WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.259 You may have a seat. As you do so, good morning. 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:10.640 Officially now. Hope that you're well. Hope that 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.740 you weathered the rain better than Pastor Todd 00:00:13.740 --> 00:00:17.339 did. I met him this morning and all he was like, 00:00:17.379 --> 00:00:19.480 I just need to see the sun. I'm like, bro, it's 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:22.800 been a week. I think you'd be fine. Welcome to 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:25.559 those of you in Paulding today. We're excited 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:28.780 for what God is doing there. Love to hear from 00:00:28.780 --> 00:00:32.119 Mike and Sue, who were just the best hosts ever. 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.640 Just what you guys are doing and how life is 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:38.719 changing. Also, Baghdad, we're so excited. Randy 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:42.240 and your crew and just how you keep showing up 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:44.539 and keep seeing people and what God's doing. 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:47.079 We're just grateful for all you're doing and 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:49.140 how we get to walk alongside each other. So welcome 00:00:49.140 --> 00:00:52.859 this morning. Okay, I need you to do something 00:00:52.859 --> 00:00:55.479 for me, okay? This is an invitation, but the 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:58.539 invitation is much bigger than just like something 00:00:58.539 --> 00:01:02.000 in here. The ripple effects of this matter. And 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:05.219 so what I would say is this, that yes, there 00:01:05.219 --> 00:01:07.620 is a camera in the lobby. Yes, there is a light 00:01:07.620 --> 00:01:09.879 in the lobby. Yes, there is a microphone in the 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:13.780 lobby. What we need is for you to use your voice. 00:01:14.469 --> 00:01:17.129 We would like to, this Christmas season, get 00:01:17.129 --> 00:01:20.769 the good news of Jesus to as many people in our 00:01:20.769 --> 00:01:23.909 church family, in our community, and who knows 00:01:23.909 --> 00:01:26.469 where God uses it and what he does with it. And 00:01:26.469 --> 00:01:30.109 so what we would love to happen is for you to 00:01:30.109 --> 00:01:31.950 be willing to go stand in front of a microphone, 00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:36.090 which I know is scary. I might do it a few times 00:01:36.090 --> 00:01:41.030 in my life, right? Really, nothing. Okay, that's 00:01:41.030 --> 00:01:44.140 how it's going to be. All right, game on. but 00:01:44.140 --> 00:01:45.840 stand in front of a microphone and here's what 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.079 we need. We just need you to give good news. 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:53.400 I know Jesus is good news because I ate three 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:56.239 meals yesterday, right? Like it doesn't have 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.340 to be overly complicated. We're not asking you 00:01:58.340 --> 00:01:59.980 to preach. You don't need to give the gospel, 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.159 right? You just show up and go, I know Jesus 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:06.989 is good news because he healed my mama. I know 00:02:06.989 --> 00:02:09.550 Jesus is good news because when I thought my 00:02:09.550 --> 00:02:11.710 marriage was going to fall apart, he held it 00:02:11.710 --> 00:02:13.629 together. That simple. It doesn't have to be 00:02:13.629 --> 00:02:15.090 overly complicated. You don't have to get into 00:02:15.090 --> 00:02:16.849 all the details of what was wrong with your marriage. 00:02:17.289 --> 00:02:19.250 You just need to show up and go, I know Jesus 00:02:19.250 --> 00:02:21.909 is good news, and here's why. Why? Because the 00:02:21.909 --> 00:02:24.849 world is starving for good news. And so we're 00:02:24.849 --> 00:02:26.870 just going to provide it. But it requires that 00:02:26.870 --> 00:02:28.509 you go to a mic and go, hey, I got something 00:02:28.509 --> 00:02:32.879 to say. I know Jesus is good news because. And 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:34.460 then we'll see what God does and where that goes 00:02:34.460 --> 00:02:36.379 and how he uses it and what that looks like. 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:39.400 But we're going to use that as we lead into the 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:42.219 Christmas season together. Second thing I want 00:02:42.219 --> 00:02:43.699 to let you know about that's exciting, that's 00:02:43.699 --> 00:02:47.240 an invitation. You might remember in March, we 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:49.240 were talking about our youth spaces were kind 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:52.259 of crowded and needed some help. They needed 00:02:52.259 --> 00:02:56.039 some infrastructure put in so that the ministries, 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:57.620 the students that are meeting in there, it could 00:02:57.620 --> 00:03:01.099 be done better and essentially reach more, that 00:03:01.099 --> 00:03:04.960 whole thing. And so along with that, we asked, 00:03:05.099 --> 00:03:08.780 hey, would you be willing to help fund it? To 00:03:08.780 --> 00:03:12.759 which over 200 ,000 was raised, which is amazing, 00:03:12.939 --> 00:03:19.430 right? Well, what I'm excited to tell you is 00:03:19.430 --> 00:03:22.169 not next weekend. The first weekend in December 00:03:22.169 --> 00:03:25.550 is open house because the build -out should be 00:03:25.550 --> 00:03:27.789 done. What that means is if you're on this location, 00:03:28.069 --> 00:03:31.250 you can go to H2, the building straight across 00:03:31.250 --> 00:03:34.530 from here, and you can see on that weekend, see 00:03:34.530 --> 00:03:36.750 what ended up being put in place and what the 00:03:36.750 --> 00:03:38.669 build -out looks like and what the students there 00:03:38.669 --> 00:03:41.050 will get to experience. You can also on that 00:03:41.050 --> 00:03:43.590 weekend go to Park Collective and go into the 00:03:43.590 --> 00:03:46.409 Commons and kind of open house that space as 00:03:46.409 --> 00:03:50.590 well and see what was done with what God provided. 