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Now let's dive into this week's message. There
is a world that you can see, and there is a world
that you can't see. There's the world of traffic,
the world of bills and work, the world of bad
news. Anyone love the bad news that we're always
hearing? Bad news left, bad news right, bad news
everywhere, right? There's that world, but there
is also another world and it's just as real.
And it's breaking in through the cracks in our
world. And this unseen world is the kingdom of
God. And this is gonna be a theme over the next
few weeks as we get into this new series called
breaking in the kingdom of God. It's not a far
off place. The kingdom of God is the reign and
rule of Jesus breaking into the everyday. The
reign and rule of King Jesus breaking into the
everyday. And in Matthew nine, we see what happens
when heaven collides with earth. When the kingdom
breaks in, the blind see. When the kingdom breaks
in, the paralyzed walk. When the kingdom breaks
in, the outcasts are brought near. And Jesus
isn't just teaching about the kingdom. No, he's
actually revealing it by reversing the effects
of sin and death. The king has come and wherever
he goes, everything changes, amen? When the kingdom
breaks in, it rarely He really does so in crowds.
It breaks in one person at a time. One paralyzed
man lowered through the roof. One tax collector
at a table. One woman reaching out through the
crowd. One father desperate for his dying daughter
to be healed. Jesus always seems to stop for
the one more. One more story. one more act of
mercy, one more life made new. And then he says
something just a little bit later after this
that is astonishing. He says, you will do even
greater things than these because I am going
to the Father. So the kingdom breaking in wasn't
meant to stop with Jesus, but it was actually
meant to spread through his disciples, through
us. And every time we love our neighbor, every
time we lift the broken in the name of Jesus
or speak the gospel into a dark dying world,
the kingdom of God breaks in again. Jesus is
still revealing his kingdom and he's doing it
through ordinary people in ordinary places who
are doing extraordinary things by his spirit.
So if you have your Bibles, Matthew 9, it's gonna
be up here on the screen as well, you can follow
along. Matthew 9, beginning in verse one, so
he got into a boat, crossed over, and came to
his own town. And just then some men brought
to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. Seeing
their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, have
courage, son, your sins are forgiven. At this
point, some of the scribes said to themselves,
he's blasphemy. Perceiving their thoughts, Jesus
said, why are you thinking evil things in your
hearts? For which is easier to say, your sins
are forgiven, or to say, get up and walk, but
so that you may know that the son of man has
authority on earth to forgive sins, then he turned
to the paralytic and he said, get up, take your
stretcher, and go home. And so he got up and
went home. And when the crowd saw this, they
were awestruck and gave glory to God who had
given such authority to men. This is God's word.
If you're taking notes, I've got five points
today. We're gonna go pretty quickly here so
you'll see. We won't be here all day. Number
one, if you're taking notes, write down the scene,
the scene. So Jesus crosses the water of the
Sea of Galilee, and he's heading back to his
hometown, that's Capernaum. Now he was born in
Bethlehem, he was raised in Nazareth, but he
ended up making his ministry home, his ministry
base in Capernaum. And so he's heading to Capernaum,
and as soon as he gets there, he's immediately
met with a need. Capernaum is a small fishing
village. It's no more than about 15 acres in
size at Jesus' time. Really small, about 1 ,500
ordinary people call Capernaum home. And from
this story we know there's also one broken man
lying helpless on a mat there. And that's where
the kingdom breaks in. It doesn't break in in
a place of power, but in the world of everyday
people like you and I. It breaks in the living
rooms and coffee shops and classrooms. It breaks
into the quiet spaces where pain hides behind
a polite smile. And this man on the mat can't
move. He can't fix himself. He's completely dependent
on others to carry him to Jesus. And isn't that
a picture of all of us? Because beneath our competence,
beneath our curated exteriors, But beneath our
managed schedules and meticulous control, we're
paralyzed too, aren't we? Maybe paralyzed by
fear, paralyzed by shame, or by sin that has
numbed our souls. We live in a world where people
move fast, but hearts stay stuck. We scroll endlessly.
but we don't find peace. And into that world,
into our world, the kingdom of God breaks in.
The power of God meeting human weakness. And
notice that it doesn't say that the man called
for Jesus, it says his friends brought him, right?
Some men brought him, his friends brought him,
and sometimes the greatest act of faith that
we can embark on is to carry someone else to
Jesus. Bring them to Jesus, and that's what kingdom
people do. That's what disciples of Jesus do.
