1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,120 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,040 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,040 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,280 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,040 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,200 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:20,720 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,840 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,840 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,400 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,420 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:34,700 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:34,860 --> 00:00:38,140 If you want to know more about us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org 14 00:00:38,620 --> 00:00:41,660 Otherwise, we invite you now into the story. 15 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:43,180 Hello, good people. 16 00:00:43,180 --> 00:00:47,900 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 17 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:51,940 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 18 00:00:51,940 --> 00:00:57,980 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 19 00:00:57,980 --> 00:01:00,100 pastor Ross Stackhound. 20 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:04,900 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 21 00:01:05,460 --> 00:01:13,940 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 22 00:01:14,980 --> 00:01:19,860 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 23 00:01:19,860 --> 00:01:24,580 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, 24 00:01:24,980 --> 00:01:32,820 Facebook, and on the website, which is heavenearthchurch.org now 25 00:01:32,820 --> 00:01:38,460 with the message eliminating Hurry rhythms is Heaven Earth Church 26 00:01:38,620 --> 00:01:41,020 pastor Emily Hoverson. 27 00:01:43,420 --> 00:01:47,700 Lord, for as many people as here are here this morning who are 28 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:51,860 online, who are just coming together, Lord, there are so many 29 00:01:51,860 --> 00:01:54,740 different situations on our hearts. 30 00:01:55,380 --> 00:01:59,140 People that we love, who are hurting, things that we're celebrating, 31 00:01:59,940 --> 00:02:03,260 things that we wish we could change, struggles that we're trying 32 00:02:03,260 --> 00:02:04,020 to overcome. 33 00:02:05,620 --> 00:02:07,620 Lord, would you just meet each one of us today? 34 00:02:08,020 --> 00:02:09,780 Would you help us to hear your voice? 35 00:02:10,740 --> 00:02:12,500 Would you help us to lean into you? 36 00:02:12,820 --> 00:02:13,780 We love you, Jesus. 37 00:02:13,780 --> 00:02:14,980 We just give you this time. 38 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:16,820 Amen. 39 00:02:18,270 --> 00:02:22,150 Well, we've been going through this series on this book called the 40 00:02:22,150 --> 00:02:24,990 Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer. 41 00:02:26,030 --> 00:02:31,750 And last week, Ross talked about this tool called A Rule of 42 00:02:31,750 --> 00:02:32,030 Life. 43 00:02:33,070 --> 00:02:33,710 And really. 44 00:02:34,190 --> 00:02:37,110 So if you're interested in again in Church Center, Mikey, can 45 00:02:37,110 --> 00:02:38,030 you go to the next slide? 46 00:02:38,030 --> 00:02:38,310 Yeah. 47 00:02:38,310 --> 00:02:40,830 So the Rule of Life, this is an ancient tool. 48 00:02:41,070 --> 00:02:45,470 It's an old, old thing, but it's really just a way to look at 49 00:02:46,030 --> 00:02:47,470 our lives and how we structure them. 50 00:02:47,470 --> 00:02:52,280 If you're interested more of what that looks like or more of that 51 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:55,920 process, again in Church center, right on the homepage, there 52 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:57,800 are some links that Ross put in there. 53 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,040 These also went out in an email yesterday, I think from Ross, 54 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,720 but with some different tools and resources for working through 55 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,440 a rule of life and for building one. 56 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:14,120 And additionally on November 8th, I believe we are going to have 57 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:15,880 a Rule of Life workshop. 58 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,640 So it's going to be kind of the third installment of our Discovery 59 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:18,880 series. 60 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,820 So we had Discovery one and we had Discovery two that were on our 61 00:03:22,820 --> 00:03:26,180 core values and about our discipleship essentials. 62 00:03:26,340 --> 00:03:29,700 And then our discovery3 is going to be a workshop actually on 63 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:30,380 the Rule of Life. 64 00:03:30,380 --> 00:03:33,420 So it'll be a Friday night, and you're welcome to join us. 65 00:03:33,420 --> 00:03:35,660 We'll have more information about that next week, but that's 66 00:03:35,660 --> 00:03:36,500 coming up, so. 67 00:03:36,740 --> 00:03:40,220 But really what the Rule of Life, what it really is all about, 68 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:41,380 is asking this question. 69 00:03:41,540 --> 00:03:44,020 That is, how am I making my choices in my life? 70 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:47,380 And do my choices align with the way of Jesus? 71 00:03:47,380 --> 00:03:53,330 So we talk a lot about here about aligning with Jesus's way in 72 00:03:53,410 --> 00:03:55,410 what we do and how we're going about things. 73 00:03:55,810 --> 00:03:57,810 And so that's really what that boils down to. 74 00:03:57,810 --> 00:04:00,490 And so this morning, we're gonna look at this idea again, but 75 00:04:00,490 --> 00:04:02,530 from a little bit of a different perspective. 76 00:04:02,930 --> 00:04:06,090 So I have a couple people who are gonna come help me with something. 77 00:04:06,090 --> 00:04:07,730 And actually, you're all gonna help me. 78 00:04:08,450 --> 00:04:08,850 But. 79 00:04:09,570 --> 00:04:11,810 So Adam and Kaylee, do you guys want to come up here? 80 00:04:13,170 --> 00:04:16,330 They live with me, so they're my, you know, they're my ready people. 81 00:04:16,330 --> 00:04:21,110 But in music, who wants to be on which. 82 00:04:21,110 --> 00:04:22,390 No, you better be on this side. 83 00:04:22,390 --> 00:04:23,750 She needs to be on this side. 84 00:04:24,470 --> 00:04:26,390 She has the more complicated part. 85 00:04:26,550 --> 00:04:29,110 Not that I doubt your ability at all. 86 00:04:30,550 --> 00:04:33,590 Two elements called beat and rhythm. 87 00:04:33,590 --> 00:04:35,270 Do you know the difference between the two? 88 00:04:38,230 --> 00:04:39,310 Some of you are nodding. 89 00:04:39,310 --> 00:04:41,510 Some of you are looking at me with blank stares. 90 00:04:42,070 --> 00:04:42,630 That's okay. 91 00:04:42,630 --> 00:04:44,950 I'm going to explain, and then we're going to practice this together. 92 00:04:45,110 --> 00:04:49,660 So the beat of a song is kind of that driving force that kind of 93 00:04:49,660 --> 00:04:53,700 undergirds everything that like, that keeps everything steady 94 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:56,980 and that all of the other parts, they align with. 95 00:04:57,140 --> 00:05:01,940 And the rhythm is all of the other things on top of that. 96 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:07,060 So whatever notes and rests are played or not played, those are. 97 00:05:07,060 --> 00:05:07,900 That's the rhythm. 98 00:05:07,900 --> 00:05:09,380 So we're going to illustrate this together. 99 00:05:09,460 --> 00:05:10,500 At least we're going to try. 100 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:13,840 Okay, so we're going to do this side first. 