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Hi, Dr. Ryan Dellamater at Ocean Water. We help people get their water from the ocean

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for free. I'm here on the beach today with my family where I come each week to share

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God's word with you. We're glad you're here. Today I want to share with you four ways to

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multiply your life. Today we celebrate one year of ocean water. We plan on taking the

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lessons we learned from the first year and applying them to the second year. This means

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multiplying ocean water from two locations to six locations in the next 365 days. Now

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the same principles that we can use to multiply our life is what we're going to use to multiply

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ocean water. So today I'd like to share them with you. In life, go is a powerful word. In fact,

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in all of its variations, it's used over 3,000 times in the Bible. Following Jesus is all about

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going. It's a journey. It's not just something you do and sit still. God says, I want you to go,

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and he tells us to go into all the world. It's a very important task. You can't follow Jesus

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without going with Jesus. Over the past five years, we've sent over 120 people on 13 different

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trips to El Salvador. And now in 2020, we're going to take all of that learning because we feel like

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we have an algorithm in place that's going to allow us to scale. This is a really exciting time.

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In fact, in life, timing is everything. Now, when you say go to the different parts of the world,

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there are so many things that you learn along the way. It was a year ago on May 1st, 2019,

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that we started this. And what you don't know is that every night from 2017 to 2019,

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I would wake up in the middle of the night staring at the ceiling because I felt like God was telling

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me to leave my current role as a pastor at Saddleback Church. I can't be more clear than

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what I'm about to say. I did not want to leave Saddleback. I love Pastor Rick. I still watch

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every one of the weekend messages. And over a two-year period, God was making it clear to me that

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now was the time. I remember when I first started to feel like God was telling me to leave, I was

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arguing with God. God was telling me Joshua 1, 9. It says, have I not commanded you to be strong and

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courageous? Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever

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you go. My wife Maria found this verse in an art piece and it hangs in my office. And I have read

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that verse every single day for the past year. It's my life verse. When I came to San Clemente four

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years ago, I asked my wife if she would support me in that decision. And she said yes. I felt the

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same way about leaving Saddleback. So I asked her again, Maria will you come along with me in this

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journey? And she said yes. Now I mention this because without a spouse that says yes, it's

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impossible. My wife is a behind-the-scenes person. Literally, she's behind the scenes right now with

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our granddaughter praying for me and having some donuts right now as I speak. Without her, none of

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this would have been possible. In fact, last week Aubrey told me, good job grandpa. I made sure to

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get her donuts and a breakfast burrito. God gave me this little cheerleader to root for me and I'm

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stoked. So without them, I wouldn't have made it today 365. So what has happened in the first 365

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days? Well, we survived, we thrived, we developed a small loyal global following through Instagram

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and Facebook and YouTube. We got ocean water up and running in El Salvador with some popo and

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tesi. We've been asked to go to India, to Bangladesh, to the Philippines, even to Indonesia.

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So we have the opportunity to expand to Obie Beans and the Hidden House Coffee up in Santa Ana and

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we funded our second year. Now God's done many things and we're so thankful. As we move forward,

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ocean water really has three advantages that I wanted to share with you. One, ocean water is

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simple. Anyone can read the Bible each day on their phone. That's easy. Anyone can have people

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over to where they live and have some food and watch my message. Anyone can gather at a coffee

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place once a month and have tacos and sing and have a great time. And anyone can get on an airplane

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and go somewhere in the world to help people drink the ocean for free. It's simple and it's

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scalable. We're not a bunch of pros. In fact, we're a bunch of bros. Literally, the last time we had

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church we had 65 guys and seven women. I'm not sure what to make of that, but we always welcome

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everyone. The word amateur means out of love. So if somebody calls you an amateur, you take that as

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a compliment because you're not doing it for money. You're not doing it for fame. You're doing it out

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of love. Ocean water is for new people. Amateurs. We're intentionally for amateurs in spirit and in

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practice because being simple gives us an advantage, especially when you go to scale. Leadership is

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always about taking personal responsibility. So at Ocean Water, we accept the responsibility to help

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people get their water from the ocean for free that can be used for their daily health and even

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growing their own food. So we move forward one conversation at a time, one day at a time, one

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relationship at a time. We accept the responsibility that goes along with this. The second advantage we

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have is our funding. Now for many, many years, the idea was that giving aid to people, giving

