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 --> 00:00:24,080 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:27,280 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,160 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,820 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:32,820 --> 00:00:36,500 There are stories in many cases of misfits who are discovering 12 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:38,060 or rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:38,220 --> 00:00:39,340 If you want to know more about. 14 00:00:39,340 --> 00:00:43,060 Us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org Otherwise, we 15 00:00:43,060 --> 00:00:45,020 invite you now into the story. 16 00:00:47,580 --> 00:00:48,500 Hello, good people. 17 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:53,180 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 18 00:00:53,580 --> 00:00:57,220 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 19 00:00:57,220 --> 00:01:03,300 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 20 00:01:03,300 --> 00:01:05,660 pastor Ross Stackhouse. 21 00:01:06,540 --> 00:01:11,260 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 22 00:01:11,820 --> 00:01:20,300 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 23 00:01:21,260 --> 00:01:26,140 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 24 00:01:26,220 --> 00:01:30,890 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify 25 00:01:31,370 --> 00:01:40,490 and on the website, which is heavenerthchurch.org here now is 26 00:01:40,970 --> 00:01:47,290 Pastor Ross Stackhouse's Message on Fire, Part 2. 27 00:01:47,610 --> 00:01:50,410 The Holy Spirit in each person. 28 00:01:52,730 --> 00:02:01,240 God, help us to feel the power of your presence that's unlike anything 29 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,720 else that we may experience in this life. 30 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,480 Help us to experience your eternal life. 31 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:15,720 Help us to meet with you today, but not so that we go home 32 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:20,360 and forget, but so that we practice this continuous friendship 33 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:25,730 with you, living with you and abiding in you all the time in the 34 00:02:25,730 --> 00:02:28,490 places where we live, work, learn, play. 35 00:02:30,810 --> 00:02:34,330 I pray this in Jesus name, Amen. 36 00:02:36,250 --> 00:02:40,490 I think I've asked you this before, but I'm going to do it again. 37 00:02:42,250 --> 00:02:42,890 Whatever. 38 00:02:43,450 --> 00:02:43,890 That's. 39 00:02:43,890 --> 00:02:46,570 Hey, listen, if you come up here and speak, you get to repeat 40 00:02:46,570 --> 00:02:47,370 stories, okay? 41 00:02:47,370 --> 00:02:47,930 I don't have. 42 00:02:47,930 --> 00:02:48,930 I don't have that much to say. 43 00:02:48,930 --> 00:02:50,260 I can't figure out 52 weeks. 44 00:02:50,260 --> 00:02:51,380 See, you don't have that much. 45 00:02:54,180 --> 00:02:55,980 Can you think of a time in your life now? 46 00:02:55,980 --> 00:02:57,060 Think we got a group here. 47 00:02:57,060 --> 00:03:00,020 So you can't go five minutes on this, probably not even a minute 48 00:03:00,660 --> 00:03:04,980 where there was life before it and then there was life after it. 49 00:03:04,980 --> 00:03:07,580 But today I'm going to say there are two answers you may not 50 00:03:07,580 --> 00:03:07,940 give. 51 00:03:09,380 --> 00:03:12,580 When you got married and when you had kids. 52 00:03:12,740 --> 00:03:16,380 All right, Sorry, sorry. 53 00:03:16,860 --> 00:03:19,540 Because, look, we know, like you, when you have kids, everything 54 00:03:19,540 --> 00:03:20,300 changes, right? 55 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:27,340 There was life before this happened and then there was life 56 00:03:27,660 --> 00:03:35,020 after life before divorce. 57 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:43,030 Life after Paul. 58 00:03:45,670 --> 00:03:47,590 Life before addiction. 59 00:03:48,470 --> 00:03:50,390 Life after addiction. 60 00:03:52,390 --> 00:03:53,030 Cara. 61 00:03:57,430 --> 00:03:59,350 Life before my mom died. 62 00:03:59,750 --> 00:04:11,600 Life after I'll just wait. 63 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:15,760 P.T. 64 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:23,120 h. 65 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:26,400 Life before ordination. 66 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:27,120 Life after. 67 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:27,600 Because. 68 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,240 And part of that was losing some friends. 69 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:30,800 After. 70 00:04:33,770 --> 00:04:34,010 Online. 71 00:04:35,290 --> 00:04:36,010 Wake up. 72 00:04:44,810 --> 00:04:45,290 Yes. 73 00:04:46,650 --> 00:04:47,130 Yes. 74 00:04:48,730 --> 00:04:54,010 Life before Angela's grandfather passed away. 75 00:04:54,010 --> 00:04:58,500 Life after we live with Russ for two years in his 90s. 76 00:05:00,260 --> 00:05:02,180 He died on our fifth anniversary. 77 00:05:03,620 --> 00:05:04,900 I see a hand over here. 78 00:05:06,660 --> 00:05:07,020 Oh. 79 00:05:07,020 --> 00:05:07,540 Aaron. 80 00:05:12,020 --> 00:05:13,380 Life before 50. 81 00:05:13,940 --> 00:05:16,900 Life after Christie. 82 00:05:22,820 --> 00:05:30,580 Awesome, huh? 83 00:05:32,580 --> 00:05:34,540 Life before Patty lost her son. 84 00:05:34,540 --> 00:05:35,180 The life after. 85 00:05:35,180 --> 00:05:35,860 And then getting. 86 00:05:37,220 --> 00:05:38,020 She said it. 87 00:05:38,020 --> 00:05:39,220 A new, wonderful son. 88 00:05:41,140 --> 00:05:42,020 He's okay. 89 00:05:44,820 --> 00:05:45,700 Yeah, I guess. 90 00:05:49,790 --> 00:05:50,190 Dina. 91 00:05:53,230 --> 00:05:55,390 Life before my parents passed away. 92 00:05:55,790 --> 00:05:56,670 Life after. 93 00:05:58,430 --> 00:05:58,910 Yeah. 94 00:06:00,510 --> 00:06:01,310 Horsa. 95 00:06:05,870 --> 00:06:08,750 Life before my brother went on his first deployment. 96 00:06:08,910 --> 00:06:09,710 Life after. 97 00:06:10,590 --> 00:06:11,150 Yeah. 98 00:06:12,590 --> 00:06:13,230 Angie. 99 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:18,920 Life before this church. 100 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:20,760 Life after. 101 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:24,280 I'll second that. 102 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 This weirdo church that we have. 103 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:30,680 Wouldn't have it any other way. 104 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:34,400 I'd be interested here sometime. 105 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,400 How do you describe this church to your friends? 106 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:37,000 If you do. 107 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,160 When you do, it's hard. 108 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,120 I even find it hard of. 109 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:42,680 It's normal. 110 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:43,600 We're not doing anything different. 111 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:44,400 Sunday morning. 112 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:45,760 We're getting together here. 113 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:48,800 It's chill. 