WEBVTT 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:04.400 Well, welcome to KCC Church at Home. 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:07.120 I'm so excited to be sharing this message with you today. 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:08.880 I'm so excited to be here with you. 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:12.720 If you're tuning in for the first time, welcome to our service. 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:14.000 My name is Malachi. 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:18.160 I'm one of the pastors here at KCC, and I'm honored to be with you today. 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:26.480 Before we jump in, I just want to encourage you to engage in the chat on Facebook, on YouTube, and all the platforms that we're that we're on. 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:33.679 Share this sermon, share this service with your friends, get the word out that church is happening right now. 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:40.960 Even though we're limited to meeting with our church in one room, I'm so grateful for this technology. 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:44.640 And we got the tech team here helping us get the word out. 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:53.039 And with you know this stream, we've been able to really reach out even further than our church on Sundays meeting in in person has been able to. 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:55.520 We've been able to reach out to thousands of people. 00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:01.200 And so thank you for uh watching and sharing the stream and and uh being with us today. 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:04.319 And so honestly, it's it's just been an amazing time. 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:10.719 At the same time, uh, I think we're all kind of over this and we're ready to meet with people, we're ready to see people in person. 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:13.599 Um, but uh hopefully that time comes soon. 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:20.079 This series we've been talking about uh and and we've been doing this for this last month is is called Salt and Light. 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:21.599 Salt and Light. 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:33.040 And Pastor Brody started us off with two really uh awesome messages about the purpose of salt and light and how Jesus wants us to become the salt and the light of the world. 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:35.599 He says this in Matthew uh 5, 13. 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:39.840 He says to his disciples, you are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:41.519 You are the difference makers. 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:46.879 You are going to make the change because we as Christians are called to be salt. 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:52.239 We're called to be the flavor, we're called to draw people towards uh us. 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:59.439 We're called to draw people in from the outside in, and then as lights, we're called to point people to Jesus. 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:11.680 And last week Ian was speaking, uh he spoke he spoke a really great message and he he shared kind of his story about um how he and his wife they went to Italy uh during this pandemic and they were with the Samaritans person. 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:19.919 He talked about uh in order to live our lives to the fullest, in order to be salt and light, we need to have our passion collide with our purpose. 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:24.479 And this and today I I just wanna I want to jump into this story in Acts. 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:29.199 This story in Acts, and it's Acts 3, verses 1 to 8. 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:35.759 And it says, one day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer at 3 in the afternoon. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:48.879 Now a man who was lame from birth was carried to the temple gate called beautiful, where he was put there every single day to beg from those who were going into the temple courts. 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.520 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.560 And Peter looked straight at him, as did John, and then Peter said, Look at us. 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:10.719 So the man then gave him, gave them their his his attention, and expecting to almost get something from them in that moment, then Peter said, Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have, I give to you. 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:16.159 And then he he he reaches out his hands, he says, In the name of Jesus, walk. 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:27.680 And he he takes him by the right hand and helps him up, and this this moment, and it says, instantly his legs and his and his feet and his ankles became strong, right? 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:30.400 It was like it was as if he never skipped leg day, right? 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:39.120 And so he jumped to his feet, he began to walk, and then he he went with them into the temple gores, walking and praising and jumping to God. 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:53.680 And so when all the people saw him walking and praising God, they recognized him as the same man that used to sit at the temple gate called Beautiful, begging for money, and they were filled with amazement and wonder at what had happened. 00:03:54.080 --> 00:04:01.199 The title of this message today that I wanna I want to share with you guys this morning is uh is The Beauty of an Interruption. 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:03.520 The beauty of an interruption. 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:05.199 And I just want to pray before we begin. 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:11.120 Father God, I just thank you so much for this uh this time, God, that we have this morning. 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:23.920 I thank you that um as we navigate through this interesting season in life, God, that that you are still faithful, that you are still in control, God, that you see the end from the beginning and and you see all the way through. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:38.879 And God, I I pray that even through this season, as it feels like life is on hold or or it feels like everything's been tipped on its side, God, I I I ask that that even in this season, that our relationship would grow with you deeper and deeper and deeper. 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:41.040 And today, would you just speak through us through your word? 