WEBVTT 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:12.080 You're listening to the road by Pastor Teacher Steve Holmes. 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:13.759 And here's the deal. 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:28.960 When you start to have a kingdom revolution through the person of Jesus Christ, and he begins to revolutionize your life, and you take Jesus into your mechanical engineering job, into your computer programming job, that ground becomes sacred. 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:30.719 That's how we change the world. 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:36.960 We change the world one job at a time, one person at a time, one office at a time. 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:40.880 Listen, one home and one marriage at a time. 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:46.880 At The Road, our vision is to raise up wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ. 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:51.439 For more information on The Road, visit theroad.org. 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:56.719 We hope you are encouraged by today's message from Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:11.760 Well imagine a city where the very feeling in the atmosphere is the kingdom of God, righteousness, peace, and joy. 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:21.519 Imagine a city where people celebrate life, think creatively, and dream imaginatively. 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:35.040 Imagine a city where every life, whether unborn, born with special needs, or born out of wedlock, is valued and celebrated. 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:52.000 Imagine a city where there is hope in the schools because the kids are excited to be there, excited about their future, and are encouraged to dream dreams of changing the world. 00:01:52.400 --> 00:02:06.000 Imagine a place where there is prosperity throughout every sphere of influence, whether it's media, government, health care, education, business, military, church, or family. 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:13.919 Imagine Colorado Springs being a model city to the rest of the nation. 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:21.840 Men and women, we are told to pray, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:23.919 Thy kingdom come. 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:36.080 Thy will be done on earth, in our city, in our family, in our jobs as it is in heaven. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.840 God's desire is for great cities to be raised up. 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:42.879 God's desire is for great people to be a part of that. 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:52.400 God's desire is for great leaders to be raised up who will not take just what's been done in the past as their standard for what's going to happen in the future. 00:02:52.639 --> 00:03:04.000 Those who believe that God put them on the face of this earth to make a change, to bring transformation, and to change lives, that change jobs, that change the atmosphere of an entire city. 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:10.639 We pray until the cows come home on the National Day of Prayer for revival in America, and we should. 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.520 But what about revival in your own family? 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.240 What about revival starting in your own heart? 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:20.719 What about revival and a kingdom revolution in our own church? 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.680 What about a kingdom revolution in our own city? 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:25.759 I love America, but what's America? 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:30.159 America is whatever you first encounter when you walk outside these doors. 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:33.280 America is who we're with in the lobby. 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.840 And it's so easy to pray for America. 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:39.680 But God placed us in this city. 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:43.439 God placed us in this city at this time to make a difference. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.159 And Jesus is a shining example of that. 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:53.599 And so a couple weeks ago, I began a message called a kingdom revolution in Colorado Springs, and I never got to pass part one. 00:03:53.840 --> 00:04:05.039 So turn in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 4, and I'm going to skim through part one, and we're going to move to the other parts of this discussion about a kingdom of God revolution. 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:19.920 God has spoken to our team here at the road that He is leading us at the road, the road at Chapel Hills, to be a light on a hill to bring a kingdom revolution to our city and to the Rockies. 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.680 Now, are we called to bring a kingdom revolution to Washington, D.C.? 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:24.399 No. 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:29.519 Are we called to bring a kingdom revolution to Terre Haute, Indiana? 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:30.160 No. 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:35.360 God places his church in locales for a purpose. 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:58.160 And he's got hundreds of churches in Washington, D.C., and he's got hundreds of churches in Indiana, and he's got thousands of churches in Georgia, and he's got them all over, but God's given us this mandate, this beautiful city of Colorado Springs, that he wants it to be a model city, and it can't be a model city unless it's with a group of people who really believe in the kingdom of God. 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.519 And Jesus is our example. 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:23.279 So in Matthew 4, Jesus the revolutionary, and by the way, many times we grew up in Sunday school classes with the pictures on the wall and the type of classes that we had that would give you the impression that Jesus was really kind of a beach comer and a surfer boy out of Southern California that was just about love. 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:25.839 And his whole life was about love. 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:32.079 And he was just kind of cool and kind of just flows with everybody, loves everybody. 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:47.920 That's as far as you can get from the man we see in the New Testament that when he faces people of the religious order, he's not a beach comer speaking about love. 