WEBVTT 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:03.220 Well, welcome. It's so good to be with you this 00:00:03.220 --> 00:00:05.160 morning. I want to welcome those of you here. 00:00:05.219 --> 00:00:08.119 I want to welcome those of you online. Those 00:00:08.119 --> 00:00:11.679 of you in Baghdad, welcome. In Paulding, welcome. 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:14.039 In Paulding, I got to hang out with Mike and 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:16.739 Sue Lynn this week. You guys are in great hands 00:00:16.739 --> 00:00:19.199 out there. Me and Mike, we have the same haircut. 00:00:19.420 --> 00:00:23.140 It's awesome. Well, welcome, guys. So good that 00:00:23.140 --> 00:00:25.739 I get to hang out with you this morning. And 00:00:25.739 --> 00:00:28.510 some of you are like, oh, this guy again. Don't 00:00:28.510 --> 00:00:30.309 worry, the real guy will be back next week, okay? 00:00:30.510 --> 00:00:33.369 But until then, you're stuck with the bald eagle 00:00:33.369 --> 00:00:38.490 for today, okay? So there, okay, okay. All right, 00:00:38.549 --> 00:00:44.850 I like that. Man, I believe, I believe that shifting 00:00:44.850 --> 00:00:49.009 our perspective can change everything. I believe 00:00:49.009 --> 00:00:52.450 that shifting our perspective can change everything. 00:00:52.590 --> 00:00:54.149 So I got a question for you and I want you to 00:00:54.149 --> 00:00:56.079 be honest. And I want you to be honest because 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:58.320 I know the two places we like to lie the most 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:00.439 are in church and at the doctor. You know what 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:02.359 I mean? All right, you go to the doctor and they're 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:03.679 like, what hurts? You're like, nothing. They're 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:05.200 like, do you drink? You're all, never. Do you 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:07.180 smoke? Never. Do you eat vegetables? Every day, 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:10.180 right? You liars, liars. And then we come to 00:01:10.180 --> 00:01:13.859 church. Do you sin? Nope, not me. Okay, I want 00:01:13.859 --> 00:01:17.269 you to be honest in church, all right? How many 00:01:17.269 --> 00:01:20.549 of you, when you see a glass that's around the 00:01:20.549 --> 00:01:23.230 halfway point with liquid, would say that that 00:01:23.230 --> 00:01:25.569 glass is half empty? How many of you would say 00:01:25.569 --> 00:01:27.670 it's half empty? Okay, how many of you would 00:01:27.670 --> 00:01:30.069 say it's half full? Okay, how many of you just 00:01:30.069 --> 00:01:33.549 lied about which one you were? Okay, your spouse 00:01:33.549 --> 00:01:35.950 is hitting you, I know you know. How many of 00:01:35.950 --> 00:01:37.310 you married someone that would say the opposite 00:01:37.310 --> 00:01:39.430 of you? All right, yeah, no, no, I'm not trying 00:01:39.430 --> 00:01:41.530 to break up marriages today. Okay, I'm just saying. 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:45.700 We have different perspectives on the same things. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:48.579 Sometimes I have to shift my perspective and 00:01:48.579 --> 00:01:50.680 see it from a different way. When my kids wake 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:54.400 me up at 5 a .m. and I want to throw them, I 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:56.000 have to shift my perspective to go, I am just 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.599 so awesome that they want to see me right away. 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:01.719 They want to spend more time with me. When my 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:04.760 house is a disaster, I have to look at it and 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:07.000 I have to shift my perspective and go, our life 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:11.500 is just so full of so many amazing things. We 00:02:11.500 --> 00:02:14.719 have to shift our perspective. I coach baseball 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:16.620 at Embry -Riddle University, and a couple weeks 00:02:16.620 --> 00:02:19.199 ago we took a trip to Florida to play baseball 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.120 out there. And I don't know if you know this, 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:26.719 but Prescott is really dry. I also don't know 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:29.039 if you know this, but in like February time, 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.379 many times Prescott is pretty cool when it comes 00:02:31.379 --> 00:02:34.900 to weather. Florida is not dry and it is not 00:02:34.900 --> 00:02:37.250 cool. And so we were at... Florida, we get there 00:02:37.250 --> 00:02:40.050 and the guys are sweating. We are just drenched 00:02:40.050 --> 00:02:42.610 with sweat. It is hot. And they're a bunch of 00:02:42.610 --> 00:02:45.909 whiners, okay? And so I heard a thousand times, 00:02:46.069 --> 00:02:48.889 coach, I'm so hot. Coach, I'm sweating. I coach, 00:02:49.030 --> 00:02:51.150 this is hard. And I'm like, I know, I'm doing 00:02:51.150 --> 00:02:54.310 this too. And so I had to then change how I responded 00:02:54.310 --> 00:02:57.449 instead of yes, it's hot, to wow, your body must 00:02:57.449 --> 00:03:00.360 be so loose right now because of this heat. Your 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.379 shoulder must feel great when you throw the ball 00:03:02.379 --> 00:03:04.939 because you're so loose because of this wonderful 00:03:04.939 --> 00:03:07.939 weather we get to play in. I have to shift our 00:03:07.939 --> 00:03:11.240 perspective and what we see. And I'm not just 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:13.219 talking about being positive. I'm not just talking 00:03:13.219 --> 00:03:15.199 about, yeah, let's just have a positive perspective 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:19.340 on things. Shifting perspective, what it means 00:03:19.340 --> 00:03:23.379 is really just taking normal things and seeing 00:03:23.379 --> 00:03:25.780 them from a different perspective. way, different 00:03:25.780 --> 00:03:29.620 perspective. Okay, when I was getting ready for 00:03:29.620 --> 00:03:31.699 this message, people were going, hey, are you 00:03:31.699 --> 00:03:33.620 going to draw on the boards like Pastor John 00:03:33.620 --> 00:03:35.240 did? Are you going to bring the boards up here? 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:37.219 And I'm like, no, I'm not going to do that. And 00:03:37.219 --> 00:03:40.000 they're like, why? And I'm like, because if his 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.520 art compared to my art makes him look like Vincent 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:45.479 Van Gogh, all right, we're not doing this. I'm 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:48.379 not drawing in front of people. But I do enjoy 00:03:48.379 --> 00:03:51.680 art. I like art. And so I found this art where 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.620 it takes normal everyday objects that kind of 00:03:54.620 --> 00:03:57.800 look like junk, and there's a pile of them. You 00:03:57.800 --> 00:03:59.719 can throw that photo up there. This is what it 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:02.520 would look like. But when you change your perspective 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:04.659 of how you look at the normal everyday things, 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:08.300 this is what you see, right? Okay, some of you 00:04:08.300 --> 00:04:10.539 were not impressed at all. Okay, that's great. 