SPEAKER_01: Well, welcome to KCC Church at Home.
SPEAKER_01: I'm so excited to be sharing this message with you today.
SPEAKER_01: I'm so excited to be here with you.
SPEAKER_01: If you're tuning in for the first time, welcome to our service.
SPEAKER_01: My name is Malachi.
SPEAKER_01: I'm one of the pastors here at KCC, and I'm honored to be with you today.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
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SPEAKER_01: Even though we're limited to meeting with our church in one room, I'm so grateful for this technology.
SPEAKER_01: And we got the tech team here helping us get the word out.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: We've been able to reach out to thousands of people.
SPEAKER_01: And so thank you for uh watching and sharing the stream and and uh being with us today.
SPEAKER_01: And so honestly, it's it's just been an amazing time.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Um, but uh hopefully that time comes soon.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Salt and Light.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: He says this in Matthew uh 5, 13.
SPEAKER_01: He says to his disciples, you are the salt of the earth and the light of the world.
SPEAKER_01: You are the difference makers.
SPEAKER_01: You are going to make the change because we as Christians are called to be salt.
SPEAKER_01: We're called to be the flavor, we're called to draw people towards uh us.
SPEAKER_01: We're called to draw people in from the outside in, and then as lights, we're called to point people to Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And this and today I I just wanna I want to jump into this story in Acts.
SPEAKER_01: This story in Acts, and it's Acts 3, verses 1 to 8.
SPEAKER_01: And it says, one day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer at 3 in the afternoon.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.
SPEAKER_01: And Peter looked straight at him, as did John, and then Peter said, Look at us.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And then he he he reaches out his hands, he says, In the name of Jesus, walk.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: It was like it was as if he never skipped leg day, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: The beauty of an interruption.
SPEAKER_01: And I just want to pray before we begin.
SPEAKER_01: Father God, I just thank you so much for this uh this time, God, that we have this morning.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And today, would you just speak through us through your word?
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name, amen.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Well, what I want to I want to talk about this idea of being interrupted, the beauty of an interruption.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: I could probably ask that question uh and I would see zero hands.
SPEAKER_01: If you guys were in the room with me and I asked, hey, who likes being interrupted?
SPEAKER_01: No one would raise their hand, right?
SPEAKER_01: No one has ever said, Man, I love being interrupted, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: It's it's it's it's it's not something that we we love, right?
SPEAKER_01: No one likes being interrupted.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: I'm the patienceless person.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Like right now, I come into the office, I'm like, hey, you need to see this.
SPEAKER_01: You need to you need to understand what I'm doing right here.
SPEAKER_01: This is important.
SPEAKER_01: And even even as a classic like interrupter, like it's in my DNA for some reason.
SPEAKER_01: I hate being interrupted.
SPEAKER_01: And uh, and this is classic in my home, especially uh, you know, in my marriage.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: But I'll be doing something, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: It's like kind of like faint voice, right?
SPEAKER_01: Like, can you take out the garbage?
SPEAKER_01: And I'll be like, I I I think I'm just hearing things, right?
SPEAKER_01: And I put my headphones back in and she'd be like, honey, can you can you take the garbage out?
SPEAKER_01: And I'll be like, my, you know, I'm a work in progress, okay?
SPEAKER_01: And I think all of us are a work in progress.
SPEAKER_01: Um, because because sometimes my my reaction and my response to those moments is not always is not always nice, right?
SPEAKER_01: It's not always lovely, it's not always like like Jesus like, okay?
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: We're like, honey.
SPEAKER_00: Can't you see what I'm doing is important?
SPEAKER_00: It's more important than the garbage, right?
SPEAKER_01: Like, can't you see?
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: I'm in the middle of something.
SPEAKER_01: I'm in the middle of something, and and some of you are judging me right now.
SPEAKER_01: That's okay.
SPEAKER_01: And they're like, man, you're a pastor.
SPEAKER_01: You should be patient all the time.
SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah, that's that's that's a different story, right?
SPEAKER_01: So, but we don't like we don't love being interrupted.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Because I think I think most often we see we see an interruption as negative.
SPEAKER_01: We see interruptions as negative, right?
SPEAKER_01: Something that takes away from my time.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: We try to we try to navigate around it, we try to avoid the inconvenience.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: Like we just get kind of weird.
SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't know about you, but I I've done this, okay?
SPEAKER_01: I know from experience.
SPEAKER_01: But but but we always just blame it on something is just trying to stop us from doing something, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: What if instead of it being someone who just can't drive?
SPEAKER_01: What if it's it instead it's someone that's just a rude person, right?
SPEAKER_01: Instead of it just being the enemy, what if instead, what if instead it was God trying to get your attention?
SPEAKER_01: What if instead it was God trying to get you to see something different?
SPEAKER_01: What if instead it was God trying to get your attention to an opportunity?
