1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,464 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:07,512 --> 00:00:09,416 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:09,448 --> 00:00:12,680 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,632 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:16,656 --> 00:00:18,696 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:18,888 --> 00:00:22,712 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:22,856 --> 00:00:24,072 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:24,136 --> 00:00:27,568 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:27,744 --> 00:00:31,120 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,768 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:32,824 --> 00:00:36,800 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,096 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:38,208 --> 00:00:41,808 If you want to know more about us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org 14 00:00:41,984 --> 00:00:45,340 Otherwise, we invite you now into the story. 15 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:48,448 Hello, good people. 16 00:00:48,504 --> 00:00:53,360 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 17 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,104 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 18 00:00:57,152 --> 00:01:03,214 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 19 00:01:03,262 --> 00:01:05,810 pastor Ross Stackhouse. 20 00:01:06,470 --> 00:01:11,566 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 21 00:01:11,758 --> 00:01:20,530 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 22 00:01:21,190 --> 00:01:26,136 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 23 00:01:26,208 --> 00:01:31,032 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify 24 00:01:31,176 --> 00:01:39,320 and on the website, which is heavenearthchurch.org Here now is 25 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:45,976 part five of the Essentials Message series, collaboration with 26 00:01:46,048 --> 00:01:48,060 Pastor Ross Stackhouse. 27 00:01:51,070 --> 00:01:53,750 All right, let's pray, and then we'll have our conversation 28 00:01:53,830 --> 00:01:54,450 together. 29 00:01:59,390 --> 00:02:04,490 God, I ask that you would illuminate our minds. 30 00:02:05,550 --> 00:02:09,110 You'd help us to see something that we could not see on our own. 31 00:02:09,150 --> 00:02:12,370 Help us to understand you in a way that we could not on our own 32 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,320 and ignite our lives so that we go from this space and live out 33 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,940 our purpose, the purpose to which you call us. 34 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,100 It is good to be in community. 35 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,552 We can't do this alone. 36 00:02:27,696 --> 00:02:32,112 You've created us for community, so we thank you for that. 37 00:02:32,136 --> 00:02:34,912 And with that in mind, we pray for the prayers of someone in our 38 00:02:34,936 --> 00:02:35,504 community. 39 00:02:35,672 --> 00:02:37,520 Kara's prayer for Lauren. 40 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,128 We lift her up into your light and her family. 41 00:02:40,184 --> 00:02:41,940 We ask for your intervention. 42 00:02:43,410 --> 00:02:46,590 We ask for your glory to shine in and through this moment. 43 00:02:50,450 --> 00:02:52,954 Hear the prayers of our hearts, the ones that are unspoken. 44 00:02:53,002 --> 00:02:58,150 Lord, receive them and help us to see you active in them. 45 00:02:59,330 --> 00:03:02,590 In the name of Jesus, amen. 46 00:03:03,890 --> 00:03:11,272 So I told you the story about how the summer after my senior year, 47 00:03:11,296 --> 00:03:13,576 I started working for a contractor. 48 00:03:13,688 --> 00:03:20,760 Told you that before learned it was like, you know, they say fire 49 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:25,432 hose experience, man, this guy was not the guy who would, like, 50 00:03:25,456 --> 00:03:27,256 walk you slowly and teach you something. 51 00:03:27,328 --> 00:03:29,900 He's like, hey, just go over there and frame that wall. 52 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,216 And he would do that knowing that, like this wall, he could fix 53 00:03:36,248 --> 00:03:38,860 it after you framed it, but that was what he taugh. 54 00:03:39,740 --> 00:03:41,920 That summer, I learned so much. 55 00:03:42,940 --> 00:03:46,052 I learned, honestly, there are many things I'm not so good at, but 56 00:03:46,076 --> 00:03:48,196 I had some natural kind of skill. 57 00:03:48,228 --> 00:03:51,748 I took to things quickly working with that guy. 58 00:03:51,924 --> 00:03:59,012 But the coolest thing was later I brought some of those skills 59 00:03:59,076 --> 00:04:01,280 back home. 60 00:04:01,980 --> 00:04:08,222 And at my dad's house, we ripped up the carpet in the living 61 00:04:08,286 --> 00:04:14,094 room and the hallway, and my dad and I together laid a new hardwood 62 00:04:14,142 --> 00:04:14,606 floor. 63 00:04:14,718 --> 00:04:17,630 Like, both of us on our knees, just plank by plank. 64 00:04:17,790 --> 00:04:19,134 I mean, we got fancy with it. 65 00:04:19,142 --> 00:04:20,686 We even framed in the fireplace. 66 00:04:20,718 --> 00:04:22,890 I mean, I looked like I knew what I was doing. 67 00:04:23,190 --> 00:04:25,850 And this was, like, my second hardwood floor ever. 68 00:04:26,150 --> 00:04:30,894 I learned because the first one I did, the subcontractor, who 69 00:04:30,902 --> 00:04:34,142 was supposed to help me again, my boss was like, hey, I want you 70 00:04:34,166 --> 00:04:34,990 to go over to this house. 71 00:04:35,030 --> 00:04:37,946 You're going to rip out this ceramic floor on the entire downstairs 72 00:04:37,978 --> 00:04:41,706 of this house, and then we're going to put in a new cherry hardwood 73 00:04:41,738 --> 00:04:42,378 floor. 74 00:04:42,554 --> 00:04:43,870 I was like, cool. 75 00:04:44,770 --> 00:04:45,850 I don't know how to do that. 76 00:04:45,890 --> 00:04:46,330 But. 77 00:04:46,450 --> 00:04:49,338 But there was a subcontractor there who was going to kind of. 78 00:04:49,394 --> 00:04:50,970 I was going to chip in and help him. 79 00:04:51,090 --> 00:04:54,554 Well, the problem with the subcontractor was the homeowners 80 00:04:54,602 --> 00:04:56,350 had put plastic on the couch. 81 00:04:57,090 --> 00:04:57,946 Well, that. 82 00:04:58,018 --> 00:05:01,750 The subcontractor was his invitation to sleep in the house. 