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:12.360 That's okay. I got another one to show you, right? 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:17.170 There's a pile of everyday normal things. That 00:04:17.170 --> 00:04:19.389 you see all the time, but if you shift your perspective 00:04:19.389 --> 00:04:22.410 and look at it this way, this is what you see. 00:04:22.629 --> 00:04:24.649 All right, a little bit better on that one. Good 00:04:24.649 --> 00:04:29.889 job, I appreciate it. Ooh, ah. And our perspective 00:04:29.889 --> 00:04:33.689 changes what. We see, if you've been around the 00:04:33.689 --> 00:04:36.110 last couple of weeks, last several weeks, we've 00:04:36.110 --> 00:04:38.250 been in this collection called Just Camping. 00:04:38.269 --> 00:04:41.670 And the idea of Just Camping, the gist of what 00:04:41.670 --> 00:04:45.209 this is all about is that you were never created 00:04:45.209 --> 00:04:49.470 to exist on this planet forever, right? This 00:04:49.470 --> 00:04:52.189 is just camping. You're just stopping by here. 00:04:52.250 --> 00:04:54.310 And when we put all of our stake into what happens 00:04:54.310 --> 00:04:56.589 in this life right here, right now, and we build 00:04:56.589 --> 00:04:59.209 our kingdom here, we've missed God's kingdom. 00:04:59.930 --> 00:05:02.470 Because we are just passing through, we are just 00:05:02.470 --> 00:05:05.930 camping. And I think this collection has created 00:05:05.930 --> 00:05:08.750 a lot of attention for some of you, right? Because 00:05:08.750 --> 00:05:11.110 you've been convicted by this idea and you go, 00:05:11.149 --> 00:05:13.930 I want to live like I'm just camping. I don't 00:05:13.930 --> 00:05:16.189 want to live like this life is all that matters. 00:05:16.370 --> 00:05:19.750 I want there to be more, but life still has to 00:05:19.750 --> 00:05:22.000 happen. Like I still have to live in a house. 00:05:22.100 --> 00:05:24.319 I still have to drive a car. I still have to 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:26.660 go to work. I still have to take my kids to school. 00:05:26.699 --> 00:05:28.699 That stuff still happens. And you find yourself 00:05:28.699 --> 00:05:30.879 in this tension of, I wanna live like I'm just 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:36.259 camping, but there's still life. And what if, 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:39.779 what if our perspective just needs to shift? 00:05:40.740 --> 00:05:43.459 What if we just need to see things a little bit 00:05:43.459 --> 00:05:46.699 differently? We're gonna be in 2 Corinthians 00:05:46.699 --> 00:05:50.000 chapter five. This collection is built on 2 Corinthians 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.939 chapter five. When John and I speak, it is not 00:05:52.939 --> 00:05:55.600 our words. We always go to God's word and what 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.240 God's word is our guide in this. In 2 Corinthians 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:03.060 chapter five, verse 16, it says this. So from 00:06:03.060 --> 00:06:06.740 now on, we regard no one from a worldly point 00:06:06.740 --> 00:06:10.259 of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this 00:06:10.259 --> 00:06:13.949 way, we do so no longer. We're not seeing him 00:06:13.949 --> 00:06:16.670 from a worldly perspective. What we see here 00:06:16.670 --> 00:06:18.670 is we have the natural perspective versus the 00:06:18.670 --> 00:06:22.350 divine perspective. The natural says, this is 00:06:22.350 --> 00:06:25.310 all there is. The divine says something different. 00:06:25.350 --> 00:06:27.350 The natural says, this is all there is, is what 00:06:27.350 --> 00:06:30.089 is in front of me right now. A couple of years 00:06:30.089 --> 00:06:32.350 ago, my family and I, we went on what I call 00:06:32.350 --> 00:06:34.670 a pastor's vacation. And a pastor's vacation 00:06:34.670 --> 00:06:37.480 is this. Anybody who gives us a free house to 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:39.379 stay at, that's where we go and that's where 00:06:39.379 --> 00:06:41.339 our vacation is because that's how we roll, okay? 00:06:41.579 --> 00:06:45.040 And so somebody in the church said, hey, we have 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:47.100 this beach house if you would like to go stay 00:06:47.100 --> 00:06:49.740 at it. And this beach house was incredible. It 00:06:49.740 --> 00:06:51.639 was amazing. It was three levels and on the top 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:54.160 level, there was a hot tub. On the bottom level, 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.579 there was a movie room and a game room. It was 00:06:56.579 --> 00:06:59.699 amazing. I could not wait to show my kids this 00:06:59.699 --> 00:07:01.319 house. And as we got to this beach house, we 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:03.519 go in on the middle level and right next to the 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.160 door, there's a little box of toys and they are 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:08.560 so over the moon excited about the box of toys. 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:10.000 They're playing with the toys. And I'm like, 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:11.839 girls, let me show you the rest of the house. 00:07:12.180 --> 00:07:14.639 And they're like, no, this is amazing. And I'm 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:18.300 like, no, you don't understand. And they're like, 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:20.560 but this is so good. And they were stuck, like 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:23.500 this is all there was instead of realizing there 00:07:23.500 --> 00:07:26.139 was so much more. And I think sometimes in this 00:07:26.139 --> 00:07:30.279 life, We have this earthly perspective, this 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.720 natural perspective to see that this is all there 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:37.420 is. And it seems like this life sees death as 00:07:37.420 --> 00:07:41.300 the end, but a divine perspective sees it as 00:07:41.300 --> 00:07:44.800 eternal. When our existence is seen from an eternal 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.100 perspective, your existence on this planet is 00:07:47.100 --> 00:07:49.279 seen from an eternal perspective, it changes 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:52.360 how we live because we understand a few things. 