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:43.199 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:44.240 Amen. 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:52.160 Well, what I want to I want to talk about this idea of being interrupted, the beauty of an interruption. 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:58.160 And I and I don't know about you, and I I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I actually liked being interrupted. 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:01.759 I could probably ask that question uh and I would see zero hands. 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:04.879 If you guys were in the room with me and I asked, hey, who likes being interrupted? 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:06.560 No one would raise their hand, right? 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:10.560 No one has ever said, Man, I love being interrupted, right? 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:23.920 Like, especially, especially when you're doing something really, really important and you're you're like focused in on this moment, and someone like comes in and says, Hey, I got something, I want to show you something, and you're like, man, like no one, no one likes that feeling. 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:27.600 It's it's it's it's it's not something that we we love, right? 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:29.519 No one likes being interrupted. 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:40.240 Even like myself, like I would call myself a classic, like I'm one of those people that that come busting into the room and I and I if I have an idea, if I'm working on something, I'm like the classic interrupter. 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:41.279 I'm the patienceless person. 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:49.439 Tillay can can uh can can adhere to this, where she'll be working on something in her office, and I I have something that I'm working on, and I need her to check it out. 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:52.399 Like right now, I come into the office, I'm like, hey, you need to see this. 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:54.879 You need to you need to understand what I'm doing right here. 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:55.839 This is important. 00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:01.600 And even even as a classic like interrupter, like it's in my DNA for some reason. 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:03.920 I hate being interrupted. 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:05.920 I hate being interrupted. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:10.639 And uh, and this is classic in my home, especially uh, you know, in my marriage. 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:22.560 Uh I have an amazing wife, Rebecca, but but sometimes I'll you know I'll be sitting down or I'll be, you know, I I recently just started playing this really nerdy game on PS4 and it's been consuming a lot of my time. 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:28.000 But I'll be playing something, I'll be, or I'll be playing NHL, or I'll be actually working or doing something really like important, right? 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:36.240 Not that NHL and and all these things need to be always in my life, but sometimes I find myself in this in this COVID season being attracted to my PS4, but that's okay. 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.079 But I'll be doing something, right? 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:43.360 And I'll be in the middle of it, maybe I'll have my headphones in, and I'll kind of hear this like faint thing in the kitchen. 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.040 It's like kind of like faint voice, right? 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.120 Like, can you take out the garbage? 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.920 And I'll be like, I I I think I'm just hearing things, right? 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:57.199 And I put my headphones back in and she'd be like, honey, can you can you take the garbage out? 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.480 And I'll be like, my, you know, I'm a work in progress, okay? 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:02.399 And I think all of us are a work in progress. 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:09.279 Um, because because sometimes my my reaction and my response to those moments is not always is not always nice, right? 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.399 It's not always lovely, it's not always like like Jesus like, okay? 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:18.959 And so sometimes I I don't know if you've ever done this where you do like, I think this is a guy thing where we just like point at something, right? 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:20.319 We're like, honey. 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:26.720 Can't you see what I'm doing is important? 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.959 It's more important than the garbage, right? 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:34.560 Like, can't you see? 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:35.040 Right? 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:36.319 I'm in the middle of something. 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:39.680 I'm in the middle of something, and and some of you are judging me right now. 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:40.480 That's okay. 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:42.160 And they're like, man, you're a pastor. 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:44.000 You should be patient all the time. 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:47.680 Well, yeah, that's that's that's a different story, right? 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:52.000 So, but we don't like we don't love being interrupted. 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:58.160 It doesn't matter who we are, it doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter what we're doing, we don't like being interrupted. 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:03.920 Because I think I think most often we see we see an interruption as negative. 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:07.279 We see interruptions as negative, right? 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.600 Something that takes away from my time. 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:19.279 It's annoying, it's frustrating, it's just something getting in my way, and we just try to do our best to just move around it as fast as we we possibly can, right? 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:23.600 We try to we try to navigate around it, we try to avoid the inconvenience. 