1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,520 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,480 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,480 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,680 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:18,400 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,560 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,120 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,280 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,160 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,800 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,840 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,040 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:39,360 If you want to know more about. 14 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,040 Us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org Otherwise, we 15 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,080 invite you now into the story. 16 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:48,480 Hello, good people. 17 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:53,160 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 18 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,160 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 19 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,510 Church Catholic community is our Sunday morning conversations 20 00:01:01,590 --> 00:01:05,590 taught by founding pastor Ross Stackhouse. 21 00:01:06,550 --> 00:01:11,270 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 22 00:01:11,830 --> 00:01:20,310 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 23 00:01:21,270 --> 00:01:26,160 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 24 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,880 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify 25 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:39,680 and on the website, which is heavenearthchurch.org let's join 26 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:45,120 Pastor Ross Stackhouse in part two of the growing what is Good series 27 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:51,050 called Growing the Fruits, Vegetables and Flowers of the Spirit. 28 00:01:54,890 --> 00:01:57,330 Lord, help us to hear something that we couldn't hear on 29 00:01:57,330 --> 00:01:57,770 our own. 30 00:01:58,010 --> 00:02:04,050 To see, to understand, to live your heart, our heart, your spirit, 31 00:02:04,050 --> 00:02:08,330 our spirit, your kingdom, your will, in Jesus name, amen. 32 00:02:09,210 --> 00:02:11,810 So this is going to be like a repeat. 33 00:02:11,810 --> 00:02:13,610 Some of you have seen this before, so. 34 00:02:14,170 --> 00:02:16,170 But it's important that I show it again today. 35 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:18,040 Look at that guy. 36 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,440 Got a nice chili bowl. 37 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:22,680 Can't smile yet. 38 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:24,920 Having trouble smiling there. 39 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,680 You know, Part of the good news is that middle school is pretty 40 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:30,280 tough, right? 41 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:31,640 Very tough. 42 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:32,120 Yeah. 43 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:33,080 Yeah. 44 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:34,360 High school's pretty tough. 45 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:34,920 Yeah. 46 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:38,520 I mean, so I went from this fella who. 47 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:39,120 I don't. 48 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,400 I don't know what I'm doing there, but. 49 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:42,760 And then I went. 50 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:43,320 And then. 51 00:02:44,570 --> 00:02:46,370 And then freshman year, it went the other way. 52 00:02:46,370 --> 00:02:51,050 Like, I became like a bean pole, 145 pounds, braces. 53 00:02:52,890 --> 00:02:53,450 It just. 54 00:02:53,530 --> 00:02:54,490 It didn't get better. 55 00:02:54,890 --> 00:02:58,970 And then here's part of the good news. 56 00:02:58,970 --> 00:03:02,330 We are not yet who we are becoming. 57 00:03:03,450 --> 00:03:06,170 We are not yet who we are becoming. 58 00:03:06,330 --> 00:03:07,850 Is that good news for you today? 59 00:03:08,730 --> 00:03:09,290 Maybe not. 60 00:03:09,290 --> 00:03:10,570 Maybe you're like, no, I feel pretty good. 61 00:03:11,370 --> 00:03:15,290 However, we are, here's the part I didn't hear as much in church 62 00:03:15,290 --> 00:03:15,810 growing up. 63 00:03:15,810 --> 00:03:18,410 We are already who we're becoming. 64 00:03:19,050 --> 00:03:22,730 What did he just say, is this guy trying to be Yoda this morning? 65 00:03:24,090 --> 00:03:28,330 Some of the things I had in my heart at that age and that awkwardness 66 00:03:28,650 --> 00:03:29,770 are still here now. 67 00:03:29,930 --> 00:03:34,370 Some of the things I went through at that age and in junior 68 00:03:34,370 --> 00:03:36,330 high are with me now. 69 00:03:36,660 --> 00:03:42,220 When I was 16 years old, 17, I'll never forget, I was standing 70 00:03:42,220 --> 00:03:44,940 in the parking lot between Triton Central high school and Triton 71 00:03:44,940 --> 00:03:45,620 Elementary. 72 00:03:45,860 --> 00:03:49,100 My buddy David and I were getting our football pads out of 73 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:53,340 the trunk of my 1998 Gold Grand Prix with 198,000 miles on 74 00:03:53,340 --> 00:03:53,580 it. 75 00:03:53,580 --> 00:03:54,180 Let's go. 76 00:03:54,340 --> 00:03:57,060 And I said to him as I pulled my shoulder pads out, I think I'm 77 00:03:57,060 --> 00:03:57,940 going to marry this girl. 78 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:00,500 This girl was Angela. 79 00:04:01,380 --> 00:04:02,500 I did marry her. 80 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,160 So, like, we're not yet who we're becoming, but we already are 81 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:06,880 who we're becoming. 82 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,040 I knew something at that age. 83 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,160 I was wise for a second. 84 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,680 I wasn't often wise in those times, But I want to talk about that 85 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,640 as we conclude this growing what is good series. 86 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,040 Because I'm honestly, like, Ross, you're saying the same things, 87 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,240 yet you're catching on. 88 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,720 I end up saying a lot of the same things in here. 89 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,080 But before I keep going, I want to. 90 00:04:30,310 --> 00:04:33,350 I want to ask you, where do you feel that you are in your life? 91 00:04:33,990 --> 00:04:35,270 Do you feel like you're. 92 00:04:36,310 --> 00:04:40,870 You're not yet who you're becoming, or do you feel like when 93 00:04:40,870 --> 00:04:42,950 you're more on the other side, you feel like, no, I'm actually. 94 00:04:43,430 --> 00:04:48,470 I feel like I'm closer to, like, the person I'm made to be. 95 00:04:48,870 --> 00:04:51,630 Do you feel like you're far away from the person that you were 96 00:04:51,630 --> 00:04:53,790 made to be in God, or do you feel like you're pretty close? 97 00:04:53,790 --> 00:04:55,510 Do you feel like you've grown up into it? 98 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:56,880 For me, it depends on the day. 99 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:00,240 Online, people. 