WEBVTT 00:00:00.479 --> 00:00:03.919 We are in a series right now, we're calling the master's degree. 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.400 We're looking specifically at how Jesus trained the disciples to be leaders. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:19.920 It's well documented that Jesus, when he showed up on earth, that he made time for a variety of different kinds of people. 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:21.280 It made him very unique. 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:25.519 Jesus transcended the culture that he was born into. 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:31.120 He transcended the social structures and the even the social pressures of the day. 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:44.799 You'll see, the more you dig into the context of the culture that Jesus was born into, you'll see how defiant he was of those cultures in order to elevate the value of the individual. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:53.200 And so you'll see Jesus not only spent time with a rich young ruler, he spent time with a man blind since birth. 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:57.280 You see, Jesus was instrumental in all dimensions of healing. 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:09.760 Not only did he heal people who were unable to walk or see or hear, but he healed a woman who was emotionally damaged from broken relationship after broken relationship. 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:22.319 He healed a woman with an issue of blood, a hemorrhaging issue that caused her not only to suffer physically, but to suffer socially, spiritually, emotionally, and he dealt with all of it. 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:24.400 It's the beauty of Jesus. 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:27.280 And we would do well to copy that. 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:33.599 We would do well to learn from that and to live our lives with that ethos. 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:46.560 But at the same time, we also see that Jesus not only spent time touching a variety of people, but he invested himself in the leaders that would take his work and carry it on. 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:50.640 That's important to note because you don't want your work to die with you. 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:58.799 The effectiveness of your life isn't just in what you accomplished, but what you set into motion. 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:06.799 So Jesus accomplished things in his lifetime, but he set things into motion that would continue beyond his lifetime. 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:08.240 We should do that. 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:10.159 You and I should think that way. 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:16.560 So you should be executing your projects, but you should also be developing people around you. 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:18.960 And so we see how Jesus did this. 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.680 And we're learning not only how we should lead, but how we should follow. 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:29.039 We've been in Mark 1, 2, and 3. 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:31.680 Mark chapter 1, we learned about change. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:35.439 Jesus says to the disciples, fishermen, put down your nets and follow me. 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.479 Put down your identity, how you see yourself, and how everybody sees you. 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.560 And come follow me, and I'll make you fishers of men. 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:42.479 And we see the process of change. 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:47.680 Change as you're going in a normal life, all of a sudden things change, and the change is disorienting. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:52.960 And that disorientation doesn't feel like development, so we choose an off-ramp. 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:53.759 We want an off-ramp. 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:54.400 Get me out of here. 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:55.759 This isn't, this can't be good. 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:57.120 It feels so bad. 00:02:57.360 --> 00:02:59.599 And yet the disorientation is part of change. 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:10.960 And if you'll stay in there and you'll pray, process, and persevere, and you won't quit, or you won't choose denial, these off-ramps to give you a temporary relief, stay in the disorientation. 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:17.039 And if you keep handling it right and your pain threshold can handle it, eventually it'll turn into orientation. 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:31.680 You ask the right questions, you get some answers, you find out where you have answers and where you still have ambiguity, but you end up coming to some peace and some strength and some maturity, and you get your orientation into a new normal, and then guess what? 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:33.120 You do it again. 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:38.000 That's growth, is constant iterations of change. 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:41.840 And the leaders that God uses are people that aren't afraid of change. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:43.759 In fact, they've learned to value it. 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:45.599 So we looked at that in Mark 1. 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:59.680 Mark II, we look at the orientation, disorientation the disciples had when Jesus started calling a tax collector, who was the one that we would all be unified in our distaste and distrust of a tax collector. 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:01.199 We don't like this person. 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:09.599 And yet Jesus is starting this process of actually teaching them how to heal and be unified despite their differences. 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:11.360 But it was disorienting. 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:13.439 I heard a quote this week. 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:14.319 So good. 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:20.160 I wish I could remember who said it, and I'd like to give them credit, but because I can't remember, well I'll just give myself credit for it. 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:22.720 It's actually called plagiarism. 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:23.519 Not supposed to do that. 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:33.279 But um the quote was this they said, um, you know that you're you know that you're making God into your image when he happens to hate all the same people you do. 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:38.240 That's what the disciples were doing. 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:45.199 So Jesus pulls the one that they hate, and they would assume that God would have hated too, and he pulls them in, but it's what we talked about last week. 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:50.399 All of the man all of the gospel, the concepts of the gospel manifest in community. 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:55.040 Unity doesn't happen with content, it happens in community. 