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Well, good morning.

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If you have your Bibles, we'll be in Luke 24 here in just a minute.

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I encourage you to pull that up in your Bible.

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If you don't have a Bible with you or don't have a phone with you,

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then there should be one pretty close by.

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Once again, I don't know the page number,

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but I'll give you a few minutes to find that.

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When I was a kid, I remember, when I was growing up,

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I remember watching the news.

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Not that I really cared about it, but it was always on somehow in my house.

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I remember watching the news during Operation Desert Storm.

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It seemed like one day we were invading Iraq.

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Now, this is my, I don't know how old I was,

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but it seemed like one day we were invading Iraq,

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and the next day it was over.

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In reality, the ground war only lasted 100 hours.

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When George Bush, President George Bush, and his military advisors

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determined to engage Saddam Hussein and his military forces,

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they first poured all the military might of the United States into the Saudi Arabian Peninsula.

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The coalition forces numbered over 500,000 men

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with the most technologically advanced equipment available, right?

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The best missiles, the best planes, the best tanks, the best weapons.

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They held nothing back because they understood their purpose,

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and their purpose was to win a war.

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Vietnam was a different story.

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The strategy, if you can even call it a strategy, was limited warfare.

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Now, the problem with limited warfare is that your opponent is probably engaged in all-out war.

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They're not going for limited warfare.

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So you're already at a disadvantage if your mindset going is limited warfare.

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Because the U.S. lost sight of the purpose of the military,

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which is to fight and win wars,

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we suffered an overwhelming and embarrassing defeat in Vietnam.

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Even when our soldiers returned, they weren't welcome back home.

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It's important to keep that purpose in mind.

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The purpose of any organization should be its guiding principle

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and should influence everything that it does.

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If certain activities do not reinforce its purpose, then they should be abandoned.

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Limited warfare is not in accord with the purpose of the military

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and should be forever abandoned.

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If other activities contribute to the fulfillment of purpose,

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they should be undertaken. They should be invested in.

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But every activity should be measured against its purpose.

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The purpose of the military is not to fight wars when they come up.

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The purpose of the military is to win wars when they come up.

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So what is the purpose of the church?

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What is the purpose of us?

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Why was it established?

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What is the purpose against which we should measure everything that we do?

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And if things are detracting from that purpose, what do we need to abandon?

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And the things that are enhancing that purpose, what should we invest in?

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So this morning we're going to look at Luke 24 and hopefully find that answer.

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I'm going to invite Kate up here this morning.

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Kate Randall is going to come read our text this morning.

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I invite you to stand as we honor the Lord's word together.

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She's going to read verses 45 through 48.

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Come on up here, Kate.

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Luke 24, 48 through 48.

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Randall opens their minds to understand the scriptures and check to them.

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Thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and on the third day wise on the dead.

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And that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all nations beginning from Jerusalem.

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You are witnesses of these things.

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Amen. Let's pray. Father, thank You for Your word.

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Thank You for the purpose that You've given us.

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Thank You for Kate and her willingness to read Your word.

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I pray God that that seeps deep into her heart as she grows.

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We're so grateful for You. It's Your name. You pray. Amen.

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Thanks, Kate.

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Now if you take this passage that Kate just read, it seems clear from this passage that the mission that Jesus left with His disciples,

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the purpose in which Jesus left with His disciples was to proclaim repentance and forgiveness in the name of Jesus.

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The purpose God assigned His disciples and ultimately the church, ultimately you and I,

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was to tell the world that there was a better way than what the world has to offer.

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And that way was and continues to be the way of Jesus Christ.

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So in the first century, during the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, in the great awakenings in the 18th century,

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the church was vibrant. The church was alive. It had a purpose.

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The church was directed. The church was focused and great growth.

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It happened and hundreds of thousands of people came to understand the message and the message that the church had to share.

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But we're not seeing that kind of growth today.

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Across the world, we're not seeing that kind of growth today.

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And many people have begun to question the relevancy of the church.

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They think it has little purpose in society today.