SPEAKER_01: And again, I think I think because we tend to see interruptions as as simply an inconvenience, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: It's interrupted our entire world.
SPEAKER_01: It's interrupted everything we do on a daily basis.
SPEAKER_01: And and what I'm not saying, I'm not saying that God is the is is the author of COVID-19.
SPEAKER_01: That's not what we're saying.
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying that that God isn't afraid to use something like COVID-19 to get your attention.
SPEAKER_01: God isn't afraid to use something like a pandemic to maybe tap you on the shoulder and say, hey, this is an opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: This is not an inconvenience.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: What if we started seeing interruptions as opportunities?
SPEAKER_01: God might be trying to get your attention today.
SPEAKER_01: God might be interrupting your regular scheduled program.
SPEAKER_01: And I think when I look at the story of Acts, like there's a lot to observe.
SPEAKER_01: Like there's so many different sermons in Acts 3 that we could probably we could talk about.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: These are two opposite people.
SPEAKER_01: These are two like polar opposite people.
SPEAKER_01: This is like me and my wife.
SPEAKER_01: We are we are very different, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: So we have John, we have the lover, right?
SPEAKER_01: The the book of John is all about love, right?
SPEAKER_01: This perspective of love.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: Like that's John in a nutshell, right?
SPEAKER_01: He just, I love you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Like that's how I show my passion towards Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And then you got Peter over here, right?
SPEAKER_01: Peter is like the fighter.
SPEAKER_01: Peter's like the guy who's like always putting his foot in his mouth.
SPEAKER_01: Peter's the guy that like cut off some dude's ear and said, No, you can't take my friend away, right?
SPEAKER_01: Like that's Peter.
SPEAKER_01: So we have these two polar opposite people going to pray.
SPEAKER_01: And and and like I said, this is like a regular routine for Peter and John.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, as as Hebrews, this was like, this was normal for them to go and pray multiple times a day sometimes, right?
SPEAKER_01: It's just an ordinary Monday.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna call it a Monday.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know exactly what day it was.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty sure COVID-19 hit on a Monday.
SPEAKER_01: Like I'm guaranteed that it did, because that's just how Mondays go.
SPEAKER_01: And they're going to pray.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: He he had no movement in his legs.
SPEAKER_01: Every single day he was brought to the temple court, just outside the gate, just outside the temple.
SPEAKER_01: He was brought to the temple gate called Beautiful to beg for money every single day.
SPEAKER_01: Every single day.
SPEAKER_01: For 40 years, this man sat on this mat every single day, just outside the temple.
SPEAKER_01: Just far enough outside the temple.
SPEAKER_01: And it was this is all he knew, right?
SPEAKER_01: Every single day he was brought there.
SPEAKER_01: Every single Sunday, every single Monday, every single Tuesday, probably the same time every day, right?
SPEAKER_01: Like it was probably 9 a.m.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: He was probably just they probably just felt sorry for some.
SPEAKER_01: Every single day, 9 a.m., he's sitting there begging for money, 5 p.m.
SPEAKER_01: rolls around, his buddies come back and pick him up and take him home, right?
SPEAKER_01: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 5 p.m., right?
SPEAKER_01: Take him home, right?
SPEAKER_01: Every single day.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine, imagine, every single day felt the exact same.
SPEAKER_01: It there was no different outcome.
SPEAKER_01: Sat there, begged for money, went home.
SPEAKER_01: Eat, sleep, repeat.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: What what catches my attention is that that this was not the first time that they saw this man.
SPEAKER_01: This was not the first encounter that they had with this this man that was begging on the ground.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Prayer was a routine, this was this was normal for Hebrews, right?
SPEAKER_01: They this was like a part of their life, right?
SPEAKER_01: They would go to the temple and they would pray.
SPEAKER_01: And and if for for 40 years, this man sat there.
unknown: Right?
SPEAKER_01: When the Bible says every day, we don't really have to like dig into the Greek word meaning of every day.
SPEAKER_01: We can kind of just take every day for what it says, that every day this man was brought here.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: They would probably would have, they probably would have at some point maybe dropped a coin into his little money jar.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: But today, you know, today was was different.
SPEAKER_01: There was something different happening.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: As if to say that, man, we we didn't really notice he before, but now there's something different happening.
SPEAKER_01: All the other days, they probably would have just walked by, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: So at this time period, people who were disabled, people who were um you know even paralyzed, they were looked at as less than.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: So it wasn't rude of Peter and John to walk by this man.
SPEAKER_01: It was it was normal, it was culturally normal.
SPEAKER_01: And so, but today, on this particular Monday, something's different.
SPEAKER_01: Something compels Peter and John to turn their attention to this man.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, and see, right before this, Jesus, the this the savior of the world, right?