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handouts to people around the world is a good thing. But Africa's Exhibit A over the last 50 years,

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it's had over $500 billion of outside investment and it's actually worse off because people don't

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need a handout. They need a hand up. When you give something to someone, it robs them of their

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dignity, makes them dependent upon you. And if you think of it, it's actually disrespectful because

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you communicate to people that you don't think they have the IQ to be self-determined. So we do

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things a little different way. We do sort of a self-sustaining model where we come alongside a

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group of people that we have a relationship with and we empower them to really love and operate

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within their own community. So we have some real advantages. We're simple and we invest in people

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and we're really excited about being able to apply these things. So how has COVID-19 affected

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ocean water? Well really not at all. We just have a few hundred dollars a month of fixed overhead

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costs. We're really proud of that. We've accomplished putting together in the first year sort of a lean,

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mean fighting machine, which gives us a huge advantage as we start to scale to different

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places because we're able to do it for virtually no cost because we don't spend money on buildings

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and other items. All of our finances go basically directly to water and food for the marginalized.

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You might be saying, well that's nice for other countries, but what about here? Well that's a

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great question. We in fact do that here. In fact every week Bobby Ramsey comes and picks me up and

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we go and buy groceries for a friend of ours who has early onset Parkinson's who's in our guys group.

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We take the groceries over to his house. Bobby does it. Ivan does it. Adam and Julie Watts do it.

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You don't have to be a part of a giant food distribution network. You can always just find one

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person that could use some food and some assistance and you can personally take that responsibility to

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help them out. And I want to say as your pastor that God's proud of you when you do these things

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and he's watching you. The third advantage that we have is that ocean water is a relational network.

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At ocean water we have the philosophy of putting people in positions of responsibility with minimal

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service training that they have on the job training for the rest of their life. You see,

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until you go you don't even know the questions to ask. So we want people to learn as they go. We

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learn just enough so that we do no harm, sort of like taking the Hippocratic oath. And we want

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people to be on the job training. So this is intentional. Now you might say well don't you

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believe in training people and putting people through a process? Well absolutely. I've completed

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six schools after high school. I believe in education because I have several degrees,

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but experience is better. Ocean water is a relational cooperative. What we're beginning is

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sort of a network of networks. And this is built around common values, common goals,

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and a common methodology. The other thing we try to do is utilize technology. So we've laid out now

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daily content. We have a podcast and a reading plan. We put our messages out on Friday so people

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can watch them whenever they want throughout the weekend. And we've built several channels that are

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now going to lay the groundwork for us to gain new people to join us in this journey that we're on.

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So right now this first year we existed in California and El Salvador. We have plans to

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scale into Ocean Beach and to Santa Ana and also into Bangladesh and Indonesia in the next 12 months.

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It's a very exciting time. You see God loves it when we take giant leaps of faith. Virtually every

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day in the past year I've gone into my garage and prayed. And time after time God has sent His Holy

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Spirit into my garage and told me, Ryan keep going. I got you. Have you ever done a trust fall with

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someone where you get behind them and they literally fall backwards into your arms? They have a total

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faith that you're gonna catch them. God loves it when we do the same thing. Have you done a trust

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fall with God in your life? Some of us are disinterested or I even use the word bored because we don't take

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enough risk. Some of us get our lives so systematized and so dialed in that it has taken the adventure

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and the faith right out of our system. God loves it when we engage in faith. So why has God helped

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ocean water in the last year? Does God have favorites? Well actually He does. God loves the

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poor. There are over 2,000 verses in the Bible that talk about how God loves the poor and God says

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that if you take care of the poor I will take care of you. If we're gonna assist the poor we have to

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do it in the right way. What the poor need or the marginalized need is not a handout but a hand up.

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You've heard the old expression, don't give a man a fish but teach him how to fish. Well you don't

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have to give him just a fish. You have to teach him how he's going to be able to fish for himself

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so that he can then sell the fish. So that's sort of our motto that we use when we scale to other

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places. In future messages I'm gonna be talking about this a little bit more so that we can get

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a greater understanding. Securing long-term water rights is the foundation of everything that people

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need to sustain. In fact this is why Los Angeles exists. A lot of people wish LA didn't exist.