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:29.839 And and sometimes, you know, when as Christians we get a little bit weird, sometimes we get spiritual about things, and we just blame everything on the enemy. 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:37.519 If something happens to us throughout throughout our day, it's just you know, we're driving to work and there's construction or something, it's just the enemy trying to get me down, right? 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:38.879 Like we just get kind of weird. 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.200 Like, I don't know about you, but I I've done this, okay? 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:42.320 I know from experience. 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:48.559 But but but we always just blame it on something is just trying to stop us from doing something, right? 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:59.440 But what if what if instead, what if instead of seeing an interruption as an inconvenience, what if in instead of seeing an interruption as it as not a distraction? 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.240 What if instead of it being someone who just can't drive? 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:05.679 What if it's it instead it's someone that's just a rude person, right? 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:13.039 Instead of it just being the enemy, what if instead, what if instead it was God trying to get your attention? 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:17.519 What if instead it was God trying to get you to see something different? 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:22.240 What if instead it was God trying to get your attention to an opportunity? 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:28.480 And again, I think I think because we tend to see interruptions as as simply an inconvenience, right? 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:36.720 We we and when I look at the world, right, when I look at the world right now and and how everything's going, COVID-19 has kind of interrupted everything, right? 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:38.879 It's interrupted our entire world. 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:42.080 It's interrupted everything we do on a daily basis. 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:47.679 And and what I'm not saying, I'm not saying that God is the is is the author of COVID-19. 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:49.120 That's not what we're saying. 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:54.960 I'm saying that that God isn't afraid to use something like COVID-19 to get your attention. 00:09:55.440 --> 00:10:03.440 God isn't afraid to use something like a pandemic to maybe tap you on the shoulder and say, hey, this is an opportunity. 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:05.679 This is not an inconvenience. 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:16.159 It's the same way that God doesn't put sin in our path, and he God doesn't put sin in our life to tempt us, but he'll use that situation as an opportunity to get our attention. 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:20.879 What if we started seeing interruptions as opportunities? 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:23.519 God might be trying to get your attention today. 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:27.519 God might be interrupting your regular scheduled program. 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:32.080 And I think when I look at the story of Acts, like there's a lot to observe. 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:36.799 Like there's so many different sermons in Acts 3 that we could probably we could talk about. 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:44.159 And the first, the first thought I have, the first kind of uh observation I have about this is we see we see Peter and John, okay? 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:45.440 These are two opposite people. 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:47.840 These are two like polar opposite people. 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:49.039 This is like me and my wife. 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.039 We are we are very different, right? 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:56.720 Like I'm an eight and she's like a peacekeeper, so we're like, I'm the challenger and she's trying to keep the peace, right? 00:10:56.879 --> 00:11:05.440 It's and we see that John and Peter are walking together and they're going to do something that's really, really regular for them to do, and they're going to pray, right? 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:07.360 So we have John, we have the lover, right? 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:09.279 The the book of John is all about love, right? 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:10.559 This perspective of love. 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:18.559 He shows his love and his passion towards Jesus by like chilling on his, like, chilling on his shoulder and he just wants like bro cuddles, right? 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:20.639 Like that's John in a nutshell, right? 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.399 He just, I love you, Jesus. 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:24.639 Like that's how I show my passion towards Jesus. 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.480 And then you got Peter over here, right? 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:27.840 Peter is like the fighter. 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.720 Peter's like the guy who's like always putting his foot in his mouth. 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:35.600 Peter's the guy that like cut off some dude's ear and said, No, you can't take my friend away, right? 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:36.320 Like that's Peter. 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:40.879 So we have these two polar opposite people going to pray. 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.840 And and and like I said, this is like a regular routine for Peter and John. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:53.519 Okay, as as Hebrews, this was like, this was normal for them to go and pray multiple times a day sometimes, right? 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:55.919 It's just an ordinary Monday. 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:57.120 We're gonna call it a Monday. 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:58.559 I don't know exactly what day it was. 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:08.399 Scholars probably don't have that information, but but it it seems like it's just a regular old day, a regular Monday, because nothing exciting happens on Mondays, right? 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:10.559 I'm pretty sure COVID-19 hit on a Monday. 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:15.120 Like I'm guaranteed that it did, because that's just how Mondays go. 