1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,740 That's always a good thing. 2 00:00:01,740 --> 00:00:05,380 And I'm excited for all that it brings about. 3 00:00:05,380 --> 00:00:07,580 But most importantly in the life of our church, 4 00:00:07,580 --> 00:00:12,500 this month is a month where we focus on missions, 5 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:17,260 specifically what God is doing in worldwide missions. 6 00:00:18,940 --> 00:00:21,740 God's not just working in Finley, God's working everywhere. 7 00:00:21,740 --> 00:00:25,700 Because every local church to have a ministry locally, 8 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:30,700 but also regionally and nationally and internationally. 9 00:00:32,180 --> 00:00:34,340 And I don't wanna take for granted 10 00:00:34,340 --> 00:00:36,900 that everybody that's coming to our church 11 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:39,340 understands how we do missions 12 00:00:39,340 --> 00:00:41,940 and how God's called us to do missions. 13 00:00:41,940 --> 00:00:44,140 So you've heard about the missions conference 14 00:00:44,140 --> 00:00:47,220 that we're gonna be having all day on Sunday, October 29th. 15 00:00:47,220 --> 00:00:49,980 And then that Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night, 16 00:00:49,980 --> 00:00:51,900 the 30th through November 1st. 17 00:00:51,900 --> 00:00:55,020 And we want you to come to that. 18 00:00:55,020 --> 00:00:58,060 I want you to prioritize that in your family, 19 00:00:58,060 --> 00:01:00,100 with your church family. 20 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:02,180 And I think that it would be so amazing 21 00:01:02,180 --> 00:01:05,300 if we had as many people that came to the missions conference 22 00:01:05,300 --> 00:01:06,940 as what comes on the Sunday morning. 23 00:01:06,940 --> 00:01:09,820 Wishful thinking, but I believe it's that important. 24 00:01:09,820 --> 00:01:12,900 I believe a missions conference, at least at our church, 25 00:01:12,900 --> 00:01:14,060 this is the way we approach it. 26 00:01:14,060 --> 00:01:16,660 It's a business meeting on the fate of the world 27 00:01:16,660 --> 00:01:18,620 and what we think about the fate of the world. 28 00:01:18,620 --> 00:01:20,660 And we know that the fate of the world's in God's hands, 29 00:01:20,660 --> 00:01:23,340 but we have a stewardship to get the gospel 30 00:01:23,340 --> 00:01:26,180 to the nations, we believe that. 31 00:01:27,660 --> 00:01:29,340 And we have so many new people coming. 32 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:30,860 I believe it's important for everyone to know 33 00:01:30,860 --> 00:01:33,900 not only how we do missions, 34 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:36,820 but how you can be involved in it. 35 00:01:36,820 --> 00:01:39,580 Now, I believe this is crucial. 36 00:01:39,580 --> 00:01:44,340 I believe right now is crucial, right now. 37 00:01:45,380 --> 00:01:47,620 You're like, Pastor Ben, did you think last year was crucial? 38 00:01:47,620 --> 00:01:53,620 Yeah, 100%. But has anybody been watching the news? 39 00:01:55,260 --> 00:01:58,420 I believe the great commandment 40 00:01:58,420 --> 00:02:01,820 and the great commission is our mandate as a church. 41 00:02:01,820 --> 00:02:03,940 And we're gonna look today at several passages 42 00:02:03,940 --> 00:02:06,740 where you're gonna see that God's desire 43 00:02:06,740 --> 00:02:09,740 for every biblical local church 44 00:02:09,740 --> 00:02:12,460 is to be a great commission church. 45 00:02:12,460 --> 00:02:13,740 And that that is our mission. 46 00:02:13,740 --> 00:02:16,900 We glorify God by making disciples of all nations 47 00:02:16,900 --> 00:02:19,380 and that's important. Who believes that's important? 48 00:02:19,380 --> 00:02:23,180 Cool, I convinced about two thirds of you, so stick with me. 49 00:02:24,140 --> 00:02:26,940 I also believe that the world is growing 50 00:02:26,940 --> 00:02:29,060 in its capacity for evil. 51 00:02:31,820 --> 00:02:34,540 People's hearts have to be changed 52 00:02:34,540 --> 00:02:38,340 and the only way for that to happen from the inside out 53 00:02:38,340 --> 00:02:41,820 is people coming to know Christ. 54 00:02:41,820 --> 00:02:46,180 In our own state, there's a vote coming up on November 7th. 55 00:02:46,180 --> 00:02:47,620 Have you guys heard about this? 56 00:02:47,620 --> 00:02:48,460 Yes. 57 00:02:50,580 --> 00:02:52,500 This, what's being voted on, 58 00:02:52,500 --> 00:02:55,220 the proposal that's being made 59 00:02:55,220 --> 00:02:57,020 is an amendment to our constitution 60 00:02:57,020 --> 00:02:59,940 that does away with any regulation on abortion. 61 00:02:59,940 --> 00:03:02,860 It will make abortion up to nine months legal. 62 00:03:02,860 --> 00:03:04,820 It will make the abortionist the final say 63 00:03:04,820 --> 00:03:06,460 in who can get an abortion. 64 00:03:06,460 --> 00:03:08,420 And it takes away parental notification 65 00:03:08,420 --> 00:03:10,780 regarding any reproductive decision 66 00:03:10,780 --> 00:03:12,860 of their minor children. 67 00:03:12,860 --> 00:03:14,700 I don't believe that this is a political issue. 68 00:03:14,700 --> 00:03:16,460 I believe it's a moral issue. 69 00:03:17,580 --> 00:03:19,260 And so, grab a sign. 70 00:03:19,260 --> 00:03:22,460 If you wanna be convinced of what needs to happen, 71 00:03:22,460 --> 00:03:24,700 go to the table in the back, it's there. 72 00:03:25,860 --> 00:03:27,020 But I say all that to say, 73 00:03:27,020 --> 00:03:28,540 we need to be involved in that church, 74 00:03:28,540 --> 00:03:32,020 but for people's hearts to be changed on issues like this, 75 00:03:32,020 --> 00:03:34,500 they have to have the Holy Spirit inside of them. 76 00:03:35,580 --> 00:03:38,020 And so we have a wonderful chance 77 00:03:38,020 --> 00:03:39,700 to make a difference in this vote. 78 00:03:41,540 --> 00:03:43,420 People tend to think some of these issues 79 00:03:43,420 --> 00:03:45,980 are political issues, but they're not political issues. 80 00:03:45,980 --> 00:03:48,580 This issue is a moral issue. 81 00:03:48,580 --> 00:03:51,500 So I believe, why is this time so important 82 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:54,940 in terms of worldwide missions, missions at home, 83 00:03:54,940 --> 00:03:57,540 missions regionally, missions nationally, 84 00:03:57,540 --> 00:04:01,100 missions internationally, and what do I even be my missions? 85 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:03,100 That's what I wanna talk to you about today. 86 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:06,980 I believe it's important because it's literally 87 00:04:06,980 --> 00:04:10,460 the marching orders that Jesus gave to the church 88 00:04:10,460 --> 00:04:12,980 and by definition to our church. 89 00:04:12,980 --> 00:04:14,220 I believe that the world is growing 90 00:04:14,220 --> 00:04:16,060 in its participation in growing evil, 91 00:04:16,060 --> 00:04:18,460 and I believe this, the time is getting short. 92 00:04:19,860 --> 00:04:22,300 If we've watched the news in the last few days and weeks, 93 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:24,940 you've seen several events coming together. 94 00:04:24,940 --> 00:04:29,780 You see China, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, 95 00:04:29,780 --> 00:04:31,220 the Gaza Strip, the Holy Land, 96 00:04:31,220 --> 00:04:34,300 these are all parts and players 97 00:04:34,300 --> 00:04:36,100 of what the Bible foretells 98 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:37,740 is gonna happen in the future. 99 00:04:37,740 --> 00:04:40,900 I'm not saying that what's happening right now is, 100 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:43,460 I'm saying all of those players 101 00:04:43,460 --> 00:04:46,180 are who the Bible talks about in times. 102 00:04:47,060 --> 00:04:52,060 And anyone who's familiar with biblical prophecy 103 00:04:52,380 --> 00:04:53,740 knows that these players are all a part 104 00:04:53,740 --> 00:04:56,620 of what the Bible predicts will happen in the future. 105 00:04:56,620 --> 00:04:59,180 For more information on that, 106 00:04:59,180 --> 00:05:02,780 I did a seven week series on Wednesday nights last year 107 00:05:02,780 --> 00:05:05,100 on what Jesus said would happen in the end times 108 00:05:05,100 --> 00:05:08,660 and what he called his all of it discourse. 109 00:05:08,660 --> 00:05:10,180 The passages are pretty amazing. 110 00:05:10,180 --> 00:05:12,260 And I made a QR code. 111 00:05:12,260 --> 00:05:14,420 If you point your smartphone at that, 112 00:05:15,300 --> 00:05:20,300 and it'll come up, on the camera app it'll come up, 113 00:05:20,540 --> 00:05:23,700 and you hit the link, it'll take you to our website, 114 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:25,860 and there's a seven week study 115 00:05:25,860 --> 00:05:28,220 on what Jesus has said is gonna happen in the end time. 116 00:05:28,220 --> 00:05:31,140 So at least two of you got that, that's good. 117 00:05:31,140 --> 00:05:31,980 Praise the Lord. 118 00:05:33,420 --> 00:05:34,860 If you go to our website and look up 119 00:05:34,860 --> 00:05:37,420 the Christ return living with the end in mind, 120 00:05:37,420 --> 00:05:40,020 you can find more information on that. 121 00:05:40,020 --> 00:05:41,660 It's amazing how relevant the Bible is. 122 00:05:41,660 --> 00:05:44,420 And by the way, the Bible that makes predictions 123 00:05:44,420 --> 00:05:46,700 about the future has an incredible history 124 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:50,260 of making predictions that already happened in the past. 125 00:05:50,260 --> 00:05:51,980 And so if it can be trusted 126 00:05:51,980 --> 00:05:54,740 for what it already foretold and came to pass, 127 00:05:54,740 --> 00:05:58,020 you can trust it about the future, make sense? 