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That's a Bay Area joke. But Los Angeles exists because a hundred years ago a guy named William

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Mulholland knew that the growth of Los Angeles was going to be contingent upon water. So he went to

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the base of the Sierra Nevadas and built the largest public infrastructure project at the time, a 227

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mile aqueduct system that existed today. And that is why I'm standing here on the beach in San Clemente

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was because of that water project. This is what we do in ocean water but on a smaller scale. We

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help people secure their long-term water rights from the ocean so they can survive and thrive.

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There was a study done about a year ago that discovered about 600 million people who are poor

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in the world could support themselves if they just had daily dependable access to water. Wow,

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that's the space that we want to lean into. You see if you give people money just as soon as it's

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gone the money's gone. But if you give people water that's how they get out of poverty. People

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have water, then they have food, and then they have work. That's how we do it. So we look forward to

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helping be a solution for thousands of places around the world that need the platform that we

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understand. God is good. Jesus had a ministry of caring for the sick and the marginalized. He cared

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not just about people's soul but also cared for their bodies. In fact the Bible tells us that Jesus

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went into every village preaching and teaching and yes healing. You see a third of Jesus's ministry

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was being a healer and a teacher. One of the things that we've accepted responsibility for is

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the billion people in the world that don't have access to clean dependable water. You see food and

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water are the greatest global problems of our time and we accept responsibility for this. We'll

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commit to the personal responsibility needed, the vision needed, and the work necessary to help the

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108 countries with coastal access develop small-scale desalinization platforms for those

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who do not have a voice so they can be helped and heard. I stand next to the ocean each week

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not because this is some gimmick. I stand here because we have all the world we need. We just

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need a group of people committed to the infrastructure. That's us. We are committed to

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the infrastructure, not for the profit of it. We give it away for free because grace is free. So

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we want to take everything God's given us, these 13 trips in the last five years, these hundred

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people with experience. We want to leverage that so that we can scale and be more helpful to people

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in other contexts all around the world. Did you know that in heaven water will be given for free?

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Did you know that? Revelation 21 says, then I saw a new heaven and a new earth and the first heaven

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and the first earth had passed away and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new

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Jerusalem coming out of heaven from God prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband and

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I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, look God's dwelling is now among the people and he will

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dwell with them. They will be his people and God himself will be their God. He will wipe away every

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tear from their eyes. There'll be no more death or mourning or crying or pain for the old order of

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things has passed away. He who was seated on the throne said, I'm making everything new. Write this

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down for these words are trustworthy and true. He said, it is done on the Alpha and the Omega and

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the beginning and the end and listen to this, to the thirsty I will give water without cost

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from the spring of the water of life. So we're ready. We're ready to go to Bangladesh and Indonesia

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and ocean beach and Santa Ana. So in our first year we learned from those two places and now we

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want to multiply to six places and in the next 365 days I want to help you multiply your life

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in ways that don't just add to it but ways that compound it and multiply it. We've been very

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careful the first 365 days that not to apply anything that can't be easily multiplied and

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scaled. So here are the four things you need to multiply your life in the next year. One, you want

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to multiply your wisdom. Be in God's word every day. Today we have multiplied and scaled information

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but we do not have multiplied and scaled wisdom. Everyone has the same information now but wisdom

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is the ability to apply information in the right context. This is what separates successful people

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from people who fail is wisdom. How you apply information is wisdom and that helps you become

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successful. You see information is an addition mindset. Wisdom is a multiplication mindset.

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So we want to encourage you to every day put God's word into your mind to help you become more wise

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so that your day and your time and your decisions can be multiplied. That's why we do it.

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Yeah you might say well I don't understand everything that God

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tells me in my life every time I read the Bible. That's okay. We don't understand everything that

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people tell us in relationships but it doesn't cause us to give up on the relationships. It

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just causes us to keep plugging away at it. You know if we look at our daily usage times on our

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phones every Sunday when it pops up from Apple we can see that we have more than enough time

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to listen to the Bible every day for 10 minutes on our phone. So I really want to encourage you.

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If you'd like to be a part of that you can just message me at Ocean Water and that'll help you get

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involved in our Bible reading and to help us become wiser. So we multiply God's wisdom through

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his word each day. The second thing you've got to do is multiply your vibe. Did you know we all have

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an energy a vibe we give off the way we make people feel when they're around us. I want people

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to feel God's spirit when they're around you. One way you can do this is as we start the second

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year is to join us in fasting on Tuesdays from four o'clock to Wednesdays on four o'clock. That

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means we're going to use this 24 hour period each week to pray for two things. One for power for our

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life and two that we would give off great vibes to the people that we interact with on a daily basis.