00:03:50.729 --> 00:03:53.409 And so just a way for you to be connected so 00:03:53.409 --> 00:03:56.590 that it be excited for what God's going to do 00:03:56.590 --> 00:03:59.330 in the lives of students in those spaces. OK, 00:03:59.409 --> 00:04:01.889 you ready? I need you to reach down to the right 00:04:01.889 --> 00:04:04.009 and grab the seatbelt that's next to you and 00:04:04.009 --> 00:04:06.909 buckle up. It's amazing how many of you just 00:04:06.909 --> 00:04:10.120 did that. OK. That's another sermon for another 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:13.479 day. All right, here's the thing. We got 30 minutes. 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.540 We got to go, okay? We got to roll. So we've 00:04:16.540 --> 00:04:18.139 been in this conversation about the generous 00:04:18.139 --> 00:04:20.000 life. If you remember, we talked about birds 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.519 last week. Anybody remember birds? Anybody remember 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:24.560 how God feeds the birds? I got bored in between 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:26.779 services last week, so I was like, how many birds 00:04:26.779 --> 00:04:29.500 are there on the planet? And God goes, or not 00:04:29.500 --> 00:04:36.060 God goes, Chad G. Oh, you can't make that up. 00:04:36.060 --> 00:04:41.430 That's great. Oh, so good. Chat GPT told me. 00:04:43.490 --> 00:04:47.730 Just need to clarify that. Between 50, 50 billion 00:04:47.730 --> 00:04:52.069 and 430 billion birds, kind of a wide range, 00:04:52.189 --> 00:04:55.649 exist on the planet. So maybe in our language, 00:04:55.709 --> 00:04:59.449 we'll just go, that's a few. Okay. And God fed 00:04:59.449 --> 00:05:02.509 them all this week. I just want you to know, 00:05:02.529 --> 00:05:04.290 I have a picture because we talked about it last 00:05:04.290 --> 00:05:08.290 week. This was Monday morning at my house. And 00:05:08.290 --> 00:05:10.649 my wife sending me a Snapchat saying, yep, you 00:05:10.649 --> 00:05:14.110 fed the crow this morning. What I want you to 00:05:14.110 --> 00:05:16.550 know is how much trash is left in the trash can. 00:05:17.589 --> 00:05:19.829 Why? Because when God provides, he's abundant. 00:05:20.389 --> 00:05:22.970 He's not lacking in resource. And so God used 00:05:22.970 --> 00:05:25.649 us to feed the crow last Monday morning. And 00:05:25.649 --> 00:05:27.149 I just thought it was kind of funny. Like, yep, 00:05:27.230 --> 00:05:31.089 you can't make it up. But it captures this idea 00:05:31.089 --> 00:05:33.089 of the generous life. The generous life is the 00:05:33.089 --> 00:05:35.970 life that God intended for you in Jesus. A life 00:05:35.970 --> 00:05:37.589 that is bigger than you, that is given away, 00:05:37.649 --> 00:05:40.350 that is lived on mission, on his kingdom mission. 00:05:40.569 --> 00:05:43.550 And what happens is the ripples of that go out 00:05:43.550 --> 00:05:45.509 that are much larger than your life. You can 00:05:45.509 --> 00:05:47.870 live that way. You were intended for that. And 00:05:47.870 --> 00:05:50.250 so we started talking week one. Okay, if that's 00:05:50.250 --> 00:05:54.310 the case, then what are the principles that we 00:05:54.310 --> 00:05:56.310 see that build a generous life? The first one 00:05:56.310 --> 00:05:59.269 being that you have to trust God. The first thing 00:05:59.269 --> 00:06:01.310 we looked at is your trust has to be in him. 00:06:01.350 --> 00:06:03.769 Remember the sending out of the 72, God sends 00:06:03.769 --> 00:06:05.009 them out. He doesn't give them anything. He's 00:06:05.009 --> 00:06:06.470 like, just trust me. And so they go out and they 00:06:06.470 --> 00:06:09.209 trust him. Then the next week we talked about 00:06:09.209 --> 00:06:12.170 this idea of greed, right? That you can amass 00:06:12.170 --> 00:06:14.750 all these possessions. And what Jesus says is 00:06:14.750 --> 00:06:17.329 you can do that with this one life. You can live 00:06:17.329 --> 00:06:20.490 your life amassing whatever form of greed suits 00:06:20.490 --> 00:06:25.430 you. But don't expect to find life inside of 00:06:25.430 --> 00:06:29.259 it because life can't be found there. Then last 00:06:29.259 --> 00:06:31.500 week we talked about, okay, if I'm trusting God 00:06:31.500 --> 00:06:33.899 and I'm not looking for life inside of greed, 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:37.060 then Jesus gets into this like, okay, so don't 00:06:37.060 --> 00:06:41.399 worry then. And a sign that I'm not maybe amassing 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:44.360 greed, but I'm holding on to things is that if 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.420 I have anxiety and worry about the simple things 00:06:47.420 --> 00:06:49.120 of life, which is where the birds came in last 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:52.519 week. Well, this week I would say to kind of 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:55.139 put a bow on this collection, so to speak, to 00:06:55.139 --> 00:06:57.480 kind of take Jesus's thoughts and hopefully... 00:06:57.980 --> 00:07:00.980 Put them all together to go, this is the full 00:07:00.980 --> 00:07:03.620 perspective. Why? Because when your perspective 00:07:03.620 --> 00:07:07.160 changes, when your perspective changes, your 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:09.500 posture changes. When your posture changes, your 00:07:09.500 --> 00:07:13.199 actions change. Your perspective leads to your 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:20.300 actions. When I was 24, my wife was pregnant 00:07:20.300 --> 00:07:23.899 with our first child, and I was that guy. I wanted 00:07:23.899 --> 00:07:27.019 a boy. I told everybody I knew, what do you think 00:07:27.019 --> 00:07:29.699 you're having? We're having a boy. Why do you 00:07:29.699 --> 00:07:31.339 want a boy? I want to teach him how to play soccer. 00:07:31.660 --> 00:07:36.839 The whole male gene dad thing. And then I went 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:38.959 to a marriage conference, and I sat in this one 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:41.779 session, and there was a guy on stage, and he 00:07:41.779 --> 00:07:43.639 was just talking to the guys in the room, and 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:46.079 he was talking about the relationship he had 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:48.879 with his daughter. And it was one of the most 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.560 beautiful things I'd heard. It sounded amazing. 00:07:52.259 --> 00:07:55.079 So much so that my perspective totally shifted. 