83 00:05:03,660 --> 00:05:05,748 So I showed up one day, and I started working. 84 00:05:05,804 --> 00:05:07,732 He was like, hey, it looks like you're doing pretty good. 85 00:05:07,756 --> 00:05:09,284 I'm gonna lay down and rest for a minute. 86 00:05:09,332 --> 00:05:12,040 He just fell asleep and started snoozing on the couch. 87 00:05:12,860 --> 00:05:16,212 So now it was just me doing this. 88 00:05:16,316 --> 00:05:19,956 He laid these hardwood boards in the threshold. 89 00:05:20,068 --> 00:05:23,108 He put a piece of hardwood down, and then imagine two. 90 00:05:23,244 --> 00:05:25,220 The hardwood coming together to meet that. 91 00:05:25,340 --> 00:05:25,860 Well, the. 92 00:05:25,900 --> 00:05:29,214 The hardwood was coming up like this because he had, like, glued 93 00:05:29,262 --> 00:05:30,046 it down. 94 00:05:30,198 --> 00:05:33,086 And I learned a lot that summer. 95 00:05:33,118 --> 00:05:34,126 Did I tell you? 96 00:05:34,278 --> 00:05:36,894 So by the time I got to my dad's house, man, I was an expert. 97 00:05:36,942 --> 00:05:37,678 I knew what I was doing. 98 00:05:37,734 --> 00:05:38,690 No, I didn't. 99 00:05:39,030 --> 00:05:45,534 But how cool is it that I grown up and I got to bring something 100 00:05:45,622 --> 00:05:48,010 back to contribute to my dad's house? 101 00:05:48,310 --> 00:05:50,014 I got to build with my. 102 00:05:50,102 --> 00:05:52,030 My dad when he had. 103 00:05:52,070 --> 00:05:55,050 He had spent so much, like, providing for me. 104 00:05:55,660 --> 00:05:57,124 And I just felt invigorated. 105 00:05:57,172 --> 00:06:02,020 I felt proud to be building in my father's house. 106 00:06:02,060 --> 00:06:05,092 And so every time we walked on that hardwood floor, like, we could 107 00:06:05,116 --> 00:06:08,640 look down and be like, hey, we did that together. 108 00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:13,620 I want to talk to you about our last essential. 109 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:17,316 Today we've been talking about the HEC discipleship essentials. 110 00:06:17,348 --> 00:06:23,130 And it's just that that illustration I just described is 111 00:06:23,990 --> 00:06:24,730 how. 112 00:06:26,790 --> 00:06:29,230 Here are the five essentials, by the way we've been talking about. 113 00:06:29,270 --> 00:06:30,510 Oh, wait, no, I forgot. 114 00:06:30,590 --> 00:06:36,206 Before I get to that, we're going to see how you do five essentials. 115 00:06:36,238 --> 00:06:37,022 No cheating. 116 00:06:37,166 --> 00:06:39,050 Can you name any of them? 117 00:06:43,750 --> 00:06:45,370 Because you saw it up there. 118 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:47,580 What was that, Katie? 119 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:53,544 That is two number discipleship Essential number two 120 00:06:53,552 --> 00:06:56,152 is humble, hungry and willing to seek Jesus's way. 121 00:06:56,336 --> 00:06:58,072 Scent is the fourth essential. 122 00:06:58,136 --> 00:06:59,208 We just talked about it. 123 00:06:59,264 --> 00:07:00,580 Maybe you saw it up there. 124 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:04,648 That essential means like we're willing to take seriously that, 125 00:07:04,704 --> 00:07:08,248 that Jesus is sending us to places and people and we're willing 126 00:07:08,264 --> 00:07:08,552 to go. 127 00:07:08,576 --> 00:07:12,232 Before we really know exactly why, we just show up and we're going 128 00:07:12,256 --> 00:07:12,738 to do it. 129 00:07:12,824 --> 00:07:13,930 So there's two. 130 00:07:16,390 --> 00:07:19,170 The first one's long, so it's kind of tough. 131 00:07:20,550 --> 00:07:26,926 We want to be shaped from the inside out by continuous companionship 132 00:07:26,958 --> 00:07:27,730 with God. 133 00:07:29,350 --> 00:07:31,502 Short version, we want to be shaped from the inside out. 134 00:07:31,526 --> 00:07:34,494 In other words, we're not trying to perform religion. 135 00:07:34,622 --> 00:07:37,070 Jesus was always speaking against that. 136 00:07:37,110 --> 00:07:39,370 Like, religion is not an opportunity to perform. 137 00:07:40,100 --> 00:07:41,520 Build your resume. 138 00:07:41,940 --> 00:07:47,196 It is an inside out transformation that happens in friendship 139 00:07:47,228 --> 00:07:47,724 with God. 140 00:07:47,772 --> 00:07:48,956 A continuous friendship. 141 00:07:48,988 --> 00:07:51,580 It's not just something that you do on Sundays for an hour, though. 142 00:07:51,620 --> 00:07:52,524 This is good. 143 00:07:52,692 --> 00:07:55,080 We need this community time together. 144 00:07:57,220 --> 00:07:59,004 So second, that's first. 145 00:07:59,092 --> 00:08:02,604 Second one is humble, hungry and willing to seek Jesus. 146 00:08:02,652 --> 00:08:04,892 Number three is grace and the great commands at the core of our 147 00:08:04,916 --> 00:08:05,480 lives. 148 00:08:06,790 --> 00:08:08,690 Grace and the great commands. 149 00:08:09,350 --> 00:08:10,126 Great commands. 150 00:08:10,158 --> 00:08:12,414 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. 151 00:08:12,462 --> 00:08:14,878 And the second is like it, love your neighbors, yourself. 152 00:08:15,054 --> 00:08:17,294 For Jesus, that was kind of the core. 153 00:08:17,422 --> 00:08:18,926 Not kind of, it was the core. 154 00:08:18,958 --> 00:08:22,650 It is the core of who he is and what he does. 155 00:08:22,950 --> 00:08:24,890 Today we're talking about the fifth one. 156 00:08:25,190 --> 00:08:28,250 Great collaboration with Big Good News. 157 00:08:30,710 --> 00:08:32,590 Great collaboration with big good News. 158 00:08:32,630 --> 00:08:34,382 That's what we're going to talk about today. 159 00:08:34,486 --> 00:08:37,130 So the sermon basically breaks down those two things. 160 00:08:39,239 --> 00:08:43,739 First in reverse order, this big good news. 161 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:50,047 And then the second part breaks down how we are called to 162 00:08:50,103 --> 00:08:55,775 serve with Jesus, collaborate with Jesus in this big good news. 163 00:08:55,847 --> 00:09:00,735 So just like I grew up in these skills, I discovered a skill 164 00:09:00,767 --> 00:09:04,735 that I had honed that craft and brought it back to my father's 165 00:09:04,767 --> 00:09:06,059 house to build. 166 00:09:06,700 --> 00:09:09,280 That's what Jesus is inviting us to as well. 167 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:14,560 So I want to talk to you about that today. 168 00:09:14,860 --> 00:09:19,200 First, I've asked you this before. 169 00:09:20,540 --> 00:09:22,484 I'll ask you now again. 