SPEAKER_01: The promise of Christianity is not just forgiveness for everything you've ever done, but the promise is that you'll have the capacity and the opportunity to do things that you've never done before.
SPEAKER_01: Let me say that again.
SPEAKER_01: Because we got to be careful that we don't erode Christianity down to, well, the best thing about Christianity is you get forgiveness for everything.
SPEAKER_01: And is there forgiveness?
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01: But look at me, don't miss this.
SPEAKER_01: The real thing that ought to keep you up at night is the promise of Christianity is that you now have this capacity to do things that you've never done before.
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SPEAKER_01: Father Wea, take comfort in the fact that you still reach for us.
SPEAKER_01: None of us has done so much that we're untouchable that you're like, hey, you're an embarrassment.
SPEAKER_01: Get out of here.
SPEAKER_01: You're on your own.
SPEAKER_01: You're not a God that gives up.
SPEAKER_01: You're the God that comes looking for us, as we'll see in the text today.
SPEAKER_01: People that were dwelling in deep darkness, just sitting in the dark, waiting to die.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says that a light has shone on them, and that light is not an oncoming train.
SPEAKER_01: It's this luminous Galilee.
SPEAKER_01: It's Jesus Christ, the Son of God, coming to say, Hey, I know it's been hard, but I'm not done with you.
SPEAKER_01: I forgot about you.
SPEAKER_01: I won't stay angry forever.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not a God like that.
SPEAKER_01: You discipline us, Lord, so we'll turn our hearts back to you, but you don't stay mad forever.
SPEAKER_01: So I pray for anyone in this room today that thinks God's mad at him and he doesn't want to talk to them.
SPEAKER_01: That's not the truth.
SPEAKER_01: You want to speak very loud and clearly from your word and by your spirit today.
SPEAKER_01: And so we ask you to do that in Jesus' name and all God's people said.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: You can have a seat.
SPEAKER_01: If you got a Bible, I invite you to take it and open it up to Matthew chapter 4.
SPEAKER_01: Matthew chapter 4.
SPEAKER_01: If you don't have a Bible, don't sweat it.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh the glory years of the 90s, all right?
SPEAKER_01: Uh we're preaching through the book of Matthew.
SPEAKER_01: And if you're visiting, people always ask me, hey, do you really preach through the books of the Bible?
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: Here's why.
SPEAKER_01: Because we believe this is the way you nourish the faith of a congregation over the long haul.
SPEAKER_01: And so the second graders that were up here earlier, uh, all the way to the people that are old like me, every time the Bible's taught, something happens in your head and in your heart, and it longs for expression in your hands, okay?
SPEAKER_01: And so we're in Matthew chapter 4.
SPEAKER_01: I'll start reading verse 12.
SPEAKER_01: I want to talk to you this morning about God's timing, God's people, and God's power.
SPEAKER_01: God's timing, God's people, and God's power.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna read three little sections of scripture that get us to the Sermon on the Mount.
SPEAKER_01: And I want you just to listen and just ask the Lord, hey, what had my name on it today?
SPEAKER_01: What's something that I want to talk with my wife about more at lunch, or I want to ask my husband about when we go on a walk this afternoon where it's 118 degrees and we're melting like candles, but enough about my future.
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, Matthew chapter 4, verse 12, the Bible says this.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, it says, Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee, and leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled.
SPEAKER_01: The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light.
SPEAKER_01: And for those dwelling in the region of the shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.
SPEAKER_01: From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
SPEAKER_01: This is our first little section, and I want to talk to you out of this section about God's timing.
SPEAKER_01: God's timing.
SPEAKER_01: You say, What do you mean, God's timing?
SPEAKER_01: In the Bible, there's two words for time.
SPEAKER_01: There are two Greek words.
SPEAKER_01: There's chronos, chronological, like we keep time.
SPEAKER_01: Uh chronological, just kind of go.
SPEAKER_01: And then there's this other word called Kairos.
SPEAKER_01: Kairos.
SPEAKER_01: And in chronological time or chronos time, time runs out.
SPEAKER_01: And in Kairos time, time fills up.
SPEAKER_01: So you'll see in the Bible, you hear in the Bible, it says things like, in the fullness of time, this happened.
SPEAKER_01: Because in God's way of keeping time, time fills up.
SPEAKER_01: In our way of keeping time, time runs out.
SPEAKER_01: And so you got to keep that in mind because, like when Jesus heard that his friend Lazarus had died, Jesus didn't go, or he was sick.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus, all right, guys, come on, we got to drive, we gotta pull an all-nighter.
SPEAKER_01: No, he stayed where he was two more days.
SPEAKER_01: And when he got to where Lazarus was, Lazarus went from being sick to being dead.
SPEAKER_01: But in the fullness of time, Jesus knew exactly what was gonna happen, so he didn't hurry over there.
SPEAKER_01: He knew what was gonna happen.
SPEAKER_01: And so this is the difference.
SPEAKER_01: When I talk about God's timing, everything Jesus does is on purpose for a purpose.
SPEAKER_01: And so whenever he shows up, he arrives with holy momentum on his life.
SPEAKER_01: All right, and there's this it it's not like 10 plus 10, it's like 10 to the second power.
SPEAKER_01: There's much more that he brings.
SPEAKER_01: And in the text this morning, one of the things that we see is that Jesus shows up as the fulfillment of every promise the Old Testament ever made.
SPEAKER_01: And one of them is listed right here in verse 14.
SPEAKER_01: It's this little phrase that says, so that what might be spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled.
SPEAKER_01: Let me say that again.
SPEAKER_01: So that what is spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled.