114 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:51,840 Right on, man. 115 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:54,000 Yeah, I think so. 116 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,320 It's different from my last church. 117 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:04,080 It is. 118 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:05,040 It is. 119 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:05,680 Yes. 120 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:06,880 You were there. 121 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:09,760 Anybody else? 122 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:13,120 Go for it. 123 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:16,720 Life before cancer. 124 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:17,920 Life after cancer. 125 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:26,080 So you notice with a lot of these that for a lot of us, there 126 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:31,080 was kind of a bridge that we walked that we passed that we didn't 127 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:31,600 want to. 128 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:33,520 Right. 129 00:07:35,370 --> 00:07:38,650 And then there was the land on which we stood. 130 00:07:39,930 --> 00:07:43,050 And then we had to cross that bridge and come over to another land 131 00:07:43,050 --> 00:07:45,210 that we did not want to inhabit. 132 00:07:45,850 --> 00:07:46,610 And yet we. 133 00:07:46,610 --> 00:07:47,450 We do now. 134 00:07:48,010 --> 00:07:48,410 Right? 135 00:07:50,650 --> 00:07:52,570 Part of our existence in this world. 136 00:07:52,810 --> 00:07:53,210 News. 137 00:07:53,450 --> 00:07:54,330 Breaking news. 138 00:07:54,330 --> 00:07:56,050 This world is not as it should be. 139 00:07:56,050 --> 00:07:58,490 It's full of death and suffering and evil. 140 00:07:59,130 --> 00:07:59,850 Did you know? 141 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:01,680 No. 142 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,800 We get reminded of that all day long every day. 143 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:08,520 It's a hard place to live. 144 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:12,200 Hard place to live. 145 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,000 So for a lot of us, there's. 146 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,400 There's life before in life after our loss and our grief. 147 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:18,760 Right? 148 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,680 That's part of the reality of being human here. 149 00:08:27,170 --> 00:08:34,050 And yet when you share that, that's what amplifies or makes the 150 00:08:34,050 --> 00:08:37,730 good news of Jesus hopefully brighter than ever. 151 00:08:39,730 --> 00:08:47,250 Because the entire story of Christianity is how God became flesh, 152 00:08:48,370 --> 00:08:55,660 left God's land, to come and be a part of our land and to start 153 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:58,300 something incredibly and wonderfully new. 154 00:08:59,580 --> 00:09:07,100 First and foremost, to be flesh with us in the loss, to lament 155 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:07,500 with us. 156 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:11,580 Lament's a fancy word that means to express sorrow, to express 157 00:09:11,740 --> 00:09:13,980 sorrow with us in this land. 158 00:09:14,140 --> 00:09:15,420 He says on the cross. 159 00:09:15,420 --> 00:09:18,710 My God, my God, where in the hell are you? 160 00:09:23,190 --> 00:09:28,150 He says that with us, he gets in this land with us. 161 00:09:30,070 --> 00:09:34,790 But then did you know he has risen. 162 00:09:37,030 --> 00:09:38,710 Come on, churchy folk. 163 00:09:39,750 --> 00:09:41,910 Where are my traditional church going people? 164 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,240 Some of the, some of the non church, they're like, what is happening 165 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:47,600 right now? 166 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,040 You're fine, don't worry about it. 167 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:52,040 It's an old school thing. 168 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,200 When I say he is risen, you say he is risen. 169 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,400 Indeed, he is risen. 170 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,520 Every Sunday is Easter. 171 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,000 That's why the very first followers of Jesus started getting 172 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,440 together on Sunday mornings on the first day of the week. 173 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,130 For them, Sunday is the first day of the week in Jesus world. 174 00:10:12,170 --> 00:10:14,570 Friday night to Saturday night is the Sabbath. 175 00:10:14,890 --> 00:10:16,970 Sunday morning is the first day of the week. 176 00:10:17,130 --> 00:10:19,770 So they got together on the first day of the week to start their 177 00:10:19,770 --> 00:10:24,010 week with the memory and the celebration that no matter how hard 178 00:10:24,010 --> 00:10:30,450 this life is, somebody, somebody crossed a bridge to come 179 00:10:30,450 --> 00:10:36,880 to this land, to go before us, to deal with the darkness and to 180 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,360 be risen in it, to go ahead. 181 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:45,200 So every Sunday they got together to remember and to celebrate 182 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:53,320 and to try to catch the fire that he said, you're gonna get, you're 183 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,600 gonna get it because remember for them. 184 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,320 What I want to tell you is that we have enough hard news in 185 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:02,160 our life, Right? 186 00:11:03,420 --> 00:11:04,980 It's like every day right now. 187 00:11:04,980 --> 00:11:08,060 It's always actually been that way, honestly. 188 00:11:10,060 --> 00:11:14,700 But every day is an occurrence where I stay engaged, folks. 189 00:11:15,100 --> 00:11:18,900 I get on various news sources, I sample them, and then I throw them 190 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:20,860 in a skillet and cook it around for a minute. 191 00:11:20,940 --> 00:11:22,980 And then I come out with something like, this is probably 192 00:11:22,980 --> 00:11:24,940 somewhere the truth in between here. 193 00:11:24,940 --> 00:11:25,260 Right? 194 00:11:25,980 --> 00:11:26,900 Well, then there's that. 195 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:28,220 We have a new tradition in our house. 196 00:11:28,460 --> 00:11:33,020 Angela comes in the room and tells me something bad that has happened. 197 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:37,560 Yeah. 198 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:46,200 And so, like we have enough hard news at like every day, but 199 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:51,000 we also have this transcendent good news. 200 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,720 That's what we're trying to grab a hold of together here. 201 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:00,800 Let, let it take over our lives and bear witness to it even 202 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,360 as it's still hard out here. 203 00:12:02,940 --> 00:12:03,180 Right? 