WEBVTT 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:06.639 Welcome to this week's message from the Church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:12.640 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:15.199 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:19.359 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has in store for you. 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:24.960 Turn with me in your Bibles this morning to Romans chapter 12. 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:26.719 Now I know, hang on. 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:31.679 Our new series starts Easter Sunday on the book of Colossians. 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:42.079 And the title of the series, the new series, is going to be The Resurrection, The Risen Life, basically. 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:43.920 The risen life. 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:45.759 And he is risen. 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:53.920 And what because he is risen, Sunday, Easter Sunday, the title of the message is going to be What does the resurrection mean to you? 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:58.000 And we're going to look at Colossians chapter 1 as we start the new series. 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:04.959 Verses 12 through 14 are going to be my two key verses there that really deals with the resurrection. 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:06.239 We'll see that. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:10.000 And talking about what does the resurrection really mean to you? 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:11.920 I'm telling you, it's going to be exciting. 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:16.560 It's going to be, I'm talking about illuminating to what it really means to each of us. 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:29.920 And I'm telling you, you bring your lost friends on Easter Sunday, they'll hear a clear presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ and what that, hey, Sunday morning really means to them. 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:34.400 So it's going to be an exciting time, uh, Easter morning. 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:48.959 But today, we've been talking about when I came back from Connorsville, the Lord had laid on my heart these next three Sundays prior to Easter to do a mini kind of series of three messages. 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.280 And I kind of titled it, Let the Church Move Out. 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.840 In other words, if we're going to fill this building, we've got to move out. 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:00.000 We've got to move out into the community. 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:01.760 We got to love people to Jesus. 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:06.560 And I said, in order to do that, number one, the Holy Spirit has to move in. 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:10.719 And that's what we talked about last week out of 1 Corinthians chapter 3. 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:12.960 And we talked about the spiritual man. 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:23.520 We talked about the natural man, the lost man, and we talked about the carnal man, and that we've got to get carnality out of the church and spirituality into the church. 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:24.719 Can I get an amen? 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:28.000 And uh so that was in detail. 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:32.479 But today I want us to be looking as Susan's getting back Tuesday. 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:37.759 We start our mini-series on Wednesday night on spiritual gifts. 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:40.719 She'll be here starting that Wednesday night. 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:56.479 And let me encourage you to come out on Wednesday night as we do these next four weeks of spiritual gifts, because our whole purpose is for you to understand your giftedness so that you can get involved in the body of Christ right here, so that we can reach our community. 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:57.439 It's going to be awesome. 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:00.879 We'll be taking a spiritual gift test and going through the gifts. 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:08.159 And in fact, in Romans chapter 12, verses 1 through 9, it's dealing with the spiritual gifts. 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:09.599 That's one of the passages. 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:12.400 And then the other one is in Corinthians. 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:24.319 And Paul gets through explaining what the spiritual gifts are, and then he says, now that you have been presented with the spiritual gifts, here's what you need to do. 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:26.800 Here's what you need to do as a Christian. 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:44.000 Now that you understand spiritual gifts, now that you know your spiritual gifts, you've got to get to work fervently and earnestly serving God with that passionate, I call it, on-fire heart for the glory of God. 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.280 And he literally, in fact, somebody said the other day, you kind of crazy. 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:48.240 I said, absolutely. 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:49.439 It's biblical. 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:50.400 Hello. 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:53.520 And you're going to see that this morning. 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:57.919 You're going to see what Paul said about the fervency of Jesus Christ. 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:05.520 So let's pick up at verse 9 and look at what Paul said after he has explained the spiritual gifts and what they are. 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:12.879 Then he said, Let love, now that you understand your gifts, let love be without dissimilation. 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:14.240 In the King James. 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:18.720 Now, in other versions, it means let your love be without hypocrisy. 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:22.240 In other words, let your love be sincere. 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:24.879 Let your love be genuine. 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:29.759 Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you, we're, hey, God's not looking for perfection. 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:31.199 You know what he's looking for? 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:33.360 He's looking for realness. 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:35.839 He's looking for transparency. 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:42.160 He's looking for somebody that says, thank God, by the grace of God, I ain't the same old man I used to be. 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:46.000 And because of that, I want to serve God wholeheartedly. 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:48.399 That's what he's looking for. 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:52.399 If he was looking for perfection, he would have never died on the cross. 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:53.120 Amen. 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.120 Because he knows how we are. 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:56.639 And there's none righteous. 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:57.360 No, not one. 00:04:57.439 --> 00:04:58.639 There's none that understandeth. 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:00.959 There's none that seeketh after God. 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.839 We don't seek him, he seeks us. 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:09.680 But once we receive him and he comes into our life, we ought to have a hot heart. 