SPEAKER_01: Now listen, look at me and listen very carefully.
SPEAKER_01: If you're new to the whole church thing, you're exploring Christianity, or if you're like, I've been in church my whole life, but I've never really paid attention.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to pay attention for the next 90 seconds, all right?
SPEAKER_01: Because when the Bible talks about the Old Testament, and it says, so that what's spoken about the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled.
SPEAKER_01: Isaiah was a prophet in the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_01: It was a book in the Old Testament, the book of Isaiah.
SPEAKER_01: It's a great book.
SPEAKER_01: And so when you think about the Old Testament, think of it like this cup.
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
SPEAKER_01: When you think about the New Testament, think about the coffee that goes in the cup.
SPEAKER_01: Now, when I go out there to the coffee bar and I say to Virginia, hey, I'm gonna get a cup of coffee.
SPEAKER_01: She doesn't hand me an empty cup and say, Well, just make the rest up yourself.
SPEAKER_01: No, I fill the cup with coffee, and the cup becomes a cup of coffee.
SPEAKER_01: The New Testament feels full, the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_01: Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_01: This is why it uses this language, it says in verse 14, uh so that what might be spoken, but excuse me, so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled.
SPEAKER_01: The book of Isaiah was recorded 750 years earlier.
SPEAKER_01: Now here's the thing if you want to intellectually disqualify Jesus and say, I'm an engineer, I can't believe in this stuff, all that has to happen is for one of the promises, one of the prophecies about Jesus to not become true.
SPEAKER_01: And then the cup doesn't get filled with coffee, okay?
SPEAKER_01: It's just a religious document full of a bunch of wives' tales.
SPEAKER_01: But everything Jesus does is on purpose for purpose.
SPEAKER_01: So he shows up with this holy momentum on his life.
SPEAKER_01: And he comes because he comes to fulfill more than just himself, he comes to represent the promises of God.
SPEAKER_01: And when he says it right here, so what may be uh spoken of in Isaiah might be fulfilled, he's referring to what was written 750 years earlier in Isaiah chapter 9.
SPEAKER_01: We read these words in verse 1.
SPEAKER_01: He says, But there will be no gloom for her who is in anguish.
SPEAKER_01: In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Napali.
SPEAKER_01: But in the latter time, he made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
SPEAKER_01: Let me just pause right there.
SPEAKER_01: There's two things you should see in that past.
SPEAKER_01: He says, In the former time, and now in the latter time.
SPEAKER_01: If you get stuck in the in the former time, like in the past, you'll miss what God's doing in the latter time, like right now.
SPEAKER_01: And you get stuck over here because we want pity.
SPEAKER_01: You should live over here because you were created for presence.
SPEAKER_01: But he says, in the latter time, this is before Isaiah, when God, and he says this weird kind of sounding phrase.
SPEAKER_01: It says he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali.
SPEAKER_01: Now it is natural to hear that and go, I have no idea what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_01: This is why you should find a church that teaches you the Bible, even the awkward parts that you just, when you're reading, you just skip over and go, all right, get to an interesting part.
SPEAKER_01: Something magical happens.
SPEAKER_01: When he's talking about the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, that's two of the tribes of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: And they lived in the very northern part of Galilee.
SPEAKER_01: Now, here's why that's important.
SPEAKER_01: Way up there, they were exposed to they were also the first people that got invaded.
SPEAKER_01: When Assyria invaded, they just wore these people out.
SPEAKER_01: They took them captivity.
SPEAKER_01: And so the people that lived in these two parts of the country, Zebulun and Naphtali, they were so used to being occupied and taken into captivity, they were just like, dude, it doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_01: They would see dust coming on the horizon.
SPEAKER_01: They were like, we don't know who it is.
SPEAKER_01: Some army's coming to kill us.
SPEAKER_01: It's gonna, okay, here we go.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be slaves to a different superpower.
SPEAKER_01: And so when Jesus comes along and says, I'm gonna launch my ministry, of all the places that he goes, he goes to this area of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali.
SPEAKER_01: And he says this, he says, uh, that he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan.
SPEAKER_01: Then he calls it Galilee of the Nations.
SPEAKER_01: Galilee of the nations.
SPEAKER_01: In other words, so many different nationalities have come to this portion of Galilee that it is overrun.
SPEAKER_01: And what's happened is all these different ethnic groups have turned, they've influenced the people of God, and they've turned their hearts away from God.
SPEAKER_01: It's why if your student started school, your kids have probably been in school, what, a week and a half?
SPEAKER_01: And moms, you're you're doing this.
SPEAKER_01: I've not been to your house and I know you're doing this.
SPEAKER_01: You're listening with this radar for names you've never heard before.
SPEAKER_01: Like if your daughter says Derek, and you're like, Derek, let me check, mmm, I ain't got no Derek in here.
SPEAKER_01: And then the next day she mentions Derek's again.
SPEAKER_01: And then you hear her talking in her room on her phone.
SPEAKER_01: Not that you're listening with a stethoscope out in the hall.
SPEAKER_01: And you hear her say to one of her girlfriends on the phone, Ooh, Derek is super cute.
SPEAKER_01: You're like, I'm gonna have to get a DNA sample of this Derek guy.
SPEAKER_01: And here's why.
SPEAKER_01: I tried to explain to your students in the first service.
SPEAKER_01: When your mom hears a name she's not familiar with, she thinks this knucklehead could turn my daughter's heart away from God.
SPEAKER_01: I better plunge on Derek.