00:04:55.279 --> 00:05:02.800 I mean, you got you gotta say the right things, but you gotta, it only happens like healing happens when you had people into the mix. 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:18.720 So Jesus pulls a microcosm of their entire community in a group of 12, and he starts something that he wants to spread, but it starts the healing and the unity and the transformation happens in the microcommunity that then ends up going to the ends of the earth. 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:22.480 We're gonna go back to Mark chapter three today, because I want to I want to look at something else. 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:27.120 We're gonna go back to the same text we looked at, but we're gonna look at it from a different angle. 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:33.040 I want to bring up verse seven of Mark three real quick, just so we have our orientation around what's going on here. 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:38.959 It says in verse seven, Jesus went out to the lake with his disciples and a large crowd followed him. 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:41.199 I say that because just imagine a large crowd. 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.519 If you're in the same room with me right now, we have a large crowd. 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.160 So just imagine a bunch of people like this. 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.000 A large crowd of people followed him. 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:50.240 Look at this, and they came from all over. 00:05:50.720 --> 00:06:01.519 This is the uh same text where we see, remember when Jesus uses a boat as a stage because there's so many people that said the crowd was going to crush him, it was so big, so he's teaching from a boat. 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:02.639 That's what's going on. 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:06.079 So just imagine a whole bunch of people, and they're all following Jesus. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:12.720 And it says in verse 13, afterward, Jesus went up on a mountain and he called out the ones that he wanted to go with him. 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:24.959 And they came to him, and then he appointed 12 of them and called them his apostles, and they were to accompany him, and he would send them out to preach, giving them authority to cast out demons. 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.879 So there's a bunch of people, and Jesus looks at this crowd. 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:33.360 Imagine, this is not hard to imagine if you're here. 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:33.920 Look at this. 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:49.360 All these people here, imagine Jesus going, you, you, you, no, not you, you, you, you, and he goes to twelve. 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.000 He's like, that's it. 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:53.439 Twelve. 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.199 This message is for everybody who didn't get picked. 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:04.480 Have you ever not gotten picked? 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:05.920 Have you ever not been picked? 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:07.439 They're picking up teams. 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.920 Take him, take him, you're over there like. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:47.680 Ever not gotten picked? 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:54.240 When I um moved to Columbus, my family and I moved here to start one church, I was 30 years old. 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:57.439 I put my resume in all over this town. 00:07:57.759 --> 00:07:59.759 Probably y'all's companies. 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:04.560 Nobody picked me. 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:06.639 I couldn't get a call back. 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:09.680 Do you understand how hard I was working to get a job? 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:10.800 Very hard. 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:13.360 I had a baby and a wife. 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:17.439 They both like a roof over their head and food, as do I. 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:20.720 Nobody would call me back. 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.680 I'm calling to talk to HR folks. 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:25.600 I'm trying to, I'm trying every job. 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:28.800 No call, not one single callback. 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:35.360 So I wanted to work the front desk at the fitness club, which is now Esporta, then was LA Fitness. 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:37.200 No, but before that was Urban Active Fitness. 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:38.320 They've been bought out a few times. 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:39.120 No disrespect. 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:39.759 Don't sue me. 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:41.120 Seriously, you're awesome. 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:43.440 But like I couldn't get a callback. 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:45.600 30 years old, I have a college degree. 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:46.879 I can't get a callback. 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:52.000 So I literally had to go into the gym pretending to want a membership to talk to somebody. 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:53.440 I'm and they're like, oh, you want to? 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:54.320 I was faking. 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:54.879 I was lying. 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.600 I was pretending I wanted, I couldn't afford a membership. 00:08:57.679 --> 00:08:58.720 I didn't have a job. 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:04.879 So I'm I'm I had to literally stop the tour to tell them, no, I seriously need a job. 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:06.480 Not getting picked. 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.519 Some of you have not been picked throughout your life. 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:11.279 You've not been picked. 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.039 There's three people up for the job. 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.399 You made it through two levels of interview, they pick somebody else. 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.399 You've been in the department, your boss left, they pick somebody else. 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:22.960 You just keep not getting picked. 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:29.039 It's a weird message to preach at a church because our whole message is that Jesus picks you. 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:30.799 That's the whole message. 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:36.720 Like you've heard this sermon, if you've been around church, if you were the only one in the world. 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:39.440 Right? 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:41.360 You've been there, you've been to that church. 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:43.519 No, that is the gospel, though, right? 