WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.359 Let me just say what an honor it is to be here tonight. 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:05.280 Anybody excited to be here tonight? 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:10.480 Come on! Yes! We're here, we're together. 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:13.119 Man, we're putting first things first. 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:14.000 Amen? 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.079 Man, I can't think of a better place to be right now than in church. 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:22.000 Crying out to God, praying, saying, God, would you revive us? 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:23.359 Would you revive us? 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:26.000 Man, I'm so thankful for Pastor Robert. 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.960 I'm so thankful for this family, for this church. 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:34.320 I'm on the road right now on a nationwide tour, uh, actually with a daughter of this church. 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:39.520 I'm out with Carrie Job and Cody Carnes, and we're going all over the country. 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:44.640 We had about uh 30,000 young people this weekend come out at different events. 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:50.079 We were in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Louisville, Kentucky, and uh Charleston, West Virginia. 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:54.719 We had over 4,000 young people respond to the gospel this weekend. 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:56.399 Is anybody excited about that? 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:58.320 I think that's good news. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.159 That's not fake news, that's good news. 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:12.319 Now, man, I want to tell you, in the 1970s, there was a movement, kind of an uprising going on, and a lot of people felt like it was the end of Christianity as we know it. 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:15.920 It was the time of drug, sex, and rock and roll. 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:21.920 And yet, in the midst of that age, in the midst of that era, there was kind of an undercurrent of hope. 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:28.079 Light was breaking into the darkness, and a lot of these hippies started to get saved. 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:31.280 They called themselves the Jesus People Movement. 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:33.280 Any Jesus people in the house tonight? 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:34.879 All right, I see you. 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:36.159 You look groovy. 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:37.599 It's good, man. 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:40.319 And these Jesus people started getting saved left and right. 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:47.439 In fact, there's stories of people coming home from work on the West Coast where this whole thing was kind of really exploding. 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:54.560 But people would come home from work and in their backyard where there was this swimming pool, a bunch of hippies would be in there swimming. 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:56.239 And they would say, What is going on? 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.239 They were about to call the cops, but they didn't. 00:01:58.319 --> 00:01:59.599 They said, What are you doing? 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:04.000 And they said, You know what, man, we just got saved and God's moving in our lives. 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:06.560 We read in our Bibles we should get baptized. 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:10.240 We saw you had a pool, so we thought, come on. 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:19.439 Now, in the 1970s, the largest gathering of the Jesus people movement happened right here in Dallas Fort Worth. 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:38.000 In 1972, two giants of the past era, Billy Graham and Bill Bright, the two big bills, as I like to call them, they came together and said, Now, neither of us are big enough to do it alone, but what if we rallied the church in America to come behind the next generation? 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:49.919 And so they booked out the cotton bowl, and a hundred thousand young people gathered to be trained and equipped to reach a nation for Jesus. 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:56.000 Now, some of those young people they came all the way from North Dakota. 00:02:56.479 --> 00:03:00.560 Now, you know God is moving in Texas when people from North Dakota come. 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.879 Now, I gotta tell you that because I'm from North Dakota. 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:11.120 I know it's a common vacation spot for y'all, so I want you to try to pay attention right now, okay? 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:16.719 Now, North Dakota's a rural state, 600,000 people in our entire state. 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:44.800 But you see, this call for revival in a Jesus people movement was so loud and so compelling that there was a Bible camp director in western North Dakota that got all fired up and he said, I got this beat-up old Bible camp bus, and I'm gonna go around and flyer every country church I can find, and I'm gonna convince moms and dads to let their kids come with me to Dallas, Texas, to be a part of this revival. 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:55.759 These young people came to Texas, but let me tell you, the biggest thing that happened during that gathering was not what happened at the gathering, it was what happened after the gathering. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:06.000 Just as I would say, the greatest thing that's happening at the first conference is not the first conference, it's what's gonna happen after the first conference. 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:12.960 You see, some of those young people they went back to North Dakota on fire for Jesus. 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:23.680 They said, Man, we're gonna take the gospel to our schools, we're gonna take the gospel to our workplaces, we are gonna shake North Dakota with the gospel. 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:27.120 Some of these students were from the University of North Dakota. 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:32.160 They said, We're gonna plan something big, we're gonna be bold, we're gonna go for it. 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.360 They said, We're gonna book out the biggest venue on campus. 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:38.319 Fits about 2,000 people. 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.160 It'd be like Jerry World in North Dakota. 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:47.199 They booked this thing and they said, We're gonna bring in the best speaker we know. 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:51.839 Our favorite speaker from Expo 72, a guy by the name of Josh McDowell. 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:53.759 They booked it out. 00:04:53.920 --> 00:05:00.959 Josh came, they saturated the campus, they invited everybody, the venue was packed, and God moved. 