170 00:09:22,652 --> 00:09:24,400 We're Just going to keep doing this. 171 00:09:25,660 --> 00:09:31,520 What is the good news in like 30 seconds or less. 172 00:09:33,030 --> 00:09:33,806 Online, folks. 173 00:09:33,838 --> 00:09:35,210 Let's hear from you too. 174 00:09:36,630 --> 00:09:38,014 What is the good news of Jesus? 175 00:09:38,062 --> 00:09:38,606 So if you don't. 176 00:09:38,638 --> 00:09:39,710 Why am I asking that? 177 00:09:39,830 --> 00:09:43,450 Each there are four gospels that give the account of Jesus life. 178 00:09:44,070 --> 00:09:48,190 That word gospel is a word in Greek that also means good news. 179 00:09:48,230 --> 00:09:50,830 You could either use good news or gospel interchangeably. 180 00:09:50,910 --> 00:09:54,926 So each person said they wrote a book called the good news according 181 00:09:54,998 --> 00:09:58,010 to Matthew, the good news according to Mark. 182 00:09:58,330 --> 00:10:00,310 What is the good news of Jesus? 183 00:10:01,290 --> 00:10:06,066 Natalie says the good news is that when we messed up, God didn't 184 00:10:06,098 --> 00:10:07,154 abandon us. 185 00:10:07,322 --> 00:10:11,666 God came to us and gave us the tools to make our way back to God 186 00:10:11,698 --> 00:10:14,070 and help others make their way back to God. 187 00:10:14,970 --> 00:10:16,834 Okay, dig that. 188 00:10:16,922 --> 00:10:18,110 What's the good news? 189 00:10:20,730 --> 00:10:21,506 Don't be shy. 190 00:10:21,538 --> 00:10:23,522 It's not like we're like, ha ha, you're wrong. 191 00:10:23,586 --> 00:10:24,162 I got you. 192 00:10:24,186 --> 00:10:26,070 Let me prove you wrong here in a minute. 193 00:10:27,270 --> 00:10:28,050 Jim. 194 00:10:31,110 --> 00:10:33,410 Jesus came to seek and to save. 195 00:10:34,310 --> 00:10:35,230 It's good. 196 00:10:35,350 --> 00:10:39,870 Yeah, you get credit for conciseness there too. 197 00:10:39,910 --> 00:10:40,174 Jim. 198 00:10:40,222 --> 00:10:42,078 That was like seven words, man. 199 00:10:42,214 --> 00:10:43,210 Way to go. 200 00:10:45,110 --> 00:10:46,014 Come on, be bold. 201 00:10:46,062 --> 00:10:46,286 It's. 202 00:10:46,318 --> 00:10:46,702 We're just. 203 00:10:46,726 --> 00:10:47,550 We're just learning together. 204 00:10:47,590 --> 00:10:49,490 We're all beginners here, Jill. 205 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,100 Forgiveness and grace and hope. 206 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:00,776 I'm no longer a slave to sin through Jesus Christ. 207 00:11:00,848 --> 00:11:06,980 Okay, what's the good news? 208 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:10,620 Pt. 209 00:11:19,050 --> 00:11:21,790 Pt quotes John 3:16. 210 00:11:22,810 --> 00:11:25,378 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son 211 00:11:25,394 --> 00:11:29,186 that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal 212 00:11:29,218 --> 00:11:29,458 life. 213 00:11:29,514 --> 00:11:30,670 Everlasting life. 214 00:11:33,050 --> 00:11:34,738 Okay, anyone else want to chip in some. 215 00:11:34,794 --> 00:11:39,650 Adam, the kingdom of heaven is drawn near. 216 00:11:39,690 --> 00:11:41,538 You saw my notes, Adam, you cheater. 217 00:11:41,634 --> 00:11:42,306 No, I'm kidding. 218 00:11:42,338 --> 00:11:42,578 He. 219 00:11:42,634 --> 00:11:48,700 No way he could have seen that kingdom of heaven has drawn near. 220 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,220 Anybody else want to chip in something? 221 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:55,940 Julie. 222 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,980 Jesus took on our sins with his sacrifice. 223 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,140 Our church's name is. 224 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:08,752 You may know this by now. 225 00:12:08,776 --> 00:12:09,920 You may get tired of hearing it. 226 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,930 Well, better get used to it. 227 00:12:12,790 --> 00:12:17,166 Our church's name is what it is because it is built directly off 228 00:12:17,238 --> 00:12:20,410 of the big good news. 229 00:12:23,430 --> 00:12:27,982 I can tell you right now, like, spoiler alert, everything that 230 00:12:28,006 --> 00:12:31,370 you have said is a part of the good news. 231 00:12:31,990 --> 00:12:34,782 I didn't hear one thing that I was like, ah, not really. 232 00:12:34,886 --> 00:12:35,850 That's out. 233 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:42,312 Part of the reason the church has suffered of late, has lost people, 234 00:12:42,496 --> 00:12:44,680 is because we've talked about this a lot. 235 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:50,680 The big good news got reduced to something very small, something 236 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,088 we could easily explain. 237 00:12:52,184 --> 00:12:53,740 Something formulaic. 238 00:12:55,680 --> 00:12:57,736 The big good news is kind of mysterious. 239 00:12:57,768 --> 00:12:59,832 We're going to look at that Today, and we're going to look at 240 00:12:59,856 --> 00:13:04,384 it through the lens of like two verses. 241 00:13:04,512 --> 00:13:05,680 So we'll do that really quick. 242 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,072 And then we're going to look at, like, what the part we have to 243 00:13:09,096 --> 00:13:09,712 play. 244 00:13:09,896 --> 00:13:14,500 So first of all, this is one version. 245 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,940 I'm going to show you why I came up with this version. 246 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,380 Jesus comes to restore all of creation. 247 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:26,192 He came to save the world. 248 00:13:26,296 --> 00:13:27,580 Another way to say it. 249 00:13:29,330 --> 00:13:32,230 So did PT For God so loved the world. 250 00:13:33,170 --> 00:13:36,826 Jesus came to save the world, to restore all of creation, to renew 251 00:13:36,938 --> 00:13:37,590 everything. 252 00:13:38,850 --> 00:13:40,218 Revelation 21:5. 253 00:13:40,274 --> 00:13:44,666 Behold, I'm making all things new and to bring his eternal kingdom 254 00:13:44,698 --> 00:13:46,990 of glory here to this wild earth. 255 00:13:49,410 --> 00:13:51,030 That's one way to say it. 256 00:13:52,690 --> 00:13:55,526 That's the biggest good news. 257 00:13:55,678 --> 00:14:00,854 Jesus didn't just come to save individual people and to help individual 258 00:14:00,902 --> 00:14:04,010 people get to a heaven that is elsewhere. 