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:45.120 It's that you get picked. 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:47.679 God commended his love toward us. 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:52.639 He demonstrated his love toward us in that while we were sinners, Christ died for you. 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:58.000 So no, maybe they didn't pick you, and they didn't pick you, and they didn't pick you, but Jesus picks you. 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.600 Except these guys in Mark 3. 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:04.000 Jesus is like, you, you, you. 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:05.600 No, not you, you, you. 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:13.600 And there was a bunch of people that felt passed over for positions because they were passed over for positions. 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:15.440 He didn't pick them. 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:19.120 What do you do when you don't get picked? 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:27.039 Because by the way, this not only affects, like when you don't get picked, and by the way, if you're here and you get picked, this is not for you. 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:39.840 But when you don't get picked, it affects how you feel about yourself, it affects how you feel about other people, but it can also affect how you feel about God. 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:41.279 What's up with this? 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.159 I'm fearfully and wonderfully made stuff. 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.120 God's got a purpose for my life. 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:53.360 You know, we're singing all these songs about, you know, wait till you see what God has, man, he's about to blow your mind, something like that. 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.559 And so you're talking about it, but I keep not getting picked. 00:10:58.159 --> 00:10:59.919 What do you do when you're not getting picked? 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:01.600 I'm gonna give you some stuff to wrestle with. 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:03.519 I'm gonna give you some questions to pray about. 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:14.720 I'm not gonna close the loop for you, I'm gonna open the loop today, and then you and God can close it together because you might be sitting next to someone who's also not getting picked, and your action step and their action step might be different. 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:20.720 So I'm gonna give you prayers to pray and questions to ask, and then you and the Lord will figure out the action. 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:21.279 Okay? 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:24.159 Um, but I want to set a foundation, a couple things. 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:39.679 Number one, I think one of the catastrophic mistakes that we make that often causes us unnecessary disorientation is that we confuse, we confuse purpose and significance with rank and recognition. 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:50.480 Okay, purpose and significance, we confuse those things with rank and recognition. 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:58.240 And you have to understand that purpose and significance are not necessarily equal to rank and recognition. 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:13.519 And it's really hard to unlearn that because we live in a culture with cultural pressures, and we live in systems and environments where there is a hierarchy and there is an org chart and there is a pay scale, pay structure, and certain people get to park in this lot and then others don't. 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.919 And then certain people work on this floor and others don't. 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.320 And there's a podium, first, second, third, fourth, fifth. 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:20.080 You didn't even get on the podium. 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:39.440 And so there we we have all that, and and you've got to learn how to live in that without allowing that to demoralize you or to actually calibrate you to thinking that way that the only way I can be successful, the only way I can be significant or live a life of purpose is if I'm ranked highly and I'm highly recognized. 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:50.639 You gotta delink the two of those things because you're gonna find that God isn't as interested in your rank and your recognition as maybe your bosses or or the environment that you live in. 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:53.840 That you gotta work outside of that system. 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:56.240 And it's so easy to get sucked into it. 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:58.240 I get sucked into it with the best of them. 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:00.399 My wife and I went and did a mud run one time. 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:02.080 Has anybody ever done one of these mud runs? 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:03.600 We go, we go do a mud run. 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:04.559 We get to the mud run. 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:06.240 My wife has done mud runs. 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:07.759 I hadn't done a mud run. 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:12.159 I get there and there's people, this guy walking around, he's got a green headband. 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.120 My wife's like, oh man, that guy's got a green headband. 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:17.200 I was like, okay. 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.120 I was like, you want a green headband? 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:20.399 We could go to the sporting goods store. 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:21.200 I'll get you one right now. 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:23.200 She's like, no, no, no, no. 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.720 Green headband means he's done this four times. 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:28.639 I was like, really? 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:30.559 Like, yeah. 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:32.960 I was like, what does the purple headband mean? 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:38.159 She's like, I was like, what about the orange one? 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:39.440 I see somebody with an orange one. 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:42.399 Oh, that means they finished in the top ten. 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:45.519 I'm like, well, I'm gonna get me an orange headband. 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:48.639 I'm no bottom feeder, you know what I'm saying? 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:52.720 I mean, I'm here, I'm gonna, whatever I gotta do, I'm gonna get me an orange headband. 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:59.279 Next thing I know, I'm ready to give my life to mud runs so I can get me an orange headband so I can wear that thing around and stick out like a sword though. 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:00.080 Oh, yeah, you want to? 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:00.799 Yeah, yeah. 