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The church is quaint. The church is a good place for a wedding or a funeral with all the traditions associated with marriage and with earthly departure.

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But why in the world would anyone want to attend on a regular basis?

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Many people believe that the church, by way of its teachings, serves to impose a narrow-minded intolerance upon people.

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We are known these days for more for what we are against.

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We're against homosexuality, against abortion, we're against Disney, right?

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That's what we're known for as opposed to what we should be known for.

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When the world asks a question about the church, what's the point?

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Many don't find a good answer.

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That's why it's imperative that we ask the same question of the church.

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What's the point? What's the purpose? What is our focus on?

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And we must have a clear answer that will make a difference in the world in which we live in.

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That answer is to share a message that Jesus Christ lived, that he died, so that mankind might know God and be assured of eternity.

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We have a purpose to share the message of Christ, but before the message can be shared, the message must be understood.

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It has to be understood.

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In verse 44, Jesus tells his 11 disciples that everything that had been written about him in the law and the prophets had to be fulfilled.

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The scriptures were clear about what was supposed to happen to Jesus.

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For generations, it had been talking about the Messiah.

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The scriptures were clear that he would suffer, that he would die, that he would rise from the dead, and then right in the midst of their suffering,

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the resurrected Jesus shows up on the scene with his disciples.

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He startles his disciples. He scares them, and he says, see, I'm alive.

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Now you understand why I had to suffer, because the disciples, they knew the scriptures.

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They'd grown up in church. They'd grown up going to temple. They could have had Isaiah 53 memorized.

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And know that in verse 10, it says, it was the Lord's will to crush him.

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They could have known verse 11 where it says, after the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life.

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They could have read all the Old Testament passages that spoke about the Messiah and still not have associated the fulfillment of these prophecies with Jesus.

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But knowing how Jesus was brutalized, watching how he suffered, how he was crucified,

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and now looking at his resurrected body with the nail holes still visible, with his scars visible,

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looking at the physical fulfillment of the prophecies, everything became so plain.

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Everything began to be understood. The flood of understanding that they had in that moment must have been overwhelming to them.

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They saw the fulfillment. Sometimes I wonder how many people truly understand that message and the implications it has for them.

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Jesus showed the disciples that they didn't have to be rich to enjoy life.

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He showed them you didn't have to be part of the cultural elite in order to make a difference.

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He showed them how to live a life that was full and meaningful.

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And as the resurrected Jesus stood before them, startled them, and showed them that death and hell could be defeated, Jesus brought a message of life.

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The messages understood as God opens the mind.

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As the disciples looked at a risen Lord who had gained victory over death, as he opened their minds, they understood the message.

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They understood the application that it had for them.

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But once the messages understood, people must proclaim it.

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You have to understand it, and then you have to proclaim it.

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Jesus says in verse 47, that repentance and forgiveness of sins would be preached in His name.

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That word preached is a word that would also have referred to a town crier.

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Think of Paul Revere. The British are coming. You know that story, right?

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This is what it means to preach, to proclaim, to be a town crier.

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There's a famous quote by St. Francis of Assisi that people will use at times.

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And I think they use it at times in a way to not feel like they are supposed to proclaim it.

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The quote is, preach the gospel at all times and when necessary, use words.

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Now, there's some truth to that.

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We should live a life that reflects the gospel.

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But the truth is we have to preach it.

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We have to proclaim it.

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Paul says, how will they know if no one tells them?

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How will people understand that they are sinners and need of a savior if nobody's going to tell them?

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God's strategy for sharing the message that Jesus Christ has suffered and died in the place of sinful man

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so that man can have a relationship with God.

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God's strategy in sharing the message was for people to proclaim it.

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Not sit on it, not keep silent about it, but to proclaim it.

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In order for the message to be shared, people must understand the message and the strategy for sharing it.

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And then, with clear purpose in mind, they must proclaim that message.

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That's our purpose as a church, to proclaim the message.

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Think about Mormons.

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Think about Jehovah's Witnesses.

