1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:00,820 Foreign. 2 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:09,432 I'm excited. 3 00:00:09,496 --> 00:00:11,352 My name is Josh Hamster. 4 00:00:11,416 --> 00:00:14,700 I'm the executive pastor here at V1 Church. 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,568 It is an honor to be able to have this platform today. 6 00:00:18,624 --> 00:00:23,500 Pastor Mike is in an apostolic journey right now in Italy. 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,200 And so let me just share something real quick. 8 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:31,314 We've been getting some amazing, amazing testimonies from 9 00:00:31,402 --> 00:00:34,162 Apostle Mike out in Italy, and that's where he is right now. 10 00:00:34,186 --> 00:00:38,030 And what's amazing is he is actually preaching right now. 11 00:00:38,330 --> 00:00:41,666 And so we are preaching here at V1, but he is preaching to thousands 12 00:00:41,698 --> 00:00:43,170 right now in Italy. 13 00:00:43,330 --> 00:00:47,234 And the testimonies that are coming out of that, it's like it 14 00:00:47,242 --> 00:00:51,442 is an honor and a privilege for us to be able to send the apostle 15 00:00:51,506 --> 00:00:51,730 out. 16 00:00:51,770 --> 00:00:52,850 That's what apostle means. 17 00:00:52,890 --> 00:00:54,468 It's sent one. 18 00:00:54,604 --> 00:00:57,860 And so he is there right now ministering to thousands of people 19 00:00:57,980 --> 00:00:59,236 in Italy. 20 00:00:59,428 --> 00:01:03,880 And so shout out pastor and Apostle Mike Signorelli. 21 00:01:06,620 --> 00:01:10,372 So today, this is going to be a part two from last week. 22 00:01:10,476 --> 00:01:12,660 Who here was at Easter last week? 23 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:13,520 Come on. 24 00:01:14,940 --> 00:01:17,412 Such an amazing sermon by Pastor Mike. 25 00:01:17,556 --> 00:01:19,604 And today is a part two. 26 00:01:19,772 --> 00:01:23,188 And for every single person that came last week, new and you're 27 00:01:23,204 --> 00:01:23,796 here today. 28 00:01:23,868 --> 00:01:27,156 I just want to welcome you back to V1 Church. 29 00:01:27,268 --> 00:01:31,960 And today's message is called the Sacred Path. 30 00:01:32,860 --> 00:01:34,920 The Sacred Path. 31 00:01:36,140 --> 00:01:38,884 And what I want to speak to you about today, and I'm going to 32 00:01:38,892 --> 00:01:41,492 do a little bit of teaching, and then I'm going to preach. 33 00:01:41,556 --> 00:01:41,828 Okay? 34 00:01:41,844 --> 00:01:42,868 Is that okay? 35 00:01:43,044 --> 00:01:44,560 Is that all right today? 36 00:01:46,470 --> 00:01:50,830 But when we talk about the Sacred path and we talk about people 37 00:01:50,950 --> 00:01:55,070 giving their life to Christ and someone becoming a new believer, 38 00:01:55,230 --> 00:01:58,830 immediately you enter the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of 39 00:01:58,870 --> 00:02:03,230 God, and there's something that takes place in you, and you 40 00:02:03,270 --> 00:02:08,650 immediately receive a new identity in Christ. 41 00:02:09,350 --> 00:02:12,830 And so today, when we talk about this path that the Lord has 42 00:02:12,870 --> 00:02:17,202 us on, what we're talking about is not only believing in Christ, 43 00:02:17,366 --> 00:02:23,130 but following him, because a lot of people believe in him, but 44 00:02:23,170 --> 00:02:25,226 not that many actually follow him. 45 00:02:25,298 --> 00:02:30,310 So when we talk about a path, a path is meant to be walked on. 46 00:02:31,170 --> 00:02:32,710 It's meant to move. 47 00:02:33,330 --> 00:02:35,914 It's not meant to look at the path and say, that looks. 48 00:02:35,962 --> 00:02:37,114 That's really cool. 49 00:02:37,242 --> 00:02:41,546 Those people get to do that and look at the path from a distance 50 00:02:41,578 --> 00:02:44,990 and say, no, the Lord is calling me to that path. 51 00:02:45,820 --> 00:02:47,268 And so this is what it means. 52 00:02:47,324 --> 00:02:53,764 And before we get into some of the pitfalls that many Christians 53 00:02:53,812 --> 00:02:55,892 get into, let me just share. 54 00:02:55,996 --> 00:02:58,260 What does it actually mean to be saved? 55 00:02:58,420 --> 00:03:00,040 Like, what is salvation? 56 00:03:00,460 --> 00:03:04,804 Salvation is the free gift of God to man. 57 00:03:04,892 --> 00:03:09,924 It is given by God's grace alone, and not through any work or 58 00:03:10,012 --> 00:03:12,360 merit on our behalf. 59 00:03:12,940 --> 00:03:14,612 We say it this way. 60 00:03:14,796 --> 00:03:20,740 By grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone. 61 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:23,236 Can everyone say that one more time with me? 62 00:03:23,388 --> 00:03:28,868 By grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone. 63 00:03:28,964 --> 00:03:29,892 Come on now. 64 00:03:29,996 --> 00:03:31,332 It is Christ. 65 00:03:31,516 --> 00:03:32,484 It is Christ. 66 00:03:32,572 --> 00:03:39,440 He is the cornerstone, and he brings us into his kingdom, and he 67 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,300 calls us to Himself. 68 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:46,592 And he came on this earth, and he lived a sinless life, and he died 69 00:03:46,736 --> 00:03:47,552 on that cross. 70 00:03:47,616 --> 00:03:50,768 And that's what we celebrated at Easter, that there was a death, 71 00:03:50,824 --> 00:03:53,792 but then three days later, there was a resurrection. 72 00:03:53,936 --> 00:03:58,352 And now he calls us into that resurrected life. 73 00:03:58,536 --> 00:04:03,820 And when we receive that, that is what salvation is. 74 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:09,872 But I'm here to tell you today it's not just about believing in 75 00:04:09,896 --> 00:04:10,080 it. 76 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,344 It's about us saying, lord, what does it mean to actually follow 77 00:04:13,432 --> 00:04:14,416 you now? 78 00:04:14,568 --> 00:04:18,860 Which means we begin the sanctification process. 79 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,000 And there's something that many Christians don't understand, 80 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:27,776 especially new believers. 81 00:04:27,808 --> 00:04:30,832 But I'm here to tell you I know this message may sound like 82 00:04:30,856 --> 00:04:31,750 it's geared to. 83 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,618 To new converts, new believers, but there are many people 84 00:04:34,674 --> 00:04:37,722 in this room at every single campus, and you've been saved for 85 00:04:37,746 --> 00:04:40,090 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years. 86 00:04:40,210 --> 00:04:41,910 This message is for you. 87 00:04:42,850 --> 00:04:44,070 It's for you. 88 00:04:44,450 --> 00:04:47,754 And so don't be thinking about, oh, I wish this other person 89 00:04:47,842 --> 00:04:49,018 was here to hear this. 90 00:04:49,074 --> 00:04:51,050 No, this message is for you. 91 00:04:51,170 --> 00:04:53,670 If you can hear my voice, this is for you. 92 00:04:54,690 --> 00:04:57,194 And it's more than just believing in Christ. 93 00:04:57,282 --> 00:05:02,250 It's following him as a believer, as a follower, and not 94 00:05:02,290 --> 00:05:05,606 just getting saved, but saying, lord Jesus, what do I do 95 00:05:05,678 --> 00:05:10,038 now that I am saved and how do I work this out through. 96 00:05:10,174 --> 00:05:11,430 What's the word? 97 00:05:11,590 --> 00:05:12,810 Discipleship. 98 00:05:15,870 --> 00:05:17,046 I'm still just teaching. 99 00:05:17,078 --> 00:05:17,850 Okay? 100 00:05:18,750 --> 00:05:20,662 I'm about to preach in just a second. 101 00:05:20,766 --> 00:05:21,770 I promise. 102 00:05:22,350 --> 00:05:27,730 So we have salvation through Christ and sanctification with Christ. 103 00:05:28,750 --> 00:05:34,390 And being a follower of Christ means that we will walk the narrow 104 00:05:34,470 --> 00:05:36,900 path, the sacred path. 105 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:44,752 And when we start talking like this, what happens is we begin to 106 00:05:44,776 --> 00:05:48,780 look at what does it actually mean to be a disciple of Christ? 107 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:54,416 What does it mean to take my belief in Christ and that salvation 108 00:05:54,528 --> 00:05:55,056 moment? 109 00:05:55,168 --> 00:05:59,296 What does it actually mean now for me to walk this faith out in 110 00:05:59,368 --> 00:06:01,660 fear and trembling like the. 111 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:03,000 Like the Word says. 112 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:10,000 And to be a disciple, it truly means to be a Christian. 113 00:06:10,580 --> 00:06:11,884 It's like, what is a Christian? 114 00:06:11,932 --> 00:06:14,476 You look at Acts 11:26 really quickly. 115 00:06:14,508 --> 00:06:19,180 It says, and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. 116 00:06:19,340 --> 00:06:23,740 For a whole year, they met with the church and taught a great 117 00:06:23,860 --> 00:06:25,240 many people. 