204 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:08,540 So that's what we see in the life of the first followers. 205 00:12:08,540 --> 00:12:11,140 That's why we're in a series called On Fire. 206 00:12:11,140 --> 00:12:12,860 The Holy Spirit in each person. 207 00:12:13,340 --> 00:12:18,540 It's actually wonderful that Paul gave me this shirt today because 208 00:12:18,540 --> 00:12:19,660 it's a perfect. 209 00:12:19,660 --> 00:12:22,100 The dandelion bulbartell. 210 00:12:22,100 --> 00:12:27,580 If you're out there, bud, it's the perfect image of the Jesus movement. 211 00:12:28,150 --> 00:12:30,430 Remember when we talked about it recently, somewhere along the 212 00:12:30,430 --> 00:12:34,390 line, somebody decided that we had to Declare war against the dandelions. 213 00:12:35,510 --> 00:12:37,750 Because they show up in our yard and, like, take over. 214 00:12:37,750 --> 00:12:40,550 And every year, like, we're spraying the heck out of them, just 215 00:12:40,550 --> 00:12:42,230 pumping chemicals into the dirt. 216 00:12:42,390 --> 00:12:44,070 Get out of here, dandelion. 217 00:12:44,470 --> 00:12:45,230 And then we're like. 218 00:12:45,230 --> 00:12:47,230 We experience the goodness of it for a while. 219 00:12:47,230 --> 00:12:49,590 Then the next spring comes, and we're chilling and we're looking 220 00:12:49,590 --> 00:12:53,750 out, we're resting, and then we look over, and there one of them 221 00:12:53,750 --> 00:12:54,630 is, right there. 222 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:01,960 And then that stupid little resurrection flower, as Lowell calls, 223 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,360 has the boldness to look beautiful for a minute and then turn 224 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,360 to seed to make more dandelions. 225 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,240 That was the Jesus movement in the first century. 226 00:13:20,930 --> 00:13:25,650 A bunch of little annoying, beautiful dandelions. 227 00:13:27,490 --> 00:13:30,850 They tried so hard to wipe out the dandelions. 228 00:13:30,850 --> 00:13:31,570 It didn't work. 229 00:13:33,010 --> 00:13:37,330 Because for these first followers, there was life before 230 00:13:37,810 --> 00:13:42,930 they experienced the Good News, and then there was life after. 231 00:13:45,090 --> 00:13:49,010 And for the record, I want to show you it took him a long time 232 00:13:49,010 --> 00:13:52,530 to not just experience it, but digest it. 233 00:13:54,050 --> 00:13:55,210 Remember what we've talked about. 234 00:13:55,210 --> 00:13:56,930 We talked about it so many times, you guys. 235 00:13:57,970 --> 00:14:01,490 Some of you been trying to get this Jesus mystery for a long, long 236 00:14:01,490 --> 00:14:01,890 time. 237 00:14:02,130 --> 00:14:04,530 You've been in church for a long, long time. 238 00:14:05,250 --> 00:14:06,130 Long time. 239 00:14:08,210 --> 00:14:09,730 And it's still not clicking. 240 00:14:10,050 --> 00:14:10,930 You're in good company. 241 00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:14,660 The disciples are right next to Jesus. 242 00:14:14,660 --> 00:14:18,300 For three years, they had not yet become dandelions like him. 243 00:14:19,980 --> 00:14:22,260 They were trying to be something else that the world wants 244 00:14:22,260 --> 00:14:22,860 you to be. 245 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:26,780 They were trying so hard to be something else. 246 00:14:27,420 --> 00:14:29,820 And they were with him at the end. 247 00:14:30,620 --> 00:14:31,700 Do I have it on a slide? 248 00:14:31,700 --> 00:14:33,180 Christie, Acts 1:6. 249 00:14:34,780 --> 00:14:37,260 Props to Christy today, because I said, I don't know which 250 00:14:37,340 --> 00:14:39,910 any of these are of these scriptures we're going to use. 251 00:14:39,990 --> 00:14:44,270 So first up, it's in there, I think, Christy, it may not be Acts, 252 00:14:44,270 --> 00:14:47,910 chapter one, verse six, right at the end. 253 00:14:49,510 --> 00:14:52,390 They've been there three years with this guy. 254 00:14:54,550 --> 00:14:56,230 They're not yet on fire. 255 00:14:56,310 --> 00:14:58,710 They have not yet crossed that bridge. 256 00:14:59,670 --> 00:15:01,590 They're still in the life before. 257 00:15:03,510 --> 00:15:07,110 Now, don't get me wrong, it's like there are two phases for them. 258 00:15:07,190 --> 00:15:10,950 There's life before they met Jesus and life after they met Jesus. 259 00:15:11,190 --> 00:15:13,430 So it doesn't invalidate those three years. 260 00:15:13,750 --> 00:15:15,990 Just as if you're not fully on fire yet. 261 00:15:16,150 --> 00:15:21,630 It doesn't invalidate all the religious experiences you had, but 262 00:15:21,630 --> 00:15:22,790 it's three years later. 263 00:15:23,830 --> 00:15:28,510 As a result, those who had gathered together asked Jesus, lord, 264 00:15:28,510 --> 00:15:30,590 are you going to restore the kingdom of Israel? 265 00:15:30,590 --> 00:15:35,880 Now they're trying to be something else. 266 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,600 Are you going to storm the gates with your Military. 267 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:42,200 Have a military parade. 268 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:54,240 You can have a military parade while people are hungry and storm 269 00:15:54,240 --> 00:16:04,210 the gates and win it back with military force. 270 00:16:11,250 --> 00:16:14,010 Jesus said, it isn't for you to know the times or seasons that 271 00:16:14,010 --> 00:16:15,810 the Father has set by his own authority. 272 00:16:15,810 --> 00:16:18,210 Jesus is such a frustrating person to be around. 273 00:16:22,540 --> 00:16:23,100 Frustrating. 274 00:16:23,660 --> 00:16:26,500 Some of you got the reference there a minute ago, and some of you 275 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:28,700 were like, yes, grill that guy Ross. 276 00:16:30,620 --> 00:16:31,500 Go get him. 277 00:16:32,540 --> 00:16:36,220 Jesus is equally frustrating for the Democrat and the Republican. 278 00:16:38,620 --> 00:16:40,540 His good news is beyond both of them. 279 00:16:40,540 --> 00:16:41,180 Clearly. 280 00:16:42,940 --> 00:16:45,900 Okay, clearly. 281 00:16:49,270 --> 00:16:50,790 He says, go back to seven. 282 00:16:51,670 --> 00:16:53,510 What on earth is he saying here? 283 00:16:57,510 --> 00:16:59,030 You guys don't get it yet. 284 00:16:59,510 --> 00:17:01,110 You haven't crossed the bridge yet. 285 00:17:01,110 --> 00:17:01,710 Next verse. 286 00:17:01,710 --> 00:17:02,550 Now we'll go there. 287 00:17:03,190 --> 00:17:08,550 But you'll receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. 288 00:17:08,550 --> 00:17:10,150 And you will be my. 289 00:17:12,230 --> 00:17:13,430 And you will be my. 290 00:17:15,230 --> 00:17:22,030 You'll be my little annoying, beautiful dandelions here. 291 00:17:25,790 --> 00:17:31,910 That whole territory, your enemy's backyard, Samaria, and to 292 00:17:31,910 --> 00:17:32,750 the end of the earth. 293 00:17:34,030 --> 00:17:39,150 This dandelion invasion is going to start with you. 294 00:17:39,310 --> 00:17:40,750 I'm leaving, by the way. 295 00:17:41,530 --> 00:17:42,730 And it passes to you. 296 00:17:46,970 --> 00:17:48,810 They had not crossed that bridge yet. 297 00:17:50,730 --> 00:17:53,250 There was life before they met Jesus, life after. 