SPEAKER_01: And you you would say, Oh, you know, you've looked up his mom on Facebook, you've been on socials, you've checked it out, you've hired a private investigator.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01: You're not crazy, you're just a good parent, right?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: One lady over here is like, pretty much.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01: This is what happened.
SPEAKER_01: They influenced the people and turned their hearts on God.
SPEAKER_01: But hear this: the last part he says in Isaiah 9, and the last part of verse 2, he says, the people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.
SPEAKER_01: And those who dwelt in the land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
SPEAKER_01: So these people walked in darkness, and by the way, whatever you walk in, you'll eventually dwell.
SPEAKER_01: They walked in darkness and now they're just dwelling.
SPEAKER_01: They're just living it.
SPEAKER_01: They're just like, it doesn't matter, man, whatever.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, we're so used to being violated, we're just so used to being taken advantage of.
SPEAKER_01: We are so used to this, we just kind of acclimated to this.
SPEAKER_01: This is a picture of hopelessness.
SPEAKER_01: People sitting in the dark, waiting to die, and they see this great light that dawns on them.
SPEAKER_01: They didn't go looking for it.
SPEAKER_01: The light came looking for them.
SPEAKER_01: And so if you hear anything today, I want you to say that there's a God in this world, and you ain't got to go looking for him.
SPEAKER_01: He's looking for you.
SPEAKER_01: And he knows what you feel like.
SPEAKER_01: Some of you are just hopeless.
SPEAKER_01: You're like, dude, I don't know how this is.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, there's just, I'm kind of at my wit's end here.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to take, uh be encouraged today that God's timing includes your situation.
SPEAKER_01: Now, what we can miss and fail to understand is that sometimes we have to look back in the past to get confidence to show up in the present.
SPEAKER_01: Let me say this again.
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes you have to look in your past and be reminded of how God's worked, what God's done, and how God's moved, and how God has provided.
SPEAKER_01: And to be reminded that, okay, I can I can step into this present moment and not be afraid.
SPEAKER_01: Let me give you some examples from the Bible.
SPEAKER_01: Probably the most accessible is David and Goliath.
SPEAKER_01: If you've ever heard the story of David and Goliath, say amen.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, and remember David went out to fight Goliath.
SPEAKER_01: For those of you who didn't say amen, uh David was a little kid, probably about 13 years old, best we can tell.
SPEAKER_01: And he went out to take some bread and cheese to his brothers who were at war.
SPEAKER_01: And his dad said, take them this lunch, a little snackable, and then bring back a report.
SPEAKER_01: And he goes out there and there's a big giant out there insulting God's people.
SPEAKER_01: And David's like, Will somebody go out there and put a beat down on this guy?
SPEAKER_01: And his brothers are like, dude, he's nine feet six inches tall.
SPEAKER_01: The tip of his spear weighs 125 pounds.
SPEAKER_01: And he burps things bigger than you.
SPEAKER_01: What are you doing?
SPEAKER_01: And David is like, and David makes this statement.
SPEAKER_01: Again, sometimes you gotta remember how God's moved in the past so you can show up in the present.
SPEAKER_01: David said, When I was with my father's sheep, a lion and a bear came against the sheep, and I killed them with my own bare hands.
SPEAKER_01: And this guy is gonna be just like a lion and the bear.
SPEAKER_01: And they're like, Well, here, wear my armor.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: So, see, David looks back to be reminded.
SPEAKER_01: Here's another one, Judges chapter 5.
SPEAKER_01: Don't turn there.
SPEAKER_01: Judges is the book of the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, and after they defeat the Canaanite army, this man and woman, Deborah and Barack, they break into song, just singing about all that God has done and all the victories God secured for his people.
SPEAKER_01: That's one of the things you'll see in the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_01: When God would do something, people just burst out singing.
SPEAKER_01: If you want to freak your kids out, the next time you and your husband experience a breakthrough, just break out singing.
SPEAKER_01: Your kids will be like, uh, really?
SPEAKER_01: We're doing this.
SPEAKER_01: That's what Miriam did when they crossed the Red Sea.
SPEAKER_01: She's bursting the song, Who Among the Gods is like you, awesome in glory, majestic in holiness, working wonders.
SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: See, you gotta you you you gotta stir your kids' curiosity about God by celebrating God every chance that you get.
SPEAKER_01: Here's a third one, uh, looking back in the past to remind remember and remind yourself what God's done.
SPEAKER_01: It's called an omer of manna.
SPEAKER_01: An omer of manna.
SPEAKER_01: Now I lost you on that one.
SPEAKER_01: Now I can see you're like, I was with you on David and Goliath, but what the what do you what?
SPEAKER_01: An omer is like a measurement in the Old Testament, like a quart or a pint.
SPEAKER_01: And manna is what the food that God, remember, because not that we're this way, we're not this way at all.
SPEAKER_01: But the people of Israel, when God got them out of Egypt and they're headed to the promised land, every time something would happen, they would be like, Oh, did you bring us out here to kill us?
SPEAKER_01: We're starving, man.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's oh come on, we're a long way from Rudy's.
SPEAKER_01: How about some torches queso, please?
SPEAKER_01: Now I know we're y'all going for lunch.
SPEAKER_01: And so God got fed up one day.
SPEAKER_01: He said, You want food?
SPEAKER_01: Boom! Manna just fell out of the sky right on the ground, right inside their camp.
SPEAKER_01: So much so that God said, Hey, remember this because they had a tendency to forget.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Remember this, but in Exodus chapter 16, verse 31, he says, This.
SPEAKER_01: Now the house of Israel called it its name because they were like, What is this stuff?
SPEAKER_01: They called its name manna.
SPEAKER_01: It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
SPEAKER_01: Moses said, This is what the Lord has commanded.