118 00:06:25,620 --> 00:06:31,236 And in Antioch, the disciples were first called Christians. 119 00:06:31,428 --> 00:06:34,772 And this is the first time that you actually hear this phrase, 120 00:06:34,836 --> 00:06:39,652 this terminology, in scripture, in Acts, and it says that 121 00:06:39,676 --> 00:06:43,588 they were called Christians. 122 00:06:43,684 --> 00:06:44,320 Why? 123 00:06:45,020 --> 00:06:48,644 Not just because they believed in Christ, but because they lived 124 00:06:48,692 --> 00:06:54,440 and followed Christ on a path which is discipleship. 125 00:06:55,570 --> 00:06:57,146 It is a verb. 126 00:06:57,338 --> 00:06:58,394 It's action. 127 00:06:58,562 --> 00:06:59,834 It's not just belief. 128 00:06:59,882 --> 00:07:01,498 It's not just head knowledge. 129 00:07:01,594 --> 00:07:04,298 It's not just knowing something about Christ. 130 00:07:04,434 --> 00:07:09,110 It's knowing Christ on the path that he has called us to. 131 00:07:12,130 --> 00:07:15,834 And so I'm going to break down three different ways that people 132 00:07:15,922 --> 00:07:16,666 follow Christ. 133 00:07:16,738 --> 00:07:21,514 And the two are the most common that we see, especially in 134 00:07:21,602 --> 00:07:24,906 people that just get saved, but also people that have been saved 135 00:07:24,938 --> 00:07:26,070 for 50 years. 136 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:29,620 There's two kinds. 137 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:34,380 One that jumps right in and over does it. 138 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,140 This is what I call the sprinter. 139 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:43,140 The second one is they stay back and do nothing. 140 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,100 This is what I call the staller. 141 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,224 So I'm gonna break down what it means to be the sprinter today 142 00:07:50,312 --> 00:07:51,760 and to be the staller. 143 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,898 And there's actually good attributes to both of these things. 144 00:07:55,024 --> 00:07:57,934 But I promise you, there's people in this room that are stuck 145 00:07:57,982 --> 00:07:59,130 in both of these. 146 00:08:00,230 --> 00:08:03,790 And a lot of times what happens is there is a cycle and a 147 00:08:03,830 --> 00:08:06,110 cycle and a cycle of these two things. 148 00:08:06,150 --> 00:08:08,990 And I've met with people in their 60s that got saved at seven 149 00:08:09,030 --> 00:08:11,530 years old, and they're stuck in these two things. 150 00:08:13,590 --> 00:08:15,406 And so let me break this down. 151 00:08:15,558 --> 00:08:20,130 Number one, the sprinter, the overzealous believer. 152 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,512 How do I describe this? 153 00:08:23,616 --> 00:08:28,660 They jump into everything, everywhere, all at once. 154 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:30,680 How many people have been here? 155 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,328 Especially when you first get saved and you're so passionate about 156 00:08:34,384 --> 00:08:37,992 this new thing that you just feel like you just signed up for, 157 00:08:38,016 --> 00:08:40,312 and you don't really understand it completely, but you 158 00:08:40,336 --> 00:08:43,704 know that Christ saved you and that you were dead and that he raised 159 00:08:43,752 --> 00:08:45,592 you up, and now you have life again. 160 00:08:45,696 --> 00:08:47,886 And you're like, how many connect groups that does this church 161 00:08:47,918 --> 00:08:48,206 have? 162 00:08:48,278 --> 00:08:49,438 And they're like, 35. 163 00:08:49,494 --> 00:08:52,170 And then they're like, sign me up for every one of them. 164 00:08:52,710 --> 00:08:53,806 How many serving. 165 00:08:53,918 --> 00:08:55,998 How many serving opportunities are there? 166 00:08:56,054 --> 00:08:58,222 And it's like, okay, let me do all of it. 167 00:08:58,246 --> 00:09:02,090 I want to go from parking to ushering to prayer team. 168 00:09:02,470 --> 00:09:05,918 And it's like, these people will literally sign up for every 169 00:09:05,974 --> 00:09:06,510 single thing. 170 00:09:06,550 --> 00:09:10,090 And it's not three zooms a week, it's three zooms a night. 171 00:09:11,110 --> 00:09:12,610 This is the sprinter. 172 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:15,272 What are the strengths of the sprinter? 173 00:09:15,336 --> 00:09:15,720 Because these. 174 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,624 These strengths are actually good. 175 00:09:17,792 --> 00:09:21,848 They're passionate, they're excited, and they are willing to 176 00:09:21,904 --> 00:09:22,540 serve. 177 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,256 Who here Wants to be passionate. 178 00:09:25,368 --> 00:09:27,340 It's like, I want to be passionate. 179 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:33,500 But without wisdom, that passion will turn to pain and hurt. 180 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:35,980 And so we gotta have wisdom. 181 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:38,660 So what are the dangers of this? 182 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,020 Number one, burnout. 183 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:44,984 And I know this word. 184 00:09:45,032 --> 00:09:48,136 At some churches, it's like, you can't say that word. 185 00:09:48,328 --> 00:09:49,384 It's a bad word. 186 00:09:49,432 --> 00:09:53,380 At other churches, everyone feels it, but they don't say it. 187 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:54,680 But let me. 188 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:55,768 Let me just break this down. 189 00:09:55,824 --> 00:09:57,240 Galatians 6, verse 9. 190 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:02,820 It says, do not grow weary in doing good. 191 00:10:04,170 --> 00:10:05,470 What does that mean? 192 00:10:05,930 --> 00:10:11,266 As believers and Christians and Christ followers, we are meant 193 00:10:11,298 --> 00:10:15,106 to do good the moment we receive salvation, all the way onto 194 00:10:15,138 --> 00:10:16,870 the other side of eternity. 195 00:10:17,370 --> 00:10:22,994 So I believe that you could get saved at 7 and be in your 70s 196 00:10:23,042 --> 00:10:25,590 and never experience burnout. 197 00:10:26,730 --> 00:10:28,110 I believe it. 198 00:10:28,570 --> 00:10:33,658 But it requires wisdom from heaven, from God. 199 00:10:33,834 --> 00:10:34,554 How? 200 00:10:34,722 --> 00:10:39,950 On your discipleship journey, on the sacred path. 201 00:10:41,170 --> 00:10:45,082 So let me tell you, if you have been in a cycle of feeling like, 202 00:10:45,106 --> 00:10:46,906 you give everything, give everything, give everything. 203 00:10:46,978 --> 00:10:49,978 And then you get to this place of utter exhaustion and you don't 204 00:10:49,994 --> 00:10:52,826 know what to do, and you feel like, I can't go on another day. 205 00:10:52,978 --> 00:10:53,962 I promise you. 206 00:10:53,986 --> 00:10:57,720 There is something that the Lord needs to teach you today in 207 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:04,312 terms of the sacred path, the ways that he is calling us to, the 208 00:11:04,336 --> 00:11:06,500 ways that he calls his bride to. 209 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,380 Number two is there is a lack of wisdom. 210 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:14,744 And this is what I mean in terms of the overzealous believer. 211 00:11:14,792 --> 00:11:19,260 Usually they try to do everything on their own strength. 212 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,752 Not from the strength from God, not from the strength that he 213 00:11:23,776 --> 00:11:25,402 gives us as a believer. 214 00:11:25,536 --> 00:11:29,130 Because it says in the Word that it's actually in our weakness. 215 00:11:29,710 --> 00:11:33,462 But a lot of times believers are like, I just gotta put my bootstraps 216 00:11:33,526 --> 00:11:33,894 on. 217 00:11:33,982 --> 00:11:36,310 I just gotta try to will myself. 218 00:11:36,390 --> 00:11:38,890 It's like, no, I come with filthy rags. 219 00:11:39,230 --> 00:11:40,470 You know what I bring? 220 00:11:40,590 --> 00:11:42,198 I bring filthy rags to Christ. 221 00:11:42,254 --> 00:11:44,838 And he washes me white as snow. 222 00:11:44,934 --> 00:11:49,286 And he resurrects something in me, and he moves me and he pushes 223 00:11:49,318 --> 00:11:53,748 me, and he allows me to walk this path without burnout and with 224 00:11:53,804 --> 00:11:54,600 wisdom. 225 00:11:55,740 --> 00:11:58,720 Come on, don't make me start preaching to you guys today. 226 00:11:59,740 --> 00:12:01,940 There is a sacred wisdom. 227 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:05,492 It's wisdom, the third thing. 228 00:12:05,516 --> 00:12:07,492 And this begins to get into pride. 229 00:12:07,556 --> 00:12:10,692 So usually the sprinter is like, I'm so exhausted. 230 00:12:10,756 --> 00:12:12,068 They're not using wisdom. 