WEBVTT 00:02:58.159 --> 00:02:58.800 Good morning. 00:02:58.960 --> 00:02:59.759 Chick chick. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:03.199 Good morning. 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:06.719 Well, good morning, KCC. 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:07.919 Well, that's very loud. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:09.360 Wake you up in the morning. 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:11.840 Uh, hope you had a uh safe drive here. 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:15.840 I know it was snowing a little bit, but I'm so glad that you made it to church this morning. 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:17.759 Are you glad you made it to church this morning? 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:19.120 A few of you? 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:20.000 That's okay. 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:24.159 Uh, Pastor Brody's gonna be speaking uh on Too Good to Be True this morning. 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:26.400 He's gonna be uh continuing our series. 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:28.719 It's been so awesome to be a part of this. 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:32.560 Uh, if you have kids with you this morning, we have an amazing kids team downstairs. 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:34.080 They're wearing our red shirts. 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:36.479 Uh, you can follow the signs and get them checked in. 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:40.719 Uh for the rest of us, I'm gonna invite you to stand as we get ready to worship. 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:44.719 And we're just gonna pray together as the worship team gets ready here. 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:46.560 So would you pray with me this morning? 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:49.199 Father God, we just thank you so much for your love. 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:57.520 We thank you so much for what you've done for us, God, that we we just are just so in awe of all of you done for us in our lives. 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:08.000 God, this morning we just want to lift our eyes to you, whatever this week had for us, whether it was bad or good, or whether it was stressful, God, we just lift up our eyes to you this morning. 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:14.639 We lift our perspective to the King of Kings, to the Lord of Lords, to the author and the perfector of our faith. 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.199 God, we just love you in Jesus' name. 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:19.360 If you're ready to worship, say amen. 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:20.319 Amen. 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:32.959 Alright, church. 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:33.920 This is a new song. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.839 It's called God of the Promise. 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:38.560 It's a little bit easy, so we're gonna start singing. 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:46.319 I'm knocking away, away for the walls to fall. 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:51.439 Cause I know a name that will break them down. 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:58.560 And I've got a breaks, awaken within my soul. 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:03.360 And I'm not a shake to declare it now. 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:10.319 Light of the world, trample the darkness. 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:14.720 Nothing can stop it. 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:17.759 You are the god of the promise. 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:22.879 Every word will be a conflict. 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:26.800 Nothing gets stopped. 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:30.079 You are the god of the promise. 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:42.000 Prepare the way, the king of glory comes. 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:47.040 And before his day, everything must file. 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:53.839 Throw up your checks, and Jesus destroyed them all. 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:59.360 God from the grave, he's with us now. 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:01.120 Course of your light. 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:06.000 Light of the world, trample the darkness. 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:10.240 Nothing can stop it. 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:13.360 You are the God of the promise. 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.399 Ever you work, we'll be a conflict. 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:22.800 Nothing can stop it. 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:44.959 You are the God of the promise The gates of hell will never stand a chance. 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:48.000 Your name prevails. 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:50.959 Jesus the great I am. 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:54.160 No word will fail. 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:57.279 No happiness formed against. 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.160 Your name prevails. 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:01.920 Come on, sing it out again. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:09.600 The case of hell will never stand a chance. 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:12.639 Your name prevails. 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:15.519 Jesus the great I am. 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:18.879 No word will fail. 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:22.000 No ever before the cast. 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.199 Your neck prevails. 