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They go out daily or weekly, door to door to share the message.

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They understand their purpose clearly.

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I'm going to take two years of my life and I'm going to go door to door and share the message.

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As they act on their purpose, they condemn those who follow them to hell, right?

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Their message isn't correct.

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Others that they don't reach are condemned to hell already.

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The church has only one message that can change the outcome.

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The only message that can make a difference in people's lives.

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And our purpose is to share the message of God's love in order to make a difference.

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Now, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, other cults like that, they're wrong in their message,

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but they're right in their purpose.

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People should be running from us and shutting the garage door because we have a story to tell.

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The difference between our message and theirs is ours is a message of hope.

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Ours is a message of truth.

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But we are doing a poor job of sharing the message.

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If I were to ask you how many of you, within the last year, shared with someone

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how they could have a relationship with God in eternal life,

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I'd be willing to bet that not everybody would raise their hand that says,

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I've done that, I've shared the gospel with somebody.

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In fact, I'm not going to have us do it because I think it'd be convicting for all of us.

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In the last year, how many times have you shared the gospel message?

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If I were to extend that to the last five years,

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now maybe five or six more hands might go up.

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I might get even better results if I were to ask how many of you have shared with someone

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a personal testimony about how you came to have a relationship with God

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since you've had the relationship with God?

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More hands would probably go up.

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But for the great majority of those who call themselves Christians,

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they have never shared that fact with anyone else.

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Those around them don't even know they have faith.

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The people they work with don't even know that you go to church,

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don't even know that you worship Jesus.

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When I was a kid growing up, my dad would take me to air shows at Fort Bliss in El Paso.

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Some of you all have been there. I loved it.

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It was one of my favorite times.

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I would run around and look at the planes,

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and I would take pictures of the planes.

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Remember those disposable cameras that you'd have to wind up?

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And you take the picture and then hopefully they came out?

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Like it was a risk you always had to take?

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It's not like nowadays where you can just take it,

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oh, I don't like that one and put a filter on it.

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But I would go click all these pictures.

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My favorite plane was the B-2 bomber.

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I think about that plane often nowadays when I see the Cybertruck.

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But the B-2 bomber has a low profile, has a narrow silhouette.

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It's made of materials that radar cannot detect.

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Even the engines are muffled and they're so much quieter than a regular jet engine.

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It's designed to fly undetected and is often referred to as the stealth bomber.

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That's an apt description, in my opinion, of many people's faith.

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Many people have stealth faith.

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Radar can't even pick it up.

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And no one around them even knows that they are Christians.

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So here's how we contrast that here at the church.

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One of our core values at Cornerstone is equipping,

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and sending, and supporting.

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We want to equip each and every one of you.

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We want to equip each and every one of you to have purpose and meaning

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in proclaiming the gospel.

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It doesn't matter if you're shy, it doesn't matter if you're reserved,

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it doesn't matter if you don't know enough.

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Our goal is to equip each and every one of you.

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We want to send as many of you out as we can into the mission field

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to proclaim the gospel to every nation.

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And then we want to support you, both financially and prayerfully,

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as those of us stay behind.

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So let's break down on how I want us to do that as a church.

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The first step is that our leadership equips.

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Our leadership equips. Paul writes in Ephesians 4 verse 11,

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and he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists,

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the shepherds and teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry,

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for the building up of the body of Christ.

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That means that my responsibility as a shepherd, as a teacher,

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is to equip you for the work of ministry.

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It's not the responsibility of solely on church leadership

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to share the gospel for you,

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but to equip you and to challenge you

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to do that in your own spheres of influence.

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When we say that it is the leadership that equips,

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what that means is that we want to supply you

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with the necessary items for a particular purpose.

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I want to help you see.

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I want to help you understand the importance of your testimony.

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No one can take that away from you.

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So many times I hear, well, I don't know enough information.

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I don't have enough Bible knowledge.

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What if they ask me a question?

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I don't know the answer to share your testimony.

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No one can take that away from you.