SPEAKER_01: Let an omer, a portion of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.
SPEAKER_01: Hear that again.
SPEAKER_01: Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.
SPEAKER_01: Do you have a mechanism in your life whereby which you and your family remember and remind yourself of God's faithfulness?
SPEAKER_01: My girls would go to bed when they were little, they'd say, Dad, tell me your story about that time.
SPEAKER_01: And I'd go, Oh yeah, yeah, God did this, and yeah, I think God did that.
SPEAKER_01: And now they're 22 and 27.
SPEAKER_01: And every once in a while they'll say, Hey, Dad, tell me the story about when God, oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01: And I tell them that, hey, God's been good to your family for a long time.
SPEAKER_01: Don't get out from under God's goodness.
SPEAKER_01: Because when you get out from under God's goodness, what you're saying is, I got it from here.
SPEAKER_01: And they're like, Oh no, I don't got it.
SPEAKER_01: I go, I know, and now that you know, let's know together.
SPEAKER_01: Here's a fourth example of what I'm talking about, the Apostle Paul.
SPEAKER_01: Now, there's a lot of instances about, again, we're talking about sometimes you gotta look back because it's easy to forget God's timing.
SPEAKER_01: God doesn't always act and do what we want him to do when we want him to do it, but he's always on time, he's never late, okay?
SPEAKER_01: Remember, for us, time runs out.
SPEAKER_01: And for God, time fills up.
SPEAKER_01: The Apostle Paul, I'll just read you from 2 Corinthians chapter 1, starting in verse 8.
SPEAKER_01: It's a great example.
SPEAKER_01: He says, We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experience in Asia.
SPEAKER_01: For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.
SPEAKER_01: Hello.
SPEAKER_01: Now, by the way, earlier in this chapter, he says to these people, hey, we are comforted.
SPEAKER_01: We we comfort others with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
SPEAKER_01: Now, why do I bring that up?
SPEAKER_01: Look at me.
SPEAKER_01: Because sometimes you're gonna go through something in your life and it's not gonna make any sense.
SPEAKER_01: There's nothing you can point to that explains it.
SPEAKER_01: Like, okay, this is exactly why this is happening.
SPEAKER_01: But six months, nine months, two years down the road, you're talking to somebody at work and they open their mouth and they're going through the exact same thing you went through two years earlier.
SPEAKER_01: And only in that moment does it make sense where you're like, oh man.
SPEAKER_01: And all of a sudden, you comfort this person with the comfort that you yourself receive from God.
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes you go through other things just so you can receive from God.
SPEAKER_01: Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_01: Say amen.
SPEAKER_01: And so here we are in 2 Corinthians chapter 1, and Paul's talking about comfort, and he says, Hey, uh, for we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia, for we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.
SPEAKER_01: Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death.
SPEAKER_01: But that was to make us rely not on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead.
SPEAKER_01: Translation, we thought we'd received the sentence of death, but that was okay with us because God's capable of raising the dead.
SPEAKER_01: I see that's lost on y'all.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'll keep going.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 10.
SPEAKER_01: Here, listen, look at me.
SPEAKER_01: Listen in verse 10 for the past, present, and future.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 10, he delivered us from such a deadly peril, past, and he will deliver us, present.
SPEAKER_01: On him, we have set our hope that he will deliver us again, future.
SPEAKER_01: He has delivered, he delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us, and on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
SPEAKER_01: God's timing is always perfect.
SPEAKER_01: And sometimes you gotta look back and remind yourself and remember so you can calibrate your head and your heart and your expectations to what God is doing, even when you can't see what he's doing, how he's doing, or when it's gonna get done.
SPEAKER_01: Amen?
SPEAKER_01: Here's the second section of scripture I want us to look at this morning.
SPEAKER_01: It picks up in verse 18 of Matthew 4, talking about God's people.
SPEAKER_01: It says, While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who's called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
SPEAKER_01: And he said to them, Follow me and I'll make you fishers of men.
SPEAKER_01: Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
SPEAKER_01: And going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee and John, his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.
SPEAKER_01: Immediately they left the boat and their father and they followed him.
SPEAKER_01: Now, what do I mean, God's people?
SPEAKER_01: Ah, well, it it's interesting the people that Jesus decided to start a movement with.
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't a powerful politician.
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't Elon Musk.
SPEAKER_01: Hey, I need a money, man.
SPEAKER_01: It's a rag tag group of scoundrels, fishermen.
SPEAKER_01: Some guys are actively fishing, other guys are done fishing, they're cleaning and mending their nets.
SPEAKER_01: And I just want to say this to God's people who gathered in this room this morning.
SPEAKER_01: The promise of Christianity is not just forgiveness for everything you've ever done, but the promise is that you'll have the capacity and the opportunity to do things that you've never done before.
SPEAKER_01: Let me say that again.
SPEAKER_01: Because we got to be careful that we don't erode Christianity down to, well, the best thing about Christianity is you get forgiveness for everything.
SPEAKER_01: And is there forgiveness?
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01: But look at me, don't miss this.
SPEAKER_01: The real thing that ought to keep you up at night is the promise of Christianity is that you now have this capacity to do things that you've never done before.
SPEAKER_01: It sounds like this follow me.
SPEAKER_01: Come after me, step towards me, you fishermen, and I'll make you fishers of men.
SPEAKER_01: You got to ask yourself, how long do you think they stood there holding those nets, going, nah, we're good.
SPEAKER_01: We'll do this the rest of our life.
SPEAKER_01: See, Jesus didn't come to baptize the status, the status quo.