298 00:17:53,250 --> 00:17:56,690 But what I'm going to tell you today, there's life before they fully 299 00:17:56,690 --> 00:17:58,650 received the Holy Spirit, and life after. 300 00:18:00,410 --> 00:18:02,970 There's life before they became on fire. 301 00:18:03,450 --> 00:18:04,410 There's life after. 302 00:18:06,740 --> 00:18:10,460 There's life before they fully surrender to the wind of God and 303 00:18:10,460 --> 00:18:13,380 just let that wind blow through the sails of their ship. 304 00:18:13,380 --> 00:18:20,900 And there's life after they're still in life before here. 305 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:22,660 Isn't that nuts? 306 00:18:22,980 --> 00:18:27,180 It's like we've had three seasons of the show, and these guys 307 00:18:27,180 --> 00:18:28,180 are still idiots. 308 00:18:30,820 --> 00:18:34,100 Three series, and you're waiting like they're going to breakthrough. 309 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:38,900 It's like Mad Men if you like the show, right, Heather, you're, 310 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:41,900 like, waiting for the main character, Don Draper, to have some, 311 00:18:41,900 --> 00:18:44,820 like, spiritual awakening where he has some moral. 312 00:18:44,820 --> 00:18:47,340 Like, all of a sudden, he becomes a more morally reputable 313 00:18:47,340 --> 00:18:47,820 figure. 314 00:18:49,820 --> 00:18:50,860 Spoiler alert. 315 00:18:51,900 --> 00:18:53,340 He doesn't ever get there. 316 00:18:56,060 --> 00:18:56,460 These. 317 00:18:56,460 --> 00:18:57,740 It's three seasons in. 318 00:18:58,700 --> 00:18:59,980 They're not on fire yet. 319 00:19:00,870 --> 00:19:01,510 What about you? 320 00:19:04,710 --> 00:19:07,510 Maybe you're like, shoot, I'm like, 40 seasons in. 321 00:19:10,150 --> 00:19:11,350 I'm 45 in. 322 00:19:12,630 --> 00:19:13,830 Am I on fire yet? 323 00:19:15,590 --> 00:19:21,110 If you've even begun to ask that question, praise God, because 324 00:19:21,110 --> 00:19:22,830 that means you're humble, hungry and willing. 325 00:19:22,830 --> 00:19:25,350 And when you're humble, hungry and willing, you can the. 326 00:19:25,830 --> 00:19:30,400 That's kindling, folks. 327 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:31,440 Here's the good news. 328 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,320 Perhaps you think I'm a horrendous artist. 329 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:35,040 That's okay. 330 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:35,840 I Am. 331 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:38,000 I am. 332 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:43,319 But I showed you last week this beautiful, terrible illustration. 333 00:19:43,319 --> 00:19:45,160 If dandelions didn't do it for you. 334 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:45,400 Let's. 335 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:46,480 Let's try this one again. 336 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:47,200 Okay. 337 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,440 When we were made mysteriously and wonderfully. 338 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,570 Sorry, it stuck to the. 339 00:19:54,970 --> 00:19:56,410 Oh, nope, gonna leave it there. 340 00:19:57,930 --> 00:19:59,370 Let's move the microphones. 341 00:20:00,570 --> 00:20:02,330 We could really be on fire today. 342 00:20:02,330 --> 00:20:03,770 That would not be what we want. 343 00:20:06,650 --> 00:20:07,930 Sorry, folks over there. 344 00:20:09,450 --> 00:20:10,210 When we were. 345 00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:11,810 Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. 346 00:20:11,810 --> 00:20:12,810 Thanks, Melissa. 347 00:20:13,530 --> 00:20:15,210 Thanks for holding me accountable. 348 00:20:15,210 --> 00:20:16,570 Accountability is good in community. 349 00:20:16,810 --> 00:20:17,370 Good job. 350 00:20:18,740 --> 00:20:23,740 When we were made, it said that God made us. 351 00:20:23,740 --> 00:20:27,860 In God's image, in every person there is this. 352 00:20:30,420 --> 00:20:34,980 God, like, puts God's magnificent, dynamic image in every 353 00:20:35,060 --> 00:20:35,860 single person. 354 00:20:36,660 --> 00:20:37,700 It is in you. 355 00:20:37,780 --> 00:20:41,300 If you're running away, if you've given up, if you want nothing 356 00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:46,540 to do with God, there's a flickering flame in inside you that 357 00:20:46,540 --> 00:20:49,580 God keeps burning because of God's grace. 358 00:20:49,580 --> 00:20:52,820 Because of God's grace, God decides to create in the first place. 359 00:20:52,980 --> 00:20:54,180 God's a sharer. 360 00:20:55,140 --> 00:20:56,780 Human beings tend to be hoarders. 361 00:20:56,780 --> 00:20:58,420 God is a sharer by nature. 362 00:20:58,820 --> 00:21:01,780 And God says, I don't want to keep this glory to myself. 363 00:21:02,180 --> 00:21:04,420 I don't want to keep this power to myself. 364 00:21:04,580 --> 00:21:06,020 I want to share it. 365 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:07,780 I want to give it. 366 00:21:09,470 --> 00:21:10,830 I want to collaborate. 367 00:21:11,150 --> 00:21:12,350 And so what does God do? 368 00:21:12,350 --> 00:21:13,790 He shares it with you. 369 00:21:17,710 --> 00:21:20,510 This is in you, and there's nothing you can do about it. 370 00:21:20,670 --> 00:21:22,030 You know what I'm going to say next. 371 00:21:22,270 --> 00:21:24,590 But there's everything you can do about it. 372 00:21:24,590 --> 00:21:27,590 I hate that phrase when people go, God loves you and there's nothing 373 00:21:27,590 --> 00:21:28,590 you can do about it. 374 00:21:28,670 --> 00:21:29,070 What? 375 00:21:29,950 --> 00:21:32,990 God loves you and there's everything you can do about it. 376 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:37,720 This is good. 377 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:44,280 I don't care what Christianity has told you for years at your essence, 378 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:46,440 goodness. 379 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:50,840 And this is. 380 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:51,720 This is not bad. 381 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,720 But also you're meant to be this. 382 00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:57,840 Ross, what on earth is that? 383 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:58,680 I don't know. 384 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:03,160 Hudson told me you should take these and sell them as abstract art. 385 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,160 I'll try donate it to the church. 386 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:08,640 Of course. 387 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:12,960 This is what we're meant to be. 388 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,800 Jesus comes to show us what it looks like for a human being to be 389 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,040 completely on fire. 390 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:21,600 A roaring fire of the glory of God. 391 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,960 That's why he looks like a weirdo to everybody. 