00:07:52.540 --> 00:07:55.480 If you're taking notes, take this down. You were 00:07:55.480 --> 00:08:00.579 created. to worship. You were created to worship, 00:08:00.740 --> 00:08:03.800 okay? That is why you are here. We ask this large 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:05.980 existential question of why do we exist? You 00:08:05.980 --> 00:08:09.819 were created to worship. It says in Colossians 00:08:09.819 --> 00:08:13.959 1, 16, for in him all things were created, things 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:16.959 in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, 00:08:17.259 --> 00:08:20.600 whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, 00:08:20.699 --> 00:08:24.129 all things. have been created through him. That 00:08:24.129 --> 00:08:26.889 is what everything you see or don't see was created 00:08:26.889 --> 00:08:29.589 by God. He's originator of this. He created it. 00:08:29.629 --> 00:08:32.289 And then it says this, created through him and 00:08:32.289 --> 00:08:35.909 for him. It was created for God. Why do you create 00:08:35.909 --> 00:08:39.870 something for you? It is to then worship him, 00:08:40.029 --> 00:08:42.690 right? You were created to worship. It says in 00:08:42.690 --> 00:08:46.669 Psalm 95, six, come, let us bow down in worship. 00:08:46.769 --> 00:08:50.860 Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker. God 00:08:50.860 --> 00:08:54.480 created you and everything to worship him. That 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:57.039 means that original design, when God originally 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.580 created Adam and Eve in the garden, first humans 00:08:59.580 --> 00:09:01.799 ever made, they were created to worship him and 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.580 they were living in union with him. Their life 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:07.860 was a perfect union with God where their job 00:09:07.860 --> 00:09:10.740 was to worship him. I think I had to hang out 00:09:10.740 --> 00:09:13.179 in this garden. Their job was to worship God. 00:09:13.259 --> 00:09:15.259 They were in perfect union. They were naked and 00:09:15.259 --> 00:09:17.860 not ashamed. Their job was to walk around and 00:09:17.860 --> 00:09:20.980 to name animals. How cool is that? I think they 00:09:20.980 --> 00:09:24.360 messed up on some of them though. They had an 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:28.159 opportunity. And what they came up with was peacock, 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.460 really? That's a disco turkey and you know it, 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:33.279 all right? You know what I'm saying? Like they 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.820 had an opportunity to name it right. They went 00:09:36.820 --> 00:09:38.799 with rhinoceros, like that's cool and all, right? 00:09:39.299 --> 00:09:42.500 That is a battle unicorn. That is what that thing 00:09:42.500 --> 00:09:45.960 is, right? They messed up, but their job was 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:47.720 literally just to walk around and name animals. 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:52.019 and have perfect union with God, have worship 00:09:52.019 --> 00:09:55.259 with God. They were created to worship him. This 00:09:55.259 --> 00:09:57.860 is baked into us. This is who we are. This is 00:09:57.860 --> 00:10:00.519 baked into who you are as a person. You were 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:02.960 created to worship. And so a lot of times we 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:04.799 end up worshiping the things that are in our 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:06.419 life and we don't even know we're worshiping 00:10:06.419 --> 00:10:10.480 them. I find myself in my life worshiping what 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:13.919 I do. Like I love what I do. I get to do amazing 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.120 jobs. I get to do amazing things. And I find 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:20.240 my, I end up worshiping what I do. I end up worshiping 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:23.259 my family. I love my family. My family's great, 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:25.960 but sometimes I start worshiping my family. I 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:28.759 have my spouse. My wife is incredible. I don't 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:30.899 know how I tricked her into marrying me. She's 00:10:30.899 --> 00:10:33.779 amazing. But I find myself worshiping my wife. 00:10:34.100 --> 00:10:37.360 I find myself worshiping my sports teams. I find 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:39.720 myself worshiping these things in my life because 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.379 I'm created to worship and I fill in these other 00:10:42.379 --> 00:10:45.830 things in my life to worship. Worship means giving 00:10:45.830 --> 00:10:49.009 my reverence, my adoration, my time or my energy 00:10:49.009 --> 00:10:52.830 to them. But true worship, the worship that you 00:10:52.830 --> 00:10:57.090 were created for is to bring glory to God. And 00:10:57.090 --> 00:10:59.870 that word worship can also be kingdom mission. 00:11:00.129 --> 00:11:02.929 You were made to live on kingdom mission. When 00:11:02.929 --> 00:11:04.649 you said yes to Jesus, that's the mission you 00:11:04.649 --> 00:11:07.110 were put on. We define kingdom mission here at 00:11:07.110 --> 00:11:10.450 Heights as you were made to live in this state 00:11:10.450 --> 00:11:13.929 of loving. The state of giving, the state of 00:11:13.929 --> 00:11:17.750 serving, inviting, sharing Jesus with people. 00:11:17.850 --> 00:11:20.230 This is what you were created to do is to worship. 00:11:20.629 --> 00:11:23.570 And this is good news for us that you were created 00:11:23.570 --> 00:11:28.990 to worship because this actually matters. Write 00:11:28.990 --> 00:11:33.690 this down. Worship lasts. Worship lasts. It matters. 00:11:33.990 --> 00:11:37.649 It actually matters and it lasts. It's not something 00:11:37.649 --> 00:11:39.470 that is going to just fade away because it's 00:11:39.470 --> 00:11:42.289 something that actually matters. All right, the 00:11:42.289 --> 00:11:44.230 theme verse that we have for this collection, 00:11:44.450 --> 00:11:46.889 like I said, 2 Corinthians 5, starting in verse 00:11:46.889 --> 00:11:49.230 one, it says this, for we know that if the earthly 00:11:49.230 --> 00:11:53.289 tent we live in, this life is destroyed, we have 00:11:53.289 --> 00:11:56.289 a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, 00:11:56.450 --> 00:12:00.330 not built by human hands. Some of you, you came 00:12:00.330 --> 00:12:02.669 to church today for some encouragement. Okay, 00:12:02.750 --> 00:12:04.509 you ready? I'm gonna give it to you. All of us, 00:12:04.509 --> 00:12:07.929 you, me, everyone, you are actively in the process 00:12:07.929 --> 00:12:11.419 of dying right now. Thanks for coming to church. 