1 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:07,680 Well, good morning again. 2 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,160 God is always so good and we're going to jump right into this 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,920 today. I believe God has something for us before we do. Real quick, 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,520 next Saturday, there is a motorcycle and car show that's going to, 5 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,520 that's going to help our food ministry. And so we'd invite you to be a 6 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,120 part of that $20. There's going to be food trucks and events and 7 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:33,060 different, different things. You can take part, be a part of this. 8 00:00:33,060 --> 00:00:36,460 And again, it's gonna go. The proceeds are gonna go to help our food ministry. 9 00:00:36,460 --> 00:00:40,180 It'll be over here on May 2nd over here in our parking lot. If 10 00:00:40,180 --> 00:00:43,940 you're interested in like antique cars and motorcycles, it's gonna be a good day, so 11 00:00:43,940 --> 00:00:46,780 come and be a part of that. Okay, if you'll stand with me, we're gonna 12 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:50,500 go to Ephesians chapter 4. As we continue to nudge along in 13 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:54,260 the next part of our series. Here arise. So let's read with some 14 00:00:54,260 --> 00:00:57,780 gusto today. Here we go. As a prisoner for the 15 00:00:57,780 --> 00:01:01,260 Lord, then I urge you to live a life 16 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:05,080 worthy of the call. Be 17 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,680 completely humble and gentle. Be patient 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,600 bearing with one another in love. Make every 19 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,280 effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the 20 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,640 bond of peace. There is one body and 21 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,480 one Spirit. Just as you were called to one 22 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,240 hope when you were called one Lord, one 23 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,710 faith, one baptism, one, one God and 24 00:01:30,710 --> 00:01:34,230 Father of all, who is over all and through 25 00:01:34,310 --> 00:01:38,070 all and in all. But to each one of us 26 00:01:38,150 --> 00:01:41,830 grace has been given. As Christ appointed, 27 00:01:42,550 --> 00:01:45,990 so Christ himself gave the apostles, the 28 00:01:45,990 --> 00:01:49,510 prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and the 29 00:01:49,510 --> 00:01:53,070 teachers to equip his people for works of 30 00:01:53,070 --> 00:01:56,790 service so that the body of Christ may be built 31 00:01:56,790 --> 00:02:00,540 up until we reach unity in the faith 32 00:02:00,700 --> 00:02:04,220 and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become 33 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:07,780 mature, attaining to the whole measure of the 34 00:02:07,780 --> 00:02:10,940 fullness of Christ. Father, I thank you for your word. I thank you that it 35 00:02:10,940 --> 00:02:14,779 brings life. I pray, Lord that it would transform us from the inside out 36 00:02:14,779 --> 00:02:18,580 today. God, we love you and we thank you for the gift of your Holy 37 00:02:18,580 --> 00:02:22,340 Spirit in Jesus name. And everybody said amen. Amen. Well, 38 00:02:22,340 --> 00:02:26,020 we are continuing along and real quick, Nick, I just wanna say I'm so glad 39 00:02:26,020 --> 00:02:29,620 you're here today, brother. God is so good. He is so good. 40 00:02:29,620 --> 00:02:30,460 Our protect. 41 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:37,320 We are continuing along in this three part series of the year 42 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,160 under the banner of Abide. Our first section of the series is Abide. 43 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,960 And we are in week two of this second section which is 44 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,720 Arise. And so in the Abide section, one of the things that 45 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,480 we majored on and identified was that Jesus is 46 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:56,280 our source. He is the source of everything we do. 47 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,080 He's the source of our life. And the Word tells us that he is the 48 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,860 vine and we are the branches where the branches. 49 00:03:03,860 --> 00:03:07,660 And in that dynamic, there's some budding that begins to happen on 50 00:03:07,660 --> 00:03:11,380 those branches. And this section of arise is addressing 51 00:03:11,380 --> 00:03:15,220 that little budding that starts to happen on the branches as we truly 52 00:03:15,220 --> 00:03:18,660 submit our lives to the Source who is Jesus 53 00:03:18,740 --> 00:03:22,540 Christ. You know, I often tell the students at the 54 00:03:22,540 --> 00:03:26,020 school that I really don't prefer them to take tests 55 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:29,860 using just Cliff notes because one day they're gonna 56 00:03:29,860 --> 00:03:33,420 be raised up to be heart surgeons. And does anybody wanna go under heart 57 00:03:33,420 --> 00:03:36,960 surgery with somebo who just read the cliff Notes to get there? No. 58 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,400 There's a journey. We want them to know the whole thing. And so if you're 59 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,920 anything like me, I have a propensity to go from the abide 60 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,560 section of this source drawing from the Lord. And I wanna 61 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,320 jump right over a rise into advance and I wanna start doing something 62 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:55,080 I always wanna get out there and start doing. But there's this section in 63 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,680 the middle. Before we get to the privilege of going out and doing things that 64 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,920 we must address and we must lock into. And so 65 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,760 that's kind of where we are. So 66 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:09,980 the Source he is. And faith is revealed by how much you 67 00:04:10,060 --> 00:04:13,500 depend. And so we are drawing from this idea that 68 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:16,980 dependency readily recognizes. I am not 69 00:04:16,980 --> 00:04:20,380 ready in my own strength. I am not 70 00:04:20,380 --> 00:04:23,900 ready in my own strength. The Lord never 71 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:27,220 puts you in a position and says, now I want you to draw on what 72 00:04:27,220 --> 00:04:30,900 you brought to the table. You alone, your strength. And I want you to 73 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:34,420 go and accomplish X, Y and Z. No, we draw 74 00:04:34,420 --> 00:04:38,210 from the Source and he is the one who gives us. 75 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,240 And I believe that this is the first 76 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,840 response with regard to maturity for 77 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:49,560 believers. This is the first response that we have if we're maturing 78 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:53,320 in the Lord, we understand. I cannot do this on 79 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,840 my own. Now the world around us teaches us a very different 80 00:04:56,840 --> 00:05:00,280 story. It says, build upon your life, grow in 81 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:04,000 stature and might learn all the lessons and go out and be independent 82 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,760 and do yourself. Some of you got teenagers, 17, 18, 19 year old, and they 83 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,100 cannot wait to get out of your house. They cannot wait to run out the 84 00:05:11,100 --> 00:05:14,660 door. But if you've been around for a while, you'll 85 00:05:14,660 --> 00:05:18,380 notice that around maybe 21, 22, 23, they start 86 00:05:18,380 --> 00:05:21,980 realizing, man, I had some things in that teenage 87 00:05:21,980 --> 00:05:25,660 stage that I don't have anymore. You know, when that telephone bill starts coming, 88 00:05:25,660 --> 00:05:29,180 that house bill starts Coming. When those things, those grocery bills start coming, all of 89 00:05:29,180 --> 00:05:32,820 a sudden, they start knocking at the door. Then let them start having kids. 90 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:36,620 And the apology start happening. Mom, I am so sorry that 91 00:05:36,620 --> 00:05:39,900 I treated you the way I did. Daddy, I'm so sorry for the things that 92 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:43,660 I put you through. We want to sit with God and then 93 00:05:43,660 --> 00:05:47,340 immediately go do something for God. But there's this middle space 94 00:05:47,340 --> 00:05:49,900 that we cannot skip. Does anybody have one of these in their house? 