00:07:55.180 --> 00:07:59.240 I left that session, went to lunch with my wife 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.259 and our friends, and we're sitting at lunch and 00:08:01.259 --> 00:08:06.699 I go, I want a girl. To which God was like, okay, 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:09.040 slugger, I'll change the sex for you. Hang on, 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:13.519 right? But all of a sudden there was this transformation 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.639 because my posture, because my perspective had 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.120 changed. My posture changed, which led to a change 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:21.699 of action. My action was different. I genuinely 00:08:21.699 --> 00:08:23.480 wanted a daughter. And God goes, well, here you 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:28.779 go. Here's four, right? Can I give you a pro 00:08:28.779 --> 00:08:32.620 tip from a girl dad? When you see a girl dad 00:08:32.620 --> 00:08:37.460 out with his girls, please don't look at them 00:08:37.460 --> 00:08:39.919 and go, you're going to keep trying for that 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.700 boy? It diminishes what God has given. Please 00:08:43.700 --> 00:08:46.360 don't do that. If you get punched in the mouth 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:49.240 by that dad, you deserved it. Okay? Just going 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:53.059 to put that out there. So, moving on. Your perspective 00:08:53.059 --> 00:08:57.860 directly impacts your action. And we were chatting 00:08:57.860 --> 00:09:00.179 about this in our teaching prep this week. And 00:09:00.179 --> 00:09:04.720 in Psalm 94, Pastor Ben was like, you know, the 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:07.740 Psalms always change my perspective. They always 00:09:07.740 --> 00:09:11.879 shift my perspective. And he read this, and it's 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:15.129 in verse 9. It says, Does he who fashioned the 00:09:15.129 --> 00:09:19.649 ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not 00:09:19.649 --> 00:09:23.769 see? Does he who disciplines the nations not 00:09:23.769 --> 00:09:27.769 punish? Does he who teaches mankind lack knowledge? 00:09:28.049 --> 00:09:33.429 The Lord knows all human plans. He knows that 00:09:33.429 --> 00:09:37.590 they are futile. All right, anybody in the room 00:09:37.590 --> 00:09:39.850 just go, okay, I got a little more perspective 00:09:39.850 --> 00:09:46.139 on who God is. He hears, he sees, he's the only 00:09:46.139 --> 00:09:51.500 one that can bring judgment. In fact, I read 00:09:51.500 --> 00:09:53.240 this and my perspective was such that I was like, 00:09:53.299 --> 00:09:55.100 why do we spend so much time in planning meetings? 00:09:56.460 --> 00:09:58.620 Right, like if it's all futile, like let's just, 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:02.340 why are we doing it? And it's interesting, isn't 00:10:02.340 --> 00:10:04.200 it? If we put it in a different context, if I'm 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:06.320 gonna build a house and you have the blueprints. 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:11.120 how weird is it of me to not come to you and 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:12.379 go, hey, can I get the blueprints? I'm gonna 00:10:12.379 --> 00:10:15.960 build the house. And yet with God, that's something 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.399 we do until our perspective changes and goes, 00:10:18.500 --> 00:10:20.700 hey, God, you got the plan, I don't. I think 00:10:20.700 --> 00:10:23.539 what Jesus was doing in Luke chapter 12 is he's 00:10:23.539 --> 00:10:26.100 unrolling this plan for the generous life. He's 00:10:26.100 --> 00:10:30.820 shifting perspective. He's getting you to get 00:10:30.820 --> 00:10:33.039 your trust off of yourself and get it onto him. 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:36.419 He's getting you to not live with worry and anxiety. 00:10:37.389 --> 00:10:39.909 And in verse 27, I don't know if you, which service 00:10:39.909 --> 00:10:41.929 you were in, and two of those, I read this passage 00:10:41.929 --> 00:10:44.730 last week. If you're like, he's reading the same 00:10:44.730 --> 00:10:46.629 passage again, there's a purpose, just hang with 00:10:46.629 --> 00:10:52.289 us. Verse 27, consider how the wildflowers grow. 00:10:52.929 --> 00:10:56.309 They do not labor or spin, yet I tell you, not 00:10:56.309 --> 00:11:00.389 even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed 00:11:00.389 --> 00:11:09.379 like one of these. Consider what? Wildflowers. 00:11:09.379 --> 00:11:11.480 Oh, that's a little weird. We're talking about 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:12.940 birds and now we're talking about wildflowers. 00:11:14.340 --> 00:11:16.940 What is Jesus getting at with the wildflowers? 00:11:16.940 --> 00:11:19.679 Because the hills were covered in them and they 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:23.000 were so beautifully adorned. All colors were 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:27.019 there and they were vibrant. And so much so that 00:11:27.019 --> 00:11:29.639 he goes, hey, you know the richest king in your 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:33.659 history? Who was all about the splendor of being 00:11:33.659 --> 00:11:36.340 a king and how he dressed and what he, yeah, 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:39.980 he wasn't even dressed as good as these wildflowers 00:11:39.980 --> 00:11:43.500 are. Because God has poured out his extravagant 00:11:43.500 --> 00:11:50.320 beauty onto them. Why? I need to think about 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:54.360 a wildflower for a second. A wildflower is fragile. 00:11:55.179 --> 00:11:57.720 Like it's easily broken. It's not an oak tree, 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:02.399 right? It's just this spindly little flower. 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:09.320 It's fragile in nature. It says here, as he continues, 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:11.120 he says, if that's how God clothes the grass 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.740 of the field, which is here today and tomorrow 00:12:13.740 --> 00:12:17.220 is thrown into the fire, how much more will he 00:12:17.220 --> 00:12:22.759 clothe you of little faith? So he goes, yeah, 00:12:22.860 --> 00:12:27.340 they're fragile, but they're also extremely temporary. 