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No one can argue that you don't know what you're talking about.

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When you share your God story with someone,

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you are telling them what you have experienced God do in your life.

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Nobody can take that from you.

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You can talk about how God has brought you peace.

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You can talk about how God has fixed your marriage.

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You can talk about how God has given you wisdom

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on raising your children.

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You can talk about how God led you to make certain decisions.

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Your testimony is powerful.

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My job is to equip you and challenge you to own it.

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Now, we can work with how to do it.

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We can help you write it out.

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We can help you form it, but I can't write your testimony for you.

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I can't write your God story for you.

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But I am going to challenge you to share it and use it

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because testimonies are powerful.

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We want to equip you to take trips around the world

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to use your knowledge in practical ways.

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We want you to get you out of your comfort zone

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so that your reliance is on God and not on what you can accomplish.

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You get yourself out of a comfort zone.

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There are some things you can't control.

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Our team got back last night.

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Last night from ministering for a week in Panama.

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Now, it was very clear with our team before we went

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that I would not be doing the work.

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I was going to be in a supportive role

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and I would be challenging them to step up,

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to share the gospel, to share their testimony.

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I was there to offer encouragement.

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I was there to offer advice,

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but the work of our mission's team was not done by me,

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but by the 22 others that went with us.

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It was my joy.

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It was my joy to see them step out of their comfort zone

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and do things they might never have done.

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to get on a boat to go to an indigenous people group.

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As we were driving, I told my son who was sitting shotgun with me,

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I said, okay, when we get there and you're doing this little activity,

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you are going to share the gospel.

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You are going to share the gospel with these kids.

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were working together to help him form his message,

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to make it relatable to something that they can understand and grasp.

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I got to watch my boy tell kids that without Jesus,

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nothing else matters in this world.

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We got to equip him together.

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That our goal as humans,

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our goal as human beings should be to call upon the name of the Lord

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so that we get to spend eternity with him and not be separated from him.

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It was one of my greatest joys to see him do that.

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It is also my joy to see you step out of your comfort zone

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and boldly proclaim the name of Jesus.

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Because the reality is there are so many of our neighbors

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and friends and coworkers that do not have that hope.

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They don't have it.

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There are over 400,000 people in the Quad Cities.

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It is estimated that less than a quarter of that population

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attends church regularly.

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Nor Scott is estimated to be around 8,000 people

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with a population that regularly attends church at just over 1,000 people a week.

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We have work to do in this area

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because there's people around us that don't have the hope of the Gospel.

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They look good.

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They have nice families.

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They have nice homes.

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They have a good income.

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They look like everything is put together.

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that have no hope in the Gospel because nobody has proclaimed it to them.

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Jesus says in Acts 1-8 that we are to be his witnesses in Jerusalem

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and Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

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We do a great job as a church

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of sending people to be his witnesses to the ends of the earth.

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There are too many people that we do life with

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that are going to spend eternity separated from him

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if we do not begin to be bold in our messaging.

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I'm going to do everything I can to equip you

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to have a kingdom influence in your life.

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So we equip.

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Next, we send the call.

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We send the call.

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The goal of equipping is to raise up new missionaries and send them out.

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We want to send people out to have Gospel conversations.

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We want to send people out who are going to love people where they are.

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We want to send people out who are willing to lose themselves for the cause of Christ.

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That's why we send out short-term mission trips.

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My prayer for every time we send out a short-term mission team

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is that the Lord will call someone from that group

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to devote their lives to serving him around the world.

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And being called means a lot of times you are going to have to take a risk

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because it is going to cost you something.

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Jesus tells us that we need to count the cost.

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This is not an emotional decision, but one where we sit down

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and we consider, what is this going to cost me?

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How is this going to change my life?

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Sometimes that means financial implications.

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Sometimes it means we move away from the familiar.

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Sometimes it means we go out on our own and we leave everything else behind us.

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Jesus tells us in Luke 14 that there is a cost to discipleship.

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There is a cost for being his disciples.