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:17.039 And they're going to pray. 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:24.320 And this is kind of where it gets interesting for me because it says that every single day there was a man who was paralyzed from birth, a lame man. 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:26.559 He he had no movement in his legs. 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:32.000 Every single day he was brought to the temple court, just outside the gate, just outside the temple. 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:38.639 He was brought to the temple gate called Beautiful to beg for money every single day. 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.000 Every single day. 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:48.960 For 40 years, this man sat on this mat every single day, just outside the temple. 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.360 Just far enough outside the temple. 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:53.279 And it was this is all he knew, right? 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:54.799 Every single day he was brought there. 00:12:54.960 --> 00:13:00.399 Every single Sunday, every single Monday, every single Tuesday, probably the same time every day, right? 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:01.840 Like it was probably 9 a.m. 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:07.200 and his buddies kind of dropped him off, and they're like, see ya, see you, Greg, and right, like, and then they they take off. 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:09.519 He was probably just they probably just felt sorry for some. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:13.039 Every single day, 9 a.m., he's sitting there begging for money, 5 p.m. 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:16.080 rolls around, his buddies come back and pick him up and take him home, right? 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:19.200 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 5 p.m., right? 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:20.080 Take him home, right? 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:21.519 Every single day. 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:26.000 Imagine, imagine, every single day felt the exact same. 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:28.080 It there was no different outcome. 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:31.120 Sat there, begged for money, went home. 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:33.519 Eat, sleep, repeat. 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:35.919 Eat, sleep, repeat. 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:45.679 And what catches my attention about this the most is I and I and I and I'm I'm kind of seeing the two sides here, and you see Peter and John, this is normal for them to be going to pray. 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:51.360 What what catches my attention is that that this was not the first time that they saw this man. 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:56.799 This was not the first encounter that they had with this this man that was begging on the ground. 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:57.279 Right? 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:00.960 Prayer was a routine, this was this was normal for Hebrews, right? 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:03.120 They this was like a part of their life, right? 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:05.600 They would go to the temple and they would pray. 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:10.799 And and if for for 40 years, this man sat there. 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:11.519 Right? 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:17.200 When the Bible says every day, we don't really have to like dig into the Greek word meaning of every day. 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:21.519 We can kind of just take every day for what it says, that every day this man was brought here. 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:31.600 And so what that tells me is that Peter and John would have walked by this person, maybe not together, maybe they weren't friends at the time, but at some point during that 40 year span, they would have seen this man. 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:38.799 They would probably would have, they probably would have at some point maybe dropped a coin into his little money jar. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:39.440 Right? 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:42.799 But today, you know, today was was different. 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.120 There was something different happening. 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:52.480 They see the man and and and he's he's begging for money, and in verse 4, Peter and John look straight at him for the first time. 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:58.960 As if to say that, man, we we didn't really notice he before, but now there's something different happening. 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:01.440 All the other days, they probably would have just walked by, right? 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:08.159 They probably would have just been going on their regular routine, they would have been just doing what they normally did, and it and it wasn't rude, right? 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:15.600 So at this time period, people who were disabled, people who were um you know even paralyzed, they were looked at as less than. 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:22.000 They weren't looked as equal because they couldn't pull their weight, they couldn't, they couldn't contribute to the society the same way. 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:26.159 So it wasn't rude of Peter and John to walk by this man. 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.919 It was it was normal, it was culturally normal. 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:34.480 And so, but today, on this particular Monday, something's different. 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:38.559 Something compels Peter and John to turn their attention to this man. 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:42.799 Okay, and see, right before this, Jesus, the this the savior of the world, right? 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:46.320 He he he he he's ascending into heaven. 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:54.799 And this is after his death, burial, and resurrection, he ascends into heaven, and right before he does, he says to his disciples, I am sending you someone. 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:57.360 I am sending you someone to help you. 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:58.639 And his name is the Holy Spirit. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:05.200 I'm sending you the Holy Spirit to guide you, to help you, to counsel you, to give you boldness, and to give you power. 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:06.399 And so it's amazing. 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:13.679 And and actually, if we if we look a week ahead of right now, the day of uh the bit I think it's the day of Pentecost is happening next Sunday. 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:14.879 That's kind of like the time period. 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:16.799 So it's really, really cool, right? 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:24.960 And and the Holy Spirit in Acts 2, so they Jesus tells them, Hey, I want you to wait at this certain time, at this certain place, and and I'm going to send my Holy Spirit to you. 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:31.519 And so all the disciples get together in Acts 2 and they wait in this one little room on on, I think it was like the second floor, they said in the upper room. 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.879 And and the Holy Spirit comes and he fills each and every one of them. 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:37.120 And it's this amazing experience in the Bible. 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:40.080 It's this life-altering moment that happens in Acts 2. 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:44.399 So now in Acts 3, there's something different about Peter and John. 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:47.440 There's something different about Peter and John. 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:49.519 They see the man, they turn their attention to him. 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:54.399 It actually says that Peter fixes his eyes on this man. 00:16:54.559 --> 00:17:00.720 So something was compelling them because every other day they would have walked by, but now there's something compelling them. 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:09.680 They they tell the man, man, we don't, we don't have, we don't have any money, we don't have what we're asking for, like we're so sorry, but we have something completely different. 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:13.279 We have something that that is that is gonna change your life. 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:19.119 And Peter, he says, in the name of Jesus, get up, and proceeds to grab this man. 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:31.279 And what's crazy about this scene to me is that that like you think about first first you think about the time period and and what was happening, and to even say the name of Jesus was called controversial. 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:40.559 In this crowded, like probably busy area, right, to even say like Jesus out loud was very controversial. 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:53.680 There was a lot of people, there was people losing their jobs, there was people losing their homes, there was people losing their life, there was people losing every, like their entire family, they were being exiled from their entire community because of the name of Jesus. 00:17:53.759 --> 00:18:01.519 And Peter, bold, wild Peter, like I don't even think he was he was bold before, but there's something different about Peter. 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:02.720 Right? 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:10.480 And so Peter shouts out the name of Jesus, this extremely controversial name, and then proceeds to grab this guy. 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:12.079 I like just picture this with me. 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:17.519 He grabs this guy who's been sitting there every single day for 40 years. 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:21.519 And he grabs him and he basically pulls him to his feet. 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:31.039 And you can imagine the people around him watching this happen with their eyes like, what in the world is that man doing? 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:36.240 What is he like what what right does he have to grab that pair? 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:48.079 Like, poor guy, like he's already got enough going for him that's that's that's like not good in his life, and you're gonna just you're gonna embarrass him this way, and everybody around is watching this scene happen. 00:18:48.240 --> 00:19:02.720 And and and they you know, they know this man, they've seen him every single day for 40 years, but but Peter, he picks him up, and it's uh and it says that instantly, in an instant, it's this amazing miracle that takes place. 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:07.039 Instantly his legs are just like there, right? 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:09.680 It's like he never skipped leg day, right? 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:14.400 Like, like I think that you know, all of us gym goers right now, we're really we're really sad. 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:19.519 You know, it's sometimes it's kind of nice to have the excuse not to go to the gym, but we've all been skipping leg day, right? 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:26.000 But it's like in an instant his legs went from nothing to full, complete, and whole. 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:27.039 It's amazing. 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:32.720 And everyone, everyone gathers around and and it's like this like wow, this wow scene. 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:38.559 And and sometimes the greatest miracle, the sometimes the greatest miracle will come after the greatest disappointment. 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:43.839 Sometimes the greatest miracle will come after the greatest disappointment. 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:47.920 Because Peter and John they saw that this man needed money, right? 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:51.119 But they didn't say, Hey, we don't we don't have any money. 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:55.200 And this guy's probably like, well, I guess there goes another one, right? 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:59.680 But but then they they continue on and say, hey, we got something different for you. 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:02.559 You don't need money, this is what you need. 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:08.000 And and instead of giving him something that he thought he needed, they gave him something that he never thought was possible. 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:18.160 And so, you know, there's like I said, there's so much in the story that we can pull up, but what I want to I want you to get this this this morning is something so simple. 