100 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:00,600 Wake up. 101 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:01,760 Let's hear from you, too, Bobo. 102 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,280 So Bobo says she feels like she's right where God means for her 103 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:07,760 to be. 104 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,000 Bobo's entire life is recovery. 105 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,360 She's blessed us with that. 106 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,600 And now she works for I got to be a part of her meeting and share 107 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,120 with the young folks that are part of thrive. 108 00:05:21,670 --> 00:05:23,830 And it's such a cool group. 109 00:05:24,470 --> 00:05:25,030 So, yeah. 110 00:05:25,030 --> 00:05:25,750 What about you? 111 00:05:26,550 --> 00:05:29,590 You feel like you're pretty close to, you know, your destiny, 112 00:05:29,590 --> 00:05:33,150 if you will, who God has made you to be, or you feel like, oh, 113 00:05:33,150 --> 00:05:34,870 man, I just don't feel like I'm there yet. 114 00:05:35,110 --> 00:05:38,790 I feel like I'm pretty far away from who God's made me to be. 115 00:05:39,030 --> 00:05:39,750 Amanda. 116 00:05:40,950 --> 00:05:46,630 Amanda added option D, which actually I agree with. 117 00:05:48,170 --> 00:05:52,570 Which is, like, I feel like I'm where I'm meant to be, but also, 118 00:05:52,570 --> 00:05:55,530 I'm never going to have arrived, and that's okay. 119 00:05:55,610 --> 00:05:56,170 Yeah. 120 00:05:56,810 --> 00:06:00,090 What about the rest of you, Dina? 121 00:06:01,290 --> 00:06:04,170 I'm where I'm meant to be, but I'm still learning. 122 00:06:04,330 --> 00:06:06,410 You guys are doing a good job with the sermon today. 123 00:06:06,570 --> 00:06:07,610 Glad you showed up. 124 00:06:07,610 --> 00:06:08,810 PT Hello. 125 00:06:12,410 --> 00:06:12,890 Yeah. 126 00:06:13,370 --> 00:06:16,210 So PT has talked about a couple seasons of his life where 127 00:06:16,210 --> 00:06:20,170 he could see, like, where he was going and he got there. 128 00:06:20,170 --> 00:06:22,290 But he feels like in this season, there's a. 129 00:06:22,290 --> 00:06:25,610 It's transition time again, where there's a vision about, like, 130 00:06:25,610 --> 00:06:28,970 maybe what he's supposed to grow into or a plate of people he's 131 00:06:28,970 --> 00:06:30,290 supposed to be alongside or whatever. 132 00:06:30,290 --> 00:06:31,530 He's trying to discern that. 133 00:06:31,530 --> 00:06:32,010 Yeah. 134 00:06:32,170 --> 00:06:35,050 But else Amanda for times two. 135 00:06:35,850 --> 00:06:36,410 Yeah. 136 00:06:37,450 --> 00:06:37,930 Yeah. 137 00:06:37,930 --> 00:06:39,490 She added option either. 138 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:47,120 Which is, like, maybe in some areas or spheres of our life, we're 139 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,160 who God's calling us to be, but maybe in other areas of life, 140 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:53,480 we're lagging, and maybe we're. 141 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:55,480 And that might be okay, too. 142 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:56,840 Yeah. 143 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:57,560 Yep. 144 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:58,600 Good question. 145 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,680 I'm not sure what the original question was. 146 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,960 I was basically saying, like, at that age, I was. 147 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:09,330 I wasn't who I was becoming yet, and yet I was like, so where. 148 00:07:09,330 --> 00:07:10,250 Where do you feel you are? 149 00:07:10,250 --> 00:07:14,050 Do you feel like you're close to, like, who you are in God? 150 00:07:14,130 --> 00:07:14,770 Like, do you. 151 00:07:14,770 --> 00:07:15,610 Do you feel like you've got. 152 00:07:15,610 --> 00:07:18,610 You're in touch, you're aligned with who God has made you 153 00:07:18,610 --> 00:07:18,890 to be? 154 00:07:18,890 --> 00:07:21,490 Or do you feel kind of pretty far away from that? 155 00:07:21,650 --> 00:07:22,210 Hmm. 156 00:07:22,450 --> 00:07:23,089 Yeah. 157 00:07:23,250 --> 00:07:23,730 Yeah. 158 00:07:23,970 --> 00:07:26,730 Constantly feel like you're falling short, Feel like you haven't 159 00:07:26,730 --> 00:07:27,250 arrived. 160 00:07:27,490 --> 00:07:31,730 I want to transition on that and just give a ditto to Amanda's 161 00:07:31,730 --> 00:07:32,850 thought and what other of you said. 162 00:07:32,850 --> 00:07:34,050 Actually, I think everybody. 163 00:07:34,340 --> 00:07:36,420 I think these were really wise answers. 164 00:07:36,420 --> 00:07:37,140 You're wise. 165 00:07:37,780 --> 00:07:38,260 Cool. 166 00:07:38,340 --> 00:07:39,700 Oh, Jason, go ahead. 167 00:07:40,980 --> 00:07:46,540 Oh, Jason feels like he fits really well in the God world. 168 00:07:46,540 --> 00:07:47,660 Like, that makes sense. 169 00:07:47,660 --> 00:07:48,980 Ministry makes sense. 170 00:07:49,620 --> 00:07:53,780 It's kind of the real world that doesn't make as much sense. 171 00:07:54,740 --> 00:07:57,340 And he thought, like, maybe that means I'm supposed to be a pastor, 172 00:07:57,340 --> 00:07:59,620 but I'd rather die than pray out loud. 173 00:08:00,110 --> 00:08:02,110 So what's up? 174 00:08:02,110 --> 00:08:03,310 Maggie's on her way. 175 00:08:04,030 --> 00:08:04,910 Hi, Maggie. 176 00:08:04,990 --> 00:08:05,790 Who said that? 177 00:08:05,790 --> 00:08:06,710 Oh, hi, Allison. 178 00:08:06,710 --> 00:08:08,750 She's pretty close, but she wants to be closer. 179 00:08:09,950 --> 00:08:11,030 Hey, online people. 180 00:08:11,030 --> 00:08:12,070 You ate your Wheaties. 181 00:08:12,070 --> 00:08:12,910 We got another one. 182 00:08:12,910 --> 00:08:13,550 Let's go. 183 00:08:14,030 --> 00:08:14,550 Ooh. 184 00:08:14,550 --> 00:08:16,750 I feel perfectly aligned, but hunger for more. 185 00:08:17,390 --> 00:08:19,990 We have five discipleship essentials in our church, so I want 186 00:08:19,990 --> 00:08:21,070 to transition on that. 187 00:08:21,150 --> 00:08:25,870 I Don't know if this ties to the sermon today, so help me, Brad. 188 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:29,540 Our discipleship essential number two is be humble, hungry and 189 00:08:29,540 --> 00:08:29,980 willing. 190 00:08:31,100 --> 00:08:36,260 It's actually healthy and spiritually mature to believe that 191 00:08:36,260 --> 00:08:37,340 you haven't arrived yet. 192 00:08:37,500 --> 00:08:43,820 Being a disciple is signing up for never having arrived and always 193 00:08:44,060 --> 00:08:45,180 being a beginner. 194 00:08:45,980 --> 00:08:51,740 At Heaven Earth Church, we have zero experts, none. 195 00:08:52,490 --> 00:08:55,690 Discipleship, we're all beginners. 196 00:08:55,930 --> 00:09:01,450 That's what keeps people well and mature and yet, like, part of 197 00:09:01,450 --> 00:09:06,890 what we believe, what we realize as we grow into our gifts, 198 00:09:08,009 --> 00:09:12,290 as we grow with Jesus, we realize that even as we haven't arrived 199 00:09:12,290 --> 00:09:15,130 yet, we are becoming. 200 00:09:15,210 --> 00:09:19,590 We are part of something that is so much better, bigger than we 201 00:09:19,590 --> 00:09:20,630 ever dreamed. 202 00:09:21,510 --> 00:09:25,710 So the more we grow into our gifts and we grow into, like, our 203 00:09:25,710 --> 00:09:28,190 calling, so to speak, it, we. 204 00:09:28,190 --> 00:09:32,710 We have this awakening of, like, man, I am part of something 205 00:09:33,030 --> 00:09:38,550 so big in Jesus, and that's what, like, who we are and what we 206 00:09:38,550 --> 00:09:42,910 do can be completely joined up with the extraordinary new creation 207 00:09:42,910 --> 00:09:43,430 of Jesus. 208 00:09:43,430 --> 00:09:45,910 We've been talking about that for, like, seven weeks now. 209 00:09:46,290 --> 00:09:50,610 We are made to be a part of this new harvest that began with 210 00:09:50,610 --> 00:09:53,090 Jesus's life, death and resurrection. 211 00:09:53,170 --> 00:09:58,130 He's invited us to be, like, formed and reformed into the people 212 00:09:58,210 --> 00:10:00,050 that he has destined us to be. 213 00:10:00,770 --> 00:10:03,130 We talked a lot about that in discovery. 