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SPEAKER_00: Pray together.
SPEAKER_00: Father, now as we open up your word, we ask, Holy Spirit, that you would illuminate the truth of the gospel so that it uh it finds a resting place, that you uh arrest our intellect, that you shape the way we think, and therefore how we live and what we love.
SPEAKER_00: All of this we ask in Jesus' name, and all God's people said, Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: You can have a seat.
SPEAKER_00: If you got a Bible, I invite you to take it and open up to Acts chapter 3.
SPEAKER_00: Acts chapter 3.
SPEAKER_00: It's in the New Testament, right after the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
SPEAKER_00: Acts.
SPEAKER_00: It's a full title, it's Acts of the Apostles.
SPEAKER_00: Or as I like to say, this is what Christians did uh uh uh uh after Jesus ascends back into heaven.
SPEAKER_00: It's how the church gets started.
SPEAKER_00: Uh we're currently, if you're our guest today, uh let me just say what we're doing.
SPEAKER_00: We're in a four-part series right now on our core values.
SPEAKER_00: These are the guiding realities that govern our church.
SPEAKER_00: We have four core values, and they are systematic.
SPEAKER_00: They're in order for a reason.
SPEAKER_00: Our core values are gospel, community, mission, and blessing.
SPEAKER_00: We believe that the gospel produces a community of people that is different from all different backgrounds, all tribes, all tongues, all people.
SPEAKER_00: All those are welcome here because that's the kingdom.
SPEAKER_00: The gospel produces a community of people that are on this shared mission.
SPEAKER_00: That's what we're gonna talk about today, the shared mission.
SPEAKER_00: And central to that mission is to be a blessing, okay?
SPEAKER_00: And so today I want to talk about our third core value, mission.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna talk about it uh through the title of the authority of missional living.
SPEAKER_00: The authority of missional living.
SPEAKER_00: Now, I say missional living, I mean uh not mission trips.
SPEAKER_00: Those are great, and we go on those.
SPEAKER_00: Brent, our teaching pastor who led the prayer time earlier, is over our missions.
SPEAKER_00: He's chomping at the bit to get to the nations.
SPEAKER_00: We can't do that, we can't take international trips because of COVID.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but but but but we'll we will re-engage that as soon as we can.
SPEAKER_00: Um, one of the problems with missional living in America, it is with being a missional in our country, is how we've been taught almost, I think we've been taught it's kind of in the water, it's the ethos of American Christianity.
SPEAKER_00: It's very individualistic.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus uh died for me for my sins, Jesus saves me.
SPEAKER_00: I trusted Christ.
SPEAKER_00: And if we're not careful, that that's where it can end.
SPEAKER_00: And what I want us to see, and our culture longs to see, uh, but I think we fail to see, is that God is redeeming the world.
SPEAKER_00: He wants everyone to know this, and the way they come to know this is by us being missional or intentional in how we live.
SPEAKER_00: That's what you're gonna see in the text today.
SPEAKER_00: These two men, guys named Peter and John, are basically going to church, and then all heaven breaks loose, okay?
SPEAKER_00: But before we read the text, let me say this by way of background.
SPEAKER_00: The church has been established, and this is kind of the first wave of opposition uh to this movement known as Christianity.
SPEAKER_00: It leads to these two men, Peter and John, getting arrested, or they get kind of chewed out, they get sternly warned hey, don't talk about Jesus anymore because they're gonna heal, or excuse me, God's going to heal a man who's never walked before, and God's gonna heal him.
SPEAKER_00: Now, let me just say this, okay?
SPEAKER_00: The miraculous, look at me.
SPEAKER_00: The miraculous is just a platform for the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: The gospel is not a platform for the miraculous.
SPEAKER_00: Because a lot of people ask me, well, hey, why didn't God do do miraculous things in America like he does in other countries?
SPEAKER_00: Uh uh Well, God's, we believe still God still can do the miraculous, uh, but the miraculous is just a platform for the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Now you may be thinking, that makes no sense.
SPEAKER_00: Just stay with me.
SPEAKER_00: I'll show you that from the Bible, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but but here's three things uh uh that that happened as a result of what we're gonna read.
SPEAKER_00: And I want to start with them and we'll end with them this morning because these are the three things that I want you, uh I want for us as a church.
SPEAKER_00: These three things happen as a result of what we're gonna read today.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Now, let me be very clear, because especially in the Baptist church, we don't talk about the Holy Spirit that much.
SPEAKER_00: And so I said a fresh filling, not a receiving, because when you become a Christian, you receive the Holy Spirit, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but but a fresh filling, in other words, they were just their their hearts were stirred up, they were full of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: So you should ask yourself today, uh, hey, am I full of the Spirit?
SPEAKER_00: Because we are all at the mercy of what we're full of, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Second thing to happen is their fellowship was strengthened.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the church just kind of came together in this incredible way, and people were like, wow, that's that's amazing.
SPEAKER_00: And so I want our fellowship, uh, who we are as a church to be strengthened.
SPEAKER_00: And then thirdly, they were emboldened to share the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: I want us to be emboldened to share the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Uh and this is this is what it means to when I talk about uh the missional living, it's just you're just emboldened.
SPEAKER_00: A lady stopped me after the first service and she said, I'm not like you.
SPEAKER_00: You like talking to people.
SPEAKER_00: And I looked at her, I said, actually, I don't.
SPEAKER_00: Ask my wife.
SPEAKER_00: If I had my way, I would just I would stay in my room all day, every day, just about.
SPEAKER_00: And I said, Here's the thing, here's the great news of Christianity.
SPEAKER_00: God does not want you to be like me.
SPEAKER_00: And I don't want you to be like me.