They bring others into the presence of the King.
It takes someone to say, I can't fix you, we
can't fix you, but we can get you to the one
who can. And this is the drama of the kingdom.
Breaking into the ordinary world through ordinary
people who believe Jesus can do extraordinary
things. So what happens next? Well, while everyone's
focused on the man's body, focused on the man
and his condition, Jesus is focused somewhere
else. And the crowd sees paralysis, but Jesus
sees something much deeper. And he's not just
here to heal the scene, He's here to restore
the unseen. So if you're taking notes, number
two, write down the statement. The seed leads
to the statement. And the room, you can imagine
the room here in Capernaum where Jesus is at,
is packed full. The air is thick with dust. Conversations
going on. The weight of expectation in the room.
And everyone is waiting for the same thing. The
moment the man moves. They've brought the man
to the healer, Jesus. They brought him, now everyone's
watching for the moment the man moves, and they're
watching Jesus, the great healer, and what he
does next makes no sense. What he does next is
he looks at the young man on the mat and he says,
take heart, son, your sins are forgiven. Take
heart, your sins are forgiven. Forgiven, that's
not why he's here, is it? He came to walk, not
to be forgiven. They wanted Jesus to deal with
what they could see, but Jesus always starts
with what we can't see. And this is what the
kingdom does. It pierces through the visible
to expose the invisible. What's inside? And Jesus
looks past the man's legs, his crippled legs,
and he sees the deeper paralysis of his soul.
His issue is not just a broken body, but a broken
relationship with God. It's like if you go to
the doctor, if you've ever been to the doctor,
you've probably heard a story like this. You
go to the doctor for a back pain and you're like,
all right doc, I just need some painkillers.
Just give me some painkillers, take the edge
off, right? And the doctor starts to poke around
a little bit. And pretty soon he comes back in
and he looks you in the eyes and he's like, you
know what? We found something a whole lot deeper.
Something a whole lot deeper that unless we fix
now will cause you a whole world of pain down
the road and maybe even cause your untimely death.
And the difference there is you may have gone
to the doctor so that he could fix what hurts,
but he came into the room to fix what's wrong.
And that's what Jesus does. The kingdom always
surprises us that way. because it's not just
about relief from our problems, it's about restoration
to our purpose. And you notice the tenderness
in Jesus' words, take courage, take heart, son.
He's not scolding the man. He's not shaming him.
He's calling him family. Before he lifts the
man to his feet, he lifts up his identity. He
lifts up. his value. And in that moment, Jesus
is saying, you belong to me. You are not defined
by your condition. You are seen and loved and
forgiven. Where the world says you're broken,
Jesus says you're mine. Where the world says
you're too far gone, Jesus says, have courage.
Take heart. But not everyone celebrates grace.
I've seen it, you've seen it. And here in this
story, the scribes, well they think he's too
far gone. They say blasphemy, blasphemy because
only God can forgive sins. And you know what,
they're not wrong. They're not wrong about that
because what they just don't realize, they don't
realize that it is God in the flesh, Jesus. who's
standing right in front of them. Yes, only God
can forgive sins, and here he is, the kingdom
breaking in the rule and reign of Jesus, and
they just can't see it. The paralyzed man knew
that he was helpless, but the self -righteous
men, the scribes, were blind to their own need.
And sometimes the hardest hearts to reach are
the ones who think they don't need healing. So
often we come to Jesus with the surface stuff,
the things that we feel and see, like our finances
or our marriage or our stress or our pain, and
Jesus cares about all of that, he does. But sometimes,
before he changes what's around us, he has to
change what's in us. He forgives what's hidden
before he fixes what's visible. And that's because
forgiveness is more than just a wiping away of
our past sin. It's actually an opening of the
door for Jesus to reign in your life right now.
But forgiveness always stirs up resistance. Because
grace threatens every system that is built on
control. And in the next moment, Jesus is going
to reveal his authority to forgive. and reveal
that it's not just a claim, but it actually is
proven out. And so if you're taking notes, number
three, the struggle. Matthew nine, three and
four says, as this, some of the scribes said
to themselves, he's blaspheming, perceiving their
thoughts. Jesus said, why are you thinking evil
things in your hearts? Whenever the kingdom breaks
in to the everyday, it always meets resistance,
sometimes from the demons, sometimes from the
darkness, but often from the righteous, self
-righteous, religious people. The scribes, experts
in scripture and doctrine, they sit in the front
row. They've got the front row seat to what Jesus
is doing, and yet the living word of God is standing
right in front of them, and they call him a blasphemer.