95 00:05:52,620 --> 00:05:56,380 This is called a messy drawer. This is called 96 00:05:56,380 --> 00:05:59,900 a dump drawer. A messy drawer. 97 00:06:00,460 --> 00:06:03,980 This is the place where we put those random items that we find, 98 00:06:04,300 --> 00:06:08,100 but we can't quite get rid of them and get them to the trash. Cause 99 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:11,920 they're not quite trash. But I don't know exactly what. Where to put it. So 100 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,560 it goes into the messy drawer. We have one of these and six 101 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,320 more. And the kitchen 102 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,000 can be completely clean. The counters can be wiped down, the dishes put 103 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,000 away. Everything looks right. And then you open 104 00:06:26,719 --> 00:06:30,320 that drawer and it's chaos. It's batteries, rubber 105 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,960 bands, it's nails, it's cords, 106 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,800 it's old receipts, it's things you forgot you even had. And 107 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,400 even in a completely clean kitchen, you have this messy 108 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:45,180 drawer. Because the mess is hidden and it's not dealt 109 00:06:45,180 --> 00:06:48,940 with. It's just contained. And a lot of us will live our 110 00:06:48,940 --> 00:06:52,700 lives in the exact same way. The external portions of 111 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:56,500 our life look clean because we've worked hard to make sure 112 00:06:56,500 --> 00:07:00,020 that anybody comes into that environment, they see a clean 113 00:07:00,180 --> 00:07:03,900 life. But really what's happening on the inside 114 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:07,700 is there's a mess. Listen, when you come to Christ 115 00:07:08,180 --> 00:07:11,820 and you get to the part of surrender where you say, you're my source, it 116 00:07:11,820 --> 00:07:15,320 doesn't mean that you have holy amnesia. In all of the mess of your life 117 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,040 just disappears. The mess is there. And the mess 118 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,280 needs to be addressed. The mess needs to be 119 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,080 addressed. And so we've become really 120 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,759 good at managing appearances while avoiding 121 00:07:30,759 --> 00:07:34,120 transformative work. We've been really good about 122 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,840 managing our appearances while avoiding the transformative 123 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,470 work of the Lord. God can call you, he can 124 00:07:41,470 --> 00:07:45,230 anoint you, he can even use you. But if there are areas 125 00:07:45,470 --> 00:07:48,190 of your life that remain undealt with, 126 00:07:48,590 --> 00:07:51,790 eventually that drawer is going to fly open. 127 00:07:52,190 --> 00:07:55,070 From the pressures of leadership, responsibilities 128 00:07:55,710 --> 00:07:59,390 and pressure arise is a space where 129 00:07:59,390 --> 00:08:02,910 God deals with you. He 130 00:08:02,910 --> 00:08:06,560 deals with me. Not just what people see, but. But what 131 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,400 actually is happening underneath the surface and in the 132 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:14,080 drawer. I believe that if you have professed your 133 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,680 faith in Jesus Christ, that the God who breathes stars has a 134 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:21,320 calling on your life. Every Person here has an 135 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:25,080 assignment. And my call is not the same as Deanne's call. My call 136 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,760 is not the same as Barbie's call. My call is not the same 137 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,880 as Hannah's call or Sam's call. We all have 138 00:08:32,450 --> 00:08:36,090 different calls in our lives, different things, 139 00:08:36,090 --> 00:08:39,930 different assignments that the Lord has given us. And pertaining to our 140 00:08:39,930 --> 00:08:43,570 call, Romans 11 says this. God's gift and his call 141 00:08:43,810 --> 00:08:47,610 are irrevocable. So the great thing about this is that the call 142 00:08:47,610 --> 00:08:51,450 on your life, despite your actions and your attitude and what 143 00:08:51,450 --> 00:08:54,930 you do, what God has designed you to do, is locked in. It's 144 00:08:54,930 --> 00:08:58,770 irrevocable. You know, we used to sing a song that said, I fall down and 145 00:08:58,770 --> 00:09:02,610 I get up. I fall down and I get up. The saints are just sinners 146 00:09:02,610 --> 00:09:06,290 who fall down and get up. Anybody fell down and got up this past 147 00:09:06,290 --> 00:09:09,890 week? Anybody willing to admit that? Anybody fall down and 148 00:09:09,890 --> 00:09:13,650 get up this morning? Anybody fall down 149 00:09:13,650 --> 00:09:17,450 and get up within this worship service? Okay, yeah. I mean, we fall down 150 00:09:18,170 --> 00:09:21,850 and we get up. But here's the thing. His call on your life is 151 00:09:21,850 --> 00:09:25,650 irrevocable. That means what he's determined to do in the call 152 00:09:25,650 --> 00:09:29,210 on your life. It's not changing. That's good news. The bad 153 00:09:29,210 --> 00:09:32,950 news is this. While calling is guaranteed, maturity 154 00:09:32,950 --> 00:09:36,590 is not. While calling is guaranteed, 155 00:09:36,590 --> 00:09:39,990 maturity is not. And calling doesn't cover up your mess. It 156 00:09:39,990 --> 00:09:43,710 exposes. Exposes it. This is why Paul says 157 00:09:43,710 --> 00:09:47,349 this. He says, walk worthy of the 158 00:09:47,349 --> 00:09:51,190 calling you've received. This is an action 159 00:09:51,350 --> 00:09:54,790 point. We are supposed to proactively walk 160 00:09:54,870 --> 00:09:58,150 worthy of the calling that we've received 161 00:09:59,270 --> 00:10:02,870 on our lives. It's not just about what's visible and what others can 162 00:10:03,410 --> 00:10:06,970 about what's happening on the inside of our lives. And here's what I want us 163 00:10:06,970 --> 00:10:10,570 to really zone in on today. Your character 164 00:10:10,570 --> 00:10:14,050 carries your calling. Your character 165 00:10:14,690 --> 00:10:17,970 carries your calling. So let's look at a definition of 166 00:10:18,130 --> 00:10:21,890 character. Character is the inward maturing of 167 00:10:21,890 --> 00:10:25,330 Christlikeness that is evident in our outward 168 00:10:25,330 --> 00:10:29,010 obedience to God. So it's the inward maturing 169 00:10:29,250 --> 00:10:32,970 of Christ likeness. And this entire portion of this series 170 00:10:32,970 --> 00:10:36,710 that's gonna carry us through the summ with the messages that the 171 00:10:36,710 --> 00:10:40,230 people are going to bring from this platform are going to be catering 172 00:10:40,230 --> 00:10:43,870 to this maturing in Christ, this maturing 173 00:10:43,870 --> 00:10:47,710 of what's happening on the inside, which is what is this arise 174 00:10:48,350 --> 00:10:51,990 section. So character is who you are when nobody is 175 00:10:51,990 --> 00:10:55,750 watching you. Character holds you when the pressure 176 00:10:55,750 --> 00:10:59,390 hits. Character is what determines whether you can sustain 177 00:10:59,390 --> 00:11:02,670 what God gives you. Now we'll celebrate calling all day long. 178 00:11:03,420 --> 00:11:07,220 But God is Developing our character on 179 00:11:07,220 --> 00:11:10,780 the inside. And here's what I want us to really understand. A 180 00:11:10,780 --> 00:11:14,500 big calling paired with immature character is a dangerous 181 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:17,940 combination. A big calling paired with 182 00:11:17,940 --> 00:11:21,500 immature character is a dangerous combination. 183 00:11:21,820 --> 00:11:25,660 I mentioned this last week. I believe that there is a 184 00:11:25,660 --> 00:11:28,940 boldness rising up in the church. Large C. Okay, 185 00:11:29,020 --> 00:11:32,820 possibly small C. There's a boldness. And that boldness that's rising up 186 00:11:32,820 --> 00:11:36,320 right now is not a bad thing. It's actually a really. A really good thing. 187 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,960 But if that boldness is not rooted in spiritual 188 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,760 maturity, it becomes dangerous. I 189 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,520 believe by and large what we are lacking in 190 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,199 the church is maturity. We can see 191 00:11:51,199 --> 00:11:54,880 what the outcome should be, but we have little idea of how 192 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,280 to really actually get there. So rather than wait and respond 193 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,040 from a place of spiritual maturity, we knee jerk 194 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,670 respond and lack the spiritual discipline of restraint 195 00:12:05,670 --> 00:12:07,950 and end up doing a lot more harm than good. 196 00:12:09,950 --> 00:12:13,550 Here's the thing. Some of us are not able to come up to the same 197 00:12:13,550 --> 00:12:15,470 standard that we project on other people. 