214 00:10:03,130 --> 00:10:09,970 1 Ephesians 2, 10 says, like, we are God's handiwork or masterpiece 215 00:10:09,970 --> 00:10:12,290 created in Christ Jesus for good works. 216 00:10:12,820 --> 00:10:14,380 So, Jason, it's okay, my man. 217 00:10:14,380 --> 00:10:14,940 If you're. 218 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:15,260 If. 219 00:10:15,260 --> 00:10:18,100 If that's making sense in one world, then I think you're doing 220 00:10:18,100 --> 00:10:18,580 okay. 221 00:10:18,660 --> 00:10:22,460 If you're growing up in your masterpiece, identity in your ministry, 222 00:10:22,460 --> 00:10:25,620 and you're joining up with Jesus, I think you're doing okay. 223 00:10:25,860 --> 00:10:27,100 Here's what I want to talk to you about. 224 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:31,380 I want to show you how I got mixed messages, though, as a kid, 225 00:10:31,380 --> 00:10:32,340 and I think this is important. 226 00:10:32,980 --> 00:10:37,340 I got mixed messages as I was growing up that kind of flew in the 227 00:10:37,340 --> 00:10:38,100 face of this. 228 00:10:38,830 --> 00:10:40,910 So I want to say something that's a little more theoretical, 229 00:10:40,910 --> 00:10:43,190 and then we're going to end with really practical stuff. 230 00:10:43,190 --> 00:10:44,030 Are you with me? 231 00:10:44,670 --> 00:10:48,750 When I was growing up, there was this message that we'd read a 232 00:10:48,750 --> 00:10:53,710 verse like this, which is an amazing, amazing perspective. 233 00:10:53,870 --> 00:10:55,550 First Peter, chapter two. 234 00:10:55,550 --> 00:10:59,070 Dear friends, since you are immigrants and strangers in the world, 235 00:10:59,230 --> 00:11:01,310 Jason, he's talking to you and me, bud. 236 00:11:02,030 --> 00:11:03,950 We feel like weirdos in this world. 237 00:11:04,420 --> 00:11:07,620 I urge that you avoid worldly desires that wage war against your 238 00:11:07,620 --> 00:11:07,940 lives. 239 00:11:08,340 --> 00:11:09,140 There would be the. 240 00:11:09,140 --> 00:11:12,740 We'd take verses like this in the Bible, and I'd hear things like 241 00:11:12,820 --> 00:11:16,420 in my growing up years, everything here is temporary. 242 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:18,340 This world is a weird place. 243 00:11:18,420 --> 00:11:19,540 It's temporary. 244 00:11:19,540 --> 00:11:20,900 It's all perishing. 245 00:11:21,620 --> 00:11:25,300 So just remember that and wait for heaven. 246 00:11:25,460 --> 00:11:30,880 Like, just endure this temporary thing so you can get to 247 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,520 the thing that's not temporary. 248 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:33,880 Anybody else ever hear that? 249 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,000 Maybe it's just me. 250 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:36,680 This is all temporary. 251 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:40,960 Right now you're suffering, your life, everything's temporary. 252 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,560 Just get to the thing that's not temporary. 253 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:48,040 Don't waste your time getting upset about what's temporary. 254 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,400 Don't waste your time getting too happy with what's temporary. 255 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:53,400 Get to what's lasting. 256 00:11:57,170 --> 00:11:59,050 But you know what the message was with that? 257 00:11:59,050 --> 00:12:01,810 That I realized I struggled with growing up, that none of this 258 00:12:01,810 --> 00:12:02,370 matters. 259 00:12:02,610 --> 00:12:06,850 Monday at 9:30am doesn't really matter. 260 00:12:07,090 --> 00:12:10,050 Wednesday at 5:00 clock doesn't really matter. 261 00:12:10,290 --> 00:12:13,530 Your suffering doesn't actually matter because it's just 262 00:12:13,530 --> 00:12:14,050 temporary. 263 00:12:14,130 --> 00:12:15,170 Don't, hey, don't mourn. 264 00:12:15,170 --> 00:12:18,690 So during much, put a smile on your face because there's this lasting 265 00:12:18,690 --> 00:12:19,490 thing that's waiting. 266 00:12:20,690 --> 00:12:21,970 Folks, listen to me. 267 00:12:22,180 --> 00:12:26,340 That is not the Bible's message at all. 268 00:12:27,620 --> 00:12:30,580 Instead, kind of like Amanda did. 269 00:12:30,980 --> 00:12:32,020 Amanda cheated. 270 00:12:32,180 --> 00:12:32,780 Imagine. 271 00:12:32,780 --> 00:12:34,180 So, like, Amanda took a test. 272 00:12:34,340 --> 00:12:35,940 A, B and C were options. 273 00:12:36,260 --> 00:12:40,140 And she drew another bubble that was option D and then put an 274 00:12:40,140 --> 00:12:41,940 answer there and then filled in her own bubble. 275 00:12:42,340 --> 00:12:44,940 And then she got to the end of the test and came back and drew another 276 00:12:44,940 --> 00:12:47,860 bubble for E and then filled in that bubble. 277 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:49,960 I'm doing the same thing right now. 278 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,920 Here's really what the Bible says everywhere. 279 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:59,160 Yes, this land is strange and this time is fleeting. 280 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:03,959 We currently live, like, in an age and a situation that is not yet 281 00:13:03,959 --> 00:13:04,920 what it will be. 282 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:06,680 Are you with me? 283 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:08,320 We're in the theoretical part. 284 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,000 If your brain's hurting, stay with me. 285 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:10,600 Okay? 286 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:15,880 We are in a situation, a land, a time that is not yet what it will 287 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:16,200 be. 288 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:17,000 Full stop. 289 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,400 The Bible is, like, uniform on this. 290 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,800 All this stuff is, in a way, perishing. 291 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,440 None of this as it is, will last. 292 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,640 But instead of a period, where's Heather at? 293 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:28,920 There's a semicolon. 294 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:30,080 See? 295 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:31,080 A semicolon. 296 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:34,680 Grammar nerds are like, dude, this is going to be great. 297 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:40,000 Semicolon is a separation of two independent clauses that belong 298 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:40,360 together. 299 00:13:41,050 --> 00:13:42,370 This guy's getting way too heady. 300 00:13:42,370 --> 00:13:43,690 I told you we're gonna get practical. 301 00:13:44,490 --> 00:13:46,930 Kurt Vonnegut says never use semicolons. 302 00:13:46,930 --> 00:13:49,450 It just shows that you're arrogant and you went to college. 303 00:13:49,610 --> 00:13:50,810 I think I just did that. 304 00:13:50,890 --> 00:13:53,050 There are two things that belong together. 305 00:13:53,050 --> 00:13:53,850 Here's the point. 306 00:13:54,650 --> 00:13:55,130 Yes. 307 00:13:55,610 --> 00:13:58,650 What we're experiencing is not what it will be yet. 308 00:13:59,130 --> 00:14:00,170 It is fleeting. 309 00:14:00,250 --> 00:14:01,530 It is temporary. 310 00:14:01,930 --> 00:14:04,330 God has started a new creation in Jesus. 311 00:14:04,330 --> 00:14:06,010 God is renewing all things. 312 00:14:06,090 --> 00:14:08,250 This situation is not what it will be. 313 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,760 But this all matters so much. 314 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,920 This land and this time are also destined for a glory that will 315 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:18,880 be revealed. 