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:10.639 Say this with me. 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:12.160 Say, hot heart. 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:13.759 Come on. 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:15.040 Hot heart. 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:19.199 That's what God wants us to have after we get saved. 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:21.920 He wants us to have a hot heart. 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:24.240 And we see what Paul is saying here. 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:28.879 He says, listen, love is the key to all the gifts. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:33.839 And then he says, abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good. 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:38.639 And then verse 10, be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love. 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:41.360 And then here's the key verse today. 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:45.439 Be not slothful in business. 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:50.639 In other words, let your diligence be free from slothfulness. 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.680 Laziness is what he's talking. 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:56.160 Not lagging behind in diligence. 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:58.800 Never be lazy in your work. 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:03.199 And then he says, but fervent, here is the word, in spirit. 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:07.759 In other words, be hot in your heart for God. 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:11.040 That's what really the word fervent we'd be looking at means. 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:18.399 It means a glowing in spirit, on fire for God through the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:18.879 What? 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:21.439 Serving the Lord. 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:27.680 You know, dedicated service this morning touches every department of our lives. 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.800 And that's what the main message is this morning. 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:44.800 Let the church, I mean, let the uh Holy Spirit move in, and then let the laity, each of us, the church, uh what, move up, and then next week we'll see how the church moves out. 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:49.680 But this morning I want us to talk about dedicated service touches every department of our lives. 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:59.360 Service for Jesus Christ is as much an attitude of life as it is an activity of life. 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:00.879 Now I'm gonna repeat that. 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:02.639 It's important you understand this. 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:04.319 You may want to write this down. 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:16.399 I said, dedicated service to the Lord Jesus Christ, listen, is as much an attitude as it is an activity of life. 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:21.439 Because if your attitude's not right, hey, your service definitely won't be right. 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:26.480 In fact, most of the time, if your attitude's not right, there'll be no service. 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:27.439 Amen. 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.879 So attitude determines altitude every time. 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:32.079 Every time. 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:32.879 Amen? 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:34.160 Every time. 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:43.199 So we see Paul says service for Jesus Christ is as much an attitude of life as an activity of life. 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:55.199 And, you know, whether it be so-called full-time Christian service for me as a pastor or Stephen as a pastor or, you know, full-time missionaries or whatever. 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.199 Listen, it doesn't matter. 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:03.759 Listen, if you and I are called of God to be saved, we are then called to service. 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:09.360 And it doesn't matter whether it's, quote, full-time service or laity service. 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:12.639 In fact, I don't see a division in the scriptures. 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:13.680 I've been trying to find that. 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:14.800 I don't see it anywhere. 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:18.800 In fact, Paul says very little about any kind of service. 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:25.920 Now, watch, except witnessing and sharing the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:29.920 That's what he's adamant about, preaching the good news, preaching the gospel. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:39.759 He doesn't distinguish whether you're a fireman, whether you're a preacher, whether you're a nurse, whether you're a doctor, whether you're a lawyer, whether you're a sheriff, I mean, own a business. 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:40.559 No. 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:42.799 He just, hey, classifies it. 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:49.200 If you are saved wherever God has given you your vocation, you need to be hot for God. 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:57.600 You need to have a hot heart wherever God's placed you in your hey job, in your vocation, because it's more than a vocation and a job. 00:08:57.759 --> 00:08:59.919 If God has saved you, God's called you. 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:02.240 And if he's called you, that's your ministry. 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:04.639 Amen, church. 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:06.559 That's your ministry. 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:13.039 And when we see it that way, we'll get excited about how God is using us. 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:20.799 Now there's three aspects I want us to look at this morning of dedicated service to which I want to draw our attention. 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:32.480 Number one, if you and I are going to have dedicated service, if you and I are going to have a hot heart for God, number one, we have to have determined service. 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:33.279 Now watch. 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:35.200 Look at what he says in verse 11. 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:38.320 Not slothful in business. 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:44.960 Paul is calling us to diligence and determination in whatsoever we do. 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:53.039 Whether it be, hey, again, a preacher, a missionary, uh, whatever, he's saying, be hot for God. 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:56.080 Be diligent and determined for God. 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:03.360 Now, when you say be not slaughterful in business, the word business there really is not the connotation of like a surpro business. 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:03.840 Okay? 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:08.240 What it really means, and I love the word here, it's spoo day. 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:10.080 It's the Greek word spoo day. 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:12.559 And it literally means to be eager. 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:13.919 It means to make haste. 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:15.200 It means to be diligent. 