292 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:11,440 Behold I send you out as lambs among wolves. 293 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:12,440 Ow. 294 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:13,440 Ow. 295 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:14,440 Right. 296 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,400 Jesus is letting them know this is going to be a difficult thing. 297 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:24,180 Have you ever noticed that the greatest things that we can go do are never the easiest things 298 00:13:24,180 --> 00:13:25,180 that we go do. 299 00:13:25,180 --> 00:13:26,640 Do you ever notice that. 300 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,360 Do you ever want to go do the great thing. 301 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:31,440 Do you know where you never find the great thing. 302 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,380 You never find the great thing on easy street. 303 00:13:34,380 --> 00:13:36,120 You can go to easy street every time. 304 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:37,120 It's not there. 305 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:38,120 Right. 306 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:42,400 The great thing the God thing the big thing does not reside on easy street. 307 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:47,800 And he was Jesus was telling 70 that it's the same right in the kingdom in the kingdom 308 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:48,800 of God. 309 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:49,800 This is what it looks like. 310 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,040 And if you're going to do the great thing if you're going to do the hard thing how many 311 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,680 know what you might as well make it an eternal thing. 312 00:13:55,680 --> 00:13:56,680 Right. 313 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:57,920 You might as well make it a God thing. 314 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,640 You might as well step into what God's given you. 315 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,600 And I even thought about this a little bit today just to punch this home I thought I 316 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,720 should send a sign up around the church because sometimes we do sign ups here and it should 317 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,720 say we're going to do an outreach and we're going to call it we're going to name it right. 318 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,960 We're going to call it lambs among wolves. 319 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:15,280 How many of you sign up today. 320 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:16,280 Right. 321 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,640 We're going to send you out as lambs among wolves and be like pass it on back to the 322 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:20,640 next person. 323 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:21,640 All right. 324 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,600 But look what he says in the next verse in verse four he says carrying neither money 325 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:26,040 bag right. 326 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:30,200 Nap sack or sandals he's talking to the 70 that he's going to send out and greet no one 327 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:31,200 along the road. 328 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,040 And I think in Jesus this is hard enough. 329 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:35,840 You're making it a little harder. 330 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:37,860 You're making it a little more difficult. 331 00:14:37,860 --> 00:14:39,120 Don't take any money. 332 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,580 Don't take any nap sack which was where they would put their food. 333 00:14:41,580 --> 00:14:42,580 Don't take any sandals. 334 00:14:42,580 --> 00:14:43,580 Right. 335 00:14:43,580 --> 00:14:46,400 How many know the sign up just got shorter. 336 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:47,400 Right. 337 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,680 It wasn't you're not angry before getting shorter. 338 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,780 But you know was Jesus testing them. 339 00:14:51,780 --> 00:14:55,200 Was he was he putting him in some kind of spiritual boot camp of some kind. 340 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:56,520 I'm thinking through this. 341 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,560 But as I read about this a little bit as I studied let me shed a little bit of light 342 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:00,560 on this right. 343 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:06,400 The lack of money or the nap sack differentiated them actually in that time period from traveling 344 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:11,880 I was actually traveling teachers and musicians magicians who would go into communities and 345 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:16,320 they would charge people to for their services. 346 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,280 And Jesus said that's not going to be you. 347 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:21,820 We're going to send you into these communities and you're not going in there to take anything. 348 00:15:21,820 --> 00:15:23,200 You're going in to give something. 349 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:24,200 Amen. 350 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,800 You go out into the communities you're not going to take and don't not going to expect 351 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:28,800 to do. 352 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:29,800 Don't go to them. 353 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:30,800 Right. 354 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:31,800 Don't receive. 355 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:32,800 And he says well and I want you to go with no sandals. 356 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:38,960 And what he meant by that we think scholars believe that that meant no second set of shoes. 357 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,160 And you see this very same thing in the Old Testament with the children of Israel where 358 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:46,640 God was with them and he strengthened them as they went and their shoes did not wear 359 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,360 out their clothes did not wear out for 40 years with the children of Israel when they 360 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:51,360 wondered around. 361 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,760 They think this is the same kind of reference like Jesus told them don't worry about taking 362 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:55,840 extra shoes. 363 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,440 Don't worry about taking extra clothes. 364 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,600 I'm going to provide as you go. 365 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:00,600 Just go right. 366 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,240 And lastly it says they were not to greet anybody along the road. 367 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:04,240 I thought OK. 368 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:05,240 All right. 