SPEAKER_01: He came to invite you and I into a life that demonstrates a reality that never existed before.
SPEAKER_01: That's why when John the Baptist gets arrested, it's not God's time and Jesus, like, ding, I gotta go to Galilee.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because I gotta pick up the torch and start telling people, repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand.
SPEAKER_01: And in the kingdom, the kingdom comes with capacity.
SPEAKER_01: When you become a Christian, the Holy Spirit of God came to live inside of you.
SPEAKER_01: And it is not just to forgive you, but it is to empower you and I to live a life that requires explanation such that you have this sense of, you know what, I'm capable of things and I experience things that I never experienced before I came to faith.
SPEAKER_01: We should all ask ourselves before you eat lunch, what is something you've done as a Christian that could not have been done before you came to faith?
SPEAKER_01: What is something like this happened?
SPEAKER_01: Uh and this is uh this should have happened, but I was, I was, I wasn't disobedient, but in the end I ended up being disobedient.
SPEAKER_01: Now, are you confused?
SPEAKER_01: Uh Wednesday, we moved, because I talk to my kids a lot about, hey, always be sensitive about when God's using you to set the kingdom down.
SPEAKER_01: And then now in our house, I taught my kids, I went out in the garage and got a hula hoop and put it down over one of them in the living room and said, the kingdom of God is the realm within which what God wants done gets done.
SPEAKER_01: It is realm and it is rain.
SPEAKER_01: God reigns over you, He rules over you.
SPEAKER_01: And so when you do what you know you sense God wants done, you're expanding and extending the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: Like, we got it, Dad, we got it.
SPEAKER_01: Wednesday, our daughter moved to start grad school at Baylor.
SPEAKER_01: We moved her into her apartment.
SPEAKER_01: And then I was like, hey, I want to put something together, you guys go.
SPEAKER_01: And she's like, No, Dad, I want you to go to the store with us.
SPEAKER_01: Why y'all want dad to go?
SPEAKER_01: Because you don't question my purchases.
SPEAKER_01: What?
SPEAKER_01: Well, well, mom's like, Do you need that?
SPEAKER_01: You gotta have that.
SPEAKER_01: I just get the cart and go get whatever you need.
SPEAKER_01: And here's why.
SPEAKER_01: Because I was a kid, we were poor white trash, and my stepmom would make me hold on to the side of a cart.
SPEAKER_01: And if I looked at a box of cereal, she'd slap me in the back of the head.
SPEAKER_01: Don't you even think about it.
SPEAKER_01: So I'm in rebellion.
SPEAKER_01: I'm 61 years old.
SPEAKER_01: I'm still rebelling against that woman.
SPEAKER_01: So I get to the HCB at Valley Mills and Waco, and I get a card and say, get whatever you want, babe.
SPEAKER_01: That was a mistake.
SPEAKER_01: So we're going up and down the aisle.
SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you what, you think I'm exaggerating.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna drop a number on you in a minute.
SPEAKER_01: You women are gonna suck the paint off the wall.
SPEAKER_01: Because my wife did.
SPEAKER_01: She was looking at me because she had to get a food scale and a plunger and all that.
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, a food scale?
SPEAKER_01: Who weighs their food?
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: But look at it, I don't care.
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, get what you need, baby girl.
SPEAKER_01: But while we're going down the aisles, and I'm starting to feel sorry for myself because the wheels on this thing are bulging out.
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, do I need to get a team of pack mills and another car?
SPEAKER_01: No, I'm just about done looking at her phone.
SPEAKER_01: We passed this lady twice.
SPEAKER_01: First time I got a little blip on the radar, like, ooh, Pastor again, she had a moo moo and a and a bonnet.
SPEAKER_01: And she had her list on the back of the envelope, and she was counting.
SPEAKER_01: And it reminded me of my mom.
SPEAKER_01: And I had that little, look, like a little squeeze, like, hey, buy her groceries.
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, uh, let me see what this comes to, and then I'll uh because I made people in the back sweeping this place out, and we're done.
SPEAKER_01: And so we went about three more aisles, and the Holy Spirit turned up the volume and said, What did I tell you?
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Oh, that was you.
SPEAKER_01: I looked at my wife and said, I'll be right back.
SPEAKER_01: And I went, look, I couldn't find her.
SPEAKER_01: Went all the way to self-checkout, back down here, down the aisles everywhere.
SPEAKER_01: And I went back for about five more minutes of push of the wagon train.
SPEAKER_01: I said, I'll be right back.
SPEAKER_01: And my wife's like, What are you doing?
SPEAKER_01: I just missed it.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm not bragging about missing it.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to think that I always, I was just like, ugh.
SPEAKER_01: But then I understand maybe I didn't miss it.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe God was just protecting his little buckaroo kneel.
SPEAKER_01: Because they started scanning my kids going.
SPEAKER_01: She's it was like we were in a rain.
SPEAKER_01: And then my wife was just like, because my wife, as my kids can tell you from memory, went to Baylor in 1986 and lived on$200 a month.
SPEAKER_01: And my kids were like, Dad, please make her stop telling us that story.
SPEAKER_01: You should feel bad, kids.
SPEAKER_01: When they were done, my bill H E B was$587.62.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, this lady over here, she gets it, she's got her face in her hands.
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: And I didn't go, oh my gosh, you know what I did?
SPEAKER_01: I'm such a bad father.
SPEAKER_01: Then we got to the car and she was kind of like, thanks, Dad.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Hey, is God good or what?
SPEAKER_01: Did you get everything you needed?
SPEAKER_01: Did you need anything else?
SPEAKER_01: My wife.
SPEAKER_01: What?