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:56.959 He speaks about a kingdom, a forceful kingdom, in which he was modeling to us something that he began, and this is his thesis statement. 00:05:57.199 --> 00:05:58.560 Look at verse 17. 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:01.600 Matthew 4, 17 is a thesis statement of Jesus. 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:06.560 He says, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:15.199 And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:16.800 Then he said to them, Follow me. 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:18.560 So this is the first point. 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:20.720 This is the most important point. 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:22.720 It's the most significant point. 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:24.720 It's the beginning of a kingdom revolution. 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:27.279 And any way you look at it, it's follow Jesus. 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:33.120 It always starts with the man, it always starts with the person, and that's Jesus Christ. 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:40.160 And he said, Come, repent, turn from you, turn to me, turn back to you. 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:41.360 Here's what he means by that. 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.920 Repent is the Greek word, which means to do a 180. 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:47.680 I want to speak of a 360. 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:48.399 Here's why. 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:59.199 Because what happens is when we turn from our ways and start to follow Christ, he changes you from the inside out, but you really don't change. 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:01.279 You really don't change. 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:07.519 If you couldn't do math before you got saved, you still can't do math after you got saved. 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:08.720 I tried it. 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:12.560 And I still flunked math. 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:17.120 Here's my point God's gifted every one of you uniquely. 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:31.040 And that unique gifting will never know its full capacities and its full power and its full joy and its full influence until Jesus gets a hold of it because he's the one who gave it to you. 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.319 So you start with Jesus and you stay the same person. 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:40.000 And what I mean by that is that the unique calling and gifting before you were born. 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:43.120 Psalm 139 says, He knew you before you were born. 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.120 He knew you in your mother's womb. 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:50.399 That's why we're so adamant against abortion. 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:55.279 Because you're killing of creation of God. 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:58.639 Some of you have had abortions. 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:00.399 Many of you in this room have had abortions. 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:01.439 I've talked to you. 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:07.199 And you know the joy that you found through full forgiveness. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.160 No judgment there from us. 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:20.639 I'm speaking in the realm of how we might, as a nation, do a better job of taking care of our children that might be born. 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.079 If that law could be changed. 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:30.800 The early church was known for their love for those children that had no home. 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:44.480 In the first century, one of the hallmarks of some of the early writings we have from the patristic fathers is that the church was known for taking in those infants that were thrown away by many of the people of that time. 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:48.720 So God would call us in a kingdom revolution that begins with Jesus. 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.120 And so you are uniquely created, church. 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:52.159 Each one of you are unique. 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:55.600 Some of you are engineers, some of you are called to the political realm. 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:57.600 Some of you are called to medicine. 00:08:57.840 --> 00:08:59.759 Some of you are called to pastor. 00:08:59.919 --> 00:09:02.000 Some of you are called to be a mechanic. 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:04.639 Some of you are called to help. 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:06.799 Some of you are called to be a housewife. 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:11.360 Some of you are called to mother and disciple those children every day. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:14.000 A stay-at-home mom. 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:23.279 Some of you are called to be secretaries, some of you are called to be men and women that'll be used by God to influence the school system. 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:25.759 Don't miss that. 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:28.639 That's the kingdom revolution. 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:32.480 God uniquely put his hand upon your life. 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:35.519 And we've talked about this before, and I'll just mention it again. 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:41.519 That came really through the Roman Catholic Church was this idea of the sacred and the secular, the sacred and the secular. 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:46.080 And that really the only ones that are sacred are the pastors or the priests. 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.000 That's not biblical. 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:50.639 You know what sacred and secular is? 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:51.679 Here's what it is, folks. 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.639 Sacred means God's presence is there. 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:57.759 Whenever God's presence is somewhere, it's sacred. 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.440 Wherever God's presence is missing, it's secular. 