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:23.039 I want you to to take this piece with you, and I want to ask you a question in it. 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:29.119 And if and if we're called, if we're called, like I said, to be to be difference makers, right? 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:32.880 This is our our make a difference series, being salt and light. 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:46.079 If we're called to be the difference makers in our world, in our communities, and and if we're called as Christians to be salt and light of the world, are you positioned to be interrupted? 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:50.079 Are you positioning yourself to be interrupted? 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:51.680 Are are you ready? 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:53.759 Are we ready for that pivot? 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:55.519 Are we ready for the change? 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:58.960 Are you ready for an interruption in your life? 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:01.680 Are you ready for that opportunity? 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:20.240 Because I think if God can just simply get your attention, if God can can can kind of just interrupt that little moment you're having during the day in the middle of all the busyness, in the middle of all the chaos, if God can just simply get your attention, he can show you something that you've never seen before. 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:28.160 You might have walked by it a thousand times, you might have just kind of strolled by it like it was normal, but he wants to show you something that you've never seen before. 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:32.799 It might just be this regular boring old Monday, right? 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:42.640 Where you you get up and you do the same thing as you did yesterday, and you know, we log on to Zoom, and we're like, we're we're listening to our teacher, we're listening to our boss, right? 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:44.319 No, no offense, Pastor Brody. 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:53.279 Like we go and we we eat some lunch, and then we go back on Zoom and we we pull out our phone and we're like scrolling through Instagram, and it's like, oh nothing's really going on. 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:59.519 And we go back on Zoom and and it's like this cycle of just monotonous, it's just the same thing. 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:01.279 Every day. 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:09.759 And if you're a parent, if you're a parent or you're my wife because she has to clean up clean up after me, you've you've probably vacuumed that same floor like three times in that day. 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:11.680 Like it just doesn't stay clean. 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:17.920 But it's just this monotonous everyday Monday feeling that we're going through. 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:23.920 And I think that especially in this time, um, and obviously uh I'm so glad that things are changing in BC. 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:30.240 I don't know if it's changing everywhere, but but where there's a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel and things are changing in our government, it's amazing. 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:46.559 But I think in this time where we're kind of like stuck at home or we're we're kind of like we're we're told, hey, you gotta socially distance, you gotta be be careful, and and we either, you know, we swing to this one side where I'm just gonna stay home, I'm just gonna be safe, and and it's really easy for us to just be distracted or distract ourselves, right? 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:53.519 We're really good at being distracted, and we're really good at distracting ourselves, especially with all the devices we have, right? 00:22:53.599 --> 00:23:02.559 And it seems so odd because I feel like, man, this this should have been the the time where we had the most time on our hands to be able to get so much done. 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:08.240 But it feels like you know, we're really good at human as as human beings at filling that time, right? 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:10.319 Whatever time we have, we just kind of fill it. 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:12.559 We never really have any free time. 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:14.720 Like it's not, it's always like I'm busy. 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:17.279 That's that's what comes out of my mouth is I'm busy. 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:24.400 Like I'm more busy than I feel like I ever have been because we had so much free time, and I'm like, I'm a human being, so I'm just gonna fill that slot time, right? 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:27.519 I'm just gonna fill up every single moment of that time. 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:30.480 And we're really good at being busy. 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:36.240 And when things change, like like we've experienced when things change, we just find another way to be busy, right? 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:47.200 We just find our way around that that situation, especially, you know, this whole COVID thing, like I've been saying, is just make it made it feel like this big monotonous Monday that we're just kind of walking through. 00:23:47.359 --> 00:24:01.440 And it's really easy to lose sight of things, it's really easy to get narrow-minded, it's really easy to recluse, it's really easy to just get used to sitting at home and and and I'm just gonna stay to my social little bubble and I'm just gonna I'm just gonna retract. 00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:04.799 And and they're saying that we're not gonna go, I'm good with that, like I'm good with staying home. 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:09.920 Like we're really good at just like adapting and getting comfortable and just kicking up our feet, right? 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:28.559 With everything going on, like I do this too, like we're just I think that a lot of the times we're we're trying to fill that space, we're trying to fill every moment of our downtime, we're trying to fill our our our our that that space that we feel like is free time with just noise because it's almost like we're trying to drown out all the bad news. 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:29.119 Right? 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:32.319 We're we're waiting for that message of of hope. 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:39.279 We're waiting for something to change, and we're just trying to fill it with noise, and we're just trying to fill it with content. 