128 00:05:58,020 --> 00:06:00,740 Okay, so I believe we need to talk about this 129 00:06:00,740 --> 00:06:02,860 because it's our mandate, 130 00:06:02,860 --> 00:06:05,300 because the world's growing in evil, 131 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:08,020 and because we don't know how long we have. 132 00:06:08,020 --> 00:06:10,060 There's one thing you can't do in heaven. 133 00:06:13,820 --> 00:06:14,820 Share the gospel. 134 00:06:16,860 --> 00:06:21,180 And so, those who know Christ will spend forever together 135 00:06:21,180 --> 00:06:22,260 with Christ in eternity, 136 00:06:22,260 --> 00:06:23,900 but there's something we'll not be able to do 137 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:24,940 after this life, 138 00:06:24,940 --> 00:06:26,980 and that's make disciples of Jesus Christ 139 00:06:26,980 --> 00:06:29,860 through preaching the gospel to the nations. 140 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:32,980 This is what God has called us to do in this time, 141 00:06:32,980 --> 00:06:34,380 so we have no time to waste. 142 00:06:34,380 --> 00:06:37,860 We must embrace this mission locally, 143 00:06:37,860 --> 00:06:40,500 regionally, and yes, globally, 144 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:42,460 if we're going to do what God's called us to do, 145 00:06:42,460 --> 00:06:43,940 what we've been commanded to do. 146 00:06:43,940 --> 00:06:46,660 The days are evil, the time is short, 147 00:06:46,660 --> 00:06:49,540 so it's critical at this time that we're all in 148 00:06:49,540 --> 00:06:54,540 when it comes to being involved in worldwide missions, 149 00:06:54,860 --> 00:06:56,900 but how can we be involved? 150 00:06:56,900 --> 00:07:00,500 Well, how can our church make an impact on the world 151 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:02,740 from Finley, Ohio? 152 00:07:02,740 --> 00:07:06,860 How can our church make an impact, 153 00:07:06,860 --> 00:07:09,820 and how can you be a part of what God has called us 154 00:07:09,820 --> 00:07:10,660 to do together? 155 00:07:10,660 --> 00:07:15,660 Well, every believer can understand the how of missions 156 00:07:15,820 --> 00:07:18,460 by understanding the biblical pattern of missions 157 00:07:18,460 --> 00:07:20,300 in the local church. 158 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:21,620 God set up a pattern, 159 00:07:21,620 --> 00:07:24,060 and I want to point to that pattern today 160 00:07:24,060 --> 00:07:26,100 because it's a pattern that has worked. 161 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:30,540 This in some way is how you got, 162 00:07:30,540 --> 00:07:32,580 if you believe the gospel, 163 00:07:32,580 --> 00:07:36,180 it came to you by this pattern happening, okay? 164 00:07:36,180 --> 00:07:38,620 And I want to show you that we are involved 165 00:07:38,620 --> 00:07:40,220 in this particular mission, 166 00:07:40,220 --> 00:07:42,980 and there's a biblical pattern about how the gospel 167 00:07:42,980 --> 00:07:44,820 gets all over the world. 168 00:07:44,820 --> 00:07:46,620 And so, what's the biblical pattern? 169 00:07:46,620 --> 00:07:47,940 Well, let's talk about it. 170 00:07:47,940 --> 00:07:50,180 First, I want you to see this. 171 00:07:50,180 --> 00:07:55,180 Jesus Christ was sent on the Father's mission 172 00:07:55,980 --> 00:07:59,140 in the Father's authority. 173 00:07:59,140 --> 00:08:04,060 Jesus Christ was sent on the Father's mission 174 00:08:04,060 --> 00:08:06,700 in the Father's authority. 175 00:08:06,700 --> 00:08:09,540 This kind of touches on where we've been talking about 176 00:08:09,540 --> 00:08:12,140 the last couple of weeks in the book of Hebrews. 177 00:08:12,140 --> 00:08:15,020 God went to a guy named Abraham, 178 00:08:15,020 --> 00:08:18,060 and made Abraham the father of a great nation, 179 00:08:18,060 --> 00:08:19,500 and this is what he said, 180 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:20,780 and maybe this might sound familiar 181 00:08:20,780 --> 00:08:22,340 if you've been here the last couple of weeks. 182 00:08:22,340 --> 00:08:25,220 He said, now the Lord had said unto Abraham, 183 00:08:25,220 --> 00:08:27,660 get Abraham, get thee out of thy country, 184 00:08:27,660 --> 00:08:30,580 and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, 185 00:08:30,580 --> 00:08:33,020 unto a land that I will show thee, 186 00:08:33,020 --> 00:08:34,860 and I will make of thee a great nation, 187 00:08:34,860 --> 00:08:37,060 and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, 188 00:08:37,060 --> 00:08:38,700 and now shall it be a blessing, 189 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:40,820 and I will bless them that bless thee, 190 00:08:40,820 --> 00:08:42,940 and curse them that curseeth thee, 191 00:08:42,940 --> 00:08:46,900 and in thee shall all the families, 192 00:08:46,900 --> 00:08:50,860 all the ethnos, all the nations, 193 00:08:50,860 --> 00:08:52,660 the family, they use that word in the Greek 194 00:08:52,660 --> 00:08:56,140 in the New Testament when it quotes that, 195 00:08:56,140 --> 00:08:59,180 all the ethnic groups of the earth will be blessed, 196 00:08:59,180 --> 00:09:00,380 all the families, all the tribes, 197 00:09:00,380 --> 00:09:04,100 all the nations of the earth will be blessed. 198 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:05,740 This is what we've been studying. 199 00:09:05,740 --> 00:09:09,060 God's plan for Israel was that this nation 200 00:09:09,060 --> 00:09:11,420 would be the conduit through which 201 00:09:11,420 --> 00:09:14,780 the redemption of mankind would be made possible. 202 00:09:14,780 --> 00:09:19,460 God intended for Abraham to be blessed, 203 00:09:19,460 --> 00:09:22,220 to be a blessing to the earth. 204 00:09:22,220 --> 00:09:23,820 How do you guys understand that when you got saved, 205 00:09:23,820 --> 00:09:26,620 you were blessed to be a blessing? 206 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:27,620 That's what Abraham was. 207 00:09:27,620 --> 00:09:31,420 He was blessed so that he could be a blessing. 208 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:33,540 How? 209 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:35,460 Well, through God's revelation of his law, 210 00:09:35,460 --> 00:09:37,620 that led to the revelation of his son. 211 00:09:37,620 --> 00:09:41,380 Jesus Christ was sent, made identifiable 212 00:09:41,380 --> 00:09:43,180 by being the Jewish Messiah, 213 00:09:43,180 --> 00:09:45,660 the one who was prophesied would come, 214 00:09:45,660 --> 00:09:49,060 the son of Abraham, the son of David. 215 00:09:50,060 --> 00:09:52,540 He was sent on the Father's mission. 216 00:09:52,540 --> 00:09:53,380 He even said so. 217 00:09:53,380 --> 00:09:55,980 We read of this in John after he died, 218 00:09:55,980 --> 00:09:58,020 after he was buried and rose again from the dead. 219 00:09:58,020 --> 00:10:00,500 He came to his disciples and in John chapter 20, 220 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:03,180 look at verse 19, it'll be on the screen. 221 00:10:03,180 --> 00:10:05,020 Then the same day at evening, 222 00:10:05,020 --> 00:10:06,500 being the first day of the week, 223 00:10:06,500 --> 00:10:07,700 when the doors were shut, 224 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:10,300 where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, 225 00:10:10,300 --> 00:10:11,140 you know why? 226 00:10:11,140 --> 00:10:13,020 Because if they could kill Jesus, they could kill us. 227 00:10:13,020 --> 00:10:14,860 So we're really freaked out. 228 00:10:14,860 --> 00:10:17,860 The disciples were in our room locked up. 229 00:10:20,180 --> 00:10:21,820 And in the middle of that, verse 19, 230 00:10:21,820 --> 00:10:24,540 came Jesus and stood in the midst and said, 231 00:10:24,540 --> 00:10:25,380 peace be unto you. 232 00:10:25,380 --> 00:10:27,580 You know how he said peace be unto you? 233 00:10:27,580 --> 00:10:28,940 Because he scared him. 234 00:10:29,940 --> 00:10:33,820 Because he appeared miraculously right in the middle of the room. 235 00:10:33,820 --> 00:10:35,220 Peace be unto you. 236 00:10:37,140 --> 00:10:39,620 Anybody ever get scared by somebody? 237 00:10:39,620 --> 00:10:41,500 That's one of my favorite hobbies. 238 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:45,100 Sometimes I'll be like studying, 239 00:10:45,100 --> 00:10:46,820 I've been sitting too long and I'll walk around 240 00:10:46,820 --> 00:10:49,340 and I hear Rhonda coming around the corner 241 00:10:49,340 --> 00:10:51,100 with her podcast going on her speaker. 242 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:53,180 And I'm like, she's coming right for me. 243 00:10:53,180 --> 00:10:57,260 She comes around, Rhonda, it's amazing. 244 00:11:00,260 --> 00:11:02,820 We may need a new person one day, but oh well. 245 00:11:04,980 --> 00:11:07,220 Just shocked him, peace be unto you. 246 00:11:07,220 --> 00:11:10,900 And when he had said, he showed unto them his hands 247 00:11:10,900 --> 00:11:12,700 and his sight, why was he showing them that? 248 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:16,540 I'm the same one who was just crucified. 249 00:11:17,340 --> 00:11:19,540 And here I am guys, risen. 250 00:11:19,540 --> 00:11:24,540 Then he said this, I love this, what it says in verse 20, 251 00:11:24,940 --> 00:11:29,940 then were the disciples glad when they saw it. 252 00:11:29,940 --> 00:11:31,900 Who would love to see that video? 253 00:11:33,060 --> 00:11:34,500 You wanna watch those reunion videos 254 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:36,980 of the military guys coming home 255 00:11:36,980 --> 00:11:41,260 and the wife turns around or the daughter or the son turns. 