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:04.480 There are secular pastors. 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:11.120 There are secular churches and there are sacred schools. 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:27.919 And here's the deal: when you start to have a kingdom revolution through the person of Jesus Christ, and he begins to revolutionize your life, and you take Jesus into your mechanical engineering job, into your computer programming job, that ground becomes sacred. 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:30.720 That's how we change the world. 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:36.960 We change the world one job at a time, one person at a time, one office at a time. 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:40.960 Listen, one home and one marriage at a time. 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:55.039 So I want you to pray today, and I'm going to give you that opportunity when we come to ministry time, that you would have in 2019 a kingdom revolution in your heart through the person of Jesus Christ. 00:10:55.440 --> 00:11:06.000 Well, right now, before us, we have a bill that's been introduced to Colorado House of Representatives, HB 191032. 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:10.080 I usually don't get political, but I felt like this was something I should mention. 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:26.639 If passed, it would require all public schools and charter schools to instruct children in homosexual and lesbian sex, including graphic how-to information and indoctrination into accepting this behavior as normal. 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:33.360 There's a committee hearing this week on Wednesday, January 30th at 1.30 at Capitol in Denver. 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:39.039 So I'm calling for a prayer meeting in our chapel at 1.30 on Wednesday. 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:46.159 So if you have time or you can make time or you can switch your lunch break around and you can come at 1.30 this Wednesday. 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:48.559 Yes, you are. 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.200 You're gonna need a mic though. 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:51.840 Got it. 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:53.759 Whoa, you're just on it. 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:00.480 I married up. 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.279 I told her to come up when I started talking about this. 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:04.240 She scared me though. 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:06.080 I was just I was so into it. 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:22.080 Um the reason I invited Liz up is because I believe that God is raising up a church that He wants us to lay foundations for through a kingdom of God revolution that will last for a hundred years. 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:32.559 Too many times, and I've heard it so many times from Christian leaders in my generation, say, well, you know, I don't know how long our church will be here, but we're gonna make an impact while we're here. 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:34.240 I hate hearing that. 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:41.120 Because what that says to me is that church may not, not always, but may not be laying good foundations. 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:55.120 Folks, we've gotta we've gotta lay theological, doctrinal, word-rooted, spirit-alive, culturally engaged foundations that could have a kingdom revolution that lasts for a hundred years. 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:58.080 I'm for revival. 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:03.440 I think revivals are great, but revivals by their very nature are short-lived. 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:06.879 At the longest, they're about two or three years. 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:16.480 We want to build a kingdom church, proclaiming the kingdom a hundred years from now, and that begins with our children. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:21.519 That's why I asked Liz to be the director of our children's ministry. 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:29.279 Because we're gonna start down below this floor, and every one of you should have some part in it. 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:37.600 Here's the deal: I want every week, every class, every child to encounter God. 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:43.360 I want every adult who comes in this church to encounter God. 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:51.360 But I'm most interested in these kids because 80% of the people who get saved get saved before they're 13 years old. 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:54.159 They are so impressionable. 00:13:54.399 --> 00:14:04.879 And when I see stuff like this coming from the Capitol in Denver, and this is just one little thing, you know about what's happened in New York with abortion, right, this week? 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:06.799 Study up on that. 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:10.639 They've just legalized murder. 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:16.159 If you are planning to abort a baby and the baby's born alive, you can kill it. 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:24.480 You know what certain people in this nation have been doing for the last 40 years? 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:27.679 Having a revolution. 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.679 A revolution to take over our country. 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:43.120 A revolution to make this country just like Europe, to make this country with no borders, no history, no traditions, and especially no Christianity. 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:45.200 And they're on the move. 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:56.159 And Jesus came to a similar situation in the Middle East at that time, and he began with a few men and he changed the world. 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:58.559 And it still works, folks. 00:14:58.879 --> 00:14:59.840 It still works. 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.159 But it starts with our children. 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:14.000 And men and women, I want to challenge you that when we go downstairs and when we minister our children, we lay hands on them, and we bless them, and we equip them and we disciple them for that hour and a half that we've got. 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:16.240 That we love those kids. 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:19.519 So, Liz, your turn. 