369 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:06,240 What's happening. 370 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:07,240 Right. 371 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:08,240 Doesn't that seem kind of rude. 372 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,520 Not to say how many know even the bikers on the motorcycles they get the wave right. 373 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:12,520 As you go. 374 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:13,520 Isn't it. 375 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:14,800 It's shouldn't you greet somebody along the way. 376 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,640 But you got to understand back in that culture of that day when somebody stopped to do a 377 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:23,940 greeting if you stop to greet somebody it could take up to 10 minutes to greet someone. 378 00:16:23,940 --> 00:16:25,760 They would do special hugs. 379 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,000 They would kind of do kisses. 380 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Some people would bow. 381 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,320 They would talk and sit down and what Jesus was telling them listen don't go in there 382 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:33,760 taking anything. 383 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:34,760 Just head out. 384 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:35,760 Just trust in me. 385 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:36,760 Have faith in me. 386 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:38,600 And when you get there don't waste any time. 387 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:39,760 Go do the God thing. 388 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:41,000 Go get this. 389 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,840 These cities prepared because I'm coming in behind you. 390 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,840 Go completely depending on me doing this. 391 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,180 Go find somebody who's ready. 392 00:16:51,180 --> 00:16:52,760 Say ready. 393 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:54,280 Right. 394 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,800 And Jesus says something right after this to help us identify a person who's ready to 395 00:16:58,800 --> 00:16:59,800 hear the gospel. 396 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:07,440 In verse five he says but who but whatever house you enter first say peace to this house 397 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,320 and if a son of peace is there your peace will rest on it. 398 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,160 If not it will return to you. 399 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:14,520 Let me read that again. 400 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:20,080 But whatever house you enter first say peace to this house and if a son of peace is there 401 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,100 your peace will rest on it. 402 00:17:22,100 --> 00:17:24,680 If not it's going to return to you. 403 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,000 The word peace in this text is shalom. 404 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Say shalom. 405 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Right. 406 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:30,920 It is typically translated as peace. 407 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,600 It's also used in the Jewish culture for a greeting. 408 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:35,880 You can say hello and goodbye with shalom. 409 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:36,880 Right. 410 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:41,440 And one of the meanings is that may God be with you is one of the meanings of shalom. 411 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,360 So you got to speak peace to the house. 412 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:46,360 Right. 413 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:49,760 When you're going to greet somebody when you're going to talk to somebody about Jesus you 414 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:51,280 got to speak peace. 415 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,520 You got to come in and speak a word of peace to that person. 416 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:59,200 Speak it to that individual and in the word of God says if a son of peace is there your 417 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,160 peace will rest on it. 418 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:02,640 So you're giving peace away. 419 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:03,640 Right. 420 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:08,180 You're giving a piece of God to somebody and when you do that if you extend that peace 421 00:18:08,180 --> 00:18:12,160 to somebody you need to wait and see what happens. 422 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:17,880 When you extend that peace you need to gauge where that person is at because if the peace 423 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:23,040 of God is on them and they receive it right they take it in and receive it it'll stay 424 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,000 with them or they can throw it right back at you. 425 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Right. 426 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,160 I brought a ball up here I thought well if this was the peace of God and I threw it out 427 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,320 somebody Eric threw it out. 428 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:33,320 Come on. 429 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:34,320 He threw it out to somebody. 430 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:35,520 Eric's got to make a choice. 431 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:36,520 Right. 432 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,080 He's got to decide whether he's going to he's going to keep that piece of God. 433 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:40,080 Right. 434 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:41,080 Or whether he's going to throw back at me. 435 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:42,080 Don't throw it back at me. 436 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:43,080 All right. 437 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:44,080 I know. 438 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:50,440 Here's here's what the word of God say you can identify a person of peace you can identify 439 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,400 somebody who's ready to hear the gospel. 440 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,800 If you throw a little bit of Jesus towards them. 441 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:55,800 All right. 442 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,960 If you throw a little bit of God towards them if you throw a little bit of the peace of 443 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:04,160 God to towards them and they receive it you're going to know if they don't receive it and 444 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,840 they throw it back or just drop it you're going to know as well. 445 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:07,840 Right. 