SPEAKER_01: He he he he he's ascending into heaven.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: I am sending you someone to help you.
SPEAKER_01: And his name is the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And so it's amazing.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: That's kind of like the time period.
SPEAKER_01: So it's really, really cool, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And and the Holy Spirit comes and he fills each and every one of them.
SPEAKER_01: And it's this amazing experience in the Bible.
SPEAKER_01: It's this life-altering moment that happens in Acts 2.
SPEAKER_01: So now in Acts 3, there's something different about Peter and John.
SPEAKER_01: There's something different about Peter and John.
SPEAKER_01: They see the man, they turn their attention to him.
SPEAKER_01: It actually says that Peter fixes his eyes on this man.
SPEAKER_01: So something was compelling them because every other day they would have walked by, but now there's something compelling them.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: We have something that that is that is gonna change your life.
SPEAKER_01: And Peter, he says, in the name of Jesus, get up, and proceeds to grab this man.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: In this crowded, like probably busy area, right, to even say like Jesus out loud was very controversial.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And Peter, bold, wild Peter, like I don't even think he was he was bold before, but there's something different about Peter.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: And so Peter shouts out the name of Jesus, this extremely controversial name, and then proceeds to grab this guy.
SPEAKER_01: I like just picture this with me.
SPEAKER_01: He grabs this guy who's been sitting there every single day for 40 years.
SPEAKER_01: And he grabs him and he basically pulls him to his feet.
SPEAKER_01: And you can imagine the people around him watching this happen with their eyes like, what in the world is that man doing?
SPEAKER_01: What is he like what what right does he have to grab that pair?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Instantly his legs are just like there, right?
SPEAKER_01: It's like he never skipped leg day, right?
SPEAKER_01: Like, like I think that you know, all of us gym goers right now, we're really we're really sad.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: But it's like in an instant his legs went from nothing to full, complete, and whole.
SPEAKER_01: It's amazing.
SPEAKER_01: And everyone, everyone gathers around and and it's like this like wow, this wow scene.
SPEAKER_01: And and sometimes the greatest miracle, the sometimes the greatest miracle will come after the greatest disappointment.
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes the greatest miracle will come after the greatest disappointment.
SPEAKER_01: Because Peter and John they saw that this man needed money, right?
SPEAKER_01: But they didn't say, Hey, we don't we don't have any money.
SPEAKER_01: And this guy's probably like, well, I guess there goes another one, right?
SPEAKER_01: But but then they they continue on and say, hey, we got something different for you.
SPEAKER_01: You don't need money, this is what you need.
SPEAKER_01: And and instead of giving him something that he thought he needed, they gave him something that he never thought was possible.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to to take this piece with you, and I want to ask you a question in it.
SPEAKER_01: And if and if we're called, if we're called, like I said, to be to be difference makers, right?
SPEAKER_01: This is our our make a difference series, being salt and light.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: Are you positioning yourself to be interrupted?
SPEAKER_01: Are are you ready?
SPEAKER_01: Are we ready for that pivot?
SPEAKER_01: Are we ready for the change?
SPEAKER_01: Are you ready for an interruption in your life?
SPEAKER_01: Are you ready for that opportunity?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: It might just be this regular boring old Monday, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: No, no offense, Pastor Brody.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And we go back on Zoom and and it's like this cycle of just monotonous, it's just the same thing.
SPEAKER_01: Every day.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Like it just doesn't stay clean.
SPEAKER_01: But it's just this monotonous everyday Monday feeling that we're going through.
SPEAKER_01: And I think that especially in this time, um, and obviously uh I'm so glad that things are changing in BC.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: We're really good at being distracted, and we're really good at distracting ourselves, especially with all the devices we have, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: But it feels like you know, we're really good at human as as human beings at filling that time, right?
SPEAKER_01: Whatever time we have, we just kind of fill it.
SPEAKER_01: We never really have any free time.
SPEAKER_01: Like it's not, it's always like I'm busy.
SPEAKER_01: That's that's what comes out of my mouth is I'm busy.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna fill up every single moment of that time.
SPEAKER_01: And we're really good at being busy.
SPEAKER_01: And when things change, like like we've experienced when things change, we just find another way to be busy, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And and they're saying that we're not gonna go, I'm good with that, like I'm good with staying home.
SPEAKER_01: Like we're really good at just like adapting and getting comfortable and just kicking up our feet, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: We're we're waiting for that message of of hope.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And meanwhile, during all of this, during all the busyness, right, the Holy Spirit is is is trying to get your attention.
SPEAKER_01: And it might sound like this, like hello, are you there?
SPEAKER_01: Hey, hello, are you there?
SPEAKER_01: I want to tell you something, right?
SPEAKER_01: And it might not always be this big moment, but it's it's oftentimes that the Holy Spirit comes in like a whisper.
SPEAKER_01: He comes in a whisper.