SPEAKER_00: That's not what we're driving at today.
SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't wish that upon anybody because I have a friend that's here today.
SPEAKER_00: I passed him this morning, he's a big deer hunter.
SPEAKER_00: I went deer hunting once in my life.
SPEAKER_00: I sat up in a deer stand for like three hours, it was dark, the sun came up, and I kept thinking, do they walk out wearing like sweaters with bullseyes on them?
SPEAKER_00: How do you see these things?
SPEAKER_00: And the guy go, I'm glass in the field, I'm glass in the field.
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I'm freezing up here.
SPEAKER_00: And then something better walk out and go, hello, shoot me now, or I ain't never coming back.
SPEAKER_00: That was 1977.
SPEAKER_00: I ain't never been back.
SPEAKER_00: But my friend, I saw him, I know him, I was like, hey, you getting ready?
SPEAKER_00: Go, yeah, it's a month away.
SPEAKER_00: And like it was Christmas, and I was just like, shoot me, okay?
SPEAKER_00: But see, why do I bring that up?
SPEAKER_00: Because I want him to be intentional with other deer hunters.
SPEAKER_00: People that would look at me and be like, loser, you don't even own a gun.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so it's that we all of us, this is what you see in the in the act in the book of Acts is that everybody in the church was intentional in their sphere of influence, okay?
SPEAKER_00: And so this is what I'm uh this is what I'm driving at.
SPEAKER_00: I want all of us to this is what happens for them.
SPEAKER_00: I want it to happen for us.
SPEAKER_00: Now let me read Acts chapter 3, verse 1: the authority of missional living.
SPEAKER_00: Now, Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
SPEAKER_00: And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they who they laid daily at the gate of the temple, that is called the beautiful gate, to ask alms of those entering the temple.
SPEAKER_00: Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms.
SPEAKER_00: And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, Look at us.
SPEAKER_00: And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.
SPEAKER_00: But Peter said, I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you.
SPEAKER_00: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
SPEAKER_00: And he took him by his hand and he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong, and leaping up, he stood up and began to walk.
SPEAKER_00: And he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
SPEAKER_00: And all the people saw him walking and praising God, and they recognized him as the one who sat at the beautiful gate of the temple, asking for alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
SPEAKER_00: Ask yourself, because usually we end the sermon with some questions on the screen.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to do that today.
SPEAKER_00: I want, I'll throw out some questions along the way.
SPEAKER_00: And here's the first one.
SPEAKER_00: When is the last time you saw God do something that left you filled with wonder and amazement?
SPEAKER_00: When is the last time you saw God do something where you were just like, oh my gosh, because that's what you see here, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Now, when I talk about the authority of missional living, it involves four things that I want to point to from the text.
SPEAKER_00: Number one is this missional living is about being intentional in the everyday.
SPEAKER_00: It's it that that's the best way I know to say it.
SPEAKER_00: It's not about being intense, it's about being intentional in the everyday.
SPEAKER_00: If you have a NIV, the New International Version, Acts chapter 3 starts with these two words, one day.
SPEAKER_00: Does anybody have that translation?
SPEAKER_00: Is that not what it starts with?
SPEAKER_00: One day.
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't a special day, it was just one day.
SPEAKER_00: It was just just, hey, they're just being intentional in the everyday.
SPEAKER_00: I uh and now mine says I read from the ESV.
SPEAKER_00: Now you may be thinking, what do you mean different translations?
SPEAKER_00: There's different translations of the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: They don't say different things, they say the same thing differently.
SPEAKER_00: Do you hear the difference?
SPEAKER_00: They say the same thing differently, like the New Living Translation is kind of modern English and it reads really well and really smooth.
SPEAKER_00: The New King James is that way.
SPEAKER_00: I I preach from what's called the ESV, the English Standard Version.
SPEAKER_00: And the reason I do is because it's the most literal from the Greek and the Hebrew, the original languages.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but get you a Bible that you understand uh and read that.
SPEAKER_00: And so there's there's nothing spiritual about what you use, but I what I'm trying to, the point I'm trying to make is that missional living is about being intentional in the everyday warp and woof of life.
SPEAKER_00: So they're not on a mission trip, they're simply doing what we would call going to church.
SPEAKER_00: As the Bible says that they were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour, that's three o'clock in the afternoon.
SPEAKER_00: Uh and and again, nothing wrong with mission trips, but my one of my prayers for our church that we'd stop thinking in terms of mission trips and start thinking in terms of missional living.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, when you start thinking in terms of missional living, then every time you walk out of your house, you are on a mission trip.
SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_00: Say amen.
SPEAKER_00: And and so again, not knocked down on mission trips.
SPEAKER_00: We'll continue to do mission trips.
SPEAKER_00: I think they're great.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but but but but it's missional living.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and it's about uh being intentional in the everyday.
SPEAKER_00: Uh now this the reason I point out that chapter three begins with one day, this one day does not end until chapter four, verse four, which says that five thousand men come to faith.
SPEAKER_00: That's quite a day.
SPEAKER_00: Here's a second question I would give you to think about.
SPEAKER_00: What's the most uh consequential spiritual day?
SPEAKER_00: What's the most spiritually consequential day you've ever had?
SPEAKER_00: Because this one day, we're just getting up going to church, and God unfolds this series of events where 5,000 men, that doesn't mention the women and children, come to faith.
SPEAKER_00: That's a pretty consequential day.
SPEAKER_00: Now, if your most spiritually consequential day involves something you had to register for or buy a ticket to, that doesn't count.
SPEAKER_00: I asked people, I so I started asking people leading up to this, hey, what's the most spiritually consequential day?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's at this conference.
SPEAKER_00: There's 8,000 of us.