256 00:11:41,260 --> 00:11:43,220 Anybody cry at one of those videos? 257 00:11:43,220 --> 00:11:47,780 Like between that and the puppies that need adopted. 258 00:11:47,780 --> 00:11:49,640 I'm crying all the time. 259 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:54,340 These guys thought Jesus was dead 260 00:11:54,340 --> 00:11:57,620 and then there he is alive and they were glad. 261 00:11:57,620 --> 00:12:01,300 And then he said this, then said Jesus to them again, 262 00:12:01,300 --> 00:12:03,620 peace be unto you. 263 00:12:03,620 --> 00:12:08,620 As my father has sent me, even so send I you. 264 00:12:08,620 --> 00:12:11,220 Was Jesus on a mission? 265 00:12:11,220 --> 00:12:16,220 He came to seek and to save that which was lost. 266 00:12:16,380 --> 00:12:20,900 That was the commission from the father to the son. 267 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:25,900 It was also the commission that the son gave to the disciples. 268 00:12:27,860 --> 00:12:30,460 Whose authority did Jesus come with? 269 00:12:30,460 --> 00:12:31,780 The father's. 270 00:12:31,780 --> 00:12:33,100 And the father's. 271 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:34,420 And the father's. 272 00:12:34,420 --> 00:12:35,740 And the father's. 273 00:12:35,740 --> 00:12:38,780 And the father's. 274 00:12:38,780 --> 00:12:41,020 Certainly he had his own authority. 275 00:12:41,020 --> 00:12:44,540 Here we see that he appealed to his father's sending. 276 00:12:44,540 --> 00:12:46,500 That leads to the second pattern. 277 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:51,180 Not only was the father the one who sent Jesus, 278 00:12:51,180 --> 00:12:53,180 but Jesus Christ sent the disciples 279 00:12:53,180 --> 00:12:56,020 on the mission with his authority. 280 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:04,260 Verse 16 of Matthew 28, it'll be on the screen. 281 00:13:04,260 --> 00:13:06,780 Then the 11 disciples, why were there 11? 282 00:13:08,220 --> 00:13:11,580 Judas had betrayed Jesus. 283 00:13:12,660 --> 00:13:14,340 The 11 disciples went away in the galley 284 00:13:14,340 --> 00:13:16,380 into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 285 00:13:16,380 --> 00:13:18,860 This is after his death row and resurrection. 286 00:13:18,860 --> 00:13:22,300 This is right before he's leaving them to go to heaven. 287 00:13:24,340 --> 00:13:25,540 Verse 17. 288 00:13:26,460 --> 00:13:29,060 And when they saw him, they worshiped him, 289 00:13:29,060 --> 00:13:30,500 but some doubted. 290 00:13:30,500 --> 00:13:31,420 What were they doubting? 291 00:13:31,420 --> 00:13:34,540 They were not doubting that Jesus was God. 292 00:13:35,580 --> 00:13:38,860 If you read about what Jesus did with these disciples 293 00:13:38,860 --> 00:13:41,780 before this moment, not only had he appeared to them 294 00:13:41,780 --> 00:13:44,860 and showed him his side and showed him his hands, 295 00:13:44,860 --> 00:13:47,500 he had also done a Bible study with them 296 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:49,220 where he walked through the Old Testament 297 00:13:49,220 --> 00:13:53,020 and taught them how the Old Testament speaks of him. 298 00:13:53,980 --> 00:13:56,700 So they were not doubting that Jesus was who he said he was. 299 00:13:56,700 --> 00:13:58,580 Why they were doubting was this, 300 00:13:58,580 --> 00:14:00,420 he kept telling them he was leaving. 301 00:14:00,420 --> 00:14:03,380 And he kept saying to them, I'm sending you, 302 00:14:03,380 --> 00:14:05,980 I'm gonna leave and you're gonna be sent. 303 00:14:05,980 --> 00:14:08,300 And so they're going, ah! 304 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:10,660 I just made that echo. 305 00:14:10,660 --> 00:14:12,700 They're like, they're scared. 306 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:15,940 They're not scared because Jesus is sending him. 307 00:14:15,940 --> 00:14:19,060 They're scared because they think Jesus won't be 308 00:14:19,060 --> 00:14:23,060 with them anymore because he's going back to be with the Father. 309 00:14:23,060 --> 00:14:24,420 Here's what he says. 310 00:14:26,020 --> 00:14:28,420 In that moment when they're doubting, 311 00:14:28,420 --> 00:14:33,420 Jesus uses this incredible word, verse 18, 312 00:14:34,820 --> 00:14:37,820 and Jesus came and said, speaking to them, saying, 313 00:14:37,820 --> 00:14:42,820 all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 314 00:14:43,580 --> 00:14:47,500 The word translated power here is the word exusea. 315 00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:51,820 It has the idea of an authoritative power. 316 00:14:51,820 --> 00:14:53,940 Not only does it reference the ability 317 00:14:53,940 --> 00:14:56,460 to do something through empowerment, 318 00:14:56,460 --> 00:14:58,860 it references the permission to do something 319 00:14:58,860 --> 00:15:00,340 through authority. 320 00:15:00,340 --> 00:15:01,940 Does that make sense? 321 00:15:01,940 --> 00:15:03,740 Not only were they gonna be empowered to do 322 00:15:03,740 --> 00:15:05,420 what God's called him to do, listen, 323 00:15:05,420 --> 00:15:06,540 if God calls you to do something, 324 00:15:06,540 --> 00:15:08,620 he'll empower you to do it. 325 00:15:08,620 --> 00:15:12,620 But he was also saying, you're gonna be given authority 326 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:15,140 to go do what I'm about to tell you to do. 327 00:15:17,220 --> 00:15:18,340 What does he tell him? 328 00:15:18,340 --> 00:15:23,340 Verse 19, go ye therefore, go ye therefore under my power, 329 00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:25,140 under my authority, 330 00:15:25,140 --> 00:15:30,140 and teach the word is methetes, methetusate, 331 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:34,740 make disciples of all nations. 332 00:15:34,740 --> 00:15:35,580 How do you do that? 333 00:15:35,580 --> 00:15:37,660 Baptizing them in the name of the Father 334 00:15:37,660 --> 00:15:40,620 and the Son and of the Holy Ghost, 335 00:15:40,620 --> 00:15:45,300 teaching them to observe or to obey all things, 336 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:47,300 whatsoever I have commanded you. 337 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:48,540 Now here's the cool part. 338 00:15:48,540 --> 00:15:55,460 And lo, I am with you always. 339 00:15:55,460 --> 00:15:57,100 And now this is where you go, well, 340 00:15:57,100 --> 00:15:58,460 he was talking to disciples. 341 00:15:58,460 --> 00:16:01,460 What is, how does this apply to us? 342 00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:03,140 Well, he says, I'm gonna be with you always, 343 00:16:03,140 --> 00:16:07,460 even unto the end of the world. 344 00:16:07,460 --> 00:16:10,300 The word for world is the word ion. 345 00:16:10,300 --> 00:16:15,260 It could also mean age to the end of time. 346 00:16:15,260 --> 00:16:18,860 So was he just talking to the disciples? 347 00:16:18,860 --> 00:16:21,020 How long did they live? 348 00:16:21,020 --> 00:16:24,220 30, 40, 20 years, not long. 349 00:16:24,220 --> 00:16:25,060 What is he saying? 350 00:16:25,060 --> 00:16:28,180 I'm gonna be with everybody that this commission relates to 351 00:16:28,180 --> 00:16:29,740 and who does that relate to? 352 00:16:35,180 --> 00:16:37,260 By saying that he is with them always, 353 00:16:37,260 --> 00:16:39,700 he's saying he's with us always, 354 00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:42,900 that, and that authority has been handed down 355 00:16:42,900 --> 00:16:47,340 from Jesus through evangelism to discipleship, 356 00:16:47,340 --> 00:16:50,020 all the way to us. 357 00:16:50,020 --> 00:16:52,660 The one thing we're authorized to do 358 00:16:52,660 --> 00:16:54,820 is evangelism and discipleship. 359 00:16:58,180 --> 00:17:00,180 No one said amen. 360 00:17:01,540 --> 00:17:02,980 The one thing you're authorized to do 361 00:17:02,980 --> 00:17:04,300 if you know Christ is your savior 362 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:06,660 is to evangelize and disciple. 363 00:17:07,820 --> 00:17:08,740 Thank you for amen. 364 00:17:08,740 --> 00:17:10,420 That's awesome. 365 00:17:10,420 --> 00:17:13,380 This is what he's told us to do. 366 00:17:13,380 --> 00:17:16,900 We're authorized, we're going out under his authority 367 00:17:16,900 --> 00:17:21,900 and his power to teach people to meet Jesus 368 00:17:22,260 --> 00:17:25,660 and to teach people to follow him in obedience. 369 00:17:25,660 --> 00:17:28,260 So what did the disciples do? 370 00:17:28,260 --> 00:17:30,900 Well, that's where we see the third part of the pattern. 371 00:17:30,900 --> 00:17:33,300 The disciples led people to Christ, 372 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:38,620 baptized people into local churches, assemblies, 373 00:17:38,620 --> 00:17:42,140 and disciple them in the context of those local churches. 374 00:17:43,140 --> 00:17:44,500 Well, prove it to me, Pastor Ben. 375 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:46,660 Cool, Acts chapter two. 376 00:17:46,660 --> 00:17:49,620 Here's what it says, verse 42. 377 00:17:52,340 --> 00:17:54,220 Actually, it's not on the screen, 378 00:17:54,220 --> 00:17:55,820 but go there in your Bible real quick 379 00:17:55,820 --> 00:17:59,380 because I want you to see Acts chapter two. 380 00:17:59,380 --> 00:18:00,860 I started at verse 41, 381 00:18:00,860 --> 00:18:02,540 but you really have to go back 382 00:18:02,540 --> 00:18:06,620 to verse 32. 383 00:18:15,860 --> 00:18:17,020 37. 384 00:18:22,300 --> 00:18:25,580 Peter and the disciples were filled 385 00:18:25,580 --> 00:18:27,620 with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. 