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:33.360 I would love for you to raise your hand if you've worked in children's ministry or middle school or high school in the last six months. 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:34.559 Raise your hand. 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:39.679 Everybody give those people a hand and yourselves, honestly. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.559 So I gotta I gotta say this. 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:50.960 I gotta give Jesus an advertisement here, okay? 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:58.399 So since taking this job, I've run into a lot of pickles and potholes. 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:01.440 And man, sometimes they've made me cry. 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:04.799 And Steve knows I don't cry very easily. 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:16.000 So here's what I've learned in a really cool way is um Jesus refreshes us. 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:31.039 And I'm just gonna tell you, I've been miserable inside, and then there's this one thing where I thought, Lord, you said, Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:38.080 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I'm gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:40.799 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:44.480 So you know what I've been doing when I feel that weariness come? 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.360 Um I'm like an electric car. 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:49.600 I want to plug into Jesus. 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:53.440 Like, uh, you know, I need refreshing. 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:54.879 And you know what? 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:59.200 I've sat there with the Lord until he does it. 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:01.200 And you know what's so cool about it? 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:05.039 I'm just gonna tell you, if you haven't done this lately, try it. 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:15.680 Just say, Lord, I'm staying here till I feel refreshed, till I feel like I don't care how many potholes or pickles I have to deal with. 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:16.880 I don't care. 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:21.039 And then you get energized, and then you want to go pray for the sick. 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:23.839 You want to go love on a child. 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:27.279 We get so weary, we have to plug in. 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:35.759 So I just want to say you know who embodies the kingdom revolution is Jesus, and we need his energy to do this. 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:44.640 So, okay, the kingdom revolution is about valuing children. 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:46.240 This is what Jesus said. 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:50.079 Some disciples were saying, Who's the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 00:17:50.240 --> 00:18:03.680 Then Jesus called a little child to him, set him in the midst of them, and said, Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:10.480 Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:17.359 Whoever receives one little child like this in my name receives me. 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:23.759 Jesus puts his stamp of approval on children, and guess what? 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:29.359 When you that okay, so I was an English major and I love words. 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:33.759 So the word receive means that the children are coming, right? 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:37.039 We don't have to go out and convince them they're coming. 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:38.640 But why are they coming? 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:47.519 It's because we have an excellent, fun, um, supernatural program here. 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:49.599 It's not a program, but do you know what I'm saying? 00:18:49.759 --> 00:19:03.599 We have a we have things set up for them to do and to experience and to to um to actually gain so that they want to come and they want to tell their friends, hey, you should come to our children's ministry. 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:08.000 So it's really important for all of us to get involved. 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:21.680 Because right now, I'm gonna say this our children we I have four people on my team, and we're we're still trying to fill in spots that are empty, and that's not gonna make excellence. 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:23.440 That's not gonna make excellence. 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:25.039 So I want to ask you all. 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:30.400 We have a table out there, come to our table and just commit to working once a quarter. 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.480 That's once every three months. 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:41.359 And you can do administration, you can play with older kids, you can play with the the little guys, you can hold a baby. 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:44.079 Don't, don't not be involved. 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:52.559 Please come and and so that we don't have to like have a net, and when you walk out of the bathroom, we like go, here, we gotcha. 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:54.240 Sign up, you know. 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:58.240 Come and come to us because we want to do something extraordinary. 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:00.000 That's what my team wants to do. 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:04.400 But we don't want to have to try to fill in spots because you know what that is? 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:07.839 That's a daycare with a little Christianity sprinkled on it. 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:09.599 That we're not going for that. 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:12.400 We're going for kingdom revolution. 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:22.079 And I want to share with you what the Lord downloaded to me on December, I can't remember, late December. 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.359 And he said this, no, it was the first of January. 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:30.000 He said, There are many starving children in this city. 