231 00:12:12,164 --> 00:12:13,316 And then what happens? 232 00:12:13,428 --> 00:12:14,560 Pride comes. 233 00:12:17,340 --> 00:12:18,052 Pride comes. 234 00:12:18,076 --> 00:12:18,612 And I Love this. 235 00:12:18,636 --> 00:12:23,600 In First Timothy 3, verse 6, it says, he must not be a recent 236 00:12:23,980 --> 00:12:28,080 convert or he may become puffed up. 237 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:29,220 Guess what? 238 00:12:29,260 --> 00:12:31,040 I've been puffed up in my life. 239 00:12:32,380 --> 00:12:33,348 There were Seasons. 240 00:12:33,364 --> 00:12:35,140 When I was younger, in high school, in my. 241 00:12:35,180 --> 00:12:39,268 In my early 20s, I lacked a wisdom from heaven. 242 00:12:39,364 --> 00:12:42,436 And my head began to get bigger and bigger. 243 00:12:42,468 --> 00:12:43,844 And I was like, I'm the man. 244 00:12:43,932 --> 00:12:46,436 And I could preach and I could prophesy. 245 00:12:46,548 --> 00:12:49,800 And the Lord's like, josh, what are you doing in your own strength? 246 00:12:51,620 --> 00:12:55,244 Because our strength will only get us so far until we absolutely 247 00:12:55,292 --> 00:12:55,756 quit. 248 00:12:55,868 --> 00:13:00,060 It's like, you see a bunch of deconstructing Christians, it's because 249 00:13:00,100 --> 00:13:02,364 they're trying to do things in their own strength. 250 00:13:02,412 --> 00:13:03,772 And it's like, I just have to do this. 251 00:13:03,796 --> 00:13:04,668 I have to do this. 252 00:13:04,724 --> 00:13:08,332 And the Lord's like, come to me on your hands and your knees. 253 00:13:08,476 --> 00:13:12,236 As a child, we are meant to be childlike. 254 00:13:12,428 --> 00:13:18,314 And so we come to him and say, lord, in my weakness, your power 255 00:13:18,402 --> 00:13:20,030 is made perfect. 256 00:13:22,610 --> 00:13:24,778 What's a biblical example of this? 257 00:13:24,914 --> 00:13:27,470 You look at the life of Peter. 258 00:13:27,970 --> 00:13:29,610 Matthew 26:33. 259 00:13:29,650 --> 00:13:32,330 Jesus is speaking to his disciples again. 260 00:13:32,370 --> 00:13:35,258 That was Matthew 26, verse 33. 261 00:13:35,314 --> 00:13:38,762 And Jesus is talking to his disciples, and he's like, all of 262 00:13:38,786 --> 00:13:40,298 you are gonna fail me. 263 00:13:40,434 --> 00:13:42,938 And Peter's like, listen, if all fall. 264 00:13:42,994 --> 00:13:47,910 And this is his quote, if all fall away, I never will. 265 00:13:48,530 --> 00:13:49,082 Guess what? 266 00:13:49,106 --> 00:13:50,310 Peter does that. 267 00:13:50,770 --> 00:13:54,710 Before the rooster crows, he denies Christ three times. 268 00:13:55,570 --> 00:13:57,390 Peter lacked wisdom. 269 00:13:57,730 --> 00:13:58,490 But guess what? 270 00:13:58,530 --> 00:13:59,658 Peter also did. 271 00:13:59,714 --> 00:14:00,330 Come on now. 272 00:14:00,370 --> 00:14:03,450 Because this is where sometimes the enemy will make us 273 00:14:03,490 --> 00:14:03,690 think. 274 00:14:03,730 --> 00:14:07,162 Well, just because you denied that one time, that he doesn't have 275 00:14:07,186 --> 00:14:08,474 a plan for your future. 276 00:14:08,642 --> 00:14:13,142 But the entire Christian church was built upon Peter. 277 00:14:13,286 --> 00:14:17,814 He saw thousands saved and baptized at Pentecost, and he became 278 00:14:17,862 --> 00:14:20,918 one of the greatest disciples and apostles. 279 00:14:21,014 --> 00:14:24,930 And we're still talking about him this day, 2000 years later. 280 00:14:25,470 --> 00:14:29,490 So, yes, Peter messed up, but it's time to get back up. 281 00:14:30,910 --> 00:14:31,542 Come on. 282 00:14:31,566 --> 00:14:35,142 If you feel burnt out right now, the wind of the Holy Spirit 283 00:14:35,206 --> 00:14:38,648 is in this room, and he's at your campus, and he's about to start 284 00:14:38,704 --> 00:14:40,200 a fire in your life. 285 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,984 He's about to start a fire in your family. 286 00:14:43,152 --> 00:14:46,900 Because we serve the God who does the impossible things. 287 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:48,860 The impossible. 288 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:53,912 So what's the remedy to this? 289 00:14:53,936 --> 00:14:56,008 You're like, man, there was just a bunch of problems. 290 00:14:56,104 --> 00:15:00,872 The remedy, learn to walk before you ever run. 291 00:15:01,056 --> 00:15:04,472 And this is to every single Christian, because I meet with people, 292 00:15:04,576 --> 00:15:07,560 they've been saved for 20 years, and they've been running and 293 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,404 sprinting, and they never actually stopped. 294 00:15:09,432 --> 00:15:10,740 Stopped and slowed down. 295 00:15:10,860 --> 00:15:15,620 To learn the word of God, it's like, come on, we need the word of 296 00:15:15,660 --> 00:15:16,260 God. 297 00:15:16,420 --> 00:15:20,660 And sometimes the enemy will push us and push us and push us and 298 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:23,800 we stop being discipled, and we just get busy. 299 00:15:24,540 --> 00:15:32,000 It's like, come on, we have to learn to walk before we ever run. 300 00:15:33,340 --> 00:15:43,262 I remember in 1999, I was in eighth grade, 1999, and there was 301 00:15:43,286 --> 00:15:45,530 this conference called Day One. 302 00:15:46,230 --> 00:15:48,302 And it was put on by Acquire the Fire. 303 00:15:48,326 --> 00:15:49,470 Whoever's Acquire the fire. 304 00:15:49,510 --> 00:15:51,690 Any 90s Christians in here, come on now. 305 00:15:52,070 --> 00:15:53,614 At every campus who went to. 306 00:15:53,702 --> 00:15:55,774 I know Pastor Julie right now is in New Jersey. 307 00:15:55,822 --> 00:15:57,246 Like, yes, yes, yes. 308 00:15:57,278 --> 00:15:58,030 Acquire the Fire. 309 00:15:58,070 --> 00:15:59,210 Come on, let's go. 310 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,520 But there was this thing called the choir, the Fire. 311 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,800 And it was in Pontiac, Michigan, at the Silver Dome, which 312 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:12,824 no longer exists, but they brought 71,000 students to the Silver 313 00:16:12,872 --> 00:16:15,352 Dome in 1999. 314 00:16:15,536 --> 00:16:19,112 And I was like, man, this is the time for me to get all of my 315 00:16:19,136 --> 00:16:20,296 friends saved. 316 00:16:20,488 --> 00:16:22,248 And I'm in eighth grade, okay? 317 00:16:22,344 --> 00:16:24,660 So I invite 50 of my friends. 318 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:26,740 40 of them go. 319 00:16:27,180 --> 00:16:28,964 Cause they're like, hey, it's on a weekend. 320 00:16:29,092 --> 00:16:32,356 So I'm telling you guys, people just need an invite. 321 00:16:32,548 --> 00:16:35,028 Everyone's like, it's so hard to evangelize. 322 00:16:35,124 --> 00:16:37,520 It's so hard to invite them to something. 323 00:16:38,780 --> 00:16:40,132 Hey, come on. 324 00:16:40,156 --> 00:16:41,012 Come to church with me. 325 00:16:41,036 --> 00:16:41,540 Come to you. 326 00:16:41,580 --> 00:16:41,956 Come on. 327 00:16:42,028 --> 00:16:45,268 Every single youth that could hear my voice, invite your friends. 328 00:16:45,324 --> 00:16:46,852 And they will come. 329 00:16:47,036 --> 00:16:48,400 They will come. 330 00:16:49,340 --> 00:16:51,716 And so we get there. 331 00:16:51,868 --> 00:16:52,628 Amazing. 332 00:16:52,724 --> 00:16:54,640 I mean, 71,000 people. 333 00:16:55,690 --> 00:16:57,042 Worship was incredible. 334 00:16:57,106 --> 00:17:03,490 And I remember the last night, and we're there, and Ron Luce, who 335 00:17:03,530 --> 00:17:03,730 is. 336 00:17:03,770 --> 00:17:05,730 He led Acquire the Fire. 337 00:17:05,850 --> 00:17:07,506 Amazing man of God. 338 00:17:07,698 --> 00:17:11,490 And he's giving this sermon on the cross of Christ. 339 00:17:11,610 --> 00:17:15,042 He's giving this gospel present, one of the best gospel presentations 340 00:17:15,106 --> 00:17:15,938 I've ever heard. 341 00:17:16,034 --> 00:17:20,030 And he's talking about clinging to the cross of Christ. 342 00:17:20,899 --> 00:17:24,747 And I remember there's this moment where he says. 343 00:17:24,883 --> 00:17:29,519 And this is towards the end of it, he says, if you want the cross, 344 00:17:30,259 --> 00:17:34,827 I want you to stand up right now in front of all of your peers 345 00:17:34,923 --> 00:17:39,279 and scream at the top of your lungs, I want the cross. 346 00:17:40,179 --> 00:17:41,675 And he literally just. 347 00:17:41,827 --> 00:17:42,571 He said that. 348 00:17:42,595 --> 00:17:44,039 And then he just did this. 349 00:17:45,459 --> 00:17:49,211 And in a room of 71,000 people, you could literally hear 350 00:17:49,235 --> 00:17:50,319 a pin drop. 351 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:54,424 And I remember thinking, lord Jesus, please, please. 352 00:17:54,512 --> 00:17:55,576 I mean, I was a Christian. 353 00:17:55,608 --> 00:17:57,496 I got saved at a very young age. 354 00:17:57,568 --> 00:18:00,040 And I've been trying to get these kids saved for years. 