198 00:12:18,270 --> 00:12:21,310 So let me give you an example of this. 199 00:12:22,750 --> 00:12:26,510 The question that we're dealing with in our culture 200 00:12:26,510 --> 00:12:29,630 I put up last week is, will I be formed, 201 00:12:31,140 --> 00:12:34,740 world I live in, or will I be formed by the 202 00:12:34,740 --> 00:12:38,340 kingdom to which I belong? So 203 00:12:38,340 --> 00:12:41,860 here's a microphone that I speak into. But if I do this. 204 00:12:50,820 --> 00:12:53,700 Okay, you want me to do it again? No. Okay, 205 00:12:55,390 --> 00:12:58,830 here's the thing. When we 206 00:12:58,990 --> 00:13:02,710 amplify voices that are not spiritually 207 00:13:02,710 --> 00:13:05,870 mature, then all we do is create 208 00:13:06,030 --> 00:13:08,270 resounding noise that makes nonsense. 209 00:13:11,229 --> 00:13:14,990 When we elevate and give a platform to people 210 00:13:15,230 --> 00:13:19,070 who have not walked through the process of sanctification 211 00:13:19,070 --> 00:13:22,630 and walk through, are not actively walking through the process of 212 00:13:22,630 --> 00:13:25,150 sanctification, they begin to 213 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,520 handle truth and begin to try to lead people in a 214 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,160 direction that they themselves don't have a handle on. 215 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,440 In other words, listen. Is the 216 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,240 clarity of the lies that the world 217 00:13:41,319 --> 00:13:44,960 is giving? Is the clarity better than the 218 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,760 confusion and the distorted truth that we try to give as believers in 219 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,200 the church? All because the 220 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,870 packaging and how it's delivered is 221 00:13:55,870 --> 00:13:59,070 not done with a degree of spiritual maturity. 222 00:13:59,630 --> 00:14:03,350 I don't want us to be a people who go out and 223 00:14:03,350 --> 00:14:07,070 use our platform. And when I say platform, I don't mean church 224 00:14:07,070 --> 00:14:10,110 on Sunday stage. That certainly is a platform. 225 00:14:10,830 --> 00:14:14,390 But I'm talking about your job. I'm talking about that thing the 226 00:14:14,390 --> 00:14:18,030 Lord's called you to, the place you're going, the people you rub elbows with, 227 00:14:18,190 --> 00:14:21,830 your family, these platforms that God gives you. If 228 00:14:21,830 --> 00:14:25,590 we are not allowing the God of the universe to do a work 229 00:14:25,590 --> 00:14:29,370 within our lives to transform us into levels 230 00:14:29,370 --> 00:14:33,050 of spiritual maturity, then we will not be ready to 231 00:14:33,050 --> 00:14:36,530 render the truth in the right way. If we're not 232 00:14:36,530 --> 00:14:40,330 careful, we will cause damage and destruction to believers all around us. 233 00:14:40,330 --> 00:14:44,050 Then there's confusion and chaos. God is not a God of confusion 234 00:14:44,050 --> 00:14:47,690 and chaos. He does not birth it, but his people. Certainly 235 00:14:47,770 --> 00:14:51,570 with meddling things, they can cause chaos. We can cause chaos. 236 00:14:51,570 --> 00:14:55,350 So this is. Is. It's crucial. Now, it's true that God 237 00:14:55,350 --> 00:14:58,510 is not looking for ability. We say he's looking for 238 00:14:58,670 --> 00:15:02,270 availability. But availability is not just saying, 239 00:15:02,270 --> 00:15:05,870 here I am. Availability is saying, lord, change 240 00:15:05,950 --> 00:15:09,710 me form me. Help me. 241 00:15:09,950 --> 00:15:13,750 Who needs the help from the Lord Jesus Christ, who needs help from a 242 00:15:13,750 --> 00:15:17,230 gracious God. Look around the room. We all need help. Everybody say, help me. 243 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,520 God did not just call you to do something. He's committing 244 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,920 to growing you in him so that you look more like Him. 245 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,600 We must recognize that the only reason that we have been 246 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,360 given a platform to do anything in the kingdom is 247 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:40,200 because of his grace. This is what Paul says about his 248 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,800 position in first Corinthians. He says, but by the grace 249 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,630 of God, I am. So 250 00:15:47,630 --> 00:15:51,230 all of those things you read about Paul, how he was able to stand 251 00:15:51,230 --> 00:15:54,990 up boldly and to proclaim and write those letters, it all 252 00:15:54,990 --> 00:15:58,630 was. It was all a derivative. It was derived from this 253 00:15:58,630 --> 00:16:02,470 grace that God gave him. But here's what we we like to read the letters 254 00:16:02,470 --> 00:16:06,150 and we take things from the letters, but we forget the position 255 00:16:06,230 --> 00:16:10,070 that Paul was in when he was writing these letters. Paul was 256 00:16:10,070 --> 00:16:13,550 under great levels of persecution. He was in 257 00:16:13,550 --> 00:16:16,680 chains, in prison when he was writing a lot of these letters. 258 00:16:17,230 --> 00:16:20,870 Guys, you want to say, here I am. Send me. Are you ready for the 259 00:16:20,870 --> 00:16:24,430 dispensation of grace in your life to handle the persecution and 260 00:16:24,430 --> 00:16:28,070 suffering that's going to come your way? Or are you just 261 00:16:28,070 --> 00:16:31,790 wanting to be cushy and comfortable as a believer 262 00:16:31,790 --> 00:16:35,470 and just pout off little one nugget truths that you just think 263 00:16:35,790 --> 00:16:39,350 these things make sense to me and have illuminated my life and I poo poo 264 00:16:39,350 --> 00:16:42,190 the rest of the Word away while he's not doing anything in my life. 265 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,720 Y' all are quiet today. Grace is not what just 266 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,480 saves you, it's what sustains you. In other words, listen to this. Look here. 267 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,640 You are not saved by grace and then sustained by effort. 268 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:02,520 You're not saved by grace and then sustained by how good you do, 269 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,440 how well you perform. We're saved by 270 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:10,100 grace so that then we can pull from and 271 00:17:10,100 --> 00:17:13,620 draw from that same grace in order to do the things 272 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:17,500 that God's called us to do. And in that big picture of grace, he's 273 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:20,980 doing spiritual surgery on the inside of 274 00:17:21,140 --> 00:17:24,859 our lives. Let me give you a picture of this in the Scripture. If 275 00:17:24,859 --> 00:17:28,180 you are on our reading plan this week, you read this. But this is Isaiah, 276 00:17:28,180 --> 00:17:31,940 chapter six. It says this. In the year that 277 00:17:31,940 --> 00:17:35,540 King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, 278 00:17:35,540 --> 00:17:39,300 high and exalted, with the train of his royal robe 279 00:17:39,300 --> 00:17:42,950 filling the templ above him seraphim stood. Each 280 00:17:42,950 --> 00:17:46,590 one had six wings. With two wings he covered his face. With two 281 00:17:46,590 --> 00:17:49,830 wings, he covered his feet. With two wings he flew. 282 00:17:50,230 --> 00:17:53,990 And one called out to another, saying, holy, holy, 283 00:17:54,150 --> 00:17:57,910 holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is 284 00:17:57,990 --> 00:18:01,790 filled with his glory. And the foundations of 285 00:18:01,790 --> 00:18:05,630 the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out. And the temple was 286 00:18:05,630 --> 00:18:09,100 filling with smoke. Then I said, woe is me, 287 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:13,300 for I am ruined because I am a man of unclean 288 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:17,100 lips and I live among a people of unclean lips. For my 289 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:20,860 eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then 290 00:18:21,020 --> 00:18:24,820 one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in 291 00:18:24,820 --> 00:18:28,540 his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. He 292 00:18:28,540 --> 00:18:31,660 touched my mouth with it and said, listen 293 00:18:31,740 --> 00:18:35,240 carefully. This has touched your lips. Your 294 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:39,080 wickedness is taken away and your sin is atoned 295 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,840 for and forgiven. Then I heard a voice 296 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:46,440 of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for 297 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:50,240 