WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:02.000 Okay, we're in the book of Mark. 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:07.679 And we kind of did a segue away from Mark for about six weeks. 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:10.880 We did a series on faith, supplements of faith. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:12.480 We're back in Mark. 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:17.359 And we're in Mark chapter 6. 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:24.960 And tonight I'm calling it the seven aspects of whole-hearted discipleship. 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:30.239 Seven aspects of whole-hearted discipleship. 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:37.119 This past week I had my favorite hairdresser who comes to my house. 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:38.320 How about that? 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:41.520 She comes to my house and she cuts my hair. 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:43.679 And it's really nice. 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:45.920 And I just love her. 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:48.880 And she just had a baby, her first baby. 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:54.079 Little baby was born, had to have a kidney removed, almost lost that baby. 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:57.200 And so she really wanted to show me this little guy. 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:01.039 And so here's this little David Benjamin is his name. 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:05.359 And here's these rosy cheeks and this big smile, this beautiful child. 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:08.000 And the child looked just like daddy. 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:11.439 And this child looks so beautiful. 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:16.640 And I was reminded of the first command in Scripture. 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:18.959 Do you know what it is? 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:21.760 It's be fruitful and multiply. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:31.599 And I realized, you know, here's a proud set of parents with their first child, and there's grandparents, and I know the grandparents of this child. 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:34.000 And I don't know the great-grandparents, but I know the grandparents. 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:39.439 But I'm gonna be at some point not only a parent, but a grandparent. 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:41.840 And it could be that I'll be a great grandparent. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.439 Some of you here, anybody here a grandparent? 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:46.319 All right. 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:47.280 Awesome. 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:47.840 Wow. 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:50.719 Anyone here a great grandparent? 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:51.439 All right. 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:52.799 So, see, that's cool. 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:54.400 So here's the deal. 00:01:54.879 --> 00:02:00.879 Guys, all of us are created by God to reproduce. 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:08.240 It is what God has made us to do is to reproduce physically. 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:17.840 Well, in the same way, God has called every one of you in this room to reproduce spiritually. 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:29.199 God has created greatness in your heart to reproduce yourself into others. 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:35.759 In other words, what God has done in you, God has called you to reproduce in others. 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:40.479 And we're looking at Jesus in Mark 1 through 5, 1 through 6 now. 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:51.919 Jesus makes it kind of his target, his bullseye from the beginning to start raising up disciples. 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:57.919 And so what Jesus does is he's walking along and he just starts calling people to himself. 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:07.439 And the first thing he says in Mark chapter 1, if you recall, if you've been with us a while, he said, Come follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:12.080 So he says to them right off the bat, if you're gonna follow me, you're gonna reproduce. 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:19.520 It's not about just you feeling good about yourself or having your sins forgiven or even being healed by me. 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:23.039 I'm gonna do something in you that you're gonna do to others. 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:24.319 Now he's calling fishermen. 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:26.000 They understood the metaphor. 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:30.400 Okay, just like you fish for fish, it was more like this back then. 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:34.400 It's more like real fishing's like this, by the way. 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.039 But I know, some of you are still bait fishermen, that's okay. 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:44.240 You some point you'll graduate into true biblical fishing, which is fly fishing. 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:46.560 But until that occurs, they didn't do either, by the way. 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:47.840 They did nets anyway. 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.000 So he calls into fishers and men. 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:52.960 So they're called into that. 00:03:54.240 --> 00:04:00.400 And he starts spending time with them in an intentional relational environment. 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:13.680 He starts eating with them, he starts hanging out with them, they get around the fire, you know, they drink together, they party together. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:17.120 Then he starts doing stuff to people. 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:24.560 And he starts like walking through villages and like casting out demons and stuff. 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:27.279 That's probably not what they signed up for. 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:42.800 And then he starts calling more and more, and then by Mark chapter 3, he says, the scriptures say he called 12 to himself that they might have power to cast out demons and heal the sick. 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:48.720 So there's a little bit more now involved in this, and he's but he but he's not just telling them about it. 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:50.000 That's what we do in America. 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:52.000 We tell everybody about it. 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:53.600 Talk. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:55.759 Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:02.160 Preachers love to talk, they get paid to talk. 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:06.000 And so in the church, we talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:10.959 Well, Jesus talked, he taught, but he did something different. 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:12.160 He did it. 