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:38.400 Many are starving for truth in our evolution-soaked culture and education places. 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:44.400 Some are starving for love in our busy, impersonal, lonely culture. 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:49.440 Some are starving from not enough food, real food. 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:54.240 In Colorado, one in seven children don't have enough food. 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:57.759 That's a huge proportion right there. 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:04.640 He says, I will enable my people who are called by my name to satisfy the hungry children. 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:11.440 And as you satisfy the children with truth, love, and real food, I will satisfy you. 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:16.480 Because remember it says, when you receive children, you will receive me. 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:26.480 If a bill comes up that trashes children, I want to be the church where people have seen a diff a totally different thing, where we value children. 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:28.720 And that means all of us have to do that. 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:32.400 A kingdom revolution means a sudden change in how we think. 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:36.720 So I just want to ask you, will you come sign up with us? 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:38.960 Because we want to change the lives of children. 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:46.559 I would love to see you, seasoned prayer warriors, get a hold of four names or five names of children you're praying for every day. 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:55.039 Wouldn't that be awesome to have us have people praying for our kids, not only us, but others in this church? 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:56.960 You can be a part of that. 00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:59.519 And we want to do so many things. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:02.079 Or you're excited to go downstairs. 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:03.440 I'll just share this. 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:06.960 So we want to have worship in every class. 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:08.640 So guess what happened? 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:18.400 The Valentines, who are awesome, and they have they are uh a mom and they had two um sons that um led worship for us. 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:24.240 They're 10 and 12 years old, and they came down and led worship. 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:27.359 This is how kids are starving, okay? 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:33.200 So they were in the class, they led um they led worship for babies. 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:40.960 And there was one little boy who was one year old who was bouncing, and when they left, he cried. 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:48.079 Children are starving, they're starving for love, truth, and some are starving with real food issues. 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:50.559 So let's be a part of this kingdom revolution. 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:51.200 Thank you. 00:22:58.400 --> 00:23:00.880 I'm married up, no doubt about that. 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:02.400 Love that woman. 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:08.079 And thank you again, Steve, for all that you've done to lay the foundation and we're building on that. 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:09.279 It's fantastic. 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:12.880 Turning your Bibles again to Matthew 4. 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:17.119 And I'm actually gonna get to verse 20. 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:21.920 They immediately left their nets and they followed him, going on from there. 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:29.680 He saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, and the boat with Zebedee, their brother, mending their nets. 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:30.720 He called them. 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:34.640 And immediately they left their boat and their father and followed him. 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:44.079 Men and women, the kingdom revolution is about the person of Jesus, but then he gave us a pattern of discipleship. 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:54.319 What Liz was talking about is a pattern of developing in our children a heart to be a worshiper and warrior at an early age. 00:23:54.559 --> 00:23:57.680 Now, every, I mean, churches have been trying to do this for years. 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:02.720 Dad, in his Lutheran context, had me go through a catechism class. 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:08.079 How many went through, in your background, some kind of a catechism class or confirmation class? 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:15.680 Yeah, because the church, whatever denomination has figured out, we've got to equip and train these young people. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.440 And that's why we have OU. 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:18.960 That's why we outlaw our university. 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:25.599 I went to two classes today and I sat in those classes and they were packed out with people who want to grow. 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:28.160 They want to be outliers. 00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:39.519 Why not six-year-old and seven-year-old outliers that understand that God created the heavens and the earth? 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:47.359 Why not 12-year-olds that understand that they can lay hands on their little buddy and see them get healed? 00:24:47.680 --> 00:25:00.319 What about a 13-year-old that knows how to share his faith, knows how to understand the cross and the resurrection of Christ in a simple way that another little child can understand? 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:06.799 That does not happen by them just being in a home where they have loving parents. 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:13.359 They actually have to be equipped and discipled, and that's what Jesus did for three and a half years. 00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:18.880 He began a pattern here of discipleship that men and women brought a kingdom revolution. 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:33.200 Twelve guys, minus one, eleven, add in Paul, 12 guys, add in one more Matthias in Acts chapter 1, 13 men rocked the world. 