392 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:29,080 But he's completely on fire. 393 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,520 The Holy Spirit is in him and he's like, I'm not going to be here 394 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,740 forever because if I don't leave, then I don't pass it fully 395 00:22:35,740 --> 00:22:37,020 on to you, so I must leave. 396 00:22:37,020 --> 00:22:40,780 So it passes on to you completely and utterly so that this 397 00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:45,660 fire you Become not just this which is good, you become this which 398 00:22:45,660 --> 00:22:46,540 is glorious. 399 00:22:48,140 --> 00:22:51,500 A roaring fire that if you can see it, there's. 400 00:22:51,580 --> 00:22:53,740 There's paint spilling onto the world. 401 00:22:55,020 --> 00:22:55,980 That's you and me. 402 00:22:58,860 --> 00:22:59,740 Well, guess what? 403 00:23:01,270 --> 00:23:10,390 Three seasons in these schmucks became this. 404 00:23:12,310 --> 00:23:16,070 And there was life before that and life after. 405 00:23:16,949 --> 00:23:17,830 And guess what? 406 00:23:18,630 --> 00:23:22,950 We're all sitting here in the legacy of life after. 407 00:23:23,750 --> 00:23:29,100 We would not be here if it weren't for these 12 to 20 poor, 408 00:23:29,180 --> 00:23:36,100 uneducated, low status men and women who stuck with it hung around 409 00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:40,580 this on fire person named Jesus and surrendered their lives 410 00:23:40,580 --> 00:23:43,500 to receive this fire into their souls. 411 00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:46,220 And they let it spill out and bear witness. 412 00:23:46,620 --> 00:23:48,780 Go to Acts 2, if you would, Christy. 413 00:23:49,900 --> 00:23:52,460 I want to show you when they cross the bridge real quick. 414 00:23:52,460 --> 00:23:55,470 And then we're going to show something from Acts 3 and then we're 415 00:23:55,470 --> 00:23:55,750 done. 416 00:23:57,670 --> 00:23:59,350 When Pentecost day arrived. 417 00:24:03,110 --> 00:24:05,350 Pentecost, like 50 days after Easter. 418 00:24:06,230 --> 00:24:08,030 Big fancy word my kids hear. 419 00:24:08,030 --> 00:24:08,230 They. 420 00:24:08,230 --> 00:24:09,350 What does that mean, Daddy? 421 00:24:09,350 --> 00:24:11,109 I was like, I think I know, I'm not sure. 422 00:24:12,230 --> 00:24:13,830 They arrived together in one place. 423 00:24:13,830 --> 00:24:14,990 This is Acts chapter two. 424 00:24:14,990 --> 00:24:15,270 We're. 425 00:24:15,270 --> 00:24:17,110 We're three plus seasons in Marnie. 426 00:24:17,110 --> 00:24:18,190 We're like fourth season here. 427 00:24:18,190 --> 00:24:20,350 Okay, go ahead. 428 00:24:20,350 --> 00:24:20,950 Verse two. 429 00:24:21,810 --> 00:24:26,050 Suddenly a sound from heaven like the howling of a fierce wind 430 00:24:26,450 --> 00:24:28,770 filled the entire house where they were sitting. 431 00:24:30,210 --> 00:24:33,490 They saw what seemed to be individual flames of. 432 00:24:35,410 --> 00:24:39,690 They saw what seemed to be individual flames of alighting on 433 00:24:39,690 --> 00:24:40,290 each of them. 434 00:24:42,370 --> 00:24:46,370 They were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other 435 00:24:46,370 --> 00:24:49,330 languages at the spirit enabled them to speak. 436 00:24:50,250 --> 00:24:51,450 Don't get tripped up on that part. 437 00:24:51,450 --> 00:24:52,890 Like, should we be speaking in tongues? 438 00:24:52,890 --> 00:24:54,170 Ross, let's not go there today. 439 00:24:54,170 --> 00:24:55,610 We'll figure that out another day. 440 00:24:56,250 --> 00:24:59,050 In this case, it literally just means they were able to understand 441 00:24:59,210 --> 00:25:00,810 each other in their native languages. 442 00:25:02,090 --> 00:25:02,810 Pretty much. 443 00:25:03,770 --> 00:25:05,530 They were all filled with the. 444 00:25:07,530 --> 00:25:09,530 And began to speak in other languages. 445 00:25:09,530 --> 00:25:10,490 Okay, next one. 446 00:25:12,490 --> 00:25:13,690 Everybody is there. 447 00:25:14,890 --> 00:25:15,690 Next verse. 448 00:25:20,250 --> 00:25:22,170 They were mystified at what was going on. 449 00:25:23,130 --> 00:25:23,530 Next. 450 00:25:25,050 --> 00:25:30,890 They were surprised and look, aren't all the people who are speaking 451 00:25:30,890 --> 00:25:32,650 those morons from Galilee? 452 00:25:34,810 --> 00:25:38,010 Folks from the Galilee had a bad wreck like, bad reputation. 453 00:25:39,530 --> 00:25:40,290 No, nothing. 454 00:25:40,290 --> 00:25:40,970 Nobodies. 455 00:25:41,860 --> 00:25:43,060 Aren't these those people? 456 00:25:44,340 --> 00:25:45,300 Every one of them. 457 00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:46,500 Next verse. 458 00:25:47,460 --> 00:25:48,660 How can they do this? 459 00:25:49,940 --> 00:25:50,340 Next. 460 00:25:52,020 --> 00:25:52,780 Everybody's there. 461 00:25:52,780 --> 00:25:53,540 Did I say that? 462 00:25:54,580 --> 00:25:54,980 Next. 463 00:25:57,860 --> 00:25:59,380 Did I tell you everybody's there? 464 00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:04,020 Did I tell you everybody's there. 465 00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:11,820 They were all surprised and really quick. 466 00:26:11,820 --> 00:26:13,260 This is not the main point today. 467 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:17,820 I'm convinced that one of the things Christianity is suffering 468 00:26:17,820 --> 00:26:19,420 from as we. 469 00:26:19,420 --> 00:26:27,020 We've tried way too hard to organize it man, it's feeling baptisty 470 00:26:27,020 --> 00:26:27,900 in here right now. 471 00:26:29,340 --> 00:26:35,670 We've tried so hard to organize it rather than letting it 472 00:26:35,670 --> 00:26:37,150 be a holy mess. 473 00:26:38,990 --> 00:26:42,750 GK Chesterton talks about letting good things run wild. 474 00:26:43,710 --> 00:26:46,670 Christianity is a movement of letting good things run wild. 475 00:26:50,030 --> 00:26:50,910 That's my life. 476 00:26:51,550 --> 00:26:54,750 There's life before I started letting the good things run wild. 477 00:26:54,990 --> 00:26:55,950 And life after. 478 00:26:56,110 --> 00:26:58,270 Before I was trying to organize it all. 479 00:26:58,750 --> 00:27:02,150 Manicure this, resume this life that people remember. 480 00:27:02,150 --> 00:27:04,030 I talked about cocktail party Cool Ross. 481 00:27:04,930 --> 00:27:07,090 I was trying to build cocktail party Cool Ross. 482 00:27:07,730 --> 00:27:11,090 And like, I'm still Faithful Ross. 483 00:27:12,130 --> 00:27:14,890 There's life before that and there's life after. 484 00:27:14,890 --> 00:27:16,290 I said, nope, done. 485 00:27:18,290 --> 00:27:19,250 Done with that. 486 00:27:21,490 --> 00:27:27,770 And I let the wind come through the sails of my ship and 487 00:27:27,770 --> 00:27:29,330 let the good things run wild. 488 00:27:31,900 --> 00:27:38,540 We need to organize this less and bless it more as holy mess. 489 00:27:38,780 --> 00:27:40,660 I did not mean to sound like Dr. 490 00:27:40,660 --> 00:27:50,060 Seuss there, but gardening right now at my house, some people 491 00:27:50,060 --> 00:27:52,380 I have guy who coaches baseball with me. 492 00:27:52,940 --> 00:27:56,340 He and his wife's garden is the most HGTV beautiful thing you've 493 00:27:56,340 --> 00:27:56,860 ever seen. 494 00:27:58,070 --> 00:27:59,550 And props to them for it. 495 00:27:59,550 --> 00:28:03,270 I'm not calling them out for me this year. 496 00:28:03,270 --> 00:28:07,110 I am just embracing a mess of gardening. 