SPEAKER_01: And it's and it's sometimes not as big eye-opening revelation with God.
SPEAKER_01: It might look very like small and insignificant in the moment.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: He might be like just trying to nudge you to put your phone down for like five minutes.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: He might be saying, Hey, I don't want you to watch that.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to, I want you to just there's a there's a sermon on YouTube.
SPEAKER_01: I want and he just nudges us towards it, right?
SPEAKER_01: He might be nudging you to check up on a friend during this season.
SPEAKER_01: He might be nudging you to see if that friend, you know, maybe they lost their job, maybe they need a meal, right?
SPEAKER_01: It could be so small, it could just be like a feeling, it could just be like a little whisper.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: And whatever it is, it's going to start small.
SPEAKER_01: It's going to be like a whisper.
SPEAKER_01: And and he might want to just he might be wanting to show you something.
unknown: Right?
SPEAKER_01: He'd be like, hey, hey, I know you read that story like a thousand times.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: But today, I just want to interrupt your day and I want to show you something different.
SPEAKER_01: I want to show you something that you've never seen before.
SPEAKER_01: I want to shift your mindset.
SPEAKER_01: And it could be something so small, something so insignificant, but we can't discount little moments.
SPEAKER_01: We can't discount little moments.
SPEAKER_01: And here's why.
SPEAKER_01: Here's why, here's my whole point.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: That's where, in those little moments, that's where we start to recognize his voice.
SPEAKER_01: That's where we start to learn what his voice sounds like.
SPEAKER_01: So that when those big moments come, because they're going to, right?
SPEAKER_01: When the big moments come, we're gonna know what his voice sounds like.
SPEAKER_01: And the reason that's important is we're gonna have faith in that moment.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna we're gonna have confidence in that moment.
SPEAKER_01: When the big moment comes, we're gonna have confidence to know, hey, that's where God's leading me to.
SPEAKER_01: Because we know his voice.
SPEAKER_01: It could start in a grocery store, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: Or or or something, it always moves from something small to something bigger when we're obeying that little moment.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: Or I want you to tell your testimony to a friend.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to go and pray for that person in public.
SPEAKER_01: And everyone just started sweating, right?
SPEAKER_01: Thinking about having to do that.
SPEAKER_01: It's like instant anxiety.
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to do that, God, right?
SPEAKER_01: But that's where God wants to move us.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And you're like, What?
SPEAKER_01: Like, go left.
SPEAKER_01: And you're like, okay, I'll go left.
SPEAKER_01: Like, what a weird thought.
SPEAKER_01: And and as we walk down that street, we see somebody, and they're in a wheel.
SPEAKER_01: This is what happened to Peter and John, right?
SPEAKER_01: And he's sitting there in a wheelchair, and God's like, hey, I want you to strike up a conversation with that person.
SPEAKER_01: And you're like, No.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Like, that's our first reaction is to say no.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: That can happen, but there could be something in that, there's an opportunity there.
SPEAKER_01: There's an opportunity in that moment.
SPEAKER_01: And if we we don't know what his voice sounds like, we're gonna miss it.
SPEAKER_01: We don't know what his voice sounds like, we're gonna miss it.
SPEAKER_01: And right now, I think that I think God even just spoke to me, spoke to me this morning about this.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: This is not just a waited out and hope for the best season.
SPEAKER_01: This is a season of opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: This is a season where we have so much opportunity to reach out to the world, right?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And we'll miss out on so many opportunities that we have right now, right here, today.
SPEAKER_01: So I want to ask you again, and this is just I'm gonna close.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Are you positioning yourself to be interrupted?
SPEAKER_01: Are you positioned for an opportunity?
SPEAKER_01: Are you are you ready for that moment?
SPEAKER_01: Are you listening for the whisper?
SPEAKER_01: Are you attentive to that little push in a direction?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And it moves from being something small to something so impactful that we never even knew it was possible.
SPEAKER_01: We never even knew that that God would use us that way.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: So, Father God, I just thank you so much for this time we've had together.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Your peace would just come into the room of each and every person's house that's watching right now.
SPEAKER_01: God, that your love would just fill them.
SPEAKER_01: God, that that your joy would just overwhelm people right now in this time of frustration, maybe for some people.
SPEAKER_01: Um maybe it's just uncertainty, maybe it's maybe you're filled with anxiety.
SPEAKER_01: But God, I I pray that your joy, your peace, and your love would just reign over your people today.
SPEAKER_01: And God, everyone watching today would just be encouraged by this message, God, that that you are speaking.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And God, we just thank you so much for your love.
SPEAKER_01: We thank you so much for your word.
SPEAKER_01: We are just so thankful for your son Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: We love you in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for being with us on KCC Church at home.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, we love you, we miss you, and we can't wait to see your face in person again and uh join us next week for an awesome service.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.