259 00:14:05,790 --> 00:14:11,142 He came to restore the entire creation, to fix everything that 260 00:14:11,166 --> 00:14:20,816 is broken, to face death, evil and the forces of sin, so that God's 261 00:14:20,848 --> 00:14:24,096 glory just takes over, spills out into the earth. 262 00:14:24,128 --> 00:14:27,312 Habakkuk says, the knowledge of the Lord's glory will cover the 263 00:14:27,336 --> 00:14:29,780 earth as surely as the waters cover the sea. 264 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:33,648 Big good news. 265 00:14:33,704 --> 00:14:36,800 And the good mission Jesus desire is that we would turn our 266 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,560 lives to him, such that we believe in him, trust his good news 267 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,540 and join in building this new creation. 268 00:14:46,610 --> 00:14:50,666 So if I were to put it like the good news and like Jim Fisher 269 00:14:50,698 --> 00:15:01,834 version short, the new creation has begun and it starts 270 00:15:01,882 --> 00:15:04,602 in you, inside you. 271 00:15:04,786 --> 00:15:07,242 Second Corinthians talks about, anyone who believes in Jesus 272 00:15:07,306 --> 00:15:08,990 is becoming a new creation. 273 00:15:10,860 --> 00:15:14,580 You're a new creation, joining and building the new creation. 274 00:15:14,660 --> 00:15:15,680 Are you with me? 275 00:15:17,820 --> 00:15:19,300 Summary all is forgiven. 276 00:15:19,380 --> 00:15:20,916 All will be made new. 277 00:15:21,068 --> 00:15:22,644 Heaven is crashing into earth. 278 00:15:22,692 --> 00:15:25,280 Give your life to the restorer and join the work. 279 00:15:27,260 --> 00:15:28,680 All is forgiven. 280 00:15:29,340 --> 00:15:32,320 All isn't well yet, but it will be. 281 00:15:33,100 --> 00:15:34,148 It will be. 282 00:15:34,284 --> 00:15:36,600 So here, I'm going to show it to you in a verse. 283 00:15:39,980 --> 00:15:42,240 First of all, I don't do this often. 284 00:15:42,860 --> 00:15:44,068 That version is. 285 00:15:44,124 --> 00:15:45,812 You're like, what's that Bible version there? 286 00:15:45,836 --> 00:15:47,480 Well, those are my initials. 287 00:15:49,820 --> 00:15:55,092 I don't do this often because it would be weird if all we ever 288 00:15:55,116 --> 00:15:55,348 did. 289 00:15:55,404 --> 00:15:57,540 You'd be like, that's not a reliable translation. 290 00:15:57,620 --> 00:15:58,980 Because that's just one guy's thought. 291 00:15:59,020 --> 00:16:06,614 But today, don't worry, I'm going to look at another translation 292 00:16:06,662 --> 00:16:08,010 to hold me accountable. 293 00:16:09,790 --> 00:16:12,570 This is my translation of the original language. 294 00:16:13,550 --> 00:16:16,742 After John was handed over, he came into Galilee proclaiming the 295 00:16:16,766 --> 00:16:18,054 good news of God's kingdom. 296 00:16:18,102 --> 00:16:18,934 The time. 297 00:16:19,102 --> 00:16:21,650 I put the Greek word in parentheses there. 298 00:16:23,710 --> 00:16:28,210 The time has arrived and the kingdom of God has come near. 299 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:32,100 Turn your life around and trust this good news. 300 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,168 Can you read that last word? 301 00:16:34,184 --> 00:16:35,272 On the count of three. 302 00:16:35,376 --> 00:16:36,900 One, two, three. 303 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,100 It's in plural in the original language. 304 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,420 Or if you're from the south, trust this good news, y'all. 305 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,940 So if you ask Jesus what the good news is, there it is. 306 00:16:54,420 --> 00:16:55,920 He says it real plain. 307 00:16:56,260 --> 00:16:58,284 But Jesus did his Jesusy thing. 308 00:16:58,372 --> 00:17:01,804 He says it plainly, but you're like, huh? 309 00:17:01,932 --> 00:17:02,920 What is it? 310 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:05,292 We're going to talk about it. 311 00:17:05,476 --> 00:17:06,476 Here's the niv. 312 00:17:06,588 --> 00:17:07,788 I'm not that far off course. 313 00:17:07,844 --> 00:17:10,876 After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming 314 00:17:10,908 --> 00:17:12,092 the good news of God. 315 00:17:12,236 --> 00:17:13,468 The time has come. 316 00:17:13,524 --> 00:17:14,360 He said. 317 00:17:15,620 --> 00:17:17,228 The kingdom of God has come near. 318 00:17:17,284 --> 00:17:19,160 Repent and believe the good news. 319 00:17:22,910 --> 00:17:23,878 The time has come. 320 00:17:23,934 --> 00:17:26,086 All right, we're going to travel through this really quickly, 321 00:17:26,118 --> 00:17:27,570 and I'm going to show you. 322 00:17:28,270 --> 00:17:28,918 Let's see. 323 00:17:28,974 --> 00:17:30,646 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 324 00:17:30,718 --> 00:17:32,646 Like, six things, but it's going to be fast. 325 00:17:32,758 --> 00:17:37,158 To break this down to help you to take this big good news. 326 00:17:37,214 --> 00:17:40,742 Keep growing in this big good news that you are invited to be a 327 00:17:40,766 --> 00:17:41,110 part of. 328 00:17:41,150 --> 00:17:45,382 You're not some, like, small, insignificant thing that Jesus is 329 00:17:45,406 --> 00:17:47,638 like, yeah, I guess you can come along and be with it. 330 00:17:47,694 --> 00:17:48,490 I guess. 331 00:17:49,060 --> 00:17:49,800 No. 332 00:17:50,820 --> 00:17:53,520 Trust this good news, y'all. 333 00:17:54,260 --> 00:17:55,280 Everybody. 334 00:17:56,740 --> 00:18:00,348 So first of all, really quickly, we could skip over this 335 00:18:00,404 --> 00:18:05,320 part after John was handed over. 336 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:13,320 Don't overlook how John the Baptist does his part. 337 00:18:15,070 --> 00:18:16,550 Our essential is right there. 338 00:18:16,590 --> 00:18:17,398 Essential 5. 339 00:18:17,454 --> 00:18:20,450 Collaboration is right there. 340 00:18:21,550 --> 00:18:25,010 John the Baptist is practicing essential 5. 341 00:18:26,030 --> 00:18:27,862 He prepares the way for Jesus. 342 00:18:27,926 --> 00:18:30,130 And then Jesus shows up. 343 00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:33,286 And also, it's at a cost. 344 00:18:33,358 --> 00:18:36,742 John the Baptist gets arrested. 345 00:18:36,886 --> 00:18:39,570 And it doesn't end so well for our guy John. 346 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:42,300 He might. 