SPEAKER_00: You're listening to the road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holmes.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, the reality is this, men and women, that his blood flows through and courses through your bloodstream.
SPEAKER_01: Your spiritual bloodstream has Jesus' blood.
SPEAKER_01: And when Jesus walked on this earth, when he came, and when he ministered in power to those around him, he modeled something as a spirit-filled man that you and I have the capacity through the Holy Spirit to illustrate to our world around us.
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that exciting?
SPEAKER_00: At The Road, our vision is to raise up wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: We hope you are encouraged by today's message from Pastor Teacher Steve Holt.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine Colorado Springs the way God always meant it to be.
SPEAKER_01: We're instructed to pray, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine a city where the very feeling in the atmosphere is righteousness, peace, and joy.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine a city where people celebrate life, think creatively, and dream imaginatively.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine a city where every life, whether born or unborn, whether born with defects or born as we classically might call healthy, is valued and celebrated.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine a place where you would feel safe on any city street at any time of night.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine a city where doctors, hospitals, and clinics that have the conviction that every life is protected and fought for, whether born or unborn.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine a city where there is hope in the schools because the kids are excited about their future and desire to dream dreams of changing the world.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine a place where there's prosperity throughout every sphere of influence, whether it's media, government, health care, education, business, military, church, or family.
SPEAKER_01: Where people love what they do and they feel like whatever it is they're doing is the calling of God.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine Colorado Springs being a model city to the rest of the nation.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine a city where the community, both Christian and pre-Christian, come together, work on issues, and figure out what's best for everyone in the community, but especially the most vulnerable, which are our children.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine the Colorado Springs that we live in starting to look a lot like Zechariah's vision.
SPEAKER_01: Zechariah 8.
SPEAKER_01: This is what the Lord Almighty says.
SPEAKER_01: Once again, men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_01: Will sit in the streets of Colorado Springs, each of them with cane in hand, because of their age.
SPEAKER_01: The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.
SPEAKER_01: What a beautiful vision.
SPEAKER_01: What about Jeremiah when he was prophesying to Israel while they were captive in Babylon?
SPEAKER_01: Jeremiah 29.
SPEAKER_01: This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those they carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
SPEAKER_01: Build houses and settle down, plant gardens and eat what they produce.
SPEAKER_01: Marry and have sons and daughters.
SPEAKER_01: Find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters.
SPEAKER_01: Increase in number there.
SPEAKER_01: Do not decrease.
SPEAKER_01: Also seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile.
SPEAKER_01: Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.
SPEAKER_01: Men and women, God wants to bring a kingdom of God revolution in our nation, a revolution of righteousness, peace, and joy.
SPEAKER_01: It's not going to come through the Republican Party.
SPEAKER_01: It's not going to come through the Democratic Party.
SPEAKER_01: It's not going to come through economic changes that occur.
SPEAKER_01: It's not going to come primarily from any of those things, though, listen, all those things are hugely important.
SPEAKER_01: It will come through a mighty move of God's Spirit, working through individuals that have had their own kingdom of God revolution.
SPEAKER_01: I love praying for our nation.
SPEAKER_01: I go to website after website after website, talking about revival, revival, revival.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody's praying for revival.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody's praying for revival in our nation.
SPEAKER_01: May I hasten to say that's beautiful, it's wonderful.
SPEAKER_01: We should do it.
SPEAKER_01: But what about revival in our own family?
SPEAKER_01: What about revival in our own marriage?
SPEAKER_01: What about revival in the lives of those nationals, Americans, that live in our living room and in our bedrooms and come to church together?
SPEAKER_01: What about a kingdom revolution in our own homes and in our own neighborhoods and in our own city?
SPEAKER_01: It's easy to pray for the nation.
SPEAKER_01: America is going to hell in a handbasket.
SPEAKER_01: No, it's not.
SPEAKER_01: God has called us to the America that we rub shoulders with.
SPEAKER_01: And that's right here.