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:28.879 He actually did the ministry, he actually started healing people, and he starts casting out demons, and these guys are just kind of going along and watching, and it's kind of neat because he's a stud, man. 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.839 I mean, he's a superstar, he's a rock star. 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:38.319 But by Mark chapter 6, something's about to change, and it's really freaky. 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:41.199 Okay, so look at Mark chapter 6. 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.360 Let's see what's gonna happen next. 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:48.720 So in Mark chapter 6, verse 7, that's where we pick it up. 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:55.360 I'm calling it the seven aspects of whole-hearted discipleship. 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:09.759 And he called the twelve to himself and began to send them out to by two, and gave them power over unclean spirits. 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:23.759 He commanded them to take nothing for the journey except a staff, no bag, no bread, no copper in their money belts, but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:31.040 Also he said to them, In whatever place you enter a house, stay there till you depart from that place. 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:40.959 And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them. 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:49.360 Assuredly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that than for that city. 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:50.399 Verse 12. 00:06:50.639 --> 00:07:01.439 So they went out and preached that people should repent, and they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them. 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:03.040 All right. 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:09.040 I want you to look at this diagram up front, and this is called our triad. 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:16.560 And this triad is a description of what I think Jesus did in the way of discipleship. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:22.959 And it has three parts: know, flow, and go. 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:25.519 Let me read to you what it says on the side. 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:42.319 Jesus built a discipleship culture of knowing the word, flowing in the spirit, and going out to do the kingdom in an atmosphere of integrity and trust with him and others. 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:49.920 This knowing part of what Jesus did was uh was an intimacy with the heart of Christ. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:50.959 Don't miss this. 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.160 Now I'm not gonna hammer this a lot tonight, but don't miss this. 00:07:54.399 --> 00:08:00.240 That knowing Christ intimately flows with all of this. 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:04.160 This knowing Christ heart to heart. 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:08.800 Then there is also this flowing in the spirit, which is what we do in D groups. 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:21.040 When we go into the Word, you guys that are in D group, if you understand this, that when you're in the D group, we read that passage, and then remember, we all get quiet for 10 minutes and we let God speak to us. 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:28.160 And then when we pray for each other, we let the Spirit flow as we pray into the heart of that other person. 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:32.639 But then there's a third element, and that's the going part, the go part. 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:35.360 And that is, folks, this is really, really important. 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:49.519 If you don't go and do something, listen, if you don't go and do something with what God's doing in your heart, it will stagnate. 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:51.919 You gotta go. 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:56.320 And so Jesus was teaching them in a knowing. 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:04.240 He was also teaching them through flowing, but then he was actually taking them on a going, and that's really what he's doing right now. 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:06.879 He said, Look, you guys are fishers of men. 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:13.200 You guys have been given authority to heal the sick, cast out demons, to preach the kingdom of God. 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:15.360 That's all fine and good. 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:20.000 But now, let's go do it. 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:21.519 Let's go do it. 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:22.879 So he sends them out. 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:29.679 So here I want us to look at our passage, and I think there's seven aspects to this: this knowing, flowing, and going. 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.039 Seven aspects I'm calling of whole-hearted discipleship. 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:38.240 Some of you say, Well, hey, I've been in the five aspects of a woman. 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:40.480 I've been in the five aspects of a man. 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:43.519 Now Steve's got the seven aspects of discipleship. 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:47.840 I totally copied that, but there's seven, not five in this case. 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:49.039 Okay, number one. 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:50.639 Number one, don't miss this. 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:51.519 Number one. 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:55.600 He called the twelve to himself. 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:57.120 Verse 7. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.159 He called them to himself. 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:04.000 Jesus called them to himself. 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:11.759 Personal discipleship all starts here in a personal, growing, intimate relationship with Jesus. 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.720 Wholehearted disciples, listen, don't miss this. 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:19.519 Have a heart-to-heart relationship with Jesus. 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:22.720 You're growing in intimacy with Jesus. 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:30.799 In any kind of discipleship, I don't want you, if you're in a discipleship, I have a I have a D group with six guys. 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:33.919 I have a D group with our shepherds here at the road. 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.559 I have D group with our stewards here at the road. 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:43.120 I want them to have an intentional relationship with me, but my goal is not that. 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:47.519 My goal is an intentional heart-to-heart relationship with Jesus Christ. 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.799 I'm pointing people to Christ. 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.200 You are pointing people to Christ. 