316 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:23,160 A glory that has already partly been revealed in the resurrection. 317 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:25,640 Yes, this place will ultimately perish. 318 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:30,040 And yet the fruits we have grown will somehow endure. 319 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,400 I'm going to try to be simple. 320 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:32,920 I think that was too much. 321 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:33,640 Yes. 322 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,160 There are things about what we're doing right now on Sunday, 323 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,440 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, that 324 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:39,280 are going to fade away. 325 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,680 There are more eternal things to be a part of. 326 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:45,760 So be about those things. 327 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:50,200 But realize the eternal doesn't just mean something way over 328 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,240 there after this life, it starts right now. 329 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,720 That's the Bible's uniform message. 330 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,120 Eternal stuff has come here and now. 331 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:04,080 So when you bear the fruits of the spirit, the Bible has this weird 332 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,880 idea that the fruits of the spirit that you bear now, Debbie, 333 00:15:07,180 --> 00:15:10,020 will be kind of like the fruits of which we eat in the eternal 334 00:15:10,020 --> 00:15:10,460 kingdom. 335 00:15:10,540 --> 00:15:11,100 It's. 336 00:15:11,180 --> 00:15:14,220 It's like you're preparing the Kingdom of heaven banquet right now. 337 00:15:14,460 --> 00:15:16,580 My dad is a great baker. 338 00:15:16,580 --> 00:15:17,580 My kids know this. 339 00:15:17,820 --> 00:15:19,980 If you want a pumpkin bread, go to this fellow. 340 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:22,540 He processes the pumpkin. 341 00:15:23,260 --> 00:15:25,740 Like he doesn't go buy the store bought pumpkin stuff. 342 00:15:25,980 --> 00:15:27,100 That's for amateurs. 343 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:27,820 No offense. 344 00:15:28,220 --> 00:15:31,900 This guy processes the pumpkin, makes the best pumpkin pies, 345 00:15:32,380 --> 00:15:34,440 pumpkin bread all the time. 346 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,920 Long after he's gone, I will remember that our lives are like 347 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:38,200 that. 348 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,160 What we bake right now with our lives, the spiritual stuff that 349 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,960 we invest in right here, right now, in this ordinary time, this 350 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,320 strange land is joined up with the later. 351 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:54,440 We're building the kingdom of heaven right here, right now. 352 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,960 We are not yet what we're becoming, and yet we are. 353 00:16:00,290 --> 00:16:01,330 How's your brain doing? 354 00:16:02,130 --> 00:16:02,490 So. 355 00:16:02,490 --> 00:16:02,850 So. 356 00:16:03,330 --> 00:16:05,810 All right, well, just here's the practical part. 357 00:16:05,810 --> 00:16:06,530 Let's just do that. 358 00:16:06,530 --> 00:16:07,010 Okay? 359 00:16:07,330 --> 00:16:09,730 So Peter's like, well, what do we do in this time? 360 00:16:10,130 --> 00:16:14,250 How do we like, be a meaningful part of this time while 361 00:16:14,250 --> 00:16:16,290 realizing that this time ain't it? 362 00:16:16,370 --> 00:16:17,250 Are you with me? 363 00:16:17,570 --> 00:16:19,810 Maybe that's a simple way of saying it. 364 00:16:19,890 --> 00:16:21,970 This time really matters, but it ain't it. 365 00:16:22,050 --> 00:16:24,610 There, that's the sermon about seven words or so. 366 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:26,480 First of all, let's read this right here. 367 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,600 If this time didn't matter, there's no way Peter would write 368 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,160 words like this in chapter four. 369 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,760 If this time we're just like, just get through it, Melissa. 370 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:35,920 So you can get to the thing later. 371 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,080 Why would he write things that I'm about to show you? 372 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,560 You may as well just bunker down and wait for heaven. 373 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:42,000 No, it's not what he says. 374 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,120 He says this instead. 375 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,600 The end of everything has come. 376 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,640 Everything as we, as we've known it is over with. 377 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,080 The new creation has begun. 378 00:16:50,890 --> 00:16:53,930 Therefore, be self controlled and clear headed. 379 00:16:53,930 --> 00:16:54,730 So you can pray. 380 00:16:54,890 --> 00:16:57,890 I have, listen, I have, I think four points that are practical 381 00:16:57,890 --> 00:16:59,010 and we're going to end on these. 382 00:16:59,010 --> 00:17:01,730 I think there, I think there are four, let me see. 383 00:17:01,730 --> 00:17:02,490 There are four. 384 00:17:02,730 --> 00:17:03,930 They're all practical. 385 00:17:04,090 --> 00:17:04,970 Hang with me. 386 00:17:05,690 --> 00:17:09,930 First of all, what you're going to see is how Peter is mapping 387 00:17:09,930 --> 00:17:13,290 for us a way of living, a spiritual way of living that actually, 388 00:17:13,290 --> 00:17:14,970 that is tangible and concrete. 389 00:17:15,050 --> 00:17:16,970 It's an inside out way of life. 390 00:17:17,579 --> 00:17:20,579 So listen, I'm going to tell you a story that I heard about 30 391 00:17:20,579 --> 00:17:21,179 minutes ago. 392 00:17:21,419 --> 00:17:26,299 I know this guy who loves to golf, he loves to golf and he went 393 00:17:26,299 --> 00:17:27,899 to go golf by himself. 394 00:17:28,459 --> 00:17:29,579 That's his sanctuary. 395 00:17:30,139 --> 00:17:34,099 And the like, club pro or whoever, he shows up that day, they 396 00:17:34,099 --> 00:17:38,299 know this guy and he says, the club pro is like, hey, can you take 397 00:17:38,299 --> 00:17:39,419 this guy with you today? 398 00:17:39,659 --> 00:17:44,740 And my friend, this golfer is like, oh my gosh, I'm going out to 399 00:17:44,740 --> 00:17:45,260 my sanctuary. 400 00:17:45,260 --> 00:17:46,820 I don't want to drag this fellow along. 401 00:17:47,140 --> 00:17:48,180 I don't want to do that. 402 00:17:50,020 --> 00:17:54,500 But luckily my friend who's a good guy, he's not a bad guy, he's 403 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:55,020 a good guy. 404 00:17:55,020 --> 00:17:58,260 Wise guy, not that kind of wise guy, not like good fellows, 405 00:17:58,260 --> 00:18:00,420 like a guy with wisdom is what I meant. 406 00:18:01,220 --> 00:18:05,500 He goes up to this friend, it's important to have wise people 407 00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:06,180 in your life. 408 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:10,220 He's like, man, can you believe what they did to me? 409 00:18:10,220 --> 00:18:13,360 I came out to be a part of my sanctuary and, and they're making 410 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:14,800 me drag this guy along. 