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:04.959 Students came forward, lives were changed. 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:11.839 Why that story is so meaningful to me is because my dad came to that event. 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.160 Not Expo 72, no, he was out drinking. 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:22.879 But as a result of what happened there, that came back home to North Dakota. 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:30.959 My dad walked forward, surrendered his life to Christ, and my family has forever been changed as a result. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:38.879 Now, I'm here tonight because we need a fresh movement of God in our day. 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:42.639 We need a fresh outpouring of boldness in our day. 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:46.480 Pastor Robert mentioned together 2016, we got a picture. 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:49.759 Hundreds of thousands of young people came on the national mall. 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:54.240 Now, let me just tell you real quick, the authorities they did not believe young people were gonna come. 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:55.519 You know why? 00:05:55.839 --> 00:06:01.040 Because they didn't believe that there's young people in America that love Jesus and want to follow Jesus. 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:08.160 Not only that, but they didn't believe they were gonna come because the hotel rooms weren't booked and the airplanes weren't booked. 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.600 And we said, listen, you don't quite understand young people. 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:19.199 They're not coming by plane, and they're certainly not booking one of your$300 hotel rooms. 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:23.759 If they are in a hotel room, there's 16 of them staying in that room. 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:30.079 But most of them are coming by Honda Civic, and they're gonna be sleeping all night on that national mall. 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:35.120 But let me tell you, they set an infrastructure for a hundred thousand people on the national mall. 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:38.720 They fenced it in completely, gave us only two entrances. 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:41.279 Man, it was set up to fail from the beginning. 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:43.519 They were like, There's no hope for this generation. 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:51.279 But you know what happened when we opened the gates at 9 a.m., over a hundred thousand young people poured in right away. 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:54.319 Their infrastructure was blown at 9 a.m. 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:58.240 They said, we don't know what to do, we better open up more gates. 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:05.199 Now, by the time it got to be two, three, four, hundreds of thousands had come, and they actually shut it down. 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:08.240 They shut it down like five hours early. 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:13.360 Now they said it was because of the heat, but man, it was five degrees above average in Washington, DC. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:20.879 Now, young people have this thing, and man, we always say, as young people, if the cops come and shut down your party, that's a good party. 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:27.600 So I like to tell everybody that the young people in America know how to throw a good Jesus party. 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:30.480 And man, this party is just getting going. 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:31.920 It's just getting going. 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:34.079 Now, tonight I want to talk about boldness. 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:38.800 We're gonna look at Luke chapter 11, and then we're gonna end at Mark chapter 2. 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:41.439 I want to pray, and then we're gonna get into God's word. 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:42.480 Are you ready? 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:45.519 Because, man, this is a living word tonight. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.000 Is anybody ready for the living word tonight? 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:55.920 Every night I stand up in these arenas and I tell these young people, man, if you open this book, your life will not be the same. 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:02.319 You show me a person with a broken down Bible, I will show you a person that does not have a broken down life. 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:08.160 I say, man, don't say God's not speaking to me with your Bible closed. 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:12.959 If you want to hear God's voice, open your Bible and read out loud. 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:14.160 Let's pray. 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:21.439 God, would you speak to us through the power of your Holy Spirit and would you embolden us to move? 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:28.079 Because, God, we know that faith without works is dead. 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:38.639 And so, God, we pray that tonight would be a night of action, it would be a night of conviction, it would be a night of change, that we would not stay the same. 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:49.600 But as the apostle Paul said, that we would be compelled by your love and sent out God with a spirit of urgency. 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:51.200 It's in Jesus' name we pray. 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:56.320 And all God's people said, Luke chapter 11, I'm gonna read it. 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:08.480 Says, one day Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, would you teach us to pray? 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:11.440 Just as John taught his disciples. 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:15.279 So Jesus said, All right, I'll teach you to pray. 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:17.440 He said, When you pray, pray like this. 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:32.879 Say, Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, give us each day our daily bread, forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us, and lead us not into temptation. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:52.480 Then he said to them as he continued this teaching on prayer, he said, Suppose one of you has a friend, he goes to him at midnight and says, Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I don't have anything to set before him. 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:57.759 Then the one inside answers, Don't bother me. 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:03.360 The door is locked, my kids are in bed, I can't get up and give you anything. 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:20.879 Jesus said, I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man's boldness, say boldness, because of the man's boldness, he will get up and give him as much as he needs. 