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:32.620 So what you have in the picture of the wildflowers 00:12:32.620 --> 00:12:35.679 is you have it's fragile, easily broken, and 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:40.600 it is temporary, it is limited. I think it's 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:44.080 fascinating that when you look at what God is 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:46.840 doing, that he takes all of this creativity, 00:12:46.940 --> 00:12:50.340 this extravagant beauty, this blessing, if you 00:12:50.340 --> 00:12:52.419 like, and he pours it out onto these flowers 00:12:52.419 --> 00:12:55.340 that are both fragile and temporary. They're 00:12:55.340 --> 00:12:59.740 easily broken and they're limited. And then it 00:12:59.740 --> 00:13:10.179 hit me. We are fragile and temporary. We're fragile 00:13:10.179 --> 00:13:11.740 and temporary. Oh, you don't believe me about 00:13:11.740 --> 00:13:15.500 the fragile part? Monday, I get home and I'm 00:13:15.500 --> 00:13:17.240 like, babe, something's up with my eye. Like, 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:19.460 I don't know what's going on. And literally two 00:13:19.460 --> 00:13:21.559 hours later, I'm on the couch and can't move, 00:13:21.740 --> 00:13:24.919 right? Like, I have this migraine now behind 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:29.320 my eye and I'm like in miserable pain. Just laying 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:31.879 there. Football was on. Couldn't even watch football. 00:13:32.019 --> 00:13:33.659 I had to listen to it. You know, that whole thing. 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.019 We're pretty fragile. My eye, and I'm out for 00:13:39.019 --> 00:13:41.240 the count. Like, I'm down. Like, babe, I can't 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:46.659 do nothing. Some of you, you got this thing called 00:13:46.659 --> 00:13:51.080 hanger. All right, you get hungry, and you turn, 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:56.700 nobody, right? You bunch of liars. Lunch is an 00:13:56.700 --> 00:13:59.879 hour late and you're like, oh my gosh. And you 00:13:59.879 --> 00:14:01.740 start eating the people you love around you, 00:14:01.779 --> 00:14:05.639 right? We're so fragile. How do you think about 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:08.039 it? Some of you will go to lunch today and the 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:10.399 wait staff will take a little while and you'll 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:14.039 start mistreating them because you're hungry. 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:16.899 That's how fragile we are. I mean, think about 00:14:16.899 --> 00:14:19.519 it. You have one conversation with your wife 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:21.639 in the morning or somebody you care about or 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:24.279 your kids or whatever, right? And all of a sudden, 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:26.220 the whole day is ruined because of that one conversation. 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:29.879 We're just fragile. We're easily broken. And 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.519 that's not even the big stuff of life. We're 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:37.019 just fragile. You know what else? You're limited. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:44.330 You have a shelf life. There is a use -by date 00:14:44.330 --> 00:14:46.909 on you. Some of you got a best use -by date. 00:14:47.009 --> 00:14:54.350 You know that one? This is really going out to 00:14:54.350 --> 00:14:59.330 the interwebs, huh? That's great. I mean, think 00:14:59.330 --> 00:15:04.409 about it for a second. Everything around us gears 00:15:04.409 --> 00:15:08.370 us to think we are anything but fragile, and 00:15:08.370 --> 00:15:12.970 we are definitely not temporary. Everything around 00:15:12.970 --> 00:15:15.269 us gears to think the opposite and we need a 00:15:15.269 --> 00:15:17.929 perspective change so that we can grasp what 00:15:17.929 --> 00:15:20.850 is actually happening with us within the kingdom 00:15:20.850 --> 00:15:24.669 of God and grasp how important this fragile and 00:15:24.669 --> 00:15:29.850 this temporary life really is. He says in verse 00:15:29.850 --> 00:15:34.070 30, for the pagan world runs after all such things. 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:38.860 The pagan world, right? So just slowing down 00:15:38.860 --> 00:15:41.220 for a second, you realize there is a world system 00:15:41.220 --> 00:15:45.320 that we live inside of and the world system is 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:49.220 geared and put into motion and organized by the 00:15:49.220 --> 00:15:53.159 enemy of God, right? Like this is not some conspiracy 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:55.639 theory. This is true, factual, firm scripture 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:58.600 that the enemy has this world and its systems 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:01.580 in place. And what is those systems geared towards? 00:16:01.740 --> 00:16:04.360 That you would forget who you really are every 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:06.879 single day. How do I know that? You have this 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.679 thing called a phone, right? And we often get 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:13.059 on social media, right? We're often like, oh, 00:16:13.100 --> 00:16:16.340 social media. It's just a distraction. Distract 00:16:16.340 --> 00:16:19.700 you from what? To be unsettled, to think everything 00:16:19.700 --> 00:16:21.840 in your life, you need this, you need that, you 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:23.940 need to chase that, right? You realize that social 00:16:23.940 --> 00:16:26.960 media is just getting, essentially they're paying 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:31.500 for your attention. I don't need social media 00:16:31.500 --> 00:16:34.360 to distract me. I got a phone in my pocket. And 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:41.820 I got the ESPN app. That's all I need. And I'm 00:16:41.820 --> 00:16:46.659 distracted. Some of you, it's news. You got news 00:16:46.659 --> 00:16:50.419 updates. And that's just like one itty bitty 00:16:50.419 --> 00:16:54.809 thing that is used to distract us, right? But 00:16:54.809 --> 00:16:57.529 don't miss it. It's part of a system that goes, 00:16:57.669 --> 00:17:00.509 hey, if I can get you to get your eyes off of 00:17:00.509 --> 00:17:02.830 God, if I can get you to forget who you are, 00:17:02.889 --> 00:17:06.329 if I can get you to center in somewhere else, 00:17:06.509 --> 00:17:08.890 then you're going to miss what this fragile and 00:17:08.890 --> 00:17:14.849 temporary life is all about. He goes, the world 00:17:14.849 --> 00:17:17.509 outside, right? Remember, the context of this 00:17:17.509 --> 00:17:20.369 is he's talking to his disciples. He's talking 00:17:20.369 --> 00:17:23.230 to those that have said yes to Jesus. He's talking 00:17:23.230 --> 00:17:25.369 to those that are followers, would consider themselves 00:17:25.369 --> 00:17:28.529 followers of Jesus. And he goes, hey, everybody 00:17:28.529 --> 00:17:30.930 outside of the followers of Jesus, they're chasing 00:17:30.930 --> 00:17:33.589 after these things that are temporary and fragile. 