SPEAKER_01: And it's not going to hell in a handbasket.
SPEAKER_01: God wants to bring a kingdom revolution through us at the road.
SPEAKER_01: Several weeks ago, we as a team went to the Hideaway Retreat Center and spent 24 hours there as a team, and we prayed and we worshiped and we knocked out a new vision statement.
SPEAKER_01: And here's how you view a vision statement.
SPEAKER_01: A vision statement is that, and it's different than a mission statement, but a vision statement is if we could be launched into the future, that that would be what we see.
SPEAKER_01: That would be what we see in the future.
SPEAKER_01: That's a vision statement.
SPEAKER_01: What do we want to see the road being used to do and be that 5, 10, 15, in our case we thought a hundred years in the future?
SPEAKER_01: If the Lord tarries, what does God want to do through the road a hundred years from now that if we could come into the future and be dropped here, what would we hope God has done?
SPEAKER_01: And here's what it is: bringing a kingdom of God revolution to the Rockies.
SPEAKER_01: Bringing a kingdom of God revolution to the Rockies.
SPEAKER_01: Because that is why Christ came.
SPEAKER_01: So turning your Bibles to what I think is one of about a dozen powerful passages, but I want to focus on Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And that's Matthew chapter 4.
SPEAKER_01: Let me just say this in the synoptic gospels, which are Matthew, Mark, Luke.
SPEAKER_01: All of them say basically the same thing.
SPEAKER_01: In other words, this was so important to Matthew, and so important to Mark, and so important to Luke, that they all captured this scene, this particular scene, in their own unique ways as authors of those books.
SPEAKER_01: But it was clear to Jesus, and it's clear to us at the road that the thesis of Jesus is what we're about to read.
SPEAKER_01: This is the thesis, it's not his mission statement, but it is his thesis of the ministry of Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Thus, listen, folks, what we've seen him doing, we also shall do.
SPEAKER_01: It's the thesis of the church, in my opinion, and hardly anybody teaches on it.
SPEAKER_01: Hardly anybody preaches on it.
SPEAKER_01: I've been doing this pastor thing for 25 years, and before that, 10 years as a missionary, and I can tell you, you hardly ever hear about it.
SPEAKER_01: It's called the Kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna uh push back on the definition that the kingdom of God is just simply the gospel, in that I think that the gospel is contained within the kingdom of God, and we're not ready to go there yet as a church because I want to finish the series on worship or warrior.
SPEAKER_01: I'll get back to that in the weeks ahead.
SPEAKER_01: But in 2019, we're gonna go chapter by chapter and verse by verse through the book of Matthew, and we're gonna look at a Kingdom of God revolution inaugurated by Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be really exciting.
SPEAKER_01: But I felt like I wanted it start 2019 this way, with an understanding of where we're going, and if we were to be blessed by God, to still be here in the city a hundred years from now, if the Lord tarries, what would we hope that we accomplished?
SPEAKER_01: What would we hope that was the reason for the road less traveled?
SPEAKER_01: Which God spoke to us seven times.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Matthew 4, 17.
SPEAKER_01: This is the thesis statement of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: He repeated it again and again and again.
SPEAKER_01: From that time, Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
SPEAKER_01: The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
SPEAKER_01: The kingdom of God is at hand, the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
SPEAKER_01: One hundred times, over one hundred times, Jesus taught on the kingdom of God or the kingdom of heaven.
SPEAKER_01: He prayed, and then he asked us to pray, and we might not call it the Lord's Prayer.
SPEAKER_01: Some have called it the disciples' prayer, we might call it the kingdom prayer.
SPEAKER_01: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come.
SPEAKER_01: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
SPEAKER_01: Do you think that in God's heart, everything that I read that we might imagine for our city is not his heart of his kingdom in this city?
SPEAKER_01: So over a hundred times he spoke on the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: He told us to pray the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Seek first what?
SPEAKER_01: The kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_01: Seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, and everything else that you worry about will be added unto you.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's like the greatest blue pill you could have ever gotten for worry.