Think about it, they can't see the man, they
should have been the first to recognize who he
is. They studied the scriptures, they knew the
doctrines, they should recognize him first, and
they resist him the hardest. Why? Because the
kingdom of God always upends our categories.
Religion says, earn it. The kingdom of God says,
receive it. Self -righteousness says, climb higher.
The kingdom says, come lower. Self -righteousness
says, work harder to reach God. And the kingdom
says, God has come down to reach you. It's upside
down, isn't it? It's really hard to get your
mind around, and that's threatening to us. Because
when the grace of the kingdom breaks in, it exposes
every illusion of our control, and it breaks
down our self -righteousness. The self -righteous
religious scribes are trying to keep God contained
while Jesus is out there on the front porch hanging
out with the sinners and the broken. The kingdom
doesn't fit their system. It breaks through them.
And you know, in the first service, I kind of
went off script right here. Maybe I'll go off
script again. It can be dangerous. But it's something
that grieved my heart. Because I think sometimes
we think, oh, the self -righteous religious,
where are they at? They must be out there somewhere.
No, my friends, they're here. They're here, even
among us, even in our own self, the self -righteous
religious live. We all struggle with it. And
what I've found is the self -righteousness in
myself and what I've seen in others is a kind
of self -righteous religious spirit that says,
you know what, I wanna have a list that I can
judge you through and I wanna look at you across
the room and I wanna make a judgment about whether
you're worthy for the kingdom or not. I want
to make a judgment about whether you're worthy
to be near to Jesus or not. And I want it to
filter through my own lens. I want to decide
whether or not you've had enough time to deal
with that sin that you're dealing with and whether
time has run out and now you need to get it together.
That kind of self -righteousness lives in us.
And what we do is we stand afar and we throw
stones at people. We'll never go to them and
say it to their face. No, but we'll gather three
or four or five other people and we'll talk about,
man, can you believe that? Should we ask them
to leave? Well, you ask them to leave. I don't
want to ask them to leave, right? And we have
these side conversations about this person or
that person over here or over there. And we make
these judgments and we want to throw stones across
the room. And all the while we're realizing,
man, we are so far from the kingdom of Jesus
right there. We are so far, because what I found
with my own self -righteousness and the self
-righteous religious that I see around me is
that they never want to enter into the story
of the person. They never actually, that's my
favorite question right now when someone starts
to bring it up. I'm like, have you ever sat down
with them and had coffee? Asked them about their
life story? How they ended up, where they ended
up, and why they made the decisions they made?
Have you ever done that? Why don't you get it
together? Why don't you enter into their story
a little bit? Why don't you get down with them
where they're at? And I'm not saying you untether
from the truth. I'm not saying that truth goes
to the wayside, but I'm talking about Jesus got
into the story. He met the people where they
were at in all of their glory and shame. And
the people that he resisted the most, the people
that he stood and he had the harshest words for
were the self -righteous religious. No one else,
the broken, the hurting, the people whose hearts
were in turmoil, the people who were trying to
reach out to God but hadn't yet connected to
him, those are the people that he got down and
just sat with them. They listened to their stories.
And again, it's not about excusing sin. Don't
hear me saying that at all. I believe that true
empathy is getting in the dirt with someone,
entering into their story while you are still
tethered to the truth. You're gonna become the
conduit for truth interjected to it. It's just
not gonna be on a self -righteous timeline, sorry.
And what I constantly find too with folks is
they're always wanting it to be on their timeline.