411 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,280 He stinks at golf, I don't wanna drag him along. 412 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,800 And this wise friend goes, he's gonna learn a lot from you today. 413 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,600 His friend didn't co sign his stuff. 414 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,200 Be like, oh yeah, that stinks man, that's awful. 415 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,440 No, he said, hey, he's gonna learn a lot from you today. 416 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:37,600 This guy, his wife's friend demonstrated a part of what we're 417 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:38,240 gonna see here. 418 00:18:38,630 --> 00:18:40,150 He didn't just say that on the fly. 419 00:18:40,150 --> 00:18:43,590 He shared something with my friend that came from the inside, 420 00:18:44,710 --> 00:18:47,430 from spiritual wisdom that was growing within his life. 421 00:18:48,790 --> 00:18:52,630 That guy, his wise friend thinks all the time about people 422 00:18:52,790 --> 00:18:55,110 first and he offered the fruit of that. 423 00:18:55,350 --> 00:18:58,790 He doesn't think about himself only he thinks about People. 424 00:18:59,990 --> 00:19:01,350 So I want to show you. 425 00:19:01,350 --> 00:19:04,990 Peter gives us a map for the inside out spiritual life that blesses 426 00:19:04,990 --> 00:19:05,990 people and God. 427 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:08,600 Okay, four things and we'll end with this. 428 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,520 Number one, he says in here, first one is be clear headed. 429 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,880 Point one, here's why this matters. 430 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:19,680 I like to think that I go to pray to get clear headed. 431 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:20,520 Are you with me? 432 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,800 I think that I need to go to prayer to go get clear headed. 433 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,800 He says be clear headed so you can pray. 434 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,520 Whoa, that's weird. 435 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,040 He's going first to the inside of your spiritual life. 436 00:19:34,590 --> 00:19:38,470 I think that if I'm like, if I'm experiencing tension in my prayer 437 00:19:38,470 --> 00:19:41,070 life, it's because it's my prayer. 438 00:19:41,070 --> 00:19:42,190 I'm not a good prayer. 439 00:19:42,830 --> 00:19:44,350 There's something wrong with my brain. 440 00:19:44,990 --> 00:19:49,310 But actually I'm realizing what this says is that prayer is 441 00:19:49,310 --> 00:19:53,630 the seed and it has to be planted in soil that you've prepared. 442 00:19:54,030 --> 00:19:57,190 So like if you're running around and you're not clear headed, 443 00:19:57,190 --> 00:20:00,910 you're frantically going and you're constantly multitasking, which 444 00:20:00,910 --> 00:20:01,950 doesn't actually exist. 445 00:20:02,380 --> 00:20:03,580 I read an article about this. 446 00:20:03,580 --> 00:20:05,500 There's no such thing as multitasking. 447 00:20:05,580 --> 00:20:08,540 You just switch between tasks really rapidly. 448 00:20:09,020 --> 00:20:12,380 You're training your brain to never be focused on one thing. 449 00:20:12,460 --> 00:20:14,300 How many multitaskers in the room? 450 00:20:15,260 --> 00:20:15,740 Woo. 451 00:20:15,980 --> 00:20:17,660 You're not multitasking anything. 452 00:20:18,139 --> 00:20:21,580 You're teaching your brain to shift rapidly between multiple things. 453 00:20:22,540 --> 00:20:23,260 Fake news. 454 00:20:23,340 --> 00:20:25,100 Heather just said she doesn't want to hear that. 455 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:33,080 Actually, what I realize is if I'm practicing being present and 456 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,640 clear headed in all areas of my life, it's a weird thing when 457 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,880 I go to this meditative space with God, I'm more connected. 458 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:45,480 I still have my distractions, I still have my troubles about being 459 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:46,360 present in prayer. 460 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,280 But I added this daggone app on my phone that attacks me all the 461 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:50,440 time. 462 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,120 It's called the Be Present app, which allows me to set intentions 463 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:55,240 for my screen time. 464 00:20:56,090 --> 00:20:56,810 It attacks. 465 00:20:57,370 --> 00:20:58,730 I got it this morning already. 466 00:20:59,210 --> 00:21:02,850 If I'm on, if I have screen time for an hour, it goes like. 467 00:21:02,850 --> 00:21:07,370 Social media executives appreciate your act of worship today. 468 00:21:08,250 --> 00:21:12,730 They shame me into not doing it, but actually it's helping me 469 00:21:12,970 --> 00:21:14,410 to be clear headed. 470 00:21:15,610 --> 00:21:21,330 We teach this as discipleship essential one guys, we wanna be shaped 471 00:21:21,330 --> 00:21:25,310 by an inside out relationship with God by being continuously present 472 00:21:25,310 --> 00:21:25,950 with God. 473 00:21:26,110 --> 00:21:30,150 So if you're running around multitaskers doing your thing all 474 00:21:30,150 --> 00:21:32,230 the time and you're like, okay, now I'm going to sit down and 475 00:21:32,230 --> 00:21:34,270 pray, you're making it hard on yourself. 476 00:21:34,510 --> 00:21:36,750 You're asking your brain to like shift speeds. 477 00:21:36,750 --> 00:21:40,510 It's too much practice, awareness and presence all the time. 478 00:21:40,910 --> 00:21:44,110 So that when you go to the meditative space, the soil is prepared 479 00:21:44,110 --> 00:21:45,950 to grow the inside out spiritual life. 480 00:21:45,950 --> 00:21:47,070 All right, three more points. 481 00:21:47,070 --> 00:21:48,030 We got to go fast. 482 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:49,560 No, we don't. 483 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:50,440 What am I saying? 484 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,120 I just said don't go fast. 485 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:53,240 Slow down. 486 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,720 The Pacers don't play today. 487 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,080 They already won. 488 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,120 All we got to do is just chill. 489 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:01,720 Are you being present right now? 490 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,320 Are you thinking about what you got to do? 491 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:04,600 Are you multitasking? 492 00:22:04,679 --> 00:22:06,040 Are you fully present here? 493 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,880 Okay, he did it too. 494 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:09,880 He said he didn't just go with answer A. 495 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:11,880 People are doing that. 496 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,840 They're drawing in the next option and filling in their own bubble. 497 00:22:15,100 --> 00:22:18,460 Okay, number two, make love the load bearing wall. 498 00:22:18,860 --> 00:22:19,260 Not. 499 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:20,620 Yeah, nevermind. 500 00:22:20,940 --> 00:22:22,380 You know what I was going to say there? 501 00:22:23,260 --> 00:22:25,820 Build love as the load bearing wall. 502 00:22:26,460 --> 00:22:26,940 Yes. 503 00:22:31,180 --> 00:22:31,780 Look at this. 504 00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:35,900 Above all, show sincere love to each other. 505 00:22:36,540 --> 00:22:39,100 Why would he write these things if this time doesn't matter? 