SPEAKER_00: Doesn't count.
SPEAKER_00: Just in the because if you're not careful, we will grind it out in the day-to-day and live with blinders on to the need all around us and go have these experiences in an arena somewhere and then come back and grind it out until we go to another escapism type format.
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about just in the on the warp and woof of every day.
SPEAKER_00: No big deal.
SPEAKER_00: Like after the first service, a man walked up to me.
SPEAKER_00: I love this about our church, and he said, Hey, my neighbor, and this guy lives like in the Egypt out here in some subdivision, and he said, My neighbor rides a bike because he doesn't have a car and he works at Walmart.
SPEAKER_00: Do you think we could buy him a car?
SPEAKER_00: I just talked about being intentional and being missional.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, There's a chip shortage.
SPEAKER_00: Do you know there's a chip shortage?
SPEAKER_00: That's why cars are so expensive.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Used cars are really expensive.
SPEAKER_00: So and he said, I gotta.
SPEAKER_00: I talked to a buddy of mine, he said it's gonna be at least six or seven thousand for a decent car that won't break down and be a problem.
SPEAKER_00: And the guy says, I got the first thousand.
SPEAKER_00: Can you help with the rest?
SPEAKER_00: And I thought, me and my big mouth.
SPEAKER_00: But no, I said, Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00: I've got some friends that I'll call this afternoon.
SPEAKER_00: So when your phone rings, answer it.
SPEAKER_00: I'll be ringing you up, okay?
SPEAKER_00: I ain't hating on you.
SPEAKER_00: I play golf with some of you.
SPEAKER_00: I know you got stuff in your ashtray you don't need, and I'm gonna call and say, Hey, you want in on this?
SPEAKER_00: So when you see Pastor Sunshine on your caller ID, answer the phone because we're gonna get to be intentional.
SPEAKER_00: And here's what I want to do I want to buy the guy a car and give it to this guy in the church and say, hey, take this to your neighbor and say, hey, a bunch of Christians who had some extra money, pulled it together.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: God provided you a car.
SPEAKER_00: Because this is what happens.
SPEAKER_00: This is the kind of things, because I know sometimes when I talk about experiences that I have, some of y'all look at me kind of cockeyed, like, what in the world?
SPEAKER_00: Are you serious?
SPEAKER_00: It it it you don't ever go out and seek that, but if you just kind of be missional in the everyday and be intentional, things begin to happen that you never experienced.
SPEAKER_00: This is what you see in Acts chapter 3.
SPEAKER_00: Peter and John are just going up to church.
SPEAKER_00: Here's the second thing about missional living.
SPEAKER_00: It involves actually seeing the world around us through the lens of God's capacity.
SPEAKER_00: Stay with me, I unpack that.
SPEAKER_00: It involves seeing the world around us through the lens of God's capacity.
SPEAKER_00: Look at the text, verse two.
SPEAKER_00: He says they were going up to the temple about the hour at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour, and a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the beautiful gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.
SPEAKER_00: Can you believe that people can you believe that's in the Bible?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, again, just just hear this, okay?
SPEAKER_00: And a man lame from birth, he's never walked, is being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the beautiful gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, they didn't take him in the temple because he's ceremonially unclean, he's crippled.
SPEAKER_00: And so they leave him out here and they say, Okay, okay, Johnny, you stay right here.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go to church, we'll pick up afterwards, and we'll go to Cain's and have chicken tenders, okay?
SPEAKER_00: We'll be back.
SPEAKER_00: And he every day, not on Sundays, but every day, all this man did was sit there and beg people for money.
SPEAKER_00: And missional living involves actually seeing the world around us through the lens of God's capacity.
SPEAKER_00: Because what we do is we see something like that, and we roll down our window at the stoplight on the interstate and on the access road, and we give somebody a dollar, five dollars, and so you're not meeting their need, okay?
SPEAKER_00: That man does not need money.
SPEAKER_00: A crippled man does not need money.
SPEAKER_00: A crippled man needs to be healed, okay?
SPEAKER_00: And so, unless you see this person through the lens of God's capacity, you're going to distinguish yourself and excuse yourself and kind of be like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay, I'm I here's all I can do.
SPEAKER_00: And it's not bad, but what it is is we're seeing that person through the lens of my capacity.
SPEAKER_00: Silver and gold, okay, here you go, bro.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, let me say it like this: the way your mind is oriented towards the truth determines how you see the world.
SPEAKER_00: Let me say that again.
SPEAKER_00: The way your mind is oriented towards the truth determines how you see the world.
SPEAKER_00: For example, I was with some friends recently, and we're hanging around, we're talking, and there's a TV on uh in this restaurant we're eating, and just a bunch of men, and we're just just being men, being goofy, and there and there's some news channels on, they're talking about Afghanistan, and the conversation starts about Afghanistan.
SPEAKER_00: Again, the way your mind is oriented towards the truth determines how you see the world.
SPEAKER_00: And one of the guys, his mind's oriented a certain way, he starts saying, Yeah, I'll tell you what, Joe Biden, I mean, that'll kick him out of office.
SPEAKER_00: This would have never happened on Trump's watch.
SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you what.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm just oh great, here we go.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And so he's burning hot, and this guy's talking, he's got a different take.
SPEAKER_00: The guy here's got a different take.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm sitting across from one of my friends that just loves Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: He got them crazy eyes.
SPEAKER_00: He's kind of like, hey, do I love Jesus?
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna kill all y'all as soon as lunch is over.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and and somebody finally says, Hey, what do you think about all this?
SPEAKER_00: And he just says, Well, I think our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan are Christians are gonna be, are gonna be martyred.
