1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,920 Welcome to those of you in the room, 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:03,160 whether you're in the room, 3 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:04,440 whether you're on the screen today 4 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:06,480 and you haven't been in church for a while 5 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:08,680 and your resolution was, 6 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,960 I am going to show up this year, well done, well done. 7 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,160 Quitting day was Friday and you're still here. 8 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:17,000 You're still here. 9 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,200 You are in the small minority, so well done. 10 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,240 But seriously, I wanna pause for a moment and just, 11 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,040 I just wanna slow down for a second 12 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:31,840 to recognize that our community, well, 13 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,440 like physically here is directly connected 14 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,000 in many, many ways to California, 15 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,080 meaning you either came from California, 16 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,800 you know someone from California, 17 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,200 you have loved ones in California, 18 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,640 also on our online family, 19 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:47,720 just some of you that are in California 20 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:52,360 and are walking through just a horrific week. 21 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,440 I just wanna slow down and say, 22 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,240 this is where our values really matter. 23 00:00:58,240 --> 00:00:59,600 All right, so if you were here last week, 24 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,960 we started a conversation about values, 25 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,040 what we value we will do. 26 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,360 And so we have a value that we talked about last week 27 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,600 of being for Jesus, right? 28 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,320 That we will create space for Jesus to be center, 29 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:14,720 but especially in our own lives. 30 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,760 And as we do that, then what that means is that 31 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,760 because Jesus is for people, we're gonna be for people. 32 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,240 And I think moments like what's happened this last week 33 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,320 in California, give us a moment to go, 34 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:30,000 am I for people or not? 35 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,320 And what I mean by that is, 36 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:35,040 do I slow down to experience the pain of others around me? 37 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,240 Do I look for people around me that I can comfort 38 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:39,480 like God comforts us? 39 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:42,440 Am I concerned for people 40 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,800 the way God is concerned for people? 41 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,240 And we just get to walk with that. 42 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,320 But what I love about God is what we were kind of singing 43 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,880 about, but then also captured in Joanne's prayer 44 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,800 is this idea that God is sovereign, right? 45 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,360 That God is worthy of it all. 46 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,440 He is the ultimate being who is in control, right? 47 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,480 The one who, he didn't have a cup of tea, you guys, 48 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,000 and go, oh, that got out of control 49 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,920 while I was making tea, right? 50 00:02:10,920 --> 00:02:13,840 Like God is fully aware and fully in control 51 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:18,000 and fully meeting each person in the situation 52 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,040 that they're walking through, 53 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,040 whether that be here, whether that be there. 54 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,240 And that's the great comfort to me of the God we serve. 55 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,680 That we have this confidence that he walks with us 56 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,800 in the midst of all of life, everything, right? 57 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,640 Like as horrific as the last week is, 58 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:36,840 people that we know we're connected to, relatives, 59 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,320 whatever that happens to be, 60 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:39,800 whatever that situation happens to be, 61 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,320 that God is intimately in those details, 62 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:46,120 but he is also in all of life's details, 63 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,120 which is why I know he cares about last night 64 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,040 and a football game, because it was painful. 65 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,320 It hurt, right? 66 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:02,320 And here's what I love, you laugh, right, at my pain. 67 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:05,880 And I'm okay with that, why? 68 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:07,520 Because God made you to laugh, 69 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:08,840 and he's in the moment of laughter, 70 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:10,280 he's in the moment of pain. 71 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,040 That's the God we serve, that's the God we follow, 72 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,440 that's the God that we have the confidence to know 73 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,760 that in the good and in the bad, he's walking right along 74 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:20,600 with us. 75 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,000 And I don't know how you feel about that, 76 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,040 but that should bring some kind of like, ugh. 77 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,680 That gives me a comfort in this life. 78 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,160 I mean, Jeff's got his Broncos shirt on. 79 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,800 He's gonna need some comfort later, let me just tell you. 80 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,800 Last service is my favorite. 81 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:45,160 We had a Broncos person on this side 82 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:46,520 and a Bills person on this side. 83 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,000 Any Bills fans over there? 84 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,280 You know, Bills get out of here. 85 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:55,800 But here's the thing, right? 86 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:57,920 Like God's in it all. 87 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,440 And so we should be able to walk in it all together. 88 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,000 And that's what this collection is all about. 89 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,560 This collection of talks that were in, 90 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,520 this idea of taking shape, 91 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,760 it's looking at the things as a family that form us, right? 92 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:15,880 And I forgot to mention, 93 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:17,640 you're probably wondering what I did to my hand. 94 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,800 I had surgery on my hand. 95 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,640 They are repairing the ligaments. 96 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,840 And so me and this guy get to hang out for about eight weeks. 97 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:27,360 And so that's exciting. 98 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,280 Can't tie my own shoes, I figured out. 99 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:31,360 Like that's a challenge. 100 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,200 And so this morning I almost wore Crocs. 101 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,840 You're welcome that I didn't. 102 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:37,040 So there you go. 103 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,120 But yeah, so it's a journey. 104 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,440 And if the pain gets too much, we're gonna cut the short. 105 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:43,840 So there you go. 106 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:46,360 But the idea is this, it was taking shape, right? 107 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:47,840 We're being formed. 108 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,800 But you realize that what forms you, who you become, 109 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,680 is directly connected to what you value, right? 