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:56.960 It starts with He drew them to Himself. 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:07.919 Men and women, any Bible study you're in, any group you're part of, don't stay in that group if the group is about the leader. 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:10.559 The group is about Jesus. 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:11.279 Hello? 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.399 I know that's so basic, but it's so important because it so rarely happens. 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:30.720 A small group is about Jesus and guiding people to Christ, loving Him, worshiping Him, falling in love with His beauty. 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:42.159 And I read the Psalms, you see, David just longing for relationship with that pre-incarnate Christ. 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:48.080 Today I was on my prayer walk and I'm looking at the trees and they're all different. 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:54.240 And I'm seeing the uniqueness of the beauty of God's creation and the majesty of it all. 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:56.639 That's a picture of Jesus. 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:00.720 We're drawing people to the beauty and the majesty of Jesus. 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:04.159 So, first of all, number one, we draw people to Christ. 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:09.840 Secondly, it says He began to send them out two by two. 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:11.759 Don't miss this, verse seven. 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:14.080 He sent them out two by two. 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:21.840 They were called to go out two by two because it was a relationship they had to have. 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:24.799 Men with men. 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:31.600 We don't go at this Christian thing alone. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.120 This is not Rambo Christianity. 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:38.559 This is SF Christianity. 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:42.080 This is special forces Christianity. 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:46.879 We watch each other's back. 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:51.519 When we go into fights, you've got to have friends. 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:58.639 Now you women get this way better than us men, so I'm gonna make you men super uncomfortable right now. 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:05.039 This is not Atlas holding up the world. 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:08.480 You guys know the picture of Atlas holding up the world. 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:17.440 That's most men's, that's what you're taught since you're a toddler, is that you can go alone, you're a maverick, you're a leader. 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:20.879 And I'm telling you, it doesn't work. 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:22.480 It's not working. 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.960 It's not working in our culture, and it's not working in the church. 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:30.000 We need brothers. 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:32.399 You women need sisters. 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:35.360 You gotta, you gotta have campfires with guys. 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:43.519 You gotta have Bible studies with guys, you gotta go fishing with some guys, you gotta go hunting with some guys, you gotta study God's word with some guys. 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.720 Men, we've gotta hang together heart to heart. 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:49.840 He sent them out two by two. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.080 Think about it, 12 guys. 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:58.960 Strategically, wouldn't it have made more sense to send out 12 different guys? 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:04.480 Instead, he only covered six areas because he sent them out two by two. 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:07.919 Men. 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:10.399 Listen to me. 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:13.120 You can't do it alone. 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:18.320 Discipleship is hanging with some men. 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:38.720 I will promise you this, and I'm so sad to say this, but I'll promise you, I've been at this for over 35 years, this Christian thing, since being saved, and I can tell you, if you primarily don't have some guy friends in your life, you will not be growing at the pace at which God wants you to grow. 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:42.080 And secondly, you'll probably be gone in the next five years. 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:43.919 You will tube it. 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:45.200 You will. 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:23.840 That is what Satan fears, and that's why us men our whole life, the enemy's been attacking your heart, trying to take out your heart. 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.120 I say, let's stop that. 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:31.600 And let's start having brothers that gather around and become a team. 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:37.440 So in 2015, now you women are going, why does he keep talking to the men? 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:39.120 Because that I need to. 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:43.759 Now, you women, you you got a bunch of messed up things in your life too. 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:50.879 But um, but I'm telling you, I'm telling you, men, listen, listen, listen, listen. 00:16:51.600 --> 00:17:05.759 If we men begin to discover that intimacy and that heart-to-heart relationship with Christ and start banding together with some other men, we strike fear into the heart of Satan and demons. 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:08.240 So that's the second aspect. 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:09.519 Two by two. 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.480 They we need each other. 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:19.359 Thirdly, he gave them power over unclean spirits. 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:25.519 They had power given from Jesus, not their own power, but power from the one who commissioned them. 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:29.519 Wholehearted disciples possess kingdom power. 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:30.640 Do you know that? 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:32.720 Men and women, do you know that? 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:34.480 You have kingdom power. 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:38.319 You are a son, you are a daughter of the king. 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:44.960 And God can use you beyond your wildest dreams if you'll step out by faith. 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:54.160 As God begins to give you people who need relationship with you, with those around you, and you start to recognize these agreements of the enemy. 