386 00:18:27,620 --> 00:18:29,340 This is after Jesus had left. 387 00:18:29,340 --> 00:18:30,900 They began to speak in tongues. 388 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:33,180 You go back and read those tongues. 389 00:18:33,180 --> 00:18:36,500 There were known languages as they spoke. 390 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:39,540 People from every nation and tribe and tongue that were there 391 00:18:39,540 --> 00:18:42,380 heard what they were saying in their own language. 392 00:18:42,380 --> 00:18:46,940 Have you ever been overseas for any amount of time 393 00:18:46,940 --> 00:18:50,780 and you haven't heard your language spoken 394 00:18:50,780 --> 00:18:54,300 and then someone three aisles over at the grocery store 395 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:56,660 says something in American English? 396 00:18:56,660 --> 00:18:58,700 Does it get your attention? 397 00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:01,940 You know why it's your heart language. 398 00:19:01,940 --> 00:19:06,460 It's the language that your mom and dad spoke to you. 399 00:19:06,460 --> 00:19:09,020 It's the language that you grew up with. 400 00:19:09,020 --> 00:19:12,220 And so when Peter stands up and he starts to speak, 401 00:19:12,220 --> 00:19:14,420 they're hearing in their language. 402 00:19:14,420 --> 00:19:15,620 And they're like, how has this happened? 403 00:19:15,620 --> 00:19:18,300 These guys must be drunk. 404 00:19:18,300 --> 00:19:19,140 That's what they say. 405 00:19:19,140 --> 00:19:21,940 And Peter says, we're not drunk like you supposed. 406 00:19:21,940 --> 00:19:25,580 This is what the Bible prophesied would happen 407 00:19:25,580 --> 00:19:28,900 at the end of the Old Testament is what he ends up saying. 408 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:32,940 And he tells them about the prophecy coming to be 409 00:19:32,940 --> 00:19:34,220 in front of their own eyes. 410 00:19:34,220 --> 00:19:37,140 And he gives them the gospel and he tells them about Jesus. 411 00:19:37,140 --> 00:19:40,020 He says, the one you Jesus who you Christ crucified, 412 00:19:40,020 --> 00:19:41,500 God raised from the dead. 413 00:19:41,500 --> 00:19:44,140 So they hear that, they believe it, they believe, 414 00:19:44,140 --> 00:19:46,580 they know that Jesus claimed to be Messiah. 415 00:19:46,580 --> 00:19:48,340 They believe he claimed to be Messiah. 416 00:19:48,340 --> 00:19:50,460 They say, okay, what do we do? 417 00:19:50,460 --> 00:19:54,060 And in verse number 37, it says, 418 00:19:54,060 --> 00:19:56,060 verse 36, 419 00:19:56,060 --> 00:19:58,460 Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly 420 00:19:58,460 --> 00:20:02,140 that God hath made the same Jesus who ye crucified both 421 00:20:02,140 --> 00:20:02,980 Lord and Christ. 422 00:20:02,980 --> 00:20:05,100 Don't you want to say that to Israel today? 423 00:20:07,260 --> 00:20:11,380 This one that you crucified, God has made Lord and Christ. 424 00:20:11,380 --> 00:20:13,500 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. 425 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:14,540 Verse 37, 426 00:20:14,540 --> 00:20:16,380 Send unto Peter and the rest of the apostles men 427 00:20:16,380 --> 00:20:18,100 and brethren, what shall we do? 428 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:19,180 Then Peter said unto them, 429 00:20:19,180 --> 00:20:21,100 Repent and be baptized every one of you 430 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:23,460 in the name of Jesus Christ for their emission of sins. 431 00:20:23,460 --> 00:20:25,780 And he shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost 432 00:20:25,780 --> 00:20:28,140 for the promises unto you, your children, 433 00:20:28,140 --> 00:20:30,300 and to all that are far off even as many as the Lord 434 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:31,900 our God shall call. 435 00:20:31,900 --> 00:20:34,660 And with many other words that he testified in exhort, 436 00:20:34,660 --> 00:20:37,580 saying save yourself from this untoward generation. 437 00:20:37,580 --> 00:20:39,100 They ask, what do we do? 438 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:41,380 And he says essentially what the great commission says, 439 00:20:41,380 --> 00:20:45,260 you need to repent, get saved and be baptized, 440 00:20:45,260 --> 00:20:47,940 become a disciple, evangelism, a discipleship. 441 00:20:47,940 --> 00:20:49,100 That's what he told him to do. 442 00:20:49,100 --> 00:20:51,340 And then what did they do? 443 00:20:51,340 --> 00:20:53,260 Verse 41, 444 00:20:53,260 --> 00:20:54,860 Here's what we get to the screen. 445 00:20:55,860 --> 00:20:58,620 Then they that gladly received his word, 446 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:02,580 they got saved, were baptized. 447 00:21:02,580 --> 00:21:04,660 And the same day they were added unto them 448 00:21:04,660 --> 00:21:07,020 about 3,000 souls. 449 00:21:07,020 --> 00:21:10,460 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine, 450 00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:13,380 fellowship and breaking of bread and in prayers. 451 00:21:13,380 --> 00:21:15,020 And fear came upon every soul. 452 00:21:15,020 --> 00:21:19,980 Many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. 453 00:21:19,980 --> 00:21:21,220 And all that believed were together 454 00:21:21,220 --> 00:21:22,180 and had all things in common. 455 00:21:22,180 --> 00:21:24,500 They were all in the temple, 456 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:27,620 and they continued daily with one accord in the temple 457 00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:29,620 and breaking bread from house to house. 458 00:21:29,620 --> 00:21:31,780 Beneath their meat with gladness and singlets of heart, 459 00:21:31,780 --> 00:21:34,780 praising God and having favor with all the people. 460 00:21:34,780 --> 00:21:37,220 And the Lord added to the church how often? 461 00:21:38,020 --> 00:21:40,180 Daily, isn't that awesome? 462 00:21:40,180 --> 00:21:42,060 Daily such as should be saved. 463 00:21:43,020 --> 00:21:44,420 As you've heard me say so many times, 464 00:21:44,420 --> 00:21:46,940 the work of Jesus and the work of the early church 465 00:21:46,940 --> 00:21:50,740 was to reach people, to disciple people 466 00:21:50,740 --> 00:21:53,180 and to send people out to minister. 467 00:21:53,180 --> 00:21:56,500 And as the church did this locally, 468 00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:58,460 something amazing happened. 469 00:21:58,460 --> 00:22:00,860 And here's the fourth part of the pattern. 470 00:22:00,860 --> 00:22:05,860 Number four, God called people out of local churches 471 00:22:06,140 --> 00:22:09,660 who were discipled and leading in those local churches 472 00:22:09,660 --> 00:22:12,340 to go plant churches around the world. 473 00:22:14,460 --> 00:22:16,380 That's what happened. 474 00:22:16,380 --> 00:22:19,500 As people got saved, as people were discipled, 475 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:22,300 as they began to minister and to take leadership roles, 476 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:24,580 God used that experience that was happening 477 00:22:24,580 --> 00:22:26,460 in their local context and said, 478 00:22:26,460 --> 00:22:31,180 hey, it's time to go somewhere else to do the same thing. 479 00:22:31,180 --> 00:22:35,300 Acts 13, verse one, it'll be on your screen. 480 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:36,700 This is an example of it. 481 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:39,980 It's not the only example of it, but it's an example of it. 482 00:22:39,980 --> 00:22:42,740 Remember what I'm telling you, how does missions happen? 483 00:22:42,740 --> 00:22:44,620 How does worldwide missions happen? 484 00:22:44,620 --> 00:22:47,940 How does the gospel get from Jerusalem 485 00:22:47,940 --> 00:22:51,740 in the first century to Judea, Samaria, 486 00:22:51,740 --> 00:22:53,060 and to the uttermost parts of the earth? 487 00:22:53,060 --> 00:22:54,140 How did it get to Finley? 488 00:22:54,140 --> 00:22:57,220 And how does the gospel get back to where it needs to go? 489 00:22:57,220 --> 00:22:59,460 Well, people need to be saved. 490 00:23:01,060 --> 00:23:03,380 People need to be discipled. 491 00:23:03,380 --> 00:23:05,460 Churches need to be planted. 492 00:23:05,460 --> 00:23:07,580 So salvation and discipleship happens 493 00:23:09,020 --> 00:23:11,420 by Christians who were discipled in local churches. 494 00:23:11,420 --> 00:23:13,900 That's what happens. 495 00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:16,700 Then number four, God calls people out of those local churches 496 00:23:16,700 --> 00:23:18,940 who were discipled and leading in those local churches 497 00:23:18,940 --> 00:23:20,980 to go plant churches around the world. 498 00:23:20,980 --> 00:23:23,940 Verse one, chapter 13 acts. 499 00:23:23,940 --> 00:23:26,460 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch, 500 00:23:26,460 --> 00:23:30,020 certain prophets and teachers as Barnabas and Simeon, 501 00:23:30,020 --> 00:23:32,660 that was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, 502 00:23:32,660 --> 00:23:35,980 and Manian, which has been brought up 503 00:23:35,980 --> 00:23:38,460 with Herod the Chetrarch and Saul. 504 00:23:38,460 --> 00:23:39,780 Now here's what's amazing. 505 00:23:41,220 --> 00:23:43,900 At this point, the gospel had gotten from Jerusalem 506 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:46,060 and Judea, and now it's in Antioch. 507 00:23:46,060 --> 00:23:49,540 And when you read those names, were those all Jewish people? 