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:28.000 Jesus the great I am. 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:39.439 Light of the world, trample the dark death. 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.279 Nothing is darted. 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.480 You are the god of the promise. 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:51.680 Every word will be a conflict. 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:55.680 Nothing is darted. 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:11.439 You are the god of the promise And you are the God of the promise. 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:14.399 Come on, lift up a shout. 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:46.559 Into your freedom, our chains are gone. 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:51.440 No happy information shall prevail. 00:08:52.799 --> 00:09:14.000 Your word is stronger, we overcome Your Goddess through the eight. 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:20.320 All since you clear me, you're gravy now. 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:28.720 Your kingdom forever will sin We won't be shaken. 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:36.399 We will not fear I got a mighty oil. 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.360 You're I can show me fire. 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:44.960 In victory, we try open your name. 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:50.879 Jesus, the great commander, you conquered that forever. 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:56.480 In victory, we try open your name. 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:05.600 Your glory resounds through the age. 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:11.919 All saints declaring your great renown. 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:20.159 Your kingdom forever will stand Oh, we won't be shaken. 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:28.399 We will not fear I got a mighty warrior. 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.200 Your eye can still be fire. 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:39.600 In victory, we try up in your name, Jesus the great commander. 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:42.720 You conquer death forever. 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:48.559 In victory, we try up in your name. 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:10.799 You stand alone, our strong defender. 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.559 Above you there's no butter. 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:16.159 Come on, church and out. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.720 We declare your name is Power. 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:25.200 Exalty one. 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:31.360 No name is I stand alone. 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.879 Up strong deep in there. 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:37.840 Above you, there's no other. 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:41.039 Above you, conceal on the other. 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:43.840 Above you, there's no other. 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:46.879 Above you there's no other. 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:50.320 I got a mighty warrior. 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:53.120 You're a consuming fire. 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:59.120 In victory, we triumph in your name. 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.000 Jesus the great commander. 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:05.200 You conquer death forever. 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:11.039 In victory, we triumph in your name. 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:13.919 I got a mighty war you. 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:17.039 You are consuming by you. 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:22.799 In victory, you head, we triumph in your name. 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:28.559 Jesus, the great commander, you conquered forever. 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:34.639 In victory, we triumph in your name. 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:39.120 Oh Jesus. 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:58.320 We triumph in your name with us. 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:05.200 And God for us nothing can come against. 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:09.440 No one can stand between us. 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:15.840 God with us for us. 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:19.039 Nothing can come against. 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:23.279 No one can stand between us. 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:40.480 You are merciless in grace and mercy. 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:46.720 There is nowhere we can hide from your love. 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:52.399 You are steadfast, never failing. 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:54.080 You are faithful. 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:59.759 All creation is in all who you are. 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:07.120 You're the healer of the sick and the broken. 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:20.559 Our King and our Savior forever. 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:27.360 For eternity we will sing of all you've done. 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:34.000 For eternity we will sing of all you've done. 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.600 We say God away with us. 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:46.000 Nothing can come against. 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:49.840 No one can stand between us. 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:51.919 God away. 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:33.600 You're the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:38.559 For eternity we will sing over you. 