SPEAKER_01: I've said it in many a counseling session, much to the chagrin of the counselee.
SPEAKER_01: Are you seeking the kingdom of God first in your life?
SPEAKER_01: In your marriage?
SPEAKER_01: Well, Pastor, I kind of knew you were gonna say that.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah?
SPEAKER_01: What do you want me to say?
SPEAKER_01: Read Mad Magazine more.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't know what you want me to say, but all I'm saying is that with all the psychology that we have out there, all the neuroscience that we have out there, all the brain science, all the counseling courses you can take, all the marriage and family counselors there are, at the end of the day, church, I've rarely met a husband and wife, and this is not, I'm not talking on counseling here, but I'm just I'm off a little bit.
SPEAKER_01: I'll bring it back in 30 seconds.
SPEAKER_01: So if this is, if some of you are feeling really like, what is he talking about?
SPEAKER_01: Then that's okay.
SPEAKER_01: But when you show me a husband and wife that are both seeking the kingdom of God first, does it alleviate all your problems?
SPEAKER_01: Of course not.
SPEAKER_01: Many godly, wonderful Christian couples do get divorced.
SPEAKER_01: But I will say this it covers about 90% of your problems.
SPEAKER_01: Can you show me anything out there that covers about 90% of our problems?
SPEAKER_01: Jesus knew what he was talking about when he said, seek first the kingdom of God and all his righteousness.
SPEAKER_01: And he's just been talking about all the things we worry about in Matthew 6 clothes, cars, boats, investments.
SPEAKER_01: We've had a few things to worry about the last three months in investments, haven't we?
SPEAKER_01: For you that don't have any investments, you're really in good shape.
SPEAKER_01: We've lost a lot in the last few months, you know.
SPEAKER_01: But if we seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, he says, and I believe Jesus does not lie, he'll take care of those things in our lives.
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that awesome?
SPEAKER_01: Kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_01: So what is the kingdom of God?
SPEAKER_01: The kingdom of God, men and women, is the reign and the rule of Christ.
SPEAKER_01: That's what the kingdom of God is.
SPEAKER_01: The kingdom of God is that wherever he reigns and he rules, that becomes his kingdom and he becomes the king.
SPEAKER_01: So the question always for all of us is who's on the throne of our lives?
SPEAKER_01: Who's on the throne of your life and my life?
SPEAKER_01: And it's it's never functionally always the same.
SPEAKER_01: There's always this battle going on, right?
SPEAKER_01: Everybody go like that if you know what I'm talking about, okay?
SPEAKER_01: Because it's a flesh and spirit thing.
SPEAKER_01: We're always battling there.
SPEAKER_01: It's called spiritual warfare.
SPEAKER_01: And the battle is usually between our ears.
SPEAKER_01: But the reality is, is he came announcing that in him was the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: So look what he says next, because I see a pattern here for our church and for a revolution of the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: Is repeat, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 18.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Then he said to them, Follow me.
SPEAKER_01: Now just stop right there.
SPEAKER_01: It always starts with the person of Christ.
SPEAKER_01: It starts with him.
SPEAKER_01: We repent to something.
SPEAKER_01: We don't repent just from something, we repent to something.
SPEAKER_01: It's a 180.
SPEAKER_01: But here's the thing: a revolution is a 360, right?
SPEAKER_01: So repent only gets you halfway.
SPEAKER_01: Repent is we turn from our ways and our thinking and our desires to his way of thinking, his desires of the kingdom of God in our life.
SPEAKER_01: But it doesn't stop there.
SPEAKER_01: Actually, as God begins to transform us, we continue in this revolution and we become changed.
SPEAKER_01: We become revolutionized.
SPEAKER_01: But then you put on him.
SPEAKER_01: It's all about him.
SPEAKER_01: The kingdom's all about him, it's not about you.
SPEAKER_01: Worship's about him.
SPEAKER_01: When we worship, we are we are modeling kingdom life.