SPEAKER_00: And it makes me think of uh in Revelation, it says, until the number, because the the people have already been martyred for the faith are are crying out to God saying, How long?
SPEAKER_00: And God says, until the number of the numbers of the martyrs is fulfilled.
SPEAKER_00: And so this guy says, because again, the way you look at the world, the way your mind's oriented towards the truth determines how you see the world.
SPEAKER_00: And he just said, So I just think the numbers of the martyrs is gonna increase, and that is so sad, but that means we're gonna get closer to Jesus coming back.
SPEAKER_00: And everybody in the room stopped chewing.
SPEAKER_00: It was just like I'm gonna put my brisket sandwich down now.
SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't, it wasn't condemning.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he said it like he had just won the lottery.
SPEAKER_00: He was just like, Isn't that awesome?
SPEAKER_00: And I looked at the Biden-Hating guy and I was like, Hey, you feel it?
SPEAKER_00: He's like, Shut up, Glendon.
SPEAKER_00: Again, the way your mind is oriented towards the truth determines how you see the world.
SPEAKER_00: He's like, Why do you keep repeating that?
SPEAKER_00: Because I'm really asking you, how is your mind oriented towards the truth?
SPEAKER_00: Do you look at Afghanistan and you just think it's a it's an occasion to rant about a precedent you didn't vote for?
SPEAKER_00: Or do you see Christian brothers and sisters who are going to be martyred for their faith?
SPEAKER_00: Because, see, missional living involves actually seeing the world around us through the lens of God's capacity, not your own.
SPEAKER_00: Because if you see the world through the lens of your capacity, it's a really small world.
SPEAKER_00: But if you see it through the lens of God, what God's capable of, it's a brave new world opened up to you.
SPEAKER_00: Here's the third thing about missional living.
SPEAKER_00: It involves knowing what has you.
SPEAKER_00: Uh let me let me ask you, uh well, let me just uh let me read verse six.
SPEAKER_00: Look at the text.
SPEAKER_00: It says, I actually've been picking up in verse four, and Peter, uh uh the guy's asking for money, and Peter directed his gaze at him in verse four as did John and said, Look at us.
SPEAKER_00: And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.
SPEAKER_00: Notice verse six, but Peter said, I have no silver and gold, but what I do have, I give to you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
SPEAKER_00: Rise up and walk.
SPEAKER_00: Now, here verse six again.
SPEAKER_00: But Peter said, I have no silver and gold, but what I do have.
SPEAKER_00: Now, this is why I ask, I say that missional living involves knowing what has you.
SPEAKER_00: Because in in the English, you can't really see it.
SPEAKER_00: But the New Testament was originally written in Greek, and there's two different Greek words when he says, you know, uh, when he says, Look at me, he says, I have no.
SPEAKER_00: That's one Greek word to get that phrase.
SPEAKER_00: And then he gets over here and says, But what I do have, it's another Greek word.
SPEAKER_00: And so basically, here's what it would sound like in English.
SPEAKER_00: He says, I have no silver and gold.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, these are not in my possession, but what I do have, I am possessed by this.
SPEAKER_00: I give to you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
SPEAKER_00: Rise up and walk.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, I have no silver and gold, okay?
SPEAKER_00: These are not in my possession, but what I do have, I am possessed by this.
SPEAKER_00: Let me ask you a question this morning.
SPEAKER_00: What are you possessed by?
SPEAKER_00: Can you feel how awkward that question is?
SPEAKER_00: You're like, I ain't possessed.
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's that's like devil talk right there.
SPEAKER_00: Hey, do you find it alarming when people get into satanic worship, they say he's possessed, but when you become a Christian, they say he made a decision?
SPEAKER_00: We should be possessed.
SPEAKER_00: Guess what Peter and John say?
SPEAKER_00: Like, hey man, I don't have any of that in my possession, but what I am possessed by, I'm about to lay on you.
SPEAKER_00: See, the world doesn't always want your silver and gold and necessarily need your silver and gold.
SPEAKER_00: If anything, this is an indictment upon the social gospel, seeing people in need and just giving them things to meet their physical needs and not their spiritual need.
SPEAKER_00: All four meeting physical needs.
SPEAKER_00: But if all we do is meet people's physical needs, if all we do is get get get this guy a car, I mean supply this to myself, we're failing this man.
SPEAKER_00: If we don't say, hey, now does it make you wonder why a bunch of Christians would would pull their money and bless you and your wife with a vehicle so you don't have to ride a bike to your job so you can get around and maybe even come to church?
SPEAKER_00: This is being intentional, it's not being hard and harsh and saying, Hey, here's the keys.
SPEAKER_00: Now, would you like to pray the prayer?
SPEAKER_00: No, we don't do that.
SPEAKER_00: But we do say, hey, today the kingdom of God has come to you, and we want to bless you in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Now, can we tell you what makes us not love our money as much as we used to?
SPEAKER_00: This is what it means to be intentional and to be missional in how we live.
SPEAKER_00: And so when I say that missional living involves knowing what has you, this is what these men realize.
SPEAKER_00: He say, Hey, the guy's asking for silver and gold.
SPEAKER_00: I don't possess any of that, but here's what possesses me.
SPEAKER_00: Now, uh when you walk in this kind of authority, three things happen, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Let me just tick them off here for you, real quick.
SPEAKER_00: You don't fear authority.
SPEAKER_00: You don't fear authority, be it physical or spiritual authority.
SPEAKER_00: You ever notice when you're driving, every time you see a policeman, you hit the brakes?
SPEAKER_00: You're just conditioned.
SPEAKER_00: You're just like, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00: Uh oh, easy.
SPEAKER_00: I assume I'm breaking the law.