101 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:15,360 You have the easy part. 102 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:19,560 Okay, so I'm going to give you a beat, and Adam is going to clap 103 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,320 an eighth note rhythm, and you're going to follow adam and clap 104 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:23,600 8th notes along with him. 105 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,880 If you don't know what an eighth note is, that's okay. 106 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:28,000 Just follow along. 107 00:05:44,220 --> 00:05:45,340 Okay, over here. 108 00:05:46,220 --> 00:05:46,980 Are you ready? 109 00:05:46,980 --> 00:05:49,580 Okay, so same deal, except you're going to try. 110 00:05:49,580 --> 00:05:51,580 You're Going to clap a triplet beat. 111 00:05:51,660 --> 00:05:53,700 If you don't know what a triplet is, that's fine. 112 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:54,820 Again, just follow along. 113 00:05:54,820 --> 00:05:55,900 Kaylie will help you. 114 00:05:55,900 --> 00:05:57,900 Okay, you ready? 115 00:06:10,070 --> 00:06:10,910 Hey, that was good. 116 00:06:10,910 --> 00:06:11,350 Good job. 117 00:06:11,350 --> 00:06:11,750 Good job. 118 00:06:11,750 --> 00:06:13,270 Okay, now we're going to do it together. 119 00:06:13,910 --> 00:06:14,550 Okay? 120 00:06:14,950 --> 00:06:16,310 So triplets over here. 121 00:06:16,390 --> 00:06:17,670 Eighth notes over here. 122 00:06:18,150 --> 00:06:19,510 I'm going to keep the beat. 123 00:06:19,750 --> 00:06:21,430 We're going to try this, okay? 124 00:06:21,510 --> 00:06:34,470 All right, Here we go. 125 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:43,100 Hey, good job, everybody. 126 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:43,900 Very, very good. 127 00:06:43,900 --> 00:06:44,260 All right. 128 00:06:44,260 --> 00:06:44,660 Thank you. 129 00:06:44,660 --> 00:06:45,980 You guys can give yourselves a hand. 130 00:06:45,980 --> 00:06:46,860 That was really good. 131 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:49,740 Yeah, you guys are very, very rhythmic. 132 00:06:50,940 --> 00:06:51,820 That's really good. 133 00:06:52,140 --> 00:06:54,660 You even kept it together when I stopped playing the beat. 134 00:06:54,660 --> 00:06:55,260 That was good. 135 00:06:56,700 --> 00:06:57,140 Yeah. 136 00:06:57,140 --> 00:07:00,860 So in life, we see kind of a similar concept play out. 137 00:07:00,860 --> 00:07:06,220 So in our life, right, we make choices, a gazillion choices every 138 00:07:06,220 --> 00:07:06,580 day. 139 00:07:07,460 --> 00:07:08,460 What am I going to eat? 140 00:07:08,460 --> 00:07:09,300 What am I going to wear? 141 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:10,820 How am I going to engage with this person? 142 00:07:10,820 --> 00:07:12,420 Am I going to have that conversation? 143 00:07:12,420 --> 00:07:14,180 Am I not going to have that conversation? 144 00:07:14,180 --> 00:07:15,780 What am I going to do for work today? 145 00:07:16,340 --> 00:07:18,020 Am I going to meet that deadline? 146 00:07:18,020 --> 00:07:18,580 Do I. 147 00:07:18,740 --> 00:07:19,380 Whatever. 148 00:07:20,020 --> 00:07:23,380 All the things, we have all of these different choices that we face. 149 00:07:24,980 --> 00:07:28,180 And as we kind of make a certain series of choices, we fall 150 00:07:28,180 --> 00:07:31,900 into different habits, we fall into patterns or routines. 151 00:07:31,980 --> 00:07:35,660 We can kind of come up with schedules and kind of put our lives 152 00:07:35,740 --> 00:07:38,860 together in a way that gives us some kind of a rhythm. 153 00:07:39,580 --> 00:07:43,620 Human beings in general feel more comfortable when we have some 154 00:07:43,620 --> 00:07:45,820 kind of a rhythm, some kind of a routine. 155 00:07:46,220 --> 00:07:49,980 Mental health workers in our congregation, is this a true thing, 156 00:07:49,980 --> 00:07:53,740 generally speaking, that people in general feel more comfortable 157 00:07:53,740 --> 00:07:54,900 if they have a sense of rhythm. 158 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:55,500 Is that true? 159 00:07:55,820 --> 00:07:56,660 I see some nods. 160 00:07:56,660 --> 00:08:01,380 Okay, so there have been some studies done that I've seen that. 161 00:08:01,380 --> 00:08:01,820 Look at this. 162 00:08:01,820 --> 00:08:05,620 And when people don't have kind of a steady rhythm, they tend 163 00:08:05,620 --> 00:08:05,900 to. 164 00:08:05,980 --> 00:08:07,700 They don't sleep as well generally. 165 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:11,699 They tend to not be as healthy, they tend to have more stress, 166 00:08:11,699 --> 00:08:13,140 they tend to not be as efficient. 167 00:08:13,140 --> 00:08:16,780 All kinds of different things that happen when we don't have this 168 00:08:16,780 --> 00:08:17,340 rhythm. 169 00:08:18,700 --> 00:08:23,380 And so a question that I have for us this morning is, as we're 170 00:08:23,380 --> 00:08:25,420 creating our rhythms, what are we. 171 00:08:26,180 --> 00:08:28,340 What are we doing that around? 172 00:08:28,580 --> 00:08:30,220 How are we making choices? 173 00:08:30,220 --> 00:08:31,620 How are we setting these rhythms? 174 00:08:31,620 --> 00:08:32,060 Is it. 175 00:08:32,060 --> 00:08:33,340 Is it kind of random? 176 00:08:33,340 --> 00:08:37,660 Or are we listening to the steady beat of the Holy Spirit and 177 00:08:37,660 --> 00:08:39,060 trying to align with Him? 178 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:41,780 So I'm going to show you a little bit more what I mean by that. 179 00:08:42,260 --> 00:08:45,020 We're going to look at a scripture this morning from the Book 180 00:08:45,020 --> 00:08:50,180 of Mark, and in there, we're going to See, just a glimpse into 181 00:08:50,180 --> 00:08:51,140 the life of Jesus. 182 00:08:51,140 --> 00:08:55,980 So again, we talk about how are we aligning our lives with him? 183 00:08:56,620 --> 00:08:57,660 What does that look like? 184 00:08:57,980 --> 00:08:59,860 And so this is Jesus's day. 185 00:08:59,860 --> 00:09:04,020 Kind of we're going to see that time with God informs and empowers 186 00:09:04,020 --> 00:09:05,900 the work that God invites us to do. 187 00:09:06,780 --> 00:09:10,460 So before I read the scripture, just what are your thoughts 188 00:09:10,460 --> 00:09:10,780 on that? 189 00:09:10,780 --> 00:09:11,820 You can go back one slide. 190 00:09:11,820 --> 00:09:15,020 Mikey, what are your thoughts on this statement here? 191 00:09:15,020 --> 00:09:18,540 That time with God informs and empowers the work that God invites 192 00:09:18,540 --> 00:09:19,020 us to do. 193 00:09:19,470 --> 00:09:21,630 There's kind of a lot in that little sentence there. 194 00:09:23,550 --> 00:09:26,510 So for pt, if he doesn't have his couple minutes, his two to five 195 00:09:26,510 --> 00:09:29,870 minutes with God, he feels like he goes out of rhythm in a day. 196 00:09:31,230 --> 00:09:33,390 What are some other thoughts about that sentence? 197 00:09:36,190 --> 00:09:37,390 I saw what you did there. 198 00:09:38,030 --> 00:09:38,390 Yeah. 199 00:09:38,390 --> 00:09:41,710 So Joey talks about just that time up front of reflection and how 200 00:09:41,710 --> 00:09:44,870 taking even those few moments, it sets a tone for the day and gives 201 00:09:44,870 --> 00:09:45,310 you a beat. 202 00:09:45,310 --> 00:09:47,940 And if you don't do that, it may not happen. 203 00:09:48,180 --> 00:09:52,660 Does anybody look at this and be like, that's a nice idea, but 204 00:09:52,660 --> 00:09:54,980 I mean, seriously, have you seen my schedule? 205 00:09:56,340 --> 00:10:00,180 Sometimes I feel like that I was going to show you. 206 00:10:00,180 --> 00:10:02,420 I didn't actually put the slide in here, but I was going to 207 00:10:02,420 --> 00:10:02,900 show you. 208 00:10:03,060 --> 00:10:04,820 I'm a spreadsheet maker. 209 00:10:04,820 --> 00:10:06,460 I like spreadsheets a lot. 210 00:10:06,460 --> 00:10:09,300 Some of you are like, you're my person, and some of you are like, 211 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:10,660 stay away from me, okay? 212 00:10:12,020 --> 00:10:15,510 But I'm a spreadsheeter because I like to see things. 