00:12:11.460 --> 00:12:14.440 See you later, right? Thanks, Todd. That's very 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:16.820 encouraging. But the truth is you and me and 00:12:16.820 --> 00:12:19.600 everyone, you're actively in the process of dying 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:24.159 right now. And when you understand that, you 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:27.100 start going, okay, maybe my life needs to be 00:12:27.100 --> 00:12:29.519 lived different. And guess what you don't get 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:30.940 to take with you when you die? You don't get 00:12:30.940 --> 00:12:33.259 to take your trophies with you. And a couple 00:12:33.259 --> 00:12:35.600 of years ago, my parents, they brought this box 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:39.259 of trophies from their house. that were mine 00:12:39.259 --> 00:12:41.600 when I was younger to my house. And I kid you 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.820 not when I tell you it had eight generations 00:12:43.820 --> 00:12:47.220 of dust bunnies living on it. Like it was covered 00:12:47.220 --> 00:12:49.360 in dust. And I'm like, why the heck do I want 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.840 this box of trophies that I had when I was a 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:54.519 kid that was at your house, it was perfectly 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:55.799 fine at your house, and now you're bringing it 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:59.039 to mine. And you know what I did with those trophies? 00:12:59.460 --> 00:13:01.279 I put them on the shelf in my garage where they're 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:04.200 still collecting more dust. But you know why 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:05.500 I couldn't throw them away? Because they meant 00:13:05.500 --> 00:13:07.559 something. Each one of them was an accomplishment 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:11.139 that I had. I'm like, it's good. I want this. 00:13:11.580 --> 00:13:13.039 But you don't get to take your trophies with 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:15.639 you. You don't get to take your house with you. 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:18.360 You don't get to take your car with you when 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:22.059 you die, which is good news for me. Because I 00:13:22.059 --> 00:13:24.240 drive what I call is a youth pastor's Ferrari, 00:13:24.539 --> 00:13:26.980 okay? If you don't know what that means, you 00:13:26.980 --> 00:13:28.559 should see me driving sometime, right? You might 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:30.740 see my bumper dragging behind my car, but it's 00:13:30.740 --> 00:13:32.600 just what I got. I'm glad I don't get to take 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:34.740 it with me. Actually, you know what you don't 00:13:34.740 --> 00:13:37.330 get to take with you? Your team's World Series 00:13:37.330 --> 00:13:40.350 champions, which is also good news because my 00:13:40.350 --> 00:13:42.049 team doesn't have any World Series championships. 00:13:42.309 --> 00:13:45.970 So, you know, there we are. But we put so much 00:13:45.970 --> 00:13:47.429 stock in all these things that you don't get 00:13:47.429 --> 00:13:48.950 to take with you. You don't get to take your 00:13:48.950 --> 00:13:52.350 bank account with you. Uh -oh, this is getting 00:13:52.350 --> 00:13:54.970 a little more personal. You don't get to take 00:13:54.970 --> 00:13:57.009 your investments with you. Oh, you found the 00:13:57.009 --> 00:13:59.309 right investment and it's perfect and it's yielding 00:13:59.309 --> 00:14:00.909 a lot and everything's great and it's perfect 00:14:00.909 --> 00:14:04.639 and you don't get to take it with you. You don't 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:06.120 get to take your social media following with 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:08.879 you. You don't get to take all of the things 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:11.220 that you spend so much time, energy, and effort 00:14:11.220 --> 00:14:14.379 in pouring into with you, right? Those things 00:14:14.379 --> 00:14:20.740 do not last. In the end, they don't matter. If 00:14:20.740 --> 00:14:24.259 we put it in the just camping context, it's like 00:14:24.259 --> 00:14:27.120 this. You get out a dolly and you go to the fridge 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:30.019 in your kitchen and you start wheeling it out 00:14:30.019 --> 00:14:31.720 of your house and your neighbors go, what are 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:34.279 you doing? And you go, I'm going camping. She's 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:38.159 got to take my fridge with me. It's this context. 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:39.960 When you go to your bedroom to pack for a camping 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:41.360 trip and you're like, I don't know how I'm going 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:45.200 to get this four post bed out of here. It's this 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:46.860 context. When you're going camping and you call 00:14:46.860 --> 00:14:48.259 your friends and you go, hey, can you help me 00:14:48.259 --> 00:14:52.200 load up my bookshelves? I'm going camping. Makes 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:53.700 no sense. You're like, why would you do that? 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:57.159 But this is what we do in life. As we start taking 00:14:57.159 --> 00:15:01.080 things with us that don't matter because they 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:05.330 don't last. Worship. Worship lasts. Worship does 00:15:05.330 --> 00:15:08.210 last. It matters. It is pouring into something 00:15:08.210 --> 00:15:12.830 that actually matters. Paul continues in verse 00:15:12.830 --> 00:15:17.409 17, 2 Corinthians 5, 17. Therefore, if anyone 00:15:17.409 --> 00:15:21.330 is in Christ, the new creation has come, the 00:15:21.330 --> 00:15:25.070 old has gone, the new is here. The old creation 00:15:25.070 --> 00:15:28.350 is gone, the new is here. What this is, is it 00:15:28.350 --> 00:15:32.450 is restoring what was broken. What was broken? 00:15:32.509 --> 00:15:34.429 You remember God made Adam and Eve and everything 00:15:34.429 --> 00:15:36.289 was perfect. They walked around, they named animals. 00:15:36.490 --> 00:15:38.850 Everything was great. Relationship with God. 00:15:38.950 --> 00:15:41.409 Well, sin came in and broke it because their 00:15:41.409 --> 00:15:45.470 original design was to be a worshiper of God. 00:15:45.529 --> 00:15:47.370 And in perfect union, they were worshiping God. 00:15:47.429 --> 00:15:50.610 When sin broke that, it broke this original design 00:15:50.610 --> 00:15:55.009 that was there. And now because of that, it needs 00:15:55.009 --> 00:16:01.539 to be restored. My dad has a 1969 Camaro. They 00:16:01.539 --> 00:16:04.519 threw a big block Chevy 396 in and it sounds 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:07.379 good and it is awesome and it's got horsepower. 