SPEAKER_01: Because as we become worshipers, we become warriors.
SPEAKER_01: Because as we become worshipers, God's changing us.
SPEAKER_01: He's bringing a kingdom revolution.
SPEAKER_01: He's taking over the throne of our heart.
SPEAKER_01: Listen up.
SPEAKER_01: And then we go out with it.
SPEAKER_01: You can't preach the good news if you're the bad news.
SPEAKER_01: I'm from Georgia.
SPEAKER_01: I figured it out.
SPEAKER_01: What happens is you who used to proclaim the good news, but you were the bad news, actually start proclaiming and living the good news because you're the good news.
SPEAKER_01: Because you're getting revolutionized in your heart.
SPEAKER_01: It's not about revival in America, it's about first revival in you.
SPEAKER_01: Get revived.
SPEAKER_01: We have a lot of talk about the illumination, but we need more talk about the illustration.
SPEAKER_01: Let me explain.
SPEAKER_01: The illumination of God's word is beautiful.
SPEAKER_01: I love God's word.
SPEAKER_01: That's why we go C by C and V by V, chapter by chapter and verse by verse, because this is the living, active, inerrant, infallible Word of God.
SPEAKER_01: It's our illumination of Christ.
SPEAKER_01: We couldn't know Christ without God's word.
SPEAKER_01: We elevate it.
SPEAKER_01: But it means nothing out there if we don't become an illustration of the illumination.
SPEAKER_01: We can be proclaiming till the cows come home, but if our lives are not an illustration of a kingdom of God revolution, nobody's going to listen.
SPEAKER_01: The church, in and of itself, loves the illumination.
SPEAKER_01: The world couldn't care less.
SPEAKER_01: But when they see an illustration of the kingdom, then they want the illumination because they say, What in the world is going on in that guy's life?
SPEAKER_01: There is no way they should act like that.
SPEAKER_01: There's no way they should respond that way.
SPEAKER_01: There's something transformational in their life.
SPEAKER_01: It really helps when you lay hands on them and they get healed too.
SPEAKER_01: So it starts with Jesus, the kingdom's about him.
SPEAKER_01: What about righteousness, peace, and joy?
SPEAKER_01: Well, the righteousness and peace and joy is the kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_01: And the more Christ is elevated in our lives, think about it.
SPEAKER_01: 500 or so of us going out this week and being the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: Just be the kingdom at King Supers.
SPEAKER_01: Just be the kingdom at Safeway.
SPEAKER_01: Just be the kingdom as a doctor.
SPEAKER_01: Just be the kingdom as a mechanic.
SPEAKER_01: Just be the kingdom as a painter and your job and as a housewife.
SPEAKER_01: And when you take your kids, just be the kingdom and start asking the question, Lord, you embodied the kingdom, and now I embody you because you're in me.
SPEAKER_01: Hello?
SPEAKER_01: He's in us.
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that cool?
SPEAKER_01: I mean, the reality is this, men and women, that his blood flows through and courses through your bloodstream.
SPEAKER_01: Your spiritual bloodstream has Jesus' blood.
SPEAKER_01: And when Jesus walked on this earth, when he came and when he ministered in power to those around him, he modeled something as a spirit-filled man that you and I have the capacity through the Holy Spirit to illustrate to our world around us.
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that exciting?
SPEAKER_01: So that as we start to take off the eyes of Steve Holt or take the eyes of as Christie or Susan or Joe, and we start to put on the eyes of Christ to see what he sees, and we start saying, Lord, would you help me when I drop my kids off at school, when I see the counselor, when I go to work, when I operate, when I get up underneath that engine, when I paint that house, whatever it is, I'm available to you.
SPEAKER_01: I want to bring a kingdom revolution wherever I go.
SPEAKER_01: God's up in heaven, going, what a stupid prayer.
SPEAKER_01: What an idiot.
SPEAKER_01: Man, he's jumping for joy.
SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna bless that guy.
SPEAKER_01: I am going to open doors that no man can shut.