00:17:36.109 --> 00:17:39.089 I feel like I was just going through the walkthrough 00:17:39.089 --> 00:17:41.029 last night and I was like, man, scripture needs 00:17:41.029 --> 00:17:43.029 a bouncing ball sometimes so that we get the, 00:17:43.150 --> 00:17:46.630 right? Like he says, the pagan world runs after 00:17:46.630 --> 00:17:49.269 all such things and your father knows that you 00:17:49.269 --> 00:17:52.950 need them. I just think it's like this. I don't 00:17:52.950 --> 00:17:54.950 think it's like, and your father knows that you 00:17:54.950 --> 00:17:58.930 need them. I think it's like, and your father 00:17:58.930 --> 00:18:02.269 knows you need them. I think it's like just this 00:18:02.269 --> 00:18:10.589 like simple, like really solid, happy news. Hey, 00:18:10.650 --> 00:18:13.170 you don't got to go chase all the temporary and 00:18:13.170 --> 00:18:16.829 fragile stuff. Why? Because your father knows 00:18:16.829 --> 00:18:21.059 that you need them. Oh yeah, it's just like he's 00:18:21.059 --> 00:18:32.900 got it. Verse 31, but seek, but seek, but seek 00:18:32.900 --> 00:18:37.559 his kingdom. Now what's interesting is in verse 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:40.880 29, he says, and do not set your heart on what 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:43.059 you will eat or drink or do not worry about it. 00:18:44.779 --> 00:18:47.200 Okay, so two verses earlier, he goes, do not 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:51.279 set your heart. Now, he gets to this one, and 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:57.359 he goes, seek, seek. Now, do not set your heart 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:02.539 is the same word as the seek later. So you could 00:19:02.539 --> 00:19:09.309 say, do not seek, do not seek. What you will 00:19:09.309 --> 00:19:12.349 eat or drink. Okay, so eat and drink is very 00:19:12.349 --> 00:19:15.089 temporary, right? Like very basic needs. Don't 00:19:15.089 --> 00:19:18.190 even seek those because your father knows you 00:19:18.190 --> 00:19:21.690 need them. And then he goes, but what you should 00:19:21.690 --> 00:19:31.650 do is seek his kingdom. Okay. What is his kingdom? 00:19:33.089 --> 00:19:36.509 Because I'm told don't seek this fragile, temporary. 00:19:37.929 --> 00:19:40.630 life, right? That if I'm going to live a generous 00:19:40.630 --> 00:19:43.109 life, bigger than myself, how do I do that, God? 00:19:43.250 --> 00:19:45.890 Well, Jesus is saying, well, you take your desire, 00:19:45.990 --> 00:19:49.589 to seek is to take my desire, to take my pursuit, 00:19:49.849 --> 00:19:54.529 what I'm pursuing in life, to take that, and 00:19:54.529 --> 00:19:56.890 there's a word here that's worth underlining, 00:19:56.910 --> 00:20:00.309 circling, right? But seek, verse 31, but seek 00:20:00.309 --> 00:20:14.660 his, his, his, his. his, his kingdom. Okay, God, 00:20:14.779 --> 00:20:17.660 in a conversation about temporary and fragile, 00:20:17.859 --> 00:20:21.099 you now tell us to seek your kingdom. What's 00:20:21.099 --> 00:20:22.559 the difference in the kingdom? Well, you remember 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:24.220 we were singing that song earlier. We came out 00:20:24.220 --> 00:20:26.420 and talked about it. Remember the God who is 00:20:26.420 --> 00:20:29.960 infinite, right? Like he, he what? He was and 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:37.049 is and is to come. He's infinite. So what is 00:20:37.049 --> 00:20:38.890 his kingdom? Well, you go back through scripture 00:20:38.890 --> 00:20:41.210 and you find that with David, he's setting up 00:20:41.210 --> 00:20:43.509 a throne that what? Will never be dethroned because 00:20:43.509 --> 00:20:47.849 Jesus is on the throne for all of eternity. What 00:20:47.849 --> 00:20:51.450 you get in this moment where he says, but seek, 00:20:51.589 --> 00:20:54.990 put your desire, your pursuit in his kingdom, 00:20:55.069 --> 00:20:57.950 you get a kingdom that is anything but fragile 00:20:57.950 --> 00:21:01.849 and anything but temporary. Right? It's eternal. 00:21:03.630 --> 00:21:05.910 So what are we to seek? We're to seek what is 00:21:05.910 --> 00:21:08.029 eternal and not what is fragile and temporary. 00:21:09.569 --> 00:21:13.329 We're to seek what will not wear out, what will 00:21:13.329 --> 00:21:15.549 not die, what will not fade, because there is 00:21:15.549 --> 00:21:19.789 a God who cannot fade. There's a God that cannot 00:21:19.789 --> 00:21:22.670 be defeated. You realize the king in heaven over 00:21:22.670 --> 00:21:25.210 the kingdom, he never gets dethroned for all 00:21:25.210 --> 00:21:28.609 of eternity. That's the security that you're 00:21:28.609 --> 00:21:31.660 banking into. So then, So then he ends that with 00:21:31.660 --> 00:21:33.519 seek his kingdom and these things will be given 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:36.019 to you as well. So those things of the temporary 00:21:36.019 --> 00:21:39.039 and fragile, guess what? When I seek his kingdom, 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:41.480 the temporary and fragile, I mean, it's kind 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:42.900 of like the bouncing ball again, right? Like 00:21:42.900 --> 00:21:46.440 these things will be given to you as well. Verse 00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:51.039 32, do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. What's 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:53.000 gonna stop you from living for the kingdom of 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:58.569 God? Fear, every time. Why do you think the device 00:21:58.569 --> 00:22:01.609 in your pocket is geared towards raising fear 00:22:01.609 --> 00:22:06.369 inside of you? Right? Because that will stop 00:22:06.369 --> 00:22:08.549 you living the generous life because you will 00:22:08.549 --> 00:22:11.210 hunker down. He says, don't be afraid. And I 00:22:11.210 --> 00:22:15.789 love it. It's little, little flock. Little flock. 