SPEAKER_01: She goes, No, Dad, I think, I think I got it.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm pushing the cart back over it in the little thing in ACB.
SPEAKER_01: And that little voice said, see, you ain't holding on to the side of the cart anymore, getting slapped in the back of the head because you looked at fruity pebbles.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't even touch them, I just looked at them.
SPEAKER_01: I can't afford that.
SPEAKER_01: Been good to you for a long time, son.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir, you have.
SPEAKER_01: All right.
SPEAKER_01: And next time I say pay for her groceries, you don't worry about it.
SPEAKER_01: You pay for her groceries and pay for your own.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, got it.
SPEAKER_01: Check, check, and check.
SPEAKER_01: See, here's what I'm getting at.
SPEAKER_01: You, if you're a Christian, you are the medium through which the kingdom of God finds expression.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: And to be God's people is to live lives that demonstrate God's power, which means we live with authority, we speak with authority, we act with authority.
SPEAKER_01: We don't wait on the culture to give us permission or God to give us forgiveness.
SPEAKER_01: We are in the moment we are being carried along by the Holy Spirit and we're setting the kingdom down every opportunity that we get.
SPEAKER_01: Now, again, get this picture in your head.
SPEAKER_01: They're fishing, they're doing what they've always done.
SPEAKER_01: And Jesus comes along and says, Follow me, and I'll make you fishers of men.
SPEAKER_01: How do you allow yourself to keep fishing?
SPEAKER_01: Because see, Jesus is not looking for the most popular, he's not looking for the wealthiest or the poorest, okay?
SPEAKER_01: He uses all people, okay?
SPEAKER_01: And you say, Well, what do you mean?
SPEAKER_01: How do you know what he looks for?
SPEAKER_01: Let me give you three things that God looks for.
SPEAKER_01: What God looks at and looks for in people, okay?
SPEAKER_01: Three things.
SPEAKER_01: Number one, he looks for people that are willing, not perfect, just willing.
SPEAKER_01: It never ceases to amaze me.
SPEAKER_01: I start having spiritual conversations.
SPEAKER_01: People are like, Well, bro, you don't, I mean, we don't know each other, but man, I'm I am not a good person.
SPEAKER_01: And I say, the cross told me that already.
SPEAKER_01: And they're like, Well, what'd you say?
SPEAKER_01: The cross told me that neither one of us are good people.
SPEAKER_01: Because if you're a good person, why does Jesus have to die?
SPEAKER_01: And they're like, Well, yeah, you got self-point there.
SPEAKER_01: Uh okay, he's the people that are willing.
SPEAKER_01: Secondly, he looks at your future, not your past.
SPEAKER_01: God looks at your is he aware of your past?
SPEAKER_01: Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01: But he doesn't look at your past like, mm-hmm, yeah, remember this?
SPEAKER_01: Remember that time?
SPEAKER_01: He did, he he knows what you've done, but unlike you, he also sees what you could do.
SPEAKER_01: All right, let me demonstrate.
SPEAKER_01: Years ago, you most of you, if you've been here a while, know that I used to travel and preach all over.
SPEAKER_01: I did a lot of student stuff.
SPEAKER_01: And one time, Champion Forest, Sagemont, and another church, maybe in First Houston, all got together and had the world's biggest middle school camp, and I was the pastor.
SPEAKER_01: It was like a week of hell with electric chihuahuas.
SPEAKER_01: There was like 780 of them.
SPEAKER_01: They were every blah blah blah blah blah blah.
SPEAKER_01: There was one girl every day would come up to me and tell me, I think you're stupid.
SPEAKER_01: I would be eating my salad in the cafeteria, and she would be like, just for the record, I think you're dumb, you're not funny, and what you say is not true.
SPEAKER_01: Well, now that you built me up, what else?
SPEAKER_01: And so the week left, I'm getting in my car, rolling my suitcase out, and this girl finds me and says, Oh, by the way, I still think you're stupid.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, Lord, can I whip this kid?
SPEAKER_01: No, okay.
SPEAKER_01: So, fast forward 11 years later, I'm at Sagemont Church, right over here around the toll way or whatever with the big cross there past the airport.
SPEAKER_01: I'm teaching a singles Bible study on Sunday nights.
SPEAKER_01: I'm back with the worship team in the room, and the lady comes in and says, Hey, there's a young lady out here sobbing uncontrollably, looking for you.
SPEAKER_01: They're like, That ain't my kid.
SPEAKER_01: I don't.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: I ain't been on more.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Meet?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they asked you by name.
SPEAKER_01: I walk out, and there's this 24-year-old, young lady standing there, and behind her is an older woman with her face in her hands, sobbing.
SPEAKER_01: And I said, and she looked up and she said, You don't remember me, do you?
SPEAKER_01: I said, I do remember you.
SPEAKER_01: You told me I was stupid when you were 13 every day.
SPEAKER_01: She said, I was listed.
SPEAKER_01: I'm so sorry.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not bitter.
SPEAKER_01: I've just been in therapy.
SPEAKER_01: I got some bills for you.
SPEAKER_01: Uh I said, No, no, no, what's going on?
SPEAKER_01: And she said, I've made a wreck of my life.
SPEAKER_01: Is there somewhere we can talk?
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01: Come in here.
SPEAKER_01: We stepped to the room, mom, come on in here.
SPEAKER_01: We sit down and she starts talking.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it is and it comes out and like, oh girl, you made a wreck out of it.
SPEAKER_01: You didn't put it in the ditch, you drove it off the cliff and then set it on fire and walked away.
SPEAKER_01: And then she pauses and she grabs her hair.