347 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,700 He might have lost his head. 348 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:46,496 Yay. 349 00:18:46,608 --> 00:18:48,700 Isn't following Jesus fun? 350 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:51,580 But it's worth it to John. 351 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,712 All right, see, look, we already did one. 352 00:18:55,736 --> 00:18:56,112 I told you. 353 00:18:56,136 --> 00:18:59,900 We're gonna go fast next. 354 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,260 This is huge. 355 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:04,940 This is huge right here. 356 00:19:05,410 --> 00:19:10,138 I think a lot of the times, what we're frustrated about as human 357 00:19:10,194 --> 00:19:13,270 beings, we're frustrated with time. 358 00:19:15,330 --> 00:19:19,482 We're stuck in, like, the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, 359 00:19:19,586 --> 00:19:23,830 months, years, decades, centuries, millennia, and so on. 360 00:19:25,650 --> 00:19:27,590 And that's how we view things. 361 00:19:28,130 --> 00:19:31,562 Like, everything feels like it's wrong, and it's wrong forever 362 00:19:31,626 --> 00:19:35,066 to us because, like, something happens in our life, and we bear 363 00:19:35,098 --> 00:19:38,930 the grief of that for the rest of our 40, 50 years. 364 00:19:42,910 --> 00:19:45,398 But what this is saying to us is that there's some. 365 00:19:45,454 --> 00:19:47,090 There's, like, human time. 366 00:19:48,030 --> 00:19:50,134 Greek word for that is chronos. 367 00:19:50,262 --> 00:19:56,038 We get chronology from it then it has this other word though, kairos. 368 00:19:56,134 --> 00:19:59,010 This word means like God's time has come. 369 00:20:00,830 --> 00:20:03,143 Peter says it this way in second Peter 3. 370 00:20:03,210 --> 00:20:03,516 8. 371 00:20:03,638 --> 00:20:06,220 A day to the Lord is like a thousand years. 372 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:10,928 That's not comforting, right? 373 00:20:11,064 --> 00:20:15,200 In a way, like, I don't feel any better about what you just said, 374 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:22,176 Ross, but what this person is saying, like, hey, don't just get 375 00:20:22,248 --> 00:20:25,088 stuck in your human experience of time. 376 00:20:25,144 --> 00:20:29,632 Like God is doing something beyond you, what you can currently 377 00:20:29,736 --> 00:20:32,778 feel, understand, like God is doing something. 378 00:20:32,834 --> 00:20:39,590 It made me think of this, if I can find it. 379 00:20:41,970 --> 00:20:46,874 There was, I was reading an article on Harvard and the Smithsonian 380 00:20:46,922 --> 00:20:50,890 do this joint effort and I was reading an article on there that 381 00:20:50,930 --> 00:20:55,870 talked about like what happened right before the Big Bang. 382 00:20:56,940 --> 00:21:02,548 And then like in this, like short, short I I it that's not even 383 00:21:02,604 --> 00:21:08,164 going to do it justice before there are all these gases compressing 384 00:21:08,212 --> 00:21:09,044 and such, right? 385 00:21:09,132 --> 00:21:10,212 Of course, you all know that, right? 386 00:21:10,236 --> 00:21:12,560 You're astrophysicist in your spare time. 387 00:21:14,380 --> 00:21:18,052 But then when it compressed, I think it was in a billionth of a 388 00:21:18,076 --> 00:21:20,708 trillionth of a trillionth of a second, right? 389 00:21:20,764 --> 00:21:21,460 You got that right. 390 00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:22,480 You following me? 391 00:21:23,410 --> 00:21:31,514 All of a sudden the universe expanded at a rate of 10 to the 26th 392 00:21:31,562 --> 00:21:32,150 power. 393 00:21:34,370 --> 00:21:36,510 So like there was nothing. 394 00:21:37,170 --> 00:21:41,190 And then in a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, 395 00:21:42,930 --> 00:21:44,150 there was everything. 396 00:21:46,690 --> 00:21:49,190 That's a small glimpse into God's time. 397 00:21:51,210 --> 00:21:52,754 I wonder if it'll be like that. 398 00:21:52,842 --> 00:21:53,954 It'll seem like there's nothing. 399 00:21:54,002 --> 00:21:59,554 And in one day Jesus says the time has come. 400 00:21:59,722 --> 00:22:01,970 Like God's time is crashing into this. 401 00:22:02,010 --> 00:22:02,802 So that's point two. 402 00:22:02,826 --> 00:22:03,858 Look, we did it. 403 00:22:03,994 --> 00:22:05,150 We've done two. 404 00:22:05,770 --> 00:22:09,106 We've got like three things left to illustrate this for you. 405 00:22:09,258 --> 00:22:09,950 Next. 406 00:22:10,730 --> 00:22:13,630 This verb in the original language is everything. 407 00:22:16,660 --> 00:22:20,680 It's a word that means like the two things have joined together. 408 00:22:23,060 --> 00:22:26,040 One thing has started to crash into the other. 409 00:22:27,060 --> 00:22:29,756 The kingdom of God has come near. 410 00:22:29,828 --> 00:22:31,772 It started to join up with Earth. 411 00:22:31,836 --> 00:22:34,828 I'm going to send you out a video this week from the Bible Project 412 00:22:34,884 --> 00:22:36,520 that illustrates this point. 413 00:22:37,780 --> 00:22:42,380 The kingdom of God has like, started to smash in and join up with 414 00:22:42,420 --> 00:22:43,092 Earth. 415 00:22:43,276 --> 00:22:44,740 That's Jesus's good news. 416 00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:46,160 The time has come. 417 00:22:46,940 --> 00:22:51,080 This transcendent reality has started to join up with this reality. 418 00:22:52,540 --> 00:22:53,332 It started. 419 00:22:53,436 --> 00:22:54,600 It's begun. 420 00:22:56,460 --> 00:22:57,012 Next. 421 00:22:57,116 --> 00:22:58,920 Look, I told you, we're moving fast. 422 00:23:00,780 --> 00:23:04,340 Any people who are English grammar nerds in the room like, you 423 00:23:04,380 --> 00:23:05,044 love grammar? 424 00:23:05,092 --> 00:23:05,668 Anyone? 425 00:23:05,764 --> 00:23:07,120 Okay, we got one. 426 00:23:08,950 --> 00:23:12,270 These verbs, I'm really going to nerd out. 427 00:23:12,310 --> 00:23:12,910 Sorry for you. 428 00:23:12,950 --> 00:23:13,358 Don't. 429 00:23:13,454 --> 00:23:14,110 For all of you. 430 00:23:14,150 --> 00:23:14,830 Don't care about this. 431 00:23:14,870 --> 00:23:16,530 These are in the perfect tense. 432 00:23:17,750 --> 00:23:18,478 Yay. 433 00:23:18,574 --> 00:23:19,326 Oh, man. 434 00:23:19,398 --> 00:23:20,670 Man, Ross changed my life today. 435 00:23:20,710 --> 00:23:22,930 He told me these verbs were in the perfect tense. 436 00:23:23,430 --> 00:23:25,210 Really hit me right here. 437 00:23:26,310 --> 00:23:30,878 The perfect tense is something that happens in the past, but it's 438 00:23:30,894 --> 00:23:34,010 still getting worked out in the present and in the future. 