us? Then I said, here I am. Send 298 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:54,080 me. Okay, let's look at this. Okay. Isaiah is 299 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,680 here, and he is witnessing the glory of God right before 300 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:01,200 him. And he acknowledges the sovereignty 301 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:05,010 of God. This is why he says, woe is me. He's acknowledging, 302 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,840 this is powerful. This is glorious. This is 303 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,640 illuminating. And in the illumination, he 304 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:16,480 recognizes, you are God. I am not God. I 305 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,280 am standing before you with unclean lips. 306 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,280 In other words, I am not worthy to do 307 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:28,080 anything for you. And the angel of the Lord takes 308 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,470 a hot coal and touches Isaiah's lips. 309 00:19:32,020 --> 00:19:34,740 Have you ever had a hot coal touch your face? 310 00:19:35,540 --> 00:19:39,260 Okay. What would be the natural response if a 311 00:19:39,260 --> 00:19:42,420 hot coal touched your face? What is it? 312 00:19:43,460 --> 00:19:47,140 Ouch. That hurts. So 313 00:19:47,140 --> 00:19:50,020 this tells me that in this section of Arise, 314 00:19:50,820 --> 00:19:54,620 one of the reasons why we jump from abide to advance is 315 00:19:54,620 --> 00:19:58,340 that we're not willing for the hot cold to touch us in places 316 00:19:58,420 --> 00:20:02,140 that we need to grow in and that we need to mature in 317 00:20:02,140 --> 00:20:05,960 and that we need to get frank. And so 318 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,440 Isaiah is saying, I'm a man of unclean lips. 319 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,920 And the seraphim comes and touches him with the coal and says, your sin 320 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,600 has been atoned for. You have been forgiven. 321 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,080 So that when the Lord says, who will we send? Isaiah is 322 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,920 in a place now to say, here I am. 323 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,560 Send me. Are you with me? We have to 324 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:33,120 recognize that he is God and he is glorious 325 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:36,740 and that we need transformation in our own lives before 326 00:20:36,740 --> 00:20:39,420 we try to go out and change other people. 327 00:20:40,380 --> 00:20:41,260 God is good. 328 00:20:46,140 --> 00:20:49,020 Before Isaiah said, send me, God dealt with his lips. 329 00:20:49,580 --> 00:20:53,340 Calling came and then the cleansing. 330 00:20:54,460 --> 00:20:58,100 Here's what I want us to understand. God wants you 331 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:00,780 to be healed and he wants you to be whole. 332 00:21:02,390 --> 00:21:05,510 Arise is not about doing more, it's about becoming 333 00:21:06,470 --> 00:21:10,190 whole. This is where God begins to illuminate the places in 334 00:21:10,190 --> 00:21:13,310 our lives that do not look like him. Do you have any places in your 335 00:21:13,310 --> 00:21:16,870 life that don't look like Jesus? The areas 336 00:21:16,950 --> 00:21:20,550 where we're insecure, the areas where we're wounded or 337 00:21:20,550 --> 00:21:24,190 driven by pride or we're trying to prove something. Guys. We so 338 00:21:24,190 --> 00:21:27,550 often want to go out and conquer things and there's so many 339 00:21:27,550 --> 00:21:31,130 deficiencies and inside us, but dependency readily 340 00:21:31,130 --> 00:21:34,330 recognize. I can't do it on my own strength. 341 00:21:35,210 --> 00:21:38,930 And so we're broken. Does God use broken people? 342 00:21:38,930 --> 00:21:42,490 Yeah, he uses broken people. But it was never about 343 00:21:42,570 --> 00:21:46,330 the broken vessel becoming the victor. It was always about 344 00:21:46,330 --> 00:21:49,850 Jesus being the champion. Jesus is the 345 00:21:49,850 --> 00:21:53,570 champion. He is the one that is exalted. He is the one 346 00:21:53,570 --> 00:21:57,330 that is glorified for whatever take takes place in our lives. 347 00:21:57,650 --> 00:22:01,490 And here's the grace in the process of the 348 00:22:01,490 --> 00:22:04,210 Lord using broken vessels, he 349 00:22:04,290 --> 00:22:08,050 simultaneously heals them as well. He's restoring 350 00:22:08,050 --> 00:22:11,650 them and making them whole. This is what 2 Corinthians says. 351 00:22:11,730 --> 00:22:15,570 My grace says the Lord is sufficient for you. 352 00:22:15,970 --> 00:22:19,490 For my power is made perfect in weakness. 353 00:22:19,890 --> 00:22:22,690 His power is not made perfect in your strength. 354 00:22:24,690 --> 00:22:28,210 So if you have been trying so hard to do things in your strength. 355 00:22:28,450 --> 00:22:32,170 His power is not made perfect in that realm. His power is 356 00:22:32,170 --> 00:22:36,010 made perfect when you acknowledge I've got weak areas that need some 357 00:22:36,010 --> 00:22:39,690 help. And guys, I have to tell you, you're rubbing elbow's right next to 358 00:22:39,690 --> 00:22:42,210 somebody who has some weak areas that need help 359 00:22:43,250 --> 00:22:46,930 and he's willing to do it. He says my grace is 360 00:22:46,930 --> 00:22:50,430 sufficient for you. How? Okay, you ready for this? How 361 00:22:50,430 --> 00:22:53,750 arrogant of us. How 362 00:22:53,750 --> 00:22:57,550 arrogant of us to believe anything else rather 363 00:22:57,550 --> 00:23:00,190 than his grace is sufficient for us. 364 00:23:01,630 --> 00:23:05,150 How arrogant of us to believe that he's not 365 00:23:05,150 --> 00:23:08,750 big enough, insufficient enough to come in 366 00:23:08,910 --> 00:23:12,190 and do a mighty work in our lives to 367 00:23:12,190 --> 00:23:15,800 transform us and to heal us and make us whole in the world. 368 00:23:16,430 --> 00:23:19,470 I'm talking about those Things that are buried in the back of that messy drawer. 369 00:23:19,470 --> 00:23:23,070 I'm talking about those things that you don't want anybody to see or know about. 370 00:23:23,310 --> 00:23:27,030 How dare us be so arrogant to think that the God of 371 00:23:27,030 --> 00:23:30,630 the universe is not sufficient enough to come into 372 00:23:30,630 --> 00:23:34,070 our lives and to heal us and make us whole in those 373 00:23:34,070 --> 00:23:34,510 ways. 374 00:23:38,030 --> 00:23:41,590 I knew at an early age that I had a calling on my life for 375 00:23:41,590 --> 00:23:45,250 ministry. When I was 18 or 19, Pastor Wayne took 376 00:23:45,250 --> 00:23:49,090 us to a conference in Atlanta. And I was there, and I 377 00:23:49,090 --> 00:23:52,250 knew I had a calling on my life. I was working with kids ministry here, 378 00:23:52,250 --> 00:23:54,890 and I was fresh out of high school, and I just knew I had a 379 00:23:54,890 --> 00:23:58,010 calling on my life. And I started dancing at this conference. 380 00:23:58,890 --> 00:24:02,330 And I can't really dance, but I tried to hang with them, 381 00:24:02,490 --> 00:24:06,290 and I danced. And this one pastor saw me dancing, and he 382 00:24:06,290 --> 00:24:09,330 came to me, said, you're a great dancer. Why don't you come be a youth 383 00:24:09,330 --> 00:24:13,040 pastor at my church? Now, don't ask me how the 384 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,560 connection happened between, you're a great dancer and become a youth pastor. But I 385 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,400 heard, why don't you come be a youth pastor? Well, this makes a lot of 386 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:23,240 sense to me. I'm called into ministry, Barbie. Somebody's coming to 387 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,080 me. Thus saith the Lord. Here I am. 388 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,040 I went and got in my car, drove to South Carolina. They gave me a 389 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,480 platform to speak from on a Sunday. And I'll tell you, I was the only 390 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,760 white guy in the church. And I'll tell you this much, 391 00:24:38,230 --> 00:24:41,910 there is a videotape evidence of this message. I can't find it. It's probably 392 00:24:41,910 --> 00:24:45,470 buried in one of my messy drawers. But if you watch 393 00:24:45,470 --> 00:24:49,310 this tape, I've watched it. There ain't nothing coming out of my 394 00:24:49,310 --> 00:24:52,990 mouth that makes any sense whatsoever. But every 395 00:24:52,990 --> 00:24:56,150 time I said something, the congregation went hallelujah. 