SPEAKER_01: You know how you women reach back and grab your hair?
SPEAKER_01: And she twirled it and she turned around and she said, I need help with this.
SPEAKER_01: And on the back of her neck, she had tattooed a five-inch by five-inch black Nazi swastika.
SPEAKER_01: And she said, My last boyfriend was a skin head, and he made me get this as a sign of my love for him.
SPEAKER_01: And my mom saw an ad in the paper for this Bible study you were teaching that, and she said, That's that Neil guy.
SPEAKER_01: You need to go find him, he can help you.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, You think I got like a tattoo removal business?
SPEAKER_01: And so I said, All right, give me your number, let me call.
SPEAKER_01: Now, again, here's the thing: God sees what you can be in the future, not just what you have been in your past.
SPEAKER_01: Some of you sitting in this room today are trying to excuse yourself from what God's inviting you to.
SPEAKER_01: So I said, Hey, give me your number, I'll call you in two days.
SPEAKER_01: She said, Okay, you're gonna call me, right?
SPEAKER_01: I said, What did I say?
SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_01: So I get back and I'm thinking, Lord, I don't know what to do, and it clears a bell.
SPEAKER_01: If you're over the age of 50 and you lived in Houston any length of time, you remember this guy.
SPEAKER_01: Because there's always people that can help the kingdom come, not just you.
SPEAKER_01: The kingdom doesn't just depend on you.
SPEAKER_01: There used to be a guy on the news that come on and he would say, Marvin Zindler, eyewitness news.
SPEAKER_01: Marvin Zindler is a Jewish man.
SPEAKER_01: He has a network.
SPEAKER_01: They were called Marvin's Angels back then, doctors, lawyers, dermatologists in my case, all kinds of people, plastic surgeons.
SPEAKER_01: I called Marvin.
SPEAKER_01: I was at a conference in Cleveland, Ohio.
SPEAKER_01: I called Marvin, left him a message.
SPEAKER_01: He called me back.
SPEAKER_01: I saved it forever.
SPEAKER_01: And then I got a new phone.
SPEAKER_01: He called and left me a message.
SPEAKER_01: Neil, this is Marvin Zindler.
SPEAKER_01: We gotta get that Nazi Swatch sticker off that girl's neck.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, it's a swastika sign Swatch sticker.
SPEAKER_01: But anyway, if it was a sticker, I could peel it off myself, Marvin.
SPEAKER_01: But I you know.
SPEAKER_01: And Marvin said, You guys come.
SPEAKER_01: I made a I made phone calls to a plastic surgeon and dermatologist.
SPEAKER_01: They're gonna take as many treatments as they can.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, and we're down, so he said, I want y'all to come to the studio.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna film a piece on what's gonna be on the news.
SPEAKER_01: So I meet her and her mom down at the studio, channel 13.
SPEAKER_01: We film a piece.
SPEAKER_01: A friend of mine calls me and says, Dude, did I see you on the news getting a tattoo off a girl's neck?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, it's a long story.
SPEAKER_01: He said, McClenny, how do you get into these things?
SPEAKER_01: I said, I just I just want the kingdom to come and God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.
SPEAKER_01: We're at channel 13, and she gets a little, because he says, now, young lady, look at me, Marvin, with his wig, blue blocker glasses.
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I feel like I'm talking to plastic man.
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what, what?
SPEAKER_01: And he goes, by the way, this is gonna be free, it's not gonna cost you a dime.
SPEAKER_01: These people, God's blessed them, they want to be a blessing.
SPEAKER_01: And she gets emotional and he says, Honey, is anything else going on?
SPEAKER_01: She goes, I'm 24 years old and I'm an alcoholic.
SPEAKER_01: And Marvin looks across the ABC studio and says, Hey, one of the anchors whose names I won't say, see that man right there?
SPEAKER_01: He's an alcoholic, he can help you.
SPEAKER_01: Hey, come here.
SPEAKER_01: And I am just like, what is happening?
SPEAKER_01: And the anchor who you know walked over and said, I've been 17 years sober.
SPEAKER_01: I am an alcoholic.
SPEAKER_01: My name is Blank.
SPEAKER_01: And I just sat back and watched the kingdom sit down.
SPEAKER_01: And that man started talking to her out of what he had received from the Lord of his own addiction.
SPEAKER_01: And I grabbed an office chair and just slid into it and just sat there, like I was watching a tennis match at the U.S.
SPEAKER_01: Open.
SPEAKER_01: And he reached in his suitcoat and pulled out a card, and he said, You call me and I'll get you an AA near your house.
SPEAKER_01: And we were walking out, and she looked at me and she said, Well, I just I don't think I could ever forgive my.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, what do I do?
SPEAKER_01: I feel bad at people.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not worth people helping.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, oh my God, you understand?
SPEAKER_01: I said, No, I do understand.
SPEAKER_01: I said, I'm not gonna preach to me because I can give you one one and a half verses out of the Bible.
SPEAKER_01: She said, Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Because she's like, I don't, I don't deserve this.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, oh my gosh, what?
SPEAKER_01: And I said, the Bible says this in the Psalm 130 about verse 3 and 4.
SPEAKER_01: It says to God, of God, if you, O Lord, kept kept a record of sins, who could stand?
SPEAKER_01: But with you, there is forgiveness.
SPEAKER_01: 12 treatments to get the thing off the back of her neck.
SPEAKER_01: Last time I saw her, I said, hey, everybody's got tattoos on their soul.
SPEAKER_01: Yours are just more obvious.
SPEAKER_01: So I said all that.
SPEAKER_01: Say with me.