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You know the greatest compliment that you can get from someone who interacts with you is after

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people walk away they say man I like them. Weren't they great. That's God's spirit giving you favor

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and helping you connect with people so that you can represent him well because God always works

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through relationship and we want our vibe to be multiplied. So I want to encourage you to join us

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on Tuesdays as we start to do that. You know setting a time to fast and pray helps us multiply. The

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third thing I want you to do is multiply your adventure. I want to help you start like a church

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at your house. What do you mean start a church at my house. I mean that if you go back in time like

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just 400 years there were virtually no church buildings in the world. Churches have traditionally

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just been at homes. What do I mean by that. I mean that in the last 2020 years for 1600 of those years

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there were like no church buildings and we would meet in other structures but mostly it was in homes

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and that means that if you can that you can do that in your house just like people have been for

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thousands of years. You know there are more pastors walking the earth than you think there are. A

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pastor is just someone who loves God and loves people. That group could have five people in it.

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All you have to do is have a heart to shepherd others. Now I was trained in the traditional

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way. You go to Bible college and seminary and a doctorate and you do the Harvard equivalency of

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working at Saddleback. Is this how we're going to train people. Absolutely not. In fact we're going

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to train people the opposite of the way that I was trained. We're going to train people the way that

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Paco and Drew and I had a relationship with our friend Simpapo. A loving genuine friendship, prayerful

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encouragement, help people learn as they go. Sometimes what happens is we raise the the bar

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so high for people that they feel like they can no longer participate. We want to do the opposite.

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We want to help people as they go. We want to help people be full of faith and we don't want people

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to feel like they have to be a professional to have people over to their house for a meal and

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to watch a message or to go on a trip and start a project. We want to be able to scale quickly

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and easily and a lot of times this just comes down to cost and control as it affects your ability to

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do things in the future. We've worked very hard to eliminate cost and control as inhibitors to

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growth. You know having a church at your house is simple. You just invite people over once a week

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at a time that works for you. You serve your favorite food. You can watch my message and you

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can ask each other what was one thing God spoke to you and two what is one thing I can pray for

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and that's it. Congrats you're a pastor with a church at your house. I also want to ask you to

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go on a trip. This is important because we tend to get caught up in the trap of thinking my whole

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world is the world. Well that's not true. The way you combat this is every year you get on an

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airplane and you go into a different part of the world and you learn from it. You don't go as the

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teacher you go as the student. You allow yourself to take in the sights and the smells, the humidity,

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the air quality. This is why the world has become smaller through this digital age but you still

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have to go through the actual physical places because the fullest parts of how God made us

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don't show up on a social media feed because you don't experience people's energy and the taste

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and the sounds and the air and the temperature and the background noises. These teach us as well. So

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in the next year I want you to go with us to El Salvador or Bangladesh or Indonesia. In fact I

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want you to go on our website today and I want you to sign up for a trip, make a page for yourself,

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make a contribution to get your trip going. I know a little secret about trips. Nothing helps you grow

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more in your faith than getting on an airplane into another culture, language and experience.

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So starting a church at your house or going on a trip will help you multiply your adventure. The

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fourth thing I want you to do is multiply your generosity. I want you to help us as we rally

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around younger people like Steve and Bella as they take a step of faith to lead a trip to India and

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Bangladesh and Hidden House Coffee in Santa Ana. I want us to close our eyes right now and I want

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you to ask God how generous you feel like you're supposed to be. I want you to ask God, you know,

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how much should I give? You know this is what I do in my life. I close my eyes and I just say hey

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God how much should I give? Whatever number he gives me that's what I give. That's what I encourage

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you to do. You can Venmo us at Ocean Water or you can go on our website oceanwater.com slash give

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and you can contribute whatever God wants, whatever God has put in your heart to do.

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It's not important the amount, it's important that you follow through and you be faithful to what he

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has put on your heart to do to help expand his kingdom. So I want you to multiply your generosity.

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Why are we doing all this? Well we're doing all this because it's our responsibility.