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:10.019 And some of you guys, you're drooling right now. 00:16:10.059 --> 00:16:13.600 I see you, okay? This car is amazing. This car 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:17.539 is awesome. It's American muscle. But this car 00:16:17.539 --> 00:16:21.299 has been parked for a while. This car hasn't 00:16:21.299 --> 00:16:22.539 just been parked for a while, it's been parked 00:16:22.539 --> 00:16:25.059 in the elements for a while. So there's some 00:16:25.059 --> 00:16:27.700 rust involved. So the interior has completely 00:16:27.700 --> 00:16:32.149 deteriorated and it needs... Some love. Not just 00:16:32.149 --> 00:16:33.710 some love. It needs someone to come along and 00:16:33.710 --> 00:16:36.409 say, hey, I'm going to invest in restoring this 00:16:36.409 --> 00:16:38.909 vehicle because the original design is beautiful, 00:16:38.950 --> 00:16:41.129 but what it has turned into is not, and it needs 00:16:41.129 --> 00:16:43.309 some restoration. It needs to be restored to 00:16:43.309 --> 00:16:47.590 its original design. What he's saying here is, 00:16:47.590 --> 00:16:50.190 as Paul's saying, new creation. The old is gone. 00:16:50.269 --> 00:16:52.889 The new is here. What is that? That's restoring 00:16:52.889 --> 00:16:57.330 it to its original design, its original identity. 00:16:58.059 --> 00:17:00.480 which is what? Worshipers of God. So that when 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:03.879 you said yes to Jesus, the old you is gone, the 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:06.859 new is here, you are restored to original identity, 00:17:06.980 --> 00:17:11.519 which is worshiper of God. And through that perspective, 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:18.359 write this down, life is worship. Life is worship. 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.539 Okay, but that messes with our box because you 00:17:22.539 --> 00:17:26.559 and I come to church with a box. We have a box 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:29.240 that we come into church with and this box holds 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:33.160 our definition of worship. And for us, worship 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:36.000 has been this thing that we've understood through 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:37.819 the American church and Heights, we're guilty 00:17:37.819 --> 00:17:40.119 of this too. We say things like, would you stand 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:43.819 for worship? We say things like, would you like 00:17:43.819 --> 00:17:46.500 to join the worship band or the worship team? 00:17:47.180 --> 00:17:49.599 We say things like we are gonna enter into a 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.640 time of worship and we think that worship is 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:55.539 singing a song. We think that worship is just 00:17:55.539 --> 00:17:58.279 the songs that we sing in church and that is 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:00.380 worship. And sometimes we get crazy and we're 00:18:00.380 --> 00:18:02.000 like, I can even take worship outside of church 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.839 and I can play a song in my car. And we think 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:06.539 that worship is a song. And sometimes then we 00:18:06.539 --> 00:18:08.819 mature even further and we go, okay, maybe it's 00:18:08.819 --> 00:18:11.220 not the song, but it's the whole service is a 00:18:11.220 --> 00:18:14.859 worship service. And what we've done is we've 00:18:14.859 --> 00:18:18.140 kept worship in the box of church. And we have 00:18:18.140 --> 00:18:20.200 worship in church where we go to church to worship, 00:18:20.259 --> 00:18:22.099 but then we have our life outside of it. And 00:18:22.099 --> 00:18:24.460 worship stays at church, and our life is something 00:18:24.460 --> 00:18:27.359 else. But when you understand that you were created 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:29.940 to be a worshiper, then you understand that your 00:18:29.940 --> 00:18:34.539 life is worship. Everything you do is worship. 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:37.920 It's not just music. You worship God when you're 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:40.039 driving, and I don't mean when you turn on worship 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.839 music. You worship God when you're working out, 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:44.819 and I don't mean when you're listening to worship 00:18:44.819 --> 00:18:50.130 music. What it means is this, Romans 12 verse 00:18:50.130 --> 00:18:54.150 one. Therefore, I urge you brothers and sisters 00:18:54.150 --> 00:18:57.170 in view of God's mercy, God's mercy that he saved 00:18:57.170 --> 00:18:58.930 you with in view of that, in view of the old 00:18:58.930 --> 00:19:02.130 is gone, the new is here, offer your bodies as 00:19:02.130 --> 00:19:05.009 a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. 00:19:05.049 --> 00:19:08.069 Why? Because this is your true and proper worship. 00:19:09.109 --> 00:19:12.880 Offering yourself. to God, offering your body 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.940 to God. See, offerings in the Old Testament, 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.240 they would take an animal, they would slaughter 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:19.940 the animal, and they would put it on an altar, 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:22.759 and they would offer it to God. And offerings 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:24.680 in the Old Testament were meant to worship and 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:29.059 bring honor to God. Offering yourself, what you 00:19:29.059 --> 00:19:33.480 do, who you are to God is your true worship. 00:19:33.619 --> 00:19:35.759 It is not a song in church. It is saying, hey, 00:19:35.819 --> 00:19:39.220 this is me. And this is not just in the box of 00:19:39.220 --> 00:19:41.579 church. This is everywhere, right? What it means 00:19:41.579 --> 00:19:45.180 is this, Colossians 3, 23 and 24. Whatever you 00:19:45.180 --> 00:19:49.579 do, work at it with all your heart as working 00:19:49.579 --> 00:19:52.720 for the Lord, not for human masters. Whatever 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:54.779 it is you do, since you know that you will receive 00:19:54.779 --> 00:19:57.940 an inheritance from the Lord as a reward, it 00:19:57.940 --> 00:20:01.319 is the Lord Christ you are serving. What this 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:03.680 means is if you work construction, you are working 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:06.509 for the Lord, not for your foreman. not for the 00:20:06.509 --> 00:20:08.490 person that is paying you. That's not who you're 00:20:08.490 --> 00:20:10.009 working for. You're working for the Lord. What 00:20:10.009 --> 00:20:12.069 this means is if you are a teacher, you are working 00:20:12.069 --> 00:20:14.190 for the Lord, not for those bratty children in 00:20:14.190 --> 00:20:15.490 front of you. That's not who you're working for. 00:20:16.490 --> 00:20:19.349 What this means is that whatever you are doing, 00:20:19.470 --> 00:20:21.630 you are working for the Lord, not for who is 00:20:21.630 --> 00:20:25.190 giving you a paycheck. This means that if you 00:20:25.190 --> 00:20:27.329 are a stay -at -home mom, your job is not just 00:20:27.329 --> 00:20:29.690 to stay at home mom, it is working for the Lord. 00:20:30.730 --> 00:20:33.410 This is your job, is to understand that everything 00:20:33.410 --> 00:20:37.390 you do is working for the Lord. Why? Because 00:20:37.390 --> 00:20:39.769 when you said yes to Jesus, you were restored 00:20:39.769 --> 00:20:42.950 to your original purpose, which is a worshiper. 