213 00:10:15,510 --> 00:10:18,790 I like to see schedules, and I want to make sure I'm doing. 214 00:10:18,870 --> 00:10:20,470 I'm also an enneagram one. 215 00:10:20,630 --> 00:10:23,990 So I don't know if you, any of you do the enneagram, that'll tell 216 00:10:23,990 --> 00:10:24,350 you something. 217 00:10:24,350 --> 00:10:28,790 But what that means is I just, I like to do things in ways that 218 00:10:28,790 --> 00:10:29,630 feel right to me. 219 00:10:29,630 --> 00:10:30,030 That's. 220 00:10:30,030 --> 00:10:31,110 That's a lot of what it means. 221 00:10:31,350 --> 00:10:36,390 And so I sometimes will spend a lot of time spreadsheeting my life 222 00:10:36,390 --> 00:10:39,950 to try to go, am I getting all of the things in there that I need 223 00:10:39,950 --> 00:10:40,510 to get in there? 224 00:10:40,510 --> 00:10:41,790 Do I have my quiet time? 225 00:10:41,790 --> 00:10:42,750 Do I have exercise? 226 00:10:42,750 --> 00:10:43,950 Do I have time with my family? 227 00:10:43,950 --> 00:10:45,670 Do I have my work time? 228 00:10:45,670 --> 00:10:48,370 And all these different things, it actually work. 229 00:10:49,010 --> 00:10:52,130 And then usually I'm like, oh, it did. 230 00:10:52,130 --> 00:10:53,090 Look, it's all possible. 231 00:10:53,490 --> 00:10:56,290 And then the next day I'm like, but I didn't do the thing. 232 00:10:56,290 --> 00:10:58,690 I didn't stick to my schedule is usually what happens. 233 00:10:59,970 --> 00:11:04,250 But then sometimes when I look back at my schedule, it is a little 234 00:11:04,250 --> 00:11:05,090 bit overwhelming. 235 00:11:05,090 --> 00:11:09,850 To me, because I look at it and I go, there's very little margin 236 00:11:09,850 --> 00:11:10,370 in there. 237 00:11:10,690 --> 00:11:15,530 So if I don't stay right on top of everything, or if somebody 238 00:11:15,530 --> 00:11:18,690 else in my life maybe like takes some extra time that I wasn't 239 00:11:18,690 --> 00:11:20,950 in accounting for it, it throws this off. 240 00:11:20,950 --> 00:11:25,230 And I've had to kind of learn how to navigate that. 241 00:11:25,550 --> 00:11:29,190 What does it look like in a particular season of my life, in 242 00:11:29,190 --> 00:11:33,510 a rhythm of my life, because my rhythms change depending on the 243 00:11:33,510 --> 00:11:36,190 season and depending on some different things. 244 00:11:36,830 --> 00:11:38,310 There's some that undergird it all. 245 00:11:38,310 --> 00:11:41,670 But this is kind of this big idea for today, so we'll come back 246 00:11:41,670 --> 00:11:41,990 to that. 247 00:11:41,990 --> 00:11:44,310 But anyways, we're going to look for a minute at this life of 248 00:11:44,310 --> 00:11:46,070 Jesus and a day in his life. 249 00:11:46,070 --> 00:11:49,310 So we're going to look at the Gospel of Mark, Mark 1. 250 00:11:49,310 --> 00:11:53,310 And in Mark's gospel, everything happens really fast. 251 00:11:53,310 --> 00:11:56,030 It's kind of like the abridged version of the gospel. 252 00:11:56,030 --> 00:11:58,190 So everything is really, really, really quick. 253 00:11:58,190 --> 00:12:01,310 So Jesus has a really busy day, but we're gonna, we're gonna 254 00:12:01,310 --> 00:12:02,950 look at this really busy day of Jesus. 255 00:12:02,950 --> 00:12:07,510 And as we do, I just want you to want to ask this question for 256 00:12:07,510 --> 00:12:09,710 you is what do you notice Jesus doing? 257 00:12:09,870 --> 00:12:13,370 So as we read through the scripture, what do you notice Jesus 258 00:12:13,370 --> 00:12:13,730 doing? 259 00:12:15,170 --> 00:12:16,530 So here we go. 260 00:12:17,410 --> 00:12:18,330 Can you go to that next? 261 00:12:18,330 --> 00:12:19,170 Thanks, Mikey. 262 00:12:19,650 --> 00:12:22,810 As soon as they left the synagogue, the they there, this is 263 00:12:22,810 --> 00:12:24,130 Jesus and his disciples. 264 00:12:24,850 --> 00:12:29,090 So as soon as they left the synagogue, the Jewish place of worship, 265 00:12:29,090 --> 00:12:32,890 they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. 266 00:12:32,890 --> 00:12:35,330 Simon is also known as Peter, same person. 267 00:12:36,050 --> 00:12:38,290 Simon's mother in law, Simon was married. 268 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,240 Simon's mother in law was in bed with a fever. 269 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,360 And they immediately told Jesus about her. 270 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,160 So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. 271 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:53,240 The fever left her and she began to wait on them. 272 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:58,080 That evening after sunset, the people brought to Jesus all the sick 273 00:12:58,080 --> 00:12:59,640 and demon possessed. 274 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,760 The whole town gathered at the door and Jesus healed many who had 275 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:05,720 various diseases. 276 00:13:06,450 --> 00:13:08,330 He also drove out many demons. 277 00:13:08,330 --> 00:13:11,050 But he would not let the demons speak because they knew who 278 00:13:11,050 --> 00:13:11,570 he was. 279 00:13:12,530 --> 00:13:16,770 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got 280 00:13:16,770 --> 00:13:20,690 up, left the house and went off to a solitary place where he 281 00:13:20,690 --> 00:13:21,170 prayed. 282 00:13:21,330 --> 00:13:23,970 Simon and his companions went to look for him. 283 00:13:24,370 --> 00:13:28,450 And when they found him, they exclaimed, everyone is looking for 284 00:13:28,450 --> 00:13:28,770 you. 285 00:13:28,930 --> 00:13:34,130 And Jesus replied, let us go somewhere else, to the nearby villages 286 00:13:34,130 --> 00:13:35,730 so I can preach there also. 287 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,200 That is why I have come. 288 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:42,040 And so he traveled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues 289 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:43,880 and driving out demons. 290 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:47,960 So what did you Notice Jesus doing. 291 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:50,120 Yeah, Crystal. 292 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:53,280 So he went off alone. 293 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:53,600 Yeah. 294 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:54,320 To talk to God. 295 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:54,560 Yeah. 296 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:55,160 God the father. 297 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:55,640 Yep. 298 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:57,400 What else do you see him doing? 299 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,720 Spreading the kingdom of God. 300 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,200 Do you want to expand upon that a little bit? 301 00:14:03,790 --> 00:14:06,670 So Phoenix says he's spreading the kingdom of God. 302 00:14:06,670 --> 00:14:10,350 So not just the word that was already there, but the kingdom of 303 00:14:10,350 --> 00:14:10,750 God. 304 00:14:10,910 --> 00:14:13,390 Kind of the bigger element of what that entailed. 305 00:14:13,470 --> 00:14:13,870 Yeah. 306 00:14:13,870 --> 00:14:15,070 Relationship with God. 307 00:14:15,150 --> 00:14:17,230 He's delivering people from the evil one. 308 00:14:17,470 --> 00:14:18,030 Yep. 309 00:14:18,030 --> 00:14:19,630 Anything else you noticed him doing? 310 00:14:19,870 --> 00:14:20,670 Yeah, Charles. 311 00:14:21,070 --> 00:14:23,830 He didn't sacrifice his mission with the urgent. 312 00:14:23,830 --> 00:14:25,390 Do you want to say anything more about that? 313 00:14:25,630 --> 00:14:25,990 Yeah. 314 00:14:25,990 --> 00:14:28,830 So Charles just talks about Jesus. 