508 00:23:52,980 --> 00:23:54,380 You're like, I don't know, Pastor Ben, 509 00:23:54,380 --> 00:23:57,220 you're supposed to be preaching the message, you tell me. 510 00:23:57,220 --> 00:23:59,940 They're not, they're not all Jewish. 511 00:23:59,940 --> 00:24:01,100 Some of them are. 512 00:24:02,940 --> 00:24:05,220 Simon was from Niger, you know where that is? 513 00:24:06,180 --> 00:24:07,020 Africa. 514 00:24:09,860 --> 00:24:12,700 Lucius of Cyrene, that's Greek, 515 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:15,260 Manian, which had been brought up with Herod the Chetrarch. 516 00:24:15,260 --> 00:24:16,260 Who is Herod? 517 00:24:18,140 --> 00:24:18,980 Roman. 518 00:24:20,180 --> 00:24:25,180 Okay, these are, is the gospel going beyond Judaism? 519 00:24:25,660 --> 00:24:28,100 It's going beyond the Jew to the Gentile. 520 00:24:28,940 --> 00:24:31,380 And here are a bunch of people who are ministering 521 00:24:31,380 --> 00:24:34,500 the people in Antioch cross-culturally. 522 00:24:35,380 --> 00:24:37,020 And then it says one more, and? 523 00:24:38,460 --> 00:24:39,700 Who's the last one in verse one? 524 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:40,860 You see that? 525 00:24:40,860 --> 00:24:44,140 Saul, later called Paul. 526 00:24:44,140 --> 00:24:46,340 As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, 527 00:24:46,340 --> 00:24:50,060 the Holy Ghost said, separate me, Barnabas and Saul, 528 00:24:50,060 --> 00:24:53,340 for the work where unto I have called them. 529 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:57,100 The word here for separate means set them aside. 530 00:24:58,340 --> 00:24:59,500 Now here's a question. 531 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:01,540 What were they doing when this happened? 532 00:25:03,340 --> 00:25:04,940 Were they in a local church? 533 00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:07,300 Yes. 534 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:10,620 Were they ministering in that local church? 535 00:25:10,620 --> 00:25:11,460 Yeah. 536 00:25:11,460 --> 00:25:13,460 What were they doing in that local church? 537 00:25:13,460 --> 00:25:15,860 Can I tell you they were reaching people, 538 00:25:15,860 --> 00:25:18,660 teaching people, ministering to people. 539 00:25:18,660 --> 00:25:22,100 Then the Holy Spirit leads the church and leads these men 540 00:25:22,100 --> 00:25:23,860 to do something. 541 00:25:23,860 --> 00:25:25,540 He says separate unto me. 542 00:25:25,540 --> 00:25:27,380 He says send them. 543 00:25:28,580 --> 00:25:29,540 Send them. 544 00:25:29,540 --> 00:25:31,740 You're like, Pastor Ben, I didn't see send in that verse. 545 00:25:31,740 --> 00:25:34,420 Well, look at the next two verses. 546 00:25:34,420 --> 00:25:35,540 It was time for them to leave. 547 00:25:35,540 --> 00:25:36,460 It's time for them to go. 548 00:25:36,460 --> 00:25:37,300 Look at verse three. 549 00:25:37,300 --> 00:25:40,260 And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on 550 00:25:40,260 --> 00:25:43,620 them, they, talking about that local church in Antioch, 551 00:25:43,620 --> 00:25:44,980 what did they do? 552 00:25:44,980 --> 00:25:46,980 They sent them away. 553 00:25:46,980 --> 00:25:51,980 So they being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, 554 00:25:51,980 --> 00:25:53,500 and of course by the local church. 555 00:25:55,060 --> 00:25:58,500 And from thence they sailed, departed unto Celusia, 556 00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:01,220 and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. 557 00:26:01,220 --> 00:26:05,020 Two words are used here for each time it says sent. 558 00:26:05,020 --> 00:26:10,020 In verse three where it says sent, the word is apaluo. 559 00:26:10,660 --> 00:26:13,940 It has the idea of being released. 560 00:26:13,940 --> 00:26:16,980 So it's like, let them go. 561 00:26:16,980 --> 00:26:21,980 Separate unto me, Paul and Barnabas, let them go. 562 00:26:21,980 --> 00:26:25,500 In verse four, the word sent is ech pimpoh. 563 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:27,940 It has the idea of being dispatched, 564 00:26:27,940 --> 00:26:31,100 or like it says here, being sent forth. 565 00:26:31,100 --> 00:26:34,420 And sending feels like both. 566 00:26:34,420 --> 00:26:36,420 And I'm going to go with. 567 00:26:36,420 --> 00:26:39,740 At Cherry Street Baptist Church where my dad's the pastor, 568 00:26:39,740 --> 00:26:41,900 I've been able to watch that because my dad is the pastor 569 00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:43,020 and we're close. 570 00:26:43,020 --> 00:26:45,500 I've been able to watch his ministry when he got to 571 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:49,300 Cherry Street from 2008 to 2023. 572 00:26:49,300 --> 00:26:54,300 In those years from 2008 to 2023, they've sent 24 households, 573 00:26:57,140 --> 00:27:00,380 units, some single, some married, some with families, 574 00:27:00,380 --> 00:27:05,380 but 24 different people to foreign mission fields. 575 00:27:06,140 --> 00:27:07,300 How cool is that? 576 00:27:08,300 --> 00:27:10,260 It has nothing to do with my dad. 577 00:27:10,260 --> 00:27:13,100 God's just using that church to do that. 578 00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:14,140 Who thinks that's so cool? 579 00:27:14,140 --> 00:27:15,380 I think that's amazing. 580 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,340 I've watched from a distance how that every time someone 581 00:27:20,340 --> 00:27:22,420 has been called and trained and sent, 582 00:27:22,420 --> 00:27:24,300 both aspects of this happens. 583 00:27:25,260 --> 00:27:27,100 People in the church are functioning well, 584 00:27:27,100 --> 00:27:29,300 they're growing, maybe they've gotten saved, 585 00:27:29,300 --> 00:27:33,020 they've been raised up in that church, they're trained. 586 00:27:33,020 --> 00:27:34,460 And then when it's time for them to go, 587 00:27:34,460 --> 00:27:37,460 the church must send them in the sense of releasing them. 588 00:27:37,460 --> 00:27:40,820 This means that when they're sent, they're gonna miss them. 589 00:27:41,980 --> 00:27:43,260 What do I mean? 590 00:27:43,260 --> 00:27:44,820 Well, they're gonna miss them emotionally. 591 00:27:44,820 --> 00:27:47,700 Who agrees that if someone would call someone out 592 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:50,260 of our church like that and they were to go 593 00:27:50,260 --> 00:27:53,020 to the foreign field, we would miss them? 594 00:27:54,020 --> 00:27:55,220 There would be that emotional like, 595 00:27:55,220 --> 00:27:56,860 oh man, I wish they were still here. 596 00:27:56,860 --> 00:27:59,180 And I've watched that happen at that church. 597 00:27:59,180 --> 00:28:01,140 So there's that emotional like release 598 00:28:01,140 --> 00:28:02,700 that you have to let these people go 599 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:04,300 because we're just gonna have to see each other again 600 00:28:04,300 --> 00:28:06,260 in heaven and talk to each other on Zoom. 601 00:28:06,260 --> 00:28:08,540 That's how it's gonna have to be, right? 602 00:28:08,540 --> 00:28:09,620 You guys don't care. 603 00:28:09,620 --> 00:28:10,420 That's kind of a joke. 604 00:28:10,420 --> 00:28:13,340 Okay, so there's that emotional, they're gone, 605 00:28:13,340 --> 00:28:16,400 but there's also the ministry part of it. 606 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,300 They are going to be there doing the ministry 607 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:19,860 that they were doing in that church anymore. 608 00:28:19,860 --> 00:28:21,100 So if those people were here 609 00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:22,900 and they were teaching a Sunday school class 610 00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:26,540 and then God were to send them away, guess what we need? 611 00:28:26,540 --> 00:28:29,780 We need a new teacher for the Sunday school class. 612 00:28:29,780 --> 00:28:31,260 Does that make sense? 613 00:28:31,260 --> 00:28:33,980 Because they're not gonna be ministering here anymore. 614 00:28:33,980 --> 00:28:35,980 And so there's this releasing. 615 00:28:35,980 --> 00:28:37,580 If they're leading some ministry, 616 00:28:37,580 --> 00:28:41,500 a new ministry is needed because they've been released. 617 00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:43,500 So you have that aspect of it, 618 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:45,500 but there's also when it's time for them to go, 619 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:48,100 the church must send them in the sense of supporting them. 620 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:49,980 They help them financially. 621 00:28:49,980 --> 00:28:51,620 It takes money to get there. 622 00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:55,340 They have to support them prayerfully. 623 00:28:55,340 --> 00:28:57,580 If you feel like it takes money for them to get there, 624 00:28:57,580 --> 00:28:59,780 trust me, it takes prayer for them to get there. 625 00:29:02,020 --> 00:29:04,700 They promote their support among other like-minded churches 626 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:06,820 to get them to the field. 627 00:29:06,820 --> 00:29:09,580 And when they do that, then verse five can happen. 628 00:29:10,420 --> 00:29:11,740 What did the church in Aarhus do? 629 00:29:11,740 --> 00:29:14,340 They released them, they sent them, verse five. 630 00:29:14,340 --> 00:29:16,300 And when they were come at Salimus, 631 00:29:16,300 --> 00:29:19,620 they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, 632 00:29:19,620 --> 00:29:21,620 and they had also John to their ministry. 