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:48.640 And meanwhile, during all of this, during all the busyness, right, the Holy Spirit is is is trying to get your attention. 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:59.119 And it might sound like this, like hello, are you there? 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:04.880 Hey, hello, are you there? 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:07.599 I want to tell you something, right? 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:14.079 And it might not always be this big moment, but it's it's oftentimes that the Holy Spirit comes in like a whisper. 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:16.079 He comes in a whisper. 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:21.200 And it's and it's sometimes not as big eye-opening revelation with God. 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:26.240 It might look very like small and insignificant in the moment. 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:26.960 Right? 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:31.039 He might be like just trying to nudge you to put your phone down for like five minutes. 00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:31.519 Right? 00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:42.480 He's trying to, he might be nudging you towards like to try and like navigate your way out of out of your bedroom and and past all the screens and just like open up your Bible first thing in the morning. 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:48.960 And and try to ingest something that's like good instead of flipping on the news or or flipping on your phone, because that's like our habit, right? 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:56.400 We just try to ingest something, but what maybe the Holy Spirit's saying, hey, I want you to just, I want to, I want you to put me first this morning. 00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:58.640 He might be saying, Hey, I don't want you to watch that. 00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:01.759 I want you to, I want you to just there's a there's a sermon on YouTube. 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:04.400 I want and he just nudges us towards it, right? 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:07.119 He might be nudging you to check up on a friend during this season. 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:12.480 He might be nudging you to see if that friend, you know, maybe they lost their job, maybe they need a meal, right? 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:18.480 It could be so small, it could just be like a feeling, it could just be like a little whisper. 00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:19.680 Right? 00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:22.960 And whatever it is, it's going to start small. 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:25.920 It's going to be like a whisper. 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:30.319 And and he might want to just he might be wanting to show you something. 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:30.799 Right? 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:35.200 He'd be like, hey, hey, I know you read that story like a thousand times. 00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:44.799 And you've you've heard the story in all through you you grew up in church and you you heard that story in Sunday school, you heard that story in youth, you heard that story in young adults. 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:49.119 But today, I just want to interrupt your day and I want to show you something different. 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:51.839 I want to show you something that you've never seen before. 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:54.480 I want to shift your mindset. 00:26:54.559 --> 00:27:01.759 And it could be something so small, something so insignificant, but we can't discount little moments. 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:05.119 We can't discount little moments. 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:06.079 And here's why. 00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:08.240 Here's why, here's my whole point. 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:25.920 Because in those little moments, when we allow ourselves to be interrupted, when we allow ourselves to be to be attentive to the whisper, when we allow ourselves to be temp uh attentive, sorry, to the nudge, to that little like direction push, that's what it feels like for me. 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:31.119 That's where, in those little moments, that's where we start to recognize his voice. 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:36.480 That's where we start to learn what his voice sounds like. 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:41.039 So that when those big moments come, because they're going to, right? 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:45.599 When the big moments come, we're gonna know what his voice sounds like. 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.480 And the reason that's important is we're gonna have faith in that moment. 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:50.400 We're gonna we're gonna have confidence in that moment. 00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:56.400 When the big moment comes, we're gonna have confidence to know, hey, that's where God's leading me to. 00:27:57.119 --> 00:27:59.200 Because we know his voice. 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:01.519 It could start in a grocery store, right? 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:09.200 It could be just a simple smile where we we're we're where we're just reaching out to a friend, we're just making a phone call, right? 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:15.039 Or or or something, it always moves from something small to something bigger when we're obeying that little moment. 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:21.200 When we're obeying God's voice in that little moment, he's saying, Hey, I want to see if you're actually gonna listen, right? 00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:31.839 And and he might actually, he's gonna move you from a place where it's like a small moment, it might seem insignificant, to a place where he might ask you, hey, I want you to fly across the world and I want you to start a church, right? 00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:34.960 Or I want you to tell your testimony to a friend. 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:37.680 I want you to go and pray for that person in public. 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:39.440 And everyone just started sweating, right? 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:41.039 Thinking about having to do that. 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:42.720 It's like instant anxiety. 