355 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,112 And I've been praying for them. 356 00:18:01,136 --> 00:18:02,456 My mom's been praying for them. 357 00:18:02,528 --> 00:18:04,328 And I was like, lord Jesus, please. 358 00:18:04,464 --> 00:18:05,624 And I remember sitting. 359 00:18:05,672 --> 00:18:10,632 It felt like two minutes that it was just dead quiet in this massive 360 00:18:10,696 --> 00:18:11,500 stadium. 361 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,672 And all of a sudden, one of my best friends that I brought with 362 00:18:15,696 --> 00:18:19,246 me that I knew since I was a young kid. 363 00:18:19,438 --> 00:18:21,550 I felt like his knees were, like, shaking. 364 00:18:21,630 --> 00:18:22,910 And I was like, come on, Lord. 365 00:18:22,990 --> 00:18:24,062 Come on, Holy Spirit. 366 00:18:24,126 --> 00:18:25,998 Get him up, get him up, get him up. 367 00:18:26,054 --> 00:18:30,622 And all of a sudden, he stands up and he lifts his hands and he 368 00:18:30,646 --> 00:18:32,610 says, I want the cross. 369 00:18:34,470 --> 00:18:37,742 And it reverberated in this massive stadium. 370 00:18:37,886 --> 00:18:44,360 And that kick started 15 to 20 minutes of kids all around this entire 371 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,224 stadium standing up saying, I want the cross. 372 00:18:47,352 --> 00:18:48,456 I want the cross. 373 00:18:48,568 --> 00:18:54,740 And I saw all 40 of those friends stand up and do that. 374 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:58,632 Now, I'm telling you this story for a reason, because I know 375 00:18:58,656 --> 00:19:00,456 it's like, wow, that sounds amazing. 376 00:19:00,648 --> 00:19:01,940 But guess what? 377 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,620 They were a little overzealous. 378 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,494 And so we get back from that thing and we're in eighth grade, 379 00:19:09,632 --> 00:19:12,842 and now I'm like, the leader of these friends, and so I'm trying 380 00:19:12,866 --> 00:19:17,754 to, like, rally them, and it's like, hey, Josh, every single one 381 00:19:17,762 --> 00:19:19,710 of them broke up with their girlfriends. 382 00:19:20,290 --> 00:19:22,746 The next night, we had a CD burning party. 383 00:19:22,818 --> 00:19:23,882 You remember that? 384 00:19:23,986 --> 00:19:26,730 You get the big bonfire, and you're like, every secular thing 385 00:19:26,770 --> 00:19:27,866 I've ever owned. 386 00:19:27,978 --> 00:19:28,778 Come on. 387 00:19:28,914 --> 00:19:31,802 I know there's people at every campus who are like, yes, I went 388 00:19:31,826 --> 00:19:35,114 to those parties when I was in high school, especially in the 90s. 389 00:19:35,162 --> 00:19:37,922 It's like, we get this big bonfire and we're like, we had the 390 00:19:37,946 --> 00:19:41,154 huge CD case and even secular clothing. 391 00:19:41,202 --> 00:19:44,050 I mean, it was like throwing everything in there. 392 00:19:44,090 --> 00:19:48,114 Like, whatever is connected to anything evil in my life, I'm burning 393 00:19:48,162 --> 00:19:48,322 it. 394 00:19:48,346 --> 00:19:52,030 So we were having those parties, and then on that Monday, 395 00:19:52,650 --> 00:19:56,642 they were like, josh, we have to pray for the lunch during the 396 00:19:56,666 --> 00:19:57,074 lunchroom. 397 00:19:57,122 --> 00:20:00,162 And so I was like, okay, I'll do this, you know, So I literally 398 00:20:00,226 --> 00:20:03,896 stand up on the table in the lunchroom, and I'm like, hey, there's 399 00:20:03,928 --> 00:20:05,336 about 300 kids in the lunchroom. 400 00:20:05,368 --> 00:20:08,104 I'm like, hey, everybody, just so you know, I'm going to be praying 401 00:20:08,152 --> 00:20:09,672 over the food from now on. 402 00:20:09,776 --> 00:20:11,992 And people look at me like, what are you talking about? 403 00:20:12,096 --> 00:20:13,224 And I was like, come on. 404 00:20:13,312 --> 00:20:15,016 And we were so passionate. 405 00:20:15,128 --> 00:20:16,780 We were so excited. 406 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:17,848 And we. 407 00:20:17,904 --> 00:20:21,400 And we began to pray over lunch, and more people started to 408 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:25,500 join the table, and more people began to get saved. 409 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:28,500 But here's the thing. 410 00:20:29,610 --> 00:20:35,390 Little by little, the Enemy started to pick these kids off. 411 00:20:36,010 --> 00:20:39,858 And little by little, it didn't happen in the first week, 412 00:20:39,914 --> 00:20:41,602 it didn't happen in the first month. 413 00:20:41,706 --> 00:20:46,818 But three months later, six months later, these kids began to. 414 00:20:46,954 --> 00:20:49,922 All of a sudden, the Enemy started to feel a little bit more 415 00:20:49,946 --> 00:20:51,030 appetizing. 416 00:20:51,370 --> 00:20:54,082 The things of the world felt a little bit more appetizing. 417 00:20:54,146 --> 00:20:57,442 Alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, all those things, they felt a little 418 00:20:57,466 --> 00:20:58,880 bit more appetizing. 419 00:20:59,050 --> 00:21:01,000 Do you know why that happened? 420 00:21:01,580 --> 00:21:05,764 Because they never learned how to actually walk before they tried 421 00:21:05,812 --> 00:21:06,640 to run. 422 00:21:08,700 --> 00:21:09,284 And it's. 423 00:21:09,332 --> 00:21:12,244 We have to learn to walk first. 424 00:21:12,412 --> 00:21:14,004 And me, I was in eighth grade. 425 00:21:14,052 --> 00:21:15,700 I don't know how old you are in eighth grade. 426 00:21:15,780 --> 00:21:17,204 12, 13 years old. 427 00:21:17,372 --> 00:21:20,308 I was basically their mini shepherd. 428 00:21:20,484 --> 00:21:22,440 Like, I was like their pastor. 429 00:21:22,940 --> 00:21:23,812 But here's the thing. 430 00:21:23,836 --> 00:21:27,490 I wasn't a pastor, and I wasn't meant to be one at that age. 431 00:21:27,870 --> 00:21:30,250 What they needed was the local church. 432 00:21:30,750 --> 00:21:34,934 What they needed was the bride of Christ to walk them through discipleship. 433 00:21:34,982 --> 00:21:37,062 They didn't need just another Bible study. 434 00:21:37,166 --> 00:21:38,774 They didn't need just another thing. 435 00:21:38,862 --> 00:21:43,382 They needed the local bride of Christ that they submit to, that 436 00:21:43,406 --> 00:21:47,014 they have a covering over, that they're able to actually walk 437 00:21:47,102 --> 00:21:51,810 out on the sacred path that Christ has for them. 438 00:21:53,940 --> 00:21:56,956 And so the second thing is we have to be rooted. 439 00:21:57,068 --> 00:22:00,348 We have to learn to walk before we run, and we have to be 440 00:22:00,404 --> 00:22:03,400 rooted and built in him. 441 00:22:04,020 --> 00:22:07,196 So let me just share a little bit more about the local church, 442 00:22:07,228 --> 00:22:09,692 because I know it's like, hey, Pastor Josh, you're a pastor of a 443 00:22:09,716 --> 00:22:12,796 church, and of course you're going to talk good about the church. 444 00:22:12,908 --> 00:22:15,720 If you leave the church, you leave Christ. 445 00:22:18,510 --> 00:22:23,650 You cannot leave Christ's bride and not leave him. 446 00:22:26,910 --> 00:22:29,010 And I'm speaking to everyone online. 447 00:22:30,030 --> 00:22:36,930 You cannot leave the church and also not leave Christ. 448 00:22:39,550 --> 00:22:40,630 You can't. 449 00:22:40,790 --> 00:22:42,358 That's his bride. 450 00:22:42,534 --> 00:22:44,362 That's who he died for. 451 00:22:44,526 --> 00:22:46,178 Yes, it is every. 452 00:22:46,234 --> 00:22:47,170 It's his plan A. 453 00:22:47,210 --> 00:22:48,910 There's no other plan. 454 00:22:49,290 --> 00:22:50,802 There's no other thing. 455 00:22:50,906 --> 00:22:52,146 There's no other second. 456 00:22:52,218 --> 00:22:55,826 Well, if you also, if you do this, it's like, no, he's coming 457 00:22:55,898 --> 00:22:56,274 back. 458 00:22:56,362 --> 00:23:00,690 What, for a spotless bride, the church. 459 00:23:00,850 --> 00:23:03,910 And we have to be rooted in the church. 460 00:23:05,210 --> 00:23:09,682 And so I see all of these Christians and we're going to see 461 00:23:09,706 --> 00:23:11,010 more of it as time goes on. 462 00:23:11,050 --> 00:23:14,514 This is why we got to be bold when we say these things and warn 463 00:23:14,562 --> 00:23:15,058 people. 464 00:23:15,194 --> 00:23:19,090 Yeah, there will be more people that are like, well, this 465 00:23:19,130 --> 00:23:20,210 thing just wasn't for me. 466 00:23:20,250 --> 00:23:23,074 I'm just going to try to be a solo Christian by myself. 467 00:23:23,202 --> 00:23:25,538 That it's not the Old Testament anymore. 468 00:23:25,634 --> 00:23:29,602 We live in a new covenant where the church was built for God's 469 00:23:29,666 --> 00:23:30,270 people. 470 00:23:30,650 --> 00:23:32,626 And of course, it's not just a building. 471 00:23:32,698 --> 00:23:34,882 Because you might hear this and be like, oh, well, everyone just 472 00:23:34,906 --> 00:23:36,306 wants me to go to a building. 