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He is pretty bold in verse 33 of that chapter that if anyone is not willing to renounce all that he has,

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he can't be my disciple.

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If you are not willing to give everything over to him,

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if you are going to hold tightly to the things that you have,

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if you are unwilling to renounce those things,

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you can't be his disciple.

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It is a pretty bold statement.

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If God has called you to ministry or to missions in any way,

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know that he will provide everything that you need.

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I have heard so many times, I am sure some of you have said it to me,

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but I have heard so many times that I can't do that because I don't have a seminary degree.

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I can't do that because I don't have enough Bible knowledge.

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he doesn't call the qualified.

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He qualifies the call.

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Meaning not one disciple of his, not one disciple of Jesus, believe it or not,

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I don't know if you know this, had a Bible degree.

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Nobody went to seminary.

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Most of them weren't even smart enough to do anything else but catch fish for a living.

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who did Jesus struggle with the most?

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The religious leaders who are usually the smartest in the room

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when it comes to understanding the Scriptures.

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Instead he called people like Peter who flunked out of school

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and used him to spread the Gospel all over the world.

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Why wouldn't he use you?

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Why wouldn't he use you if he's called you to serve him?

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Don't put limitations on the call that he has for you.

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If that's you, if that's you and you feel like God is calling you

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into some form of ministry,

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or maybe you answered that call a long time ago,

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but life happened and you've been distracted,

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you lost steam, you know that God called you

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but you haven't done anything with it,

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I would love nothing more than to talk with you this morning

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and see how we can best support you.

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How can we get you back on track?

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Will you decide in your heart right now, if you have been called,

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will you decide in your heart right now

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that you will take that small step this morning

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of talking about your calling with someone?

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Do not leave this building if you've been called.

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Finally, if we raise up those who are called,

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then the church must support that.

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If we're going to equip them and the Lord's going to call them,

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then the church must support that.

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Not everyone is called to live overseas.

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Not everyone is called into full-time ministry,

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but we are all called to support the work of the ministry.

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Many times throughout his letters,

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Paul thanks the church for sending help to him,

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for supplying his needs.

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He thanks them for the gifts that were sent.

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He thanks them for the prayers.

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He thanks them for laboring with him

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and sharing the gospel message.

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Paul was more effective for Jesus

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because he had the churches around him

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that were supporting his ministry

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so that he could focus on the work that he was called to.

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Paul was effective because he was able to keep focus

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on the purpose in which Jesus called him to.

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we have to remember that not everyone was called to live the life

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that Jesus called Paul to.

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Not everyone here is going to be called to go into ministry

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because God has called you into something else.

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He made some of you engineers,

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teachers,

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homemakers,

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businessmen and women

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so that you could support the work of ministry.

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And he gave you the giftings that you have

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so that your income would not terminate on you

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but so that you could support his work in your community

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and support his work around the world.

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The world doesn't need you to have a bigger house.

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It needs the gospel to be spread to everyone, everywhere

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so that the end will come.

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Don't ever underestimate your value

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and your ability to write a check.

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God has you where you are in the job you have for a purpose.

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And the amount doesn't matter.

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The amount doesn't matter.

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What matters is where is your heart when it comes to these things.

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We were told a story while we were in Panama this last week

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about a lady named Hasita.

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She's the poorest of the poor.

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Our missionary friend Graham had mentioned to his church

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that there was a need in the community,

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in their church community,

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and this family couldn't support some medical expenses

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that were going to be coming up.

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So Graham asked for an offering.

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This little humble church of the poorest of the poor,

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Graham asked for an offering.

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If you make $20 a day, you're doing pretty good for yourself.

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He wanted to have them check their hearts.

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Hasita was the only one who came forward.

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And all she could offer was a dollar.

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All she could offer was $1.

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He told us he immediately thought of the story of the widows

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and he thought of the story of the widows' might.

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Had two nickels to rub together.

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But her heart was in the right place so she gave it.

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The amount wasn't significant.

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The amount wasn't significant.

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But the gesture was convicting to him.