110 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:58,280 Like I am a Steeler fan 111 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,880 because somewhere along the way I found a value for them. 112 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,840 Don't, I don't know, it hurts today. 113 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:06,720 I don't know if it's worth clapping for today, right? 114 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:08,920 But the reality is what you value, you will do. 115 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:10,520 So I cheer for the Steelers 116 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,680 because I value them as a team, right? 117 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:18,680 Like what you do, what you do is connected to what you value. 118 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,240 But here's the thing, what you do is who you become, right? 119 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:28,240 So what happens with humans is God made us culture creators. 120 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,680 And what I mean by culture is there are things 121 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,040 that guide everything you do. 122 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,400 And it's these things called values. 123 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,080 What you hold valuable, you will do, 124 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,640 which will create culture, right? 125 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:42,640 So whether you like it or not, 126 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,400 you were designed by God to create culture 127 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,840 and to create a culture requires, you don't have to, 128 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:51,600 you're gonna create it either way, 129 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,000 but it's much better when you use intentionality. 130 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,400 And this whole collection that we're talking about 131 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,560 is living life intentional by going, 132 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,680 these are the values that we will claim, 133 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,640 that we will stand out and go, this is what we are for. 134 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,440 If you were here last week, you heard Pastor Todd, 135 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,440 which I thought Pastor Todd did an amazing job. 136 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,520 I was on pain meds. 137 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,400 So it might've been better, you know, 138 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,080 but Pastor Todd was phenomenal. 139 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:17,600 We can give it up for Pastor Todd. 140 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:22,600 But I don't know that you truly caught 141 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,760 if you haven't been here for the journey family. 142 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,400 I don't think you caught what that moment was. 143 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,400 You see, because for Pastor Todd to stand here 144 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,720 and for Pastor Todd to be able to articulate, right? 145 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,240 That he's come alongside the team, been on the team, 146 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:45,240 and now he articulates to us clear values. 147 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,440 You realize how big that moment was 148 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,360 that it wasn't me or Pastor Bob 149 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,800 or somebody else that had to be doing it? 150 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,800 That Pastor Todd, who could step into that moment 151 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,040 because he's been a part of our family long enough now 152 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:00,960 that he goes, I know what we're about. 153 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,080 You realize that five years ago, 154 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,160 if we did this conversation, 155 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,680 we wouldn't be able to tell you what our values are. 156 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,560 We didn't have them. 157 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,080 So we cared about a whole bunch of stuff. 158 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:18,400 And we had no idea what was defining us as a family. 159 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:20,480 That language of family, I don't know how it hits you, 160 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,960 but that's what God chooses for us. 161 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:24,800 God's the one that places us in family. 162 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,920 God's the one that says we're His kids. 163 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,200 God's the one that says that we're brothers 164 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:30,520 and sisters to one another. 165 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,040 That idea of family, what we're having a conversation around 166 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,320 for the next few weeks is what are those values 167 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,440 that determine what we do? 168 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,560 Please don't miss this. 169 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:46,240 This is not about an organization and what we value 170 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,640 because church is not an organization, it's people. 171 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,440 You are the church. 172 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,760 You have to take these values and they have to hit 173 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,880 to the soul of who you are if we're gonna create a culture 174 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:04,040 as a family that speaks to the rest of the world. 175 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:05,320 And so last week, if you were here, 176 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,160 you heard Pastor Todd talk about being for Jesus. 177 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,520 For Jesus is the flag that we put in the ground. 178 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,800 That is the one that we are anchored to, 179 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,560 that we are for Jesus in everything that we do. 180 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,280 That when it comes to who's center stage, 181 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:21,240 it's gonna be Jesus. 182 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,320 When it comes to why we're doing something, it's for Jesus. 183 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,920 I love the language that was used last week. 184 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,080 There's so many times as Christians, we're always asked, 185 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:31,360 what are you guys against? 186 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,560 Or we're always telling people what we're against. 187 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:37,320 You know, we don't have to tell people what we're against 188 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:38,920 if you tell them what you're for. 189 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,320 If we're for Jesus, then we're for everything about Jesus, 190 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,240 which means we're for the teachings of Jesus. 191 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,200 Right, we're for the way Jesus treated people. 192 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,320 So what you find is that when you say what we're for, 193 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,400 it automatically helps you navigate. 194 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,160 We don't have to go preaching everything we're against. 195 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,880 We're for Jesus, therefore we are for the things of Jesus. 196 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,840 When it comes to, you follow it through, you go, 197 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:06,960 okay, if you're for Jesus, then what was Jesus for? 198 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:08,240 Well, he was for people. 199 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:10,920 He was for people. 200 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:15,360 All people, all people matter to God, so they matter to us. 201 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:17,480 All people. 202 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:19,720 All right, let us sit for a minute, 203 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,120 because I got some people that I don't really like. 204 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:24,360 All people. 205 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,240 You got some people you don't really like, 206 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:28,960 let's be honest. 207 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:30,520 All people. 208 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,200 We are for people. 209 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:33,760 We are for human flourishing. 210 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:38,440 We are for people understanding who Jesus is. 211 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:42,320 We're for the mission that God has placed himself on 212 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,640 and asked us to join. 213 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,400 We're for people. 214 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,360 And here's what happens is you unpack the four people, right? 