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:26.480 So I say to you, Jesus says, Ask, say ask. 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:29.919 Says, Ask and it will be given to you. 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:31.919 Seek, say seek. 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:34.480 Seek and you will find. 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:40.159 Knock, say knock, knock, and the door will be open to you. 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:42.960 For everyone who asks receives. 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:48.960 He who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:53.919 Luke chapter 11, verses 1 through 10. 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:57.279 Jesus teaching on prayer. 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:04.720 Now we were students up in North Dakota about 10 years ago, and we kind of had this urgency in our heart. 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:22.480 I don't know if you guys ever had this feeling after you sing great worship like we just sang, and maybe it's here at South Lake or one of the other campuses tuning in or on Day Star, and you get all fired up, your emotions are going, your hands are outstretched, you just feel something burning in your heart. 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:29.840 You know, and then you read these verses about miracles and movements, and then you look at your life and you're like, What? 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:32.240 Something is not connecting here. 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:48.159 The dots just it's amazing, power, miracles, and then this is like my kids, you know, or school, or just whatever your day-to-day routine is, and we're just like, God, we want you, we need you. 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:54.960 In fact, we were moved to action by the situations that surrounded us, and that's often what it takes, isn't it? 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:57.919 It takes a hard situation to wake us up. 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:07.840 Couple kids committed suicide on our campus, drinking was all around us, students are dropping out of the church, dropping out of school, all kinds of destruction. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:17.279 We said we got to get together and pray because it seems like everywhere in God's word, when there's a hard time, people pray and then God moves. 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:20.480 It's almost like it's always the lifeline. 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:22.480 And so we said we got to start praying. 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:26.159 We started to come together and pray and say, God, would you change us? 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:39.679 You see, we came together to pray for all of them, but as we came together to pray for them, we realized that of all the people that needed Jesus on our campus, we were the first ones in line. 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:48.320 You see, so often we come and we pray about all those messed up people, and God reminds us, no, you are the messed up one. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:51.919 Because you have the truth and you're doing nothing with it. 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:57.360 And before God brings revival to them, he needs to bring revival to me. 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:02.240 And as we begin this year, we're saying, God, start here. 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:07.759 Move me, God, don't let me be the same. 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:16.480 I don't know about you, but I'm sick of looking back and saying, those were the good days in my faith, those were the moments when God was moving. 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:17.759 No, no, no, no, no, no. 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.960 Those were great, but this is gonna be better. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:29.200 Closer, further, more fire, more joy, more vibrancy, more worship. 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.840 God, we want you, we need you. 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:35.600 Friends, we can't afford to stay the same. 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.360 We cannot afford to stay the same. 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:49.519 We were praying for our friends, we were praying for our campus, and we were praying for revival, and we started this thing, we started to get these recipe cards. 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:58.720 I brought recipe cards from my mom's house, and I was like, we made them fancy now, we call it keep five, but we just had five friends and we come and we would just pray. 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:11.200 We had all been a part of prayer meetings where it was basically a Christian gossip meeting, you know, where you come to pray and you get around and gossip for like 45 minutes, and then it's like 50 minutes, 55 minutes, like, oh yeah, we gotta pray. 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.840 So then you close in prayer, you know, at the end of your meeting, and we're like, we don't want to do that. 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:17.519 Let's just come and we're gonna pray. 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:28.240 So what we did is we read one chapter from the book of Acts, then we spent the rest of the time praying, and then by the end of the meeting, we would challenge each other about our five friends. 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:29.919 We'd say, How's it going with your five? 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:30.960 How's it going with your five? 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:32.080 How's it going with your five? 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:35.840 You could not come to the prayer meeting and not talk about your five. 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:41.200 Because we all had people in our life that needed Jesus, and I don't know about you, but I need accountability. 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:47.600 Because if I'm not held accountable, I will be selfish, and I won't think about anybody but me. 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:51.840 We were all praying for five, we were praying for boldness, we were praying for God to move. 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:58.080 And there was one girl in our group, her name was Jenna, and Jinna had three names filled out, two blanks. 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:09.840 She's like, guys, I only have three people I know that need Jesus, and she's just feeling so guilty, like, man, I'm doing something wrong because clearly I'm on a campus with unbelievers, and I only got friends with three of them. 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.919 And God, I'm just praying that you would show me a couple other people. 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:16.879 We lay hands on Jenna, we're praying for God. 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:17.759 Would you send her? 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:19.279 God, there's people all around. 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:22.080 The harvest is plentiful, the workers are few. 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:23.279 God, you've called us. 