506 00:22:39,420 --> 00:22:43,410 Bunker down, hide out and wait for heaven to come. 507 00:22:44,210 --> 00:22:44,610 No. 508 00:22:44,930 --> 00:22:50,050 Start with the inside of your spiritual life and you'll know that 509 00:22:50,050 --> 00:22:51,490 your spirit is growing. 510 00:22:51,810 --> 00:22:56,210 If the load bearing wall of your spiritual house is love, he 511 00:22:56,290 --> 00:23:02,370 says if you knock down the whole house, but that wall stands, 512 00:23:02,690 --> 00:23:03,810 the house will stand. 513 00:23:04,210 --> 00:23:07,730 I know when I look at people who are calling themselves Christian 514 00:23:07,730 --> 00:23:11,130 in this time, the greatest indictment I have against them is 515 00:23:11,130 --> 00:23:14,440 that I can see love is not the load bearing wall of their lives. 516 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:15,800 I can see it. 517 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:21,280 But yet Jesus also asks me every day when I'm present and I'm 518 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:22,040 clear headed. 519 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:25,840 He asked me in some way or another, hey, Ross, is love, Is it 520 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:26,520 it for you? 521 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:27,480 Because that's it. 522 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:30,840 All the scriptures agree on it. 523 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,520 Paul has this big long chapter, chapter 12 in First Corinthians 524 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:36,680 on Spiritual gifts. 525 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:41,030 But he says there's one that's the most important. 526 00:23:41,670 --> 00:23:43,270 It gets read at all the weddings. 527 00:23:44,550 --> 00:23:45,750 First Corinthians 13. 528 00:23:47,670 --> 00:23:49,750 It's not about like romantic love. 529 00:23:50,550 --> 00:23:52,310 In spite of what I just said a few minutes ago. 530 00:23:53,830 --> 00:23:58,550 It's about like above all things grow. 531 00:23:58,710 --> 00:24:02,070 Like, build that wall up in your life with Jesus's help from 532 00:24:02,070 --> 00:24:02,750 the inside out. 533 00:24:02,750 --> 00:24:04,390 You can't graft fruit onto the tree. 534 00:24:04,390 --> 00:24:06,570 Let's let him help you grow it from the inside out. 535 00:24:07,130 --> 00:24:07,850 Point 3. 536 00:24:08,650 --> 00:24:09,530 Are you with me? 537 00:24:09,610 --> 00:24:10,050 Look at that. 538 00:24:10,050 --> 00:24:10,890 We went fast. 539 00:24:11,770 --> 00:24:13,450 People had money on me going over. 540 00:24:13,530 --> 00:24:14,410 You're gonna lose. 541 00:24:14,650 --> 00:24:16,250 Make hospitality a way of life. 542 00:24:16,490 --> 00:24:17,370 What does that mean? 543 00:24:17,610 --> 00:24:22,010 So the story I told you about the golfer, the golfer was like, 544 00:24:22,010 --> 00:24:23,690 man, I got my thing to do today. 545 00:24:24,090 --> 00:24:25,290 I'm going to my thing. 546 00:24:25,450 --> 00:24:28,650 This other wise person in his life does this. 547 00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:34,610 The way that he demonstrates love practically in his life is that 548 00:24:34,610 --> 00:24:36,410 people are always the. 549 00:24:37,590 --> 00:24:38,230 What did I say? 550 00:24:38,230 --> 00:24:39,430 People are always the. 551 00:24:39,670 --> 00:24:40,870 People are always the. 552 00:24:41,750 --> 00:24:43,110 They're not projects. 553 00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:44,790 They're not a means to your end. 554 00:24:45,350 --> 00:24:46,870 Relationships are everything. 555 00:24:48,390 --> 00:24:51,390 Welcome people into your life all the time. 556 00:24:51,390 --> 00:24:53,350 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. 557 00:24:53,430 --> 00:24:55,270 Don't treat people as inconveniences. 558 00:24:55,430 --> 00:24:57,150 I'm not saying be codependent. 559 00:24:57,150 --> 00:24:57,830 Right, Bobo? 560 00:24:59,510 --> 00:25:01,670 Don't be an unhealthy enneagram too. 561 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:03,440 That was part of Discovery. 562 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,000 One, be a whole enneagram. 563 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,640 Two, a whole helper again. 564 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:11,120 Sorry, dad. 565 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:12,400 You get a little airplay today. 566 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:13,120 My dad? 567 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:14,800 Hey, he's a flawed guy, if you want to know. 568 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,480 I'll tell you some stories, okay? 569 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:17,720 Funny stories. 570 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:18,560 Great stories. 571 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:19,080 Man. 572 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:20,000 I watched. 573 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:23,760 I have watched him do this my whole life. 574 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:27,880 I wonder why. 575 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,000 Like, how do I know Jesus the way I do? 576 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,440 Because I watched him do this. 577 00:25:32,490 --> 00:25:34,330 I had troubled friends in high school. 578 00:25:34,330 --> 00:25:35,810 People from broken homes. 579 00:25:35,810 --> 00:25:38,250 People who were drinking and doing drugs. 580 00:25:38,330 --> 00:25:41,730 And they would sit in my father's living room with eyes bloodshot 581 00:25:41,730 --> 00:25:42,890 and pupils dilated. 582 00:25:43,290 --> 00:25:47,889 And he would sit with them like they were the only thing he 583 00:25:47,889 --> 00:25:48,570 had to do. 584 00:25:49,370 --> 00:25:50,570 What's wrong with me today? 585 00:25:51,050 --> 00:25:53,130 It's because I know this is the heart of life. 586 00:25:53,610 --> 00:25:55,450 People aren't an inconvenience. 587 00:25:56,650 --> 00:25:58,010 They are the only thing. 588 00:25:58,410 --> 00:25:59,250 God made you. 589 00:25:59,250 --> 00:26:00,090 The only thing. 590 00:26:00,090 --> 00:26:00,770 So go do it. 591 00:26:00,770 --> 00:26:05,620 Likewise, be present, clear headed, pray. 592 00:26:06,180 --> 00:26:09,100 Let the fruit of love grow from the inside out and make people 593 00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:09,700 the point. 594 00:26:10,260 --> 00:26:13,140 And lastly, I made it to point four. 595 00:26:13,540 --> 00:26:14,660 Steward your gift. 596 00:26:14,980 --> 00:26:16,020 He says it here. 597 00:26:17,140 --> 00:26:23,220 We tried to talk about this in Discovery one, right here. 598 00:26:23,940 --> 00:26:27,060 And serve each other according to the gift. 599 00:26:27,650 --> 00:26:28,850 What's the next two words? 600 00:26:28,850 --> 00:26:30,530 Serve each other according to the gift. 601 00:26:32,130 --> 00:26:32,530 What? 602 00:26:33,170 --> 00:26:36,090 Ross, are you saying every single person has a special gift 603 00:26:36,090 --> 00:26:36,690 from God? 604 00:26:36,690 --> 00:26:39,650 Yes, and steward it. 605 00:26:40,370 --> 00:26:43,410 I could never be as hospitable as my father is. 606 00:26:43,810 --> 00:26:45,490 He can't teach like I can. 607 00:26:45,650 --> 00:26:47,690 I don't see people the way my dad does. 608 00:26:47,690 --> 00:26:48,610 I wish I could. 609 00:26:48,690 --> 00:26:49,250 I'm trying. 610 00:26:49,810 --> 00:26:50,610 Not there yet. 611 00:26:50,850 --> 00:26:52,050 You have a gift. 612 00:26:52,450 --> 00:26:54,290 It is so special and wonderful. 613 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,040 Some of you are enneagram too. 614 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,440 Folks, some of you don't know what the enneagram is. 615 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:00,480 And that's okay too. 616 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:01,920 Mark Knudson. 