00:17:54.319 --> 00:18:02.720 First of all, it really begins with us, with our agreements with the enemy that we've made that limit the power of the Spirit in our lives. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:11.039 Many of us here, including myself, have made agreements with the enemy. 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:21.200 That the the those voices, that scripting that goes through that which says, Well, I'm really not good at that, and I really can't do that. 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.160 Before you know it, it's like can't, don't. 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:32.640 And with it comes with it this these strongholds of the enemy that hinder the power of the Spirit in you. 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:38.480 You've been given authority and power. 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:43.440 And in 2015, we're going to do some training on how to how to cast out demons. 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:45.680 I can't wait. 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:55.359 I'm excited to take us through a training where we can go through and start looking at, you know, what are the how can we recognize the demonic strongholds of our own life? 00:18:55.599 --> 00:19:02.720 But then how can God use us mightily as daughters and sons of the king to set the captives free? 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:05.039 And that's another message altogether. 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:19.279 Verse 8, he commanded them to take nothing for the journey except a staff, no bag, no bread, no copper in their money belts, but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:22.880 Now, this is not a wardrobe issue here. 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:29.519 This is not talking about what we can and can't do today, but the point, the full the philosophical point is this. 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.880 Number four, he's telling us to live simply. 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:35.359 He's telling them to live simply. 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:40.160 Wear the cloak of materialism lightly. 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:44.319 Wholehearted disciples live simply. 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:49.599 Some of you come out of Catholic backgrounds, you may have heard about the Dominican Order. 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:51.440 It's an order in the Catholic Church. 00:19:51.599 --> 00:20:00.000 And there's a story told of Dominic while in Rome seeking authorization for his order from the Pope. 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:09.440 So the Pope takes Dominic all over Rome, a tour of the treasures of Rome and the treasures of the Vatican. 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:22.240 And really quoting from Acts 3, 6, the Pope says to Dominic, Well, Peter, I guess, can no longer say, silver and gold, have I none? 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:35.039 Dominic looked straight into the eyes of the Pope and he said, No, and neither can he say, Rise up and walk. 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:46.240 You see, what happens is we become so burdened with all of our stuff that we lose the anointing and the power because we have to spend the rest of our life trying to keep up with all our stuff. 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:53.599 And he's saying, Look, live simply, be careful with stuff, and I'll use you. 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:56.720 I'll take care of you, I'll meet your needs. 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:01.599 Some of you are out of work right now, some of you are underemployed, some of you are unemployed. 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:06.640 The Lord is with you, he's gonna take care of you. 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:08.319 You know why I know that? 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:09.519 Because I've been there. 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:11.759 But also the reason I know this is because of the Lord's prayer. 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:14.720 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:17.839 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.200 Give us this day our daily bread. 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:27.359 You can't have bread without money, and you can't have money without a job. 00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:33.920 So at the core of Christ's resources is he's gonna provide for you. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:36.400 Cry out to him, call out to him. 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.400 Keep looking, keep searching, but you cry out to him. 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:42.720 Watch what he'll do. 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:50.000 How many of you have been out of work in the past and then seen God kind of miraculously provide for you and then give you work? 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:51.759 Amen. 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:53.680 He will. 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:58.000 Also, he said to them. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:04.160 And whatever place you enter a house, stay there till you depart from that place. 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:16.400 And whoever will not receive you nor hear you when you depart from there, how like this, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them. 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:18.319 Seems so mean. 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:28.640 Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah, hello, in the day of judgment than for that city. 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:31.039 See how much he loves you? 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:36.559 Jesus is a lion of Judah, man. 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:39.039 This is not Mr. 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:39.680 Rogers. 00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:40.799 I'm sorry. 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:44.720 Some of y'all saw my posting on Facebook about Mr. 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:45.359 Rogers. 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:46.880 I think Mr. 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:48.240 Rogers must be a really great guy. 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:49.759 I know he's a Methodist minister and all that. 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:50.799 So it was nothing against Mr. 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:51.119 Rogers. 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:53.359 I was just making a point of contrast. 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:56.480 So you saw some of the responses I got. 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:58.799 I was no way I was going to apologize for that. 00:22:58.960 --> 00:22:59.599 So sorry. 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:02.079 So but just want you to know, I think Mr. 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:03.279 Rogers is a really cool guy. 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:04.640 He's a nice guy, I'm sure. 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:06.240 But I don't want to be him. 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:08.880 I just don't. 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:12.880 Number five, fifth aspect. 