SPEAKER_01: I am going to begin to cause that person and that person that nobody will talk to to cross their path because I trust that brother, I trust that sister, as children of God, that if they cross their paths, they're gonna encounter the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: I think that deserves an amen, at least a little one.
SPEAKER_01: A little amen.
SPEAKER_01: Let me just say this.
SPEAKER_01: I believe that the most vulnerable members of our community are babies and children.
SPEAKER_01: I think we need to minister to the homeless.
SPEAKER_01: I think when we do Springs Initiative, we've got paint houses, we need to double that, triple that what we're doing there.
SPEAKER_01: But this is what I believe more than anything else, men and women, is we've got to capture the children.
SPEAKER_01: 80%.
SPEAKER_01: If I had a show of hands in here, 80% of your hands would go up that you gave your heart to Christ or had an experience with Christ before you were 12 years old.
SPEAKER_01: Some kind of experience.
SPEAKER_01: Experience.
SPEAKER_01: It's true in my life.
SPEAKER_01: Now, I would say I got born again at 18, but there was a transformative encounter with God that I wouldn't say quite saved me, but it got me set up to be saved right around 11 or 12 years old.
SPEAKER_01: And almost all of us in this room would say the same thing because there's something about God's pattern and his way that we covered last week of children.
SPEAKER_01: What does he say in the Passion Translation?
SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, learn this well, unless you dramatically change your way of thinking and become teachable and learn about heaven's kingdom rim with the wide-eyed wonder of a child, you'll never be able to enter in.
SPEAKER_01: Whoever continually humbles himself to become like this gentle child which he had standing next to him is the greatest in the kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_01: And if you listen, and if you tenderly care for this little one on my behalf, you are tenderly caring for me.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't say that about anybody else.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't say it about the cripples, he doesn't say it about the homeless, he doesn't say it about the best leader in the city.
SPEAKER_01: He says, This child represents to me the kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_01: And when we start acting and being teachable and learning the way a child tends to do in those early years, that's the greatest in the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: Men and women, we have got to build one of the most powerful children's ministries in the city.
SPEAKER_01: And I told Liz this the other day.
SPEAKER_01: I want our motto to be every child in every class, every week, encounters God.
SPEAKER_01: That means we lay hands on the babies and we pray blessing upon them all the way up to the 11-year-olds, into our junior high, and then into our senior high and into the well.
SPEAKER_01: Because God wants to build a church here that lasts for a hundred years.
SPEAKER_01: And the pushback sometimes is people's eschatology.
SPEAKER_01: Does anybody know what eschatology is?
SPEAKER_01: Big, big word.
SPEAKER_01: It means last days.
SPEAKER_01: Last days.
SPEAKER_01: It means the final things.
SPEAKER_01: And there can be, in some circles, kind of this hunker down, everything's gonna get worse mentality.
SPEAKER_01: And I don't know if that's true.
SPEAKER_01: I'll read Matthew 24, too.
SPEAKER_01: I knew Matthew 24 and 25, but listen, men and women, don't read Matthew 24 without reading Matthew 25.
SPEAKER_01: Because in Matthew 24, it talks about the coming of the Antichrist in the end times, and I've taught on an ad nauseum.
SPEAKER_01: But Matthew 25 talks about us being prepared and that we use what God's given us and we actually double and triple our talents.
SPEAKER_01: That says to me that the greatest mission feel, listen everybody, the greatest mission feel is right where you are right now.
SPEAKER_01: God somehow sovereignly called you to be in Colorado Springs.
SPEAKER_01: Somehow He called you sovereignly to be in this church.
SPEAKER_01: Because he wants you to be a part of a kingdom revolution.
SPEAKER_01: Not just a revival.
SPEAKER_01: Revivals are short-lived.
SPEAKER_01: A love revival.
SPEAKER_01: I think you need a revival for a revolution, quite frankly.
SPEAKER_01: But it's repentance, it's revival.
SPEAKER_01: Both of those things.