The impatience that I feel even in myself for
other people's sins. You point a scripture out
that tells me we're on a timeline here. that
I should be judging other people according to
how quickly they're getting over themselves or
their sin. I don't know that scripture. I haven't
come across it. Instead, what I'm saying is we
enter, what Jesus models is we enter stories
and we bring truth into those stories, but every
one of those stories is gonna be different. Every
one of those stories is gonna require time and
energy and listening and understanding and a
high level of curiosity. Man, that's something
we lost in this day and age. No one's curious
about what other people think and how they came
to that conclusion. They just wanna fight. We
need a high level of curiosity to enter into
someone's story and just be like, dude, tell
me. Why are you? who you are, and how did you
get here, and what is the Lord doing, and what
has he brought you through already? Man, I can
celebrate. I can get on board with that. Sure,
he hasn't worked in your heart on the thing that
I want him to, but who am I? Nobody. That's who
I am. That's who you are, too. Accept an agent
and ambassador of God's grace to enter into people's
stories and to bring the healing of the kingdom
to the darkest places. And Jesus is right here
in the middle of the story. He's face to face
with self -righteous religious people. And the
grace of the kingdom of God is breaking in and
their control over the situation, their desire
to place the limits. Listen, there's nothing
wrong with being religious, devout. There's nothing
wrong with that. In fact, that should all be
all of our aim, that we would be devout followers
of Jesus. that we would love Jesus with all of
our heart, soul, mind, and strength, that we
would follow in his ways and keep all of his
commandments, that should be our desire. But
someone who's more concerned about other people's
sins than their own sin, sometimes I'll hear
this too, like, what about their sin? I'm like,
I've never heard you talk about your sin, ever.
But I always hear you talk about other people's
sins. A person who's more concerned about other
people's sins than their own sin has not experienced
the grace of God. not in its fullness. They still
have a self -righteous religion that they're
working. They're trying to earn something and
they're trying to hold control over other people.
And that's not the kingdom. That's not the kingdom
of God. Don't get them confused. It happens at
church, it happens among Christians, but it's
not the kingdom of God at work. It's something
that causes division and hurt and pain and actually
works against the kingdom because the kingdom
comes down to you when you're in your worst condition
in place and it meets you there. It doesn't fit
our systems. And it says that Jesus here with
the scribes, he perceives their thoughts. Jesus
is not into the arguing, he doesn't go slay them
online. just so that he can stick it to them.
He doesn't raise his voice. He knows what they're
thinking. And that should have been the first
clue that he's not just another teacher. And
he asked, why are you thinking evil in your hearts?
And I love that. He doesn't say, why are you
thinking evil in your heads? That's where the
thinking happens, right? He says, why are you
thinking evil in your hearts? And that's because
unbelief isn't just an intellectual problem.
It's a heart problem. Their hearts were too proud
to receive what their minds could not explain
or understand. They built a religion that they
could manage and Jesus was here ruining it. When
the kingdom of God breaks in, it always challenges
our comfort zones. It exposes the way that you
and I try to control God. And sometimes even
as believers, we can fall into the same trap
where we prefer a God that we can understand
over a God who surprises us. But the kingdom
of God doesn't come through control. It comes
through surrender. It's not for the proud, but
it's for the poor in spirit. It's not for the
powerful, but for the desperate. You guys ever,
I remember this mirror at my grandma's house.
And then occasionally I'll see it in a hotel
room. But you ever seen those mirrors sometimes
in a hotel room? They're like round and they're
on a little arm and you pull them out and they're
like hyper magnifying mirrors or something like
that, right? You guys know what I'm talking about?
They're like, well they're probably for the ladies
to put their face on, right? Something like that.
But if you ever looked into it, it's freaky,
man. You get that thing up close, right? And
every pore and every wrinkle on your face is
like, oh my gosh, like, I'm hideous. Don't look
at me. Right? You stand in front of those magnifying
glasses and it pretty much exposes every flaw
with your face you can imagine. Every pore and
every wrinkle. And you know, when you're standing
in front of that mirror, how uncomfortable clarity
can actually be. You know, it's like, back up
five feet and I look pretty good. Get up close,
it's like, what is going on on my face? But that's
what the kingdom does, right? It brings clarity,
it reveals what's really in our hearts. And that
revelation, it's not to shame us, but it's to
save us, it's to draw us in and Jesus confronts
their thoughts. not to condemn them, but to call
them into a reality where mercy is greater than
earning and merit. Mercy is greater than a self
-righteous religion. God said, I desire mercy.
I desire mercy. And then in one moment, Jesus
kind of pulls back the curtain even further,
because he's not just reading their thoughts,
but he's about to prove his authority. The unseen
kingdom is about to show itself in power. If
you're taking notes, number four, write down
the sign. You can imagine in that room, the room
fell silent and all eyes are still on Jesus.