497 00:28:08,550 --> 00:28:11,190 I have trees that are just grown up in my yard. 498 00:28:11,190 --> 00:28:12,670 Angela's so mad about it. 499 00:28:12,670 --> 00:28:16,070 I'm just letting them grow and I mow around them. 500 00:28:16,230 --> 00:28:19,270 And some oak trees, walnut trees. 501 00:28:19,590 --> 00:28:20,150 Yep. 502 00:28:20,150 --> 00:28:20,790 Let them grow. 503 00:28:21,350 --> 00:28:22,550 They just sprouted up. 504 00:28:24,270 --> 00:28:26,630 And I'm going to either let them grow right where they are or 505 00:28:26,630 --> 00:28:28,950 I'm going to plant them somewhere else because I want some 506 00:28:28,950 --> 00:28:31,950 trees to grow unplanned. 507 00:28:32,030 --> 00:28:32,830 Holy mess. 508 00:28:33,630 --> 00:28:36,750 I got all these tomato plants who are coming up from last year. 509 00:28:37,870 --> 00:28:41,630 So you know what I said, let's figure out another garden plot. 510 00:28:41,710 --> 00:28:42,750 Put them over here. 511 00:28:43,230 --> 00:28:44,070 I don't know if it's. 512 00:28:44,070 --> 00:28:46,790 You're right, Heather, but they're hosta plants over here that 513 00:28:46,790 --> 00:28:49,310 just grew up from the last owner of the house. 514 00:28:49,630 --> 00:28:55,090 So over here in this plot, hosta plants, some like cedar tree 515 00:28:55,090 --> 00:28:55,970 that's just growing up. 516 00:28:55,970 --> 00:28:57,290 I don't know where it came from. 517 00:28:58,650 --> 00:29:01,610 And now we got watermelon that I did put there. 518 00:29:02,090 --> 00:29:03,370 Wildflowers over here. 519 00:29:03,370 --> 00:29:04,730 I don't know where they came from. 520 00:29:05,450 --> 00:29:08,650 Tomato plants that grew up from last year or five years ago. 521 00:29:09,130 --> 00:29:10,810 Over here is a cantaloupe. 522 00:29:11,290 --> 00:29:13,810 And then you got the garden plot over there on the other side 523 00:29:13,810 --> 00:29:17,050 of the yard with all kinds of stuff. 524 00:29:17,850 --> 00:29:19,130 I didn't map it out. 525 00:29:19,340 --> 00:29:21,020 I'm just, let's plant the next thing. 526 00:29:21,580 --> 00:29:23,260 Let's embrace this holy mess. 527 00:29:23,740 --> 00:29:25,420 Let the good things run wild. 528 00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:31,340 Christianity is like that. 529 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:38,420 We almost need to disorganize it and let the good things of the 530 00:29:38,420 --> 00:29:40,700 Holy Spirit run wild in us. 531 00:29:42,060 --> 00:29:44,380 Because when we do, here's what happens. 532 00:29:45,430 --> 00:29:46,870 We stop becoming hoarders. 533 00:29:47,350 --> 00:29:49,030 We start becoming sharers. 534 00:29:49,750 --> 00:29:57,350 We start becoming the holy happy, frustrating, beautiful dandelions 535 00:29:57,350 --> 00:29:58,310 we were created to be. 536 00:29:59,990 --> 00:30:04,510 So you're on the golf course as a dandelion or you're on a work 537 00:30:04,510 --> 00:30:04,870 call. 538 00:30:05,270 --> 00:30:06,150 Dandelion. 539 00:30:08,230 --> 00:30:10,870 You're with students, you're a dandelion. 540 00:30:12,340 --> 00:30:16,020 People in the hospital, you're a dandelion with your clients. 541 00:30:18,820 --> 00:30:21,860 The fire's gotten into you and it's spilling out. 542 00:30:22,660 --> 00:30:23,860 I'll show you what it looks like. 543 00:30:23,860 --> 00:30:24,580 We're almost done. 544 00:30:24,580 --> 00:30:25,500 Acts, chapter three. 545 00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:26,660 Is it in there, Christie? 546 00:30:32,260 --> 00:30:33,540 If not, that's okay. 547 00:30:35,860 --> 00:30:38,580 Luckily, this little phone of mine has a Bible on it. 548 00:30:40,940 --> 00:30:41,420 Okay. 549 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:44,500 Did I tell you we're. 550 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:46,620 We're trying to disorganize this a little bit? 551 00:30:46,620 --> 00:30:49,660 Okay, Listen to this. 552 00:30:49,660 --> 00:30:50,300 Look at this. 553 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:53,580 Oh, there's life before. 554 00:30:55,900 --> 00:30:58,820 These guys let themselves be. 555 00:30:58,820 --> 00:31:01,660 Be caught on fire, which sounds like a not great thing to 556 00:31:01,660 --> 00:31:05,100 do, but they embraced it. 557 00:31:05,100 --> 00:31:05,740 Listen to what? 558 00:31:05,740 --> 00:31:06,220 Listen. 559 00:31:07,790 --> 00:31:11,390 Peter sounded so much like he's trying to control everything. 560 00:31:12,590 --> 00:31:16,270 Manicure, his life, because he's so insecure and ashamed. 561 00:31:17,230 --> 00:31:19,350 He's had so much grief, so much loss. 562 00:31:19,350 --> 00:31:21,990 He's trying to manufacture this life as he thinks it should 563 00:31:21,990 --> 00:31:22,270 be. 564 00:31:22,830 --> 00:31:26,070 And so, like, when Jesus says things like, I'm gonna die and suffer, 565 00:31:26,070 --> 00:31:27,710 he's like, you can't say that, man. 566 00:31:29,150 --> 00:31:30,390 And then he sounds like this. 567 00:31:30,390 --> 00:31:31,110 This is where I end. 568 00:31:31,110 --> 00:31:36,800 Today, Peter and John were going up to the temple at three o' 569 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:36,960 clock. 570 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:38,200 This is, if you don't know. 571 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,440 Chapter three comes after chapter two. 572 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,520 So we've now crossed the bridge. 573 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:45,040 There's. 574 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,040 They're now on fire. 575 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,520 We're four seasons in Marnie. 576 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:49,440 They're on fire. 577 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,360 Now watch what happens. 578 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,240 Man, I love this story. 579 00:31:58,820 --> 00:32:01,500 Peter and John were going up to the temple at 3 o' clock in the 580 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:02,020 afternoon. 581 00:32:02,020 --> 00:32:05,380 The established prayer time, organized religion time. 582 00:32:06,820 --> 00:32:09,700 Watch what happens in the midst of organized religion time. 583 00:32:10,740 --> 00:32:14,100 So just like you when you're on the golf course or you're at school, 584 00:32:14,420 --> 00:32:21,140 on a work call with students, whatever you doing, it's on fire 585 00:32:21,140 --> 00:32:21,540 time. 586 00:32:24,910 --> 00:32:28,030 Meanwhile, a man crippled since birth, was being carried in. 587 00:32:29,390 --> 00:32:32,430 Every day, people would place him at the temple. 588 00:32:32,830 --> 00:32:36,390 I know it's hard to listen and keep attention, so please, keep your 589 00:32:36,390 --> 00:32:36,830 attention. 590 00:32:37,630 --> 00:32:39,470 Come back to me if you're distracted. 591 00:32:39,470 --> 00:32:43,470 Every day, people would place him at the temple gate, known as 592 00:32:43,470 --> 00:32:44,670 the beautiful gate. 593 00:32:45,230 --> 00:32:48,750 Isn't it ironic that a Place Amanda to them was worthless. 594 00:32:49,310 --> 00:32:53,750 They throw him there at the beautiful gate so he could ask for 595 00:32:53,750 --> 00:32:55,750 money from those entering the temple. 596 00:33:01,030 --> 00:33:05,630 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he began to ask them 597 00:33:05,630 --> 00:33:06,310 for a gift. 598 00:33:06,310 --> 00:33:10,550 Before I finish this story, when I finish it, your rational brain 599 00:33:10,550 --> 00:33:12,870 is going to start crying out resistance. 