315 00:14:29,150 --> 00:14:29,990 He kind of. 316 00:14:29,990 --> 00:14:32,390 He came and he did what he needed to do. 317 00:14:32,390 --> 00:14:35,350 He didn't kind of get caught up in the immediate needs that were 318 00:14:35,350 --> 00:14:38,870 presented kind of before him in almost like a codependent way. 319 00:14:38,870 --> 00:14:41,830 But instead he was really clear and focused on his mission 320 00:14:41,830 --> 00:14:43,470 and what he was there to do. 321 00:14:44,830 --> 00:14:45,550 Anything else? 322 00:14:45,550 --> 00:14:45,950 Yeah. 323 00:14:45,950 --> 00:14:46,350 Yeah. 324 00:14:46,350 --> 00:14:49,110 So Yulima talks about how Jesus is resetting. 325 00:14:49,110 --> 00:14:49,870 I love that word. 326 00:14:49,870 --> 00:14:50,190 Yeah. 327 00:14:50,190 --> 00:14:52,030 Like, he's doing this work. 328 00:14:52,430 --> 00:14:54,710 He's being with people and healing people and doing this work, 329 00:14:54,710 --> 00:14:58,290 but he takes this time to kind of go and reset with. 330 00:14:58,290 --> 00:14:58,890 With God. 331 00:14:58,890 --> 00:14:59,330 Yeah. 332 00:14:59,410 --> 00:14:59,890 Yeah. 333 00:15:01,090 --> 00:15:02,290 This is a great point. 334 00:15:02,450 --> 00:15:05,090 So Angela talks about the practicality of this. 335 00:15:05,090 --> 00:15:08,690 Like, what does this look like practically in my life sometimes 336 00:15:08,690 --> 00:15:11,570 if, like, in their situation, hers and Ross's, they have small 337 00:15:11,570 --> 00:15:11,850 kids. 338 00:15:11,850 --> 00:15:15,050 And so if Ross is doing his devotions, somebody else. 339 00:15:15,050 --> 00:15:17,010 Angela is with their kids. 340 00:15:17,170 --> 00:15:20,090 So what does it look like then for her to have some of those spaces 341 00:15:20,090 --> 00:15:21,170 and places in time? 342 00:15:21,650 --> 00:15:23,090 How many of you are morning people? 343 00:15:23,570 --> 00:15:24,930 I'll come back to you, Kara, in just a second. 344 00:15:24,930 --> 00:15:26,610 How many of you raise your hands really high? 345 00:15:26,610 --> 00:15:27,250 Morning people. 346 00:15:27,730 --> 00:15:28,170 Do it. 347 00:15:28,170 --> 00:15:29,010 Come on, be proud. 348 00:15:29,090 --> 00:15:29,610 Okay. 349 00:15:29,610 --> 00:15:31,410 How many of you are night people? 350 00:15:32,850 --> 00:15:35,290 We're like 50, 50 split kind of guys. 351 00:15:35,290 --> 00:15:35,810 Okay. 352 00:15:36,530 --> 00:15:37,410 Night people. 353 00:15:37,410 --> 00:15:37,970 So, like. 354 00:15:37,970 --> 00:15:40,610 So night people, you like to stay up late. 355 00:15:41,410 --> 00:15:42,490 Okay, so just. 356 00:15:42,490 --> 00:15:44,970 We'll come back to that in a minute too, all right, Cara? 357 00:15:44,970 --> 00:15:45,410 Yeah. 358 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:55,840 I chose not to highlight that part of the scripture, Kara, So. 359 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:56,640 But I did. 360 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:57,160 So there's. 361 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,480 There's actually another story. 362 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,000 It shows up in a couple of the other gospels about Martha and Mary, 363 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,520 where you have Mary, there are two sisters, and Jesus is at their 364 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:07,920 house with a whole bunch of other people. 365 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:12,480 And Mary is sitting at Jesus feet and she's listening to all of 366 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,720 the teaching, and Martha's making dinner, and Martha kind of 367 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:18,880 gets upset, and she's like, jesus, will you tell her to come 368 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:19,440 help me? 369 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,120 And Jesus is like, martha, she's doing a good thing. 370 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,600 Like, what do you want me to say to you? 371 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,400 Like, no, she's, she's, she's. 372 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,440 He says she has chosen what is better and it will not be taken from 373 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:30,680 her. 374 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:31,200 That's. 375 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:35,520 And I've heard more than one sermon about how Martha represents 376 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,720 busyness in life and how she's all distracted. 377 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,200 And I feel like Martha gets a really bad rap because Martha's trying 378 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:42,040 to take care of people. 379 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:46,710 So for some, some of us maybe who have those caregiving roles that 380 00:16:46,710 --> 00:16:50,310 are really demanding and really, like, there is like a time 381 00:16:50,310 --> 00:16:54,230 structure here where my life is sort of to try to make sure all 382 00:16:54,230 --> 00:16:55,870 these other people are taken care of. 383 00:16:56,110 --> 00:16:59,630 There's some very practical, legitimate challenges that are difficult. 384 00:16:59,870 --> 00:17:03,150 Now, Martha, later on is the one who goes out to meet Jesus. 385 00:17:03,150 --> 00:17:07,710 When Jesus comes to heal after their brother Lazarus dies, Jesus 386 00:17:07,710 --> 00:17:08,110 comes. 387 00:17:08,810 --> 00:17:09,370 He's late. 388 00:17:09,450 --> 00:17:12,170 He's not really late, but it feels like he's late. 389 00:17:12,570 --> 00:17:13,810 And Jesus comes to them. 390 00:17:13,810 --> 00:17:17,130 Martha is the one who goes out and she's like, jesus, if you had 391 00:17:17,130 --> 00:17:18,650 been here, he wouldn't die. 392 00:17:18,970 --> 00:17:20,890 So it wasn't like Martha didn't have faith. 393 00:17:21,210 --> 00:17:23,850 And Mary was the one, like, hanging back inside. 394 00:17:23,930 --> 00:17:27,010 Martha had this faith in Jesus and she's trying to figure out what 395 00:17:27,010 --> 00:17:30,690 does it look like to follow you, Jesus, and to yet also have 396 00:17:30,690 --> 00:17:33,290 these practical, realistic expectations that demand my time. 397 00:17:33,290 --> 00:17:35,880 So you're in good company a lot to say. 398 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:38,360 Anything else that you notice Jesus doing? 399 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:41,280 So Amanda's. 400 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:44,280 Amanda's talking about noticing that it doesn't have to 401 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:48,160 be a big deal this time, that we're investing and reflecting and 402 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,559 being with God and this resetting. 403 00:17:50,559 --> 00:17:54,000 Like, sometimes we can get caught up on the how or make it feel 404 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,320 like it has to be this big thing. 405 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:56,840 But it can be a very simple. 406 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:59,240 It can be a very simple practice. 407 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,800 And whatever time we do have, like, that's good. 408 00:18:02,170 --> 00:18:03,850 Yeah, yeah. 409 00:18:04,410 --> 00:18:05,730 Jesus also ate. 410 00:18:05,730 --> 00:18:07,890 That's another thing I noticed from the scripture. 411 00:18:07,890 --> 00:18:10,890 Like, that's a very normal, everyday life thing. 412 00:18:11,290 --> 00:18:12,250 You know, sometimes. 413 00:18:12,570 --> 00:18:15,450 Sometimes I think I've looked at scripture and I look at Jesus 414 00:18:15,450 --> 00:18:18,570 and I'm like, Jesus did all these amazing things, which he did, 415 00:18:19,050 --> 00:18:25,610 but he also did really, really human things, like walked and ate 416 00:18:26,410 --> 00:18:31,240 and he did a lot of just normal, living human things. 