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:44.480 I don't want to do that, God, right? 00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:46.960 But that's where God wants to move us. 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:54.559 He wants to move us to a place where it might even seem weird where we might be walking down the street and he's like, go left. 00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:57.920 And you're like, What? 00:28:58.079 --> 00:28:59.359 Like, go left. 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:01.839 And you're like, okay, I'll go left. 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:03.200 Like, what a weird thought. 00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:07.920 And and as we walk down that street, we see somebody, and they're in a wheel. 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:10.559 This is what happened to Peter and John, right? 00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:15.519 And he's sitting there in a wheelchair, and God's like, hey, I want you to strike up a conversation with that person. 00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:17.759 And you're like, No. 00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:18.559 Right? 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:20.640 Like, that's our first reaction is to say no. 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:32.160 But but but when we listen in those little moments, it could be and it and it doesn't always need to be this big moment where we we grab the person, we shout the name of Jesus in public, and we grab the person out of the wheelchair and instantly their legs are healed. 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:36.799 That can happen, but there could be something in that, there's an opportunity there. 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:39.279 There's an opportunity in that moment. 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:43.680 And if we we don't know what his voice sounds like, we're gonna miss it. 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:47.680 We don't know what his voice sounds like, we're gonna miss it. 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:52.960 And right now, I think that I think God even just spoke to me, spoke to me this morning about this. 00:29:53.039 --> 00:30:00.720 Um, that he's he's trying to say to you, I think he said to me, this is not just a waited out season. 00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:04.720 This is not just a waited out and hope for the best season. 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:07.279 This is a season of opportunity. 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:13.200 This is a season where we have so much opportunity to reach out to the world, right? 00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:30.079 But if we if we don't recognize his voice in these moments and these times, we're gonna miss out on the opportunity and we're just gonna be those couch cushion, like those couch potato people, or we're just sitting and we're just waiting for the government to tell us when we can go back to normal. 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:36.720 And we'll miss out on so many opportunities that we have right now, right here, today. 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:40.480 So I want to ask you again, and this is just I'm gonna close. 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:52.559 Um, I want to ask you again, while you're, you know, while you're at home and and while you're, you know, we're we're adhering to what the government is saying, and you know, it feels like nothing's going on, it feels like the same old thing, but I want to ask you that question. 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:55.839 Are you positioning yourself to be interrupted? 00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:58.880 Are you positioned for an opportunity? 00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:02.319 Are you are you ready for that moment? 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:05.759 Are you listening for the whisper? 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:10.799 Are you attentive to that little push in a direction? 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:21.039 Because it starts in those small moments where we can just be that little sprinkle of salt that someone needs, or that little light for somebody. 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:27.359 And it moves from being something small to something so impactful that we never even knew it was possible. 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:30.960 We never even knew that that God would use us that way. 00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:42.559 And uh, and I just want to I just want to pray for you guys uh today and and and if you would just bow your heads and just close your eyes in this moment, and I just pray that that God would just meet you right now where you're at. 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:46.799 So, Father God, I just thank you so much for this time we've had together. 00:31:47.039 --> 00:32:02.720 And God, I just pray right now that that everything we're going through, every every bit of uncertainty, every bit of anxiety, um, everything that that feels like, man, the world is just falling apart, and where are you, God? 00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:10.160 And and and and every moment like that that we're going through, and it's and it's real, God, that your peace would just come right now. 00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:14.400 Your peace would just come into the room of each and every person's house that's watching right now. 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:16.640 God, that your love would just fill them. 00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:24.400 God, that that your joy would just overwhelm people right now in this time of frustration, maybe for some people. 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:28.640 Um maybe it's just uncertainty, maybe it's maybe you're filled with anxiety. 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:35.599 But God, I I pray that your joy, your peace, and your love would just reign over your people today. 00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:42.559 And God, everyone watching today would just be encouraged by this message, God, that that you are speaking. 00:32:42.720 --> 00:33:02.240 And that it might seem small, it might start small, but when we when we listen to that voice, when we act on those little moments, God, that you can move us from a small moment to a monumental moment, from a monotonous moment to an amazing testimony, an amazing miracle, a world-changing moment. 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:05.279 And God, we just thank you so much for your love. 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:06.880 We thank you so much for your word. 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:09.920