SPEAKER_00: But when you walk in authority, you don't fear authority.
SPEAKER_00: If you're driving down the road, you don't see a cop.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you see a cop, you don't, oh, because you're like, hey, the speed limit 60, I'm going 60.
SPEAKER_00: Now my wife has a theory that, oh no, seven miles over the speed limit, they won't stop you.
SPEAKER_00: Like, it's like a myth.
SPEAKER_00: Who's they?
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know what they say?
SPEAKER_00: Well, why do you keep getting tickets and I don't?
SPEAKER_00: No, you just when you see authority, if you're walking in authority, you're living in authority, you don't fear.
SPEAKER_00: It would be like, remember when you were a kid and you knew you did something wrong and you didn't know if your parents knew yet?
SPEAKER_00: Remember that sick feeling?
SPEAKER_00: And then it was so relieving.
SPEAKER_00: You you're like, you would never admit to this, but when they found out and they beat you, you were relieved.
SPEAKER_00: Remember that feeling?
SPEAKER_00: You're just like, I mean, you'd cry.
SPEAKER_00: And here's the best feeling of the world the first deep breath after it's all over.
SPEAKER_00: You're like if they could bottle that and sell it, you'd be a gazillionaire.
SPEAKER_00: It just feels so good.
SPEAKER_00: Look at me.
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you that God created you to live in that place all the time.
SPEAKER_00: It's a place of authority where you don't fear authority when you see it.
SPEAKER_00: Secondly, you don't fear situations that require authority.
SPEAKER_00: You don't like, oh, what are we gonna do?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't, I anybody got a$10 bill?
SPEAKER_00: No, I don't have any.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, what are we gonna do?
SPEAKER_00: So sorry.
SPEAKER_00: You know, because you you have some authority and you and you're aware of that.
SPEAKER_00: And thirdly, you recognize the need for authority.
SPEAKER_00: Hey, this guy doesn't just need permission, he needs authority.
SPEAKER_00: He doesn't need two dollars for a cup of coffee or whatever his beverage of choice is.
SPEAKER_00: And here's the great thing the great commission that we like to talk about in the church back in Matthew 28, 18 to 20.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't start with go and make disciples of all nations.
SPEAKER_00: It starts with this phrase before that.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus said, All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, in light of this fact, therefore, 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_00: Here's another random question I have for you today.
SPEAKER_00: Has anybody ever taught you how to obey the gospel?
SPEAKER_00: Because my concern is that in the church in America, a lot of people come to faith, but no one helps you understand what it means to obey.
SPEAKER_00: No one kind of says, Hey, do you understand these things?
SPEAKER_00: How is the gospel kind of reshaping how you think about your life?
SPEAKER_00: We just kind of say, hey, thanks.
SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the team.
SPEAKER_00: Now let's go to church.
SPEAKER_00: And unless somebody teaches you to obey, just kind of parallels you for a little bit, helps you understand, it will be harder than it has to be.
SPEAKER_00: This is what missional living involves, knowing what has you.
SPEAKER_00: This authority, this this it's not about personality, it's not about willingness, it's not about giftedness, it's about authority.
SPEAKER_00: Here's the last thing about missional living: it produces outcomes.
SPEAKER_00: It produces outcomes.
SPEAKER_00: Now, you may be thinking, yeah, the the the the lame guy got healed.
SPEAKER_00: That's not the outcome.
SPEAKER_00: Remember, I said in the beginning that the gospel is not a platform for the miraculous.
SPEAKER_00: The miraculous is a platform for the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Let me demonstrate what I'm talking about because when I say it produces outcomes, it's not enough in God's economy for broken people to live this ugly existence in the shadow of the beautiful gate.
SPEAKER_00: That that's not okay.
SPEAKER_00: We can't walk by that and call ourselves, hey, missional.
SPEAKER_00: Wish we could help you, buddy.
SPEAKER_00: I'll pray a prayer for you, light a candle when I get in there.
SPEAKER_00: But sorry, that's not missional living, okay?
SPEAKER_00: You say, What do you what do you mean?
SPEAKER_00: What's the outcome of all this?
SPEAKER_00: Here's the outcome: the gospel gets preached.
SPEAKER_00: Let me just pick up Acts chapter 3.
SPEAKER_00: I'll start reading verse 11.
SPEAKER_00: Hear this.
SPEAKER_00: Now again, the miraculous is it.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the gospel is not a platform for the miraculous.
SPEAKER_00: The miraculous is a platform for the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Watch what these men do.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 11.
SPEAKER_00: While he clung to Peter, the the the guy that just got healed, he's clinging to Peter like my feet work.
SPEAKER_00: I'm like forest, I got magic legs.
SPEAKER_00: Hang on a second.
SPEAKER_00: While he clung to Peter and John, all the people utterly astounded.
SPEAKER_00: What a great phrase! Ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's.
SPEAKER_00: And when Peter saw it, he addressed the people.
SPEAKER_00: Look at Peter says.
SPEAKER_00: Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this?
SPEAKER_00: Or why do you stare at us as though by our own power and piety we have made him walk?
SPEAKER_00: The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate.
SPEAKER_00: When he had decided to release him, but you denied the holy and righteous one and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.
SPEAKER_00: And you killed the author of life, whom God raised from the dead.
SPEAKER_00: To this we are witnesses, and his name, by faith in his name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know.
SPEAKER_00: And faith, that is, through Jesus, has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.
SPEAKER_00: These people run to them because they want to tell them how awesome they are, and they preach the gospel to them.
SPEAKER_00: They tell them, hey, you people crucified Jesus, and we are witnesses, so don't try to squill off the hook here.
SPEAKER_00: He keeps going, verse 17.