473 00:23:36,378 --> 00:23:39,714 No, the church is the people of God. 474 00:23:39,842 --> 00:23:42,564 You were meant to be in communion with the people, people 475 00:23:42,652 --> 00:23:47,748 of God, and that's what he's calling us to. 476 00:23:47,804 --> 00:23:50,580 So if you're watching right now online, if you're even at a. 477 00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:53,636 At a service right now, and maybe you've been hurt by a church 478 00:23:53,668 --> 00:23:56,212 in the past, and you're like, I'm just kind of testing this thing 479 00:23:56,236 --> 00:23:56,564 out. 480 00:23:56,652 --> 00:24:01,716 The Lord's plan for you is to be rooted in a church, even if it's 481 00:24:01,748 --> 00:24:02,724 not V1 church. 482 00:24:02,772 --> 00:24:06,052 We have a card in the back of the seat with five other amazing 483 00:24:06,116 --> 00:24:07,108 churches in your area. 484 00:24:07,164 --> 00:24:09,720 But get rooted the church. 485 00:24:11,740 --> 00:24:14,160 And that's what those kids didn't have. 486 00:24:14,620 --> 00:24:17,460 They had the passion, they had the excitement. 487 00:24:17,540 --> 00:24:19,156 They were willing to do everything. 488 00:24:19,228 --> 00:24:23,828 But what they didn't have was the grounding and the rooting of 489 00:24:23,884 --> 00:24:25,360 the bride of Christ. 490 00:24:29,580 --> 00:24:31,440 Is this good for someone today? 491 00:24:32,220 --> 00:24:33,764 Are you being ministered to? 492 00:24:33,852 --> 00:24:37,260 My prayer during this is, Lord, not my words, not my will, 493 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:38,812 but your will be done. 494 00:24:38,916 --> 00:24:41,612 Lord, I pray that my vocal cords wouldn't even be the thing 495 00:24:41,636 --> 00:24:44,988 that saves or changes people, but it would be the spirit of God 496 00:24:45,084 --> 00:24:47,840 moving at every single campus. 497 00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:53,468 Okay, let's go to type two. 498 00:24:53,524 --> 00:24:54,732 Okay, that's the first one. 499 00:24:54,756 --> 00:24:56,652 The first one is the sprinter. 500 00:24:56,796 --> 00:25:03,480 Type 2 is the passive believer in what I call the staller. 501 00:25:04,540 --> 00:25:05,880 The staller. 502 00:25:07,020 --> 00:25:13,124 They hang back, they're hesitant to engage, and they're very 503 00:25:13,212 --> 00:25:15,000 afraid of failure. 504 00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:22,628 It's like they always take a step back when everyone else is taking 505 00:25:22,684 --> 00:25:23,668 a step forward. 506 00:25:23,804 --> 00:25:26,820 They're like, I don't know. 507 00:25:26,940 --> 00:25:30,322 And what's amazing about this is when you look at the strengths, 508 00:25:30,476 --> 00:25:33,254 the strength that they have is actually the thing that's causing 509 00:25:33,302 --> 00:25:34,570 them to pause. 510 00:25:35,950 --> 00:25:40,250 Let me say this before I say that the strengths are thoughtfulness, 511 00:25:41,150 --> 00:25:44,570 they're cautious, and they are discerning. 512 00:25:45,070 --> 00:25:46,790 You know what discernment does? 513 00:25:46,910 --> 00:25:48,810 It causes you to pause. 514 00:25:49,470 --> 00:25:50,966 Do you know what wisdom does? 515 00:25:51,038 --> 00:25:52,610 It causes you to move. 516 00:25:53,150 --> 00:25:56,456 You can't just have discernment and not have wisdom. 517 00:25:56,638 --> 00:26:00,320 Discernment is the thing that says something's not right. 518 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:04,356 I don't know what it is about that person, but I just feel something. 519 00:26:04,428 --> 00:26:06,996 I don't know what it is about this ministry, this thing. 520 00:26:07,068 --> 00:26:10,420 And what it causes is a pause in you. 521 00:26:10,540 --> 00:26:14,484 But what we have right now in many churches is only discerning 522 00:26:14,532 --> 00:26:19,640 people, but not wise people, because wisdom is actually applied. 523 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:21,076 Come on. 524 00:26:21,148 --> 00:26:22,552 What's wisdom in the Bible? 525 00:26:22,676 --> 00:26:26,912 It's like knowledge is received, but wisdom is applied. 526 00:26:27,056 --> 00:26:30,820 To apply something is action, it's verb, it's moving. 527 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,456 And so we can't just have discernment and be like, everything's 528 00:26:35,488 --> 00:26:35,776 bad. 529 00:26:35,848 --> 00:26:37,792 No one do this, no one do that. 530 00:26:37,816 --> 00:26:38,320 It's like, what. 531 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:39,520 What ends up becoming in. 532 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,580 In discernment is religious spirit. 533 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,744 And it judges and it judges and it judges. 534 00:26:45,792 --> 00:26:48,140 But it's like, tell me what I should do. 535 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,220 Don't just tell me why, where I should stop. 536 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,680 Because we have a bunch of people that will literally just go 537 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,832 on in their discipleship journey, and they will pause, and 538 00:26:58,856 --> 00:27:02,140 they will live in that pause until they're 80 years old. 539 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,616 And it's like, the Lord wants us to move. 540 00:27:05,768 --> 00:27:09,460 The Lord is moving us on this sacred path. 541 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,100 What are the dangers of the passive believer? 542 00:27:18,210 --> 00:27:20,190 Spiritual stagnation. 543 00:27:20,930 --> 00:27:22,138 Hebrews 5:12. 544 00:27:22,194 --> 00:27:22,954 It says this. 545 00:27:23,042 --> 00:27:26,750 By this time, all of y'all ought to be teachers. 546 00:27:27,810 --> 00:27:29,110 But what are you? 547 00:27:30,210 --> 00:27:31,594 You're not teachers. 548 00:27:31,722 --> 00:27:34,110 And it's like, wait a minute, Lord. 549 00:27:35,410 --> 00:27:39,242 I've been on this discipleship journey for 10 years, 15 years, and 550 00:27:39,266 --> 00:27:42,218 I'm still concerned about these little petty things. 551 00:27:42,274 --> 00:27:45,222 And I still don't really understand my word, and I still am 552 00:27:45,246 --> 00:27:46,454 not faithful to the church. 553 00:27:46,502 --> 00:27:49,126 And it's like, come on, come on. 554 00:27:49,198 --> 00:27:55,142 The enemy is trying to stop you from engaging with the discipleship 555 00:27:55,206 --> 00:27:57,570 journey that God has for you. 556 00:27:58,670 --> 00:28:00,902 Because there are people in our church. 557 00:28:01,046 --> 00:28:03,094 There are people watching right now. 558 00:28:03,182 --> 00:28:07,062 And the Lord has a greater plan and purpose for your life, and 559 00:28:07,086 --> 00:28:08,214 you have teaching ability. 560 00:28:08,262 --> 00:28:10,108 I believe there's pastors in the room. 561 00:28:10,214 --> 00:28:11,536 I believe there's ministers. 562 00:28:11,568 --> 00:28:13,408 I believe that there's evangelists. 563 00:28:13,504 --> 00:28:16,512 I believe that every single good and perfect gift he has for 564 00:28:16,536 --> 00:28:18,192 you is yours. 565 00:28:18,336 --> 00:28:23,984 But it will not happen if you are standing back in the wings waiting 566 00:28:24,032 --> 00:28:25,020 for something. 567 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,540 You know what God's waiting for is you. 568 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,104 A lot of times we're waiting for someone to come up to us and 569 00:28:33,112 --> 00:28:35,296 be like, hey, here's your whole purpose. 570 00:28:35,408 --> 00:28:37,386 Here's the next 40 years of your life. 571 00:28:37,488 --> 00:28:39,142 Here's the whole roadmap. 572 00:28:39,206 --> 00:28:42,070 And the Lord's like, I'm not going to give you any of that stuff. 573 00:28:42,150 --> 00:28:45,622 I want to be like Isaiah, where he calls Isaiah out. 574 00:28:45,726 --> 00:28:48,454 And even before the Lord telling Isaiah what he's going to 575 00:28:48,462 --> 00:28:50,742 do, I say, isaiah, what does he say? 576 00:28:50,846 --> 00:28:53,862 Lord, send me, Lord, send me. 577 00:28:53,886 --> 00:28:55,414 It's like, we want to be Christians. 578 00:28:55,462 --> 00:28:59,510 That even before we hear the plan, before we hear the roadmap, 579 00:28:59,590 --> 00:29:02,774 before we hear every single thing that the Lord's going to do, 580 00:29:02,862 --> 00:29:06,780 it's like, if the Lord is in it, I am going. 581 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,792 If the Spirit is there, I am there. 582 00:29:11,976 --> 00:29:13,680 I don't need the roadmap. 583 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:18,180 And what's amazing is, as you begin to move, what happens? 584 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:23,360 Your calling and your purpose and everything that the Lord has 585 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,232 for you begins to unfold. 586 00:29:25,376 --> 00:29:28,352 And there's so many Christians right now literally waiting in the 587 00:29:28,376 --> 00:29:31,962 wings, waiting for someone to activate them, waiting. 