439 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,620 Like, it's not just a past thing. 440 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:39,608 Yes, it happened in the past. 441 00:23:39,664 --> 00:23:40,940 It's already happened. 442 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,540 But, like, it's unfolding right now. 443 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:53,368 The time has arrived and the kingdom of God has come near again. 444 00:23:53,424 --> 00:23:54,408 We're frustrated. 445 00:23:54,504 --> 00:23:56,664 We're like, why isn't it happening? 446 00:23:56,712 --> 00:23:57,860 Daggone it. 447 00:23:58,960 --> 00:23:59,512 One time. 448 00:23:59,536 --> 00:24:02,552 Jesus is like, do you not know that I could bring down legions of 449 00:24:02,576 --> 00:24:04,392 angels right now and, like, do a thing? 450 00:24:04,416 --> 00:24:07,040 And Peter's like, but go then. 451 00:24:07,900 --> 00:24:09,252 But that's not how he works. 452 00:24:09,316 --> 00:24:11,360 He works with you and me. 453 00:24:13,820 --> 00:24:14,980 People have said it like this. 454 00:24:15,020 --> 00:24:17,920 The kingdom of the heavens is here now and not yet. 455 00:24:19,020 --> 00:24:21,400 Darn it, that's frustrating. 456 00:24:24,380 --> 00:24:25,636 And then I already said it. 457 00:24:25,708 --> 00:24:26,132 Last one. 458 00:24:26,156 --> 00:24:27,360 I think we made it. 459 00:24:28,780 --> 00:24:33,160 Everyone, this thing is not just about some individuals. 460 00:24:35,210 --> 00:24:39,710 This is for every single person that you meet. 461 00:24:41,370 --> 00:24:49,070 It's everyone, Every person you meet. 462 00:24:50,330 --> 00:24:53,550 So turn your life around and trust this, like, be a part of it. 463 00:24:55,290 --> 00:24:57,810 Oh, and this turn your life around thing, it's not just a one 464 00:24:57,850 --> 00:24:58,584 time deal. 465 00:24:58,722 --> 00:25:02,780 Like, oh, oh, I feel I had this, like, on this emotional high. 466 00:25:02,820 --> 00:25:05,020 I went up and got baptized today, so now I'm good. 467 00:25:05,060 --> 00:25:07,760 I'm just going to wait until I go to heaven after I die. 468 00:25:09,060 --> 00:25:12,156 Nope, turn your life around. 469 00:25:12,228 --> 00:25:13,480 Keep turning around. 470 00:25:14,260 --> 00:25:15,452 Because guess what? 471 00:25:15,556 --> 00:25:19,852 Within 30 minutes of leaving here today, you're going to want 472 00:25:19,876 --> 00:25:24,280 to turn back to the things that you think make you well. 473 00:25:24,780 --> 00:25:26,580 The things that you think heal you. 474 00:25:26,620 --> 00:25:27,556 Things that you've come. 475 00:25:27,628 --> 00:25:28,772 Your solutions, man. 476 00:25:28,796 --> 00:25:30,340 We're solutions people, aren't we? 477 00:25:30,460 --> 00:25:31,652 My life has been really hard. 478 00:25:31,676 --> 00:25:33,284 I've got my solutions for it. 479 00:25:33,372 --> 00:25:35,268 I've come up with my strategy. 480 00:25:35,444 --> 00:25:37,200 How do your strategies work? 481 00:25:42,540 --> 00:25:43,348 Is that funny? 482 00:25:43,364 --> 00:25:45,252 We crash and burn with our strategies. 483 00:25:45,316 --> 00:25:48,004 And then the next time we're like, I'm gonna come up with a strategy. 484 00:25:48,132 --> 00:25:49,760 I'm gonna come up with my plan. 485 00:25:52,710 --> 00:25:54,090 Sometimes they're good. 486 00:25:55,670 --> 00:25:56,782 When are they good, Emily? 487 00:25:56,846 --> 00:25:57,930 What makes them good? 488 00:25:59,430 --> 00:26:00,570 When they work. 489 00:26:02,390 --> 00:26:04,690 That's another thing we'll talk about someday. 490 00:26:05,350 --> 00:26:09,166 Okay, we made it through the first part. 491 00:26:09,238 --> 00:26:11,930 Like, this is big good news. 492 00:26:14,710 --> 00:26:16,730 Like, forgiveness is a part of it. 493 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,704 Like, hey, if you've got a rap sheet, like, you've spent your whole 494 00:26:22,752 --> 00:26:25,984 life, like, doing the wrong things, turned toward the darkness, 495 00:26:26,112 --> 00:26:26,980 forgiven. 496 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,704 Yeah, but don't I need to, like, go do some time or something. 497 00:26:30,792 --> 00:26:31,184 Nope. 498 00:26:31,232 --> 00:26:32,020 Forgiven. 499 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:35,220 Expunged. 500 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,420 You have no debt, no prison time waiting for you. 501 00:26:44,690 --> 00:26:45,630 Forgiven. 502 00:26:47,170 --> 00:26:50,218 But that's just to free you to join the work. 503 00:26:50,354 --> 00:26:52,070 We stopped short of that part. 504 00:26:53,650 --> 00:26:56,106 We stopped short of that part that just. 505 00:26:56,178 --> 00:26:58,750 The only point was that you're expunged. 506 00:26:59,730 --> 00:27:00,522 No. 507 00:27:00,706 --> 00:27:02,990 Jesus came to break you out of prison. 508 00:27:03,810 --> 00:27:06,150 The thing that you keep getting trapped in. 509 00:27:07,010 --> 00:27:11,076 He came to set you free and say you have nothing to fear. 510 00:27:11,188 --> 00:27:12,180 Watch, I'll show you. 511 00:27:12,220 --> 00:27:15,060 I will confront the worst of human evil. 512 00:27:15,140 --> 00:27:16,836 I'll confront death itself. 513 00:27:16,948 --> 00:27:17,972 And I will raise up. 514 00:27:17,996 --> 00:27:19,220 I'll be raised up on the other side. 515 00:27:19,260 --> 00:27:20,772 You have nothing to fear. 516 00:27:20,916 --> 00:27:22,240 Join me in the work. 517 00:27:23,020 --> 00:27:24,900 Stop trying to save your own life. 518 00:27:25,020 --> 00:27:26,276 It's saved already. 519 00:27:26,428 --> 00:27:27,760 Go live for it. 520 00:27:29,580 --> 00:27:31,400 Be a part of the new creation. 521 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:36,794 All right, here's how it's said in Ephesians. 522 00:27:36,842 --> 00:27:38,150 And we're gonna have some fun. 523 00:27:38,770 --> 00:27:39,738 I think it's fun. 524 00:27:39,794 --> 00:27:40,362 Maybe it's not. 525 00:27:40,386 --> 00:27:41,322 I don't know. 526 00:27:41,506 --> 00:27:44,790 Fun to me is maybe not what's fun to you. 527 00:27:46,610 --> 00:27:47,990 Ah, here it is. 528 00:27:51,650 --> 00:27:53,750 Paul talks about it this way. 529 00:27:54,450 --> 00:27:55,018 Oh, boy. 530 00:27:55,034 --> 00:27:55,562 I'm gonna do it. 531 00:27:55,586 --> 00:28:00,750 Emily, I shouldn't do this, but this is weird. 532 00:28:03,460 --> 00:28:03,948 I swear. 533 00:28:03,964 --> 00:28:05,196 It's going to get practical in a minute. 