00:20:43.589 --> 00:20:47.809 And worship is what lasts. And you're just camping. 00:20:48.630 --> 00:20:50.910 So we get to invest in something that actually 00:20:50.910 --> 00:20:55.740 matters. In our original purpose as a... And 00:20:55.740 --> 00:20:57.740 here's the cool part is that when we live into 00:20:57.740 --> 00:21:00.819 worshiping God, wherever we find ourself, here's 00:21:00.819 --> 00:21:03.740 what happens, Matthew 5, 16. In the same way, 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.119 let your light shine before others that they 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:09.619 may see your good deeds and glorify your Father 00:21:09.619 --> 00:21:11.599 in heaven. When you said yes to Jesus, you were 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:13.500 put on kingdom mission. Kingdom mission is sharing 00:21:13.500 --> 00:21:15.819 Jesus. And when you worship God in every place 00:21:15.819 --> 00:21:17.700 that you find yourself, what you're doing is 00:21:17.700 --> 00:21:20.900 you're showing people around you who he is. When 00:21:20.900 --> 00:21:23.140 your light shines before other people, in the 00:21:23.140 --> 00:21:26.720 same way, They see your good deeds and they glorify 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:31.759 your father. So let me ask you, what tools have 00:21:31.759 --> 00:21:36.619 you been given? What tools have you been given? 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:40.380 Because everything that you have, your possessions, 00:21:40.700 --> 00:21:44.559 your money, everything that you have, everything 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:49.019 that you do, your skills, everything that is 00:21:49.019 --> 00:21:52.339 at your disposal is a tool for worshiping God 00:21:52.339 --> 00:21:54.930 or for fulfilling his mission. That's what it 00:21:54.930 --> 00:21:57.210 is, right? Because if you are a worshiper, then 00:21:57.210 --> 00:21:59.130 everything that you have in your life is a tool 00:21:59.130 --> 00:22:03.349 to worship God. I have a friend who lives in 00:22:03.349 --> 00:22:05.670 San Diego. He's a good friend of mine and he 00:22:05.670 --> 00:22:09.569 owns a tattoo shop. And this individual, he was 00:22:09.569 --> 00:22:11.690 a tattoo artist. This is how he makes his living. 00:22:11.789 --> 00:22:15.109 This is how he pays his bills. And he started 00:22:15.109 --> 00:22:16.710 this tattoo shop. And when he started it, he 00:22:16.710 --> 00:22:19.769 named it Vessel Tattoo. And the reason he named 00:22:19.769 --> 00:22:21.849 it Vessel Tattoo is he said, this is just a vessel. 00:22:22.509 --> 00:22:25.670 to fulfill the mission God has given me. And 00:22:25.670 --> 00:22:27.549 what he does at his tattoo shop, when someone 00:22:27.549 --> 00:22:30.509 comes in, he's able to talk with them and he 00:22:30.509 --> 00:22:33.029 loves to share Jesus with them. He shares Jesus 00:22:33.029 --> 00:22:35.970 with them, he prays with them. He realizes that 00:22:35.970 --> 00:22:39.170 he has a captive audience. They can't go anywhere. 00:22:39.369 --> 00:22:40.950 They're literally sitting in his tattoo chair 00:22:40.950 --> 00:22:42.930 and he's working on them. So he's like, man, 00:22:42.930 --> 00:22:44.130 if you're here, I'm gonna tell you about Jesus. 00:22:44.410 --> 00:22:47.529 I'm gonna pray for you. And he was telling me, 00:22:47.569 --> 00:22:49.170 man, he had this guy come in and he's sitting 00:22:49.170 --> 00:22:53.079 there and he starts. sharing Jesus, and he says, 00:22:53.180 --> 00:22:54.559 hey, can I pray for you? And the guy looks at 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:56.339 him, he goes, listen, I don't want to hear anything 00:22:56.339 --> 00:22:58.740 about Jesus. I am not religious. I don't want 00:22:58.740 --> 00:23:00.819 to talk about that at all. Please do not do that. 00:23:01.740 --> 00:23:04.839 And he goes, okay, man, okay. And so he just 00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:06.640 started praying for him. You know why? Because 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:07.940 you can pray in your head, just you and God. 00:23:08.019 --> 00:23:12.200 No one knows. No one can stop you. And he literally 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:14.920 has his hands on this guy. So for two hours, 00:23:14.940 --> 00:23:17.220 he's praying for him with his hands on him. And 00:23:17.220 --> 00:23:19.319 he just continues to pray. And about two hours 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:21.259 into it, the guy just stops and he goes, hey 00:23:21.259 --> 00:23:24.779 man, actually my life is an absolute mess. Can 00:23:24.779 --> 00:23:28.119 you tell me more about Jesus? And right then 00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:30.980 and there in a tattoo shop, he shares Jesus with 00:23:30.980 --> 00:23:36.180 this guy. And this guy gives his life to Christ 00:23:36.180 --> 00:23:38.299 while sitting in a tattoo shop. You know why? 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:43.789 Because he realized. That his life was made to 00:23:43.789 --> 00:23:46.730 worship God and what he had at his disposal is 00:23:46.730 --> 00:23:49.029 just a tool to do that. And he was able to worship 00:23:49.029 --> 00:23:52.650 God in the context of with what he had. This 00:23:52.650 --> 00:23:55.450 is so important for us to understand what you 00:23:55.450 --> 00:23:58.549 have is just something for you to worship God 00:23:58.549 --> 00:24:02.329 with, to enhance your worship with what you do. 00:24:03.329 --> 00:24:05.650 And this is why it's so important that we have 00:24:05.650 --> 00:24:09.009 our identity in Jesus. When you said yes to Jesus, 00:24:09.819 --> 00:24:12.440 When you place your faith and your trust in him 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:15.519 and you said, yes, I'm putting my faith in Jesus, 00:24:15.539 --> 00:24:18.920 what you did is you accepted his payment on your 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:22.099 behalf. He paid your debt. And so when Jesus 00:24:22.099 --> 00:24:25.140 paid your debt, what he did is he bought you. 00:24:25.779 --> 00:24:28.980 You are his. That means your identity is in him. 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:31.819 Jesus, your identity is not in what you do. Your 00:24:31.819 --> 00:24:33.920 identity is not in your possessions. Your identity 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:36.819 is not in other people's opinions. It's not in 00:24:36.819 --> 00:24:38.599 all these things. But a lot of times we get confused 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:41.140 and we start chasing these other things to find 00:24:41.140 --> 00:24:43.640 our identity in them. But we have to realize 00:24:43.640 --> 00:24:47.319 that our identity is in Jesus. Because when your 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:51.319 identity is in him, you can see your life. You 00:24:51.319 --> 00:24:54.140 can see your possessions. You can see your skills. 