417 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,640 And so we, we see that, like everything you guys just said, just 418 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,280 going to recap just a little bit, but we, we see Jesus working, 419 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:40,840 right? 420 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,880 So he's not just sitting on a hillside someplace. 421 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:44,760 Now I'm, I'm. 422 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,360 I love sitting on a hillside, especially if it's a pretty one. 423 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:51,160 Okay, so I'm not knocking that, but like he's not just there 424 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,360 sitting, waiting for everybody to come to him. 425 00:18:55,170 --> 00:19:00,930 He's engaged, he's working, he's meeting people where they are, 426 00:19:02,050 --> 00:19:06,770 he's setting people free, he's speaking to them, he's teaching, 427 00:19:07,330 --> 00:19:09,170 he's doing this work. 428 00:19:09,970 --> 00:19:11,970 And then he goes and he has dinner. 429 00:19:12,130 --> 00:19:16,370 And in the midst of that, he heals Simon's mother in law. 430 00:19:16,370 --> 00:19:18,450 And then he does some more work. 431 00:19:18,450 --> 00:19:23,530 So we see this work that he's doing and then we see him go off 432 00:19:23,530 --> 00:19:24,690 by himself to pray. 433 00:19:24,930 --> 00:19:28,490 So this time that he takes and we see it over and over and over 434 00:19:28,490 --> 00:19:33,130 again as he is this intentional space that he makes to 435 00:19:33,130 --> 00:19:35,330 go off and be by himself to pray. 436 00:19:36,290 --> 00:19:39,850 And so often in Scripture, he's getting up early in the morning 437 00:19:39,850 --> 00:19:40,650 to go and he. 438 00:19:40,650 --> 00:19:43,650 But he separates himself from his. 439 00:19:44,290 --> 00:19:47,770 All the people who are there looking at him, demanding his time 440 00:19:47,770 --> 00:19:50,050 and attention, he separates from them. 441 00:19:50,210 --> 00:19:53,330 And he goes to a solitary place to pray. 442 00:19:54,510 --> 00:19:59,790 And Simon and the disciples, they come looking for him. 443 00:20:00,830 --> 00:20:06,790 If Jesus had come to seek fame and fortune, he probably could have 444 00:20:06,790 --> 00:20:07,230 had it. 445 00:20:07,710 --> 00:20:08,430 He had. 446 00:20:08,510 --> 00:20:10,590 He had a way of garnering a following. 447 00:20:11,390 --> 00:20:15,270 If he had wanted to set up like the Mega synagogue, he could 448 00:20:15,270 --> 00:20:19,550 have done it because he had this way of attracting people and 449 00:20:19,550 --> 00:20:21,230 gaining popular attention. 450 00:20:22,020 --> 00:20:26,180 But he also was really, like Charles said, focused on his mission. 451 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:28,340 Who am I here to see? 452 00:20:28,420 --> 00:20:29,860 Where am I being sent? 453 00:20:30,180 --> 00:20:32,260 What are the things I'm supposed to do today? 454 00:20:32,980 --> 00:20:35,060 What is the purpose of this time and space? 455 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:37,700 And so he's. 456 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:41,060 We see Jesus being really, really clear in his mission. 457 00:20:41,860 --> 00:20:45,580 So he goes around instead and keeps meeting people and keeps healing 458 00:20:45,580 --> 00:20:46,980 people and setting them free. 459 00:20:47,460 --> 00:20:54,460 So if we're going to look to Jesus, our model, this element somehow 460 00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:58,620 of getting away to be with God is really, really important. 461 00:20:58,700 --> 00:21:01,580 And there's this rhythmic nature to it. 462 00:21:01,580 --> 00:21:04,980 So back to this music word, this rhythm, these choices that Jesus 463 00:21:04,980 --> 00:21:08,660 is making, the choices that we can make every day as part of our 464 00:21:08,660 --> 00:21:08,940 life. 465 00:21:09,180 --> 00:21:13,140 But we see that his mission, so the work that he's doing, it's 466 00:21:13,140 --> 00:21:14,420 empowered by this time. 467 00:21:14,420 --> 00:21:17,340 So in this rhythm of going out and being again, reset. 468 00:21:17,340 --> 00:21:18,220 I love that word. 469 00:21:18,630 --> 00:21:21,830 Like, he's going out, he's getting reset with God. 470 00:21:21,830 --> 00:21:23,430 He's being filled with his Father. 471 00:21:23,430 --> 00:21:29,790 He's getting back into this place of fullness and of listening 472 00:21:29,790 --> 00:21:31,350 and of abiding with God. 473 00:21:31,350 --> 00:21:35,110 And from that space, then he's able and empowered to do this work. 474 00:21:37,270 --> 00:21:41,030 Jesus says this thing, he says, come to me all you who are 475 00:21:41,030 --> 00:21:44,230 weary and burned, and I will give you rest for your souls. 476 00:21:45,790 --> 00:21:49,870 This rhythmic life of Jesus can seem really hard in a practical 477 00:21:49,870 --> 00:21:52,350 sense, like, how do I make this time? 478 00:21:52,350 --> 00:21:53,630 How do I make this space? 479 00:21:54,030 --> 00:21:56,310 Sometimes it would happen to me a lot when my kids were really 480 00:21:56,310 --> 00:21:58,110 little, where I'd be like, yes, I have this space. 481 00:21:58,110 --> 00:22:02,190 And then somebody would cry, okay, here we go. 482 00:22:02,670 --> 00:22:03,270 I did it. 483 00:22:03,270 --> 00:22:03,870 I did the thing. 484 00:22:03,870 --> 00:22:04,430 I got away. 485 00:22:04,430 --> 00:22:05,390 But now they need me. 486 00:22:05,390 --> 00:22:06,990 And now I have to go answer them. 487 00:22:07,310 --> 00:22:08,830 Though sometimes it can feel like that. 488 00:22:08,830 --> 00:22:09,150 But. 489 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:16,720 But this element of, like, trying to make these rhythms habitual 490 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,880 in our life, we see the fruit of it. 491 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,440 So what are ways that you have found? 492 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,080 What are rhythms that work for you? 493 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,520 So my morning people question. 494 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:31,880 My night people question. 495 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,360 The get up early in the morning to go off by yourself, typically 496 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:37,720 in my life does not work for me very well. 497 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:39,800 For some of you all, it works wonderful. 498 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,400 And I celebrate this for you. 499 00:22:42,180 --> 00:22:48,020 But what are rhythms that help you make that time and that space 500 00:22:48,020 --> 00:22:48,900 to get away? 501 00:22:48,980 --> 00:22:50,740 If that's something that you practice. 502 00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:52,580 Yeah, Crystal. 503 00:22:54,100 --> 00:22:57,340 So Crystal has some space that she identifies, and she has ways 504 00:22:57,340 --> 00:23:00,020 that she can incorporate prayers and that she can listen to 505 00:23:00,100 --> 00:23:01,580 as she's going along to do. 506 00:23:01,580 --> 00:23:01,900 Yeah. 507 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:04,020 So you find that time. 508 00:23:04,660 --> 00:23:05,220 Yep. 509 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:09,190 What are other rhythms that are things that you guys try to incorporate? 510 00:23:11,340 --> 00:23:11,740 Okay. 511 00:23:11,740 --> 00:23:12,780 Either one of you. 512 00:23:14,140 --> 00:23:15,740 So Angela brings up a great point. 513 00:23:15,900 --> 00:23:19,540 She's talking about times to get out of her house, out of her 514 00:23:19,540 --> 00:23:20,100 normal space. 515 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:25,099 And one of her rhythms is once a year to get away, like to the beach, 516 00:23:25,099 --> 00:23:26,700 to go someplace far away. 517 00:23:26,860 --> 00:23:29,820 So when we think about rhythms, we have daily rhythms. 