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:41.600 And you lifted me up. 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:44.559 And you lifted me up. 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:51.279 Come on, see you know where there was death, you brought my floor. 00:16:53.519 --> 00:17:00.240 Where there was fear, you brought it up. 00:17:13.200 --> 00:18:48.720 Where there was a step, you brought you up there with a street, you brought the rich when I was ever it, you lift me, and you lift me up, and you lift me up, and you lift me up, and you lift me up, and you lift me up, and you lift me up, the God, the God for us No one can stand between us, God away with us, the God for us, nothing can come against, no one can stand between us, no more Jesus, God for us, nothing can come against Nox still between us God with us. 00:20:32.720 --> 00:21:59.759 You are here moving in love, worse me, worse me, you are here working in this place, worship, worse, cleaning how you are you make you, you are here, touch in every heart, I worship you, I worship you, you are here, he in every heart, I worship you, I worship you, you are here. 00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:46.000 Even when I don't see it you working, even when I don't feel it you working, never stop, never stop working, never stop, never stop, even when I don't see it, you workin', even when I don't feel it you workin', never stop, never stop working, never so on. 00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:51.680 Come on, even when I don't see it, you workin'. 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:55.200 Even when I don't feel it, you workin'. 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:59.920 Never stop, never stop working, never stop. 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:09.279 Oh Jesus, even when I don't see it you working, even when I don't feel it you workin'. 00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:58.640 Never stop, never stop working, never stop, never stop working, even when I don't feel it you work, even when I don't feel it you work, never stop, never stop working, stop, stop it, and then you don't have to be a little bit. 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:35.119 So as a church, as KCC, we believe in raising our hands and saying, Lord, I feel like this morning, I want us to stay in this attitude of worship. 00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:38.079 They're just gonna go into the chorus of Waymaker. 00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:44.640 But I want you to know Mark chapter 9 says, All things are nothing is impossible for those who believe. 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:52.319 And so this morning, let's extend our faith into a place that isn't stuck in just what I see in front of me. 00:27:52.480 --> 00:28:03.359 Let's extend our faith into a place that is so far beyond what we can see and put our trust in a God who says, I love you, I care for you, and I'm gonna move mountains for you. 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:20.079 That we don't just let the circumstance weigh us down, that we don't let the what's happening of the anxiety, the things that are going, the addiction that are weighing us down on our shoulders, that we say, God, I want you to move this mountain because I believe that you can. 00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:25.680 So if you're comfortable this morning, I want you to say to God this morning, Lord, move that mountain. 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:30.000 Raise your hands, raise your voice, and say, God, move that mountain. 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:34.319 I'm tired of living in this place where I'm not extending my faith. 00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:36.640 I'm gonna split faith forward. 00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:38.960 Pastor Brody's talking about this morning. 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:42.960 Let's extend our faith into something bigger, into something bigger. 00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:47.200 Let's not let our own thoughts be the one that stops us from moving forward. 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:49.599 So just raise your hands if you're comfortable. 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:58.960 Worship him this morning, but give him that thing, that anxiety, that that that lack of hope that you have, that addiction that's plaguing you, that's stopping you from moving forward. 00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:02.240 Say, God, move this mountain. 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:04.559 Let's just move this mountain this morning. 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:07.119 Let's raise your faith, Lord, in Jesus' name. 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:16.160 Thank you, Lord. 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:17.519 Let's raise our voices. 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:40.720 We make good, in the darkness, I got two up, we make the darkness, I got it too. 00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:38.000 So we extend our faith, we challenge our that, Lord, what is in front of us, and say that you are our God, you love us, you care for us, and you can move that mountain. 00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:48.079 Lord, that whatever thing that is plaguing us, the the issues of life, whatever happened to be me, Lord, we know that you can move it and you will move it. 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:49.839 In Jesus' name. 00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:52.960 Look to your neighbor and say, nothing is impossible. 00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:55.200 Nothing is impossible with God. 00:30:56.319 --> 00:30:56.960 Amen. 00:30:57.119 --> 00:30:57.519 Amen. 00:30:57.599 --> 00:30:59.680 Let's give the Lord a hand this morning. 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:08.720 Turn to your neighbor, give a high five and say, glad you're here this morning. 00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:25.279 So we're just glad you're here. 