00:24:54.599 --> 00:24:56.599 You can see that all these things that God has 00:24:56.599 --> 00:24:58.819 given you as tools, that's all they are, because 00:24:58.819 --> 00:25:02.140 they don't have anything more of you than what 00:25:02.140 --> 00:25:04.880 they need. Your identity is in Jesus, and you 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:06.920 see these things as tools, but when you get it 00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:09.559 twisted, when your identity isn't in him, then 00:25:09.559 --> 00:25:11.500 those things begin to take on a role that they 00:25:11.500 --> 00:25:14.220 were never meant to take on in your life. You 00:25:14.220 --> 00:25:16.640 start putting your identity in your wealth. You 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:19.190 start putting identity in your status. Instead 00:25:19.190 --> 00:25:21.089 of realizing identity's in Jesus, therefore all 00:25:21.089 --> 00:25:24.529 these other things are just a tool. What you 00:25:24.529 --> 00:25:28.309 and I need to do is we need to shift our perspective. 00:25:29.390 --> 00:25:33.829 You need to shift your perspective. And you need 00:25:33.829 --> 00:25:37.349 to start seeing your life with a mindset of worship. 00:25:38.890 --> 00:25:42.769 This collection has really meant a lot to me 00:25:42.769 --> 00:25:45.910 personally. It's been one of those things where 00:25:45.910 --> 00:25:48.880 I'm like, man, It's putting into perspective 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:54.619 the fact that this life fades. It doesn't matter. 00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:56.400 I've been investing in things. I've been trying 00:25:56.400 --> 00:25:59.960 so hard at things that are just going away, specifically 00:25:59.960 --> 00:26:03.619 when it comes to raising my kids. My wife and 00:26:03.619 --> 00:26:05.220 I have been wrestling with this. Our kids are 00:26:05.220 --> 00:26:06.700 involved in a lot of things. Some of them are 00:26:06.700 --> 00:26:09.720 six days a week, three hours a day. I mean, a 00:26:09.720 --> 00:26:13.299 lot of things. And the last thing that we want 00:26:13.299 --> 00:26:15.480 is for our kids to put their identity in what 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:18.740 they do. All right, side note, if you're a parent 00:26:18.740 --> 00:26:21.579 and you have kids that you've put in this thing 00:26:21.579 --> 00:26:23.680 that you just want their success in whatever 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:28.559 they do so badly, you're missing the point. Success 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:30.619 in what they do, even if they're the best in 00:26:30.619 --> 00:26:32.900 the world at their sport, they're done by the 00:26:32.900 --> 00:26:34.700 time they're 35 or 40 and they have the rest 00:26:34.700 --> 00:26:36.240 of their life ahead of them and you've missed 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:39.700 what mattered. I don't wanna miss it. My wife 00:26:39.700 --> 00:26:42.829 and I go, I don't wanna miss what matters. I'm 00:26:42.829 --> 00:26:45.369 not saying to not do this. My kids are involved 00:26:45.369 --> 00:26:48.710 in a lot of things, but I need them to see it 00:26:48.710 --> 00:26:53.609 in the right way and live for what matters. And 00:26:53.609 --> 00:26:55.549 I think that there's this question that I want 00:26:55.549 --> 00:26:58.990 them to ask. Because when I pick them up from 00:26:58.990 --> 00:27:00.650 whatever they do, when I pick them up from soccer, 00:27:00.750 --> 00:27:02.369 I pick them up from basketball, I pick them up 00:27:02.369 --> 00:27:04.509 from dance, or when I get done with work, or 00:27:04.509 --> 00:27:06.470 I call my wife after she's done with work, I 00:27:06.470 --> 00:27:11.230 ask the same question. How was work? How was 00:27:11.230 --> 00:27:16.140 soccer? How was dance? And I think the question 00:27:16.140 --> 00:27:18.400 we're asking is wrong and I want the shift in 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:21.019 perspective to be made. So the question I'm asking 00:27:21.019 --> 00:27:26.279 now is, how was worship at soccer? How was worship 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:30.700 at dance? How was worship at work today? How 00:27:30.700 --> 00:27:32.519 was worship when you were hanging out with your 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:35.180 friends? How was worship when you were in that 00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:37.400 meeting? How was worship? Because if you were 00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:40.440 created to be a worshiper, and God has restored 00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:42.859 your original design as a worshiper, then everything 00:27:42.859 --> 00:27:45.059 in your life is an opportunity to worship. And 00:27:45.059 --> 00:27:46.920 you need to start asking the question of yourself 00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:53.519 of how was worship in wherever I was? Because 00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:55.779 every single place you find yourself is an opportunity 00:27:55.779 --> 00:28:00.019 to worship. So how do you do that? I think you 00:28:00.019 --> 00:28:02.859 do that two ways. You do it internally and externally. 00:28:04.259 --> 00:28:08.250 Internally with your thoughts. You can worship 00:28:08.250 --> 00:28:09.990 God with your thoughts with the way that you 00:28:09.990 --> 00:28:12.549 think about other people. The thought that you 00:28:12.549 --> 00:28:14.269 have about other people that they'll never know 00:28:14.269 --> 00:28:16.569 about, God knows about. Are you worshiping God 00:28:16.569 --> 00:28:17.910 with your thoughts and what you're thinking about 00:28:17.910 --> 00:28:21.190 others? Are you worshiping God with your thoughts 00:28:21.190 --> 00:28:23.029 and how you react to the situation that's in 00:28:23.029 --> 00:28:26.369 front of you? Oh, the situation's frustrating. 00:28:27.289 --> 00:28:29.109 Are you worshiping God with how you react? Because 00:28:29.109 --> 00:28:31.289 this just stays in here and internally and wherever 00:28:31.289 --> 00:28:33.430 you are at, you can worship God with your thoughts. 00:28:34.190 --> 00:28:37.380 It's inviting the Holy Spirit in. Internally 00:28:37.380 --> 00:28:39.180 saying, Holy Spirit, I invite you into whatever 00:28:39.180 --> 00:28:41.119 I'm doing. I want you to guide me. I wanna follow 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:43.539 your guidance. I wanna live in what you've called 00:28:43.539 --> 00:28:45.839 me to do. I want you to be the one leading, not 00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:48.000 me. And internally, you're able to worship God 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.319 wherever you find yourself. Internally, you're 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:54.299 able to worship God by praying. We just said, 00:28:54.380 --> 00:28:57.380 no one has to know. It's just you and God. You 00:28:57.380 --> 00:28:59.160 can continually be praying. Some of you guys 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:00.559 are so stressed out about how you're gonna make 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:02.799 it through your day instead of just praying through 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:06.460 your day. If there's a constant conversation 00:29:06.460 --> 00:29:08.559 where you just pray to God, God, help me through 00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:10.640 this. How do I walk through this? How do I work 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:12.319 through this? That's worshiping God wherever 00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:16.019 you find yourself internally. Worship God externally. 