588 00:29:32,026 --> 00:29:35,866 And it's like you have the Holy Spirit inside of you, and he 589 00:29:36,018 --> 00:29:42,922 is the activator number two. 590 00:29:43,106 --> 00:29:44,830 Missed opportunities. 591 00:29:46,930 --> 00:29:48,650 And let me say this. 592 00:29:48,690 --> 00:29:51,754 It's not missed opportunities that you're missing for yourself. 593 00:29:51,882 --> 00:29:57,030 It's missed opportunities to bless others. 594 00:29:59,410 --> 00:30:02,858 You not living your purpose and calling means other people also 595 00:30:02,914 --> 00:30:06,026 don't get to actually experience the gift that God gave 596 00:30:06,058 --> 00:30:07,670 you to activate them. 597 00:30:09,810 --> 00:30:13,510 It's missed opportunities to bless and love others. 598 00:30:16,130 --> 00:30:22,670 And then the third thing is there begins to be a fear over faith, 599 00:30:24,140 --> 00:30:28,120 and people become paralyzed by insecurity. 600 00:30:28,460 --> 00:30:33,140 And the longer you sit back and the longer you wait, the more 601 00:30:33,180 --> 00:30:36,740 the enemy begins to lie to you and bring insecurities to you and 602 00:30:36,780 --> 00:30:38,036 say, you don't have it. 603 00:30:38,108 --> 00:30:39,044 You can't do it. 604 00:30:39,132 --> 00:30:40,196 You don't sound right. 605 00:30:40,268 --> 00:30:40,708 Look at. 606 00:30:40,764 --> 00:30:41,172 What's the. 607 00:30:41,196 --> 00:30:43,156 What's the biblical example of this? 608 00:30:43,308 --> 00:30:44,200 Moses. 609 00:30:44,540 --> 00:30:49,700 In Exodus 3, God calls Moses to go to Egypt. 610 00:30:49,860 --> 00:30:52,480 And what's the first thing that Moses says? 611 00:30:53,020 --> 00:30:54,720 Lord, who am I? 612 00:30:55,020 --> 00:30:55,860 I can't go. 613 00:30:55,900 --> 00:30:57,236 I have a speech impediment. 614 00:30:57,268 --> 00:30:59,876 I don't know what Moses was dealing with, but he said he couldn't 615 00:30:59,908 --> 00:31:00,800 talk right? 616 00:31:01,180 --> 00:31:02,692 And he was like, I can't do it. 617 00:31:02,716 --> 00:31:03,908 I don't have the strength. 618 00:31:04,004 --> 00:31:09,200 And God was like, exactly, because you know who I am. 619 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:11,412 What does he say? 620 00:31:11,516 --> 00:31:13,476 I am who I am. 621 00:31:13,628 --> 00:31:16,288 I am the creator of the heavens and the earth. 622 00:31:16,404 --> 00:31:18,472 I am the alpha and the omega. 623 00:31:18,536 --> 00:31:21,976 And if I want to do it in you, I will do it through you. 624 00:31:22,048 --> 00:31:28,328 And all that you have to say is, lord, send me, Lord, I will go. 625 00:31:28,464 --> 00:31:29,112 And it's. 626 00:31:29,176 --> 00:31:30,872 And this is why I said this in the beginning. 627 00:31:30,936 --> 00:31:32,620 It's in our weakness. 628 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:34,792 It's in our weakness. 629 00:31:34,856 --> 00:31:37,656 So you don't have to have the degree and every. 630 00:31:37,728 --> 00:31:39,416 You don't have to have all of this stuff. 631 00:31:39,448 --> 00:31:41,640 And some of you are listening to me right now. 632 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:41,940 And. 633 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,260 And it's like the enemy has stopped you, installed you, because 634 00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:47,340 you're like, I don't have the right singing voice. 635 00:31:47,420 --> 00:31:47,836 I don't. 636 00:31:47,868 --> 00:31:48,716 I don't really know. 637 00:31:48,788 --> 00:31:51,916 I can't sound like Pastor Mike, and I can't sound like Pastor 638 00:31:51,948 --> 00:31:52,300 Josh. 639 00:31:52,380 --> 00:31:52,812 Guess what? 640 00:31:52,836 --> 00:31:54,844 You were never meant to sound like us. 641 00:31:54,932 --> 00:31:56,764 You were meant to sound like you. 642 00:31:56,932 --> 00:32:03,100 And the Lord is giving you a voice, and the enemy will stop you 643 00:32:03,140 --> 00:32:06,300 and stall you, and you will get Insecurities. 644 00:32:06,380 --> 00:32:07,036 And you will. 645 00:32:07,108 --> 00:32:09,220 All these things will end up in your life. 646 00:32:09,380 --> 00:32:13,460 And all of a sudden you'll be 70, 80 years old, and you'll say, 647 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:15,680 what have I done with my life? 648 00:32:16,460 --> 00:32:18,244 Come on, hear this sermon. 649 00:32:18,292 --> 00:32:18,880 Today. 650 00:32:19,180 --> 00:32:21,044 Today is the day. 651 00:32:21,212 --> 00:32:28,180 Today is the day that you step up, stand up and begin to walk on 652 00:32:28,220 --> 00:32:31,520 the sacred path that he has for you. 653 00:32:33,980 --> 00:32:35,920 So what's the remedies for this? 654 00:32:38,850 --> 00:32:42,550 Take the first faithful step. 655 00:32:44,130 --> 00:32:45,950 It's time to get out of the boat. 656 00:32:47,410 --> 00:32:48,618 It's time to get out of the boat. 657 00:32:48,634 --> 00:32:51,178 So there's a lot of people in the boat right now, and it's storming 658 00:32:51,274 --> 00:32:54,090 and it's raging, and the Lord's like, come to me on the water. 659 00:32:54,130 --> 00:32:59,670 If you keep your eyesight on me, you could walk on water. 660 00:33:00,850 --> 00:33:03,882 I mean, I couldn't imagine the other disciples in the boat when 661 00:33:03,986 --> 00:33:06,778 Peter steps out and they're like, wait, is that him on the water? 662 00:33:06,834 --> 00:33:07,540 What's going on? 663 00:33:07,610 --> 00:33:11,100 I wonder if they were like, I wish I would have stepped out first. 664 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,008 I wish I would also had the faith to do it. 665 00:33:15,144 --> 00:33:18,544 Because even when Peter begins to sink, the Lord's like, I got you. 666 00:33:18,712 --> 00:33:20,256 It was just stepping out of the boat. 667 00:33:20,288 --> 00:33:23,168 And even when you feel like you're sinking, he pulls you back 668 00:33:23,224 --> 00:33:27,540 up and puts you on, what, the solid rock of the church. 669 00:34:26,787 --> 00:34:28,447 So get out of the boat. 670 00:34:28,797 --> 00:34:33,777 The second thing is trust God's strength, not your own. 671 00:34:34,077 --> 00:34:41,217 Philippians 2:13 says, for it is God who works in you. 672 00:34:42,317 --> 00:34:45,733 It is the Holy Spirit working in you. 673 00:34:45,885 --> 00:34:50,453 It is the Spirit of God moving through you, not your own strength, 674 00:34:50,565 --> 00:34:53,557 not your own might, not anything that you could bring. 675 00:34:53,677 --> 00:34:55,913 And I don't care if you have a speech impediment. 676 00:34:56,005 --> 00:34:57,729 I don't care if you can't talk right. 677 00:34:57,833 --> 00:34:59,917 The Lord wants to use you. 678 00:35:03,577 --> 00:35:05,437 Are you guys tracking with me? 679 00:35:10,537 --> 00:35:11,553 And I just feel. 680 00:35:11,625 --> 00:35:15,361 Just even prophetically right now, I just feel like the Lord is 681 00:35:15,449 --> 00:35:16,717 speaking to people. 682 00:35:17,497 --> 00:35:20,401 I believe that whatever campus you're at right now, that the Lord 683 00:35:20,449 --> 00:35:23,517 has been even speaking to you as I've been going through this. 684 00:35:24,306 --> 00:35:27,146 And you may be like the one that was sitting next to me, where 685 00:35:27,186 --> 00:35:29,690 it's like, I want to stand up and shout. 686 00:35:29,738 --> 00:35:30,634 I want the cross. 687 00:35:30,730 --> 00:35:32,842 But I don't know if I have the strength to do it. 688 00:35:32,914 --> 00:35:34,330 I don't know if I have what it takes. 689 00:35:34,378 --> 00:35:37,446 And the Lord says, I am what I am. 690 00:35:39,906 --> 00:35:44,714 And all that we have to do is rely on the strength that comes from 691 00:35:44,770 --> 00:35:45,366 Christ. 692 00:35:49,837 --> 00:35:52,657 So let's talk about the third way. 693 00:35:53,437 --> 00:35:58,885 So those were two ways that many people get in cycles over and 694 00:35:58,941 --> 00:35:59,253 over. 695 00:35:59,325 --> 00:36:02,245 And when I said cycles, what I mean is people will run a thousand 696 00:36:02,301 --> 00:36:05,013 miles per hour and then they'll get burnt out and they will 697 00:36:05,085 --> 00:36:05,697 stop. 698 00:36:06,317 --> 00:36:12,817 And then they will sit in a sitting waiting season for a year, 699 00:36:13,357 --> 00:36:21,479 two years, three years, 10 years, 15 years, 25 years. 700 00:36:21,583 --> 00:36:25,187 And it's like, what have you been doing? 701 00:36:25,567 --> 00:36:29,079 Well, I just been waiting, you know, I'm waiting for the Lord to 702 00:36:29,103 --> 00:36:31,427 speak to me about what he has for me. 703 00:36:32,607 --> 00:36:36,787 I'm here to tell you this is your sign. 704 00:36:37,967 --> 00:36:39,639 This is your sign today. 