00:22:17.250 --> 00:22:20.230 Okay, two things are happening here. He's re 00:22:20.230 --> 00:22:24.809 -emphasizing, these are my kids. This is my people. 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:27.420 These are my followers. These are my disciples. 00:22:27.740 --> 00:22:30.339 That's who he's talking to. He goes, don't be 00:22:30.339 --> 00:22:34.500 afraid. We started out, remember, we started 00:22:34.500 --> 00:22:37.359 in chapter 10. And when he sent out the 72, he 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:39.819 sent them out like lambs among wolves. Remember 00:22:39.819 --> 00:22:43.740 that? Sent them out specifically like poodles 00:22:43.740 --> 00:22:48.940 to bobcats. Do not be afraid, little flock. What 00:22:48.940 --> 00:22:51.119 is a little flock? A little flock is fragile 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:58.230 and temporary. Don't be afraid. For your father 00:22:58.230 --> 00:23:03.849 has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Your 00:23:03.849 --> 00:23:08.190 father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. 00:23:08.269 --> 00:23:11.779 Wait. God sized the kingdom. You mean that kingdom 00:23:11.779 --> 00:23:13.460 that's never going to fail? That kingdom doesn't 00:23:13.460 --> 00:23:15.720 run out? That kingdom that has a king and has 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:17.480 a specific way of life? That kingdom that is 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:19.220 generous in nature because the king is generous? 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:22.200 That kingdom that will go on for all of eternity? 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:24.119 That kingdom where I get to be around the king 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:26.160 and be in the presence of the king and never 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:28.920 separate it again? That kingdom? Yes. And guess 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:32.579 what? He has given it to you. There's nothing 00:23:32.579 --> 00:23:37.890 left to gain. The kingdom has been given. You 00:23:37.890 --> 00:23:40.230 are already given everything, which is why in 00:23:40.230 --> 00:23:41.930 Ephesians it talks about, right, that you've 00:23:41.930 --> 00:23:44.150 been blessed with every spiritual blessing. So 00:23:44.150 --> 00:23:45.869 you're like, John, hang on a second though, right, 00:23:45.930 --> 00:23:49.369 because I'm still temporary. The kingdom is already 00:23:49.369 --> 00:23:53.930 here, but not yet. So right here and now, right, 00:23:53.990 --> 00:23:56.730 eternity is real. I'm living for eternity. However, 00:23:57.009 --> 00:24:01.309 I will have to face physical death, right? It's 00:24:01.309 --> 00:24:03.170 this already and not yet. He goes, the kingdom 00:24:03.170 --> 00:24:07.000 is yours. Why is he telling them this? Because 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:09.000 the next thing he's going to tell them is sell 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:15.059 your possessions and give to the poor. You know 00:24:15.059 --> 00:24:20.039 what's interesting? He's just laid out. Life 00:24:20.039 --> 00:24:24.119 is fragile and temporary. But God's going to 00:24:24.119 --> 00:24:28.279 give you everything you need. Right? And he's 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:32.029 like, even the kingdom. The kingdom has been 00:24:32.029 --> 00:24:34.029 given to you. You have everything you could ever 00:24:34.029 --> 00:24:36.230 want. You've been given everything by God. It 00:24:36.230 --> 00:24:41.289 is all yours already. So what can I do here? 00:24:41.609 --> 00:24:46.029 I can open my hands. I can sell my possessions. 00:24:46.430 --> 00:24:48.730 I'm not attached to them. They don't matter to 00:24:48.730 --> 00:24:52.390 me. What matters to me is this kingdom. What 00:24:52.390 --> 00:24:54.690 matters to me is that I'm viewing this from an 00:24:54.690 --> 00:24:57.130 eternal perspective. So what happens is when 00:24:57.130 --> 00:24:58.910 he says sell your possessions and give to the 00:24:58.910 --> 00:25:01.289 poor, what he's saying is because all of this 00:25:01.289 --> 00:25:04.549 is secure, right? All of this is eternally secure. 00:25:04.750 --> 00:25:07.309 You can in turn now open your hands and give 00:25:07.309 --> 00:25:12.970 it away. You can live the generous life. Sell 00:25:12.970 --> 00:25:14.589 your possessions. It's a command, by the way. 00:25:15.150 --> 00:25:17.450 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Second 00:25:17.450 --> 00:25:20.789 command is this. Provide purses for yourselves. 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:26.759 that will not wear out. Provide purses for yourself. 00:25:26.859 --> 00:25:30.380 Okay, let's be clear with a command, right? A 00:25:30.380 --> 00:25:32.720 command is something you are told to what? To 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:36.720 do. And sometimes I think we read this and we 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:40.619 read it like in our own version and tone. We 00:25:40.619 --> 00:25:44.500 read it like Jesus come along going, hey church. 00:25:45.980 --> 00:25:49.039 Hey, you know those ones that are following me 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:51.680 because I died on that cross and you like said 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:55.539 yes and you haven't been doing anything with 00:25:55.539 --> 00:25:59.420 it? Well, it'd be really nice if you guys would 00:25:59.420 --> 00:26:02.980 like provide purses for yourself. That's not 00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:07.220 the tone. The tone is because all of that is 00:26:07.220 --> 00:26:11.299 true. Because your future is secure. Guess what? 00:26:11.849 --> 00:26:15.569 You can now live in such a way in this fragile 00:26:15.569 --> 00:26:20.089 and temporary life that I provide purses for 00:26:20.089 --> 00:26:24.009 myself in the kingdom of God. What does that 00:26:24.009 --> 00:26:28.049 mean? The idea is that I can invest, I can put 00:26:28.049 --> 00:26:31.450 into. What is the second word there? It's purses. 