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It was convicting to me when I heard it.

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Maybe all you can give is a dollar.

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Maybe you can give $10,000.

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The purpose is not the amount.

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The purpose is the heart behind it.

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Support doesn't just come in the form of financial resources.

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We need to consistently be praying for the work of the gospel around the world.

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We need to be praying that men and women who are filled with the Holy Spirit

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get in front of government leaders and share the gospel with them.

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We need to pray that men and women who are filled with the gospel

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get in front of our school leaders.

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We need to pray that people will go out and preach the gospel to unreached people groups.

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We need people that are filled with his spirit to go into your workplaces and neighborhoods.

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We need to be praying for the harvest.

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We need to support that.

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This is why we regularly bring in our missionaries

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so that you can hear about the work that they are doing.

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It's why we send out short-term mission teams

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so that we can help get the work accomplished.

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Supporting the work of the kingdom in our neighborhood comes in many forms.

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But we must remain faithful in our support.

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We must love people well.

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So here's how I want to end this morning.

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I want you to ask yourself some questions.

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I'll give you some time between each question to really think about it

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and ask the Lord to speak to you on this.

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But I need you to ask yourself these questions, the first one being,

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am I willing to be equipped for the work of the ministry?

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Meaning, are you teachable?

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Are you moldable for God to do a work in you

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that will get you out of your comfort zone?

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Are you willing to be equipped for the work of the ministry?

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Maybe just as you sit there, you close your eyes

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and you free yourself from distraction.

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And you just ask the Lord to speak to you.

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God, is there anything in me that's keeping me from being teachable?

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Am I moldable?

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Am I willing to be equipped?

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The second question we need to ask ourselves

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is the Lord calling me to count the cost

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and surrender to Him in a way that will drastically change my life.

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Is the Lord calling me to count the cost

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and surrender to Him in a way that will drastically change my life?

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Finally, we need to ask ourselves,

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am I willing to give of my resources and time

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to support the work of the Gospel around the world?

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Am I willing to give of my resources and time

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to support the work of the Gospel around the world?

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We need to sacrifice.

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So as we close this morning,

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I want you to know that this church is not going to shy away from equipping

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and sending and supporting.

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And I want you to know that my goal is to send as many of you as we can

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out into the world.

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But you have to be obedient to the calling that God has given you.

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And I also just want to remind you, some of us aren't called to go across the world.

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Some of you are called to support.

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And sometimes that means I only have a dollar.

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But I promise you this, the Lord can do more with your dollar than you ever could.

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He owns the cattle on a thousand hills.

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He multiplied bread and fish and fed thousands.

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He can do a lot more with your dollar than you can.

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So if you have a dollar, give it.

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See what he can do.

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Jesus tells us in Matthew 24,

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that the end will come and I'm ready for the end to come.

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I'm ready to be in his presence.

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I'm ready for him to make all things new.

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I'm ready for there to be no more tears and pain and sorrow and depression and anxiety and anger.

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And I'm ready for all of that to be over.

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I'm ready for the end to come.

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But the end is not going to come until all men hear.

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That's our purpose.

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So I don't know how the Lord's calling you.

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I don't know how he's calling you to surrender to him.

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But as we sing one more song together and as I pray over us,

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will you be obedient to following the calling that he has on your life

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so that we will be a church that is strong in equipping and sending and supporting.

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Let's pray.

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Father God, I pray right now that as we worship,

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that your Holy Spirit will fill this room, will fill our lives,

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that your spirit will be an overflow of everything that we say, everything that we do.

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God, I pray that you will call and separate those that are supposed to do the work of the ministry.

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God, as they sit in their seats right now, help them count the cost.

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Pray that you remove any barriers to that calling.

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God, help us be moldable and teachable to be equipped.

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Give us a humility that comes from you so that you can use us.

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Father, I pray that you will always give us a generous spirit

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when it comes to supporting the work of ministry in Eldridge and around the world.

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So God, speak please to our hearts so that we know.

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So God, as we worship, this time is yours.

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Amen.