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:21.680 He's telling them not to fret, worry, or become frustrated over those who don't agree with them or follow them. 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:28.480 Wholehearted disciples forgive and move on with those who reject them. 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:32.160 Guys, you can't sit there and try to please everybody. 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:39.519 There's a point where as you are who God's made you to be, and I'm not saying you're ever going to be perfect and you always need to ask for forgiveness. 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:42.799 Of course you do, but it's not going to be received a lot of times. 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:45.680 Some people just flat want to hurt you. 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:49.839 And you got to finally decide this is really getting dysfunctional. 00:23:50.079 --> 00:24:00.799 I mean, some of you come out of backgrounds where you've been pushed around, kicked around, molested, moved, pushed all your life, and I want to give you heart to say you don't have to put up with that crap. 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:03.680 Because the reality is that's not from God. 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:05.200 Alright? 00:24:05.359 --> 00:24:44.880 So you so you know what that I the metaphor he's using is what the Jews would do is whenever they left the Jewish territory and they went into Gentile territory, what they did because of their to make a point against the paganism of the Gentiles is when they entered back into Jewish territory, they were literally taking the dust from Gentile territory and dusting it off so they wouldn't contaminate the beauty of Israeli ground that was a monotheistic worshiping community. 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:48.640 So it's basically saying, look, I have nothing to do with these guys. 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:51.039 I'm coming back into my territory. 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:54.240 And so sometimes we're gonna face stuff. 00:24:54.319 --> 00:25:03.039 And the more you walk in, the more you become wholehearted disciples, you're gonna get rejected, you're gonna be in battles, you're gonna get attacked. 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:05.920 I want to empower you. 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:09.359 I don't mean be mean, I'm not saying that. 00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:17.519 But I'm also saying you don't have to have a little sweater on either, that you and take your little, put your little loafers on and watch the train go around. 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:18.160 Okay. 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:32.079 I am saying, though, that God God calls us, God calls us with a conviction of love and compassion, mercy, of course. 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:38.079 But not catering to the enemy in the process. 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:44.240 So Jesus says, just dust off your feet and move on. 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:48.160 Don't be shackled with those agreements of the past of the enemy. 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:52.480 Start moving forward with the adventures that God has for you in the future. 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:53.759 Verse 12. 00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:58.480 So they went out and preached that people should repent. 00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:06.319 And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them. 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:12.559 Sixthly, sixth perspective. 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:19.839 Wholehearted disciples are proclaiming and demonstrating a holistic gospel. 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:24.960 The kingdom of God is word and deed. 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:29.200 Not just word and not just deed. 00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:30.880 It's word and deed. 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:40.640 And so that's why I challenge us, even as we come into the Thanksgiving season, even as we come into the Christmas season, maybe you should come on Wednesday nights here and help feed the poor. 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:42.319 Come here and minister to them. 00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:49.440 Maybe you've got a heart for Springs Rescue Mission, or maybe you have a heart for what the Catholic Church is doing with their soup kitchen downtown. 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:50.160 I don't know. 00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:54.559 Let God lead you, but there's this part of that word and deed. 00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:58.240 God's going to give you chances and opportunities right in King Supers. 00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:02.000 I tell you, if we start praying, God use me wherever I go today. 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:06.160 You'll start to see things that you haven't seen before. 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:11.119 We've got a young lady in our church that just a couple weeks ago was at King Supers. 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:20.799 And she was there and she was looking, she was in the bread area, and she shared with me, she just had this sense about this person to her right. 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:29.759 So she looked at it, she said, Now I know this sounds really weird, but I feel like God told me to ask you how you're doing. 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:32.079 You don't know me from Adam. 00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:36.240 And that led into a conversation where she got to pray with her. 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:43.279 If we will start letting our minds and our hearts be open to that, and God knows that, watch out. 00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:45.200 You just entered a big adventure. 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:51.279 And so instead of I'm going shopping, which by the way, that sounds like hell on earth to me. 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:53.759 I mean, that's the most hellacious thing I can think of. 00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:55.839 I'm going shopping. 00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:59.119 I haven't been shopping in like a hundred years. 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:02.880 And I'm just happy as a June bug in spring, let me tell you that. 00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:08.559 But but the idea, instead of shopping, I'm going on a mission. 00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:11.279 It just happens to be at Safeway. 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:17.200 It just happens to be at the best place that I know of, Eddie Bauer. 00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:17.920 Okay? 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:20.480 Cabellas. 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.599 I'm going on a mission to Cabela's today. 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:27.039 It's a holistic gospel. 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:32.880 You do you realize, church, that God cares about us mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially? 