215 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,920 You begin to realize that there's a logical progression 216 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,120 to this and you get to the next value. 217 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:00,240 And the next value is that we are for the Holy Spirit. 218 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,160 And so we have to explain, what do you mean by four? 219 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:04,000 What are we doing with that? 220 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Well, when you look at God, God is a space creator. 221 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:11,200 What do I mean by that? 222 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:12,040 Go back to creation. 223 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:12,880 What is God doing? 224 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:14,320 He's creating a space. 225 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,280 And what is he doing with that space? 226 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,160 On the sixth day, what does he do? 227 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,080 He takes humanity and he what? 228 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,760 Puts them into that space. 229 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,440 He creates a space for us to exist. 230 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,600 If God was not a space creator, we would not exist. 231 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,640 If God was not a space creator, we would not have 232 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,280 somewhere to fill, so to speak. 233 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:35,240 What else does he do? 234 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,120 Is you follow it through, you get to the gospel, 235 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:38,720 you get to the cross, you get to Jesus. 236 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:39,640 What is Jesus doing? 237 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,680 Jesus is creating space for you. 238 00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:44,160 Where is he creating space for you? 239 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:45,760 In eternity with him. 240 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,320 He's creating space. 241 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,280 All the way through the story, the narrative, 242 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,600 what you have is this God who creates space. 243 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,680 So guess what we do? 244 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:57,760 Our job is to be a mirror of who God is. 245 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,840 Our job is to be like God. 246 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,400 Our job is to that Jesus that we are following 247 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:05,360 to be like Jesus. 248 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:06,880 So here's what this looks like. 249 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:07,840 We're space creators. 250 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:09,160 What do we create space for? 251 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,640 We create space for the Holy Spirit. 252 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:13,880 Well, what does that look like? 253 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:15,400 Right, because that's kind of like one of those 254 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:16,640 where you go, well, how do you, 255 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,640 well, what does that practically look like in my life? 256 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,200 Did I create space for the Holy Spirit? 257 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,640 Well, as a church, as a family, 258 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:25,720 if you came to an elder meeting, 259 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,800 what you would see is you would see one of the elders 260 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,960 slow down before that meeting even starts 261 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:33,920 and they would begin to pray. 262 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:35,600 And what are they praying for? 263 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,800 That the Holy Spirit would speak. 264 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,480 That the Holy Spirit would give unity. 265 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:41,440 That the Holy Spirit would guide our conversation. 266 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,400 That the Holy Spirit would guide those decisions. 267 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:45,920 If you came in on a Tuesday morning 268 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:47,760 and sat with our senior leadership team, 269 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,200 guess what you would see? 270 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:50,840 Somebody slowing down to pray, 271 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,080 to ask for more wisdom, more guidance, more help. 272 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:54,920 What are we doing? 273 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:56,080 We're creating space to go. 274 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,400 We want the Holy Spirit to be able to speak. 275 00:11:58,400 --> 00:11:59,240 Why? 276 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:00,800 Because we don't have it. 277 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,520 And when Jesus is talking about the Holy Spirit 278 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,600 in Acts chapter one and verse eight, 279 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:11,800 He's talking to His disciples 280 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:16,320 and He says this, 281 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:20,680 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. 282 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:23,120 And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem 283 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:27,400 and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. 284 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,160 When the Holy Spirit comes, 285 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:33,480 you will receive this thing called power, this dynamite. 286 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:34,720 Where is the dynamite? 287 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,400 The dynamite is placed where? 288 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,000 Inside of you. 289 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,280 The Holy Spirit is the same power 290 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,200 that raised Jesus from the dead, 291 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,560 now lives in you as a follower of Jesus. 292 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:49,680 You on an average Wednesday have the same power 293 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:53,880 that took Jesus from death to life inside of you 294 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,800 at all times and you have access whenever you want it. 295 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:57,760 What do you need to do? 296 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:58,840 I need to create space. 297 00:12:58,840 --> 00:12:59,680 Why? 298 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:01,400 So the Holy Spirit can empower this moment. 299 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:03,760 Hey, what does it look like? 300 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,320 It looks like a slow down. 301 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:08,360 It looks like I'm intentional. 302 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:14,040 There are moments, church, where like this, 303 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,800 you see this part, you don't see behind the curtain. 304 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,840 You know what's happening before I step out here? 305 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:22,240 Holy Spirit, if you don't show up, 306 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,400 all we're gonna talk about is football 307 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:26,000 because I don't got nothing else. 308 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:30,480 Right, this is a spiritual conversation. 309 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:33,440 I'm fully aware that if the Holy Spirit doesn't work 310 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,080 in your life right now, 311 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,640 this will not be a life altering interaction. 312 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,960 The whole idea of the power of the Holy Spirit, 313 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:43,560 when we create these gatherings, 314 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:45,760 one of the things we create these gatherings with 315 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,840 is that there would be space for God to move. 316 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,760 And so you may have come to this service, this gathering, 317 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,160 and you're like, man, they only sang three songs. 318 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:55,560 You get to the next one and they're like, 319 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:58,160 well, they sang like five, right? 320 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,080 That's because somewhere on the worship team, 321 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:01,960 they went, we're not supposed to leave this moment 322 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,840 because the Holy Spirit is up to something. 