446 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:09,280 I've seen this happen hundreds of times. 447 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:15,200 I've prayed for people out and about in public not in here talking about not so much in church 448 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,240 how many we're all believers in here or you come intentionally get prayer in church. 449 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:22,640 But if you could if you talk somebody out in the public somewhere and you're chatting 450 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,680 with them and they find that you find out they got a need of some kind and you stop 451 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,720 and say well can I just pray for you right now. 452 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,160 Can I just say a little prayer for you. 453 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:30,160 That's all I want to do. 454 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,760 He's still you're going to know that's throwing a little bit of the peace of God to somebody 455 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,720 and when you throw a little bit of the peace of God somebody coming right. 456 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:38,120 You're going to stiffen up like the hug thing. 457 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:39,120 Right. 458 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:41,880 You're going to be like no you know you're going to play. 459 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:42,880 I don't know. 460 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:43,880 Thank you. 461 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:44,880 But right. 462 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,200 Well and I've seen the complete opposite happen. 463 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:48,640 Peace of God falls on them. 464 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:49,640 Right. 465 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:50,640 And they begin. 466 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,240 I've seen people just tear up in a second change. 467 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,660 The meter completely changes. 468 00:19:54,660 --> 00:20:01,040 They tear up in a second and they say man let me tell you what's going on in my life. 469 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,940 That's a person of peace. 470 00:20:02,940 --> 00:20:07,320 That's somebody who's who's ready to hear more about what God has to offer. 471 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,440 Right. It is somebody who's open to it. 472 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:15,320 So you can know when you're talking with somebody you can start to gauge a little bit and you 473 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:16,800 just take a little bit of the kingdom. 474 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:18,800 You give them a little bit of the kingdom of God. 475 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,920 You give them a little bit of the peace of God and see how they respond. 476 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:25,840 Now listen don't go crazy and dump all over them. 477 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:26,840 Right. 478 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,600 When you get up to somebody you know don't know you know and you want to lead them to 479 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,720 Jesus don't Bible puke on them. 480 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,920 Anybody ever Bible puke on somebody. 481 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:35,920 Right. 482 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:36,920 Come on. 483 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:38,400 My grandson did right. 484 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,840 It was probably me. 485 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,840 Come on. 486 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:43,840 I. 487 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:44,840 True story. 488 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,280 I was at a place one time and this person came up to me and they started talking to 489 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:49,360 me a little bit about God. 490 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:51,040 They started putting the peace of God towards me. 491 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:52,360 I'm like oh this is awesome. 492 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:53,360 Right. 493 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:54,640 And and you know they started talking. 494 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:55,760 I'm like oh that's awesome. 495 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:57,680 I'm a Christian and I'm saved. 496 00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,000 You know hey how you doing. 497 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,000 They didn't believe me. 498 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,280 I didn't even know this person. 499 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:03,680 They just kept going. 500 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:04,680 They died. 501 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:09,600 They Bible dumped on me for like 10 minutes and I'm like hey I know Jesus. 502 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:10,600 All right. 503 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,000 No that scripture actually could probably go to back to you. 504 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,560 You know and they just they Bible puked on me the whole time. 505 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:18,560 Right. 506 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:19,560 Nobody likes to get puked on. 507 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:20,560 Amen. 508 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,280 Nobody likes to get puked on. 509 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:23,280 Right. 510 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:24,280 Years ago I was working with a guy. 511 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:29,440 It was literally on my birthday and I was in my 30s and we were working out of town. 512 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,160 That's when I was working a secular job. 513 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,160 We worked an entire day. 514 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,800 At the end of the day we had to go get supper and there was nothing open except this little 515 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,680 place that there was just this little hole in the wall place and we went in and it was 516 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:46,560 like a bar here and then it was like seating kind of like the you know I'm trying to think 517 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:47,560 what they're called. 518 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,720 But anyway booths there were booths there right right across and we sat down to booth. 519 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,920 We just wanted to order some food and clearly there were some people sitting along this 520 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,280 bar area that were actually drinking alcohol and there was this lady right straight across 521 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:00,280 from me. 522 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:01,280 She was right to my left. 523 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:02,280 I'll never forget this. 524 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,280 She was clearly inebriated. 