600 00:33:14,390 --> 00:33:17,840 Just let it be for now, okay? 601 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,120 Don't need to figure out like everything. 602 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,960 Disorganize it for a minute. 603 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,840 Just receive this story, okay? 604 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,320 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he began to ask them 605 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:32,320 for a gift. 606 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,280 Peter and John stared at him. 607 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,040 Practical thing there. 608 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,000 The if nothing else you can do, look someone in the eyes, in 609 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:45,360 the face. 610 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:48,600 That's all you do. 611 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:53,800 Peter said, look at us. 612 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:55,800 What does that mean this man was doing? 613 00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:58,760 Where was his face? 614 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,240 They have to say, look at us. 615 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:03,160 Where's his face? 616 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,640 Luckily, a couple of weirdo dandelions are going to come across 617 00:34:13,720 --> 00:34:16,450 his path and he theirs. 618 00:34:17,490 --> 00:34:18,290 Look at us. 619 00:34:20,050 --> 00:34:23,330 So the man gazed at them, expecting to receive something from 620 00:34:23,330 --> 00:34:23,650 them. 621 00:34:25,570 --> 00:34:27,930 Unfortunately for them, these guys got no money. 622 00:34:27,930 --> 00:34:28,890 They haven't had money. 623 00:34:28,890 --> 00:34:29,890 They still don't. 624 00:34:31,170 --> 00:34:32,930 Peter said, I don't have any money. 625 00:34:33,730 --> 00:34:35,770 But what I will give you. 626 00:34:35,770 --> 00:34:37,490 I'll give you what I do have. 627 00:34:39,330 --> 00:34:40,490 Everything I've got. 628 00:34:40,490 --> 00:34:42,450 Now I just want to give it away to you. 629 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,280 In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk. 630 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,360 Then he grasped the man's right hand and raised him up. 631 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,920 At once his feet and ankles became strong. 632 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,719 Jumping up, he began to walk around. 633 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,920 He entered the temple with them, walking, leaping and praising 634 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:02,160 God. 635 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,440 All the people saw him walking and praising God. 636 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,920 They recognized him as the same one. 637 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,490 He used to be dumped at the temple gate. 638 00:35:09,490 --> 00:35:10,690 That's not exactly what it says. 639 00:35:10,690 --> 00:35:13,410 It says he used to sit at the temple's beautiful gate asking for 640 00:35:13,410 --> 00:35:13,730 money. 641 00:35:14,370 --> 00:35:15,690 Just like Acts chapter two. 642 00:35:15,690 --> 00:35:20,090 They were filled with amazement and surprise at what had 643 00:35:20,090 --> 00:35:20,930 happened to him. 644 00:35:26,690 --> 00:35:27,330 On fire. 645 00:35:28,690 --> 00:35:30,050 Spilling it out for others. 646 00:35:34,140 --> 00:35:34,940 Okay, I'm done. 647 00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:37,420 What's this stirring in you today? 648 00:35:46,860 --> 00:35:59,200 What's this making you think, feel wonderful? 649 00:36:00,150 --> 00:36:01,270 I'll hang up and listen. 650 00:36:15,830 --> 00:36:21,230 The disciples were in this upper room and PT Said for them to 651 00:36:21,230 --> 00:36:24,790 be on fire, they had to leave the safety of the upper room where 652 00:36:24,790 --> 00:36:27,690 they were with Jesus or had been there. 653 00:36:28,490 --> 00:36:31,530 They had to leave the safety of that and take a risk. 654 00:36:33,930 --> 00:36:34,570 That's great. 655 00:36:35,290 --> 00:36:35,850 What else? 656 00:36:35,850 --> 00:36:36,690 What's stirring in you? 657 00:36:36,690 --> 00:36:37,290 What do you notice? 658 00:36:37,290 --> 00:36:37,850 What are you thinking? 659 00:36:37,850 --> 00:36:38,730 What are you feeling? 660 00:36:39,050 --> 00:36:39,610 Nick? 661 00:36:43,210 --> 00:36:46,570 The importance of the self sacrificial life. 662 00:36:49,290 --> 00:36:55,220 The church fathers called it the life of like self denial of self, 663 00:36:55,220 --> 00:36:59,100 emptying what else? 664 00:36:59,100 --> 00:36:59,940 What's this stirring you? 665 00:36:59,940 --> 00:37:01,660 What's it making you think, feel, wonder? 666 00:37:01,660 --> 00:37:02,220 Go ahead. 667 00:37:14,620 --> 00:37:17,340 We try to organize the steps before we step out. 668 00:37:17,620 --> 00:37:18,140 We try to. 669 00:37:18,140 --> 00:37:18,380 We. 670 00:37:18,380 --> 00:37:19,700 I got to come up with a plan first. 671 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:21,460 I gotta have things organized, figured out. 672 00:37:23,940 --> 00:37:24,660 We keep our. 673 00:37:24,660 --> 00:37:25,140 Yeah. 674 00:37:26,180 --> 00:37:28,660 Which is even harder when you've been through trauma and grief. 675 00:37:29,540 --> 00:37:31,980 When you've been through trauma and grief, your self protective 676 00:37:31,980 --> 00:37:32,980 instincts go up. 677 00:37:34,980 --> 00:37:37,780 All right, what else? 678 00:37:37,780 --> 00:37:38,620 What's this stern in you? 679 00:37:38,620 --> 00:37:39,620 What's it making you think? 680 00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:41,140 Joanna? 681 00:37:44,990 --> 00:37:52,590 The needles get started that way around the brick and Puerto. 682 00:37:53,070 --> 00:37:55,390 Because that's the first labeled out my lens here. 683 00:37:55,870 --> 00:37:57,550 It's still bad seven times. 684 00:37:59,470 --> 00:38:01,150 But there's something. 685 00:38:06,910 --> 00:38:07,710 I feel like. 686 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,800 I think God pours it all back into you. 687 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:16,440 He gets. 688 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,240 There's been moments of like, yeah, I'm. 689 00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:23,560 Terrified of talking about this person, about the joy. 690 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:34,200 But in our eyes, like shrimp is just a don't get. 691 00:38:34,980 --> 00:38:37,220 And if I pray that God will. 692 00:38:37,460 --> 00:38:42,020 Me through it, then, you know, let it be what it'll be. 693 00:38:42,180 --> 00:38:47,580 But then I notice that I'm talking like at least 75% of the 694 00:38:47,580 --> 00:38:52,060 time it's poured back into me and I've given this person this gift 695 00:38:52,060 --> 00:38:52,500 and they're. 696 00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:56,500 They're changed after that and they're just so positive and just. 697 00:38:56,900 --> 00:38:58,820 I mean, I can't say all experiences. 