00:26:31.569 --> 00:26:34.390 That word purses is kind of like a bag. Culturally, 00:26:34.450 --> 00:26:36.829 you grab the bag. This is you creating the bag 00:26:36.829 --> 00:26:39.400 that you're going to grab in eternity. So the 00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:42.299 idea is that what Jesus is getting at is that 00:26:42.299 --> 00:26:44.599 when you live this fragile and temporary life 00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:48.079 and you invest it into eternal things, you are 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:55.079 putting away into a bag in eternity that he says 00:26:55.079 --> 00:26:59.859 can never fail, where no thief comes near and 00:26:59.859 --> 00:27:03.700 no moth destroys. He goes, you're banking in 00:27:03.700 --> 00:27:05.720 a place that it can never be touched. No one 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:09.420 can ever take it. It's not possible. Okay, so 00:27:09.420 --> 00:27:11.720 what does that look like? Because sometimes I 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:15.740 think we confuse how easy this really is. Park 00:27:15.740 --> 00:27:19.259 Collective last week, PV Youth, had a Friendsgiving. 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:21.880 And part of Friendsgiving was, hey, would you 00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:24.220 be willing to make a meal? So guess what? Some 00:27:24.220 --> 00:27:26.660 people made a lasagna. I don't know if they actually 00:27:26.660 --> 00:27:28.220 had lasagna. That's just what comes to mind, 00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:32.680 right? They showed up with their lasagna. All 00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:36.930 they were doing was what? Making a lasagna. But 00:27:36.930 --> 00:27:40.089 guess what? According to Jesus, you showed up 00:27:40.089 --> 00:27:42.750 as part of the generous life and you gave your 00:27:42.750 --> 00:27:45.710 lasagna. You took your effort, your time. Hopefully 00:27:45.710 --> 00:27:47.710 you had skill and the lasagna was good, right? 00:27:47.809 --> 00:27:50.009 Like you took your effort, your time. You created 00:27:50.009 --> 00:27:53.390 this lasagna. And guess what? People were fed. 00:27:54.809 --> 00:28:00.920 And Jesus goes, you banked in eternity. Because 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:03.900 you took this temporary and fragile and you gave 00:28:03.900 --> 00:28:07.680 it away on behalf of someone else. It's that 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:11.500 easy. It's like you walking out, because all 00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:13.480 of you will walk out to where the light is out 00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:15.099 there and stand in front of a microphone and 00:28:15.099 --> 00:28:19.200 give good news. You're like, I'm just telling 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:21.039 my story. I'm just telling what God has done. 00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:26.119 You don't know how God is going to use that, 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:28.160 but your obedience to stand and go, this is my 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:31.089 story and I'm sharing it. I'm giving it. however 00:28:31.089 --> 00:28:32.950 it wants to be used in the kingdom. Guess what? 00:28:33.009 --> 00:28:36.069 You are banking in your eternal purse forever. 00:28:37.569 --> 00:28:42.509 You chose to not invest it here. Right? I think 00:28:42.509 --> 00:28:45.569 this is specifically talking to of your finances. 00:28:46.730 --> 00:28:49.150 Right? How do I know that? The very next line. 00:28:49.750 --> 00:28:52.410 For where your treasure is, there your heart 00:28:52.410 --> 00:28:57.049 will be also. Where your treasure is. I got an 00:28:57.049 --> 00:29:00.589 email this week. I had a quote from Billy Graham. 00:29:00.910 --> 00:29:02.690 Billy Graham's one of the heroes of the faith. 00:29:02.750 --> 00:29:05.509 You can read about him later. Billy Graham said 00:29:05.509 --> 00:29:09.529 this, give me five minutes with your checkbook. 00:29:10.609 --> 00:29:14.170 Give me five minutes with your debit card, with 00:29:14.170 --> 00:29:18.329 your printout statement. Give me five minutes 00:29:18.329 --> 00:29:21.450 with your checkbook and I'll tell you where your 00:29:21.450 --> 00:29:25.210 heart is. I'll tell you what you care about. 00:29:25.349 --> 00:29:26.930 I'll tell you what you're building in. I'll tell 00:29:26.930 --> 00:29:30.250 you where you're storing in, whether you're storing 00:29:30.250 --> 00:29:32.410 in the fragile and temporary or you're storing 00:29:32.410 --> 00:29:34.890 in the eternal. It's interesting. We do a moment 00:29:34.890 --> 00:29:38.859 of generosity in here every week. And you realize 00:29:38.859 --> 00:29:40.759 that moment of generosity is just an opportunity 00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:43.900 for you to go, God, I want to live what Jesus 00:29:43.900 --> 00:29:46.220 called me to live. He gave me two commands, sell 00:29:46.220 --> 00:29:48.599 my possessions, give to the poor. He told me 00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:51.519 to provide purses, to build into eternity. One 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:53.839 of the ways you build into eternity is in this 00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:57.579 room, in this room, through screens and online, 00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:02.759 you can go, I'm going to take what God has put 00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:06.619 in my hand and I'm gonna use it for the kingdom. 00:30:07.890 --> 00:30:10.009 Right? And so one of the ways it's really simple 00:30:10.009 --> 00:30:12.569 to do that is you go, God, I'm going to take 00:30:12.569 --> 00:30:15.309 what you have put in my hand. You have put my 00:30:15.309 --> 00:30:17.849 paycheck in my hand. You have put however that 00:30:17.849 --> 00:30:20.009 money ends up in my hand. God, I'm going to be 00:30:20.009 --> 00:30:23.069 faithful to what? Use it for the kingdom of God, 00:30:23.109 --> 00:30:24.849 to steward it towards the kingdom of God. One 00:30:24.849 --> 00:30:28.049 of the ways we do that is as a church. We compile 00:30:28.049 --> 00:30:31.690 all of our building purses. Why? So that we can 00:30:31.690 --> 00:30:34.109 make a mark for the kingdom of God where? In 00:30:34.109 --> 00:30:36.190 our community and in the people around us that 00:30:36.190 --> 00:30:39.900 we love. But it requires that you wrestle with, 00:30:40.099 --> 00:30:46.200 do I do this or don't I? Do I invest in the fragile 00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:49.660 and temporary? Or do I invest into eternity? 