SPEAKER_00: And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
SPEAKER_00: But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer and thus be fulfilled, he thus fulfilled.
SPEAKER_00: Repent, therefore, and turn back that your sins may be blotted out, the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the all things about which God spoke by the mouth of his prophets long ago.
SPEAKER_00: Moses said, The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.
SPEAKER_00: You shall listen to him, and whatever he tells you, and it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.
SPEAKER_00: And all the prophets who have spoken from Samuel and those who came after him also proclaim these days.
SPEAKER_00: You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
SPEAKER_00: God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.
SPEAKER_00: Now, again, just stay with me.
SPEAKER_00: I know, oh, that's a lot of Bible reading.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00: Because if you're not careful, you'll just go through, you'll you'll you'll journey through Christianity like a thrill seeker.
SPEAKER_00: You want to see God heal people, you want to see this, you want to see that.
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00: But the miraculous is a platform for the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: This is what gets them in trouble.
SPEAKER_00: Healing people will not get you in trouble.
SPEAKER_00: It'll get you a TV show on TBN.
SPEAKER_00: It will not get you in trouble because the world recognizes that the threat is not helping poor people not be poor.
SPEAKER_00: The threat is telling people you by nature are wicked and sinful and you need to repent.
SPEAKER_00: This is this is the problem for them.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody rushes to them to say, Oh man, you guys are awesome.
SPEAKER_00: And they say back to them, Well, you're not.
SPEAKER_00: Matter of fact, you killed Jesus and you asked for a convict to be released to you.
SPEAKER_00: How do you feel about that now?
SPEAKER_00: And then did you notice?
SPEAKER_00: He goes back to Samuel, back to Moses.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he just recites Christian history.
SPEAKER_00: Here's the last question I want to give you today.
SPEAKER_00: Do you understand the big story of the gospel enough to talk to people like that?
SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm not saying being a Noah.
SPEAKER_00: One of my concerns is that we don't know, like when I we don't know enough to really engage people's intellect, which is why one of our midweek classes that we're gonna be teaching uh starting after Labor Day is on just the Christian story.
SPEAKER_00: Just got the big, the one story, the narrative that God's been telling from Genesis all the way to the end.
SPEAKER_00: And I promise you, people want to hear about that.
SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, you tell a really small story that makes God look really small.
SPEAKER_00: Like when I first became a Christian and I started going to a church, it was like the first Baptist church in my hometown.
SPEAKER_00: Great people, good church, but it was a real small story.
SPEAKER_00: And every Sunday was about don't drink and don't buy lottery tickets.
SPEAKER_00: And I remember just thinking, I was 18, I've been a Christian 10 minutes, and I was like, please tell me there's more to the story than this.
SPEAKER_00: And every week, whatever passage we were in, that's where we would end up.
SPEAKER_00: Behavior modification.
SPEAKER_00: Don't do this and don't do this.
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, ah, because they were voting on the lottery back then.
SPEAKER_00: That's why it was so hot.
SPEAKER_00: It was in the news.
SPEAKER_00: And we got to take a stand against the devil.
SPEAKER_00: And I just thought, and by the way, if all if your story to the world is don't do this and don't do this and don't do this, it's a real small story.
SPEAKER_00: It's easy to dismiss.
SPEAKER_00: But if you come along and say, you're sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your father, saying to Abraham, and in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
SPEAKER_00: God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.
SPEAKER_00: How hard is it to believe in a God that says, I want to bless you.
SPEAKER_00: And the way I want to bless you is by turning you from your wickedness.
SPEAKER_00: Because if you continue to sin, the wages, the consequence of sin is death.
SPEAKER_00: Not just termination, but separation.
SPEAKER_00: And you're gonna wake up one day and feel like God's a million miles away.
SPEAKER_00: And so why even believe in that at all?
SPEAKER_00: This is what I mean when I say missional living produces outcomes.
SPEAKER_00: Now you may be thinking, hey, I want to be like Peter and John, so do I.
SPEAKER_00: But before you get to be Peter and John, you have to admit that we're all like the lame guy laid at the gate.
SPEAKER_00: He was lame from birth.
SPEAKER_00: We are born incapable of making ourselves right with God.
SPEAKER_00: And this is the good news of Christianity.
SPEAKER_00: If you're here today, yes, you want to be like Peter and John, but let me ask you, have you ever stopped being like the lame guy?
SPEAKER_00: Have you ever do you have the capacity to not be who you've always been?
SPEAKER_00: Has God ever changed your heart?
SPEAKER_00: That's why the Bible says, if any man, any woman, any person is in Christ, they're a new creation.
SPEAKER_00: Old things pass away, and behold, all things become new.
SPEAKER_00: This is the big story I want to just tell you this morning is that God is a God that sees all of your old and He doesn't, He's not hating on you, He's not mad at you for it.
SPEAKER_00: He says, You know what?
SPEAKER_00: My son died for that, so I can make everything new.
SPEAKER_00: And this God wants to bless you, which we'll talk about next week.
SPEAKER_00: It's such a squirrely word in our culture.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody asked me, hey, that blessing thing, where'd y'all get that?
SPEAKER_00: Right out of the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna tell you this next week, but I'll just give you a little teaser right now.
SPEAKER_00: God looks at the nations through the lens of you.
SPEAKER_00: And he says, I want to bless all these people through you.
SPEAKER_00: And look at me.
SPEAKER_00: That's not pressure.
SPEAKER_00: That's a privilege.
SPEAKER_00: That is a privilege.
SPEAKER_00: This is missional living.
SPEAKER_00: One day, 5,000 people, just look there.
SPEAKER_00: Chapter 4, verse 4.
SPEAKER_00: That's when the day ends.