525 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,040 She started talking out loud like really loud. 526 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,580 You know she's doing all this weird stuff and she got sick. 527 00:22:09,580 --> 00:22:10,580 She turned around. 528 00:22:10,580 --> 00:22:15,400 I'm this far away from her and she throws up on my foot and my leg. 529 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:16,400 All right. 530 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:17,400 On my birthday. 531 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:18,400 Yeah. 532 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,120 The guy across the table looked at me and knew me really well. 533 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:22,120 He's like happy birthday. 534 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:23,120 He called me buck. 535 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:24,120 He's like happy birthday. 536 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:25,320 I was like yeah this is great. 537 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,320 Nobody likes getting puked on. 538 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:28,320 All right. 539 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,480 If you're going to go up to somebody you don't know you're talking with somebody. 540 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,280 You want to give them a little bit of Jesus and you want to see if the peace of God is 541 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,840 received in their lives. 542 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,480 Some of them aren't ready. 543 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:39,480 Extend a little bit. 544 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:40,880 See how they respond. 545 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,160 Maybe ask to pray for them. 546 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,240 Maybe you just give them a little bit of God's word. 547 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,440 Just a little smidgen of God's word in some way. 548 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:50,780 Maybe it's an act of service and you just mentioned God in some kind of way. 549 00:22:50,780 --> 00:22:56,440 God opens the door for all this and you just got to see how they're going to respond. 550 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:57,720 Offer a little Jesus. 551 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:01,280 Offer a little peace and see if they receive it. 552 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,280 Come on turn somebody tell them speak peace. 553 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:05,920 Speak peace. 554 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,120 If they're curious they'll start asking questions. 555 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:10,120 They'll lean in. 556 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:11,120 Right. 557 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:14,960 If not they'll they'll stiffen up. 558 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:16,240 It's what the word of God says. 559 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:17,240 Test the waters. 560 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,400 Luke 10 7 says and remain in the same house eating and drinking. 561 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,680 He's talking to the seven such things as they have for the laborers worthy of his wages. 562 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,360 Do not go from house to house whatever city you enter and they receive you. 563 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:32,480 Teach such things that are set before you heal the sick there. 564 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:33,480 Right. 565 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:34,480 Go pray for him. 566 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,040 Heal the sick there and say to him the kingdom of God has come near to you. 567 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,080 Who wouldn't want to hear that the kingdom of God is getting close to them. 568 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,080 Right. 569 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,680 If they're ready they're going to receive the peace of God. 570 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,100 They're going to you're going to know. 571 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:49,440 Just give them a little bit. 572 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:56,320 Jesus also told the 70 what to do if you extend the peace of God to someone and they return 573 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:57,920 the peace of God back to you. 574 00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,960 I know that was your cue right Eric. 575 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:00,960 Don't do it. 576 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:01,960 All right. 577 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:02,960 But he can throw it back. 578 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:04,160 Right. 579 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,120 What will we do with the person who's not ready. 580 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:08,120 Right. 581 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:09,680 What do we do. 582 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,360 Ten 10 says this but whatever city you enter and they do not receive you go out into the 583 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:17,720 streets and say the very dust for your city which clings to us we wipe off against you 584 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:22,580 nevertheless nevertheless know this that the kingdom of God has come near you. 585 00:24:22,580 --> 00:24:27,600 But I say to you that it will be more tolerable in the day for Sodom than for that city. 586 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,720 Unless you extend the peace of God towards someone and they hand it back that piece to 587 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:32,720 you. 588 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:33,720 Now listen don't be a smart aleck. 589 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:34,720 Right. 590 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:35,720 Don't don't. 591 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,040 How many know you can get all sassy with somebody if you get rejected a little bit. 592 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:39,040 Right. 593 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:40,040 Don't do that. 594 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,040 Right. 595 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:42,040 Don't don't get sassy with them. 596 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:43,680 Don't Bible beat them in any kind of way. 597 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,160 Don't Bible puke on them. 598 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:46,640 Don't be nasty or rude. 599 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:47,640 Right. 