396 00:24:57,030 --> 00:25:00,710 Praise the Lord. Amen. Do you know that you can 397 00:25:00,710 --> 00:25:04,160 have a crowd shout amen and you not be speaking truth 398 00:25:06,870 --> 00:25:10,670 propelled by the crowd in the congregation? Man, I thought I was the cat's 399 00:25:10,670 --> 00:25:14,390 pajamas to that stage, I'll tell you that much. I thought I was bringing real 400 00:25:14,390 --> 00:25:17,950 solid truth. So I drove back, just so excited. And I went to 401 00:25:17,950 --> 00:25:21,710 Pastor Meek's house, Ronnie Meek's house that night. And I went right up 402 00:25:21,710 --> 00:25:25,110 to him, and Ronnie's like a dad to me. And I was like, hey, listen, 403 00:25:25,110 --> 00:25:28,670 I'm moving to South Carolina to be a youth pastor at this church. And you 404 00:25:28,670 --> 00:25:30,770 know what he did? He laughed in my face. 405 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,680 He laughed in my face and said, no, you're not. 406 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,720 Sometimes you need People to love you enough to look at you and 407 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,360 laugh in your face and say, no, you're not. Now, that 408 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:47,160 hurt. Wait a minute. You're supposed to champion me. Aren't 409 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,880 you supposed to be saying all the positive things? You know, Ronnie's known for 410 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,520 loving people. Really? Well, I don't understand why the. I don't understand the words that 411 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,040 are coming out of your mouth. Okay? I'm like, what is going on here? 412 00:25:58,350 --> 00:26:01,950 But do you know that I needed in that moment, basically, 413 00:26:02,030 --> 00:26:05,470 somebody to look at me and say, you don't go from abide 414 00:26:05,630 --> 00:26:09,390 to advance. There's some things that you need, some equipping that you 415 00:26:09,390 --> 00:26:13,190 need. I had no idea what my. What the. What the trajectory 416 00:26:13,190 --> 00:26:16,590 the Lord had for me in terms of positions. I knew I had a call 417 00:26:16,590 --> 00:26:20,230 in my life, and the Lord said, I want to mature you. And I'm so 418 00:26:20,230 --> 00:26:23,750 grateful that I have people in my life who love me enough to say, slow 419 00:26:23,750 --> 00:26:27,380 down. Let the Lord do his work. 420 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:31,820 Listen, Grace will close doors just as frequently as it 421 00:26:31,820 --> 00:26:35,140 opens them. Grace will close doors 422 00:26:35,540 --> 00:26:39,060 just as frequently as he opens them. I will 423 00:26:39,060 --> 00:26:42,900 counsel people sometimes that will come into my office and they'll say, listen, 424 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:45,900 I'm waiting for God to open a door, and I don't know what to do. 425 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:49,220 And you know what I say? I say, the steps of the righteous man are 426 00:26:49,220 --> 00:26:52,910 ordered. And so here's what I 427 00:26:53,150 --> 00:26:56,950 advise you to do. Take the next step. Because I believe in 428 00:26:56,950 --> 00:26:59,830 a God who opens doors, but I also believe in a God who slams them 429 00:26:59,830 --> 00:27:03,270 in your face. And let me tell you, as somebody who's had many doors slammed 430 00:27:03,270 --> 00:27:07,110 in my face, that begins to refine your path real fast. Real 431 00:27:07,110 --> 00:27:10,310 fast. So you step out in faith and say, lord, I just trust you that 432 00:27:10,310 --> 00:27:12,670 you're gonna slam this door in my face and be ready for him to do 433 00:27:12,670 --> 00:27:15,550 it if he's gonna do it. Or we wait and see if he'll keep the 434 00:27:15,550 --> 00:27:19,190 door open. But Grace knows how to close doors. It knows how to close 435 00:27:19,190 --> 00:27:22,850 doors. And sometimes the most spiritual thing in is not the opportunity to 436 00:27:22,850 --> 00:27:25,770 step into, but it's the one that God keeps you from. 437 00:27:26,250 --> 00:27:30,010 God's not looking for strength. He's looking for surrender. And 438 00:27:30,010 --> 00:27:33,770 the development of your character is a major part 439 00:27:33,770 --> 00:27:37,530 of your equipping. The development of your character 440 00:27:37,530 --> 00:27:41,330 is a major, major part of your equipping. 441 00:27:41,330 --> 00:27:44,930 What God builds in you determines what he can trust you 442 00:27:44,930 --> 00:27:48,690 to do and what he can do through you. God's not just preparing you 443 00:27:48,690 --> 00:27:52,520 to go something. He's preparing you for who you're going 444 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,200 to be. Now, I selected David and Saul to talk just a little bit about 445 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,040 today because I believe that they're famous enough and most people know these stories. But 446 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,880 there are a slew of characters in the scripture that you could 447 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,640 go to, and you'll find this exact same prescription. It sounds like God 448 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,480 kind of knows what he's doing when he's teaching us in his Word. So 449 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,080 David and Saul both had the exact same call. It was to 450 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,850 be king of Israel. Now, Saul, he 451 00:28:18,850 --> 00:28:22,650 was chosen, he was anointed. But here was the problem. He 452 00:28:22,650 --> 00:28:26,330 was elevated quickly. He was elevated quickly. 453 00:28:26,330 --> 00:28:29,810 And because he was elevated quickly, he was insecure, 454 00:28:30,050 --> 00:28:33,250 he was impatient, and he was driven by the opinions of people. 455 00:28:34,210 --> 00:28:38,010 In contrast to Saul, David was also chosen. He 456 00:28:38,010 --> 00:28:41,330 was also anointed. But he had time to develop and 457 00:28:41,330 --> 00:28:44,810 mature. And let me tell you, that development and that maturity, what did it look 458 00:28:44,810 --> 00:28:48,630 like? It looked like. It looked like his adversary coming after him. It 459 00:28:48,630 --> 00:28:52,350 looked like waiting in caves. It looked like having to be extremely 460 00:28:52,350 --> 00:28:55,870 patient and waiting on the Lord. It looked like running 461 00:28:56,190 --> 00:28:59,870 for his life. How many have been told, God 462 00:28:59,870 --> 00:29:03,070 says, this is what. Here's a promise. This is what you're going to be doing. 463 00:29:03,230 --> 00:29:06,990 But, man, in that season from A to B, there's a lot of stuff 464 00:29:06,990 --> 00:29:10,510 that takes place. And in all of this time in David's life, what's 465 00:29:10,510 --> 00:29:14,210 happening is he is becoming a surrendered person, he's becoming a 466 00:29:14,210 --> 00:29:17,810 faithful person, and he is becoming secure in his identity 467 00:29:17,970 --> 00:29:21,810 in the Lord. David embraced the grace process 468 00:29:21,810 --> 00:29:24,610 of maturity before he ever touched his platform. 469 00:29:26,050 --> 00:29:29,090 David had to hide in the caves. He had to wait. He had pressure. He 470 00:29:29,090 --> 00:29:32,690 had all of these things. Here's what Romans chapter five says 471 00:29:33,170 --> 00:29:36,970 to us as believers. Therefore, since we have 472 00:29:36,970 --> 00:29:40,770 been justified through faith, we have a peace with God through our Lord 473 00:29:40,770 --> 00:29:44,260 Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith 474 00:29:44,260 --> 00:29:47,700 into this grace in which we now stand. 475 00:29:48,180 --> 00:29:51,940 And we boast in the hope of glory of God, of the glory of God. 476 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:55,940 Not only so, but we also listen to this glory 477 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:59,940 in our sufferings because we know that 478 00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:02,340 suffering produces perseverance, 479 00:30:02,980 --> 00:30:05,780 perseverance, character, 480 00:30:06,180 --> 00:30:10,020 character, hope. And hope does not put us to 481 00:30:10,020 --> 00:30:13,740 shame because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the 482 00:30:13,740 --> 00:30:17,360 Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. And so the starting 483 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,160 place is suffering. The starting place is this suffering 484 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,840 and the suffering. In other words, I want to fulfill God's 485 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,600 call of my life, Keith. And so, guess what? I've got 486 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,280 a mess inside my drawers. I've got. I need. I need. Boy, that sounded kind 487 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:32,880 of funny. 488 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,000 The next thing I was going to say is, I want you to see my 489 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,410 mess in my drawers, but that didn't sound too good either. So 490 00:30:42,970 --> 00:30:43,530 anyway, 491 00:30:46,970 --> 00:30:50,450 hey, some of you are walking around smelling like you got some mess in your 492 00:30:50,450 --> 00:30:54,250 drawers. I mean, that's just. This is the fact of the matter. But here's 493 00:30:54,250 --> 00:30:57,690 the thing, brother. I need somebody who loves me enough 494 00:30:58,810 --> 00:31:02,490 that can rumble around in that drawer of all of those things that I 495 00:31:02,490 --> 00:31:06,210 just. I've held onto. What things? I'm talking about the people who've walked out 496 00:31:06,210 --> 00:31:10,020 of my life. I'm talking about the rejection that I've struggled through. 