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:28.000 I don't know who brought the snow this morning. 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:33.599 It was starting to feel a little bit like Christmas out there. 00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:34.880 I couldn't believe it. 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:39.200 But uh, how many of you are ready for the next season, the new season that we're going into? 00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:40.240 That's right. 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:44.160 So if you're new with us here at KCC, we're so glad you're with us. 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:51.039 Uh, we believe God wants to take every one of us on a on a very specific spiritual journey. 00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:55.599 And it's the identity, it's uh personal to each individual. 00:32:56.319 --> 00:33:13.680 We believe it starts first with knowing God, knowing God for yourself, knowing God as not the God of your parents or your grandparents or your society, but knowing God personally and and uh intimately, yourself, heart to heart, you and the Lord. 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:20.880 So that's a big part of our our walk is to first have that initial relationship with Him. 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:40.720 After we discover that relationship with Him, then we realize, hey, this is wonderful, we've been saved, but we want to move forward, and we want to move forward in finding freedom because there are things that we just bring along with us in life, and when we look back, we go, man, I could move a lot faster if these things weren't weighing me down. 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:44.640 And we believe that the Lord wants to set people free, amen. 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:47.599 That's just the the nature of our God. 00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:54.720 He loves to He loves to bring freedom to people, He wants to set you on a launch on a launch strip. 00:33:55.039 --> 00:34:04.960 He wants to set you off set you on forward into your purpose, what He's called you to, so that you can actually live life with purpose and make a difference. 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:13.280 So this series that we're uh completing today today uh is called Too Good to Be True. 00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:29.280 It's part of our know God series because we believe that the more we begin to discover God, who God is and what he is all about and his plans for our lives, we just it just translates and converts into praise. 00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:41.760 When you believe that God is the way maker and the miracle worker, and you discover him that way, and you discover him as the the one who heals all of our disease, amen. 00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:57.760 And and and gets us out of the miry clay, out of the pit, puts our feet on a rock and is our rescuer, then then it translates into worship to God in a different heart-to-heart connection. 00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:59.360 That different connection. 00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:07.280 So this morning we're gonna be uh talking about an attribute of God that I just find so incredible. 00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:12.880 The fact it's a piece of his nature in that he loves to reward us. 00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:14.880 He is our rewarder. 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:20.400 When you just turn to your neighbor and say, he's a rewarder, he rewards us. 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:27.519 He uh these rewards and these returns we experience are linked to our faith. 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:33.519 And they're linked to the risks that we uh take each and every day. 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:38.000 And so we're gonna be talking about rewards and risk today. 00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:44.480 And we're gonna start in Matthew chapter 25, but before we do that, we're just gonna pray and open up and prayer. 00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:51.920 Father, we ask that you would open up our hearts this morning to receive from you and receive from your word. 00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:57.039 We ask that our our our focus would be upon you. 00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:03.840 And Lord, as we our hearts become open, Lord, that you would transform us into the person that you created us to be. 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:12.239 Lord, that you would give us fresh hope, fresh faith, and fresh desire to be able to go into the world and make a difference. 00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:13.519 In Jesus' name. 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:14.400 Amen. 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:15.360 Amen. 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:22.159 So Matthew chapter 25, uh, I'm reading from the Living Bible, starting in verse 14. 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:34.639 And this is an analogy Jesus spoke to demonstrate uh different people and how they steward the investment that God made in their lives. 00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:37.920 Each one of us have been invested into. 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:44.079 God has given us talents, gifts, treasures in each and every one of us. 00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:51.519 And then he says, now how are you going to operate with those gifts and with those talents? 00:36:52.079 --> 00:37:06.159 So Matthew 25, again, the kingdom of heaven can be illustrated by the story of a man going into the country, another country, who called together his servants, loaned them money to invest for him while he was gone. 