And that man who came on that mat carried by
his friend is still lying there on the mat. Nothing's
happened there yet. All Jesus has said is your
sins are forgiven. And the scribes. have accused
him of blasphemy. And so their accusation hangs
in the air, and the crowd is watching, sitting
on the edge of their seat, and Jesus, calm and
steady and unshaken, simply says, which is easier?
Which is easier? Is it easier to say your sins
are forgiven, or is it easier to say, get up
and walk? And anyone can say the first one, right?
Anyone can say your sins are forgiven, but because
they can't see the results, you can't prove it.
But if you say the second one, if you say, get
up and walk and nothing happens, well, what happens
to your credibility? It's gone. And so it's a
test that Jesus has set up, not a test of Jesus,
but it's a test of proof. of who he is and it's
about to be revealed. And so Jesus passes this
divine test with divine authority and he says,
so that you may know that the son of man has
authority on earth to forgive sins. He turns
to the paralyzed man and he says, get up, take
your mat and go home. And instantly the invisible
becomes visible. Muscles that haven't moved in
years awaken, tendons strengthen and bones straighten
out and you imagine a gasp sweeps through the
room as the man pulls himself up, stands and
takes his first step right in front of them all
and the kingdom of God breaks into that room.
And it's like watching the shadow of the cross
fall across the room, because this miracle is
just a foretaste, a preview, a glimpse of what
the cross of Jesus Christ will fully accomplish.
That at Calvary, Jesus won the incontestable
authority to say to every sinner, get up, you
are forgiven, and restore to God, walk in the
new life that I bring. And the healing here isn't
just about moving legs, it's about sin losing
its grip on this man. What happened to this man's
body is what happens to our souls when we go
to Jesus and Jesus speaks. We rise and we are
restored and we are made free. The son of man
has authority, he said, and that phrase is huge.
That phrase, the son of man has authority, is
a throwback to an Old Testament prophecy out
of Daniel chapter seven. And in that prophecy,
the son of man, who's represented in Daniel seven,
is the one who will be given a dominion, glory,
and a kingdom that lasts forever. And so when
Jesus says, the son of man has come, he's saying,
I'm not one. I'm bringing a kingdom that is established
now and will last forever. I'm standing right
in front of you. And notice that the authority
isn't just in heaven, it's right now, it's on
earth as well. Right here, right now. Forgiveness
isn't postponed until eternity, it breaks in
today. When Jesus speaks, his words carry the
divine cosmic seal of authority. Creation recognizes
his name. Disease obey his voice. Demons flee
at the sound of his rebuke. Sins are pardoned
because the same voice that spoke galaxies into
existence now says to the broken, get up and
walk. Every time Jesus forgives, the kingdom
breaks in again. Every time a sinner stands up
in grace and walks in freedom, we are witnessing
the same authority that lifted the man off that
mat. We see it today all around us, the same
authority of Jesus lifting souls in grace. And
here's the crazy thing, that authority now lives
in us. Not as a power to perform miracles on
command, but as the presence of the Holy Spirit.
enabling us to carry his forgiveness, his mercy,
and his kingdom into this world. When you forgive
someone who's wronged you, the kingdom of God
breaks in. When you pray over someone who's hurting,
the kingdom of God breaks in. When you forgive
someone, and instead of speaking condemnation,
you speak life, the kingdom of God breaks in.
The authority that once stood in that crowded
house, now walks in your shoes. Jesus tells the
man, take your mat and go home. And I love this.
Wouldn't you wanna leave that dirty old mat right
where it lay? But Jesus says, take it with you.
And I don't know for sure, but I think what Jesus
is saying is take that old mat because that mat
becomes your testimony. It's the reminder of
what he once was, and it's the evidence of what
Jesus has done. And I think so many times, for
us, we think coming to Jesus is escaping our
past. I wanna come to Jesus and escape my past.
I wanna forget it. In fact, I wanna start a whole
new friend group here, and I hope everyone who
I was around when I was doing those other things
forgets my name. I wanna come to Jesus and escape
everything, my sins, my failures, my hurts, but
Jesus is saying your past, your sins, your failures,
your hurts, your pains, they become a testimony
of his amazing grace. Just like that, Matt, you
can say I used to lay here. It becomes a testimony
of who he was, but also of what Jesus did. And
that's the picture of the gospel. The forgiven
become the carriers of forgiveness. And he walks
out, the crowds are left stunned in and on, so
the final point, number five, the response. When
the crowd saw this, they were awestruck and gave
glory to God who had given such authority to
men. The man walks out the door and for the first
time, the crowds part for him. The stretcher
that he once lay on that defined his life is
now under his arm. as he heads home. And there's
no applause, just a stunned silence, a kind of
holy hush that comes any time heaven breaks in
and everyone knows it. Matthew says they were
awestruck and this is a Greek word that literally
means seized by fear. is the kind of reverent
terror that happens when human hearts brush up
against divine power. They saw the unseen, the
kingdom of God, the rule and reign of King Jesus
broke in, and the only fitting response was worship.