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:19.679 It means to be, hey, earnest in whatever you are doing. 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:37.759 In other words, yes, it can be a business, it can be a profession, it can be preaching, it can be a mission work, it can be selling, it can be, but whatever it is, God has called you to that ministry so that you'll be eager to share the good news wherever God places you. 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:44.080 That's what Paul's telling them, and he's just saying, regardless of what your gifts are, I've just explained them to you. 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:50.480 Whether you have mercy, whether you're a giver, whether you're a prophet, whether you're a leader, whether you're a teacher, it doesn't matter. 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:58.559 You are the love people, and you are to eagerly, passionately share the good news everywhere you go. 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.039 Now, if we were all doing that, hey, we'd be adding on in a few more months. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:04.000 Amen. 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:05.120 I mean, we would. 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:08.080 We'd be having to build that multi-purpose center right now. 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:11.279 If we all catch what I'm gonna preach today. 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:24.320 I am convinced after studying and going back through this passage of scripture that there's a disconnect with most Christians after they get saved, that they don't understand that their salvation is co-equal with service. 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:26.240 Hello. 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:27.200 Amen. 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:28.639 You're gonna see that. 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:35.600 That's why you don't see a hot heart for God with a lot of supposedly Christians. 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:36.879 They disconnect it. 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:38.240 Oh, I got here's what happened. 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:41.039 I got, oh, I got saved, whoo! I'm not going to hell. 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:42.639 I'm not gonna fall off this stage. 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:45.039 If I do, I'll act like I meant to. 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.799 Everybody says, when I go, is he gonna fall? 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:53.519 Is he gonna fall? 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:54.879 Is he gonna fall? 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.679 Folks, I don't work out every day to be dumb and clumsy, okay? 00:11:59.919 --> 00:12:00.320 Amen. 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:01.440 And I'm a little smart. 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:03.039 Well, I'm not saying I'm a little smart. 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:04.080 I have done this before. 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.320 In fact, I fell off one time and just rode and got upset. 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:08.080 Now that was a good example, wasn't it? 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:12.159 That was 20 years ago, though. 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:14.559 I'm not gonna do that, Wayne. 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:15.039 I promise. 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:16.799 I'm not gonna do that today. 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:21.279 In fact, Ben, you built this stage a little too high for me to do that. 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:27.679 But anyway, what we're saying is there's a disconnection with understanding. 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:35.759 You go see, when you see what I'm gonna show us today, and that light goes off, you it will change your service for Jesus Christ. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:36.639 It will. 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:37.519 It will. 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:40.000 Hey, Javon, man, you way back here, son. 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:41.759 I'm used to you being over here with me. 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:45.919 But listen, here's what Paul's saying. 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:46.799 It's awesome. 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:51.440 He's saying that you never let your zeal go out. 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:54.240 Never let your fire go out. 00:12:54.480 --> 00:13:00.320 Service for the Lord Jesus Christ is not so much what we do, but how we do it. 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:01.039 Amen. 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:01.919 Let me repeat that. 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:03.600 Somebody say that's good. 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:08.159 It's not what we do, but it's how we do it that really counts. 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:08.879 Amen. 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:12.639 That's the key, and that's what Paul's trying to teach us here. 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:20.159 He says, all of our life, all that we are, is an arena in which we witness by life and by lip. 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:22.240 We witness by life and lip. 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:25.360 But it's how we do what we do that is all important. 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:30.320 It's how we do what we do that is all important. 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.159 So let's see how we do it. 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:32.799 All right? 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.279 Under this determined service. 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:49.679 Number one, how do we have determined service that is evident that Jesus Christ's Holy Spirit dwells within us, dwells within us, and that we are actively sharing the good news in our life and in our lips. 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:50.799 How does that happen? 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:54.720 Number one, enthusiastic determination. 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:56.240 You've got to be excited. 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:57.279 And I know what you're already saying. 00:13:57.360 --> 00:13:58.480 Now, wait a minute, preacher Dan. 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:02.320 Not all of us have your have your personality. 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:05.519 It doesn't mean anything about personality. 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:14.559 You can be enthusiastic and not jump up and down and holler Jesus is awesome and and uh as crazy as I am. 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:15.360 I understand that. 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.399 And thank God, because we couldn't handle many of us. 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:22.000 I can I get annoyed on my own self sometimes. 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:23.679 I say, man, calm down. 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:27.679 I understand that, okay? 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:28.799 I understand that. 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:31.279 My personality is less than 5% of the people. 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:32.399 I understand that. 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:32.879 Okay? 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:36.639 So don't think I want you to be me. 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:37.279 It won't work. 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:38.000 But guess what? 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:40.960 Don't think I'm gonna be calm and collective like you. 