534 00:28:05,228 --> 00:28:05,852 Just stay with me. 535 00:28:05,876 --> 00:28:07,440 We're almost done today, okay? 536 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:12,120 Paul has this great chapter in Ephesians 4. 537 00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:15,560 Alan Hirsch summarizes it this way. 538 00:28:16,020 --> 00:28:16,960 Duh. 539 00:28:18,660 --> 00:28:24,828 He says that Jesus came and did his ministry, the ministry of 540 00:28:24,884 --> 00:28:25,480 Christ. 541 00:28:26,750 --> 00:28:29,030 X is the first word for Christ in Greek. 542 00:28:29,110 --> 00:28:30,150 The ministry of Christ. 543 00:28:30,190 --> 00:28:34,982 He came and did his thing, but then he was dead serious when he 544 00:28:35,006 --> 00:28:36,930 said things like this. 545 00:28:39,150 --> 00:28:42,690 I'm leaving and I'm giving it to you. 546 00:28:44,110 --> 00:28:49,810 So all of us are the body of Christ. 547 00:28:51,620 --> 00:28:58,160 He left and gave the ministry of Christ to you, Eva, and you, Marnie, 548 00:29:00,180 --> 00:29:01,596 and you, Ninja Turtle. 549 00:29:01,628 --> 00:29:01,916 Mark. 550 00:29:01,988 --> 00:29:04,320 I'll make sense of that in just a minute, okay? 551 00:29:07,140 --> 00:29:08,520 He gave it to us. 552 00:29:09,540 --> 00:29:10,280 Why? 553 00:29:10,820 --> 00:29:13,920 So the fullness of Christ would take over the earth. 554 00:29:15,860 --> 00:29:18,184 The mox to the box to the fox. 555 00:29:18,332 --> 00:29:19,360 That's the beginning. 556 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:19,872 That's what? 557 00:29:19,896 --> 00:29:20,944 Ephesians, the beginning. 558 00:29:20,992 --> 00:29:24,304 Like, the good news is that the fullness of Christ, if you want 559 00:29:24,312 --> 00:29:26,080 to undertake, is taking over the earth. 560 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,360 The fullness of Jesus. 561 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,120 Glory, his love. 562 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:33,152 All the cool things that make Jesus cool are taking over the earth. 563 00:29:33,296 --> 00:29:35,248 The fullness of Christ is coming. 564 00:29:35,384 --> 00:29:37,600 And he came to start it with his ministry. 565 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,944 But in the in between, he did this weird, dangerous thing. 566 00:29:41,032 --> 00:29:42,580 He gave it to you, Adam. 567 00:29:44,770 --> 00:29:46,190 He said, I'm leaving. 568 00:29:48,450 --> 00:29:50,590 I'm going to give you my holy Spirit. 569 00:29:51,810 --> 00:29:55,610 The Father's going to send the Holy Spirit into your life so that 570 00:29:55,650 --> 00:29:59,658 you grow up into the fullness of Christ and the uniqueness of you. 571 00:29:59,794 --> 00:30:02,270 And you join in building this new creation. 572 00:30:03,570 --> 00:30:05,290 And Paul, now here's where it gets fun. 573 00:30:05,330 --> 00:30:05,690 I hope. 574 00:30:05,730 --> 00:30:16,400 I hope that's my son singing back there. 575 00:30:17,420 --> 00:30:19,200 I'm glad they're having a good time. 576 00:30:20,300 --> 00:30:22,160 I want to show you these real quick. 577 00:30:27,260 --> 00:30:30,292 This is a personality test, like one of the first of its kind. 578 00:30:30,396 --> 00:30:32,200 You love personality tests. 579 00:30:34,060 --> 00:30:35,920 I'm about to give you a new one. 580 00:30:36,410 --> 00:30:39,042 It's how Mark realized he was a Ninja Turtle. 581 00:30:39,106 --> 00:30:39,910 Okay. 582 00:30:40,570 --> 00:30:42,018 It's a new personality test. 583 00:30:42,074 --> 00:30:43,074 So there are five categories. 584 00:30:43,122 --> 00:30:45,554 We're gonna add a six called the Ninja Turtle because it's what 585 00:30:45,562 --> 00:30:46,910 Mark Knutson is. 586 00:30:47,770 --> 00:30:50,870 He says that he gave some apostles. 587 00:30:51,210 --> 00:30:52,850 So this is like Jesus goes. 588 00:30:52,930 --> 00:30:54,066 He shares all these gifts. 589 00:30:54,098 --> 00:30:56,898 He's handing out his ministry to you. 590 00:30:57,034 --> 00:30:59,986 So like Dave, you're either gifted as an apostle, a prophet, 591 00:31:00,018 --> 00:31:01,990 an evangelist, a shepherd, or a teacher. 592 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,984 And right now, Dave is going, well, thanks, Ross. 593 00:31:05,032 --> 00:31:09,992 I'm none of those things because I don't think of myself as 594 00:31:10,016 --> 00:31:13,256 an apostle, a prophet, evangelist, a shepherd, or teacher. 595 00:31:13,288 --> 00:31:16,648 But each of you has one of those primary giftings, and I believe 596 00:31:16,704 --> 00:31:17,300 it. 597 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,100 Do you believe it? 598 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,316 Whether we want it or not, most of the time. 599 00:31:28,448 --> 00:31:32,400 I'm going to break it down real quick, and I'll send these out. 600 00:31:34,380 --> 00:31:36,400 It's called Apest for short. 601 00:31:37,340 --> 00:31:39,844 Apostle, prophet, evangelist. 602 00:31:39,972 --> 00:31:43,572 Instead of pastor, shepherd, teacher, Apest, you're going to be 603 00:31:43,596 --> 00:31:46,004 telling all your friends about this personality test you did at 604 00:31:46,012 --> 00:31:46,600 church. 605 00:31:47,420 --> 00:31:49,200 Really quick, let's run through it. 606 00:31:50,220 --> 00:31:51,700 Then you're like, oh, shoot. 607 00:31:51,780 --> 00:31:55,890 Julie Knudson was like, I might be an evangelist. 608 00:31:56,950 --> 00:32:01,726 What we all think evangelists is someone who's like. 609 00:32:01,798 --> 00:32:04,910 We walk up to someone on the street corner and be like, hey, how 610 00:32:04,950 --> 00:32:05,230 you doing? 611 00:32:05,270 --> 00:32:05,838 I'm Ross. 612 00:32:05,934 --> 00:32:08,090 Hey, if you died today, do you know where you're going? 613 00:32:11,190 --> 00:32:12,450 Not evangelism. 614 00:32:13,270 --> 00:32:14,890 Here's what evangelism is. 615 00:32:15,590 --> 00:32:16,382 Lots of stuff here. 616 00:32:16,406 --> 00:32:17,694 We're gonna go through it quickly. 617 00:32:17,822 --> 00:32:20,450 Apostles are the entrepreneurs and explorers. 618 00:32:21,740 --> 00:32:22,820 They start new things. 619 00:32:22,860 --> 00:32:24,320 I'm not going to read all this. 620 00:32:26,220 --> 00:32:27,716 Apostles go to the horizon. 621 00:32:27,748 --> 00:32:31,780 They go to the frontier in the church. 622 00:32:31,860 --> 00:32:35,012 These are the sent ones who plant new things for new people for 623 00:32:35,036 --> 00:32:36,308 the sake of Jesus. 624 00:32:36,484 --> 00:32:37,800 Amazing mission. 