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:01.600 Top ten. 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:18.960 I mean, we laugh about it, but you got it at work and you got it in your society, and we got it in our culture, and so so often we end up getting upset with God because Lord, within this structure, how come you're not maneuvering me in a significant enough way? 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:22.960 The places I want to be, and so we think maybe that God doesn't value us. 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:35.440 You gotta delink, you've got to delink, delink significance and purpose with rank and recognition, and then to know the difference between the two. 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:39.840 What I want to give you here is is is the tension to wrestle with. 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:48.879 Because I I think sometimes we preach two plus two equals four, and sometimes those principles are are applicable, but often it's a something that we need to sit in and ask ourselves. 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:49.360 Okay? 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:52.480 And so here's what I'm gonna give you the the the first question. 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:58.559 When you when you don't get picked for something and it doesn't fit you, I want I want you to ask this question. 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:07.600 The first question is this uh does this not fit because it's not designed for me, or does it not fit because I haven't grown into it yet? 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:10.799 That's an important question to ask. 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:16.000 Does this not fit because it's not designed for me? 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:20.960 Or does it not fit because I have not grown into it yet? 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:33.360 This is really, really important to pray and wrestle and allow the Lord to give you revelation because these are two completely different action steps, depending on that answer. 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:47.759 So we would applaud somebody who had the self-awareness and the self-confidence to see something prestigious or something that appeared to be significant, and would say, I'm not gonna do that because that's I'm not designed for that. 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:49.919 That's not part of my divine design. 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:52.720 God didn't make me that way to do that thing, so I'm not even gonna go for it. 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:57.679 I'm not gonna be jealous of those who are, I'm gonna celebrate those who do, but that's not my design, so I'm not going there. 00:15:57.840 --> 00:15:59.519 We would call that self-awareness. 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:06.799 Sometimes it's hard to get there, by the way, when you feel the emotional feelings of rejection of not getting picked. 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:20.000 So for some of you, when you don't get picked for something important, or it feels like, you know, God didn't select me for that or whatever, you end up feeling all of those rejection feelings. 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:31.360 And the feelings of rejection are so visceral and deep that it keeps you from actually having the presence of mind to step back and go, you know, it's probably really not a good fit for me anyway. 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:33.600 Why am I craving that so badly? 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:35.600 Why am I coveting that position? 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:37.120 Why am I trying to get there? 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:47.600 The reality is, if I got there, yeah, it would have a orange headband or something, or some I'd be in the hierarchy, or I would be admired, respected, whatever. 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:49.200 But is it really my design? 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.039 Am I really designed for that? 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:56.240 To be able to step back and actually really look at how God has made you. 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:57.679 And this is a tough one, man. 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:01.840 You got to sit there for a minute because think about this, these these two competing ideas. 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:09.440 One is we would admire someone that says, that's not designed for me, but then we would also say, like, you're a work in progress. 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:13.759 So don't just disqualify yourself from stuff because it doesn't fit. 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:16.000 It maybe it doesn't fit yet. 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:20.400 It may not be a design issue, it might be a development issue. 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:25.200 That if you'll stay with it, it does, you're not gonna know unless you stay with it. 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:34.960 Because we would say, on one hand, accept who God's made you to be and accept who you are, but on the other hand, we would say, don't just accept who you are, you're not who you're gonna be. 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:35.599 Right? 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:37.200 We would say both of them. 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:45.200 Matthew, the writer of Matthew, we're introduced to him in Mark II when he's a tax collector, but we're really introduced to him in the book of Matthew when he's an author. 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:52.240 He wasn't ready to be an author, uh a gospel writer in Mark II, he was a work in progress. 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:59.519 The role, the role didn't fit him in Mark II, but it wasn't a design issue, it was a development issue. 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:06.160 So I don't have an answer for you because if it's not your design, if it's not your design, the answer is get out. 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:07.119 No shame. 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:09.680 It's not for you, it's for somebody else, God bless. 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:15.119 If it's a development issue, then you've got to stay in it because it doesn't fit you yet. 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.400 You you remember when you were a kid and you were growing? 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.039 You ever take a growing kid shopping? 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:23.920 You don't buy them what fits them. 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:24.960 All right? 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:28.400 You you your so your 13-year-old son goes in and tries something on? 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:30.079 He's like, oh, this is great. 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:31.119 It fits like a glove. 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:32.400 You're like, no, that's not it. 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:33.200 Take it off. 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:34.880 I work too hard for my money. 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:36.240 We're gonna size up. 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:39.599 Depending on how fast he's growing, you might size up twice, okay? 