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:17.119 He gave$5,000 to one, two thousand dollars to another, and a thousand to the last, dividing it in proportion to their abilities, and then left on his trip. 00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:24.719 The man who received the five thousand began immediately to buy and sell with it, and soon earned another five thousand dollars. 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:30.639 The man with two thousand went right to work too, earned another two thousand. 00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:43.679 But the man who received the one thousand dollars, uh uh, the one thousand dollars dug a hole in the ground and hid the money for safekeeping, he played it safe. 00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:46.719 When you say that, played it safe. 00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:57.280 He hid it for safekeeping, and after a long time, the master returned from his trip, called them to him to account for his money. 00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:01.760 The man to whom he had entrusted the$5,000 brought him$5,000. 00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:05.119 And so he now had$10,000. 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:07.360 And his master praised him for his good work. 00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:11.519 You've been faithful, handling the small amount, he told him. 00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:13.920 So now I'll give you more responsibility. 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:17.039 Begin this joyous task I've assigned to you. 00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:25.360 Next came the man who had two thousand with the report, Sir, you gave me two thousand to use, and I've doubled it. 00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:27.280 Good work, his master said. 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:29.199 You're a good and faithful servant. 00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:33.840 You've been faithful over this small amount, so now I'll give you much more. 00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:39.519 Then the man with 1,000 came and said, Sir, I know you were a hard man. 00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:44.880 Do you notice the perspective that this individual had of his master? 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:52.239 An idea of him, and perhaps even a philosophy of life, in terms of, you know what? 00:38:52.320 --> 00:39:00.800 I'm gonna, I realize that you're a tough man, and I was afraid of you, afraid you would rob me of what I earned. 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:02.880 So I hid your money in the earth. 00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:04.320 So here it is. 00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:07.440 I'm giving you back what you gave to me. 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:20.079 Now his master's response, wicked man, lazy slave, since you knew I would demand your profit, you should have at least put my money in the bank so I could have some interest. 00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:24.079 Take the money from this man, give it to the man with 10,000. 00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:29.760 For the man who uses well what he is given shall be given more, and he shall have abundance. 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:46.719 But from the man who's unfaithful, even with what even what little responsibility he has shall be taken from him, and throw the useless useless servant to uh uh out into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:57.119 It's a it's a very descriptive, descriptive response to the servant who, in essence, played it safe. 00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:01.679 He kept the money for safekeeping. 00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:07.199 He kept it safe, and it sounds logical, it sounds reasonable. 00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:10.159 He got back what he returned, he was given. 00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:18.159 The master was given, he didn't lose anything, but the fact that he played it safe was enough for the master to respond the way he did. 00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:25.599 Jesus is talking here about the value that God places on his investment in us. 00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:45.599 God has placed an investment in each and every one of us, and God designed it this way because God loves to reward us when we live by faith and we live faith forward, we live risking forward, and and so the man who had 5,000, he risked it. 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:48.320 The man who had 2,000, he risked it. 00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:51.280 The one who had a thousand, he played it safe. 00:40:51.840 --> 00:41:04.639 Now, most of us, 69% of society is they have a personality type, they're an S stable, steady, mind your own business. 00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:09.840 They get into an elevator, you know, they're not the one where we go in here, they're pushing the buttons. 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:18.000 They're not, they just come in the elevator and quietly, they don't engage in too much conversation, they don't uh rock the boat at all. 00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:19.280 They like steady. 00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:22.480 70% of society is like this. 00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:25.360 We're averse to risk. 00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:29.679 We don't like to risk because there's a fear attached to it. 00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:32.559 How many of you would consider yourself risky people? 00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:36.960 A few, a few. 00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:48.960 It's that moment in our life where we lead forward, faith forward, where we step out of the boat onto the water, as Pastor Malachi shared last week. 00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:51.760 We step onto the water. 00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:59.360 And so the lesson today is what I want to share with you is that playing safe isn't really safe. 00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:03.760 It's dangerous. 