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:24.639 Lord, would you do it? 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:26.480 One week, Jenna comes back to prayer. 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.759 She's like, Guys, I think I know what God's called me to do. 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:33.840 I think God's called me to get a job as a missionary. 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:35.919 We're like, you're gonna go be a missionary? 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:36.879 She's like, No. 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:40.720 She's like, guys, any job is a missionary job. 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:47.919 She's like, God, it doesn't, he's like, guys, it doesn't matter what job you have, we're all missionaries wherever we are. 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:49.759 We said, that's great, Jenna. 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:53.120 We're like, wow, you should be a pre you should talk more. 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:54.879 You say good stuff. 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:56.559 She's a quiet girl. 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:58.559 We're like, Jenna, where's God calling you to work? 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.080 Jenna says, I feel like God's called me to go work at the northern. 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:03.759 We said, What? 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:08.000 No, you're not from North Dakota, so you don't understand the context. 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:14.320 But let me just tell you, the northern is our strip club in Fargo, North Dakota. 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:19.840 Now they often call these places gentlemen's clubs. 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:22.399 I don't know why, because there ain't no gentlemen there. 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:26.240 But we're like, uh, Jenna. 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:37.679 Uh Gina, we're pretty sure God doesn't want you to be a stripper. 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:42.080 Jenna's like, no, you guys are idiots. 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:43.200 We're like, we know. 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:48.000 She says, guys, who is loving those girls? 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:50.320 She said, I saw an opening. 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:51.919 They need to cook at the northern. 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:53.600 I can cook. 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:56.879 We're like, holy. 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:01.840 Like, Jenny, you can't go there, there's sinners there. 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:06.720 You can't, Gina. 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:07.599 No. 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:09.920 You cannot. 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:12.640 Well, you for sure can't tell your parents. 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.599 We didn't know what to do, so you know what we did, we prayed all the more. 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:24.559 In fact, we started moving our prayer meeting to the northern, not inside, outside. 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:26.000 Outside. 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:29.119 Some of you guys know, outside. 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:32.960 We started a prayer walk the northern once a week. 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:34.960 God, would you move? 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:35.920 God, would you move? 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:38.559 God, if you're calling Gina there, make it clear. 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:42.559 But Lord, we don't want our sister going into this awful place. 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:45.759 One week we're finally done praying. 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:49.359 We're like, God, we're gonna pray around this place seven times, God. 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:52.559 We're gonna pray that the walls fall down. 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:58.160 And God, if the walls don't fall down, we're sending Jinnah in. 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:01.759 Walls didn't fall down. 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:04.559 Jenna went to work at the Northern. 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:07.839 She came back to our prayer meetings. 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:18.480 Man, I tell you, when you are on mission, when you're out of your comfort zone, when you're living a bold life, when you're stepping out in faith, man, there's an urgency in your prayers, isn't there? 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:21.599 I mean, you start to need the body. 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:26.960 We're coming together, and Jenna's coming, somebody's just like weeping, like, guys, I can't do it. 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:28.000 It's so awful. 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:33.200 The things that are happening, and these girls are so broken, their situations are so hopeless. 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:34.319 I want to quit. 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:35.599 I just gotta get out of there. 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:37.519 And we'd be like, Jenna, you can't quit. 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:39.519 Jenna, God's called you. 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:41.519 God's called you there, Jenna. 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:42.960 We're like laying hands on her. 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:46.000 We're like, Jenna, look, we all got your schedule on our phones. 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:47.200 We're covering you with prayer. 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:49.039 Jenna, the spirit is on you. 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:50.559 God's moving, Jenna. 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:52.240 We're all laying hands and all crying. 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:53.839 God, would you do it? 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:56.160 You know what started to happen? 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:00.720 Those girls started to come to our church services. 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:04.400 And those girls started to get saved. 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:11.039 You know, we didn't tell them right away, but a little later we're like, you can't be a stripper anymore. 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:13.359 This is sanctification. 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:15.920 The clothes stay on. 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:25.119 Listen, tonight I want to tell you, I believe this, in 2018, God's call for you is to be bold. 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:26.880 Say bold. 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:28.319 Say bold. 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:29.680 Say bold. 