518 00:23:29,820 --> 00:23:35,180 We have weekly rhythms, we have seasonal rhythms, we have yearly 519 00:23:35,180 --> 00:23:35,620 rhythms. 520 00:23:35,620 --> 00:23:37,120 So kind of those all can fit together. 521 00:23:37,430 --> 00:23:37,910 Fit together? 522 00:23:37,990 --> 00:23:38,390 Yeah. 523 00:23:38,390 --> 00:23:40,230 Not everything we have to do every day. 524 00:23:43,190 --> 00:23:46,790 Other rhythms that are helpful for you to find time and space. 525 00:23:47,030 --> 00:23:47,670 Yeah, Dina. 526 00:23:50,710 --> 00:23:53,630 So Dina's in conversation on her way to work, so she's in her 527 00:23:53,630 --> 00:23:53,910 car. 528 00:23:53,910 --> 00:23:56,510 So you kind of have that place and space set aside that you kind 529 00:23:56,510 --> 00:23:59,910 of know, this is some time with Jesus I've got right here. 530 00:24:00,310 --> 00:24:00,870 Yeah. 531 00:24:01,030 --> 00:24:01,590 Yeah. 532 00:24:03,350 --> 00:24:07,590 So in the realm of all of these rhythmic choices of our day, 533 00:24:08,310 --> 00:24:11,910 how do you hear and listen to the beat of the Holy Spirit? 534 00:24:13,110 --> 00:24:16,230 So what is that beat? 535 00:24:16,230 --> 00:24:17,350 And maybe this is not. 536 00:24:18,390 --> 00:24:19,510 I'll not forget that. 537 00:24:19,830 --> 00:24:21,270 How do you differentiate. 538 00:24:21,830 --> 00:24:27,070 How do you kind of hear the Holy Spirit driving force in your 539 00:24:27,070 --> 00:24:30,860 life versus your choices that you make throughout the day in terms 540 00:24:30,860 --> 00:24:32,140 of how you spend your time? 541 00:24:34,380 --> 00:24:39,420 So Kevin talks about being still and being quiet and listening 542 00:24:39,580 --> 00:24:40,700 and just pausing. 543 00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:43,100 Silence is A way. 544 00:24:44,140 --> 00:24:49,700 We practice silence a lot here for lots of reasons, but one is kind 545 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:55,700 of that it's this intentional pause to just sit and be and listen 546 00:24:55,700 --> 00:25:00,170 and let sort of all of those inner voices and all the external 547 00:25:00,170 --> 00:25:04,570 voices be quiet to try to hear that still small voice. 548 00:25:05,530 --> 00:25:08,970 So, John Mark Comer, this book that we've been going through, he 549 00:25:08,970 --> 00:25:13,690 gives four suggestions, and really they're about getting away, 550 00:25:13,690 --> 00:25:15,730 getting quiet, simplifying and slowing down. 551 00:25:15,730 --> 00:25:18,490 So his first one is Silence and Solitude. 552 00:25:18,730 --> 00:25:23,850 So what are the places and spaces that you can go to to be alone? 553 00:25:25,170 --> 00:25:28,130 What are the places that help you hear, that help you listen? 554 00:25:30,130 --> 00:25:32,210 Sometimes that might be outside of your house? 555 00:25:32,450 --> 00:25:33,090 Sometimes. 556 00:25:34,050 --> 00:25:38,810 For me, one of the places that I feel the most connected to God 557 00:25:38,810 --> 00:25:41,090 is when I'm out on a hike in nature. 558 00:25:42,290 --> 00:25:47,170 It's just whether I'm talking and engaged with the people that 559 00:25:47,170 --> 00:25:49,970 are with me or it's just quiet and you just hear. 560 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,720 One of my favorite sounds in the whole entire world is when you're 561 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,680 walking in the woods and you start to hear water. 562 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,240 And so for me, that's just. 563 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,200 That's a practice that's been very helpful. 564 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:01,800 But there's. 565 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:07,280 There's something to getting out of the normal, everyday, unending 566 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,920 demand for you to make choices that just says, actually, wait, stop. 567 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,240 I'm gonna separate for a little while. 568 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,390 I'm gonna take some time and just be present in a different way. 569 00:26:19,110 --> 00:26:20,870 He also talks about Sabbath. 570 00:26:22,070 --> 00:26:23,030 Sabbath is a. 571 00:26:23,030 --> 00:26:28,870 Is this practice, right, that goes back long ways, but it's a practice 572 00:26:28,870 --> 00:26:34,470 of intentionally setting aside time to rest and also to draw near 573 00:26:34,470 --> 00:26:34,990 to God. 574 00:26:34,990 --> 00:26:35,550 It's both. 575 00:26:35,550 --> 00:26:38,550 And so it is rest, for sure. 576 00:26:39,190 --> 00:26:42,150 But then it's also what is helping us turn our attention. 577 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,320 There's an old hymn that says, tune my heart to hear your praise 578 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,160 or to sing your praise. 579 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,760 Tune my heart to sing your grace. 580 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,240 It's something bad, guys. 581 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,000 You look it up later. 582 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:59,560 But it talks about tuning our heart to hear God and to be in alignment 583 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:00,000 with him. 584 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:00,960 And so there's this. 585 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,960 There's this element of. 586 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:07,760 In that Sabbath, in the midst of all of the crazy, like, going, 587 00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:12,500 I'm going to seek you first or second or third or fourth. 588 00:27:12,820 --> 00:27:16,860 But I'm going to seek you to have that time where I can reset 589 00:27:16,860 --> 00:27:20,820 and hear your voice and find that beat again. 590 00:27:22,340 --> 00:27:23,700 I want you guys to try something. 591 00:27:24,019 --> 00:27:25,540 I'm not going to give you a beat. 592 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:28,820 And I want this side to clap eighth notes, and I want this side 593 00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:30,420 to clap triplets. 594 00:27:30,420 --> 00:27:30,740 Okay? 595 00:27:30,740 --> 00:27:31,020 Ready? 596 00:27:31,020 --> 00:27:31,300 Go. 597 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:40,440 All right, good. 598 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:40,840 Stop. 599 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:41,520 Yeah. 600 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:42,320 So it took a Little bit. 601 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,200 You guys, actually, you did better than I thought you were going 602 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:44,400 to do. 603 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:44,920 Good job. 604 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:53,480 But yeah, if you, if you don't have that initial beat to set you 605 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:53,760 off. 606 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:54,120 Right. 607 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,200 Like, it might take a little bit more to find that kind of solid, 608 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,200 solid rhythm if you. 609 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:01,160 Yeah. 610 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:01,960 Anyway, so. 611 00:28:03,490 --> 00:28:06,610 So the third thing that Comer talks about is simplicity. 612 00:28:07,010 --> 00:28:09,490 I don't know if you ever feel like your life is complicated. 613 00:28:10,290 --> 00:28:12,450 I feel like my life is complicated a lot. 614 00:28:13,650 --> 00:28:18,610 We have ways of complicating our life with stuff, with choices, 615 00:28:18,689 --> 00:28:20,370 with demands. 