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It's not somebody else's, it's ours. The Bible tells us in Luke 12 these are the words of Jesus,

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much is required from those to whom much is given. For the greater their responsibility,

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the greater is expected from them. I've been all around the world and seen it from all different

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angles. You know here in California we've been given so much. It's such a blessed area to live.

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We've got great freedom, great health, great weather, jobs, the ability to do whatever you want.

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Most people in the world would love to have California problems. We're blessed compared to

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the rest of the world. We really live at the top. You know the Bible says to whom much is given.

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Much will be required. So we accept responsibility today because we're going to stand before God and

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God's going to say what did you do with all the talent and the network and the ability and the

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freedom and all the things that I gave you, your brains, your health. What did you do with all of

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that? We will be held to a greater level of responsibility and we accept that. The second

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reason is because we've been given authority. Jesus has given us the authority to go do all

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these things. It's called the Great Commission. It's commanded of every person who follows Jesus.

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We often leave this verse out. Jesus said all authority in heaven and on earth has been given

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to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations. Here's a little tip about studying the

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Bible. Anytime you find a therefore in the Bible you want to go out and figure out what it's there

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for. In light of what was just said Jesus was saying here I've been given all authority on the

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planet therefore go and go to all nations. We've been authorized to do this. The government's not

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authorized to do it. Businesses aren't authorized to do it. Other organizations aren't authorized

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to do it. God says I'm telling you the people in my family to go. God's intent was that now through

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the church the manifold wisdom of God should be made known. His family. It's through us.

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So we accept this responsibility. God says I don't just authorize you to do it. I'm going to be with

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you as you go do it. That is really comforting. Now there's a third reason too and it's not just

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responsibility and authority. It's inevitability. We're going because it's of history and where it's

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headed. The Bible tells us that history is moving towards a climax. It's not circular. It's linear.

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It's moving toward an impact. History is his story. God is in control. God started the beginning of it

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and he knows the ending of it. How it's going to end. God has a plan and a purpose. The Bible tells

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us that God created the entire world so he could create human beings because he knew that some of

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them would voluntarily choose to love him and trust him. He says I don't want to force you to do

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this but if you choose to love me and trust me I want you in my family and you're going to love me

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and you're going to live with me in heaven for eternity. He knew not everybody would do it. He said we're going to make it a choice.

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It's not real love unless you can choose to love someone. He says my plan is that everybody would hear

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the good news. That I love them. I have a purpose for their life and I want to forgive them. I have a

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home for them in heaven. All these good things he says. The moment the last person is heard and that

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they make the decision that'll be the time. This is what God says in Isaiah 14. I have a plan for the

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whole world. Not just for the United States. For the whole world. His mighty power reaches throughout

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the world. The Lord Almighty has spoken. Who can change his plan? The answer is nobody. The Bible

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tells us this good news will be preached into the whole world to every nation and every tribe and

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then the end will come. You want to know when the world's going to end? Well no one knows that.

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No one knows the time. No one knows the hour. But we do know that history moves in a direction.

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And God wants us to be in line with what he's already doing.

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So here's a challenge. Psalm 67 says send us around the world with the news of your saving

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power and your eternal plan for all mankind. Will you be a part of that? Will you be a part of that

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plan? Do you think God brought you here today to watch this without wanting you to be a part of it?

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Of course he wants us to be a part of it. I'm going to close by asking you to do those four things.

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One, get signed up to read along with us every day. In God's word, you can just message me at

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ocean water. That'll help multiply your wisdom. Two, get your home ready. I want you to open up

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your home in year two. I want you to pick a night of the week to have people over and some food

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and some fun and watch this weekly message and pray for each other. It's literally a

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church in your house. Awesome. Then once a month we gather together in all of our groups at different

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coffee places and we rejoice in that. We want to multiply your influence and we want you to get

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signed up on a trip to help multiply your adventure. And then lastly, just a reminder,

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to multiply your generosity and go and pray about what God puts on your heart to give and then just

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follow through with that. Whatever pops in your head, I trust that you will be able to do that.

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I trust that that's God's voice for your life.

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Just make sure that you're faithful with what God tells you to do. That's the key, being faithful.

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Let's pray together. Jesus, thank you that you're here to help me. Help me today to multiply my life

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in Jesus name. Thanks for watching today and I hope you have a great week.