600 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:53,560 Just show them the love of God and metaphorically you know you just got to back off. 601 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:54,560 Right. 602 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,160 You just shake the dust off your feet. 603 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:57,160 You shake it out. 604 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,160 You shake it off right now. 605 00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,160 Come on. 606 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,600 If somebody doesn't take the gospel you just shake it off and you move on. 607 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,520 You bless them in any way you can. 608 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:05,520 Right. 609 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,320 They're just not ready yet. 610 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,340 They're just not in a place where they're hearing the gospel. 611 00:25:09,340 --> 00:25:10,340 How many of us. 612 00:25:10,340 --> 00:25:11,340 Right. 613 00:25:11,340 --> 00:25:14,600 How many of us were not ready the first time somebody told us about Jesus. 614 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,000 How many of us said I don't want to hear it. 615 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,000 Right. 616 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,240 How many of us were just kind of like put your hand up. 617 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:21,240 Right. 618 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,780 How many of us sat in church service after church service and finally one day God got 619 00:25:24,780 --> 00:25:26,280 a hold of us and saved us. 620 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,280 Right. 621 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,280 I grew up in the church man. 622 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,760 It took Jesus 12 years to get me straightened up. 623 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,240 I was 12 years old. 624 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,200 You know before it did. 625 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:40,720 God sometimes has to you just shake the dust off and say OK man I just want to just hear 626 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:41,720 to bless you. 627 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,240 God bless you or hey it was nice meeting you. 628 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,120 You know just be cordial with them and then shake it off. 629 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:50,320 God might have to wake them up about something. 630 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:51,320 Right. 631 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:55,840 They may need they may need some time for God to work or the Holy Spirit to work on 632 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,000 our they might need their circumstance to change. 633 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,160 Sometimes our circumstance has to change and when the circumstance changes we start looking 634 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:04,360 up instead of looking in. 635 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:05,360 Right. 636 00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:07,080 That sometimes has to happen. 637 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:11,340 Sometimes it's sometimes they just got to get around somebody that has enough of Jesus. 638 00:26:11,340 --> 00:26:16,240 They realize there's a God sized hole in their heart and and for some reason I don't look 639 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,760 like what this looks like over here. 640 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:18,760 Right. 641 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:19,760 They're fooled. 642 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:20,760 They're rich. 643 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:21,760 They got God's presence in their life. 644 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,120 And here I am with this thing I keep searching for with everything else. 645 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:26,120 Right. 646 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,680 And sometimes that's all they need. 647 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,440 They're rejecting it. 648 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,240 Blaise Pascal says this. 649 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:38,440 What else does this craving and this helplessness proclaim but that there was once in man a true 650 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:43,480 happiness of which all that now remains is an empty print and trace. 651 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,640 This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him seeking in things that are not 652 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:53,600 there and help he and help he cannot find in those that are though none can help him 653 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:59,140 since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and unchangeable object. 654 00:26:59,140 --> 00:27:02,440 In other words by God himself. 655 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:03,640 Everybody's got a God sized hole. 656 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,360 They're not if they don't know Jesus is Lord and Savior. 657 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:08,020 There's this void inside of them. 658 00:27:08,020 --> 00:27:13,380 So when you approach them just give them the love of God extend anything you can write. 659 00:27:13,380 --> 00:27:14,600 Don't take from them. 660 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,240 Don't get sassy with them. 661 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:17,400 Don't do any of those things. 662 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,560 Just bless them and let them see what's in you. 663 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:21,560 Right. 664 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,440 That there's not a void in your life. 665 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,920 Our job is to keep tossing out the gospel. 666 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:27,920 Just a toss. 667 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:28,920 Right. 668 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,480 You don't got to beat them with it. 669 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:35,120 You know you don't got to go up to them and dump the whole thing on them. 670 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:36,120 Right. 671 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:38,320 It's a toss. 672 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:39,320 It's a toss. 673 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,440 My grandkids just wait for me throwing back to them. 674 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,360 Keep tossing the gospel. 675 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:49,440 Keep tossing and see if you got a person of peace in front of you. 676 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:50,440 Right. 677 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,400 Worship team I'm going to ask if you'd come. 678 00:27:54,400 --> 00:28:02,760 I'm going to ask if the church would just stand at this moment. 679 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:08,520 How many times have we heard this story of maybe co-workers coming together and one person 680 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,240 just keeps tossing the gospel to the other. 