616 00:28:20,610 --> 00:28:24,010 And some of that feels, to me, I feel kind of helpless in. 617 00:28:24,010 --> 00:28:27,730 Because I feel like some of the complexity of my life comes because 618 00:28:27,730 --> 00:28:32,060 of other people's expectations of me or society's expectations of 619 00:28:32,060 --> 00:28:39,540 me, or all of the emails that come from my child's school or parents 620 00:28:39,540 --> 00:28:39,980 square. 621 00:28:39,980 --> 00:28:47,140 Yeah, but there's all of these things going on and so there's intentionality 622 00:28:47,140 --> 00:28:48,660 that I have to have to say. 623 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:53,460 How do I peel back some of this and remember the simple. 624 00:28:53,460 --> 00:28:55,380 Like, what are the simple truths that I'm after? 625 00:28:56,110 --> 00:28:58,590 What are the simple things that I want my kids to remember? 626 00:29:00,750 --> 00:29:02,750 What is this life with Jesus all about? 627 00:29:03,390 --> 00:29:06,710 How do I kind of not get lost in the complexity? 628 00:29:06,710 --> 00:29:08,510 So I lose my mission. 629 00:29:10,110 --> 00:29:13,030 And then the fourth thing that Comer talks about, he talks about 630 00:29:13,030 --> 00:29:13,710 slowing. 631 00:29:14,830 --> 00:29:22,260 So our pace as a culture in the west is like non stop, right. 632 00:29:22,660 --> 00:29:24,620 It just goes and goes and goes and goes. 633 00:29:24,620 --> 00:29:27,460 And if you don't keep up, well, it's too bad for you, like, 634 00:29:27,940 --> 00:29:30,900 get up and get back in line. 635 00:29:30,980 --> 00:29:34,580 That's kind of the, kind of the Western idea. 636 00:29:35,060 --> 00:29:38,540 But our pace is so, so fast. 637 00:29:38,540 --> 00:29:43,620 There are other countries, right, where like an afternoon siesta, 638 00:29:43,620 --> 00:29:46,140 or literally, like there's this time in the middle of the day 639 00:29:46,140 --> 00:29:46,900 where they rest. 640 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:48,900 It's just part of their normal rhythm. 641 00:29:50,140 --> 00:29:53,420 I kind of wish we had that in our society. 642 00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:54,620 It'd be really nice. 643 00:29:55,660 --> 00:29:57,020 It'd be really nice. 644 00:29:57,100 --> 00:29:57,500 Right. 645 00:29:57,500 --> 00:29:59,620 I'm all for the siesta, but. 646 00:29:59,620 --> 00:30:03,620 So we have to figure out what does it look like if I can't take 647 00:30:03,620 --> 00:30:06,740 a siesta in the middle of work, which is generally frowned 648 00:30:06,740 --> 00:30:07,820 upon in the West? 649 00:30:08,540 --> 00:30:12,940 What does it look like for me to have other rhythms where I can 650 00:30:13,020 --> 00:30:15,900 still find those places of rest, where I can slow down, even 651 00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:21,190 if it's two minutes in my car, where I can just pause for 30 seconds? 652 00:30:21,190 --> 00:30:24,910 Or if before I'm going into a meeting, I stop and I pray and I 653 00:30:24,910 --> 00:30:26,470 say, lord, would you be with me? 654 00:30:26,790 --> 00:30:29,430 Would you help me to respond like somebody who loves you? 655 00:30:30,310 --> 00:30:36,350 Or if it's before I go into something I'm really nervous about 656 00:30:36,350 --> 00:30:38,630 and really anxious about, Right. 657 00:30:38,630 --> 00:30:41,590 If I can just say, lord, would you be with me and help me to rest 658 00:30:41,670 --> 00:30:45,070 in your goodness and in your love for me? 659 00:30:45,070 --> 00:30:49,190 And can you remind me that my value is in who I am and not what 660 00:30:49,190 --> 00:30:49,750 I do? 661 00:30:50,150 --> 00:30:51,510 That's a hard one for me. 662 00:30:51,670 --> 00:30:56,590 It's a hard one for me because I've been told and grown up in a 663 00:30:56,590 --> 00:30:59,590 society that tells me my worth is all about what I do. 664 00:30:59,910 --> 00:31:01,910 And so I've embodied that some. 665 00:31:01,910 --> 00:31:03,430 And so it's something I have to fight against. 666 00:31:03,430 --> 00:31:06,310 Because even if I know cognitively, like I know in my head, 667 00:31:06,470 --> 00:31:08,790 God loves me for who I am, not for what I do. 668 00:31:09,470 --> 00:31:10,910 I love me for what I do. 669 00:31:12,030 --> 00:31:13,950 And so it's something I have to battle against. 670 00:31:17,070 --> 00:31:23,670 But that beat, that centering voice of the Holy Spirit that says, 671 00:31:23,670 --> 00:31:27,270 emily, come back, sit with me. 672 00:31:27,270 --> 00:31:31,750 Let me remind you who you are and how I see you and how much I 673 00:31:31,750 --> 00:31:34,270 love you and how much you matter to me. 674 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:36,200 Let me remind you. 675 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,000 It's really important. 676 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:42,960 If that is what I'm centering on, then my rhythms, they're gonna 677 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:43,720 line up better. 678 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,840 I'm gonna make choices that are gonna be more in alignment with 679 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,960 that, but I have to listen for it first. 680 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,160 There's this whole thing about practice and motivation, right? 681 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,000 All of this takes practice. 682 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,400 Like, we look at the life of Jesus, and he's like, he did it. 683 00:31:58,400 --> 00:31:58,840 He did it. 684 00:31:58,840 --> 00:31:59,200 He did it. 685 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:00,200 He did it, and he did it. 686 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,000 Okay, that's great. 687 00:32:01,670 --> 00:32:03,270 He's Jesus, and he is. 688 00:32:04,390 --> 00:32:07,150 And part of this was because it's just who he was and how his 689 00:32:07,150 --> 00:32:08,070 rhythms worked. 690 00:32:08,070 --> 00:32:10,350 And he invites us into this practice. 691 00:32:10,350 --> 00:32:12,630 And we have practiced that word for a reason. 692 00:32:12,630 --> 00:32:13,750 In a musical sense. 693 00:32:13,910 --> 00:32:16,430 When you're practicing, when you're learning an instrument, you 694 00:32:16,430 --> 00:32:18,070 have to practice, right, Tobias? 695 00:32:18,310 --> 00:32:19,910 Yeah, you have to practice because. 696 00:32:19,990 --> 00:32:23,430 Do you know how to play every note on the flute right now? 697 00:32:23,910 --> 00:32:24,230 Or. 698 00:32:24,230 --> 00:32:25,950 All of the rhythms are all the things. 699 00:32:25,950 --> 00:32:27,910 Yeah, you got to learn, you got to practice, right? 700 00:32:28,690 --> 00:32:29,090 Yeah. 701 00:32:29,570 --> 00:32:32,250 So with music, right, you put. 702 00:32:32,250 --> 00:32:35,370 Or anything, whatever we're doing, whatever practices that we're 703 00:32:35,370 --> 00:32:37,530 following, that practice pays off. 704 00:32:37,530 --> 00:32:39,730 But practice requires actually motivation. 705 00:32:40,450 --> 00:32:43,050 So, like, what is it that's keeping you? 706 00:32:43,050 --> 00:32:44,690 Why do you want to do the practice? 707 00:32:45,650 --> 00:32:46,290 Like, just. 708 00:32:47,010 --> 00:32:48,930 Because that can be a valid reason. 709 00:32:50,610 --> 00:32:56,220 But I want to suggest four things that kind of make the idea 710 00:32:56,220 --> 00:33:00,380 of practicing this life with Jesus, four motivations. 