00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.119 Now I understand why people play it safe. 00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:09.679 I am one of those S personalities. 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:13.679 My name is Brody Callman, and I'm a stable, steady individual. 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:20.239 I like steady, I like steady, I like calm, I don't mind calm waters. 00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:23.519 They're okay with me, right? 00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:25.119 Most sheep do. 00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:29.199 Um, but people play it safe for so many reasons. 00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:44.800 They play it safe because at times in the past they've risked something and they uh and they made a mistake and it was humiliating, and they've got this inner dialogue that's just saying, you know what, I'm never gonna put myself out there again. 00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:52.159 There was that one time I got on stage in front of a pile of a bunch of people and I froze, so I'm never getting on stage again. 00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:58.400 At one time I risked a relationship with an individual and they walked away and they left me hurt. 00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:01.039 So I'm not going there again. 00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:11.519 Or you opened up and you were hurt by someone, and your response is now to shut down a place safe, and and the church is full of people who are are hurt. 00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:13.599 It's the church hurt. 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:22.800 They just come into this church and they've come, they're coming in with their pains, and they're coming in with their, they're just they've been betrayed before. 00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:31.199 And so, how do you overcome this and how do you step into this place where God actually intends us to be able to walk and to and to live? 00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:44.960 And in order to have vision, in order to have hope, in order to have a return, in order to have reward, there must be a degree of risk extended on each individual. 00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:47.440 You can't play it safe. 00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:49.840 Those things won't come. 00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:59.760 Dreams, vision, and like that type of uh opportunity and return won't come by playing it safe, by holding on to what you have. 00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:12.079 Every important life has risk, every important choice in life and every important uh response in life has has risk associated with it. 00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:29.519 That relationship, that uh that individual you're interested in, and taking that first step to actually ask them out on a date, you know, that first uh company that you or idea that you have that you're like, man, I should really launch this thing. 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:31.920 I should really put feet to it. 00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:46.800 Everything you do, every occupation you pursue, every uh class you take in school, that has a risk associated, and every purchase you make has a risk associated with you, uh, with it, a risk of loss. 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:51.039 But the abundant life doesn't come without a degree of risk. 00:44:53.199 --> 00:45:05.039 When we build a bunker and we play it safe and we just build this like bastion around us, we have to be careful that our bunker doesn't become our prison. 00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:22.800 Because it becomes logical and reasonable to actually not not go out beyond our comfort zone, not go out beyond the place where uh it's safe and it's careful, and so we gotta be careful in that regard. 00:45:24.239 --> 00:45:42.159 Jesus uh really brought attention to the life of a child, and this child's uh precious to God because a child will go out and actually take risks, and it's a process of their development, their growth and their development. 00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:51.199 And when you we've raised three children, kind of, they're they're still being raised, but we're in the process. 00:45:51.440 --> 00:46:01.679 But I remember when they were little, there was a time in our life where we could kind of just watch them, we could watch them, and then there were times where we needed to watch them, like where are they? 00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:17.360 Because they were climbing on things, they're trying to stand, they're trying to grab at things, they're trying to live life and they're pushing the boundaries all the time, even though multiple times they try to stand and they fall. 00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:22.559 But this risk related to a reward. 00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:26.800 If they had never tried to stand, they would never have stood. 00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:30.079 But risk is a part of the process. 00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:38.400 Jesus said this unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:52.400 There's a place of our relationship with God where we have to just go into it with a faith, trusting in God that in the process we're gonna try and stand, and his grace will be there to actually help us stand. 00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:57.039 That we won't be alone in the process. 00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:03.760 Some people grew up in a family, and perhaps we're playing it safe is like the best practice. 