625 00:32:41,980 --> 00:32:45,920 So I'll tell you which one I am. 626 00:32:47,110 --> 00:32:48,090 That one. 627 00:32:50,230 --> 00:32:52,030 I started a bunch of new things in my life. 628 00:32:52,070 --> 00:32:52,974 Some of them have failed. 629 00:32:53,022 --> 00:32:54,450 Some of them have worked. 630 00:32:55,430 --> 00:32:57,950 If the next thing fails, I'm gonna start something else. 631 00:32:58,030 --> 00:32:59,250 Just how I'm Wired. 632 00:32:59,590 --> 00:33:04,254 I feel called to go find the people who are lost because I felt 633 00:33:04,302 --> 00:33:04,890 lost. 634 00:33:05,270 --> 00:33:06,734 I have a heart for them. 635 00:33:06,902 --> 00:33:08,558 These are the entrepreneurs and explorers. 636 00:33:08,574 --> 00:33:09,918 They're mission centered. 637 00:33:10,094 --> 00:33:11,650 They look to the horizon. 638 00:33:12,590 --> 00:33:15,210 They want to reach people that are lost or forgotten. 639 00:33:16,350 --> 00:33:21,210 The prophets are the truth tellers, advocates and messengers. 640 00:33:21,950 --> 00:33:24,822 My wife is waking up in this prophet gifting. 641 00:33:24,966 --> 00:33:26,810 I think it might be her primary. 642 00:33:30,830 --> 00:33:33,206 They'll call themselves themselves. 643 00:33:33,318 --> 00:33:34,374 Ooh, this is critical. 644 00:33:34,422 --> 00:33:36,806 We got a lot of prophets on Facebook who calling everybody else 645 00:33:36,838 --> 00:33:37,410 out. 646 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,700 Prophets call themselves out too. 647 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,040 They help people turn back to the heart. 648 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,832 They look deeply into how we got here, but also they look to where 649 00:33:48,856 --> 00:33:49,580 we're going. 650 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:53,940 Evangelists. 651 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,380 I explained it to Julie this way. 652 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:05,736 Julie, is there a place that you love to go, like a restaurant 653 00:34:05,768 --> 00:34:08,600 that you love to go and like, you keep going back there? 654 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:09,900 Was it yozos? 655 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,500 And I said, julie, have you told anyone about a yozos? 656 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:15,980 She's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 657 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,220 That's what an evangelist does. 658 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,808 When they experience something good, they can't help but share others. 659 00:34:22,864 --> 00:34:23,912 They want to gather people in. 660 00:34:23,936 --> 00:34:26,780 They're networkers, gatherers and proclaimers. 661 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:32,444 They invite people to discover what they discovered in the church. 662 00:34:32,492 --> 00:34:35,052 These are the ones who help others to encounter Jesus for the 663 00:34:35,076 --> 00:34:36,556 first time or again. 664 00:34:36,628 --> 00:34:38,040 They gather people in. 665 00:34:38,660 --> 00:34:42,000 The shepherds are the caregivers, the empaths, the healers. 666 00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:48,800 They wake up and they're just like wired with compassion. 667 00:34:51,220 --> 00:34:55,180 In the church, they're the good Samaritans, the people who find 668 00:34:55,220 --> 00:34:57,676 the people who are hurting and they move near to them and seek healing 669 00:34:57,708 --> 00:34:58,760 alongside them. 670 00:34:59,420 --> 00:35:03,400 And the teachers are the treasure hunters, like, not literally. 671 00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:07,972 They're the truth seekers, the treasure hunters and the sages. 672 00:35:08,036 --> 00:35:09,364 They're humble, curious and wise. 673 00:35:09,412 --> 00:35:12,436 They're always searching for wisdom from experiences, relationships, 674 00:35:12,468 --> 00:35:13,508 texts and more. 675 00:35:13,644 --> 00:35:15,860 They're not satisfied with the surface. 676 00:35:16,020 --> 00:35:18,676 In the church, they are the students who mine for the treasures 677 00:35:18,708 --> 00:35:21,284 of God's heart through scripture, prayer and other practices. 678 00:35:21,332 --> 00:35:23,684 And they intentionally communicate what they found. 679 00:35:23,852 --> 00:35:27,466 Apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd, teacher. 680 00:35:27,658 --> 00:35:30,362 So in the coming days, I didn't say this so that you would, 681 00:35:30,386 --> 00:35:32,266 like, know today exactly what you are. 682 00:35:32,338 --> 00:35:35,338 And I'll bet you some of you got it stirring right now. 683 00:35:35,394 --> 00:35:37,510 Like, man, maybe I'm this thing. 684 00:35:38,290 --> 00:35:39,390 Holy cow. 685 00:35:40,370 --> 00:35:44,682 Jesus came to activate that in you so you'd come fully alive in 686 00:35:44,706 --> 00:35:48,030 it and you join in the work of building the new creation. 687 00:35:50,210 --> 00:35:52,042 So what we're going to do, it's late, we're late. 688 00:35:52,066 --> 00:35:52,994 We're running behind. 689 00:35:53,122 --> 00:35:54,070 That's okay. 690 00:35:54,650 --> 00:35:58,050 We're going to have communion together to end today. 691 00:35:58,170 --> 00:36:01,906 And then maybe we'll have to rearrange a song or communion. 692 00:36:01,938 --> 00:36:04,594 Do communion like the Big Bang. 693 00:36:04,642 --> 00:36:06,470 We'll have to do it like really fast. 694 00:36:08,090 --> 00:36:11,570 But I want to give you time to think about and sit with Jesus and 695 00:36:11,610 --> 00:36:16,510 consider, hey, what have you called me to be? 696 00:36:18,090 --> 00:36:19,870 What gifts have you given me? 697 00:36:20,330 --> 00:36:22,910 So I'm going to pray and then we're going to do communion together. 698 00:36:26,010 --> 00:36:29,298 Lord, help us in our hearts, in our lives to know your big good 699 00:36:29,354 --> 00:36:29,950 news. 700 00:36:33,770 --> 00:36:36,434 Like help us not to just know it in our heads, but to know it in 701 00:36:36,442 --> 00:36:38,070 our hearts and our souls. 702 00:36:41,290 --> 00:36:46,402 And help us to join you in it, to turn our lives around, to trust 703 00:36:46,466 --> 00:36:47,618 you, to be a part of it. 704 00:36:47,674 --> 00:36:52,492 Become alive in this gifting that you've given us and to know 705 00:36:52,516 --> 00:36:55,720 the invigoration of just sharing that. 706 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:05,068 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