323 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:06,840 Sometimes you come and it's like, 324 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,080 well, when Pastor Todd talks, it's 30 minutes. 325 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,960 Mine's like 35-ish. 326 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,560 Come to the 11 sometimes, maybe an hour and a half. 327 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:17,040 Just kidding, it's never been an hour and a half 328 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:17,880 that I know of. 329 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:20,560 Why? Why does it change between? 330 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,960 Because this is living breathing. 331 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,840 You're different than who was here before. 332 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,320 And we're fully aware that this has gotta be dependent. 333 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,000 So let me ask you then, if this is about the church 334 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,680 and this is about a culture we're setting, 335 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:35,840 and this is about values we carry, 336 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:37,840 then it has to get to your life. 337 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:38,680 What does it look like? 338 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:39,520 Students, I'll pick on you 339 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:40,720 because you're right in front of me. 340 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:42,160 What does it look like for you? 341 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:46,080 When you walk the halls of your school tomorrow, right? 342 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:47,440 What does it look like for you 343 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,440 when you sit with your friends 344 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,400 to talk to the Holy Spirit and ask Him to lead you? 345 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,760 What does it look like when you are trying 346 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:00,240 to raise a family and you don't have what you need? 347 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:01,880 What does it look like to slow down and go, 348 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:03,360 I need the power of the Holy Spirit 349 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,360 to empower this conversation 350 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,320 because if you don't, it's gonna fall flat. 351 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:10,560 How many times, how many times? 352 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,280 I'm a parent, I get this. 353 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,360 How many times did you set out with the best intention 354 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,280 to have the conversation with your teenager, right? 355 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,680 And you set out and I'm gonna have this conversation 356 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:21,600 and before you know it, it's all you 357 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,240 and it's just making you mad, right? 358 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:25,600 And you get done with the conversation 359 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,080 and you're like, ah, didn't go how I wanted. 360 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,440 What would it be like to invite the Holy Spirit 361 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,560 into that moment to create space for the Holy Spirit 362 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,960 to give you the power of the words that you need? 363 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:38,000 It's pretty amazing, right? 364 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,160 Because remember, we started with four children, 365 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,160 with four Jesus and four people. 366 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,320 The Holy Spirit empowers the mission. 367 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:46,160 What is the mission? 368 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:47,600 It's people. 369 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,000 And so often what do we do? 370 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,560 Oh, I can't go and be a witness. 371 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:51,960 I don't know how to talk. 372 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:53,400 You don't have to know how to talk. 373 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:54,680 You got the Holy Spirit. 374 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:57,560 You just gotta show up and go, Holy Spirit, 375 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,280 would you give me wisdom and speak? 376 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:01,120 You don't believe me? 377 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,440 Try it and see what happens because a lot of times, 378 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,640 we're not telling people about Jesus. 379 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:08,680 We're not telling them about the thing that they need 380 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,160 for all of eternity because we're scared 381 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:12,280 we don't have words. 382 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,560 You have the same power inside of you 383 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:16,320 that raised Jesus from the dead. 384 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:19,840 Okay, that, that. 385 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,400 If you cheer at your TV louder. 386 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,400 You guys, this is a reality that we walk 387 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:30,880 and we are for the Holy Spirit. 388 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:31,720 Why? 389 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:36,040 Because it impacts its power when we need it. 390 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:39,000 Jesus said something else about the Holy Spirit too. 391 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,880 In John 16, he's talking to his disciples. 392 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:43,880 In verse 13, he says, 393 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,160 but when he, the Spirit of truth comes, 394 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:47,320 when the Holy Spirit comes, 395 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,320 he will guide you into all truth. 396 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,520 He will speak, he will not speak on his own. 397 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:53,200 He will speak only what he hears 398 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,960 and he will tell you what is yet to come. 399 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,760 So the Holy Spirit, when he comes, he will be a guide. 400 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:00,600 He will be a guide. 401 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:01,800 He will lead you. 402 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:02,760 What does that look like? 403 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,040 He leads you when you don't know what to do. 404 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:07,720 What is the Holy Spirit supposed to do? 405 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:09,440 You're supposed to create space to go, 406 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:11,680 I don't know what I'm supposed to do right now. 407 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,320 Would you lead and would you guide? 408 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:17,640 And the Holy Spirit will lead and guide in those moments. 409 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,360 You see it all the time in the life of Jesus. 410 00:17:20,360 --> 00:17:21,280 He's going in this direction 411 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:22,520 and all of a sudden he slows down. 412 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:23,340 Why? 413 00:17:23,340 --> 00:17:26,320 Because he's moved in his spirit and he slows down. 414 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:29,560 And there's another part about the Holy Spirit 415 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,920 in Galatians chapter five. 416 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:33,880 It says in verse 16, 417 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,080 so I say walk by the Spirit 418 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,720 and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 419 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,640 Walk, walk by the Spirit. 420 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,440 Create space to walk. 421 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:49,040 That word walk is every moment of your life. 422 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:52,000 Every moment that you're alive, that's what that walk is. 423 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,880 It's like a dance that you're doing every day. 424 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:55,600 You didn't know you were dancing every day. 425 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,400 You're dancing every day with who? 426 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,320 With the Holy Spirit. 427 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,120 Every situation, every moment you go into, 428 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:03,920 you are there present with the Holy Spirit. 429 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:05,360 And what is he trying to do? 430 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:09,120 Make you not look like you and look like Jesus. 431 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:10,800 What does the Holy Spirit wanna do in your life? 432 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,560 He wants to transform you. 433 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:14,400 He wants to change you. 434 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,120 You know the goal of this, right? 