633 00:29:21,620 --> 00:29:22,620 You know what that means? 634 00:29:22,620 --> 00:29:23,620 They didn't go by themselves, 635 00:29:23,620 --> 00:29:25,340 they took somebody with them. 636 00:29:25,340 --> 00:29:27,260 When they got there, they started with people 637 00:29:27,260 --> 00:29:29,900 who at least believed the first half of the book. 638 00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:32,860 They didn't start with the pagans, 639 00:29:32,860 --> 00:29:34,900 they started with the Jews who at least believed 640 00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:36,300 that the Old Testament's the word of God. 641 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:38,060 Isn't that a good strategy? 642 00:29:38,060 --> 00:29:39,940 What a great strategy, to the Jew first 643 00:29:39,940 --> 00:29:42,500 and also to the Greek. 644 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:45,980 So here you have the biblical basis. 645 00:29:45,980 --> 00:29:47,980 Where do missionaries come from? 646 00:29:49,340 --> 00:29:50,180 Look around. 647 00:29:50,180 --> 00:29:51,980 Where do missionaries come from? 648 00:29:52,980 --> 00:29:54,380 They come from local churches. 649 00:29:54,380 --> 00:29:56,300 As local churches, when people to Jesus 650 00:29:56,300 --> 00:29:59,460 and disciple those people and equip them in the church, 651 00:29:59,460 --> 00:30:02,620 then we get to say to some people, 652 00:30:02,620 --> 00:30:05,780 maybe you've heard this before, you're not dismissed, 653 00:30:05,780 --> 00:30:06,620 you're sent. 654 00:30:08,260 --> 00:30:10,940 And we say that to all of us as we're sent into our community, 655 00:30:10,940 --> 00:30:14,260 but one day, I'm looking out for volunteers, 656 00:30:15,540 --> 00:30:18,100 we're praying the God who has the Holy Spirit 657 00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:21,500 would say, hey, separate unto me, this person, 658 00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:24,100 that person for the work that I'm sending them to do. 659 00:30:26,740 --> 00:30:31,220 Number five, here's the fifth part of the pattern. 660 00:30:31,220 --> 00:30:32,340 Are you ready? 661 00:30:32,340 --> 00:30:36,820 These efforts, this sending, it was supported 662 00:30:36,820 --> 00:30:39,940 with prayer and giving from other local churches. 663 00:30:41,220 --> 00:30:43,940 Who agrees, it would be very difficult for us 664 00:30:43,940 --> 00:30:47,060 to support people with a living in a life 665 00:30:47,060 --> 00:30:50,060 or a living in all these places, 666 00:30:50,060 --> 00:30:51,980 just as a church, just as us. 667 00:30:53,060 --> 00:30:57,540 So, I'll give you examples, they're all over the New Testament, 668 00:30:57,540 --> 00:31:02,540 but Paul in 2 Corinthians, chapter 11 says in verse 7, 669 00:31:06,580 --> 00:31:10,100 he's telling this church that he planted in Corinth. 670 00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:12,340 Where was he sent from? 671 00:31:12,340 --> 00:31:14,780 Antioch, right? 672 00:31:14,780 --> 00:31:15,780 Are you guys with me? 673 00:31:15,780 --> 00:31:18,180 So, this is a church that he established 674 00:31:19,020 --> 00:31:21,940 as part of his mission, what did he do? 675 00:31:21,940 --> 00:31:24,380 He went and reached people, he discipled them, 676 00:31:24,380 --> 00:31:27,340 he trained up leadership, that's what happened. 677 00:31:27,340 --> 00:31:31,340 In verse number seven, he tells this church 678 00:31:31,340 --> 00:31:35,620 that he started on this mission, how it got there. 679 00:31:35,620 --> 00:31:37,940 Verse seven, have I committed an offense 680 00:31:37,940 --> 00:31:40,180 in abasing myself that ye might be exalted 681 00:31:40,180 --> 00:31:44,100 because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 682 00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:45,820 What is he saying? 683 00:31:45,820 --> 00:31:48,540 Well, he says, verse eight, I robbed other churches, 684 00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:51,740 taking wages of them to do you service. 685 00:31:51,740 --> 00:31:52,860 Now, when he says robbed, 686 00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:55,580 don't think something weird about 687 00:31:55,580 --> 00:31:57,180 our upcoming missions conference. 688 00:31:59,580 --> 00:32:04,140 Adam and Alia Cottrell are some missionaries 689 00:32:04,140 --> 00:32:05,980 that are coming to our conference. 690 00:32:05,980 --> 00:32:08,460 Adam is out of a church in Southern Ohio. 691 00:32:08,460 --> 00:32:10,700 He got saved and baptized and discipled 692 00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:13,100 in a Baptist church in Southern Ohio. 693 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:17,820 Alia, his wife, got saved and baptized and discipled 694 00:32:17,820 --> 00:32:19,220 in a local church in New Testament 695 00:32:19,220 --> 00:32:21,940 because somebody, Brother Dave Fawcett, 696 00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:23,500 brought her on the bus. 697 00:32:24,540 --> 00:32:25,860 Her parents didn't come. 698 00:32:27,220 --> 00:32:29,820 Somebody went out on the bus route 699 00:32:29,820 --> 00:32:32,300 and brought her to New Testament Baptist Church in Largo 700 00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:35,820 in the 90s and 2000s and she got saved and discipled 701 00:32:35,820 --> 00:32:39,100 and now she and Adam are living in Bangkok, Thailand, 702 00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:40,820 telling people about Jesus. 703 00:32:40,820 --> 00:32:41,900 Think that's awesome. 704 00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:45,660 And so they're coming here and they need support 705 00:32:45,660 --> 00:32:46,620 and we're gonna pray for them 706 00:32:46,620 --> 00:32:48,700 and we're gonna try to support them financially, 707 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,780 but they're not coming and holding us up. 708 00:32:50,780 --> 00:32:53,420 The idea of robbing here is he's saying 709 00:32:53,420 --> 00:32:55,460 that these churches supported him 710 00:32:55,460 --> 00:32:57,220 so that when he went to Corinth, 711 00:32:57,220 --> 00:32:59,500 he didn't have to ask people for money. 712 00:33:00,660 --> 00:33:02,540 He could live. 713 00:33:02,540 --> 00:33:03,740 You see the pattern? 714 00:33:03,740 --> 00:33:05,900 The missionary isn't trying to raise his support 715 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:07,340 among the lost first. 716 00:33:08,780 --> 00:33:10,700 He's raising his support to do the ministry 717 00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:12,860 among the saved at other churches. 718 00:33:12,860 --> 00:33:14,700 This is so helpful for their ministry. 719 00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:17,740 People already suspect that missionaries 720 00:33:17,740 --> 00:33:20,460 have some ulterior motive to come and preach to them. 721 00:33:20,460 --> 00:33:21,940 And by the way, there are some people 722 00:33:21,940 --> 00:33:24,380 who call themselves missionaries and pastors 723 00:33:24,380 --> 00:33:27,220 that they're whole, it's a get rich quick scheme. 724 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:29,860 They're charlatans, okay? 725 00:33:29,860 --> 00:33:31,060 How do you know they're charlatans? 726 00:33:31,060 --> 00:33:32,540 They don't say what this says. 727 00:33:34,980 --> 00:33:38,300 But imagine if money got involved too soon, verse nine. 728 00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:39,780 And when I was present with you 729 00:33:39,780 --> 00:33:41,780 and wanted, I was charged, 730 00:33:41,780 --> 00:33:43,380 meaning when I had a need, 731 00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:46,980 I was chargeable to no man. 732 00:33:46,980 --> 00:33:49,780 For that which was lacking to me, 733 00:33:49,780 --> 00:33:52,340 the brethren which came from Macedonia, 734 00:33:52,340 --> 00:33:53,700 not where you are somewhere else, 735 00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:56,220 some other local church supplied. 736 00:33:56,220 --> 00:33:59,260 And all things I've kept myself from being burdensome 737 00:33:59,260 --> 00:34:02,380 unto you, and so will I keep myself. 738 00:34:02,380 --> 00:34:04,020 This isn't the only passage that talks about this, 739 00:34:04,020 --> 00:34:06,340 but the point is the biblical pattern is, 740 00:34:06,340 --> 00:34:09,340 as God calls people out of these local churches, 741 00:34:09,340 --> 00:34:11,180 other local churches and other believers 742 00:34:11,180 --> 00:34:14,180 help give a little bit so that together we can 743 00:34:14,180 --> 00:34:17,780 fund the effort of the missionary getting to the field. 744 00:34:19,060 --> 00:34:21,020 And starting churches there, 745 00:34:21,020 --> 00:34:22,780 not going there for one week or two week 746 00:34:22,780 --> 00:34:24,340 or here we'll get a little project, 747 00:34:24,340 --> 00:34:26,820 but going there, learning their language, 748 00:34:26,820 --> 00:34:29,780 becoming like them, winning people that are there, 749 00:34:29,780 --> 00:34:32,100 and then bringing up national leadership out of there 750 00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:33,900 to lead those churches. 751 00:34:35,340 --> 00:34:37,500 So that's what we see. 752 00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:40,820 The goal is in number six, 753 00:34:41,820 --> 00:34:44,580 the goal of church planning is autonomous, 754 00:34:44,580 --> 00:34:47,460 which means self-governing churches. 755 00:34:47,460 --> 00:34:49,820 The church planting missionaries, 756 00:34:49,820 --> 00:34:52,300 reach people, disciple people, planted churches, 757 00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:56,980 and developed leaders to lead those churches 758 00:34:56,980 --> 00:34:57,820 that were planted. 