681 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,880 Just gently throwing the gospel out once in a while. 682 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,600 Waiting to see if that person of peace you know the person they know becomes a person 683 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:19,600 of peace. 684 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,920 For a period of time right somebody begins to all of a sudden a heart begins to change 685 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,520 a Holy Spirit begins to do something and as a result that friend comes to the Lord. 686 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,720 And how many times do we hear the story. 687 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,960 Somebody getting puked on. 688 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:40,040 Right and they're bitter and they're frustrated and they feel condemned before they ever even 689 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:41,040 get to meet the master. 690 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,320 Before they ever get to Jesus. 691 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:45,320 And I get it. 692 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,720 I get the I get the you know in your heart. 693 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,960 I get the whole idea of wanting to dump it all on them at one time right. 694 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,320 Because we know Jesus is coming back soon. 695 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,080 We know that nobody's guaranteed tomorrow. 696 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,600 We want to give them all the gospel we can so that they get saved. 697 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:58,600 I get it. 698 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,560 But rarely do people respond if you puke on them. 699 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,960 You got to throw it out there and see if you got a person of peace in front of you. 700 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,480 And if you don't that's okay. 701 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,560 Just give it some time. 702 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:08,560 Pray for them. 703 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:09,720 Shake the dust off right. 704 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:10,820 Don't take it as personal. 705 00:29:10,820 --> 00:29:13,880 Don't take it as a rejection in your own life of any kind. 706 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:14,880 They're just waiting through it. 707 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:16,480 They're just digging through it right. 708 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,320 They're just stepping through it. 709 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,680 You're getting ready to go into Thanksgiving week. 710 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,680 You're going to bump into people everywhere. 711 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,920 That the you know the public is going to get fueled. 712 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:27,760 If you especially if you go shopping and do any shopping. 713 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,520 There's going to be people all around you. 714 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,700 You're going to get opportunity. 715 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:32,700 You got to help. 716 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:34,680 I'm trying to help you this morning to understand. 717 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,600 Know if you've got a person of peace in front of you. 718 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,200 Throw a little gospel to them. 719 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,200 Throw a little bit of Jesus at them right. 720 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:42,200 Just toss it. 721 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,660 And if they catch it and they receive it and they hang on to it. 722 00:29:46,660 --> 00:29:48,560 You know the door is open. 723 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:49,760 Right. 724 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:50,760 You know they're ready. 725 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:51,760 They're ready. 726 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:52,760 Get an eye. 727 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:53,760 Get an eye for this. 728 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:54,760 Father we come to you right now. 729 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:55,760 I thank you God for each person that's in the house. 730 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:56,760 I thank you for those who are listening online this morning. 731 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:57,760 And Lord if there's one in this house. 732 00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:58,760 God as they hear me unfolding this. 733 00:29:58,760 --> 00:29:59,760 They're ready. 734 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:00,760 They maybe don't even know everything I said this morning. 735 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:01,760 Or what made sense of all this. 736 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:02,760 You know. 737 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:03,760 You know. 738 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:04,760 You know. 739 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:05,760 You know. 740 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:06,760 You know. 741 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:07,760 You know. 742 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:08,760 You know. 743 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:09,760 You know. 744 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:10,760 You know. 745 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:11,760 You know. 746 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:12,760 I haven't seen all this yet. 747 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,120 But they know that there's this void in their lives. 748 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,080 They know that Jesus is the only one that can fill it. 749 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,600 They know that everything they've tried to this point has not worked. 750 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,720 Everything that they've dove into has not filled that space. 751 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,720 And I'm here to tell you whoever you are. 752 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,300 That it is only Jesus Christ who can fill that space. 753 00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:31,760 It is only the Holy Spirit that can make you whole. 754 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:32,760 And if that's you. 755 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:33,840 The word of God says this. 756 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,280 All you have to do is believe on the Lord Jesus. 757 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,800 He is God's son. 758 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,040 He did die on a cross. 