They gave glory to God. That's what happens when
the kingdom comes. The attention shifts. from
the miracle to the miracle worker. It shifts
from the healed to the healer. It's like when
an earthquake comes, I remember being a young
man, a young boy, actually, in San Jose, and
I remember being asleep, well, I don't remember
being asleep, but I remember after being asleep,
when my dad came in, my dad came in and jerked
me and my brother out of our bunk beds really
violently and quickly, and it terrified us for
a moment until we realized that the whole house
was shaking. and he was pulling us out of our
room and getting us into a safe place. I think
we ran out the front door, actually. Right out
the front door because an earthquake was hitting
the Bay Area at the time. Even the things that
seemed stable before, even the things that seemed
rock solid, what happens when an earthquake comes?
Broken up, rolling, shaking, no longer stable.
And when you realize how small you are compared
to that power that moves, you are in awe. And
that's what awe is. Grace shakes the ground of
our self -sufficiency. Grace disrupts our self
-righteousness, and it keeps doing it until worship
is the only thing left standing. We turn our
eyes in awe to God, our creator, and Jesus, our
Lord. And that line, who had given authority,
to men, that Jesus says, the crowd says there
at the end, who had given such authority to men,
that line always catches me, because it's actually
a hint, it's a foreshadowing. They don't realize
it yet, but Jesus is planting a seed. The same
authority that healed the man on the mat is the
same authority that forgave his sins and caused
him to rise is the authority Jesus will later
entrust to his disciples. He said, all authority
in heaven and earth had been given to me, therefore
go as my ambassadors. And the crowd marveled
that God had given such authority to men, but
Jesus was preparing to give it to all his people.
He said in John 14, 12, whoever believes in me
will do the works I have been doing and even
greater things than these. I remember as a young
man, I always thought, well, that's interesting.
Jesus did some pretty cool things. That means
we get to do cooler things? And what he's saying
there is interesting, because he's not talking
about more powerful or awesome. He's talking
about greater in scope. Greater in scope and
reach. Because now, through his Holy Spirit,
The kingdom of God doesn't break through into
one man in one town at one time in history. The
kingdom of God now breaks through millions of
believers in every nation, tribe, and tongue.
And that means the story of Matthew 9 didn't
end in that house, but it's still happening even
today. Jesus is still stopping for one more.
One more sinner to be forgiven, one more outcast,
welcome into the family, one more story rewritten
by grace, but how is he doing it? He's doing
it through us. The same thing he was doing in
that house, he's now doing through us. The same
Jesus who said to the man, get up, now says to
his church, you and I, go. Go. Go carry your
neighbor. to Jesus. Go carry the authority of
forgiveness into your workplace and schools.
Go carry the hope of the kingdom of God into
a hurting world where one more is out there and
Jesus wants to reach the one more. And so here's
my final questions for us village. Where does
Jesus want his kingdom to break in through you?
He's put each of you in unique situations, in
unique places, connected to people that I'm never
connected to or your neighbor's not connected
to. You have a unique place and God wants to
break the kingdom of God into that place, the
rule and reign of Jesus. Where does Jesus want
his kingdom to break in through you? Who's your
one more? Who's that person that you are carrying
around in your heart and in prayer? that you're
praying to God and asking him to open up opportunities
for you to speak to them. You're asking from
the open opportunities for you to reach out to
them and draw them in to the kingdom. Who's your
one more? We all have one. We should. We should
be more intentional about praying and bringing
them to Jesus. Who's the person lying on the
mat of shame? Who's the person lying on the mat
of fear or unbelief? waiting for someone to bring
them to Jesus. When we carry the gospel into
those moments, we're not just doing some sort
of ministry, we're actually revealing the true
reality of this world, the unseen kingdom of
God that is all around. Heaven breaking in to
the everyday.