759 00:34:57,820 --> 00:35:00,940 Look at 1 Corinthians 4, verse 14, 760 00:35:00,940 --> 00:35:02,700 this was our reading for today. 761 00:35:03,580 --> 00:35:05,980 Paul says to this Corinthian church, 762 00:35:05,980 --> 00:35:08,860 I write, not these things to shame you. 763 00:35:08,860 --> 00:35:11,580 He's like, I'm correcting what you're doing in this letter, 764 00:35:11,580 --> 00:35:13,260 but I'm not trying to shame you, 765 00:35:13,260 --> 00:35:15,780 but as my beloved sons, I warn you. 766 00:35:16,820 --> 00:35:19,660 For though you have 10,000 instructors in Christ, 767 00:35:19,660 --> 00:35:21,500 you have not many fathers, 768 00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:24,060 for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 769 00:35:24,060 --> 00:35:25,420 What is he saying? 770 00:35:25,420 --> 00:35:27,820 There's a lot of people willing to teach you about Jesus, 771 00:35:27,820 --> 00:35:31,380 but I was there when you were born spiritually. 772 00:35:31,380 --> 00:35:34,500 I was there when you first got saved. 773 00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:36,660 You can trust me as a spiritual father. 774 00:35:38,020 --> 00:35:38,860 And he says this, 775 00:35:38,860 --> 00:35:41,700 Wherefore I beseech you be ye followers of me, 776 00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:43,900 for this cause I have sent unto thee, 777 00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:47,620 Timotheus, who is my beloved son, faithful in the Lord, 778 00:35:47,620 --> 00:35:50,580 who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways, 779 00:35:50,580 --> 00:35:51,420 which be in Christ. 780 00:35:51,420 --> 00:35:52,540 You know what he's saying? 781 00:35:52,540 --> 00:35:54,140 You need to continue to grow, 782 00:35:54,140 --> 00:35:55,980 you need to continue to be developed, 783 00:35:55,980 --> 00:35:58,700 you need to continue to be all that God wants you to be, 784 00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:00,940 but I can't be there. 785 00:36:00,940 --> 00:36:04,700 I want you to follow me to do what I do, 786 00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:06,020 to believe what I believe, 787 00:36:06,020 --> 00:36:07,820 and so because you need to do that, 788 00:36:07,820 --> 00:36:09,220 I've trained up a leader. 789 00:36:09,220 --> 00:36:12,900 God has provided a leader that I'm going to, 790 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:16,860 small word, four letters, we've used it a lot, send. 791 00:36:18,860 --> 00:36:22,340 When he shows up, he's gonna remind you of me. 792 00:36:24,180 --> 00:36:25,020 Right? 793 00:36:25,020 --> 00:36:28,380 You do what you're supposed to do, 794 00:36:28,380 --> 00:36:29,220 follow me, 795 00:36:29,220 --> 00:36:32,020 so that what happens, verse 17, 796 00:36:32,020 --> 00:36:32,860 as I teach, 797 00:36:34,700 --> 00:36:35,900 what does he say? 798 00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:38,860 Everywhere in every church, 799 00:36:38,860 --> 00:36:41,180 because I've raised up somebody to send, 800 00:36:41,180 --> 00:36:42,580 to help you continue, 801 00:36:42,580 --> 00:36:46,580 I'm freed up to go do the mission somewhere else. 802 00:36:47,540 --> 00:36:48,940 Who thinks that's cool? 803 00:36:48,940 --> 00:36:50,940 That's the pattern. 804 00:36:50,940 --> 00:36:52,340 That's the pattern. 805 00:36:53,620 --> 00:36:55,420 The goal is that the churches that are planning 806 00:36:55,420 --> 00:36:58,180 our self leading, self propagating, 807 00:36:58,180 --> 00:37:01,620 self propagating, and self governing. 808 00:37:01,620 --> 00:37:05,140 The missionary's goal is to work himself out of a job. 809 00:37:06,220 --> 00:37:07,060 Why? 810 00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:09,340 So that they can go on to another place, 811 00:37:10,580 --> 00:37:12,660 or maybe eventually move on to heaven. 812 00:37:13,660 --> 00:37:15,020 That's what happens. 813 00:37:15,020 --> 00:37:17,380 So here's the last part of the pattern, number seven. 814 00:37:17,380 --> 00:37:20,980 The missionary church planner in the early church 815 00:37:20,980 --> 00:37:24,580 would report back to churches that supported their efforts 816 00:37:24,580 --> 00:37:28,460 in letters and visits. 817 00:37:28,460 --> 00:37:32,220 In just a couple weeks coming up, 818 00:37:32,220 --> 00:37:35,980 Larry Lowry told me that he and Randy 819 00:37:35,980 --> 00:37:37,700 are going on the mission journey of Paul. 820 00:37:37,700 --> 00:37:38,900 They're gonna go where Paul went. 821 00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:40,940 Not cool, it'd be a cool trip to go. 822 00:37:40,940 --> 00:37:42,260 And maybe I should have said that. 823 00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:43,340 Didn't get permission to say that, 824 00:37:43,340 --> 00:37:45,380 but they're gonna go where Paul went 825 00:37:45,380 --> 00:37:46,380 to all these different places 826 00:37:46,380 --> 00:37:48,460 where he shared the gospel. 827 00:37:48,460 --> 00:37:50,740 And you know what really like 828 00:37:50,740 --> 00:37:52,820 a large part of the New Testament is? 829 00:37:52,820 --> 00:37:55,860 It's a missionary sending letters 830 00:37:55,860 --> 00:37:57,380 to the churches he started. 831 00:37:58,380 --> 00:38:01,380 It's a missionary sending a report 832 00:38:04,340 --> 00:38:06,860 of what God is doing in other places 833 00:38:06,860 --> 00:38:09,060 where they are supporting him and working. 834 00:38:09,060 --> 00:38:09,900 Let me give you an example. 835 00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:12,420 In Philippians chapter four, verse 10. 836 00:38:12,420 --> 00:38:13,260 You got it? 837 00:38:13,260 --> 00:38:14,100 Philippians four, 10. 838 00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:15,180 Here's what it says. 839 00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:17,380 I'm gonna read this. 840 00:38:18,740 --> 00:38:20,780 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly 841 00:38:20,780 --> 00:38:25,180 that now at the last your care of me has flourished again. 842 00:38:25,180 --> 00:38:26,340 You know what he's saying? 843 00:38:26,340 --> 00:38:28,740 Philippians, thanks for supporting me. 844 00:38:28,740 --> 00:38:31,260 Thanks for caring for me. 845 00:38:31,260 --> 00:38:33,980 Wearing you are also careful, but you lacked opportunity. 846 00:38:33,980 --> 00:38:35,740 Not that I speak in respect of one another. 847 00:38:35,740 --> 00:38:38,580 I'm not telling you this because I want more stuff. 848 00:38:38,580 --> 00:38:40,380 For I've learned in what's overstated I am there 849 00:38:40,380 --> 00:38:41,220 with to be content. 850 00:38:41,220 --> 00:38:44,100 I know how both to be abased and I know how to abound 851 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:46,500 everywhere and all things I'm instructed both to be full 852 00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:49,580 and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 853 00:38:49,580 --> 00:38:52,020 I can do all things through Christ with strength in me. 854 00:38:52,020 --> 00:38:55,340 Meaning I can be empowered to get along 855 00:38:55,340 --> 00:38:56,820 with whatever God provides, 856 00:38:56,820 --> 00:38:59,300 but thank you for God providing through you. 857 00:38:59,300 --> 00:39:02,700 Verse 14, notwithstanding ye have well done, 858 00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:07,220 that ye did communicate or give or help with my affliction. 859 00:39:07,220 --> 00:39:09,420 Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning 860 00:39:09,420 --> 00:39:12,220 of the gospel when I've been departed from Macedonia, 861 00:39:12,220 --> 00:39:14,580 no church communicated with me as concerning giving 862 00:39:14,580 --> 00:39:16,620 or receiving, but ye only. 863 00:39:16,620 --> 00:39:19,700 When I left, ye were my only supporting church. 864 00:39:22,220 --> 00:39:24,300 For even in Thessalonica, you sent once and again 865 00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:25,140 unto my necessity. 866 00:39:25,140 --> 00:39:26,340 I remember what you did. 867 00:39:26,340 --> 00:39:28,980 You gave, when I was starting that church in Thessalonica, 868 00:39:28,980 --> 00:39:31,020 you didn't just give once, you kept giving. 869 00:39:31,020 --> 00:39:32,100 You kept giving. 870 00:39:35,220 --> 00:39:36,500 Now because I desire a gift. 871 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:39,500 Listen, I'm not telling you this so you keep doing it. 872 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:42,540 But I desire a fruit, now here's the cool part. 873 00:39:42,540 --> 00:39:47,540 I desire a fruit that may abound to your account. 874 00:39:48,100 --> 00:39:49,100 What is he saying? 875 00:39:50,100 --> 00:39:51,500 You know who notices? 876 00:39:53,540 --> 00:39:54,660 God notices. 877 00:39:54,660 --> 00:39:58,860 And when you support people who are going to foreign fields 878 00:39:58,860 --> 00:40:01,820 to plant churches and reach people for the gospel, 879 00:40:01,820 --> 00:40:03,940 you had a part in that. 880 00:40:03,940 --> 00:40:06,060 Does that make you excited? 881 00:40:06,060 --> 00:40:08,180 We're gonna get to heaven and meet people 882 00:40:08,180 --> 00:40:11,380 that the people we supported led to Christ. 883 00:40:11,380 --> 00:40:14,020 How cool is it to be a grandparent, 884 00:40:14,020 --> 00:40:16,380 to get to heaven to find out that the people 885 00:40:16,380 --> 00:40:21,260 that I supported, supported people who supported people 886 00:40:21,260 --> 00:40:23,860 who were there, who thinks that's cool? 887 00:40:23,860 --> 00:40:26,540 And he says, what Paul's saying is 888 00:40:26,540 --> 00:40:28,380 there's gonna be a fruit that's added to your account. 