759 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,600 He did pay for your sin. 760 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,580 He did make a way for you to get in relationship with God. 761 00:30:43,580 --> 00:30:47,060 And all you've got to do is receive that. 762 00:30:47,060 --> 00:30:48,680 And that void will begin to fill. 763 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:49,680 I promise you. 764 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,800 It will begin to fill. 765 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,240 You can get with another believer somewhere. 766 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:59,080 And God will continue to fill that void in your life. 767 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,800 So if there's one Lord that's listening this morning. 768 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,480 God, I pray right now that they would just bow their heads. 769 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,080 They would begin to speak to you. 770 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,280 And they'd say, Jesus, come into my life. 771 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:09,960 Jesus, I want it all. 772 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,960 Jesus, I recognize that you've forgiven me. 773 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,520 Please come into my heart and life. 774 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,240 I need you in that void. 775 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,080 If there's a person of peace out there. 776 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,840 God, let them accept that now. 777 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,280 Lord, if there's one in the house, if that's you in the house. 778 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,280 Every head's bowed, every eyes closed. 779 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:25,280 You can put your hand up. 780 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:26,280 Put it right back down. 781 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,880 If there's one person in the house that's received Jesus this morning. 782 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,120 Just do that quickly. 783 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,460 Thank you. 784 00:31:34,460 --> 00:31:37,240 For those of you who are following Christ. 785 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,800 When's the last time you tossed the ball? 786 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,600 When's the last time you tossed the gospel to somebody? 787 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,840 When's the last time you gave a gentle throw in somebody's direction. 788 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,140 To see if they were a person of peace. 789 00:31:49,140 --> 00:31:51,640 To see if you could step a little further. 790 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:56,280 Lord, I thank you for each one in the house. 791 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:57,560 God I ask right now. 792 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,360 God, that you would guide us and direct us coming into this season, God. 793 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:02,360 Coming into the holidays. 794 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,760 Lord, help us to be people of God who tossed the gospel. 795 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,520 Who looks for that person of peace. 796 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:12,480 And God, when we see them receive it, we step through just a little further. 797 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,680 God, we give them one more. 798 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:15,960 Maybe two more. 799 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,120 Lord, help us to see that. 800 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,360 If not, God, if they send it back our way. 801 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,640 God help us to just shake it off. 802 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:24,640 To bless them. 803 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,120 And Lord, to pray for them. 804 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:31,000 And Lord, wait for the Holy Spirit to give us a signal to toss it back their way again 805 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000 at some point in the future. 806 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,480 Lord, I thank you for each believer in this house. 807 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,600 I thank you for the opportunities you give us. 808 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:44,960 And we will not fail to give you praise and glory and honor in Jesus name. 809 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:45,960 Everybody said together? 810 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:46,960 Amen, amen. 811 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:47,960 Listen. 812 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:52,640 You are going to walk by a lot of people this week. 813 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,000 Some of them are going to be people of peace. 814 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,240 They are just waiting to get the gospel tossed to them. 815 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:58,720 Throw them something your way. 816 00:32:58,720 --> 00:32:59,720 Right? 817 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,360 Open the door for them wherever they are going. 818 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:02,880 Say, man, this is how God does for me. 819 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,040 He just opens the door in my life. 820 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,040 You will know. 821 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,040 You will know and they respond. 822 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:08,040 If they just keep on going, that is okay. 823 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,040 Just bless them. 824 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:10,040 Right? 825 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:11,040 Shake the dust off. 826 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,040 But maybe they will turn. 827 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,040 Maybe you will get an opportunity to say something. 828 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:19,040 Maybe you will get an opportunity to pray for somebody. 829 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,200 Man. 830 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:26,240 We cannot get so busy in this time of year that we just walk right by everybody that is 831 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:27,240 around us. 832 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:28,240 We cannot do it. 833 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:29,240 Isn't God good? 834 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,240 Amen. 835 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,240 Amen. 836 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:44,240 Thank you for tuning in to this message from LifeHouse Church. 837 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:48,240 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 838 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,800 If you have been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with 839 00:33:52,800 --> 00:34:01,560 us as we love God, love people every day, visit our website at www.LifeHouseCOG.com.