00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:15.599 And if you approach everyone guarded and you approach everyone with critical, suspicious, with a suspicious nature, then then you want, then you'll never be hurt. 00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:27.679 If you protect yourself, and we hear about all the warnings about like don't risk, because you might lose, but we don't hear the warnings about if you don't risk, you won't gain. 00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:31.440 We don't hear those warnings. 00:47:33.119 --> 00:47:46.880 We just tell, we just hear from society a lot of like just hold back, don't don't give too much of your time, don't go, you know, don't give up your Sunday, don't commit to serve, don't commit to being a part, don't commit to give. 00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:48.239 Don't commit. 00:47:48.559 --> 00:47:52.559 Because if you're committing, you're you're you're risking something. 00:47:53.760 --> 00:48:15.360 And the point is that we have to we have to move beyond this place of risk, beyond this place of playing it safe, because if we're not careful, we can get to a frame of mind where we become overly conscious, uh cautious, and we begin to overthink and underact, and we become like that servant who is so afraid of doing anything they did nothing. 00:48:18.239 --> 00:48:23.760 So we move beyond this, and it's a common thing to want to bury what you uh what you have. 00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:35.840 And I'm really driving this point home because I we need to realize that nature in us that is contrary to the nature that is in Jesus in God. 00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:45.679 He risked by sending his son Jesus, he risked by create by giving us this free free will. 00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:54.880 He risked uh by allowing us the the right to like lead our homes and pursue our occupations. 00:48:54.960 --> 00:49:01.840 He he says, Okay, I'm gonna allow you to be a steward of this precious thing I've invested in you. 00:49:03.119 --> 00:49:05.840 Now what are you going to do with it? 00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:10.320 And the pressures in world in the world are to hold on. 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:12.639 And if you're holding on, you can't invest. 00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:19.440 My my son, he's he comes through the winter season, he's got a bunch of little side hustles he does. 00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:21.679 And he makes money. 00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:27.760 It's pretty, pretty, uh he's pretty uh pretty entrepreneurial. 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:38.559 And uh he has people dropping money off at his door and putting it under the mat, and we come home and he's counting cash, and I'm like, what are you doing? 00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:40.239 You're 11. 00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:46.960 And he's ordering stuff from China and getting it like packaged up and going online and making sales. 00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:48.960 I'm like, that's great. 00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:52.719 He's sitting at the counter and he's just counting his cash. 00:49:53.039 --> 00:50:02.480 Way more cash than I had at his age, and he's he's counting it out, and I think he does it out in public so he can show his older sister how much money he has. 00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:05.119 He's like, I have more money than you. 00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:10.960 And but he puts it out on the counter and I said, Caden, now where are you gonna invest this? 00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:16.559 And he goes, but if I invest, he goes, Dad, if I invest this, I'm gonna lose it. 00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:18.559 Like I can't risk it. 00:50:18.719 --> 00:50:24.880 And I'm like, well, what and I began to share like just the basic idea of just inflation. 00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:34.719 I said, Caden, if grandma would have taken her$25 and just put it in a sock and just kept it and held on to it. 00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:36.400 Do you know how much it would be worth today? 00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:42.880 $25 with the value of$25, but the values have changed different things. 00:50:43.039 --> 00:50:48.800 You can't get the same things you could have got with her$25 with$25 today. 00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:55.199 I said you got to invest it, and the nature is just to hold on and to hold it tight. 00:50:55.760 --> 00:51:00.719 So faith, faith requires this risk. 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:08.159 Hebrews 11, 6 says this that God rewards those who have faith. 00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:18.559 Without faith, it's impossible to please God because anyone who comes in must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. 00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:24.960 God is a rewarder and he responds to faith, and faith is risky. 00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:34.480 And we have to get shake off the fear, shake off the tension of like stepping up in risk. 00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:48.639 I remember times in my life where I risked by raising my hands in worship, I risked by dancing, I risked by singing out loud, I risked by laying hands on someone and praying for them. 00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:55.760 I risked by stepping on a stage, I risked by praying for my family or praying out loud. 00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:02.639 There was a risk that I took, but the reward always follows the risk. 00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:06.480 In our relationships, we look at. 00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:17.119 When it comes to relationships, if you're not willing to invest, if you're not willing, if you're holding back and creating a barrier, you'll never experience the reward of a true relationship. 