00:30:53.619 --> 00:30:59.279 What is the posture? Be dressed and ready for 00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:03.640 service. And keep your lamps burning. like servants 00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:06.019 waiting for their master to return from a wedding 00:31:06.019 --> 00:31:09.900 banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they 00:31:09.900 --> 00:31:13.900 can immediately open the door for him. What that 00:31:13.900 --> 00:31:16.680 tells me is your posture as you get a perspective 00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:19.799 that we are living for eternity, not the temporary 00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:22.319 and the fragile. That I'm not trying to build 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:24.180 it here because whatever you have here disappears. 00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:26.579 I love that in teaching prep this week, Pastor 00:31:26.579 --> 00:31:28.640 Todd goes, hey, I was in Israel and you know 00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:30.940 what? Where these words were spoken, where the 00:31:30.940 --> 00:31:34.480 words of Jesus, they're just ruins now. The buildings 00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:38.640 don't even exist. How amazing, right? What a 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:41.680 picture. That if we're banking on the things 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.670 here, they're just fragile and temporary. And 00:31:44.670 --> 00:31:47.730 so what's our posture? That it says immediately. 00:31:48.009 --> 00:31:50.289 Why? Because what's going to happen? Either you're 00:31:50.289 --> 00:31:52.390 going to go meet Jesus or Jesus is coming to 00:31:52.390 --> 00:31:56.410 meet you. That's the future. You want to know 00:31:56.410 --> 00:31:59.009 what your future is? Either you, Lord willing, 00:31:59.150 --> 00:32:02.970 this doesn't happen to you, but you don't know 00:32:02.970 --> 00:32:07.089 if you're going to make it home today. You don't 00:32:07.089 --> 00:32:08.650 know if you get in an accident on the way home 00:32:08.650 --> 00:32:11.670 or someone you love. We have no idea. That's 00:32:11.670 --> 00:32:15.480 why the immediate matters. That's why we live 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:20.559 expectant. That's why we live ready. We're servants 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:22.799 of the master. So we live in a posture that's 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:26.720 ready. Why? Why? Because we don't know if this 00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:30.200 is all we got in this fragile and this temporary. 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:33.200 But I tell you what, I wanna be building for 00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:39.500 eternity, not here. Because here's fragile and 00:32:39.500 --> 00:32:45.930 temporary. His kingdom's not. And it says we're 00:32:45.930 --> 00:32:48.049 to be ready. Why? So we can immediately open 00:32:48.049 --> 00:32:50.829 the door. Verse 37, it will be good. It will 00:32:50.829 --> 00:32:52.990 be good. Listen to this. It will be good for 00:32:52.990 --> 00:32:55.890 those servants whose master finds them watching 00:32:55.890 --> 00:32:59.369 when he comes. Truly, I tell you, he will dress 00:32:59.369 --> 00:33:04.269 himself. So the master dresses himself to serve. 00:33:04.690 --> 00:33:07.750 We'll have them recline at the table and we'll 00:33:07.750 --> 00:33:12.970 come and wait on them. I mean, if you didn't 00:33:12.970 --> 00:33:14.630 have enough motivation, here's a little more. 00:33:14.769 --> 00:33:19.990 You ready? That when Jesus returns, it says that 00:33:19.990 --> 00:33:23.869 he, he is gonna throw one outrageous barbecue. 00:33:25.450 --> 00:33:30.230 And you're invited to sit at the table with him. 00:33:31.410 --> 00:33:36.410 You're invited to be a friend, a family at the 00:33:36.410 --> 00:33:42.140 banquet. And get this, he is going. To serve. 00:33:44.140 --> 00:33:49.759 Oh, man. How can I hold on to this life like 00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:56.420 this is all there is? How can I care more about 00:33:56.420 --> 00:34:05.460 my streaming services than my neighbor? How can 00:34:05.460 --> 00:34:11.420 I miss that today, today, You have the chance 00:34:11.420 --> 00:34:18.280 to make an investment into a bank that will never, 00:34:18.340 --> 00:34:23.300 never go bankrupt. That you can invest today. 00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:31.179 How? You get one generous life. That when Jesus 00:34:31.179 --> 00:34:35.260 saved you, you now have the ability to live the 00:34:35.260 --> 00:34:39.300 life you were created for in Jesus. Where you 00:34:39.300 --> 00:34:45.760 go, I'm giving it away for the kingdom. How will 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:50.940 you use your generous life? Because only you 00:34:50.940 --> 00:34:54.460 can decide. God, we come before you this morning 00:34:54.460 --> 00:34:57.860 and we're just grateful. We're so thankful that 00:34:57.860 --> 00:35:01.719 we have a God who is faithful for so long. We're 00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:03.500 so thankful for the breath in our lungs today. 00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:06.519 We're thankful that God. Not only do we have 00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:09.260 the ability to breathe and have life, but we 00:35:09.260 --> 00:35:14.539 have the ability to give back to you. That we 00:35:14.539 --> 00:35:18.480 can build into eternity. We can build into your 00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:23.559 kingdom. God, would you help us gain perspective 00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:30.980 even as we sing about how great you are? Would 00:35:30.980 --> 00:35:36.389 you help us gain perspective? That the very breath 00:35:36.389 --> 00:35:39.469 in our lungs is on loan from you. Would you help 00:35:39.469 --> 00:35:43.949 us gain perspective that this generous life is 00:35:43.949 --> 00:35:47.409 to be given away? And so God, as we respond in 00:35:47.409 --> 00:35:49.849 song, would you let us gain perspective from 00:35:49.849 --> 00:35:53.849 you in worship that carries us through our week, 00:35:53.989 --> 00:35:56.789 that carries us to our neighbor, that carries 00:35:56.789 --> 00:35:59.849 us to serving those around us, that carries us 00:35:59.849 --> 00:36:03.889 to give this life away. And so we thank you. 00:36:04.269 --> 00:36:06.829 We are grateful, and everybody said, amen.