435 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:18,720 Is that if we hang around like a decade together, 436 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,600 that hopefully what you can do is you look at me and you go, 437 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,520 you are not the same person you were when I met you. 438 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,000 You look a whole lot more like Jesus. 439 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,840 And I can look at you and go, you're not the same person 440 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,400 because you look a whole lot more like Jesus. 441 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:33,760 Well, what is the point of this? 442 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:35,520 The Holy Spirit is taking us back to what? 443 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,200 So the person of Jesus that you would look, live, 444 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,320 and love a whole lot like Jesus. 445 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,440 That every interaction you have, he's guiding you. 446 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,200 He's empowering you to what? 447 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:47,840 To transform you. 448 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:50,840 I don't know about you, but I know myself. 449 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,800 And transformation has gotta happen on the inside, right? 450 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,360 That's a work that only the Spirit can do. 451 00:18:57,360 --> 00:18:59,320 That he would transform us on the inside, 452 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,920 that we would care and we would carry the things of Jesus. 453 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:05,880 That we would hold his words dear. 454 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:09,440 And as we hold those words so intentionally 455 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,120 that they would move us towards people. 456 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:13,560 And here's what naturally happens, 457 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:15,720 that if you are going to create space for the Holy Spirit, 458 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:16,920 guess what he's gonna do? 459 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:19,920 He's gonna move you to our next value. 460 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:21,560 What's our next value? 461 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,840 For generosity. 462 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:25,200 For generosity. 463 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:27,640 You might go, that's a weird one. 464 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,240 Why generosity? 465 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:35,240 Because God, for all of time, has been generous. 466 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,680 Do you know that God in his character and his nature 467 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,520 is generous at the core of who he is? 468 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:44,920 And so what happens? 469 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,440 Who are we supposed to look like? 470 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,240 We're supposed to look more and more like God. 471 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,840 And if God is generous, then what should happen to us? 472 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:51,720 We should be generous. 473 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:53,320 So what does it mean to be generous? 474 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,840 Well, it means that every aspect of your life, 475 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,600 your gifts, your talent, your time, your energy, 476 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,800 your resources, your relationships, all of those, 477 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:07,040 all of those are things that you get to steward in this life. 478 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,840 And what are we supposed to be doing with them? 479 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,960 We're supposed to be giving them away. 480 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:11,800 Why? 481 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,680 Because the best life is one lived gift that's given away. 482 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,480 What does God wanna do with everything he's blessed you with? 483 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:24,080 Do you realize how blessed you are, by the way? 484 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,040 We don't think of ourselves as blessed very often, 485 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,000 but the fact that if you drove in a car today, 486 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,680 you're already outdoing most of, or not most, 487 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,360 but a lot of people on the planet. 488 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:34,600 You realize that if you have a home 489 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,960 where you can control the heat without it being a fire, 490 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,400 you're way ahead of a lot of people on the planet. 491 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,080 You realize that you got three square meals a day, 492 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,680 or you got options to eat, your way ahead 493 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:49,920 of people on the planet. 494 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:55,360 You realize that they're packed in you as gifts and talents 495 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:57,920 and abilities and resources, right? 496 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,440 And you've been given in proximity relationship. 497 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,000 Why? Why? 498 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,080 Because God wants to use those where? 499 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:06,640 For Jesus, to what? 500 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:07,840 To reach people. 501 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,280 So he's gonna use the Holy Spirit 502 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,920 to inspire you to be generous. 503 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,360 But I have to create space for you. 504 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:16,440 I have to create space for that. 505 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:17,560 It doesn't happen naturally. 506 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,400 And so what you see with God all the way through, 507 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,600 you start in Genesis, and this is out of creation, right? 508 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,040 Chapter two, verse eight. 509 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,520 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east in Eden, 510 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,920 and there he put the man he had formed. 511 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,960 The Lord God planted a garden in the east in Eden, 512 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,640 and there he put the man he formed. 513 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,720 How much did man have to do with the garden? 514 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,440 Zero. 515 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:43,280 Nothing. 516 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:45,120 Right, why? 517 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:47,040 Because God in his nature is generous. 518 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:48,200 And what does God do? 519 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:49,920 He creates. 520 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,480 And as he creates everything, not that he needs, 521 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,120 because he doesn't need anything. 522 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:56,360 Everything that we need, he takes humans 523 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:57,920 and he puts them into the garden. 524 00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:58,760 Why? 525 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,560 Because of generosity he puts them there. 526 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,560 Carry on in the story, you get to the person of Jesus. 527 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,560 You might have heard of this verse. 528 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:07,560 John 3, 16. 529 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:08,720 Church jokes. 530 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:09,560 Ba-da-bop. 531 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,160 For God, what? 532 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:15,000 So loved. 533 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,880 For God so loved. 534 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:26,040 That world world is ethnos, it's people, right? 535 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,600 So God loved every ethnicity is what that means. 536 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,120 For God so loved every ethnicity, 537 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:39,120 for God so loved every ethnicity that he what? 538 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:41,960 Okay, let's connect some dots. 539 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,160 For God so loved every ethnicity, 540 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,200 because God is four people, right? 