497 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:14,980 I'm talking about the coping things, mechanisms that I tend 498 00:31:14,980 --> 00:31:18,500 to gravitate to. I'm talking about the people who've 499 00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:22,020 walked out of my life. I'm talking about the opportunity that I was passed up 500 00:31:22,020 --> 00:31:25,700 on. I'm talking about that platform that was promised me, but I never got to 501 00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:28,740 do it. I'm talking about all of these things that I have cataloged in my 502 00:31:28,740 --> 00:31:32,340 brain and I've kept in this drawer. I need somebody who 503 00:31:32,340 --> 00:31:36,180 loves me enough, who will walk alongside me to say, God 504 00:31:36,180 --> 00:31:39,420 has truth to render for all these lies that you're believing 505 00:31:39,980 --> 00:31:43,700 that are coming out of this drawer. And so part of the 506 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:47,460 idea here is that we have got to be willing. We've got to be 507 00:31:47,460 --> 00:31:51,060 willing to be exposed, to walk through that suffering. And it 508 00:31:51,060 --> 00:31:54,700 doesn't feel good, guys. Does it feel good to revisit old pain and 509 00:31:54,700 --> 00:31:58,460 hurt? It doesn't feel good. But that's where perseverance 510 00:31:58,460 --> 00:32:02,110 kicks in. And so I need somebody alongside me that will help me, 511 00:32:02,110 --> 00:32:05,950 Doug, to persevere and say, no, keep taking the step. Because guess what? 512 00:32:05,950 --> 00:32:09,230 He has a high call for you. And guess what? As you 513 00:32:09,230 --> 00:32:12,710 persevere, what they say it's shallow in their 514 00:32:12,710 --> 00:32:16,510 opinions compared to the source that you chose to draw from. Are you with 515 00:32:16,510 --> 00:32:20,270 me? Are you seeing the pattern here? You start with the source so that he 516 00:32:20,270 --> 00:32:24,110 obliterates every lie. You expose the things that are going inside because 517 00:32:24,110 --> 00:32:27,870 he wants you to be healed. He wants you to be. And 518 00:32:27,870 --> 00:32:31,430 then when perseverance takes on its work, guess what happens? Your character 519 00:32:31,430 --> 00:32:35,150 starts to develop. Your character starts to develop. And as you're 520 00:32:35,150 --> 00:32:38,750 walking forward in this character, you begin to see hope arise in you, 521 00:32:38,750 --> 00:32:42,270 that he is who he says he is. He is the God. And you from 522 00:32:42,270 --> 00:32:45,870 that position, when you do get an assignment and you do get to advance all 523 00:32:45,870 --> 00:32:49,590 of this stuff, this foundational work has been done in your life 524 00:32:49,590 --> 00:32:52,990 so that you have something to actually stand on when you're 525 00:32:52,990 --> 00:32:56,740 delivering the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Christ, he 526 00:32:56,740 --> 00:33:00,180 wants to do a work in your life. 527 00:33:03,060 --> 00:33:06,900 And so the arise season of our lives is where 528 00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:10,700 God slows you down. He exposes things, he heals things, and he 529 00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:13,300 removes things to prepare you for what's ahead. 530 00:33:13,940 --> 00:33:17,780 Ephesians 4 says that he's given leaders to the church. To do 531 00:33:17,780 --> 00:33:21,300 what? To equip the saints until we all 532 00:33:21,380 --> 00:33:25,170 reach maturity. To equip the saints until we 533 00:33:25,170 --> 00:33:28,650 all reach maturity. Another word used in that scripture is 534 00:33:28,650 --> 00:33:32,450 unity. We reach unity. So 535 00:33:32,450 --> 00:33:35,450 the job of leaders. Now, I want you to first know that leaders are not 536 00:33:35,450 --> 00:33:39,090 exempt from this. The leaders that you 537 00:33:39,090 --> 00:33:42,810 are following should be practicing believers who are 538 00:33:42,810 --> 00:33:46,490 also walking through the rise section. The other thing I want to say is it's 539 00:33:46,490 --> 00:33:50,290 not like arise is a start and then finish. I have done the arise 540 00:33:50,290 --> 00:33:53,880 section, and I am done. And I am just out here in advance. It is 541 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,640 a cycle. You go back to the source, and guess what? Another peel 542 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,360 of that onion layer comes to fruition. And then you walk back 543 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,200 through this sanctification process. And then you go into the advanced section, 544 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,120 and guess what? You go back to the abide, and you're in the source again, 545 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,440 and you're drawing from the source. And then guess what? Then you have this arise 546 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,720 section where he's identified another layer. Are you with me? It's a 547 00:34:14,720 --> 00:34:18,460 continual cycle. And part of the job of leaders is to 548 00:34:18,689 --> 00:34:22,449 equip you until we reach a sense of maturity. That 549 00:34:22,449 --> 00:34:25,289 means you need somebody in your life who's going to say, no, no, no, no, 550 00:34:25,289 --> 00:34:28,729 no, no, no, not yet. You need somebody in your life that says, you know, 551 00:34:28,729 --> 00:34:31,649 what a good idea would be here. And it's not just my idea. It's actually 552 00:34:31,649 --> 00:34:34,929 biblical, is that you actually rest. Slow down. 553 00:34:35,329 --> 00:34:39,089 You're doing too much. You're saying the wrong thing. You know, I 554 00:34:39,089 --> 00:34:42,729 understand that you want so much to speak and have a platform, but maybe God 555 00:34:42,729 --> 00:34:46,569 needs to do some internal work first, some internal surgery. We need people 556 00:34:46,569 --> 00:34:50,240 in our life that will help us to tell you this 557 00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:54,000 portion of maturity. God's goal was never just to call 558 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,280 you. His goal is to grow you up, to move you from 559 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:01,080 immaturity to maturity. Guys, at the first start of this, you're drinking 560 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,600 milk. He wants you to eat meat. The goal is to get to a place 561 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,360 where you're eating meat. From instability to stability, from 562 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,800 independence to complete dependence on him. 563 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,280 God is not building a crowd. He's not into fanfare. 564 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,120 He's building a mature body of believers. Maturity is what 565 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,620 allows Calling to function, function in the way that it was designed. 566 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:27,220 And so when it comes to this messy drawer that we all have, 567 00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:30,980 there's a reason why we hold on to these things. 568 00:35:32,580 --> 00:35:36,420 And the honest answer is, most of it is actually not trash. 569 00:35:37,140 --> 00:35:40,660 It's useful. We just don't know where to put it and how to 570 00:35:40,660 --> 00:35:44,340 apply it. And when you look back on your life, you 571 00:35:44,340 --> 00:35:47,620 will see a thread. The Lord has me in a season of watching his 572 00:35:47,780 --> 00:35:51,580 steady hand thread a tapestry, a story together. Can I 573 00:35:51,580 --> 00:35:55,180 tell you, it's not just the glory good stuff. There's bad 574 00:35:55,180 --> 00:35:59,020 and ugly in that thread that help make a beautiful picture. He 575 00:35:59,020 --> 00:36:02,820 is a God who knows how to take ashy situations and make them 576 00:36:02,820 --> 00:36:04,820 beautiful. Anybody testify to that? 577 00:36:06,980 --> 00:36:09,299 So when you look back on your life, you watch this 578 00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:14,180 thread, moments that didn't make sense, seasons that 579 00:36:14,180 --> 00:36:17,060 felt like they were on delay, people who hurt you 580 00:36:17,860 --> 00:36:21,140 and you don't understand why. The closed doors, the hard 581 00:36:21,140 --> 00:36:24,730 conversations. And we don't know where to put all that stuff. But 582 00:36:24,730 --> 00:36:27,650 God was using all of that to heal you, 583 00:36:28,370 --> 00:36:32,170 form you, and mature you into who he wants you to 584 00:36:32,170 --> 00:36:35,650 be. Now, I don't believe inerrantly 585 00:36:36,610 --> 00:36:40,450 that we have a truth problem as believers. I don't. 586 00:36:40,850 --> 00:36:44,530 I do not believe. Listen to me. I do not believe that we have a 587 00:36:44,530 --> 00:36:48,050 truth problem because truth stands on its own. 588 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:53,280 This truth is going to prevail, whether my voice is attached to it or 589 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,520 not. Jesus is the way the truth, 590 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,600 whether I say or do anything, has nothing, is not. 591 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,120 My involvement is not a prerequisite to this truth being true. 592 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,120 I don't believe we have a truth problem. I believe truth is going to stand 593 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,880 without our voice. I don't believe we have a truth problem. I believe we have 594 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,380 a maturity problem. People are 595 00:37:15,380 --> 00:37:18,900 speaking the truth without being matured by it. And when truth is carried by 596 00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:22,460 immature people, it lacks compassion, it lacks 597 00:37:22,460 --> 00:37:26,180 wisdom, it lacks endurance, it can even lack love. We love 598 00:37:26,180 --> 00:37:29,380 to go to those places in the Scripture where Jesus is turning tables and he's 599 00:37:29,380 --> 00:37:32,740 saying sharp truth. All of that is true. All of that is right. But do 600 00:37:32,740 --> 00:37:36,300 you pay attention to the embodiment of the same 601 00:37:36,300 --> 00:37:39,940 truth, the actions of the same truth, the character of 602 00:37:39,940 --> 00:37:43,010 Jesus Christ, not isolated in that moment. 