617 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,680 I told you this story 800 times. 618 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,600 He sees himself as a Ninja Turtle. 619 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:07,200 That's his gift. 620 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,760 He's in the shadows helping people. 621 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,760 So he's gonna steward that gift. 622 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,320 God gave you something so dynamic, unique and special to grow 623 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:17,560 and cultivate and Share. 624 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:18,320 It's not just for you. 625 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,240 It is for you, and it's for other people. 626 00:27:21,270 --> 00:27:22,710 So, Jason, you're doing a great job. 627 00:27:23,430 --> 00:27:25,190 Okay, Angela, go ahead. 628 00:27:27,430 --> 00:27:27,830 Great. 629 00:27:27,830 --> 00:27:29,110 That's an amazing question. 630 00:27:30,230 --> 00:27:33,110 Angela says, is there a standard way to identify that? 631 00:27:33,350 --> 00:27:38,070 No church has tried so, so hard. 632 00:27:38,470 --> 00:27:40,870 Take this Spiritual Gifts inventory. 633 00:27:41,590 --> 00:27:44,990 Have you noticed there's a multiplication of personality tests 634 00:27:44,990 --> 00:27:45,430 out there? 635 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,720 How many people love Enneagram? 636 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:48,960 You just love it. 637 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:51,360 How many of you have no idea what Enneagram is? 638 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:52,960 There you go. 639 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:54,440 Myers, Briggs. 640 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:55,440 Anybody love that one? 641 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:56,200 No. 642 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:56,560 See? 643 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,560 Anybody love strengths finders? 644 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,480 There's no standard way. 645 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,920 We asked in Discovery One, though, questions like this. 646 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,480 What's something that you do that when you do it, you just completely 647 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:09,600 lose yourself in it. 648 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:10,880 You lose track of time. 649 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:15,060 You stop worrying what's something that you did or you learned 650 00:28:15,060 --> 00:28:16,540 that didn't take much effort. 651 00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:20,700 You have to work at it, but you didn't have to work as much relative 652 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:21,500 to other things. 653 00:28:21,820 --> 00:28:23,660 Again, I'm disappointing myself. 654 00:28:23,980 --> 00:28:26,940 I had never preached a sermon until I preached an audition sermon 655 00:28:26,940 --> 00:28:28,060 in 2012. 656 00:28:28,460 --> 00:28:30,220 Relative, very little effort. 657 00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:31,660 Being hospitable to people. 658 00:28:31,660 --> 00:28:32,380 That's his. 659 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:33,500 It takes him. 660 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:34,580 No, my dad shows. 661 00:28:34,580 --> 00:28:36,460 He wakes up in the morning ready to host 50 people. 662 00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:37,580 I don't know how. 663 00:28:37,820 --> 00:28:39,940 Dad, can you bake 50 pumpkin pies? 664 00:28:39,940 --> 00:28:41,020 Yeah, I'll have them do tomorrow. 665 00:28:41,850 --> 00:28:43,370 Like, he's just born to it. 666 00:28:43,850 --> 00:28:45,130 So relative to other people. 667 00:28:45,130 --> 00:28:45,570 Takes him. 668 00:28:45,570 --> 00:28:47,530 All this effort to learn stuff for you, it didn't. 669 00:28:47,850 --> 00:28:49,530 And you get energized by it. 670 00:28:49,610 --> 00:28:50,450 It blesses you. 671 00:28:50,450 --> 00:28:51,330 It blesses other people. 672 00:28:51,330 --> 00:28:53,050 Go take a personality test, too. 673 00:28:53,770 --> 00:28:55,050 But reflect on your life. 674 00:28:55,370 --> 00:28:56,570 What do you do naturally? 675 00:28:57,530 --> 00:28:59,370 What do you learn with little effort? 676 00:28:59,930 --> 00:29:03,450 What do you pour out that energizes you, fills you up in return? 677 00:29:03,770 --> 00:29:05,690 Those are some of the keys to finding out. 678 00:29:05,850 --> 00:29:07,220 Adam, listen. 679 00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:08,740 Adam, hold that thought. 680 00:29:08,740 --> 00:29:11,300 Let the record show you're going over today. 681 00:29:11,540 --> 00:29:13,860 All right, Adam, go ahead. 682 00:29:17,060 --> 00:29:18,900 Yeah, you guys showed up today. 683 00:29:19,860 --> 00:29:23,020 Adam asked like, so what if I'm stewarding my gift or I'm trying 684 00:29:23,020 --> 00:29:26,940 to discover my gift that God has given me, trying to grow up in 685 00:29:26,940 --> 00:29:28,260 it, share it with others. 686 00:29:28,980 --> 00:29:31,700 But maybe people aren't always reciprocating that. 687 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:34,280 I feel like I'm giving, giving, giving, giving, giving, and 688 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:35,800 I'm not getting it in return. 689 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:36,920 This map. 690 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:37,400 Yes. 691 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:42,280 Lifelong, lifelong learning on that, my friend. 692 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,160 Especially for the record, people who've grown up in trauma. 693 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:46,600 I'm just going to throw that in. 694 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,160 Yeah, but this map, I can't answer. 695 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:50,720 Let's go get. 696 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,840 Let's go back to what Was it called Burger Poet? 697 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:54,760 We'll go back and talk about it some more. 698 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,000 This map is great that we've laid out today. 699 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,950 When that happens to you, go back to the inside, shore up your. 700 00:30:02,950 --> 00:30:04,510 The inside life, the inner life. 701 00:30:04,670 --> 00:30:07,310 Like, and maybe that's like, maybe your prayer sounds like God. 702 00:30:07,310 --> 00:30:10,790 I'm sick and tired of feeling like I give and give and give and 703 00:30:10,790 --> 00:30:11,790 I get nothing in return. 704 00:30:12,190 --> 00:30:15,710 Maybe God will like, meet you there and speak with you and say 705 00:30:15,710 --> 00:30:17,110 like, yeah, that's a bummer. 706 00:30:17,110 --> 00:30:18,030 It's a bummer, man. 707 00:30:18,030 --> 00:30:19,550 Like the Big Lebowski or something. 708 00:30:19,950 --> 00:30:21,710 God doesn't sound like that, I don't think. 709 00:30:21,710 --> 00:30:22,150 I don't know. 710 00:30:22,150 --> 00:30:22,590 Maybe. 711 00:30:22,830 --> 00:30:23,390 Anyways. 712 00:30:24,270 --> 00:30:25,150 But be careful. 713 00:30:25,150 --> 00:30:28,820 God may also hold you to account too, about how you've done 714 00:30:28,820 --> 00:30:29,220 it too. 715 00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:32,660 And then God is going to build back up with you and me that load 716 00:30:32,660 --> 00:30:33,380 bearing wall. 717 00:30:33,540 --> 00:30:35,220 Love for God has love for us. 718 00:30:36,260 --> 00:30:38,740 We receive that and then we can give it back out. 719 00:30:38,980 --> 00:30:39,620 Great question. 720 00:30:39,940 --> 00:30:40,500 All right. 