705 00:36:39,823 --> 00:36:41,831 If you've been saying that, Lord, I've just been waiting for 706 00:36:41,839 --> 00:36:42,425 a sign. 707 00:36:42,551 --> 00:36:43,861 Here is your sign. 708 00:36:44,029 --> 00:36:49,621 The Holy Spirit, if you are a believer and a Christ follower, entered 709 00:36:49,669 --> 00:36:55,617 into you at salvation, and that spirit convicts you, moves you, 710 00:36:56,317 --> 00:36:56,725 that. 711 00:36:56,781 --> 00:37:01,925 That spirit of God is the power that we need in this earth 712 00:37:02,101 --> 00:37:08,037 to go out and preach the gospel, to go out and do the kingdom 713 00:37:08,117 --> 00:37:09,711 work that he has for us. 714 00:37:09,829 --> 00:37:12,427 Because I don't want to be the Christian in my 80s that. 715 00:37:12,467 --> 00:37:13,563 That's living in. 716 00:37:13,715 --> 00:37:14,315 In. 717 00:37:14,451 --> 00:37:18,283 In Scottsdale or in Boca Raton or whatever it is, driving my golf 718 00:37:18,315 --> 00:37:21,099 cart and being like, these are going to be the next best 10 years 719 00:37:21,123 --> 00:37:21,723 of my life. 720 00:37:21,795 --> 00:37:22,635 I've been working my. 721 00:37:22,691 --> 00:37:25,515 It's like, no, I want to go out in the mission field. 722 00:37:25,651 --> 00:37:31,207 I want to go out in my 90s saying, Lord Jesus, I gave you everything, 723 00:37:31,587 --> 00:37:33,607 Lord, I gave you everything. 724 00:37:33,907 --> 00:37:37,807 I gave you everything, Lord, for every day of my life, every year 725 00:37:37,847 --> 00:37:38,591 of my life. 726 00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:42,639 And I wasn't stalled, and I wasn't trying to sprint too fast. 727 00:37:42,783 --> 00:37:48,067 I learned how to walk on the sacred path. 728 00:37:53,127 --> 00:37:55,215 And so what is the Lord calling us to? 729 00:37:55,271 --> 00:37:56,879 What is the third way? 730 00:37:57,063 --> 00:37:58,575 There's just three things. 731 00:37:58,711 --> 00:38:01,689 And then I'm going to just get into a couple practicals, and then 732 00:38:01,713 --> 00:38:02,757 we're going to be done. 733 00:38:06,417 --> 00:38:08,089 What is the third way? 734 00:38:08,273 --> 00:38:14,237 First, start with relationships, not activity. 735 00:38:15,617 --> 00:38:16,393 Start with. 736 00:38:16,465 --> 00:38:18,937 And I'm speaking to Christians that have been saved a long time. 737 00:38:18,977 --> 00:38:20,649 This isn't just for new believers, because they're like, 738 00:38:20,673 --> 00:38:21,929 hey, what do I do? 739 00:38:22,113 --> 00:38:24,841 Start with relationships. 740 00:38:24,889 --> 00:38:26,517 It is about the people. 741 00:38:27,147 --> 00:38:28,435 It is about the people. 742 00:38:28,491 --> 00:38:30,563 And Pastor Mike says this all the time. 743 00:38:30,635 --> 00:38:32,579 He's like, it's not about the systems. 744 00:38:32,643 --> 00:38:34,243 It's not about the procedures. 745 00:38:34,355 --> 00:38:37,683 It's not about all of the forms and the best practices. 746 00:38:37,795 --> 00:38:42,003 It's about us showing people the God that we have given our life 747 00:38:42,075 --> 00:38:42,687 to. 748 00:38:43,787 --> 00:38:48,083 It's about people coming into our campuses and not being so busy 749 00:38:48,115 --> 00:38:50,487 that you don't even look them in their eyes. 750 00:38:51,947 --> 00:38:53,317 And guess what? 751 00:38:53,507 --> 00:38:55,317 I do this sometimes. 752 00:38:55,657 --> 00:38:58,081 I'm the exact pastor of V1 Church and I'm. 753 00:38:58,129 --> 00:39:01,777 And, and on a Sunday, talking to all the campuses and I could just 754 00:39:01,817 --> 00:39:04,961 walk through a hall and completely miss someone who's hurting 755 00:39:05,009 --> 00:39:06,117 and dying. 756 00:39:06,857 --> 00:39:09,585 And it's like, take the blinders off. 757 00:39:09,721 --> 00:39:11,841 I don't care if you're on the worship team. 758 00:39:11,929 --> 00:39:14,001 I don't care if you're on the prayer team. 759 00:39:14,089 --> 00:39:17,169 I don't care if you have the most important job on a Sunday. 760 00:39:17,353 --> 00:39:20,987 Take the blinders off and look people in their eyes. 761 00:39:23,647 --> 00:39:27,627 It's not about the activity, it's about the relationship. 762 00:39:28,767 --> 00:39:33,067 Number two, grow steadily, not sporadically. 763 00:39:33,727 --> 00:39:35,159 Hebrews 12. 764 00:39:35,343 --> 00:39:36,375 What does it talk about? 765 00:39:36,431 --> 00:39:38,631 Running the race that he has for us. 766 00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,647 And here's the thing, you guys, I just, I just talked about 767 00:39:42,687 --> 00:39:43,415 this in the school. 768 00:39:43,471 --> 00:39:45,307 The prophets shout out school the prophets. 769 00:39:46,677 --> 00:39:52,429 But, but Hebrews 12 starts with a therefore, which means if 770 00:39:52,453 --> 00:39:56,697 there's a therefore, you have to ask, what is it there for? 771 00:39:58,037 --> 00:40:01,757 And so you go back to Hebrews 11 and everyone quotes Hebrews 12. 772 00:40:01,797 --> 00:40:03,341 But it's like, what is it talking about? 773 00:40:03,429 --> 00:40:05,501 If there, if it's a therefore, it's. 774 00:40:05,549 --> 00:40:06,093 It's saying. 775 00:40:06,165 --> 00:40:09,517 All of this that I just said is leading up to this one point about 776 00:40:09,557 --> 00:40:10,419 running a race. 777 00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:13,447 What is, what is the entire chapter 11 about? 778 00:40:13,567 --> 00:40:19,047 The faith that the, that every generation since Adam, all the way 779 00:40:19,087 --> 00:40:23,575 until Christ, had for the impossible. 780 00:40:23,751 --> 00:40:25,879 It talks about rivers being parted. 781 00:40:25,943 --> 00:40:28,295 It talks about Jericho going down. 782 00:40:28,431 --> 00:40:32,023 Guess who saw Jericho's walls coming down before they came down? 783 00:40:32,095 --> 00:40:36,381 It's like sometimes we gotta see them coming down prophetically 784 00:40:36,559 --> 00:40:36,849 then. 785 00:40:36,873 --> 00:40:40,273 This is why the gift of prophecy is so crucial in the local 786 00:40:40,345 --> 00:40:40,833 church. 787 00:40:40,945 --> 00:40:44,337 And this is why Paul says every believer should be doing it, 788 00:40:44,457 --> 00:40:48,129 not just people that have been saved for 20 years. 789 00:40:48,233 --> 00:40:51,153 Not just pastors, not just, oh, they're just very prophetic. 790 00:40:51,185 --> 00:40:52,177 So they prophesy. 791 00:40:52,257 --> 00:40:56,113 The Lord is wanting all of us to prophesy because there are walls 792 00:40:56,145 --> 00:40:58,913 in your life that you not yet have seen. 793 00:40:58,985 --> 00:41:00,657 Come down prophetically. 794 00:41:00,817 --> 00:41:02,305 And the enemy has sent. 795 00:41:02,361 --> 00:41:03,889 Stopped you from going there. 796 00:41:03,993 --> 00:41:07,697 But the moment you see them go down, you say, lord, they're not 797 00:41:07,737 --> 00:41:08,257 down yet. 798 00:41:08,297 --> 00:41:10,113 But I know they're coming down. 799 00:41:10,265 --> 00:41:13,873 That river has not parted, but I know it's going to fart. 800 00:41:13,985 --> 00:41:19,265 That the water is coming out of the rock and he's calling us to 801 00:41:19,321 --> 00:41:20,157 see it. 802 00:41:25,257 --> 00:41:30,187 The third thing, serve with wisdom and humility. 803 00:41:31,167 --> 00:41:31,895 I love this. 804 00:41:31,951 --> 00:41:32,727 First Peter 4. 805 00:41:32,767 --> 00:41:35,639 It says, use whatever gift you have received. 806 00:41:35,823 --> 00:41:36,743 To what? 807 00:41:36,895 --> 00:41:39,267 To serve others. 808 00:41:41,167 --> 00:41:44,455 You know, when you, when you become a believer in Christ and get 809 00:41:44,511 --> 00:41:49,387 saved, every single Person gets a gift. 810 00:41:50,687 --> 00:41:54,599 You know, the Bible says that every single. 811 00:41:54,663 --> 00:41:58,267 It's not like, well, I just got to say enough prayers. 812 00:41:58,847 --> 00:42:00,647 I just got to be saved for this long. 813 00:42:00,687 --> 00:42:01,991 Then the gift is going to come. 814 00:42:02,079 --> 00:42:05,767 The moment at salvation, it says that he is a good and perfect 815 00:42:05,847 --> 00:42:10,107 father who loves his children, that gives gifts freely. 816 00:42:11,247 --> 00:42:12,267 Freely. 817 00:42:14,047 --> 00:42:16,903 And so you may be watching right now, you may be at a campus 818 00:42:16,935 --> 00:42:18,867 thinking, I don't know what gift I have. 819 00:42:19,497 --> 00:42:23,277 The Lord has given you one and he wants it to see activated today. 820 00:42:23,657 --> 00:42:26,849 And I've been sent here as a prophet, as a man of God, and as 821 00:42:26,873 --> 00:42:31,777 a pastor to see that gift come alive and the faith in the room to 822 00:42:31,817 --> 00:42:33,169 rise in the name of Jesus. 823 00:42:33,233 --> 00:42:34,657 Everyone step to their feet. 824 00:42:34,737 --> 00:42:35,713 Come on, on your feet. 825 00:42:35,745 --> 00:42:37,237 At every single campus. 826 00:42:38,377 --> 00:42:40,065 Because the Lord is doing something. 827 00:42:40,121 --> 00:42:43,169 And I believe that all those who have been sitting, all of those 828 00:42:43,193 --> 00:42:45,057 who've been in the wing saying, I don't know what to do. 829 00:42:45,097 --> 00:42:46,165 I don't know where to go. 830 00:42:46,281 --> 00:42:49,789 The Lord is going to speak to you now, not by my voice, but by 831 00:42:49,813 --> 00:42:54,141 the voice from heaven into your life, into your destiny, into 832 00:42:54,229 --> 00:42:55,085 your purpose. 833 00:42:55,181 --> 00:42:58,977 And he's going to see it activated in the name of Jesus. 