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:45.519 To such a degree that Constantine, when he became emperor, looked around and realized, I better Christianize Rome because they're taking over everything anyway. 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:56.400 And when those Puritans and those pilgrims came to America, they had a vision for America to be a light on a hill to the nations of the world. 00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:57.839 Read the documents. 00:25:58.079 --> 00:26:04.799 They don't teach that anymore in schools because it goes against the narrative. 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:14.799 But you see, the Puritans and the pilgrims believed that they were laying a foundation that would touch all the nations of the world. 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:18.400 And so they built for hundreds of years. 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:24.240 They built with our declaration of independence and with our constitution of vision. 00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:26.880 Then that's why you're here. 00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:30.400 That's why we're here today with freedom of religion. 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:32.880 That's why we're here with the freedom to worship. 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:37.440 That's why we're here with the kind of military we have and the kind of democracy we have. 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:42.000 It's because the pilgrims and the Puritans laid good foundations. 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:45.920 I'm taking my son through American history right now. 00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:49.759 Great book called A Light on a Hill by William Bennett. 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:55.359 And let me tell you, you need to know history, folks, because history gives you perspective. 00:26:55.519 --> 00:27:00.720 There were some real nutcases out there, even in the beginning of our nation. 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:08.000 And to see the rub of the early founding fathers against each other is amazing. 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:18.480 But God was superintending that because there were people who were praying, there was a Christian foundation, and there was a biblical worldview. 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:21.279 Jesus continues, look at verse 23. 00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:22.160 He says, This. 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:32.960 And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:47.519 Then his fame went through all Assyria, and they brought to him all who were sick, people afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who are demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics, and he healed them. 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:51.599 The person, the pattern, the power. 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:55.039 Folks, we can't do it without the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:27:55.599 --> 00:28:04.160 The world is starving not just for the word, they're also starving for a demonstration of the word. 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:14.240 What's happened in time immemorial is that gradually the church has been formed around just the proclamation of the word. 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:18.319 And let me tell you, you know that is so important to me. 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:21.680 We are a word and spirit church. 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:26.160 But men and women, we are a word and spirit church. 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:29.119 We have to have the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.039 Illumination and illustration. 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:51.200 We are the illustration of the illumination of God's Word as we call ourselves Jesus followers, as we call ourselves Jesus disciples. 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:54.640 You can't bring the good news if you're the bad news. 00:28:55.279 --> 00:29:16.880 And so as God is working a kingdom revolution starting in your heart, you bring that power of the Holy Spirit prayerfully through a witness of love, grace, generosity, and compassion, like the world can't see. 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.480 In which we have through Jesus the power to be a witness of. 00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:25.759 Proclamation and demonstration. 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:30.319 It's interesting that it talks about those that are demon-possessed. 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:33.119 I don't use the word demon-possessed. 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:39.279 It's actually an incorrect translation of the Greek, Diamonizai, which is a Greek word. 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:41.359 It's not demon-possessed. 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:48.240 Possession in our English language tends to mean ownership of. 00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:53.839 I don't believe a demon can own any believer. 00:29:54.640 --> 00:30:00.720 I believe you can be demonized, though, and what that means, what literally what the word means is demon-influenced. 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:07.039 Because here's what happens when we get the Holy Spirit into us, God begins to drive out the devil in you. 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:10.240 Anybody know any believers that's got a little devil in them? 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:14.720 If you can't raise your hand, you haven't lived very long, you need to get out more often. 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:19.200 Church can be a mean place, made up of some mean people. 00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:32.480 And God wants each of us to be set free from those demonic strongholds that have been built up through a lifetime of hurt, pain, and betrayal. 00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:34.000 And he can do that. 00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:36.000 I'm a living example of that. 00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:37.680 God can set us free. 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:40.480 And it's usually some kind of a power encounter. 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:42.880 There's some kind of a power encounter involved. 