541 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:53,200 The motivation to move and to be generous 542 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:56,840 for God Almighty was what? 543 00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:58,680 Love. 544 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,600 For God so loved you, 545 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,600 for God so loved every person, 546 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,960 for God so loves the entire planet, 547 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,600 that what did he do? 548 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,080 He gave. 549 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,440 Generosity is birth out of love. 550 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,400 And so it says, for God so loved the world 551 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:17,960 that he gave his one and only son, 552 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,440 that whoever believes in him shall not perish, 553 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,960 but have eternal life. 554 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:23,880 So what is he doing? 555 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,600 He is giving. 556 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:26,440 Why? 557 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,800 So that you can be the recipient of that love. 558 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,640 Now here's where it works for us, right? 559 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,120 Because as a people then, 560 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:37,080 what is the motivation for your generosity? 561 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,640 What is the motivation for you to take this one life 562 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,680 and give it away? 563 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,840 Well, it's connected to what you love. 564 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,480 Remember what you value you love 565 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,400 and what you value you do. 566 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,040 So in our values, you go all the way back to what? 567 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,360 We are for Jesus. 568 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:59,000 So your love actually starts back with the person of Jesus. 569 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,160 Your love for Jesus will lead you to love what he loves. 570 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,000 What does he love? 571 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,680 He loves people. 572 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,800 And out of loving people, he what? 573 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,320 Through the Holy Spirit inspires you 574 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,360 to be generous towards people. 575 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:16,880 But if I don't love Jesus, 576 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,480 I'll never be generous towards people. 577 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,200 See how it works? 578 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:21,880 Because love is the motivator to give. 579 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,480 Love is what moved the hand of God to give to you. 580 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,720 That he loves you, therefore he gives. 581 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,320 This whole idea of generosity, right? 582 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,400 This idea that we have all of this 583 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,880 and we're trying to figure out 584 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,680 there's no better picture church for us on a macro level 585 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,240 as a family than when you look at Park Collective. 586 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,360 Because Park Collective was a group of people 587 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,120 that said, you know what? 588 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:48,200 We will pool all of our talent, all of our time, 589 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,200 all of our energy, all of our resources, 590 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,800 and we will create something. 591 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,000 You know, one of my favorite things is when, 592 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,320 if you have a family, 593 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,160 is when, if you haven't heard of this, 594 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,200 there's things called Park Hosts, 595 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,480 and they are at Park Collective in Prescott Valley, right? 596 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,720 And they're there throughout the week. 597 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:06,840 And guess what they do? 598 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:08,840 They create joy. 599 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:09,840 You know how they create joy? 600 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,320 They look at people and they smile. 601 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,200 They look at people and go, we're glad you're here. 602 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,080 They look at people and let them know they matter. 603 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:19,000 But you know what happens 604 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,520 when somebody walks into a Park Host often 605 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:22,640 that hasn't been there before? 606 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,560 They walk in and they got their kids with them, 607 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,680 and they go, where do we pay for this? 608 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,040 And you know what the Park Host says? 609 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,600 You don't have to pay because somebody already paid. 610 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,160 That's generosity. 611 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,120 That's the gospel. 612 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:42,640 You don't have to pay because somebody already paid. 613 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,320 When you live out generosity, 614 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,600 what you're actually living out is the gospel to people. 615 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,760 You're saying it's already covered. 616 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,760 And that leads you naturally to our next value, 617 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,360 which is fore-serving. 618 00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:58,840 That if you follow the Holy Spirit, 619 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,880 if you create space for the Holy Spirit, 620 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,800 He's gonna have you take everything you are, 621 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,360 all the talents that you have, 622 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:06,120 all the gifting that you have, 623 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:08,680 all the resources, the energy, the time, 624 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,680 and He's gonna go, okay, how can you serve people? 625 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,320 How can you serve people? 626 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:16,520 We're fore-serving. 627 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,200 We're fore-taking what we're doing. 628 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:24,000 We're fore-taking what God has given us and giving it away. 629 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,720 There's a story that's captured with Jesus in John 13. 630 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:39,680 This is the Last Supper communion meal, 631 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,560 just to give you context of the meal. 632 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,360 Verse 13, or chapter 13, verse two. 633 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,320 The evening meal was in progress, 634 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,360 and the devil had already prompted Judas, 635 00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:57,160 the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 636 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,840 So Judas has already been prompted to betray. 637 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,120 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things 638 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:05,040 under His power and that He had come from God 639 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,600 and was returning to God. 640 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,040 So He got up from the meal. 641 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,360 Jesus gets up from the meal. 642 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:12,840 God in human form gets up from the meal, 643 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,920 takes off His outer clothing, 644 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,760 wraps a towel around His waist. 645 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,920 After that, He poured water into a basin 646 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,200 and began to wash His disciples' feet, 647 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,800 drying them with the towel that was wrapped around them. 648 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,520 He washes His disciples' feet. 649 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:36,520 Verse 12, when He had finished washing their feet. 650 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,480 God Almighty in human form at a meal 651 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,560 took the role that was least desirable. 652 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,680 The lowest role that you could have at this meal 653 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,760 was to wash the feet of the people sitting around the table. 654 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,080 And Jesus, God in human form, 655 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,960 puts a towel around Himself, 656 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,720 gets down and begins to wash feet. 657 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,080 What I want you to catch that's so significant 658 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,000 is who is sitting at that table? 659 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,200 It's Judas. 660 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,320 I don't know how that strikes you, 661 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,560 but if I just humanize this thing, 662 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,040 if I know you're the one that's gonna betray me, 663 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:28,160 I'm skipping your feet, right? 664 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:30,960 But it doesn't say that. 665 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,520 He says, when He finished washing their feet, 666 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,520 what does foreserving look like? 667 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,960 It looks like doing it when it's not convenient for me. 668 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,320 It looks like doing it when it's not beneficial in any way. 669 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,320 It looks like doing it when you're prompted 670 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:54,440 by the Holy Spirit to go and serve someone else. 671 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,560 And I'll be real honest with you. 672 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:01,360 I'm not gonna lie to you. 673 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,000 I'm not gonna lie to you, and I'll be real honest with you. 674 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,120 I'm probably the worst 675 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,480 when it comes to serving people I don't like. 676 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,800 Oh, I'll do it, but you know what I'll do later? 677 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:15,640 Complain. 678 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,400 And yet what we see with Jesus, 679 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:22,960 it's like a, I don't know how you feel, 680 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,200 it's like a punch in the stomach every time. 681 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,880 That the person that was betraying Him is enemy. 682 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,440 He washes the feet. 683 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:33,720 He serves. 684 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,000 Family, what are we called to? 685 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,400 We are called to create space 686 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,760 that we would serve humanity around us. 687 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,320 For some of you, the idea of having space 688 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,320 and margin to serve, you're like, I got no time. 689 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,920 Remember, what we value, we do. 690 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,440 So you're making time for stuff that you value. 691 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,120 You just need to look, are my values aligned 692 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:02,800 with the person of Jesus? 693 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,760 Because Jesus' values are aligned 694 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:14,040 that He is for people, therefore, He is for serving. 695 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,240 What is He serving with? 696 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,120 That's where fore generosity comes in. 697 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,280 He is taking everything that He has 698 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,240 and He is using it to serve. 699 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,160 What is the call in our lives as followers of Jesus? 700 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,080 Listen to the rest of the passage. 701 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:27,680 When He had finished washing their feet, 702 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:31,040 verse 12, He put on His clothes and returned to His place. 703 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,680 Do you understand what I have done for you? 704 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,280 He asked them, you call me teacher and Lord, 705 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,080 and rightly so, for that is what I am. 706 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,800 Now that I, your Lord and teacher, 707 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,360 have washed your feet, 708 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,160 you also should wash one another's feet. 709 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,560 I have set you and others in the same place 710 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,360 and I have set you an example 711 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,720 that you should do as I have done for you. 712 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,120 What is the call on you as a follower of Jesus? 713 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:01,440 It is for you to what? 714 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,120 To take this one life, this one life, 715 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,040 and to go back, what do I really love? 716 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:09,760 Because if I really love Jesus, 717 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,200 then He's gonna move me for people. 718 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,760 And if I really love people, 719 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,840 the Holy Spirit is gonna inspire me 720 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,920 to use everything in generosity to be taken 721 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,640 and to serve them every single part of it. 722 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:31,040 Who's He asking you to be generous towards? 723 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,720 Who's He asking you to serve? 724 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,280 I love that in this story as it continues, 725 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,040 you see the humanity of people, 726 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,280 but you also see all three of these values lived out. 727 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:45,480 Here's what I mean. 728 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,080 That there's a moment in this meal 729 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:52,080 where Jesus goes, I am troubled in my spirit. 730 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,000 That that word spirit is the same word 731 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,840 that is walked by the spirit that we read earlier. 732 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,360 It's the same word. 733 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,440 So the Holy Spirit troubles, 734 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,760 troubles stirs up inside of Jesus. 735 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,040 And it says the next thing He does is He testifies. 736 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,880 And what He testifies is someone at this table, 737 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,160 someone at this, He's gathered with friends, 738 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,320 somebody at this table is gonna betray me. 739 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:17,760 Which John, who's writing it, 740 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,480 John starts to talk about the one reclining 741 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,880 on the chest of Jesus, like He was that close, 742 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,160 He was leaning on Him. 743 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,240 And then Peter, who's also at the table, 744 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,760 leans over to John and he goes, ask Him who it is. 745 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,480 I love that the humanity's caught, right? 746 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,160 They're more concerned with who is it? 747 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,200 It's not me, is it? 748 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:44,200 And I love what happens because Jesus takes bread 749 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:45,680 and He breaks bread. 750 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,080 And guess who He gives the bread to? 751 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:50,120 Judas. 752 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,280 It's an act of generosity. 753 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,120 It's an act of serving. 754 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,160 And it says that once Judas takes the bread, 755 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,160 he says that he gets up and he leaves. 756 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,080 The next time you see Judas, guess where he is? 757 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:07,920 He's in the room. 758 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,160 Judas, guess where he is? 759 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,320 He's in a garden with a bunch of soldiers 760 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,720 and he's there to arrest Jesus. 761 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,400 They take Jesus, they put Him on trial. 