834 00:43:04,037 --> 00:43:05,777 You guys feel his presence. 835 00:43:06,517 --> 00:43:08,137 You guys feel him working? 836 00:43:09,557 --> 00:43:11,897 I feel it so heavily right now. 837 00:43:16,367 --> 00:43:19,907 And in my prayer time, I have five things. 838 00:43:20,367 --> 00:43:23,463 I'll say them real quick, but I just feel prophetically. 839 00:43:23,575 --> 00:43:29,911 It's like in my prayer time, I saw people in pain, I saw people 840 00:43:29,999 --> 00:43:30,359 hurting. 841 00:43:30,423 --> 00:43:32,787 I saw people like, no one sees me. 842 00:43:33,327 --> 00:43:35,207 Nobody knows what I've been going through. 843 00:43:35,247 --> 00:43:40,037 And the Lord says, daughter, son, I've heard your prayers. 844 00:43:41,017 --> 00:43:42,757 I've heard your cries. 845 00:43:43,657 --> 00:43:44,593 I've heard. 846 00:43:44,705 --> 00:43:45,473 I've heard. 847 00:43:45,585 --> 00:43:52,677 I've heard the Lord says to you today that he is a good father 848 00:43:53,177 --> 00:43:57,233 and he doesn't want you sitting and sitting and sitting. 849 00:43:57,265 --> 00:43:57,697 Yes, there. 850 00:43:57,737 --> 00:43:59,201 There's seasons of rest. 851 00:43:59,369 --> 00:44:01,157 There is seasons. 852 00:44:01,737 --> 00:44:03,115 Seasons of sitting. 853 00:44:03,241 --> 00:44:10,791 There is, okay, but I'm here to tell you at some point that season 854 00:44:10,879 --> 00:44:16,887 ends and you begin to go on that sacred path that he has for 855 00:44:16,927 --> 00:44:17,271 you. 856 00:44:17,359 --> 00:44:21,507 And you begin to go on that sacred walk that he has for you. 857 00:44:23,087 --> 00:44:24,359 Let me just share five. 858 00:44:24,463 --> 00:44:25,947 These are recommendations. 859 00:44:27,647 --> 00:44:29,367 This isn't for every single church. 860 00:44:29,447 --> 00:44:30,711 This is for V1 Church. 861 00:44:30,759 --> 00:44:33,087 This is how we know how to disciple you. 862 00:44:33,467 --> 00:44:34,435 Five quick things. 863 00:44:34,491 --> 00:44:37,007 Start reading your Bible every single day. 864 00:44:37,467 --> 00:44:38,915 We have the Daily Grow journal. 865 00:44:38,971 --> 00:44:40,419 If you don't have one, get one. 866 00:44:40,523 --> 00:44:42,291 Read your Bible every single day. 867 00:44:42,379 --> 00:44:44,259 Commit to learning and growing. 868 00:44:44,403 --> 00:44:45,075 Number two. 869 00:44:45,131 --> 00:44:48,367 Pray every single day. 870 00:44:48,987 --> 00:44:51,567 Prayer is not just for the prayer team. 871 00:44:52,427 --> 00:44:54,899 I think a lot of times it's like, oh, we gotta get this to the 872 00:44:54,923 --> 00:44:57,193 prayer team so that they can go pray for it. 873 00:44:57,315 --> 00:44:57,709 Guess what? 874 00:44:57,733 --> 00:44:59,885 We have one of the best prayer teams in the entire world. 875 00:44:59,941 --> 00:45:03,837 Shout Out Evelyn in Brooklyn and all the Laverted Sharita, every 876 00:45:03,877 --> 00:45:04,813 single campus. 877 00:45:04,925 --> 00:45:09,133 But I'm telling you, the Lord, he wants you to be a prayer warrior. 878 00:45:09,245 --> 00:45:11,485 He wants you to be an intercessor. 879 00:45:11,581 --> 00:45:13,837 He wants you to partner with. 880 00:45:13,877 --> 00:45:18,365 So maybe today it's time for you to join the prayer team, because 881 00:45:18,421 --> 00:45:20,125 you've been praying in your closet. 882 00:45:20,221 --> 00:45:24,845 And the Lord says, come out today and shine your light upon all 883 00:45:24,901 --> 00:45:25,497 men. 884 00:45:26,157 --> 00:45:29,977 Number three, sign up for passport and breakers. 885 00:45:30,397 --> 00:45:34,217 This is a commitment to discipleship. 886 00:45:35,437 --> 00:45:36,565 Can I just say something? 887 00:45:36,621 --> 00:45:36,997 I just. 888 00:45:37,037 --> 00:45:39,957 I didn't even plan on saying this, but I just feel it prophetically. 889 00:45:40,117 --> 00:45:45,029 If you believe that the discipleship process that we have 890 00:45:45,053 --> 00:45:50,517 put in place at this church is to control you, it is actually to 891 00:45:50,557 --> 00:45:51,697 deploy you. 892 00:45:52,527 --> 00:45:56,135 And I believe that the enemy has gotten into some people's minds 893 00:45:56,151 --> 00:45:58,391 where, like, oh, they're just trying to control me. 894 00:45:58,479 --> 00:46:00,743 They're just trying to tell me what I can and can't do. 895 00:46:00,815 --> 00:46:03,735 No, I'm trying to see you live out your purposes. 896 00:46:03,831 --> 00:46:06,727 I'm trying to see the spirit of God move in your life. 897 00:46:06,847 --> 00:46:10,119 And usually the people that say no to that are the ones that 898 00:46:10,143 --> 00:46:12,599 are in the cycle and cycle and cycle. 899 00:46:12,663 --> 00:46:17,377 And it's like, come on, join the sacred path with me. 900 00:46:17,527 --> 00:46:20,977 Join the sacred path of discipleship. 901 00:46:21,877 --> 00:46:25,069 Number four, join the ground crew. 902 00:46:25,213 --> 00:46:27,613 Commit to serve in the church. 903 00:46:27,805 --> 00:46:30,589 Number five, join a flight crew. 904 00:46:30,733 --> 00:46:35,297 Commit to connect with other believers. 905 00:46:35,637 --> 00:46:38,781 Commit to connect with other believers. 906 00:46:38,829 --> 00:46:42,109 Because this is what we're here for, to connect with God and 907 00:46:42,133 --> 00:46:43,517 to connect with each other. 908 00:46:43,637 --> 00:46:44,877 What else are we here for? 909 00:46:44,917 --> 00:46:49,117 This is why the church exists, for us to connect with him and to 910 00:46:49,157 --> 00:46:50,617 bring people in. 911 00:46:52,037 --> 00:46:55,817 Oh, man, come on, you got me preaching now. 912 00:46:56,437 --> 00:46:58,097 I said I was gonna preach. 913 00:46:59,637 --> 00:47:01,137 Can I say a prayer? 914 00:47:01,877 --> 00:47:07,469 I need to close this out, but everyone just close your eyes. 915 00:47:07,533 --> 00:47:07,853 I. 916 00:47:07,925 --> 00:47:09,053 I didn't plan on doing this either. 917 00:47:09,085 --> 00:47:11,567 Could everyone close their eyes at every single campus? 918 00:47:15,187 --> 00:47:20,043 I believe that as I was speaking, the spirit of God was moving 919 00:47:20,235 --> 00:47:24,251 in your living room in New Jersey, in Long island, in Brooklyn, 920 00:47:24,299 --> 00:47:28,763 in Miami, here in Indiana, every single person online in Canada, 921 00:47:28,915 --> 00:47:31,407 in the United Kingdom and Puerto Rico. 922 00:47:32,787 --> 00:47:35,747 And I believe that there is a conviction that has come come over 923 00:47:35,787 --> 00:47:36,367 you. 924 00:47:36,667 --> 00:47:39,267 And even as I've been speaking, it's like, oh, man, this 925 00:47:39,307 --> 00:47:39,811 is me. 926 00:47:39,899 --> 00:47:41,027 He's been talking about me. 927 00:47:41,067 --> 00:47:42,447 I don't know what else to do. 928 00:47:43,147 --> 00:47:44,595 This is what I want you to do. 929 00:47:44,651 --> 00:47:45,635 If you, if, if. 930 00:47:45,691 --> 00:47:46,211 Either. 931 00:47:46,339 --> 00:47:48,787 If you feel like you've been going too fast and you. 932 00:47:48,827 --> 00:47:51,651 And you don't even know what to do and you want to get disciple 933 00:47:51,699 --> 00:47:55,155 deeper, or you've been waiting in the wings and you're like, I don't 934 00:47:55,251 --> 00:47:57,411 even know if I could speak. 935 00:47:57,459 --> 00:47:58,339 I don't know what to do. 936 00:47:58,363 --> 00:47:59,523 And you've been in the cycle. 937 00:47:59,555 --> 00:48:02,763 I want you to raise your hand at every single campus. 938 00:48:02,875 --> 00:48:06,779 I want you to raise your hand and say, lord Jesus, sign me up for 939 00:48:06,803 --> 00:48:08,091 whatever you have for me. 940 00:48:08,179 --> 00:48:11,355 And this is the Isaiah call, the one that says, I'm not gonna 941 00:48:11,371 --> 00:48:12,427 give you the blueprint. 942 00:48:12,507 --> 00:48:13,867 I'm not gonna give you the map. 943 00:48:13,947 --> 00:48:17,051 I'm not gonna tell you the entire destiny and the future and 944 00:48:17,059 --> 00:48:19,051 the business ideas and the strategies. 945 00:48:19,179 --> 00:48:22,267 I'm looking for people that have been touched by the coal from 946 00:48:22,307 --> 00:48:26,683 heaven, by the precious blood of Jesus, willing to be like Isaiah, 947 00:48:26,715 --> 00:48:30,097 where we say, lord Jesus, Jesus, if it's your will, then I 948 00:48:30,137 --> 00:48:31,201 say yes to it. 949 00:48:31,289 --> 00:48:34,113 If it's your call, then I say yes to it. 950 00:48:34,185 --> 00:48:38,801 So with every hand raised, Lord Jesus, I pray right now, I pray 951 00:48:38,849 --> 00:48:42,545 right now, Lord Jesus, that you would move mightily at every 952 00:48:42,601 --> 00:48:46,177 single campus, that you would start to convict the hearts of the 953 00:48:46,217 --> 00:48:50,049 people, that as we begin to sing out, just in a second, that 954 00:48:50,073 --> 00:48:53,169 we will sing out with everything that we have, that we 955 00:48:53,193 --> 00:48:57,059 would bring a worship in a tongue and we would bring a praise 956 00:48:57,203 --> 00:49:00,327 to the mighty name of Jesus. 957 00:49:00,827 --> 00:49:02,087 Amen. 958 00:49:19,637 --> 00:49:19,877 It.