721 00:30:40,660 --> 00:30:41,300 Okay. 722 00:30:41,780 --> 00:30:43,220 You are going over today. 723 00:30:43,620 --> 00:30:44,380 It's tough. 724 00:30:44,380 --> 00:30:44,900 It's tough. 725 00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:45,700 Yeah, go ahead. 726 00:30:49,860 --> 00:30:51,340 We're all weepy today, man. 727 00:30:51,340 --> 00:30:52,020 We got a. 728 00:30:52,020 --> 00:30:52,780 It's Jason. 729 00:30:52,780 --> 00:30:53,780 It's so good, man. 730 00:30:54,490 --> 00:30:56,890 You're right where you're meant to be. 731 00:30:57,130 --> 00:30:57,810 If online. 732 00:30:57,810 --> 00:30:58,570 You need to hear this. 733 00:30:58,570 --> 00:31:01,610 Jason applied for like one job in his life and I knew. 734 00:31:01,610 --> 00:31:03,210 I know it's the per. 735 00:31:03,210 --> 00:31:05,770 It was the perfect fit and he didn't get it. 736 00:31:05,930 --> 00:31:06,730 It said everything. 737 00:31:06,730 --> 00:31:10,730 But Jason Baker applied for this job and you didn't get it. 738 00:31:10,810 --> 00:31:14,570 And so you could have experienced that as like an indictment 739 00:31:14,570 --> 00:31:17,610 on who you are as a person, but instead you went back to the 740 00:31:17,610 --> 00:31:20,490 inner life and God said, whoa, whoa, hold on. 741 00:31:21,470 --> 00:31:22,990 Actually, this is who you are still. 742 00:31:23,070 --> 00:31:24,350 And you're doing it with me. 743 00:31:24,590 --> 00:31:26,030 And I've watched you do it. 744 00:31:26,670 --> 00:31:31,830 I met Jason when we both were serving for Bridges alliance of Johnson 745 00:31:31,830 --> 00:31:37,390 county in 2018, and Jason was showing up as an ally to people who 746 00:31:37,390 --> 00:31:38,230 were growing in that program. 747 00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:39,230 I've watched him do it. 748 00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:40,190 He's doing his thing. 749 00:31:40,270 --> 00:31:41,790 PT Say it again. 750 00:31:42,110 --> 00:31:44,830 Music was his life, but not his livelihood. 751 00:31:44,830 --> 00:31:45,230 That's a. 752 00:31:45,230 --> 00:31:47,990 Yeah, it's a great at supplement to that, Kirsten. 753 00:31:51,590 --> 00:31:52,070 Yeah. 754 00:31:52,150 --> 00:31:52,710 Yeah. 755 00:31:52,710 --> 00:31:53,270 Yep. 756 00:31:53,430 --> 00:31:55,150 Speaking of lifelong learning is. 757 00:31:55,150 --> 00:31:59,150 Is like learning to give and be aware of your expectations as 758 00:31:59,150 --> 00:31:59,550 you give. 759 00:31:59,550 --> 00:32:03,750 I always share this line from aa Expectations are pre planned resentments. 760 00:32:04,230 --> 00:32:08,150 So like part of growing in maturity, the inside out life with 761 00:32:08,150 --> 00:32:11,790 load is the love bearing wall is being aware, clear headed about 762 00:32:11,790 --> 00:32:12,830 your expectations. 763 00:32:12,830 --> 00:32:16,410 When you give, are you giving so that somebody affirms you in return 764 00:32:16,410 --> 00:32:20,850 because you're insecure are you giving out of a bounty which 765 00:32:20,850 --> 00:32:21,770 you have already received? 766 00:32:22,250 --> 00:32:25,450 That's what the inner life and that load bearing wall does for you. 767 00:32:25,530 --> 00:32:27,610 We'd better have communion now, guys. 768 00:32:27,770 --> 00:32:29,050 This is great stuff. 769 00:32:29,050 --> 00:32:30,330 Praise be to God. 770 00:32:31,210 --> 00:32:33,890 The Holy Spirit is in the place always. 771 00:32:33,890 --> 00:32:37,250 It's just whether we're aware of it or not, we're going to eat 772 00:32:37,250 --> 00:32:38,490 this last supper together. 773 00:32:38,890 --> 00:32:41,290 It's the meal that Jesus ate before he died. 774 00:32:42,290 --> 00:32:45,050 I'm not going to run up there and do the stuff, breaking the bread 775 00:32:45,050 --> 00:32:45,530 and such. 776 00:32:45,530 --> 00:32:46,690 You know how that goes. 777 00:32:47,010 --> 00:32:48,610 Jesus did all these things. 778 00:32:48,850 --> 00:32:52,930 His entire life was practicing presence with God. 779 00:32:53,010 --> 00:32:57,410 His entire life was one big load bearing wall of love. 780 00:32:57,810 --> 00:33:04,010 He was hospitable to everyone, but prioritized the people who hadn't 781 00:33:04,010 --> 00:33:04,690 been welcomed. 782 00:33:05,730 --> 00:33:09,480 And so when he ate this meal, those people were with him at the 783 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:14,520 table and he was offering himself, he was offering his life 784 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:22,360 to restore humankind, to deal with death, evil, sin, to like offer 785 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,320 his life the power of God's love in the face of these things, 786 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,000 to start a new creation. 787 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,040 And so we eat this meal to remember that he gave his life to 788 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:32,920 start a new life for all of us. 789 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,520 So today you will receive a piece of bread which is symbolically 790 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:38,320 like his body. 791 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,600 You'll receive a little bit of juice which is symbolically like 792 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:42,240 his blood. 793 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,640 We believe at this table Jesus is with us in a powerful way. 794 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,040 So invite you. 795 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,480 This is a time to be present with Jesus, to pray in whatever way 796 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,760 you need to pray, to ask for whatever you need to ask to give 797 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:55,400 gratitude. 798 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,950 So in just a minute, Brad is going to be serving the bread which 799 00:33:59,950 --> 00:34:00,990 is gluten free today. 800 00:34:00,990 --> 00:34:02,150 All of it's gluten free. 801 00:34:02,150 --> 00:34:05,310 But I think it tastes good, I think, right? 802 00:34:05,310 --> 00:34:05,750 Yeah. 803 00:34:06,150 --> 00:34:08,190 Some people don't like the gluten free wafers anyways. 804 00:34:08,190 --> 00:34:09,150 It's all gluten free today. 805 00:34:09,150 --> 00:34:10,470 Brad's going to be serving that. 806 00:34:11,430 --> 00:34:13,630 Debbie, could you serve the juice, do you think? 807 00:34:13,630 --> 00:34:14,630 Okay, thank you. 808 00:34:14,710 --> 00:34:15,710 It's right back there. 809 00:34:15,710 --> 00:34:17,430 There's hand sanitizer too. 810 00:34:17,430 --> 00:34:21,990 So when you're ready, you can come up and get a piece of bread 811 00:34:21,990 --> 00:34:27,620 from Brad and some juice from Debbie and then hold it and we'll 812 00:34:27,620 --> 00:34:28,660 all eat it together. 813 00:34:28,660 --> 00:34:31,300 We're just sharing in the Lord's last supper together. 814 00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:33,140 First let's pray. 815 00:34:34,340 --> 00:34:38,180 Lord, will you pour out your holy spirit on this bread and this 816 00:34:38,180 --> 00:34:42,260 juice that it would be for us, the body and blood, the presence 817 00:34:43,620 --> 00:34:48,980 of Jesus, pour out upon us your love that restores all things 818 00:34:49,220 --> 00:34:50,500 and renews all things. 819 00:34:51,230 --> 00:34:54,270 Be present with us and help us be present to you at this table. 820 00:34:54,270 --> 00:34:55,870 In Jesus name, Amen. 821 00:34:59,550 --> 00:35:03,990 Thank you for participating in the conversation happening at Heaven 822 00:35:03,990 --> 00:35:05,150 Earth Church. 823 00:35:05,630 --> 00:35:10,910 Your next opportunity to do so live is this Sunday morning, 9:30am 824 00:35:11,950 --> 00:35:16,150 Eastern Time, either at the main campus at 3:09 East Main in 825 00:35:16,150 --> 00:35:20,530 Whiteland, Indiana or online at YouTube Live. 826 00:35:20,930 --> 00:35:28,370 That's@YouTube.com heavenerthchurch the audio podcast 827 00:35:28,370 --> 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