SPEAKER_01: Then it's reformation.
SPEAKER_01: God begins to reform structures.
SPEAKER_01: But what a revolution literally means when you look it up is that the society and culture is transformed.
SPEAKER_01: That was the vision of the pilgrims and the Puritans when they came to America.
SPEAKER_01: They had a vision for a nation that would be a light on a hill.
SPEAKER_01: They had a vision for missions going out from this country like no nation ever in the history of the world, and that's what's happened.
SPEAKER_01: You know why God has staved off judgment upon America with all of our sin and stuff?
SPEAKER_01: I believe it's because of the generosity of our nation.
SPEAKER_01: Whatever those pundits say, and all the pundits and their opinions out there have to say, the reality is the one thing, there's many things, but one of the main things that stands out as unique to America is not a republic and a democracy necessarily, but what it's done.
SPEAKER_01: And what it's done, it's created a beautiful, generous people because we've been so blessed by God.
SPEAKER_01: So God still needs America.
SPEAKER_01: And God still needs missions.
SPEAKER_01: But I'm challenging us, church, that missions begins right here.
SPEAKER_01: And God wants to move in a mighty way.
SPEAKER_01: If the worship team would come up, I'm I'm only a third of the way through my message.
SPEAKER_01: So we'll pick it up.
SPEAKER_01: And we'll pick it up.
SPEAKER_01: Look what he says next.
SPEAKER_01: There's a team's coming up, and we'll cover this the next time we're together.
SPEAKER_01: Look at verse 19.
SPEAKER_01: He said to them, Follow me and I'll make you fishers of men.
SPEAKER_01: They immediately left their nets and followed him.
SPEAKER_01: Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee, their father, mending their nets.
SPEAKER_01: He called them.
SPEAKER_01: And immediately they left the boat and their father and they followed him.
SPEAKER_01: They followed him.
SPEAKER_01: They followed Christ.
SPEAKER_01: So here's the first part of a kingdom of God revolution is we follow Christ.
SPEAKER_01: We repent, we follow him.
SPEAKER_01: By the way, if you're here today and you're not convinced at the deepest level of your heart that Jesus Christ lives in you, that the King of the Kingdom lives in your heart.
SPEAKER_01: And when we come to the end of the service, I'm going to give you that opportunity to pray to receive Christ.
SPEAKER_01: To get into the kingdom, get into the family.
SPEAKER_01: Best decision you'll ever make.
SPEAKER_01: And if you haven't made it yet, maybe today's the day.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe today is the day to seal the deal of a new contract.
SPEAKER_01: We call it a covenant.
SPEAKER_01: A covenant, a new contract with Him.
SPEAKER_01: You sign your name, just like when you got married, if you've gotten married, you signed that contract.
SPEAKER_01: You said before the people, I'm coming to know her as my wife, and then you do.
SPEAKER_01: And then you find out what you got yourself into.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Well, there's a covenant relationship with Christ where we come in.
SPEAKER_01: But then the second thing, the second thing is that God has a pattern called becoming a disciple.
SPEAKER_01: Becoming a disciple.
SPEAKER_01: Every disciple who finds the treasure in the field and sells all that he has and buys the field becomes a leader.
SPEAKER_01: And when you become a leader, that means you lead.
SPEAKER_01: And when you start leading out, guess what?
SPEAKER_01: People follow you.
SPEAKER_01: And when they follow you, you're creating in your wake a kingdom revolution.
SPEAKER_01: They get to surf on your wake.
SPEAKER_01: Watch a commercial the other day and it showed a jet boat, man, taking off, and it showed this guy surfing the wake.
SPEAKER_01: Man, this guy was surfing the wake.
SPEAKER_01: A lot of people have surfed my wake.
SPEAKER_01: A lot of people will surf your wake, but you gotta become a disciple first.
SPEAKER_01: And so Jesus is always on the hunt, looking for disciples.
SPEAKER_01: And maybe today is your day to become a disciple.
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