603 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:47,200 But do we pay attention to the character of Christ in his entire 604 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,760 ministry that we know of? I see a Jesus who is 605 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,360 clothed in compassion. I see him clothed in love. He doesn't 606 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,440 shy away from standing for the truth or speaking the truth. But what we like 607 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,240 to do is parcel out that section of his attribute and Apply it into 608 00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:03,320 places instead of using the whole thing. 609 00:38:13,170 --> 00:38:16,290 I believe that when we package the truth 610 00:38:17,010 --> 00:38:20,850 as immature believers and we deliver it, the non 611 00:38:20,850 --> 00:38:24,649 believers decide to create their own truth and their own 612 00:38:24,649 --> 00:38:28,250 reality, because those who are rendering the 613 00:38:28,250 --> 00:38:31,810 truth to them do not look like, act like, or 614 00:38:31,890 --> 00:38:34,670 actually live like the truth that they are saying out loud. 615 00:38:37,140 --> 00:38:40,980 John the Baptist said, he must increase. 616 00:38:41,540 --> 00:38:45,100 I must decrease. Paul said, 617 00:38:45,100 --> 00:38:48,860 I die daily. And what we're going to learn when we 618 00:38:48,860 --> 00:38:52,300 get to the advanced section is that if you guys 619 00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:55,460 remember Kevin Oday's face more than 620 00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:59,780 you remember the word that was proclaimed, then there is an 621 00:38:59,780 --> 00:39:03,190 issue. There is a problem. The personality 622 00:39:03,750 --> 00:39:07,350 should not usurp the truth. The 623 00:39:07,350 --> 00:39:10,870 program, the lights, the sound, the beauty, all of this, 624 00:39:11,270 --> 00:39:14,670 all of this is just a stage and a foundation to 625 00:39:14,670 --> 00:39:18,510 leverage the truth so that it can be presented in an excellent way. But 626 00:39:18,510 --> 00:39:22,270 if it gets lost in all of this, if it gets lost in 627 00:39:22,270 --> 00:39:25,670 the personality and in the person, then we are doing something 628 00:39:25,670 --> 00:39:29,270 devastatingly wrong to the commission that we have. It's not about 629 00:39:29,270 --> 00:39:32,810 me. I must decrease. He 630 00:39:33,050 --> 00:39:36,770 must increase. These guys, John the Baptist and 631 00:39:36,770 --> 00:39:40,610 Paul, they were not driven by a platform. They were surrendered to the 632 00:39:40,610 --> 00:39:44,290 point of death. And I would suggest if you are not willing 633 00:39:44,290 --> 00:39:47,970 to die for the message you carry, you're not in a position to 634 00:39:47,970 --> 00:39:51,810 carry it. How do I get to a position of wanting to 635 00:39:51,810 --> 00:39:55,330 die for the message? I've got to walk through this season where he's doing 636 00:39:55,330 --> 00:39:59,070 surgical, spiritual surgical, ser. I've got to 637 00:39:59,070 --> 00:40:02,510 get to a place where I'm willing to say, woe is me. 638 00:40:03,070 --> 00:40:06,190 My lips touch my lips. Lord, I am 639 00:40:06,190 --> 00:40:09,990 unworthy to be in your presence. I'm unworthy to carry 640 00:40:09,990 --> 00:40:13,670 the truth to this dying world. So that when 641 00:40:13,670 --> 00:40:16,990 he then says, who will go 642 00:40:18,910 --> 00:40:22,440 send me, Lord, because you've healed me, because you've 643 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,000 touched me, because you've refined me. 644 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,400 Revelation 3:20 says this. It says, here I am. I stand 645 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,560 at the door and I knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, 646 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,359 I will come in and eat with that person and they with me. 647 00:40:37,359 --> 00:40:40,680 And here's the picture. Worship team, you can come on back out. Here's the picture, 648 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:44,280 guys. I'm standing at this door. Jesus is here, and 649 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:48,080 he's knocking. And so many of our lives look like this. 650 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,620 A closed door. I've got this figured out. I don't need. I don't need 651 00:40:51,940 --> 00:40:55,500 a savior. I don't need Jesus. But when 652 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:59,260 he's knocking at this door, the heart position should be 653 00:40:59,260 --> 00:41:02,780 this one that invites him in. But 654 00:41:02,780 --> 00:41:06,340 notice what this scripture Says it's not just 655 00:41:06,340 --> 00:41:10,100 about salvation. It's about inviting him in 656 00:41:10,260 --> 00:41:13,980 to sit down and eat. Listen, if you come over 657 00:41:13,980 --> 00:41:17,460 my house and we sit down and eat, we're going to share 658 00:41:17,780 --> 00:41:20,900 stories. We're going to share intimate connection together. 659 00:41:22,010 --> 00:41:25,850 In other words, Jesus says, let me in. I've saved you. 660 00:41:25,930 --> 00:41:29,730 Now let me get into the details and the depths of your 661 00:41:29,730 --> 00:41:32,730 life so that I can heal you and make you whole. 662 00:41:34,570 --> 00:41:37,770 He's knocking. Will you let 663 00:41:38,410 --> 00:41:42,010 him in? About 12 years ago or so, 664 00:41:42,010 --> 00:41:45,290 the Lord gave me a dream, and I've shared this dream before, so hold on 665 00:41:45,290 --> 00:41:49,020 if you're hearing it again. I don't get 666 00:41:49,020 --> 00:41:52,180 dreams very often, but this one stuck with me because it was a part of 667 00:41:52,180 --> 00:41:55,980 my equipping. I was in the backyard, there 668 00:41:55,980 --> 00:41:59,380 was a shed. And I remember walking into this shed. And when I walked into 669 00:41:59,380 --> 00:42:02,619 this shed, there were some windows at the top of the shed, and there were 670 00:42:02,619 --> 00:42:05,500 light beams coming down. And you know how you can see the light beams coming 671 00:42:05,500 --> 00:42:09,260 through a window where there's dust laden. There was dust all in the air because 672 00:42:09,260 --> 00:42:12,140 there was a woodworker in this shed and he was fat 673 00:42:13,010 --> 00:42:16,730 at work. So I went into this shed, and I was curious to see 674 00:42:16,730 --> 00:42:19,610 what was going on. And when I walked into the shed, there was a table 675 00:42:19,610 --> 00:42:23,410 and there were these little figurines about this tall. And I was curious 676 00:42:23,410 --> 00:42:26,210 to know, what is this little figurine? What is this little statue here that I'm 677 00:42:26,210 --> 00:42:29,730 looking at? So I go there, and I look at this statue, and I see 678 00:42:29,730 --> 00:42:32,610 all the intricate details of the statue, and I go, whoa, 679 00:42:34,290 --> 00:42:37,670 Whoever created this, man, they're pretty good. 680 00:42:38,140 --> 00:42:40,980 I mean, they're awesome. I mean, that's great. And I looked over at the next 681 00:42:40,980 --> 00:42:44,780 statue and I noticed something. The next statue was 682 00:42:44,940 --> 00:42:48,220 completely different than the first statue that I saw. 683 00:42:49,260 --> 00:42:52,220 And the next statue, completely different. Same 684 00:42:52,380 --> 00:42:55,740 intricacy, same attention to fine detail. 685 00:42:56,300 --> 00:43:00,020 And I was mesmerized. And 686 00:43:00,020 --> 00:43:03,300 as I would go forward in looking at these statues, and I would go down 687 00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:06,660 the path, these statues, these figurines would get larger and 688 00:43:06,740 --> 00:43:10,140 larger and larger. And the larger they got, the more 689 00:43:10,140 --> 00:43:13,380 fine detail was a part. And I thought, this is 690 00:43:13,540 --> 00:43:17,060 fabulous. I would stay moment by moment 691 00:43:17,060 --> 00:43:20,660 staring at them. Well, after about 692 00:43:20,660 --> 00:43:24,300 six, seven figurines or statues, I started to 693 00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:27,700 realize, based on some of the detail, that these 694 00:43:27,780 --> 00:43:31,630 statues represented some predominant people in my 695 00:43:31,630 --> 00:43:35,230 life. I mean, I'm sure Pastor Barbie was in there. 696 00:43:35,710 --> 00:43:39,430 I'm sure that Hal was in there. I'm sure that Ronnie 697 00:43:39,430 --> 00:43:42,510 was in there. I mean, I'm talking about like pillars of my life are, like, 698 00:43:42,510 --> 00:43:45,150 there. And in this most awesome 699 00:43:46,110 --> 00:43:49,870 intricacy of all this detail. And I go, wow, this is amazing. 700 00:43:49,870 --> 00:43:53,590 And all I wanted to do was stay and watch. But in the. In my 701 00:43:53,590 --> 00:43:57,180 ear, I heard this woodworker, he's at work. And I 702 00:43:57,180 --> 00:44:00,980 turn. And my amazement and enthrallment of all 703 00:44:00,980 --> 00:44:04,820 these statues turned into a great curiosity, because I 704 00:44:04,820 --> 00:44:08,460 thought to myself, if there's this much detail on all of these 705 00:44:08,460 --> 00:44:11,980 statues, there must be a statue of me here somewhere. 706 00:44:12,460 --> 00:44:16,100 And so I go over to the table and I say, hey, 707 00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:19,820 excuse me. Where. Where's my statue? Where am I? 708 00:44:20,380 --> 00:44:24,170 And graciously, the man working at the table looked up as 709 00:44:24,170 --> 00:44:27,930 he continued to work, and he nodded his head toward a corner that was around 710 00:44:27,930 --> 00:44:31,770 the way. So I turn around, and I'm excited because I'm about to 711 00:44:31,770 --> 00:44:35,610 see my statue. And I turn around, and every other statue 712 00:44:35,610 --> 00:44:39,170 I looked at had disappeared. And larger, more 713 00:44:39,170 --> 00:44:42,450 massive statues appeared. And I was just 714 00:44:42,770 --> 00:44:46,490 absolutely undone and in awe of what I 715 00:44:46,490 --> 00:44:50,080 was seeing in the. And the detail, scope of every 716 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,000 statue and every person in my life. And I was 717 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:57,400 applauding, and I was so excited for what I saw in every person. 718 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:01,800 But as I went further and further toward the direction that the man was 719 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,240 pointing at, my curiosity, as it turned into 720 00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:08,440 excitement and joy, then turned into frustration, 721 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,680 turned into anger, because I could not find myself. 722 00:45:13,330 --> 00:45:15,890 Has anybody ever been looking for yourself and you can't find it? 723 00:45:17,090 --> 00:45:20,930 And so I rush back to the table, and I'm 724 00:45:20,930 --> 00:45:24,690 upset. And what I noticed about turning around and going back to the table is 725 00:45:24,690 --> 00:45:27,690 all of a sudden, when I'm trying to find myself, I paid no attention to 726 00:45:27,690 --> 00:45:31,330 any of the statues around me. I was locked in and trying to find 727 00:45:31,330 --> 00:45:34,850 myself. And I was frustrated and angry, and I went back to the table, and 728 00:45:34,850 --> 00:45:37,810 I pounded the table, and I said, where am I? 729 00:45:40,060 --> 00:45:43,900 And the woodworker put down his tools, and he took his 730 00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:47,660 hand and he pointed in the same direction with which he nodded. This time 731 00:45:47,900 --> 00:45:51,540 I followed his arm. I followed his finger, and I made a 732 00:45:51,540 --> 00:45:55,340 beeline straight to the corner to which he pointed. I walked over to the 733 00:45:55,340 --> 00:45:58,460 corner, and I got to the corner, and when I got to the corner, I 734 00:45:58,460 --> 00:46:01,740 stopped, and I looked down, and in that corner 735 00:46:02,300 --> 00:46:05,850 was a small, little wooden trash can. 736 00:46:08,890 --> 00:46:12,090 So I knelt down and I picked up this wooden trash can 737 00:46:12,490 --> 00:46:15,610 about this big. And I turned around, 738 00:46:16,570 --> 00:46:20,249 and with big alligator tears in my eyes, I went and set 739 00:46:20,249 --> 00:46:23,570 this on the table because I had remembered all of the 740 00:46:23,570 --> 00:46:27,170 intricate details, all of the things that everybody else had in their 741 00:46:27,170 --> 00:46:30,750 statues. And here I am. And I went and I placed, placed that 742 00:46:30,750 --> 00:46:34,310 trash can on the table and I looked at that woodsman and I said, 743 00:46:35,350 --> 00:46:39,150 of all the things in this place, I'm a 744 00:46:39,150 --> 00:46:42,790 trash can. And without 745 00:46:42,790 --> 00:46:46,590 hesitation, this woodworker put 746 00:46:46,590 --> 00:46:50,230 down his tools and he took this wooden 747 00:46:50,230 --> 00:46:54,070 trash can and he held it over by the side and he took his 748 00:46:54,070 --> 00:46:57,920 arm and he piled up all the scrap, scraps and 749 00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,760 all the settling and all the dust and all the residue from all the 750 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:05,240 other statues and he scooped them into the trash can 751 00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:09,880 and he set the trash can back on the table. And he looked 752 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,680 at me and he said, you see trash can? 753 00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,040 I see refuge for broken people. 754 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,680 And I just dropped because in that 755 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,300 moment I needed the voice of the Creator to 756 00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:29,060 change my perspective on the thing that I saw, the 757 00:47:29,060 --> 00:47:32,460 way that he saw it. The reason I tell you this story 758 00:47:32,700 --> 00:47:36,340 is because there's some of you that go from abide to advance. 759 00:47:36,340 --> 00:47:39,940 And the reason that you can't be in the advanced section is because you're in 760 00:47:39,940 --> 00:47:43,740 the advanced section thinking that you're a trash can. But 761 00:47:43,740 --> 00:47:47,540 the part of the rise matures things in you, pulls 762 00:47:47,540 --> 00:47:51,250 things out of you so that you can actually know who you are and 763 00:47:51,250 --> 00:47:54,850 whose you are. God has an amazing plan for your 764 00:47:54,850 --> 00:47:58,490 life. He's not forgotten about you. But let me tell you that the 765 00:47:58,490 --> 00:48:01,890 reason that you exist is he wants you to look like him and you don't. 766 00:48:02,210 --> 00:48:05,850 He wants to heal you in those places that you don't even know that you 767 00:48:05,850 --> 00:48:09,530 need healing. He wants you to slow down enough and draw from the 768 00:48:09,530 --> 00:48:13,290 source that he can say, I see you. And guys, some of you need 769 00:48:13,290 --> 00:48:15,750 to be seen in a way that you never thought possible. 770 00:48:18,150 --> 00:48:21,790 He has some incredible things to say about you. But 771 00:48:21,790 --> 00:48:25,550 it's going to start with the acknowledgment of God. I 772 00:48:25,550 --> 00:48:29,190 need you. I recognize your sovereignty. I need to draw 773 00:48:29,270 --> 00:48:32,710 from your great glorious source. Would you guys stand with me this morning? 774 00:48:33,350 --> 00:48:35,190 For those who are going to minister, come forward. 775 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,760 I believe that there are some people in here who have become 776 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,400 calloused and who have become numb to the move of God in their 777 00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:56,239 life. You've been around the 778 00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:59,840 platitudes and the Christianese loud long enough 779 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:04,000 that it's just become numb. And you need 780 00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,320 a God, a real God, the 781 00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:11,080 God who breathes stars to come and speak 782 00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:15,040 radical truth in your life. Have you been in a place lately 783 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,560 where you go, God, I don't see. I don't even know where you are. Have 784 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:22,279 you been in a place where you've been executing the assignments. You've been giving 785 00:49:22,279 --> 00:49:25,720 on your own strength. Are there 786 00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:29,480 places in your heart that need to be healed? 787 00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:34,570 Are there places back in the the deep past that you need to 788 00:49:34,570 --> 00:49:38,210 seek forgiveness? Or you need to forgive someone for that? You just thought, I'm just 789 00:49:38,210 --> 00:49:41,730 going to bury this under the rug and keep moving forward? No. God 790 00:49:41,730 --> 00:49:45,370 wants to heal you and make you whole on this journey. 791 00:49:45,610 --> 00:49:48,890 And he is available today to do just that. 792 00:49:50,090 --> 00:49:53,730 You got needs. He's a star breather. He owns the cattle on the hill. You 793 00:49:53,730 --> 00:49:56,970 can come as well. Let's worship as we come before our Father 794 00:49:57,530 --> 00:49:58,250 in heaven.