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:42.720 We're gonna get you something you can grow into, okay? 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:44.000 How many of you come on? 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:45.200 How many of you remember? 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:47.599 Come on, come on. 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:50.000 Remember this? 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:53.680 Some of you need to be reintroduced to this. 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:56.960 But no, remember how good this felt when you were a kid? 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.200 You were a growing kid? 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:07.359 You showed up at the shoe store, you were like, I've been eating my Wheaties, baby. 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:10.000 Yeah, I've been sleeping good, I've been working out. 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:10.799 Go ahead. 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:12.720 They get on, oh man, wasn't that good though? 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:17.680 They put you, they'd be like, Oh, you're an eight. 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:20.240 Like, dang right, I'm an eight. 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:24.720 They start saying stuff to your mom, like, what are you feeding that kid? 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:27.440 You're like, Yeah, yeah, miracle grow, baby. 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:28.480 Yeah, I'm at it. 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:30.880 Wait till you see me next time. 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:38.960 So you take those size eights, and you're playing ball, and you're, you know, you're tearing up the soles, and now it's time we gotta go back to Foot Locker. 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:42.240 You show up at Foot Locker, you're like, Yeah, I'm back. 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:48.640 They're like, ooh, you're a 10 and a half now. 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:51.119 You're like, you ain't seen nothing yet. 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:53.279 I still got some growing left to do. 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:54.319 And they kept moving. 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:56.720 Remember how good it felt to grow? 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:00.720 Remember how good it felt to size up and you grew into it? 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:02.640 Here's what happens. 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:05.359 We know how our bodies work. 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:08.240 Our bodies are on a bell curve. 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:12.079 You're born, you grow, you plateau, you decline, you die. 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:15.359 That's a summary of what happens. 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:17.920 I know it's blunt, but that's just what happens. 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:19.599 And hopefully it's not a shocker. 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:22.079 That's what happens. 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:33.920 Paul says in 2 Corinthians, though our bodies are bell curving, our bodies are plateauing and declining, our spirits are being renewed every day. 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:37.519 So at some point, I knew I was an 11. 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:41.119 I it's been a long time since I've been on one of these. 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:45.920 Chances are you hadn't seen one of these in decades, dude, because you already know what size you are. 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:50.400 And once you know what size you are, you just buy that same size every single time. 00:20:50.559 --> 00:21:09.359 And of course, it's true for your foot, it's true for your clothing, but it should not be true of your attitude, it should not be true of your mindset, it should not be true of your spirit, it should not be true of your conflict skills, it should not be true of how you do relationship, of your faith, of your spiritual life. 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:12.799 You should be renewed every day, you should be sizing up. 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:15.599 But often we go, oh no, I'm an 11. 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:18.000 And you put something on it doesn't fit. 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:20.480 The problem is it's time for you to grow again. 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:22.880 Get this back out, size back up. 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:25.759 Your body quit growing, your spirit is new. 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:26.720 You need to grow in. 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:33.119 I'm I know I'm talking to somebody 30, 40, 50, 60 years old, 70 years old. 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:35.200 God's trying to do a new thing in you. 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:36.880 Don't just go, it doesn't fit me. 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:38.240 It does, it doesn't fit me. 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:39.599 You gotta grow into it. 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:43.039 It might not be a design issue, it might be a development issue. 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:46.799 So don't fall into this like this is the old school, this is old time. 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:48.480 Long time ago, I quit growing. 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:51.440 For some of you, it's time God wants to reignite some growth. 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:54.079 You gotta size up, put something on. 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:55.920 It doesn't fit yet. 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:58.240 It might not be designed for you. 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.359 If it is not designed, For you, walk away. 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:05.200 But if it is, you just need to develop into it. 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:07.119 You gotta stay with it. 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:08.400 Look at this. 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:10.480 This is oh man, this is a good one here. 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:12.000 Okay, think about this now. 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:13.599 Go to Acts 1. 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:15.920 If you have your Bible, go to Acts 1. 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:17.359 Watch this. 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:21.599 In Mark 3, a bunch of people. 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:23.440 Jesus picks 12. 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:24.000 Okay? 00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:25.119 Picks 12. 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:26.240 Names them. 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:32.799 Simon Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Thomas, Matthew, James, the son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon, Judas, Bartholomew. 