00:29:17.059 --> 00:29:19.519 You're worshiping God in how you treat others. 00:29:21.579 --> 00:29:26.119 How you treat them, what you say to them. That's 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:28.400 an act of worship, man. How am I treating them 00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:29.740 with the words that are coming out of my mouth, 00:29:29.779 --> 00:29:31.940 with the actions that I'm giving to them? That's 00:29:31.940 --> 00:29:34.240 how I'm treating them. Listen, you can be right. 00:29:34.809 --> 00:29:37.990 in what you're saying and completely wrong in 00:29:37.990 --> 00:29:41.890 how you say it. You know this if you're married. 00:29:42.289 --> 00:29:44.190 You can be right and be very wrong. You know 00:29:44.190 --> 00:29:47.890 what I mean? You might be right, but are you 00:29:47.890 --> 00:29:50.089 treating others with the respect they deserve 00:29:50.089 --> 00:29:52.450 in the way that you say what you say and the 00:29:52.450 --> 00:29:54.589 way that you do what you do? Because that is 00:29:54.589 --> 00:29:58.390 an act of worship. How you treat others is an 00:29:58.390 --> 00:30:00.250 act of worship. It's not just what you do. It's 00:30:00.250 --> 00:30:03.700 what you choose not to do. Paul says, be in the 00:30:03.700 --> 00:30:05.559 world, but not of the world. You will find yourself 00:30:05.559 --> 00:30:08.460 in places and spaces that you cannot avoid. You 00:30:08.460 --> 00:30:10.220 will be there and maybe things that are happening 00:30:10.220 --> 00:30:13.339 there are not bringing glory to God. And by abstaining 00:30:13.339 --> 00:30:15.059 from those and saying, no, I am not going to 00:30:15.059 --> 00:30:17.039 participate in that. I'm not going to do that. 00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:19.319 I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to do 00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:21.839 those things that are going to hurt my worship. 00:30:21.900 --> 00:30:23.599 What you're doing is you're worshiping God by 00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:27.930 not doing something. Your actions externally 00:30:27.930 --> 00:30:30.650 are saying, I'm gonna stand for worshiping him 00:30:30.650 --> 00:30:32.289 because I've been created to worship and wherever 00:30:32.289 --> 00:30:35.569 I find myself is an act of worship. It's living 00:30:35.569 --> 00:30:39.849 on mission. You are not where you're at in life 00:30:39.849 --> 00:30:41.690 by mistake. There are people that God has put 00:30:41.690 --> 00:30:43.309 you around that he's saying, if you're gonna 00:30:43.309 --> 00:30:45.650 worship me, it's living on mission with me, which 00:30:45.650 --> 00:30:48.490 means sharing Jesus and inviting the people around 00:30:48.490 --> 00:30:51.769 you. Saying, hey, come to Easter. Easter's a 00:30:51.769 --> 00:30:53.289 couple of weeks away. We have a ton of gatherings, 00:30:53.450 --> 00:30:58.519 just come. That's an act of worship for wherever 00:30:58.519 --> 00:31:02.819 God has put you. Here's the thing about worship 00:31:02.819 --> 00:31:06.480 though. Worship starts with surrender. Some of 00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:09.640 you guys need to surrender because if you're 00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:12.000 holding on to everything, you can't worship God 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:15.019 because it's all about you. If you're unwilling 00:31:15.019 --> 00:31:17.599 to give God the little pieces of your life, yes, 00:31:17.660 --> 00:31:20.019 God, I'm holding on to just my finances. God, 00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:21.819 I'm just holding on to, like, I'll worship you, 00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:22.940 but not when I'm hanging out with my friends. 00:31:22.980 --> 00:31:24.539 You know, that's my bro time. Like, I can't do 00:31:24.539 --> 00:31:27.799 that. It's surrendering and saying, God, this 00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:30.460 is yours. I'm giving you this in my life. I'm 00:31:30.460 --> 00:31:31.900 giving you this in my life. God, I'm giving you 00:31:31.900 --> 00:31:33.619 everything in my life and I'm going to surrender 00:31:33.619 --> 00:31:36.640 to you so that I can worship you. And for some 00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:38.819 of you, you've never surrendered to Jesus in 00:31:38.819 --> 00:31:40.619 the first place. You've never said, Jesus, I 00:31:40.619 --> 00:31:44.420 believe that you died in my place, that you bought 00:31:44.420 --> 00:31:49.599 me with a price and I surrender to you. Here 00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:53.119 it is, God, surrendering my life. For some of 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:55.529 you, you need to do that today. Others of you, 00:31:55.569 --> 00:31:57.670 you need to continue to surrender to be able 00:31:57.670 --> 00:32:02.430 to worship. Because here's what I know. You were 00:32:02.430 --> 00:32:07.910 created to worship. That's why you're here. And 00:32:07.910 --> 00:32:11.210 that's good news because worship lasts. It doesn't 00:32:11.210 --> 00:32:16.009 fade. Worship truly lasts. It matters. Our life 00:32:16.009 --> 00:32:20.410 is worship. But we need to shift our perspective 00:32:20.410 --> 00:32:24.049 to start seeing everything in our life. and asking 00:32:24.049 --> 00:32:27.569 ourself the question of how was worship wherever 00:32:27.569 --> 00:32:30.990 we find ourselves. Let's pray. God, thank you 00:32:30.990 --> 00:32:38.450 that you allow us to worship you. God, thank 00:32:38.450 --> 00:32:42.190 you. that the old is gone, the new has come. 00:32:42.329 --> 00:32:45.950 I pray, Lord, that you help us to shift our perspective, 00:32:46.009 --> 00:32:49.630 to see through our new identity as worshipers, 00:32:49.750 --> 00:32:52.869 that every space and place we find ourself, God, 00:32:52.990 --> 00:32:55.349 will be an opportunity to worship and that we 00:32:55.349 --> 00:32:59.210 can answer the question of how was worship wherever 00:32:59.210 --> 00:33:05.089 we find ourself. God, I pray for those in here 00:33:05.089 --> 00:33:07.759 that need to surrender their life to you. that 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:09.700 today would be an opportunity to surrender their 00:33:09.700 --> 00:33:12.480 life to you. God, I pray for those in here that 00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:15.160 need to surrender so that they can give you the 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:17.539 worship that you deserve. They would not hold 00:33:17.539 --> 00:33:19.700 on to aspects of their life that do not matter, 00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:21.319 that will not last, but they realize they're 00:33:21.319 --> 00:33:24.700 just camping and therefore, God, everything they 00:33:24.700 --> 00:33:32.460 have is a tool to worship you. God, we give you 00:33:32.460 --> 00:33:37.319 our life. We love you, Jesus. We praise you. 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:39.960 We pray all of this in Jesus' name.