SPEAKER_01: We're just about done.
SPEAKER_01: You still with me?
SPEAKER_01: I said all that to say.
SPEAKER_01: If you're sitting in this room and you think, dude, I got some tattoos on my soul, they'll never come off.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, they will.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they will.
SPEAKER_01: That's why God said in Isaiah chapter 1, about verse 18, God says, hey, he says to Israel, come let us reason together.
SPEAKER_01: Let's talk about it.
SPEAKER_01: He says, Though your sins be as scarlet, I'll wash you as white as snow.
SPEAKER_01: That's the God we're talking about.
SPEAKER_01: Who doesn't just see your past, he sees your future.
SPEAKER_01: And thirdly, he's about faith, not promises.
SPEAKER_01: Faith expresses itself not in what you do, but also in what you don't do.
SPEAKER_01: Now let me point to this one thing and then we'll do the next section and be done.
SPEAKER_01: Look at verse 22, Mom and Dad.
SPEAKER_01: It says, In the boat was Zebedee, their father, many in their nets, and he called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.
SPEAKER_01: They left the boat and their father.
SPEAKER_01: Mom and dad, here's a question for you.
SPEAKER_01: Are you okay with your kids leaving you to follow God's will for their lives?
SPEAKER_01: Because there's a lot of Fort Bean County parents.
SPEAKER_01: You got your kids' future planned.
SPEAKER_01: You're gonna helicopter with them to college.
SPEAKER_01: Hey, Dad, thanks, thanks for the townhouse.
SPEAKER_01: No, this is for me and your mom.
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: Here's the thing: if you don't prepare your kids for the future, you gotta prepare a future for your kids.
SPEAKER_01: And that gets hard.
SPEAKER_01: Here's the last thing God's power.
SPEAKER_01: Last section, verse 23.
SPEAKER_01: And he went through all of Galilee teaching in their synagogues.
SPEAKER_01: Just listen to this.
SPEAKER_01: And he went through all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.
SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine Jesus going to the bed center?
SPEAKER_01: So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, epileptics, and paralytics, and he healed them.
SPEAKER_01: And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis and from Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.
SPEAKER_01: One of them you're gonna be like, oh, that's power.
SPEAKER_01: They're all three power.
SPEAKER_01: Three demonstrations of God's power is teaching, proclaiming, and healing.
SPEAKER_01: Teaching, proclaiming, and healing.
SPEAKER_01: We in the American church like to glam onto healing as the only expression of God's power.
SPEAKER_01: And one of the reasons we do not see miraculous power is we do not understand or accept or submit to the teaching and the proclaiming of God.
SPEAKER_01: We just want the healing power of God.
SPEAKER_01: Let me say it like this: gospel demonstration sets the stage for gospel proclamation.
SPEAKER_01: Let me say it one more time.
SPEAKER_01: Gospel demonstration, healing these people sets the stage for gospel proclamation.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus demonstrates God's power to heal.
SPEAKER_01: This draws a crowd.
SPEAKER_01: Now, by the way, being trusted with God's power means you know what to do with the crowd when they show up.
SPEAKER_01: He said, What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01: Remember, we just read verse 23, 25, people are streaming from all these parts of the country.
SPEAKER_01: Chapter 5, verse 1 says this.
SPEAKER_01: Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him and he opened his mouth and he taught them, saying.
SPEAKER_01: Translation, Jesus could have started a fan club, but he didn't.
SPEAKER_01: He started the church.
SPEAKER_01: And he started the church by teaching them.
SPEAKER_01: He ends Matthew's gospel by telling you and I, hey, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey.
SPEAKER_01: It's not sexy.
SPEAKER_01: Teaching and proclaiming are demonstrations of God's power, just like healing is.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus could have had a fan club, but he started the church.
SPEAKER_01: Let me just say this and we'll be done.
SPEAKER_01: When God's people live in God's timing, they do so with God's power.
SPEAKER_01: When God's people live in God's timing, when you submit to God's way of doing things on God's timetable, what comes on your life is a measure of God's power.
SPEAKER_01: So that when you are obedient, when you stand up and you you're the medium through which the kingdom of God finds expression, it comes out with some holy momentum on it.
SPEAKER_01: Not just personality, but momentum.
SPEAKER_01: Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_01: Let's pray together.
SPEAKER_01: If you're a guest today, just relax.
SPEAKER_01: We like to teach the Bible, then we give you some soul space to think about it.
SPEAKER_01: The way that happens here is if some questions come up on the screen behind me.
SPEAKER_01: You can just take a picture with your phone.
SPEAKER_01: We talk about these in our community groups.
SPEAKER_01: Friends talk about them over lunch, and sometimes couples talk about them when they're just hanging out at their house.
SPEAKER_01: But right now, just be still and ask the Holy Spirit what had your name on it today.
SPEAKER_01: What did God say that kind of stirred your head and your heart?
SPEAKER_01: Focus on that for the next 90 seconds.
SPEAKER_01: God, we come along, a lyric like that, and alongside Hebrews, it says we have this hope.
SPEAKER_01: It's a strong anchor for our soul.
SPEAKER_01: So, Lord, thank you that hopefully we all have things we can look back on and be reminded and reorient ourselves around the faithfulness of God.
SPEAKER_01: You've been faithful, you are faithful, and you will be faithful.
SPEAKER_01: Now it remains up to us to be those things.
SPEAKER_01: And we can be that way because you're that way.
SPEAKER_01: And we're your people.
SPEAKER_01: And so we find a lot of courage in that, a lot of perspective.
SPEAKER_01: So thank you for that.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name, all God's people said, Amen, amen, amen.
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