889 00:40:28,380 --> 00:40:30,420 I want you to be a part of this. 890 00:40:30,420 --> 00:40:32,260 I want you to get in on the ground floor 891 00:40:32,260 --> 00:40:35,780 of what God is doing, verse 18. 892 00:40:35,780 --> 00:40:37,100 But I have all in abound. 893 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:39,300 I am full having received from Epaphroditus 894 00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:40,980 the things which were sent from you. 895 00:40:40,980 --> 00:40:44,420 An odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, 896 00:40:44,420 --> 00:40:46,060 well pleasing to God. 897 00:40:47,380 --> 00:40:52,380 Isn't God thankful when we give towards what he's trying 898 00:40:52,980 --> 00:40:54,380 to do all over the world? 899 00:40:54,380 --> 00:40:55,460 That's what it's saying. 900 00:40:56,860 --> 00:40:57,900 Verse 19. 901 00:40:57,900 --> 00:40:59,980 And if you're worried that God won't supply your need 902 00:40:59,980 --> 00:41:03,060 because you're helping to supply other people's needs, 903 00:41:03,060 --> 00:41:04,300 we all know this, verse 19. 904 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:07,060 But my God shall supply all your need. 905 00:41:07,060 --> 00:41:10,020 According to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus, 906 00:41:10,020 --> 00:41:15,020 now unto God and our Father be glory forever and ever. 907 00:41:15,660 --> 00:41:16,500 Amen. 908 00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:19,900 You know the whole point of this whole process 909 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:22,980 is that people would be saved and God would be glorified. 910 00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:25,780 And he gets to use us to be a part of that. 911 00:41:25,780 --> 00:41:27,900 Who thinks that's cool? 912 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:32,260 What an amazing, amazing, amazing thing. 913 00:41:32,260 --> 00:41:33,660 So do you see the pattern? 914 00:41:34,860 --> 00:41:35,980 Do you see the pattern? 915 00:41:37,460 --> 00:41:39,580 We do the great commission here 916 00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:42,140 as we disciple people here and people grow here. 917 00:41:42,140 --> 00:41:45,500 God's going to call, I believe, people out of our church 918 00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:48,260 and send them all over the world. 919 00:41:48,260 --> 00:41:50,460 Who wants more people to go? 920 00:41:50,460 --> 00:41:51,300 Who's volunteering? 921 00:41:51,300 --> 00:41:52,740 Oh, I see that hand. 922 00:41:52,740 --> 00:41:53,580 I see that hand. 923 00:41:56,140 --> 00:41:58,060 God wants to do that. 924 00:41:58,060 --> 00:42:00,260 But then we get to partner with what God's doing 925 00:42:00,260 --> 00:42:01,300 in all these different places. 926 00:42:01,300 --> 00:42:04,740 As people are getting sent out, we get to support them. 927 00:42:04,740 --> 00:42:07,220 So how do we do that here at Trinity? 928 00:42:07,220 --> 00:42:08,060 Here's a couple of things. 929 00:42:08,060 --> 00:42:11,460 Number one, we do great commission ministry here. 930 00:42:11,460 --> 00:42:12,980 We want to see people get saved. 931 00:42:12,980 --> 00:42:16,460 In a couple weeks, you're going to see a married couple 932 00:42:16,460 --> 00:42:19,220 who got saved because they were invited to our church 933 00:42:19,220 --> 00:42:22,820 by their sister and brother-in-law who are being discipled. 934 00:42:22,820 --> 00:42:26,500 And they've been listening online. 935 00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:28,060 They watched a bunch of my preaching 936 00:42:28,060 --> 00:42:31,820 and didn't fall asleep on the YouTube. 937 00:42:31,820 --> 00:42:33,900 And they got saved and they came 938 00:42:33,900 --> 00:42:34,740 and wanted to join the church. 939 00:42:34,740 --> 00:42:36,900 And I got to lead the husband of the Lord. 940 00:42:36,900 --> 00:42:38,140 How cool is that? 941 00:42:38,140 --> 00:42:39,420 And they're going to get baptized 942 00:42:39,420 --> 00:42:40,700 and we're going to continue to... 943 00:42:40,700 --> 00:42:41,620 That's what's happening here. 944 00:42:41,620 --> 00:42:43,220 That's an amazing thing. 945 00:42:43,220 --> 00:42:45,500 So we're going to keep doing that here. 946 00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:48,620 But I want you to know also that this has been the history 947 00:42:48,620 --> 00:42:49,540 of this church. 948 00:42:49,540 --> 00:42:52,260 Number two, we support great commission ministry nationally 949 00:42:52,260 --> 00:42:54,140 and then internationally. 950 00:42:54,140 --> 00:42:57,620 For instance, this mission's auction that's coming up, 951 00:42:57,620 --> 00:43:01,620 we're going to support a project where that 108 people 952 00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:04,100 are going to be sent for a short amount of time 953 00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:09,100 to Paris, France during the Olympics next year. 954 00:43:09,140 --> 00:43:11,580 They've already bought a bunch of the hotel rooms 955 00:43:11,580 --> 00:43:12,500 that are needed. 956 00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:15,900 We're going to print 500,000 tracks to hand out 957 00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:17,860 during those weeks. 958 00:43:17,860 --> 00:43:21,140 They're making a website where the gospel is going to be 959 00:43:21,140 --> 00:43:23,380 presented in multiple languages. 960 00:43:23,380 --> 00:43:26,900 And they're also going to broadcast that website, 961 00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:31,420 push that website to every, through geofencing to every, 962 00:43:31,420 --> 00:43:32,540 and we're praying that this can happen. 963 00:43:32,540 --> 00:43:34,660 They're going to do that to every venue 964 00:43:34,660 --> 00:43:36,860 that's happening at the Olympics. 965 00:43:36,860 --> 00:43:40,540 People that we could not go to legally are coming to France 966 00:43:40,540 --> 00:43:41,740 and we're going to get them the gospel. 967 00:43:41,740 --> 00:43:43,060 How cool is that? 968 00:43:43,060 --> 00:43:45,140 So as we do this mission's auction next week, 969 00:43:45,140 --> 00:43:46,700 the money we're going to raise is going to go 970 00:43:46,700 --> 00:43:49,940 to helping us buy those tracks, set up that website. 971 00:43:49,940 --> 00:43:51,340 Who thinks that's cool? 972 00:43:51,340 --> 00:43:53,140 I think that's amazing. 973 00:43:53,140 --> 00:43:55,780 But we're not just doing missions projects around here. 974 00:43:55,780 --> 00:44:00,780 We also support specifically church planting missionaries. 975 00:44:00,780 --> 00:44:02,500 What I would call biblical missionaries. 976 00:44:02,500 --> 00:44:07,500 Missionaries, right now we support 129 missionaries a month. 977 00:44:09,060 --> 00:44:10,460 How cool, that's amazing. 978 00:44:11,540 --> 00:44:14,140 Thank you church for your generosity. 979 00:44:14,140 --> 00:44:17,420 129 people all over the world, 980 00:44:17,420 --> 00:44:20,580 planting churches, reaching people, discipling people, 981 00:44:21,700 --> 00:44:24,500 learning their language, speaking their language, 982 00:44:24,500 --> 00:44:29,500 training up nationals to keep doing the same thing. 983 00:44:30,860 --> 00:44:32,700 That's how the gospel gets out. 984 00:44:32,700 --> 00:44:34,340 We have some that are coming 985 00:44:34,340 --> 00:44:36,420 that we want to raise to do more. 986 00:44:36,420 --> 00:44:39,540 So we're supporting Great Commission Ministry nationally 987 00:44:39,540 --> 00:44:42,060 and internationally and we want to keep doing that. 988 00:44:42,060 --> 00:44:47,060 Last year, the calendar year, the calendar year 2021, 989 00:44:47,860 --> 00:44:52,100 we gave $217,000 to that effort. 990 00:44:52,100 --> 00:44:53,500 Isn't that cool? 991 00:44:53,500 --> 00:44:54,580 That's an amazing thing. 992 00:44:56,140 --> 00:44:57,900 You can clap, that's good. 993 00:44:57,900 --> 00:45:08,980 So we support Great Commission Ministry nationally 994 00:45:08,980 --> 00:45:09,900 and internationally. 995 00:45:09,900 --> 00:45:12,700 And number three, here's what we're praying for. 996 00:45:12,700 --> 00:45:17,340 We're praying that God would send somebody out of our church. 997 00:45:17,340 --> 00:45:19,300 Have you been praying for that? 998 00:45:19,300 --> 00:45:24,100 We're praying that God would see fit to take somebody 999 00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:28,300 out of our church to go where Christ is not named 1000 00:45:28,300 --> 00:45:29,460 and to do the same effort, 1001 00:45:29,460 --> 00:45:33,740 to do what's been done for them here somewhere else. 1002 00:45:35,980 --> 00:45:37,180 That's how we do missions. 1003 00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:42,020 We send people to do over there 1004 00:45:42,020 --> 00:45:43,660 what we're striving to do here. 1005 00:45:45,020 --> 00:45:45,900 What do you mean over there? 1006 00:45:45,900 --> 00:45:49,580 Wherever the Holy Spirit sends them. 1007 00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:51,700 How can you be a part of it? 1008 00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:54,700 You can pray and you can give 1009 00:45:54,700 --> 00:45:56,340 and maybe there's someone here 1010 00:45:57,540 --> 00:45:59,860 that God's working on your heart to go. 1011 00:46:01,620 --> 00:46:03,140 Maybe that's what's happening. 1012 00:46:03,140 --> 00:46:16,140 Would you bow your hands and close your eyes on me?