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:42.320 That wouldn't work. 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:44.080 I'd last about 30 seconds. 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:45.519 Amen? 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:47.360 And then I'd be bored. 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:48.799 No, I'm joking. 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:50.399 I'm joking. 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:53.200 We need each other. 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:54.399 We need each other. 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:56.639 My wife would tell you, we are as opposite. 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.600 Hey, honey, I think she's watching this morning. 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:01.919 Come home. 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:05.279 Come home. 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.759 Me and Rocky need you home. 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:12.320 The boys are fine, but it's time for you to come home. 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:13.600 But now, watch this. 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:15.919 We did have a good time at a gun show yesterday, though. 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:16.559 We did. 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:18.480 Now listen, here's the key. 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:30.480 What happens is we need each other because those that are not as outgoing need us that are outgoing so that we can help you understand how to be outgoing. 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:31.120 Guess what? 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:45.039 For you that are more calm and more temperate and more organized and more, should I say, directive and areas, you, we need you to keep us on track. 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:53.200 Because I'm telling you, my type, hey, when we see a heel, we're gonna take that sucker, but we need to take it with ammunition and soldiers. 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:54.320 Amen. 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:56.159 And so we we just charge. 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:02.000 We don't need to charge it without knowing we got, hey, hey, we got reinforcements coming. 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:02.799 Amen. 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:04.320 So we need each other. 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:07.120 That's the excitement of the body of Christ. 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:10.240 That's the excitement of you being part of this body. 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:23.200 You may be an arm, you may be an eye, you may be an ear, you may be a hand, you may be a knee, you may be a foot, but we all need each other because if one part's not there, it's dysfunctional. 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:24.960 Amen. 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:25.759 Amen. 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:27.600 It's dysfunctional. 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:29.120 We need you. 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.360 You are very important. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:34.639 Everybody is very important. 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:38.639 Now, the purpose of our redemption, let's get any saved. 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:39.120 Now, watch. 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:43.759 According to Titus 2, 13 and 14, I want you to see this. 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:46.080 He says, looking for that blessed hope. 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:48.960 In other words, one day we can't wait to be with Jesus. 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:49.679 Amen. 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:51.600 Hey, let me tell you something, church. 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:52.960 Jesus is coming. 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:58.399 And the reason he's coming, and I know Paul recently lost his dad. 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:01.279 The blessed hope, Paul, is we're going to see him again. 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:01.840 Amen? 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.039 We're going to see him again. 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.680 Hey, if you're a Christian and you die, hey, you do not really die. 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:10.160 You just change your address. 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:11.359 Amen. 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:13.599 You just go from, hey, earth to heaven. 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.279 To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, 2 Corinthians 5.8. 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:18.799 Hallelujah, hallelujah. 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:20.400 Hey, I'm never going to die. 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:21.440 I'm never going to die. 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:23.519 I'm just going to transfer my address. 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:24.240 Amen. 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:25.680 To heaven boulevard. 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:26.000 Ha ha. 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:27.519 I can't wait. 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:29.279 Walking down the streets of gold. 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:30.160 It's going to happen. 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.839 And our blessed hope is we're going to be there together. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:35.039 But notice what else? 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:39.119 He says, not only this glory appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:39.839 Now here's the key. 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:40.720 Look at verse 14. 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:43.039 But till he comes, here's what we're to be doing. 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:49.119 Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify. 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:50.000 Here we go. 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:51.839 Purify unto himself. 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:52.880 Now watch. 00:17:53.200 --> 00:18:00.079 Until he comes, once we get saved, here's what our redemptive calling is. 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.039 We are to first of all purify ourselves. 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:04.400 That means be holy. 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:06.799 That means get sin out and righteousness in. 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:07.839 Can I get an amen? 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:13.279 Not that we're perfect, but that we're striving to be more like Christ today than we were yesterday. 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:16.240 And tomorrow we'll be more like him than we were today. 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:20.079 That is the way you grow in faith. 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.559 And then he says, so we're to purify ourselves. 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:23.200 Now watch. 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:25.440 To be a, I love this next word. 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:30.480 See, when people start saying, Pastor Danny's a little weird, I say, no, I'm just peculiar. 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:31.680 Amen. 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:33.119 Look, that's what it says. 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:34.960 A peculiar people. 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:36.880 Hello. 