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:34.160 Twelve of them. 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:34.799 Okay? 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:37.359 What happens? 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:40.480 A bunch of people, keep reading, a bunch of people leave. 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:42.720 I didn't get picked. 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:45.440 I didn't get picked, so I'm out of here. 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:49.759 By the way, oftentimes when you don't get picked, your real motives are revealed. 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:52.480 I didn't get picked. 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:54.559 Didn't get the apostle role. 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:56.480 Didn't bother to ask why. 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:57.440 I just didn't get it. 00:22:57.599 --> 00:22:58.319 Now I'm hurt. 00:22:58.480 --> 00:22:58.960 I'm out. 00:22:59.200 --> 00:22:59.680 They leave. 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.200 Bunch of people leave, but a bunch of people stay. 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:06.720 And when they stay and they stay through thick and thin. 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:10.720 They stay when Jesus is teaching stuff that they don't understand, but they stay. 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:12.960 They stay when Jesus gets arrested. 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:15.359 They stay when Jesus gets crucified. 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:17.759 They stay when Jesus resurrects. 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:26.640 In between Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, one of his disciples became so hopeless and grieved that he took his own life. 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:28.079 Judas. 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:31.599 So they go from 12 to 11 apostles. 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:35.759 Jesus in Acts chapter 1 ascends. 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:38.960 And look what happens in Acts chapter 1 after he ascends. 00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:44.880 It says in verse 12, the apostles returned to Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives, a distance half a mile. 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:50.400 When they arrived, they went up to the upstairs room of the house where they were staying, and here's the name of those present. 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:52.240 And then it names everyone except Judas. 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:54.240 So 11 out of 12, verse 14. 00:23:54.480 --> 00:24:04.640 They all met together and were constantly united in prayer, along with many, I'm sorry, along with Mary, the mother of Jesus, and several other women and the brothers of Jesus. 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:05.519 Verse 15. 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:10.480 During this time, there were about 120 believers together in one place. 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:12.000 So it gives us a number. 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:13.359 About 120. 00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:14.559 So think back. 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:17.200 Mark 3, bunch of people. 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:21.839 Jesus picks 12, bunch leave, 120 stay. 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:23.920 120 make it to Acts 1. 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:25.279 Watch this, verse 21. 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:27.680 They decide to pick Judas's replacement. 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:29.519 We must now choose a replacement for Judas. 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:30.640 Now look what it says next. 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:31.279 Don't miss this. 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:32.079 Here it is. 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:33.759 Here's the punchline. 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:44.640 We must choose a replacement for Judas from among the men who were with us the entire time we were traveling with the Lord Jesus. 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:48.880 A new opportunity has emerged. 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:55.279 Somebody was designed for it in Mark 3 but wasn't ready for it. 00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:01.519 And a bunch got so down and out that they left the crew. 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:03.839 But a few stayed. 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:07.599 And now the opportunity has re-emerged in a new season. 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:09.920 Listen, think sowing and reaping. 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:13.119 Some of you are reaping right now things you don't like. 00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:17.920 If you don't like what you're reaping right now, start sowing differently right now. 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:21.200 Because there's going to be a new opportunity down the road. 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:23.359 You're not ready for this one. 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:26.400 But do you want to be ready for the next one? 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:29.519 A group of people decided not to leave. 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:32.480 So in Mark 3, they weren't developed enough. 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:34.640 In Acts 1, they were. 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:37.440 So this says this, verse 22. 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:43.359 We want someone from the time that he was baptized by John till he was taken away from us. 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:47.119 Whoever is chosen will join us as a witness of Jesus' resurrection. 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:47.839 New opportunity. 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:48.720 Verse 23. 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:50.000 They nominated two men. 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:54.000 Joseph called Barsabbas, also known as Justice and Matthias. 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:55.599 Watch this, they pray, verse 24. 00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:57.519 Oh Lord, you know every heart. 00:25:57.680 --> 00:25:58.720 You see what we don't see. 00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:01.680 Show us which of these men you have chosen. 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:05.519 Jesus didn't choose them in Mark 3. 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:07.599 God's about to choose them in Acts 1. 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:09.359 What kind of life you want to live? 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:14.319 Verse 25, as an apostle to replace Judas for this ministry. 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:16.559 It's about to be somebody's time. 00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:18.400 For he has deserted us. 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:20.480 Judas has deserted us and has gone where he belongs. 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:21.279