762 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,040 You know what Jesus does for Judas? 763 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,920 He goes to a cross and He stretches out His arms 764 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,920 and He takes Judas' betrayal and Judas' sin 765 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,800 and He puts it on him and He pays the penalty 766 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,120 for Judas' sin. 767 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:35,120 He serves Judas with everything He's got. 768 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,640 When you came in, hopefully you received one of these. 769 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,360 You know, often we can look at the story 770 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,120 of the disciples around the table and we can see, 771 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:56,760 you know, ourselves in different ones, 772 00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,800 of those like, oh, the closeness of John with Jesus 773 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,800 or Peter's questions or, 774 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:05,800 you go around in each one. 775 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,520 But today, I want you to see something. 776 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,360 That as you hold this, 777 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,160 I want you to have the image 778 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:22,680 that you are Judas. 779 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,000 We like to say we were Judas, right? 780 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,080 But can I tell you that I am Judas. 781 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:33,960 What do I mean by that? 782 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,320 Well, there are times when my heart is prone to wander 783 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,080 from my love for Jesus. 784 00:34:41,240 --> 00:34:43,880 I get stuck on stupid stuff of this earth 785 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,760 and I betray my love for Jesus. 786 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,400 I get stuck on stupid stuff of this earth 787 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,280 and I betray the values 788 00:34:58,360 --> 00:34:59,640 that I've been given the Holy Spirit, 789 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,480 but I don't live by the Holy Spirit 790 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,320 because I'm sidetracked by other things. 791 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,520 And what you have in your hand is you have a reminder 792 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,880 that God in human form showed up on your behalf 793 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:21,160 prompted by the Holy Spirit that He moved, 794 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,760 He moved to the planet, to the neighborhood, 795 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,120 as one translation says, 796 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,200 that He took on human form and went to a cross. 797 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:31,000 Why? 798 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:37,320 Because for God so loved you that He gave. 799 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,840 And don't make this nice, right? 800 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,160 Like don't make this, hey, when you were on your good day. 801 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,880 No, this is when you were an enemy of God, 802 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,720 when you were the furthest away. 803 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,880 He showed up and out of generosity gave everything 804 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:03,000 and served you by going to a cross to die 805 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:11,720 to die that He would take your worst and give you His best. 806 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,800 Martin Luther called it the great exchange 807 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:22,760 that your righteousness, your unrighteousness, 808 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,440 because you didn't have any, 809 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,760 your lack of standing with God as an enemy of the state, 810 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,440 that Jesus gave you His right standing. 811 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:34,440 How? 812 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,480 By serving you on a cross. 813 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:46,440 You hold a reminder of what Jesus has done for you. 814 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,360 So we're just gonna take moments to reflect. 815 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,200 We're gonna create space for the Holy Spirit to speak to you. 816 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,120 About this Jesus that gave it all. 817 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:57,400 And then we'll take it all together. 818 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:25,400 The next moment is yours. 819 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,400 Wow. 820 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:07,400 So 821 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,840 as Jesus sat around the table, 822 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,000 He took bread. 823 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,120 And I find it fascinating that the word He uses 824 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,320 in referring to what the bread was, 825 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,000 He goes, it's my body. 826 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,080 But the word that gets me as He goes, 827 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:41,720 it is given as an act of generosity. 828 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:43,800 It's an act of serving. 829 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,040 It's given for you. 830 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,840 That you would experience 831 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,080 the full exchange 832 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,600 that you give Him your death and pick up His life. 833 00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:58,920 And so He handed him bread and He said, 834 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,160 take eat, do this in remembrance of me. 835 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,520 He took a cup of wine and He talked about 836 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,160 how the wine represented His blood. 837 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,960 That in His blood that He was about to shed on our behalf, 838 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:24,280 a new covenant was coming, a new agreement with God. 839 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,400 And that new agreement was that it was by grace. 840 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:28,280 What did that mean? 841 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:29,560 That it was fully paid. 842 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,640 That someday you would stand before a Holy God 843 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,520 and you would be able to look at that Holy God. 844 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,840 And when He goes, why should I let you 845 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,440 into eternity with me? 846 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,360 That you could point to the person of Jesus and go, 847 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:47,960 because He paid it in full. 848 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,280 He didn't come up short. 849 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:55,320 That He paid for every act of unrighteousness 850 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:56,520 you will ever need. 851 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,600 And He goes, it's all by grace. 852 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,720 So He handed him a cup and He said, take drink, 853 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:05,160 do this in remembrance of me. 854 00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:10,280 And He said, take drink, do this in remembrance of me. 855 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:16,520 God, we are so grateful this morning. 856 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:19,720 We thank you for loving us. 857 00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:23,160 Even though we don't deserve it, we thank you that 858 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:27,160 because of love you gave, thank you for giving your best. 859 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,800 Thank you, God, that in a love for people, 860 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,120 that your generosity is overwhelming. 861 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,520 It doesn't come up short. 862 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,000 Thank you for serving us. 863 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,880 God, you are worthy of it all. 864 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:56,680 There is nothing, nothing that is more worthy than you. 865 00:40:57,720 --> 00:40:59,960 And so God, would you take our act of generosity 866 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:01,800 in these next moments that is our breath. 867 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,160 And as we use our breath, we use our voice, 868 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,760 we use this one life. 869 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,160 God, would we serve you in worship today 870 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,000 to say thank you for who you are and what you've done. 871 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:43,000 We are grateful people and everybody said, amen.