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:31.519 Now I was thinking about this. 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:36.160 Often we think of boldness as it relates to leadership. 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.720 Boldness is not leadership. 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:39.440 Okay? 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:43.680 Boldness is not strength. 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:46.000 We think, oh, that person's bold. 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:48.079 Pastor Robert, he's bolder. 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:50.240 Billy Graham, he's bolder. 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:51.759 This person's bold. 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:54.640 We think, oh, these big people are bold. 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:55.599 No, no, no, no. 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:59.839 Boldness is not limited to impressive people. 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:10.559 Boldness is what God's people look like when the Holy Spirit indwells them and they begin to take that step of faith. 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:17.519 Now we're calling a generation, I got a ladder up here, and kind of our our slogan this year is move closer. 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:20.000 We're calling a generation to move closer. 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:25.759 We've been saying, man, we want students sharing their faith, and we want students being disciples of Jesus. 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:28.480 We want to move closer to Jesus. 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:30.000 We started to think about this. 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:32.079 You know, faith is this all-in journey. 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:32.720 I got a ladder. 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:34.079 Any guys ever climbed a ladder? 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:35.279 I think most of us have. 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:38.079 My little boy, he's five, learning how to climb. 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:39.440 I'm trying to teach him. 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:40.640 Say, true it. 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:45.599 When you climb a ladder, you gotta have both feet on and both hands on. 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:48.640 How many of you guys know you don't climb a ladder like this? 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:51.039 Does not work well. 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:57.920 Some people though, young people are like, they think faith is like, you know, Sunday, Friday. 00:20:58.240 --> 00:20:58.559 No. 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:04.000 You see, faith is an all-in journey, it's moving closer. 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:06.079 And then each step is scary. 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:08.160 Each one of us are at a different place. 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:11.119 None of us are more important, none of us are better. 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:12.880 God doesn't have favorites. 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:16.880 He loves you, he calls you, he wants to use you. 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:19.920 His call for you is to move closer. 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:22.319 You say, Oh God, I don't know if I can do it. 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:27.599 I don't know if I can do it, God, but I'm gonna trust in you instead of in my flesh. 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:29.920 I'm gonna take that next step. 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:32.559 And I'm gonna take that next step. 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:33.759 It's moving closer. 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:36.640 But see, here's the thing about moving closer to Jesus. 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:42.640 Every step closer in faith is a step closer to people who need Jesus. 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:45.680 They aren't two different steps. 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:53.359 You don't move closer to Jesus one day and then move closer to people who need Jesus the next day. 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:59.680 No, every step closer to Jesus is a step closer to the people who need him because that's where Jesus. 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:00.799 Is. 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:04.079 You see, some Christians think, no, no, no, no. 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.920 I'm not one of those evangelist people that share their faith. 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:10.960 I'm not one of those people that goes out and talks to other people. 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:11.839 No, no, no, no, no. 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:15.519 That's for pastors and professional Christians. 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:18.319 No, listen. 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:22.000 Matthew 28, Jesus gave us the great commission. 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:24.400 It's not called the good suggestion. 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:26.319 Right? 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:28.720 Jesus did not say, if you feel like it. 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:31.440 No, Jesus said, Hey, I want you to follow me. 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:36.559 You don't even need to focus on sharing your faith and doing, doing, doing. 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:38.720 You just need to focus on following Jesus. 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:40.319 Are you following Jesus? 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:43.279 That is the question, the ultimate question for all of us. 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:46.480 You see, boldness, if I was to give a definition, I'm gonna throw it up. 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:52.400 Boldness is a willingness to take risks and to try something new. 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:57.359 It's a willingness to take risks and try something new. 00:22:58.079 --> 00:23:00.400 And let me just tell you this as it relates to boldness. 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:06.319 Let me just say this: God's best is not limited to a few people. 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:12.799 God's best is limited to those who are willing, say willing. 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:15.359 Willing to be bold. 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:23.279 Nobody knew who they were, but man, they had fire. 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:27.599 Man, if you get my mom praying for you, you better watch out. 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:30.160 The thunder is coming. 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.039 Nobody knows their name, but man, there's power. 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:38.720 Let me tell you, boldness is what spirit-filled life looks like. 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:43.920 Boldness is what a spirit-filled life looks like. 