00:52:17.599 --> 00:52:39.599 It's to those people who get close and lean in and and and and pull people into themselves and don't like beeline out the door, but they stop and they have a cookie and a coffee after service and they make that conversation and they reach out and meet somebody new. 00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:43.039 Relationships are built that way. 00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:50.960 Relationships are always getting better when people become vulnerable and choose to open up and take risks. 00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:54.000 So where do we risk? 00:52:55.679 --> 00:52:57.039 Where do we risk? 00:52:58.239 --> 00:53:00.000 We risk in hope. 00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:10.800 We risk in the kind of dreams and the kind of vision that we believe God plants in our lives. 00:53:11.840 --> 00:53:14.800 The Bible says we have a blessed hope. 00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:17.519 We have a living hope. 00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:24.480 Hope Hope is a free thing. 00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:27.119 It doesn't require money. 00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:32.400 It doesn't require a strong social status or a strong network. 00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:35.360 It doesn't require anything like that. 00:53:35.679 --> 00:53:36.800 It's free. 00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:40.480 So we hope. 00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:45.039 Hebrews 11 says this faith is confident. 00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:52.800 Faith is confidence in what we hope for, an assurance about what we do not see. 00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:55.519 This is what the ancients were commended for. 00:53:55.599 --> 00:54:00.880 They got the commendation for being hopeful, people of faith. 00:54:01.679 --> 00:54:12.079 It was David who had faith to stand against a giant, hoping, having confidence that my God is bigger than you. 00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:15.920 And these stones are going to knock you down. 00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:27.119 It was that hope, it was that confidence in God that allowed him to trust in that that sling and that stone and the power of the of God behind him to take down a giant. 00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:28.880 Faith. 00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:38.079 The enemy's greatest tactic over your life is to cut out your hope and to discourage you so that you don't hope anymore. 00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:42.639 And if you don't hope, you've taken the gasoline off of faith. 00:54:43.599 --> 00:54:45.280 Faith requires two things. 00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:53.840 It's not faith if you can see it, and it's not faith, it's not faith if you can see it, and it's not faith if it has no hope. 00:54:54.239 --> 00:54:56.239 You need to have a hope. 00:54:56.800 --> 00:55:23.599 And today I'm I'm I'm in question, and I'm I'm just believing that this is a word for someone to begin to hope again, and to begin to risk again, and to begin to expect again and have vision again, believing again, and have a hope in some in God and a hope in a future and a hope for a vision. 00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:29.840 There's some in this place who've stopped believing in I I like I think about it in Kelowna. 00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:30.880 I hear it all the time. 00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:34.480 Oh, I'm just waiting for that time where I can buy a house. 00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:38.239 It's the language of Kelowna right now in the Okanagan. 00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:39.760 I want a home. 00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:44.000 And there's some who've stopped hoping for a home. 00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:51.599 Committed to just, you know, I'm just gonna stay steady with my rent and do the things that's that's wonderful. 00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:58.800 Keep committed to your responsibilities, keep faithful, but stop, don't stop hoping. 00:55:59.599 --> 00:56:08.719 Even if your bank account, even if the banker, even if the your your uh finances don't look like they line up, have hope. 00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:28.400 Begin to hope again, begin to believe again, begin to get confidence in the word of God that says the Lord will provide, he'll take care of me, he'll bring resources from the east to west, he'll give me the power to make wealth enough to have hope again for this home. 00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:45.360 You may have hope for a business, hope for an idea, for a future, the simple things in life, hope for just simple occupation, begin to hope again, place hope in your heart again. 00:56:45.679 --> 00:57:00.960 We invite the band to come, and as they're coming, I just want to share with you out of Acts chapter 2, Acts chapter 2 said that in the last days God would pour out his spirit. 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:01.599 What do you say? 00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:03.519 Pour out, pour out. 00:57:03.679 --> 00:57:07.199 This isn't like a trickle, this isn't a drip. 00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:14.960 He'll pour out, like, pour out his spirit on all people who are all people. 00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:18.239 Raise your hand if you're all people. 00:57:18.639 --> 00:57:19.920 You're all people. 00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:27.760 God will pour out his spirit on all people, and this is what he will give all people. 00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:38.000 He says, you will have vision, you will dream dreams, you'll have a prophetic view and perspective. 00:57:38.079 --> 00:57:41.199 In other words, you will see the way God sees. 00:57:41.519 --> 00:57:46.480 What's in the heart of God, you'll begin to see the way God sees. 00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:52.320 When you look at your city, you're not, you're seeing your city the way God sees the city. 00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:58.880