698 00:38:58,820 --> 00:39:00,420 Will be like that, but I. 699 00:39:00,580 --> 00:39:04,900 I have seen so much goodness and joyful after that. 700 00:39:06,580 --> 00:39:10,180 So for Joanna, like when you take that risk or you make that sacrifice, 701 00:39:10,260 --> 00:39:13,420 it often comes back to you in a really exciting way. 702 00:39:13,420 --> 00:39:14,660 You experience this fruit. 703 00:39:14,660 --> 00:39:17,660 Like Kara Baker walking in today with her first zucchini. 704 00:39:17,660 --> 00:39:17,860 Like. 705 00:39:17,860 --> 00:39:19,660 Like it was like Simba. 706 00:39:19,660 --> 00:39:21,940 She said, like she's like, oh my God. 707 00:39:23,860 --> 00:39:31,470 You know, it's her first year gardening. 708 00:39:31,470 --> 00:39:32,350 Lucy, go ahead. 709 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,880 All of a sudden after the grief and military. 710 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,600 But it starts just like when we're talking about the disciples 711 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,040 and life before and left after and become. 712 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:05,400 We're kind of seated. 713 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,480 We did the opposite way as I am. 714 00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:09,320 This is what was before. 715 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:10,520 Yeah. 716 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,240 What's this? 717 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:12,440 It is. 718 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:18,940 So look, I think somehow in some way I think what you asked me, 719 00:40:20,220 --> 00:40:27,260 but it's to sort of seek this from this trauma prior to was the 720 00:40:27,260 --> 00:40:29,340 young hold on the white path. 721 00:40:29,340 --> 00:40:30,060 Give you a. 722 00:40:30,380 --> 00:40:32,940 Like much better. 723 00:40:33,020 --> 00:40:33,699 How do you. 724 00:40:33,699 --> 00:40:36,300 How do you go there with a. 725 00:40:39,580 --> 00:40:40,220 You are. 726 00:40:40,380 --> 00:40:40,860 Yes. 727 00:40:41,740 --> 00:40:42,540 One thing I'm just. 728 00:40:42,540 --> 00:40:44,660 I'm highlighting is that for them, they also. 729 00:40:44,660 --> 00:40:44,940 They. 730 00:40:44,940 --> 00:40:45,900 They were just like you. 731 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:51,600 They experienced grief and trauma times 20 that didn't go away 732 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,280 after they became on fire. 733 00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:59,040 They still had that and they still faced incredible trials and 734 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:03,680 they had this and they were moving on to something new. 735 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,920 So Brandon and Joe, you want to come on up? 736 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:07,680 Anybody else? 737 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:09,280 What's this turning to you, Angela? 738 00:41:13,210 --> 00:41:18,250 One of the reasons that was because before my grand I still felt 739 00:41:18,250 --> 00:41:18,850 very hard. 740 00:41:18,850 --> 00:41:23,490 I didn't have kids and for some reason her diet was switched. 741 00:41:23,490 --> 00:41:27,650 And all of a sudden I just felt like it's because at the death 742 00:41:27,650 --> 00:41:30,170 basis, like concentrate on things that are really important. 743 00:41:30,250 --> 00:41:33,730 And I realized that that was the important part that I wanted 744 00:41:33,730 --> 00:41:34,210 in my life. 745 00:41:34,210 --> 00:41:37,690 And so that's the reason why I laid above almost like immediately 746 00:41:37,690 --> 00:41:38,010 after. 747 00:41:39,130 --> 00:41:43,450 And it just makes me leave in my faith like maybe like I'm the. 748 00:41:47,210 --> 00:41:47,770 Mm. 749 00:41:53,130 --> 00:41:53,610 Yeah. 750 00:41:54,490 --> 00:41:57,530 So for Angela, she talked about some past grief and trauma 751 00:41:58,490 --> 00:42:01,610 and that maybe sometimes coming out of that we have this expectation 752 00:42:01,610 --> 00:42:05,240 that or grief, loss and grief. 753 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,320 We're going to have this moment when the pilot light just 754 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:09,640 goes. 755 00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:16,120 For some people it does other people, it just, it's a little bit 756 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:16,440 more. 757 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:17,960 A little bit more. 758 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,120 And then one day the fire's roaring. 759 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:22,040 Stay the course. 760 00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:24,880 Would you stand with us? 761 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,240 We're just going to close with one ch, a bridge and a chorus to 762 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:29,080 build my life. 763 00:42:31,250 --> 00:42:37,730 So I think what for me, what I keep learning as this, this fire 764 00:42:37,890 --> 00:42:42,210 takes over my life is practically what it looks like to 765 00:42:42,210 --> 00:42:43,650 build your life on love. 766 00:42:44,530 --> 00:42:49,930 Because every day I catch in myself that fear inspired living 767 00:42:49,930 --> 00:42:53,090 is ready to go all over again the next day. 768 00:42:53,890 --> 00:42:56,590 Maybe I lived in love yesterday and love was leading the 769 00:42:56,590 --> 00:42:57,550 way for whatever reason. 770 00:42:57,550 --> 00:43:00,630 When I get up the next day, fear is ready to run the show again. 771 00:43:02,070 --> 00:43:05,550 So I have to learn like moment to moment, day to day to let the 772 00:43:05,550 --> 00:43:09,670 Holy Spirit lead me in a life that is inspired by love. 773 00:43:10,710 --> 00:43:12,230 So perfect timing. 774 00:43:13,110 --> 00:43:14,950 Thank you for being with us today. 775 00:43:16,390 --> 00:43:21,070 I pray that this week God gives you the ability to open your 776 00:43:21,460 --> 00:43:26,180 life, open the sails of your ship to the wind of the Holy Spirit, 777 00:43:27,380 --> 00:43:33,060 to take the risk, to leave comfort, leave the control, leave 778 00:43:33,060 --> 00:43:37,380 the organization to step into a life of holy mess with Jesus. 779 00:43:39,380 --> 00:43:40,260 Have a great week. 780 00:43:41,460 --> 00:43:45,940 Thank you for participating in the conversation happening at Heaven 781 00:43:45,940 --> 00:43:47,150 Earth Church Church. 782 00:43:47,550 --> 00:43:52,830 Your next opportunity to do so live is this Sunday morning, 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00:44:42,070 --> 00:44:45,430 My name is Ross Stackhouse, the pastor to Heaven Earth Church, 796 00:44:45,830 --> 00:44:49,150 and you may think out there that your story is over, but in fact, 797 00:44:49,150 --> 00:44:52,230 your faith story may just be beginning. 798 00:44:52,550 --> 00:44:55,390 If you want more information about our church or you're interested 799 00:44:55,390 --> 00:44:59,430 in the next step, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org Otherwise, 800 00:44:59,430 --> 00:45:02,590 we look forward to being with you next time at the Heaven Earth 801 00:45:02,590 --> 00:45:03,680 Church Podcast Test.