711 00:33:01,660 --> 00:33:03,100 So the first one is love. 712 00:33:04,620 --> 00:33:10,140 When we are centering in God, when we are letting him empower us 713 00:33:10,140 --> 00:33:13,980 when we're choosing to be to listen to his beat in our life. 714 00:33:14,380 --> 00:33:18,140 That undergirding thing that flows in us is this idea of love. 715 00:33:18,780 --> 00:33:23,080 First John 4:19 says that we love because he first loved us. 716 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,120 So there's this reciprocal rhythmic nature to that. 717 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,160 So I love because God loves me. 718 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:30,920 I love because God loves me. 719 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,360 I love because he loves me. 720 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,520 Why do I choose to try to see people with love? 721 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,680 Because that's how he sees me. 722 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,520 Galatians 5:22 and 23 talk all about the fruit of the Spirit. 723 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,760 So the second motivation for me is this idea of transformation 724 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:49,320 and growth. 725 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,600 So, like, as we practice this life with Jesus, as we get better 726 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,360 about it, it bears fruit in us. 727 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,280 It's not just like, yeah, it's a good thing to do because I need 728 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,600 something to do on a Sunday morning or a Wednesday night or a 729 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,720 Tuesday at 5am or a Thursday at 10pm when we practice this way 730 00:34:08,720 --> 00:34:13,960 of life with Jesus, we see the fruit of the Spirit grow in us. 731 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,320 So love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, goodness, self 732 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:17,600 control. 733 00:34:19,020 --> 00:34:20,460 The third one is freedom. 734 00:34:22,620 --> 00:34:26,500 Second Corinthians 3:17 says, now the Lord is Spirit, and where 735 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:29,180 the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 736 00:34:29,820 --> 00:34:34,340 There are ways that we get caught in things that kind of tie 737 00:34:34,340 --> 00:34:37,020 us down, that want to keep us held hostage. 738 00:34:37,580 --> 00:34:40,500 Sometimes it's lies from people around us, sometimes it's 739 00:34:40,500 --> 00:34:41,420 habits we develop. 740 00:34:41,740 --> 00:34:45,260 Sometimes it's just very difficult circumstances. 741 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,120 But there's this freedom in the life with Christ that He promises. 742 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:57,240 And then the fourth one is life, this idea of fullness, of life. 743 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,280 Romans 8:11 talks about this, about how Jesus was raised from the 744 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,720 dead to life and how that same Spirit gives us life. 745 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,080 So those are things that motivate me in this practice. 746 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,230 So I would just offer those to you this morning from, from Scripture. 747 00:35:12,230 --> 00:35:15,270 But this whole thing is centered around the idea that time 748 00:35:15,270 --> 00:35:19,390 with God empowers and informs the work that he invites us to do. 749 00:35:20,350 --> 00:35:22,670 So what is God inviting you to do? 750 00:35:24,110 --> 00:35:26,110 Who is God inviting you to see? 751 00:35:26,350 --> 00:35:32,030 Who is God inviting you to heal or eat with or be with? 752 00:35:32,510 --> 00:35:34,190 Where is he asking you to go? 753 00:35:34,670 --> 00:35:36,910 How is he inviting you to be present? 754 00:35:38,250 --> 00:35:43,170 Wherever that is, whoever that's with, he doesn't ask you to 755 00:35:43,170 --> 00:35:46,250 do it by yourself or all on your own power. 756 00:35:46,570 --> 00:35:51,690 He's inviting you to come back and reset with him, to hear that 757 00:35:51,690 --> 00:35:56,170 rhythm, to be empowered and then to go out and to do that work. 758 00:35:57,130 --> 00:36:01,250 So I don't know what your schedules look like, what your spreadsheets 759 00:36:01,250 --> 00:36:04,920 would look like, what your time orientation would look like. 760 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:11,520 But if we continue to practice this rhythm together of listening 761 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,200 for that beat of the Holy Spirit, you guys can come on in. 762 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:14,760 Come on in. 763 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,680 As we do that as a church, as a body, as a community, if we can 764 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:24,480 stay centered in that, there's fruit that that he promises will 765 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:25,280 come for in that. 766 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,760 So let us pray and then we'll kind of close out our time. 767 00:36:30,130 --> 00:36:33,570 Father God, I thank you that you see us and that you call us to 768 00:36:33,570 --> 00:36:33,890 you. 769 00:36:34,450 --> 00:36:38,930 I thank you that your Holy Spirit is moving in and through us. 770 00:36:38,930 --> 00:36:44,250 I thank you that you invite us to sit and to be and to be reminded 771 00:36:44,250 --> 00:36:45,650 of who and whose we are. 772 00:36:47,010 --> 00:36:50,530 So Lord, would you help us to find the spaces and places in the 773 00:36:50,530 --> 00:36:57,500 time this week to be with you in the small moments and as we can 774 00:36:57,500 --> 00:36:58,660 in some larger ones. 775 00:36:58,660 --> 00:37:02,580 God, but I just pray that you would keep calling us back, that 776 00:37:02,580 --> 00:37:06,820 you would help us to keep hearing your beat stronger and that 777 00:37:06,820 --> 00:37:09,420 you would just help us to live in alignment with you. 778 00:37:10,140 --> 00:37:11,020 We love you Jesus. 779 00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:12,220 We just pray this in your name. 780 00:37:12,380 --> 00:37:12,940 Amen. 781 00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:19,540 Thank you for participating in the conversation happening at Heaven 782 00:37:19,540 --> 00:37:20,700 Earth Church. 783 00:37:21,180 --> 00:37:26,460 Your next opportunity to do so live is this Sunday morning, 9:30am 784 00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:32,060 Eastern Time, either at the main campus at 309 East Main in Whiteland, 785 00:37:32,060 --> 00:37:35,980 Indiana or online at YouTube Live. 786 00:37:36,460 --> 00:37:43,500 That's@YouTube.com heavenerthchurch the audio podcast 787 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:49,000 is always available at Apple Podcast and on Spotify. 788 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:53,800 You can help others find out about the Heaven Earth Church podcast 789 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,920 by going to Apple Podcasts and or Spotify and leaving a five star 790 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,520 rating in your review. 791 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,240 Instructions on how to do just that and links are in the show notes. 792 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:11,880 You can always find out more by going to the church website heavenearthchurch.org 793 00:38:13,090 --> 00:38:13,210 we. 794 00:38:13,210 --> 00:38:15,410 Want to thank you for spending time with us today. 795 00:38:15,570 --> 00:38:18,930 My name is Ross Stackhouse, the pastor to Heaven Earth Church 796 00:38:19,330 --> 00:38:22,650 and you may think out there that your story is over, but in fact 797 00:38:22,650 --> 00:38:25,730 your faith story may just be beginning. 798 00:38:26,050 --> 00:38:28,890 If you want more information about our church or you're interested 799 00:38:28,890 --> 00:38:32,930 in the next step, you can go to heavenearthchurch.org otherwise 800 00:38:32,930 --> 00:38:36,090 we look forward to being with you next time at the Heaven Earth 801 00:38:36,090 --> 00:38:37,090 Church podcast. 802 00:38:38,220 --> 00:38:53,740 Sam.