SPEAKER_00: And they're in jail.
SPEAKER_00: And 5,000 people come to faith.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Because they just said we want to be missional.
SPEAKER_00: My prayer for you, I want to put those three things back up there where we started with.
SPEAKER_00: Missional living produces outcomes.
SPEAKER_00: But one of the here's the I want you to be full of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: If you're a Christian, you have the Spirit of God inside of you.
SPEAKER_00: Secondly, I want our fellowship to be strengthened.
SPEAKER_00: I want every one of you this week to look around and think, how do I be intentional?
SPEAKER_00: Not, not how do I be like Pastor Neil?
SPEAKER_00: No, please have a higher goal than that.
SPEAKER_00: If you've got a tea time this afternoon, and I hope you do, I'm hey, how do my friends understand that everything I have comes from God?
SPEAKER_00: God's been so good to me, it sometimes makes me kind of weepy.
SPEAKER_00: Uh so and and they were emboldened to share the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: I asked a guy in council last week, I said, Hey, what are you possessed by these days?
SPEAKER_00: He goes, That's a dumb question.
SPEAKER_00: I said, Well, you got a dumb answer?
SPEAKER_00: He said, Uh, my buddy said, You're helpful.
SPEAKER_00: I take the long route to being helpful.
SPEAKER_00: Answer the question.
SPEAKER_00: And you know what he said?
SPEAKER_00: He said, I don't understand.
SPEAKER_00: I said, What are you possessed by?
SPEAKER_00: What's the thing that you don't even have to try to be this?
SPEAKER_00: It is it is this way.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, Bitter.
SPEAKER_00: And I said, Well, he's bitterness.
SPEAKER_00: My first wife left me, and my second wife's fixing two.
SPEAKER_00: And I said, if there was a God, because he said, I don't believe in this stuff, don't you try to give me cram religion down my throat?
SPEAKER_00: And I said, Here's the good news, we're all out of religion today.
SPEAKER_00: He's just looking at me like, you don't know how to do this, do you?
SPEAKER_00: And I just said, Hey, I said, if there was a God, and and do you think and he created Amago Day, he created you in his image.
SPEAKER_00: Do you really think he created you to go around bitter all the time and mad?
SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm not know there is a God.
SPEAKER_00: I know, I know, I know there might not be a God.
SPEAKER_00: You guess what you say?
SPEAKER_00: But if there is a God and He created you in His image, what we call Imago Day, in the image of God, and I believe that.
SPEAKER_00: I believe there is a God, I believe He created you in His image.
SPEAKER_00: Is this what He created you for?
SPEAKER_00: He put His hands on my desk and they looked like bear paws, they were ginormous.
SPEAKER_00: And I thought, this big old boy about to jump this desk.
SPEAKER_00: And I glanced over and I saw a stapler on my credenza behind me.
SPEAKER_00: And I just thought, I'm gonna quietly grab that stapler and I'm gonna scream for Wade Burgess, who will be no help.
SPEAKER_00: In a bar fight, you don't want Wade Burgess.
SPEAKER_00: Let me pray.
SPEAKER_00: No, hit this big old boy.
SPEAKER_00: And he starts breathing, really intense.
SPEAKER_00: And I said, You good?
SPEAKER_00: And I said, I believe that if I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna go out like this.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: I believe there is a God and you're made in his image, but he didn't make you to feel this way.
SPEAKER_00: And why in God's name do I feel this way?
SPEAKER_00: Because of your sin.
SPEAKER_00: Your life being this way is not God's fault.
SPEAKER_00: Basically, I stole that right out of the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: Your wickedness.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to be that way.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, That's enough for today.
SPEAKER_00: I said, Okay, we can be done.
SPEAKER_00: So when I say, hey, be emboldened to share the gospel, every time I share the gospel, people don't fall to their knees and go, What am I doing to be saved?
SPEAKER_00: I walked him out and he was like, and I said, Well, I uh I come at it from the Christian perspective and I want to help you.
SPEAKER_00: But I just promise you that God didn't create you to be bitter and angry.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, How do you not get bitter and angry?
SPEAKER_00: You hear people's junk all yeah, pretty much every day.
SPEAKER_00: You know how I don't get bitter and angry?
SPEAKER_00: Because I believe in a God who's gonna do something about all the injustice in the world.
SPEAKER_00: I don't have to.
SPEAKER_00: See, missional is just being intentional, it's not being harsh and screaming, you're going to hell.
SPEAKER_00: It's about being winsome and free.
SPEAKER_00: So if you're here in this room today and you're like, I don't believe in God, would you be willing to believe in a God who created you to be winsome and free and enjoy everything he created in a way that glorifies him and satisfies you?
SPEAKER_00: This is the God of the Bible, and this is the story of Christianity.
SPEAKER_00: Let's pray together.
SPEAKER_00: We like to just take a moment and just think about what we've heard, and so I'll just voice a brief prayer and clad will just play for just a moment.
SPEAKER_00: And just instead of, I threw out some questions along the way, we won't put them on the screen, but just ask yourself this simple question.
SPEAKER_00: As a result of what I heard this morning, what one question stirs up in my head and heart just naturally?
SPEAKER_00: What question just rises up in me naturally?
SPEAKER_00: Let me let me pray.
SPEAKER_00: God, thanks for the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: It's very thought-provoking, and so we want to give time to think about it.
SPEAKER_00: And so, Holy Spirit, brood over us now.
SPEAKER_00: Stir us up, make us think about what what what would it look like for me to be a missional person?
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying we're not.
SPEAKER_00: Some of us aren't, some of us are just doing our thing.
SPEAKER_00: What would it look like for us to be more missional?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, Holy Spirit, just kind of brood over us around that for a moment.