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:46.240 Let's go back to Luke chapter 11. 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:47.680 Luke chapter 11. 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:50.240 Let me just stop one second, Luke 11. 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:57.039 The disciples come to Jesus one time in the Gospels and they ask him to teach them to do something. 00:23:57.200 --> 00:23:59.920 Only one time they ask him to teach us to do this. 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.359 Think of all the awesome things Jesus did. 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:06.160 Just think of what would you ask, Jesus? 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:07.839 Teach me this thing. 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:13.279 Like, Jesus, would you teach me to do the bread and fish thing? 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:17.279 Jesus, would you teach me that whole raising the dead thing? 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:18.240 Come on. 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:22.160 Every college campus I'm on, it's always the same. 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:25.119 Jesus, would you teach us that water to wine? 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:26.400 Come on. 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:28.559 It'd be the life of everybody. 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:29.359 What up? 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:30.640 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:31.279 Yeah. 00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:32.319 Yeah. 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:33.839 Never mind. 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:38.559 But the disciples see Jesus. 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:46.000 The fuel behind his life is his intimacy with the Father, is his prayer life, is his connection. 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:46.720 Is that? 00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:49.759 I don't know what it is, but they said, Lord, would you teach us to what? 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:51.279 To pray. 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:53.599 Jesus says, Okay, I'll teach you to pray. 00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:55.759 And he gives us three points. 00:24:56.079 --> 00:25:00.480 Three points in Matthew or Luke 11, verse 9. 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:04.799 He says, to ask, to seek, and to knock. 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:11.440 And I just added, ask boldly, seek boldly, knock boldly. 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:16.319 In 2018, God is calling you to be bold. 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:19.599 God is inviting you to be bold. 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:27.440 God is inviting you, you, you, you, you on the video, you on your laptop, you overseas. 00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:28.880 He is inviting you. 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:30.799 This isn't a message for them. 00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:32.079 This is for you. 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:34.960 This is for me to be bold. 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:44.480 It's gonna look different for all of us, but the beauty of it being different for all of us is that this is about you and I taking ground. 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:50.799 Man, I'm sick and tired of the church being so focused on playing defense. 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:55.039 We are so worried about what they are doing. 00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:57.119 Oh, we gotta play safe. 00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:58.400 We gotta be careful. 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:01.119 Oh no, they're doing have you heard their music? 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:02.559 Have you watched their movies? 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:04.880 Oh my goodness, it's so scary. 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:07.920 Have we forgotten the God that we serve? 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:13.039 Man, it is time to start playing offense. 00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:15.680 It is time to take ground. 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:22.240 It is time for a church that is full of the Holy Spirit and is willing to step out in faith. 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:24.960 We gotta be bold. 00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:29.599 Hebrews 11 says, without faith, it's impossible to please God. 00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:33.680 I would say without boldness, it is impossible to please God. 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:40.079 It's not normal, it's not easy, it's not safe, but this is God's call for you. 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:44.480 He wants you to get uncomfortable. 00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:50.960 He's calling you to get to that place where you need Jesus. 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:56.640 He's calling you to get to that place where the only explanation is that was God. 00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:02.960 And how often has somebody said to you, Man, you are too bold? 00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:06.559 You know what your problem is? 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:08.079 You're too bold. 00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:12.799 If that's what people are telling you, this message isn't for you. 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:16.640 You maybe need to turn it down a notch. 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:19.519 Put the shofar away. 00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:29.599 Listen, our problem, most of us, isn't that we're too bold, it's that we're too safe. 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:34.400 We're too conservative, we're too boring, we're too cheap. 00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:37.680 We nickel and dime God. 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:41.440 We throw our treasure to everything else. 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:46.240 Young people always say, Man, Nick, Christianity is boring. 00:27:47.279 --> 00:27:49.440 Christianity is boring, Nick. 00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:50.960 What are you doing over there? 00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:51.599 That's boring. 00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:52.720 I said, man, come on. 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:54.480 Have you read your Bible? 00:27:54.799 --> 00:27:56.319 Christianity is not boring. 00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:58.319 Your church might be boring. 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:01.119 Your parents, they're probably boring. 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:04.880 But Jesus is not boring. 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:08.720 Do you think the disciples were hanging around with Jesus? 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:11.759 Oh, fed 5,000, boring. 00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:16.960