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:34.799 He cares about all of that. 00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:36.799 He cares about those things. 00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:40.720 He wants you walking in that holistic gospel of healing. 00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:44.799 Verse 14. 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:48.559 And you're gonna, I'm gonna read this. 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:52.160 You know, what in the world does this have to do with discipleship? 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:53.680 Just hang in there. 00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:54.880 Hang in there. 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:59.839 There's actually, I read this and I went, oh, I know exactly how this relates. 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:02.480 It has nothing to do with John the Baptist, really. 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:11.839 Now King Herod heard of him, for his name had become well known, and he said, John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him. 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:13.039 Others said it's Elijah. 00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:19.359 Let me just say, you start walking as a disciple of Christ, and you're gonna get compared to all kinds of weirdos. 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:20.880 I promise you. 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:31.440 Others said it is the prophet, or like one of the whom uh uh one one of the prophets, but when Herod heard, he said, This is John whom I beheaded. 00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:33.759 He's been raised from the dead. 00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:42.160 For Herod himself had sent and laid hold of John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her. 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:47.599 Because John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife. 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:48.400 Verse 19. 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:58.720 Therefore Herodias held it against him and wanted to kill him, but she could not, for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and he protected him. 00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:02.480 And when he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly. 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:03.599 Verse 21. 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:12.079 Then an opportune day came when Herod, on his birthday, gave a feast for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee. 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:22.799 And when Herodias' daughter herself came in and danced and pleased Herod, and those who sat with him, the king said to the girl, Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you. 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:28.799 He also swore to her, Whatever you ask me, I will give you up to half my kingdom. 00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:32.000 So she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask? 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:34.960 And she said, The head of John the Baptist. 00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:42.880 Immediately she came in with haste to the king and asked, saying, I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter. 00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:50.720 And the king was exceedingly sorry, yet because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he did not want to refuse her. 00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:55.359 Immediately the king sent an executioner, commanded his head to be brought. 00:30:55.519 --> 00:31:03.279 And he went and beheaded him in prison, brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:08.640 When his disciples heard of it, they came and took away his corpse and laid it in a tomb. 00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:16.079 Then the apostles gathered to Jesus and told him all these things, both what they had done and what they had been taught. 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:19.920 How does this relate? 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:28.480 The first disciple of the New Testament John. 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:46.480 First disciple, first apostle. 00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:51.279 Seventh, lastly. 00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:54.880 Whole-hearted disciples are dangerous. 00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:00.240 Whole-hearted disciples are dangerous. 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:05.519 John was dangerous to the religious order. 00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:08.880 John was dangerous to the status quo. 00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:18.160 I pray that at the road we might become men and women who are dangerous for the kingdom of God. 00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:20.640 Dangerous to the kingdom of the enemy. 00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:22.960 Dangerous to status quo. 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:25.920 Dangerous to those who love religion. 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:28.400 John. 00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:30.640 Dangerous. 00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:38.079 He lost his head because he was dangerous. 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:41.680 Men, you're supposed to be dangerous. 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:45.119 That's the reason you like all those movies. 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:47.359 About brave heart. 00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:53.119 It's why you're not that inspired by pride and prejudice. 00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:58.160 I'm sorry, ladies. 00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:00.960 That's the beauty you were created for. 00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:02.880 You're supposed to love those. 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.839 You drag us men to those movies. 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.079 You're called. 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:24.079 You men are called to a William Wallace dangerous gospel. 00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:28.240 I challenge your hearts today. 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:31.920 God can mightily use you men. 00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:37.680 Women, I call you forth to be dangerous also for the kingdom. 00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:44.160 There's something within you of greatness that we men love to stand beside. 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:47.039 You are warrior princesses too. 00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:49.359 You are warrior princesses. 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:54.640 Don't let the enemy steal what you're called to do. 00:33:56.799 --> 00:34:16.480 Well, I'm calling it dangerous discipleship because one man equipping two, two men equipping four, four men equipping sixteen can have an exponential impact. 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:23.679 Want you to look at this diagram up here and see the power of the strategic thinking of Jesus. 00:34:26.239 --> 00:34:34.559 Jesus could have proclaimed the gospel to thousands every day of his three and a half years of ministry. 00:34:35.119 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