WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.319 Welcome to the Awakening Church podcast. 00:00:02.479 --> 00:00:07.040 We pray this message encourages you and provides the hope and light of Jesus Christ. 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:08.640 Thanks for tuning in. 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:20.399 Hey, good morning, Awakening. 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:21.440 How are we doing? 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:24.000 Gosh, good to be with you. 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:24.719 I've missed you. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:31.600 It's great to be back from a little study break, getting ready for the fall and a little bit of vacation on top of that. 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:33.679 So, man, I just missed you. 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:35.679 And just thank you. 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:38.320 Can we just thank our worship team for leading us in worship? 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:39.439 That was great. 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:42.320 My soul needed it. 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.439 Today we're kicking off a brand new series called 201. 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.159 Incredibly, incredibly creative title, isn't it? 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:49.200 201. 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:50.399 Go ahead and say that with me. 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:53.600 I said with me, and then I didn't even say it. 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:54.399 Come on. 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:55.280 Yeah, good job. 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.479 201, the profile of a disciple. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:00.880 You notice, baby, we talked about 101. 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:02.560 And 101 we do monthly. 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:12.000 It's your best introduction here at Awakening to get to know us, our history, what we're about, and to really figure out is this a place you want to call home? 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:14.799 Now, 201 is what we're introducing now. 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:19.680 It's really, how do you say, plant the, you know, do you plant a flag? 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:24.079 I don't know, steak in the ground, something like that, where you'd say, gosh, this is my home. 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:26.000 I want to be a member of Awakening. 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:27.840 I want to be a part of what God's doing. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:29.680 I'm making a commitment here. 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:38.959 Normally it's going to be a three-week class that we'll do, uh, and we'll start that after that, but uh after this series, but it's so important for us. 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:41.280 We wanted everyone to be a part of this. 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:47.680 Uh, we wanted to do a six-week series because this is foundational and formational to who we are as a church. 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:49.359 In fact, here's what I want you to do. 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:53.439 Uh, would you mark on your calendar August 25th? 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:55.760 August 25th, we're doing a team night. 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:02.319 My prayer and hope is that everyone, all of you would, I know that's probably not realistic, but I hope all of us would say, I'm in. 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:04.159 And many of you already are in. 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:05.680 But this is our opportunity. 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:22.639 We'll we'll explain more in depth what does it mean to be a member and engaging here fully at awakening and how God is using this local expression of the church to reach this generation and um for people to encounter his love. 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:25.759 Uh now, so mark that. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:29.360 Show up 4 to 6, August 25th. 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:29.919 Okay? 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.199 That's the I realize I skipped one important part, so can I just go back real quick with you? 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:38.240 I don't have the normally I have a little something here that tells me this. 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:39.520 You you good with that? 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:44.080 I haven't preached in five weeks, so just brace yourself. 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:56.639 Um we planted and started awakening 12 years ago, we began with this vision and mission in mind that we exist to awaken this generation to new life. 00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:57.360 It's so fun. 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:06.560 I got to meet uh some new college students that go to Santa Clara in the first service, and we love college students, we love uh young professionals, young adults. 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:08.240 Uh we exist for every generation. 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:14.879 In fact, if you want to hear more about uh that vision, come at one o'clock and hang out with me. 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:16.639 We'd love to tell you more about it. 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:25.520 But just so that we all remember, man, there's people that showed up yesterday to help set this space and showed up early this morning to set up. 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:28.879 And there's somebody that made coffee so that you would be awake right now. 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.120 And I'm really grateful for that, by the way. 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:40.879 Uh and there's greeters and the worship team and all of that, so that we believe that in this space and this time, God wants to meet you. 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:42.639 He wants to speak to you. 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:49.759 That our prayer is that you would have a life-changing encounter with God, that you would awaken to new life in Him. 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:52.400 And so, would you pray with me as we dive in today? 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:55.520 Heavenly Father, thank you so much for your grace. 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:57.039 Thank you for this moment. 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:00.240 We ask that you would speak to us. 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:01.599 You would move. 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.080 Holy Spirit, have your way. 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:08.159 Do what only you can do. 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:11.599 In Jesus' name. 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:12.960 And all God's people say. 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:14.719 Amen. 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:18.560 Uh there's a quote by Mahatma Gadani. 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:26.560 Uh, he he we're not sure if he ever said this, but he said a lot of things like this. 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:35.120 That it it it you know represents his thoughts, but it's been a fairly famous quote. 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:36.720 And the quote is simply this. 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:37.759 Uh, next slide. 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:39.920 I like your Christ. 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:42.480 I do not like your Christians. 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:47.040 Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:55.519 Uh, Gandhi, if you don't know, he was deeply impacted and influenced by the life of Jesus and the teachings of Jesus. 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:00.160 His favorite part actually was the Sermon on the Mount, read it frequently. 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:07.839 It's called the Sermon on the Mount the greatest writing on ethical and moral principles known to man. 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:16.480 Uh, Jesus' life of sacrificial love and nonviolence deeply impacted his own belief of nonviolence and ahisma. 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:21.199 He loved the loving your enemies, his humility. 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:26.160 When he looked at Jesus, he was compelled by Jesus. 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:31.199 And then when he looked at Christians, he was repelled. 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:59.600 And the world that he lived in, the colonial oppression, he did time, did time, I guess not like that, but spent time in South Africa, in the apartheid, the racism, the discrimination, the materialism, the ability for the Christians in his day to be live comfortable lives with no concern for the needs of people around him, was repulsive. 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:02.319 I like your Christ. 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:05.040 I do not like your Christians. 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:10.959 Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:25.600 You know, one of the things that's fascinating is when the church first began, right after Jesus rose from the dead and he, you know, began to set this little band of followers to go proclaim this good news. 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:27.279 They weren't called Christians. 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:28.800 That wasn't their name. 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.199 In fact, they were called the way. 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:37.199 And the reason is they were followers of the way of Jesus. 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:39.439 They followed in the way of Jesus. 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:45.839 Jesus was their rabbi, he was the Messiah, and were just following in the way of Jesus. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:50.639 And it was as this gospel was spreading, it moved to this town called Antioch. 00:06:50.959 --> 00:07:02.319 Antioch, second to Rome in influence, uh in affluence, in diversity, in impact in the ancient world. 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:04.160 The gospel took root here. 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:05.519 I mean, it just spread. 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:13.680 And Antioch was the very first, think about this is amazing, the very first multicultural church in human history. 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:22.720 And as it took root there, the Antiochians, they began to call these followers of the way Christians. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.079 It was a derogatory term. 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:27.600 It was a put down. 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:31.199 And because Christians, you know what it means? 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.319 It means little Christ. 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:52.319 They looked at these people that claimed they followed this rabbi who was executed on a Roman cross and then rose again three days later, and their lives so looked like the teachings of the rabbi they were talking about. 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:54.959 They called him Little Christ. 00:07:58.480 --> 00:07:59.759 What happened? 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:04.560 Where did it go wrong? 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:17.839 Why does Gandhi Gandhi his this phrase, this sentence ring so true today? 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:27.279 Why would people who have nothing to do with Jesus go, you know what? 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:30.319 I look at the teachings. 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:31.759 I like your Christ. 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:35.120 I don't like your Christians. 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:58.080 Not because they look so much like Jesus, not because they're loving their enemies, not because they're turning the other cheek, not because of their care and concern for the poor and the press, uh, oppressed, not because they're living out a sacrificial love, not because of any of those things, not because they're because they look so unlike Christ. 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:06.320 How do we get back to that Antioch church in Silicon Valley? 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:11.759 How do we return to Jesus' vision for his followers? 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:21.200 How do we become a people that look more and more like Jesus? 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:24.799 That's what this series 201 is about. 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:31.200 After Jesus rose from the dead, before he ascended to heaven, he spent a little over 40 days with the disciples. 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:33.759 He appeared to over 400 eyewitnesses. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:37.519 He gave his disciples what we call today the Great Commission. 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:47.200 And the Great Commission was what the disciples were doing in Antioch that caused the Antiochians to call them little Christ. 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:52.399 And it is what we, the church, desperately need today. 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:59.600 If you've got your Bibles, would you open up to Matthew 28, verse 18, or your device? 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.679 And would you read with me the words of Jesus? 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:08.639 Picture the scene. 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:13.200 Maybe 120 or so are gathered around Jesus. 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:21.919 It's his final words before he's going to ascend into heaven, and he's leaving them with this final mandate. 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:29.919 Then Jesus came to them and said, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:43.600 Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and then teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you. 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:50.320 And surely I'm with you always to the very end of the age. 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.080 I want to draw your attention just to three words. 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:59.679 They'll outline our time, but I want them to sink in. 00:10:59.919 --> 00:11:06.080 We're going to talk about power, we're going to talk about purpose, and then we're going to talk about presence. 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:07.679 Would you say that with me? 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:11.200 Power, purpose, presence. 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:12.879 I want you to walk away with this. 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.120 I want this ringing in your head as you're leaving. 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:16.159 I don't want you to forget it. 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:17.279 Let's say it again. 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:20.639 Power, purpose, presence. 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.600 The first thing I want to draw your attention to is power. 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:29.759 Jesus came to them and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.360 Jesus has all authority. 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.559 He has all power, all dominion. 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:38.480 He has all the authority. 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:40.399 He doesn't have some authority. 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:44.320 He doesn't have kind of spiritual authority. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.840 He doesn't have, you know, just like a limited way of thinking. 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:54.799 He says, no, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 00:11:55.039 --> 00:12:01.919 When I was crucified on Good Friday, it looked like the religious leaders had all authority. 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:08.320 When I was crucified, it looked like the powers at Rome had conquered my power. 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:12.720 But on resurrection Sunday, friends, I defeated the grave. 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:15.360 I defeated the tyranny of the evil one. 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:21.120 And as a result, I have all power and authority. 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:23.120 Period. 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:37.039 What we need as the church is a bigger, grander vision of Jesus in the 21st century. 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:41.120 We think such small thoughts of him. 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:48.080 We have such like a little picture. 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:52.080 And so as a result, we live little lives. 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:58.720 Like, would you begin to look at Jesus and begin to see him for who he is? 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.799 Some of our thoughts is, oh man, he's a really good man. 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:04.960 He was a great teacher. 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:13.679 He's got some incredible things that would be helpful for my life, and so I want to take some of those and apply them. 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:21.679 I really love the feeling I get about church or some of his things that make me feel good, and I love that part of it. 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:24.799 And Jesus becomes our self-help guru. 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:29.120 He becomes our advice buddy. 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:37.039 He becomes our friend of like and and and there's many of those things that are true. 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:42.399 But it's not the whole story. 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:44.639 It's not the whole picture. 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:50.799 Um when I was a kid, we moved from Texas to California. 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:52.879 We're driving across my dad. 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:55.919 I mean, think about this, he's got just miserable kids. 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:01.840 My older brothers, I was eight, my older brothers are six and a half years younger, they were like 15, you know. 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:10.000 We're driving from Texas, and we have a dog and a cat that are drugged up in the car, you know. 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.480 And he decided, you know, I'm gonna try to pep everyone up. 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:16.000 We're gonna visit the Grand Canyon. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.080 It was like a couple hour detour from there. 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:20.320 We have wanted nothing to do with it. 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:22.799 I mean, I still remember this. 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:23.759 This is so funny. 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:30.559 And I now feel bad for my dad, who's just trying all dads have these experiences, and it's just like you do your best, but it sucks. 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:34.320 Um, that's that's sum of that's sum of fatherhood right there. 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:38.480 He takes us to the Grand Canyon. 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:40.480 Me and my brothers get out. 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:43.840 No lie, this is probably max five minutes. 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:52.960 We get out of the car, use the bathroom because we needed to, stand over the Grand Canyon, say this, it's a big hole in the ground, and get back into the vehicle. 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.039 It's a big hole in the ground. 00:14:57.519 --> 00:14:58.559 It's true. 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:06.879 The Grand Canyon, if you've ever been there, you'll note that it is a big hole in the ground, like 273 miles of hole in the ground. 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:07.759 I mean, it's huge. 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:08.240 It's grand. 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:10.080 Well, though, there's a reason they call it grand. 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:15.759 It's a grand canyon, big hole in the ground, true but incomplete. 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:22.799 So often we have true thoughts but incomplete thoughts of Jesus. 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:45.360 When you stop to take in the Grand Canyon and don't just kind of take a cursory look at it, don't just take a glance at it, but you behold the Grand Canyon, you take it in and you see the vastness of it, you see the beauty of the way the sun hits all of the different crevices and canyons and the way the shadows cascade across the you know Colorado River. 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:56.720 If you get down into it, you experience the different ways that it actually affects the actual climate that in different places it can be 10, 20 degrees hotter or colder because it's grand. 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.000 And you step into it, you're immersed in it, you're like, whoa. 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:05.759 And you experience your finiteness in the midst of its immensity. 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:16.879 Friends, what we need as a church, what you need, what I need, is a grander picture of Jesus. 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:23.440 The suffering servant, yes, has now become the sovereign king. 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:25.919 He is king of kings and lord of lords. 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:32.080 At his name, every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:39.600 When John is talking about Jesus in Revelation, he talks about him. 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.799 He is riding on a white horse, he'll be called faithful and true. 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:47.039 He is the word of God, and he is King of kings. 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:51.440 It's interesting. 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:54.879 Uh we're going to be teaching through 1 John through the fall. 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:58.799 I think it's really going to prepare us for this election year. 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:03.519 1 John 1:1, John's talking about like we we seen him. 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:05.119 We touched him. 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:07.440 This word of life, like life itself. 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.359 Not just Jesus, but life itself showed up onto the planet. 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:12.480 We touched him. 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:15.599 And then he uses this word, we beheld him. 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.079 Behold is more than a glance. 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:35.359 This word in the Greek means to look at something for long enough to understand in some way the significance of that something or someone. 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:47.200 Like to look at something long enough to come to a deeper understanding of the significance of that thing or of that person. 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:51.039 Like I'm going to stop and I'm going to behold you. 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:53.119 I'm going to see you. 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:55.039 I'm going to take it in. 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:58.319 I'm not going to look at the Grand Canyon and go big hole in the ground. 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.119 I'm going to stop and I'm going to behold. 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:05.440 But we live such fast-paced lives, hurry lives. 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:06.640 We take a glance at Jesus. 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:11.039 We look at the top level and we don't even really see him. 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:17.440 Jesus has all authority. 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:27.279 It's our small-minded thoughts of Jesus that keep us apathetic and anemic as a church. 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:34.960 And by the way, why would a watching world follow a God that the church won't even worship? 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:44.160 Friends, oh, that we would be in awe of Jesus once more. 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:50.559 I mean, the way Apostle Paul says it, he says, the Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:59.839 For in him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, all things have been created through him and for him. 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:01.359 He is before all things. 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:05.759 And in him all things hold together, and he is the head of the body, the church. 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:11.599 He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that everything he might have supremacy. 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:22.880 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth and in heaven, by making peace through his blood shed on the cross. 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:24.640 This is Jesus. 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:27.920 This is the one we just sung about. 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:33.599 This is the one that changes our lives. 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:35.680 First power. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:39.839 Jesus has all authority, and this is the basis for what he says next. 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:45.759 He says, Since I have all authority, my kingdom is breaking forth into this world, so you got to tell people about it. 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:47.839 Power and then purpose. 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:52.079 Jesus calls his disciples to make disciples. 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:56.720 Go, therefore, and make disciples. 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:58.559 Next slide. 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:03.920 Therefore, go and make disciples. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:11.200 Go, that word go, sometimes when we see it, we're like, well, I have to like go somewhere. 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:13.359 I need to go to the ends of the earth. 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:14.559 I need to go on a missions trip. 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:16.960 I need to be a pastor or a missionary or something like that. 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:17.759 No, no, no. 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:32.559 It has this emphasis of like going, but what it means is it's like as you go, while you're going, the way it's constructed in the Greek is so, as you're going to work, as you're going to your school, as you're going about your day, make disciples. 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:36.640 Jesus, by the way, expects his disciples to make disciples. 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:41.599 In fact, a mature believer is one who reproduces their life. 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:49.680 Probably one of the best words for a disciple is actually an apprentice in our day. 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:59.519 An apprentice is one who comes under a master teacher to learn a trade and to be able to do what the master teacher does. 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:14.400 Jesus says, You are an apprentice of mine to come under my teaching and my ways to learn my way of life, to do what I do, and help other people do it too. 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:19.119 He goes on to say, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:24.319 Baptism is the public declaration that I am a part of the family of God. 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:27.039 I've become a disciple and apprentice of Jesus. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:30.240 We're having baptisms, by the way, on September 8th. 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:32.640 If you've never been baptized, get baptized. 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:38.000 Jesus commands it and calls it of us to go public with our faith that I'm in. 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:43.759 He saved me, and I want the whole world to know I'm a part of the family of Jesus. 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:49.119 And then he says, teaching them to obey most of the things I told them. 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:54.400 Teaching them to pick and choose the parts that they really like. 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:56.640 Because you know best. 00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:59.680 Because you should just live your truth. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:01.440 You do you. 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:05.440 Be true to you, come on. 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:10.480 Teaching them to obey what? 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:12.799 Everything. 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:15.359 You don't even have to know Greek to know what that means. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:20.720 Teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:32.000 An apprentice comes under a master teacher, and they don't think they know how to do what the master knows and does. 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:40.160 They say, You're the master, you're the teacher, and I'm gonna learn how to do what you do. 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:47.680 What we do is we come to Jesus with we know how to do life and what we think life should really be. 00:22:47.839 --> 00:23:02.319 And then we tell Jesus this, and then we're like, well, we want some of the things that you have, and we pick and choose from it, and then we're wondering why our faith is not working, why we're frustrated, and why some of the power and the presence that we read about in Scripture is not true in our lives. 00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:04.720 You have not become an apprentice. 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:11.359 You're leading your own life, and Jesus says it doesn't work until you let me lead your life. 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:15.920 You're still trying to rescue yourself. 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:18.079 You're just using me as a little buoy. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:21.920 You need to submit and surrender and say, Jesus, rescue me. 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:24.720 I'm spiritually bankrupt. 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:28.079 I can't do it anymore. 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:31.279 You know what's interesting? 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:37.839 Um, all of us are a disciple of something or someone. 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:39.759 You are. 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:40.960 I am. 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:48.319 It's not a question of whether you're a disciple and apprentice, it's just what are you a disciple or apprentice of? 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:56.640 I mean, early on we're mostly an apprentice of parents or mentors or coaches or teachers. 00:23:57.759 --> 00:23:58.400 Culture. 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:00.799 I mean, more often today, what is it? 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:09.440 You know, it's maybe your your political ideology, your the cultural waters we swim in, um, social media. 00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:16.880 Well, TikTok is our teacher, aren't they? 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:20.000 And influencers are now our guides. 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:23.200 And you wonder why we're a mess. 00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:26.640 And Jesus says, let me be your guide. 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:32.559 Whatever you consistently consume is shaping and forming you. 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:38.880 Whatever you consistently consume is shaping and forming you. 00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:42.240 It is what is discipling you. 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:51.759 Have you just taken a look and gone like I say I follow Jesus, but actually, Instagram is my discipler. 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:58.640 What are you consistently consuming? 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:03.680 What's shaping and forming you? 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:11.839 I mean, we spend so much energy running after trying to look like and be like so-and-so to have their life. 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:28.640 We spend all this money and we follow and we we we work on all these things, and it leaves us tired and empty, and well, our experience doesn't match the product that we were sold. 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:32.079 And Jesus would say this. 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:38.160 His call is to make disciples. 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:43.359 Well, for that to happen, you have to be a disciple in order to make disciples. 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:51.519 We had okay, here we go. 00:25:54.319 --> 00:26:06.240 Jesus didn't die on the cross and defeat death so that you can live a safe, comfortable life. 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:16.400 And he didn't die on the cross and resurrect to new life so that you can have the American dream. 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:21.920 Comfort and safety are the gods of our age. 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:38.000 And we bow to them and capitulate to them, and we run after them, and anything that calls us out of that, we feated the grave. 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:54.640 He defeated the tyranny of Satan and evil to break forth his kingdom into our broken world so that freedom might just erupt on our planet. 00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:57.680 Life that's truly life might finally be found. 00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:15.200 The things that are holding us in bondage and in captivity have been broken, and yet we settle for the status quo and we keep pulling back our creature comforts instead of Jesus, you know, I'll follow you. 00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:20.079 Dallas Willard, the late great philosopher and Christian thinker, wrote this. 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:51.200 Then Jesus, um the greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who by profession or culture are identified as Christians will become disciples, students, apprentices, practitioners of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the kingdom of the heavens into every corner of human existence. 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:54.400 What does a disciple of Jesus look like? 00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:56.079 What does a disciple do? 00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:01.839 We synthesize five core elements of a disciple of Jesus, and that's what the series is about. 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.880 We're gonna unpack those over the next five weeks. 00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:07.680 But we call it a profile of a disciple. 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:10.880 First, a disciple has a compelling faith. 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:17.279 People, notice this, who were nothing like Jesus really liked Jesus and followed him. 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:20.720 There was something deeply compelling about Jesus. 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:24.079 And there's something deeply compelling about the first followers. 00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:32.559 Their love for one another, the hope they had, their sacrificial joy and confidence, their boldness to share this good news. 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:34.720 There's life-giving practices. 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:37.599 Isn't that fasting fascinating? 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:46.480 That Jesus is considered the most impactful person in all of human history, and he had regular rhythms of silence, solitude, and prayer. 00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:50.160 If Jesus needed them, don't we need them? 00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:54.480 Intentional relationships, the Christian life is not difficult. 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:56.960 It's impossible without community. 00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:59.599 Jesus had his twelve, and then he had his three. 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:01.279 The early church, they did this. 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:12.079 They met in big groups in the temple courts, they worshiped together, sat under the apostles' teaching, and then they gathered in homes, growing together to become more like Jesus. 00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:14.640 The early church had extravagant generosity. 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:21.200 It was a hallmark of the first followers, sharing their time, their energy, their money, just extravagantly. 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:28.960 And the early church was made up not of generally the rich and the wealthy, but the poor, the downtrodden. 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:40.400 Tertullian, North African bishop, second century, wrote this it's our care of the helpless, our practice of loving kindness that brands us in the eyes of our opponents. 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.720 Oh, that that would be the case for us yet again, church. 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:52.160 That it's our care for the helpless, our loving kindness that brands us in the eyes of our opponents. 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:59.039 It's interesting, Jesus was talk actually more about money than he talked about heaven and hell combined. 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:02.400 He said, wherever your money goes, there your heart follows. 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:05.359 That how you spend your money is a discipleship issue. 00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:07.519 It's not a personal issue. 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:13.759 Like your bank account is the most spiritual document you have because it shows you where your heart is. 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:15.920 Isn't it funny? 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:16.880 I mean, just think about this. 00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:22.319 My daughter was paying the other day and she's like, Dad, I think I need you to teach me how to tip, you know? 00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:24.160 And she's like, I did like 10%. 00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:27.680 And I don't know, you know, if that's okay or not. 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:31.599 Now, some of us grew up and remember when 10% was a healthy tip. 00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:36.319 And now it's many of you are like, oh my gosh, how could she? 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:38.960 That poor barista. 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:42.640 You gotta do 20. 00:30:43.279 --> 00:30:46.400 18 if you're kind of miserly, but 20. 00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:49.440 25 if you're actually like a good person. 00:30:53.039 --> 00:31:00.880 Why do we feel such a conviction to tip people, but we are like won't even tie to God? 00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:04.480 Like that's a struggle. 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:11.279 Like if you can't trust God with your money, you're not trusting him with your life, by the way. 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:17.359 Extravagant generosity, week five, you're like, oh, I may not miss it, make that one, Ryan. 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:19.599 I think you need to. 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:21.519 And then meaningful ministry. 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:23.440 Meaningful ministry. 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.359 You have a purpose. 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:29.279 God has a purpose for your life. 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:34.160 He's given you spiritual gifts to build up the body of Christ. 00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:36.480 To unleash his kingdom here. 00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:40.559 Paul's picture in the New Testament was of a body. 00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:50.240 That we each make up the body, that we're incomplete when we're not all together using our gifts to bring about the kingdom of Jesus. 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:51.839 This is the profile of disciple. 00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:54.319 We're gonna work and learn how to live that out. 00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:55.920 How do we do that here at Awakening? 00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:57.920 We call it the discipleship pathway. 00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:00.480 First, you gotta come to know Jesus. 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:02.000 You come to know Jesus. 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:07.119 So you have a place, a moment in time where you declare, Jesus, I need you. 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:09.599 Would you be my Lord and Savior? 00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:12.400 Uh, Alpha is one way to do it here. 00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:14.000 We're gonna run an alpha course. 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:17.839 If you're like brand new, you're searching, we're so glad you're here. 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:26.240 Uh we're gonna start an alpha course coming in the uh fall, and it's a great environment to explore Christianity and faith. 00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:32.000 Sunday service is a main component of the way we do it here because it's a great way to come in and check out. 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:35.759 And as we grow, we're we're constantly getting to know Jesus, aren't we? 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:40.400 We're just constantly learning how do we grow and know Jesus better. 00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:42.240 And then we grow as disciples. 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:44.480 After you come to know him, then you're gonna make a decision. 00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:46.000 I'm gonna grow. 00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:49.119 Like I'm tired of drifting. 00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:50.880 I'm gonna grow as disciples. 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:51.759 We have small groups. 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.319 My prayer is that all of you will be a part of a small group. 00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:58.240 These are smaller communities growing together to become more like Jesus. 00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:00.079 We have a protege program. 00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:01.839 It's launching in September. 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:03.119 Maybe you're interested in it. 00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:10.000 You're like, it's a nine-month leadership and discipleship development process to help you grow in your discipleship. 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:12.880 Then you serve in the name of Jesus. 00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:24.240 Your time, your talent, your treasure, moving from a consumer to a contributor, moving from just being fed to helping set the table for others. 00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:29.200 And mature disciples make disciples share the love of Jesus. 00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:32.160 We're going to talk about that next week in a compelling faith, haven't we? 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:37.599 So experienced the people who actually do share their faith, it's rather condemning, isn't it? 00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:43.680 How do we have a compelling faith and share onesomely the love of Jesus? 00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:45.599 And by the way, we'll talk about this. 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.279 What if, you know, the gospel means good news, right? 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:54.559 What if the good news of Jesus is actually good for everyone, not just you? 00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:59.519 What if it's the best news this planet has ever heard? 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:02.079 Why would we keep it to ourselves? 00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:03.279 Share your faith. 00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:07.359 So let me ask you, what's your next step in your discipleship process? 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:11.440 I think there's a number of us where we gotta come to know Jesus. 00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:14.960 Like you need to come to know Jesus. 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:19.360 I think many of us know a lot about Jesus, but we don't really know him personally. 00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:22.000 Anyone watching the Olympics lately? 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:22.320 Yeah? 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:23.760 Yeah, a few of you. 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.719 Um I love basketball, as most of you know. 00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:28.079 I love the Warriors. 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:29.679 Curry's struggling a little bit. 00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:31.599 I think he'll kick he'll get it back. 00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:32.079 It's fine. 00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:33.760 He's the greatest shooter of all time. 00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:39.599 One of the things that's fun is Coach Kerr is the um is the Olympic coach this year. 00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:40.159 It's exciting. 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:42.000 I'm like, I love Coach Kerr, you know. 00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:46.000 I I remember watching him as a kid on the Bulls and now as a coach. 00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:46.960 I I actually know him. 00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:49.519 I don't know if you know that, but I I know Coach Kerr. 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:53.360 I I read his uh biography, it was great. 00:34:53.519 --> 00:35:04.239 Um I know a lot about his early childhood and his college years at Arizona, woo, you know, and how he unlikely made it to the um, you know, NBA and his incredible career. 00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:06.079 But I actually met Coach Kerr. 00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:06.960 Here you can see it. 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:09.760 Uh two years ago in the airport at San Diego. 00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:13.039 Yes, it does look like he's being held hostage by us. 00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:20.480 Um thing is, Coach Kerr doesn't know me. 00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:22.639 I know him. 00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:27.599 I've even met him, but he doesn't know me. 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:41.199 If I walked up to him today, he wouldn't go, Ryan! And I think that's where a number of us are. 00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:43.440 We know a lot about Jesus. 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.880 We know him, but he doesn't know you. 00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:51.280 You haven't begun a personal relationship with him. 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:57.119 You've even done the churchy things and you just go, Jesus, I want to know you. 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:01.679 Come into my life and make me new. 00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:06.159 I think for some it's it's growing as a disciple. 00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:10.079 I'm gonna I have been drifting. 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:11.119 And that's okay. 00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:12.800 We do that from time to time. 00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:16.719 Just nobody drifts into a better version of themselves, by the way. 00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:19.599 And no one drifts into discipleship. 00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:22.000 You have to grow. 00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:24.000 You go, I'm gonna take a step to grow. 00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:24.559 You know what? 00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:26.639 I've been showing up, but I haven't been serving. 00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:28.960 I haven't used my time, my talents, my treasure. 00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:31.760 My next step is to serve, or my next step, you know what? 00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:37.599 This sounds really scary, but uh, God's put people in my life that I desperately love, and I want them to know Jesus. 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:39.440 I just don't know how to share it. 00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:42.960 And we want to help you, and we're gonna work towards that next week. 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.519 What is your next step? 00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:46.719 Three words. 00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:47.599 Presence. 00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:49.360 Jesus has all authority. 00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:53.599 Or power, Jesus has all authority, purpose. 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:56.960 Jesus calls his disciples to make disciples. 00:36:57.199 --> 00:37:00.000 Mature disciples make disciples. 00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:01.679 We reproduce our lives. 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:03.119 And then finally, presence. 00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:04.400 Presence. 00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:15.519 Jesus is with you always. 00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:26.400 Not some of the time, not when you're a good Christian, not when you're in church, but not at work or at school. 00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:32.079 If you are a follower of Christ, never once have you walked alone. 00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:35.280 You've never stepped into a meeting and Jesus wasn't there. 00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:39.679 You never stepped on your school campus and Jesus wasn't with you. 00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:49.119 In fact, Jesus would tell his disciples, it's actually better that I go because I'm sending my spirit before you would go to a place to worship where the presence of God would be. 00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:52.159 Now I'm putting my presence in you. 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:58.480 The spirit that raised Jesus from the dead indwells every single follower of Jesus. 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:03.039 With you, always present. 00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:09.679 Jesus is actually following a Hebrew formula for commissioning. 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:18.400 When Joshua was commissioned, when Moses had passed, Joshua 1.9, 1.7, he says, be strong and courageous. 00:38:18.639 --> 00:38:21.280 He's just calling like there's a task ahead of you. 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:26.480 Be strong, be careful to obey, and then God will be with you. 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:32.960 When David was passing on the reins of leadership to Solomon, same thing. 00:38:33.119 --> 00:38:39.119 Be strong and courageous, be careful to obey all of God's commands. 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:41.440 God's with you. 00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:43.760 When Jesus does it, I love this. 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:50.880 The be strong and courageous, Jesus says, I have all the power. 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.880 And he does say, follow me. 00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:58.400 Be careful to obey all of my teaching. 00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:01.280 And I am with you. 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:05.039 He doesn't say, muster up your own strength. 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:09.039 Figure out how to be courageous. 00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:10.320 How I gotta be strong. 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:11.519 I gotta I gotta really be strong. 00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:12.320 I gotta get in big. 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:13.360 He says, no, no. 00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:15.360 I have the authority and power. 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:19.199 Jesus, who has all authority, is always with you. 00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:40.239 You have the one who has all authority, power, and dominion, who defeated the grave, who is the king of kings, the lord of lords, and he says he is with you always, no matter where you're going, what you're doing, when you feel incomplete, inadequate, when you feel like you're the worst human on the planet, when you feel like God can never love you anymore, he's like I'm still with you, I still love you. 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:40.880 No, no, no. 00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:43.760 I'm indwelling you even then, even there. 00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:47.519 So why don't you bring all of you to me, anyways, because I'm there already. 00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:48.960 I haven't turned my back on you. 00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:52.960 No, I'm inside of you, and I want to empower you to live this life out. 00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:54.800 Just turn the keys over. 00:39:57.760 --> 00:39:59.280 Let me ask you this. 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:07.440 What would you do if you are absolutely confident God is with you? 00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:14.000 What would you do? 00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:19.360 If you really believed the one with all authority was always with you. 00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:27.119 This fall, my son and I were doing some college tours, and before we did that, we went up and visited my brother. 00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:28.239 He was in Reading. 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:36.239 My brother is a songwriter and producer, and he's a little brother flex here, so I apologize. 00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:43.360 Um he's the number one producer for worship music in the world. 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:45.199 He's won four Grammys. 00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:46.800 He writes songs that we sing. 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:48.400 I thank you for clapping for him. 00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:49.119 I appreciate that. 00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:50.000 I'll I'll let him know. 00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:50.960 I'll let him know. 00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:52.079 I'll let him know. 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:59.840 Um, like some of you don't know who Maverick City is, he won a Grammy with them. 00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:02.719 You don't know who Elevation Music is, he won Grammys with them. 00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:06.320 He you don't know who Hillsong or Bethel and all those people. 00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:07.039 That's fine. 00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:12.159 He wrote Goodness of God, Great Are You Great God, whatever, Holy Forever. 00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:13.280 We just sang King of Kings. 00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:17.280 Every week we sing at least two or three of his songs, like the top 20 songs in the world. 00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:19.679 He's got about 11 of them right now. 00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:21.599 Um it's silly, it's silly. 00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:23.519 It is one of those silly things. 00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:26.960 Um I'm really proud of him. 00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:33.760 My son is really good at music and figuring out how to like help him in college stuff. 00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:38.639 I'm like, dude, your uncle, he's really good at music too. 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:42.239 And he was recording the new Bethel album in Reading. 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:46.159 And he said, Why don't you come up for a couple days? 00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:50.000 It's one thing to know, like, he's the number one guy here. 00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:59.599 It's another thing to be in this world where everyone that you've listened to, that you hear sing on the radio or in worship, they all look at your brother and like, what do we do? 00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:01.760 You know, it's like, wow, you really are. 00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:17.920 I didn't doubt you, but um we show up and uh as they're recording, and like if if we weren't with my brother, we'd have zero access. 00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:24.159 We would be waiting outside, um hoping to get in for one of the days. 00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:32.159 But because we were with my brother, and because our name's Ingram and his name's Ingram, we had badges that said Ingram uh on it. 00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:37.280 Uh, we had walked in the backstage with him, and we're at the rehearsal. 00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:38.400 I mean, we're eating dinner. 00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:46.079 You don't probably know who Aiden King is, but my son's listened to him forever, and we're having, you know, in and out with Aiden, and Right is like, this is amazing, right? 00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:52.880 And all of a sudden we're hanging out, talking, and you know, like they have really good food in the backstage. 00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:56.239 And we're like, well, the first day we're like, oh, we'll just kind of nosy on back. 00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:57.360 Hope we don't get caught. 00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:00.960 And then now the second day we're like, hey, dude, the tacos are bombed today. 00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:02.880 Let's go back and get those tacos. 00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:15.280 And and we have people coming up to us and talking to us, and all of a sudden we had access, we had authority that we wouldn't have had if we were not with Jason. 00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:25.039 You have access because Jesus says, You're with me. 00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:32.079 You have authority because Jesus says you're with me. 00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:44.480 You don't step into a room, you don't step into a moment, you don't step into anything where you don't have full access to the Father, that every spiritual blessing in heaven is yours right now in Christ Jesus. 00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:52.159 And he says, you have authority, not because you're not all that authoritative, but I have all authority, I'm with you, I'm in you. 00:43:52.239 --> 00:44:03.519 And if we just began to believe that for an ounce, like the smallest bit, if we just believed the smallest bit, it would not only change your life, it would change the world around you. 00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:06.159 What would you do? 00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:11.199 If you are absolutely confident God was with you. 00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:13.360 Why don't you stand and we'll worship? 00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:19.679 God, I just preached my guts out. 00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:29.039 And like my fear is that we would hear this and some people would go, oh, that's nice. 00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:36.559 Maybe others would be like, yeah, that that was that was stirred, it stirred me, it stirred me, it fed me. 00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:37.920 Whatever. 00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:39.679 I don't even know what that means. 00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:52.000 God, would it move us to the point of action, to the point of saying, we will be your apprentice? 00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:56.960 Would it move us to the point where, like Peter, we would say, where else shall we go? 00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:59.679 You alone hold the words of life. 00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:09.119 Would it move us to the point where we actually believe you're with us and it makes all the difference? 00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:19.119 And so, Holy Spirit, have your way in this room, in this time, in this moment, and move us. 00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:23.360 We hope you are blessed by this message. 00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:28.000 Please subscribe to our podcast for access to every episode as they're uploaded. 00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:30.239 And hey, we'd love to connect with you. 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:36.320 Take a next step by filling out our virtual connection card at awakeningchurch.com slash card.