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:39.039 We're all to be a little different. 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:45.279 We're to, and what that means, not we're going around, you know, selling flowers at the airport. 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:47.119 That's not what he's talking about. 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:48.079 Okay? 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:51.680 That's not what he's talking about. 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:52.799 Dressed up in a sheet. 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:54.400 That's not what he's talking about. 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:56.000 Ball headed. 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:58.160 I don't have a sheet and I don't have a rose. 00:18:58.319 --> 00:18:58.640 Okay. 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:01.920 But now, a peculiar people means that we're set apart. 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:02.720 We're different. 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:06.000 In other words, our attitude's different to the things of the world. 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:09.279 Our attitudes are directed toward the things of heaven. 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.480 Can I get an amen? 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:15.519 In other words, we want what God wants in our lives, in our community, in our homes. 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:20.319 Starts in our homes, it spreads to our church, and the church spreads to the community. 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.599 That we are, hey, we love God and we love people. 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:27.680 And it's evident in our actions and our lips. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.440 Our life and our lips. 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:30.240 Say that with me. 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:31.279 Life and lips. 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:41.039 Your life and your lips ought to be an example of all that God is and all that Hey wants you to be. 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:42.400 We are peculiar people. 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:43.039 Now watch. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:43.680 Whoa. 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:45.519 Zealous. 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:48.559 That's the Greek word. 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:50.480 That means, let me tell you what that means. 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:55.359 That word literally means to be enthusiastic. 00:19:55.599 --> 00:19:59.200 It literally means, and by the way, the word enthusiasm, let me help you. 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:03.920 Enthusiasm means in God in the Greek. 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:04.880 In God. 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:09.279 So when you get in God, I'm here to tell you you're going to get hot. 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:14.880 You're going to have a hot heart when you allow God to get in you and you get in Him. 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:15.519 Amen. 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:19.119 You will not sit there and be like a dead tombstone. 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:25.440 You will not be, hey, you can't just be calm when God radically changes your life. 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:26.240 Amen. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:26.960 You can't. 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:27.680 You can't. 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.640 You cannot be, you can't be the same. 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:33.599 Therefore, if any man be in Christ Jesus, he's a new creation. 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:34.960 Old things have passed away. 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:36.480 Behold, all things have become new. 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:38.160 You become a new creation. 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:39.759 And that gets exciting. 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:41.039 And that's what he's talking about. 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:41.759 Now, watch. 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:44.400 Not only we're peculiar, we're zealous of what? 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:46.000 Of good works. 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:47.200 Now here it is. 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:52.160 You see this in its whole context, it's so exciting. 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:55.359 When you read the passage, you see the whole truth. 00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:58.559 And you see that salvation, write this down. 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:02.960 Salvation and service go together. 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:06.480 I'm gonna say that again. 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:09.119 This is where the disconnection comes. 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:12.079 Salvation and service go together. 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:20.240 See, we think we get saved, and then, you know, we later, if we we find something to do or if we don't, anyway, we're saved, so we're okay. 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:21.680 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:24.640 Doesn't work that way. 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:28.160 The moment a man is saved or a woman is saved, he serves. 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:29.359 Hello. 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.519 Salvation and service happen together. 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:34.720 Now let me prove it. 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:36.160 It's gonna be good. 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:39.519 You can't have salvation without service. 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:42.960 You can't have a calling of God. 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:51.440 You can't let me put it this way you can't have the come of God, come and follow me without the call of God to service. 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:54.319 Man, that's good. 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:55.359 You can't have it. 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:56.319 How do you know that? 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:56.960 Watch. 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:58.319 What did Jesus say? 00:21:58.480 --> 00:21:59.039 Watch this. 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:01.920 Go to uh Well, first of all, yeah. 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:07.680 When Paul got saved on the road to Damascus, the first thing he did, what was what? 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:14.319 Lord, right after he got up from getting saved, I mean, God put him on his back, literally. 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:17.759 People talk about do you believe in being slain in the spirit? 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:21.279 There's two evidences of being slain in the spirit. 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:23.119 Only two in the New Testament. 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:28.960 Paul on the road to Damascus, and I don't know if anybody's ever had another experience like Paul. 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:32.880 And then the other one was in the garden when they came to arrest Jesus. 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:35.359 When Jesus said, I am that I am. 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:38.240 All 800 soldiers hit the ground. 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:40.319