SPEAKER_00: God, it's easy to hear something like this and think in terms of all the things we're not doing.
SPEAKER_00: And I I don't please, God, don't let that get on my people.
SPEAKER_00: Instead, what I want to get on them is that just open our eyes to see all the things you are doing and how we get invited to be a part of that.
SPEAKER_00: You're meeting needs in Jesus' name and you're providing people with what they need.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's silver and gold, sometimes it's miraculous power to heal.
SPEAKER_00: We just say, God, keep healing and let it just kind of establish the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Let it wash the jaded cynicism off the cynic so that they see the power of God and there's no response to that.
SPEAKER_00: We want to be a strengthened fellowship of believers who are emboldened to share our faith, to open our mouth through our personality and our gifts and tell the story of God.
SPEAKER_00: This is what we mean by being missional.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the opportunity to think about it this morning in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: And everyone said, Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: If you're our guest, let me say thanks for being here.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, a couple of things.
SPEAKER_00: First of all, you may be wondering what are these books here on the stage?
SPEAKER_00: We're giving these away.
SPEAKER_00: It's Dane Ortland's new book called Gentle and Lowly.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, it's Christ's Heart for Sinners and Sufferers.
SPEAKER_00: It's a great, I'm reading it right now.
SPEAKER_00: It's my devotional reading.
SPEAKER_00: It's so good.
SPEAKER_00: Here's my only request, but when you're dismissed in here a second, if you will read it, come and get one.
SPEAKER_00: Only get one.
SPEAKER_00: You know, somebody try to grab six and go, I'm gonna give my family.
SPEAKER_00: And then we ain't taking your family to raise.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, just one.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and so if you're a reader, if you'd like it, it's it's a great chapters are short.
SPEAKER_00: It's just about God's heart for sinners and and and and strugglers like me.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and so that's the first thing I want to say too.
SPEAKER_00: And that's not just for guests, that's for everybody.
SPEAKER_00: First come, first serve.
SPEAKER_00: But if you're a guest, if you haven't already, would you pull those guest cards in the seat back pocket in your row?
SPEAKER_00: Just fill it out and drop it in the wooden box by the door on your way out.
SPEAKER_00: That's all we ask of you.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, for the rest of us, if this is your church, uh, and today's the day you worship God through obedience or generosity, that's where you take care of that as well.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, we have one thing coming up we want to make you aware of by announcement, so give your attention to the screens, please.
SPEAKER_02: I'm uh David Martins, one of the elders at uh Cram Parkway.
SPEAKER_03: And I'm Mike Rice.
SPEAKER_03: Uh we're excited about uh a couple of upcoming events, especially for the men.
SPEAKER_03: Uh we have a men's weekend in October.
SPEAKER_03: Uh one of the greatest things that I've enjoyed about that men's weekend is uh uh men come in there and they're not uh they're not restricted by anything.
SPEAKER_03: You ought to hear the the worship that's going on, the singing that's going on with those men.
SPEAKER_03: Uh they're just letting it loose in heaven.
SPEAKER_03: Uh great spiritual time worshiping God.
SPEAKER_02: Men are often private.
SPEAKER_02: Uh sometimes we're not willing to share and do a lot of things.
SPEAKER_02: This weekend is an opportunity to go past the normal, hey, how you doing?
SPEAKER_02: How's work?
SPEAKER_02: How's all that?
SPEAKER_02: We get a little deeper.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, and and that level of deepness is purposeful and intentional, uh, but it's just it's not threatening.
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna be in groups uh uh where we break out, we're gonna be in large groups where we listen and hear and be able to ask questions, but it's a time to go deeper uh with with other men.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, and that's really what I'm looking forward to.
SPEAKER_02: One of the things I like most about the men's weekend is getting to know guys I really don't know that well.
SPEAKER_03: You hear a lot of stories uh uh that you didn't know about people's lives.
SPEAKER_03: You learn a little bit more in depth who they are.
SPEAKER_03: It helps you uh to relate to them.
SPEAKER_03: Um it gives you a chance to, as David said, to go a little deeper with with folks that you already have a little bit of a relationship with.
SPEAKER_03: You're gonna experience things that are going to whet your appetite for more.
SPEAKER_03: Uh either more relationships with men, more depth with God, and relationship with him.
SPEAKER_03: So we think it is one of the most powerful things that you can do in a year.
SPEAKER_02: Now is the time to go ahead and sign up.
SPEAKER_02: Let us know if you're gonna be there and uh if there's something that we can do to encourage you or you have questions about it, because you haven't been to one of these before, please give me a call or give Travis a call or Mike a call.
SPEAKER_02: We'd be glad to answer questions.
SPEAKER_00: Again, that is uh October 15th and 16th.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, you can register online.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, we'd love you to be a part of it.
SPEAKER_00: Jared Wilson uh is gonna be back with us this year.
SPEAKER_00: Jared is a very uh prolific writer, uh, written many books.
SPEAKER_00: He's also a professor at a seminary, but he's just a real man.
SPEAKER_00: Uh he's honest about his struggles and uh and about his victories.
SPEAKER_00: And so we'd love you to be a part of that, man.
SPEAKER_00: We'd like to conclude our service with a spoken blessing.
SPEAKER_00: So if you would stand to your feet.
SPEAKER_00: And if you're comfortable, hold your hands out.
SPEAKER_00: Your God is a God who has all authority in heaven and on earth.
SPEAKER_00: And he's given it to you because he trusts you with it.
SPEAKER_00: Don't trust in yourself.
SPEAKER_00: Trust in what God's given you to be possessed by it.
SPEAKER_00: In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Bless you.