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:59.440 And that power encounter oftentimes is through someone who has insight and prophetic wisdom who speaks something into your life, and bam! He begins a process of breaking loose those strongholds of the past in your life. 00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:00.640 Some of you have that. 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:02.000 Some of you are walking with that. 00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:09.359 Matter of fact, most of us are, but as we start to get sanctified in Christ through his word, he starts to set us free. 00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:29.279 I can't tell you how many testimonies over the years in worship or in ministry time up front or a small group, a D group, where people have been there and they're in the Word, they're praying for each other, and they feel something lift off of them, and they're set free. 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:45.200 Think about in our world today, those that have no church, that have no Christian influence, that have no believers in their life, what they're carrying and the opportunity we have to love them and to bless them and to set them free. 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:46.880 That's what Jesus was doing. 00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:52.400 He's going about setting the captives free. 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:55.920 We have a new road mission statement. 00:31:56.640 --> 00:31:59.119 Empowering people to change the world. 00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:02.720 Empowering people to change the world. 00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:05.519 We want to empower young people. 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:08.720 We want to empower babies to change the world. 00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:10.160 How do you do that? 00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:15.920 You take that baby in your arms and you lay your hands on him and say, Lord, bless this child. 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:18.640 God, I pray the blood of Jesus over this child. 00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:25.119 Lord, I pray, God, that the unique callings and giftings and talents that are within this child would be realized. 00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:28.160 I ask you, Lord, to protect this child from the evil one. 00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:37.039 Do you realize that when Luther would do infant baptism in the early ancient church in the 16th century, he prayed against devils. 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:41.039 He prayed against demonic spirits over that baby. 00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:48.160 Now I'm not a believer in infant baptism, but I'm not an unbeliever in setting everybody free, even an infant. 00:32:48.319 --> 00:32:50.079 And I don't care how you do it. 00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:51.279 I really don't. 00:32:51.519 --> 00:33:00.799 We dedicate babies here, but when we dedicate our babies, and when you pray over your little baby at home, pray that they'd be set free at an early age by God. 00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:05.119 And then look what the last verse says, verse 25. 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:14.160 Great multitudes followed him from Galilee and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan. 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:20.000 You see, what was happening here with Jesus is he was bringing a kingdom revolution to cities. 00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:22.160 God loves cities. 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:29.920 And it's cities through Jesus here, and then later through the early church, through the church. 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:32.640 God's plan A is through the local church. 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:34.960 Let me read you from Ephesians 3. 00:33:35.119 --> 00:34:02.160 Paul writes this: From the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ, to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church, to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. 00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:21.920 Men and women, it's through local churches just like ours, that decide at some place in their journey we're gonna build foundations that will last for a hundred years, that get serious about ministering to the babies and to the children and to the youth of that church that make an impact. 00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:24.639 It's hard work. 00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:28.079 But I love my job. 00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:32.320 Because I don't know how in the world it's gonna get done in my lifetime. 00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:34.960 So I'm gonna have a lot of work to do. 00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:36.880 And guess what, men and women? 00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:42.559 Most of you, because I can't speak for you, but I'm gonna say most of you in this room are called to be a part of that. 00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:44.480 That's the reason you're here today. 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:48.880 Some of you have grandchildren, some of you are older, and you're well, I don't know if I have anything to offer. 00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:53.679 You have the most to offer because you've lived life. 00:34:53.920 --> 00:35:09.519 And I want to challenge you, we're gonna watch a video in just a moment, of a young girl that went through a difficult time in her life, and she found Jesus in a fresh, new way, and she has dedicated her life to being a world changer. 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:12.480 I want to challenge you to a kingdom revolution. 00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:22.559 I'm gonna challenge you to walk out today, and there's a table out there with some little balloons on it, and you're gonna sign up to help with children once a quarter. 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:29.679 You've been listening to The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.800 We hope you have been blessed by today's message. 00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:36.800 To connect with us further, visit theroad.org. 00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.880 If you are walking through a difficult time, we want to pray for you. 00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:48.079 Go to theroad.org, click on the ministries tab, and go to our prayer page to send us your prayer request. 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:56.239 Thanks again for tuning in today, and be sure to listen to the next edition of The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt.