WEBVTT 00:00:04.009 --> 00:00:10.320 [inaudible] celebrate the victory you've accomplished for us through your son, Jesus Christ. 00:00:10.949 --> 00:00:13.589 And we come admitting and confessing. 00:00:13.590 --> 00:00:19.019 We have no righteousness of our own to bring to the table or to bring to the equation. 00:00:19.050 --> 00:00:21.809 So Jesus, thank you that you accomplished it. 00:00:21.810 --> 00:00:30.510 You said it was finished and now we get to abide in your love, abide in your victory that you've, you've won for us. 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:36.409 And I pray that today would be a day where your word break strongholds. 00:00:36.420 --> 00:00:40.619 Would you set us free from the ongoing power of sin? 00:00:41.420 --> 00:00:51.000 Would you today grant humility, ears to hear, eyes to see and soft heart to respond to your truth? 00:00:51.570 --> 00:00:52.829 Because you are great. 00:00:52.831 --> 00:01:03.899 You get to define greatness and you define it by us humbling ourselves and empty in ourselves and giving our lives away, which you empower us to give our lives away. 00:01:04.019 --> 00:01:06.269 Like Jesus gave his life away. 00:01:06.689 --> 00:01:08.010 Would you do the work today? 00:01:08.010 --> 00:01:09.060 I've got nothing. 00:01:09.061 --> 00:01:15.930 And so I pray that you would use your word work through your spirit impact, transform your people off for your glory. 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:18.629 Pray these things in Jesus' name. 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:19.560 Amen. 00:01:20.620 --> 00:01:25.010 Well, welcome for those. 00:01:25.530 --> 00:01:26.900 Uh, met a number of you. 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:28.219 It's your first time. 00:01:28.221 --> 00:01:29.629 So glad you're here. 00:01:29.930 --> 00:01:32.269 You found yourself at hillside fellowship. 00:01:32.810 --> 00:01:35.269 We believe that Jesus Christ changes everything. 00:01:35.271 --> 00:01:38.000 He does that by changing us from the inside out. 00:01:38.739 --> 00:01:42.049 He puts his spirit, we talk about Christ in us. 00:01:42.051 --> 00:01:48.650 He puts his spirit in us, he changes us, sends us out to be lights in the midst of a dark, crooked, perverse world. 00:01:48.650 --> 00:01:52.069 And then he uses us to draw other people in. 00:01:52.070 --> 00:01:55.459 And so we're simply a group of people that believes Jesus changes everything. 00:01:55.460 --> 00:01:56.359 He's changed us. 00:01:56.659 --> 00:02:01.670 So we encourage everyone everywhere, every day to align their lives around Jesus Christ. 00:02:01.671 --> 00:02:03.140 The one who changes everything. 00:02:03.141 --> 00:02:04.849 So that's the simple message of hillside. 00:02:05.060 --> 00:02:07.010 We do that by walking through the scriptures. 00:02:07.459 --> 00:02:09.650 We're in the book of Philippians now. 00:02:09.949 --> 00:02:11.659 We spent the summer in Ecclesiastes. 00:02:11.661 --> 00:02:14.479 He's looking at gee, where joy isn't to be found. 00:02:14.830 --> 00:02:23.419 And, and now we're in Philippians looking at where true joy is to be found in Christ, a to know Jesus is to know joy doesn't mean life's easier. 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:28.039 Uh, but Jesus gives us a hope beyond the trials and difficulties of this life. 00:02:28.040 --> 00:02:30.409 So let me read it to you, Philippians. 00:02:30.590 --> 00:02:51.830 We're going to be in chapter two I'm going to be reading verse 17 down through verse 30 in Philippians chapter two God says, Paul writes, but even if I'm being poured out as a drink, offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all. 00:02:52.280 --> 00:03:21.370 You two I urge you rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me, but I hope in the Lord Jesus to send to you shortly so that I also may be encouraged when I learned of your condition, for I have no one else of kindred spirit who will generally genuinely be concerned for your welfare, for they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus, but you know, Timothy's proven worth that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving as father. 00:03:21.939 --> 00:03:31.569 Therefore, I hope to send them immediately as soon as I see how things go with me and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly. 00:03:32.259 --> 00:03:58.870 But I thought it necessary to send you a path for ditis my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier who is also your messenger and minister to my knee because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick for indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him and not only on him, not and not on him only, but also on me so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow. 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:21.220 Therefore, I've sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see them again, you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you receiving them in the Lord with all joy and hold men like him in high regard because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was deficient in your service. 00:04:21.550 --> 00:04:31.870 To me, so a great passage on travel plans and kind of a roadmap where who Paul was sent and why this is an odd section. 00:04:32.410 --> 00:04:39.519 I've never met anyone who's favorite Bible verses in this section and I've never seen any verse from this section. 00:04:39.521 --> 00:04:40.420 On a coffee mug. 00:04:40.420 --> 00:04:47.980 Almost every other chapter of Philippians have has coffee mug versus this one doesn't have any. 00:04:48.310 --> 00:05:02.410 It's like, Hey, I'm going to send Timothy and a path for ditis and let me walk you through it because it's hugely important and it really will change your perspective on life and how you view greatness. 00:05:02.829 --> 00:05:05.500 How you see this passage really does matter. 00:05:05.819 --> 00:05:12.129 So let me walk you through a broad theological perspective on this passage should we can move forward together through it. 00:05:12.819 --> 00:05:23.800 If you read straight through the Bible, you'd reach Psalm one 45 right around verse three and then this huge doctrine and teaching of the Bible would would jump out at you. 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:28.509 Someone 45 three says, God is great and greatly to be praised. 00:05:28.511 --> 00:05:31.569 In fact, his greatness, he's so great. 00:05:32.290 --> 00:05:33.850 His greatness is unsearchable. 00:05:34.300 --> 00:05:37.750 So we know that God's great, therefore he gets to define greatness. 00:05:38.350 --> 00:05:41.980 Believe it or not, all of us are trying to define greatness this morning. 00:05:41.980 --> 00:05:43.029 That's what we pursue. 00:05:43.031 --> 00:05:46.779 What we believe will make us great, but God gets to define greatness. 00:05:46.781 --> 00:05:55.060 So however, because God is the greatest, however, he defines greatness needs to be our target, the big E on the eye chart that we're aiming for. 00:05:56.410 --> 00:05:58.790 Now, here's the theological perspective. 00:06:00.290 --> 00:06:01.939 I'm not really great at anything. 00:06:02.569 --> 00:06:04.550 Actually the Bible says I'm great at one thing. 00:06:06.410 --> 00:06:11.149 Psalm 25 11 pardon my inequity for my sin is great. 00:06:11.151 --> 00:06:12.230 I'm great at sinning. 00:06:12.709 --> 00:06:18.110 I've got a PhD in S I N and it's, it's bad, it's bad, and you do too. 00:06:18.110 --> 00:06:20.779 You can allow like my sin is great. 00:06:20.781 --> 00:06:35.069 David would say, my sin is ever before me, so much so that most days I'm like, God, how could you love me, Laura, out of everyone who could preach and proclaim Jesus, I'm the least likely. 00:06:35.339 --> 00:06:37.620 I'm my Senate just ever before me. 00:06:38.899 --> 00:06:42.899 Um, here's the good news to read through the Bible. 00:06:42.901 --> 00:06:46.920 You're going to reach Luke chapter one and in Luke chapter one, the angel announced system. 00:06:47.189 --> 00:06:50.970 Mary, you're going to have a baby and you're going to name him Jesus. 00:06:51.089 --> 00:06:52.740 And the next phrase is amazing. 00:06:53.100 --> 00:06:56.220 The angel says, he shall be great. 00:06:57.779 --> 00:07:01.379 You see Jesus is salvation is greater than all of my sin. 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:04.800 Jesus is grace that he gives is greater than all of my sin. 00:07:04.980 --> 00:07:15.120 God proved how great he was by humbling himself, emptying himself, becoming nothing, taking the form of a bondservant and dwelling among us and giving his life away. 00:07:15.209 --> 00:07:18.180 He didn't come to be served, but to serve and to give us life. 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:20.319 That's how God defines greatness. 00:07:20.389 --> 00:07:29.040 So however, however you're defining greatness, whatever you're pursuing to find greatnesses, if it doesn't align with how God defines greatness, you're off track. 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:35.639 You're going to be miserable, depressed, frustrated, angry, and bitter, and you're going to blame God, but he made greatness very clear. 00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:46.410 Today I'm going to walk you through a weird, awkward, strange MapQuest passage, and I'm going to show you how beautiful it is. 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:57.480 Your life literally won't be the same after this passage if you listen to it again, it's weird because it just deals with Paul Timothy and a path for ditis, which is a weird name. 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:57.930 Amen. 00:07:58.980 --> 00:07:59.699 You don't get it. 00:08:00.389 --> 00:08:08.639 Um, last night after nine o'clock, my son, he's 10, he said, Hey, and he's one of the most curious cats I've ever met. 00:08:08.641 --> 00:08:11.399 He came out and he said, Hey dad, what are you preaching on tomorrow? 00:08:11.850 --> 00:08:15.870 I said, well, Paul Timothy and the PAF or ditis my son just like this. 00:08:15.870 --> 00:08:16.800 He goes, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. 00:08:17.370 --> 00:08:17.819 What? 00:08:19.139 --> 00:08:23.100 I said, Paul Timothy and a path for ditis and his face goes. 00:08:24.870 --> 00:08:26.189 I'm like, well, what's going on? 00:08:26.230 --> 00:08:29.189 He's like, dad, that sounds like a horrible disease. 00:08:29.190 --> 00:08:30.269 I would never want. 00:08:31.889 --> 00:08:33.000 I said, what do you mean? 00:08:33.419 --> 00:08:33.779 Hello? 00:08:34.950 --> 00:08:39.960 Episys appendicitis, tonsillitis, tendinitis, conjunctivitis, it path for ditis. 00:08:39.961 --> 00:08:40.740 Get it, dad. 00:08:42.149 --> 00:08:42.779 Beautiful. 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:45.090 We're going to look at it. 00:08:45.990 --> 00:08:47.220 Here's the bottom line. 00:08:47.221 --> 00:08:48.929 Let me give you the bottom line up front. 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:53.009 He just got done in at two weeks ago. 00:08:53.730 --> 00:08:54.720 Pastor Allen did a great job. 00:08:54.721 --> 00:08:59.610 Do from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind. 00:08:59.610 --> 00:09:02.250 Consider one another more important than yourself. 00:09:02.429 --> 00:09:13.259 Chapter two verse three chapter two verse five, have this attitude in yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus who although existed in the form of God, didn't regard equality with God a thing to be grasped. 00:09:13.379 --> 00:09:14.549 He humbled himself. 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:15.750 He emptied himself. 00:09:15.809 --> 00:09:21.899 Chapter two verse 14 hillside, do nothing with grumbling or disputing. 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:30.419 These are huge imperatives that if you're honest and I'm honest, I'm like, I can't be like Jesus. 00:09:30.629 --> 00:09:32.340 This is too much. 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:41.159 What he's gonna do is give us three simple examples, illustrations, models to mimic. 00:09:41.850 --> 00:09:42.809 Here's the truth. 00:09:43.259 --> 00:09:45.659 I'm going to tell you something that hopefully will blow your mind. 00:09:46.259 --> 00:09:53.639 We've got millions of people that have spent their life in church, but they're wondering, why can I not change? 00:09:53.640 --> 00:09:55.139 Why can I not grow? 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:56.940 Why am I not maturing? 00:09:57.029 --> 00:09:59.700 Why is nothing altering in my life? 00:09:59.850 --> 00:10:00.840 I'll tell you why. 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:04.590 Most of us just go to our church and hear a message. 00:10:05.789 --> 00:10:08.909 The Bible says, don't, don't just be hearers, but be doers. 00:10:09.059 --> 00:10:15.000 You see, if you hear a message, you can remember upwards of 10% of it and that's if you're brilliant. 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:26.159 If you're brilliant, you can remember and redistribute 10% but most of us will leave and very little of this will actually settle on us. 00:10:27.330 --> 00:10:33.700 Paul knew it, and he knew that if you hear something and see somebody else living it out, guess what? 00:10:33.700 --> 00:10:37.289 It jumps from 10 up to 50% retention. 00:10:37.379 --> 00:10:40.259 If you just hear it and see somebody else. 00:10:40.470 --> 00:10:42.029 This is how God put you together. 00:10:42.230 --> 00:10:47.639 Your neurologically, depending upon who you hang out with, you begin to mimic them. 00:10:47.640 --> 00:10:49.769 They're called mirroring neurons. 00:10:50.610 --> 00:11:08.429 You begin to mimic people you're around, so if you see it 10 or you hear it 10% you hear it, see it 50% but if you hear something, see it lived out and actually use your hands to do it, it reaches 90% of who you are. 00:11:09.029 --> 00:11:21.419 Paul doesn't want the message of the incarnation to fall on deaf ears, so he gives you three perfect pictures of what it looks like to model it, to become a disciple. 00:11:21.659 --> 00:11:26.360 He's going to give Paul himself, Timothy in a PAF for ditis. 00:11:26.379 --> 00:11:34.289 I'm just going to give you Paul's exhibit a, exhibit B and exhibit C it says, I've got 46 minutes. 00:11:34.389 --> 00:11:46.529 I love that and I'm going to fly all 46 minutes of that unless we get that changed and honestly, I'll go 46 and I'll wait until it's like three or four minutes in the red. 00:11:48.769 --> 00:11:49.799 That's not for you. 00:11:49.830 --> 00:11:51.960 That's just a air traffic controlling. 00:11:52.049 --> 00:11:52.799 Watch this. 00:11:53.950 --> 00:12:07.809 Verse 17 and 18 here comes exhibit a on what it means to mimic model and live out the incarnation personally for each one of us, because you're defining greatness somehow. 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:17.679 Every single one of us, if it's not defined how God defines it in Christ Jesus, then you're missing the Mark and you're running hard after something that's going to frustrate you. 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:18.730 So here's exhibit a. 00:12:19.059 --> 00:12:29.590 Paul says, even if I'm being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all. 00:12:29.830 --> 00:12:30.610 You too. 00:12:31.330 --> 00:12:37.779 I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me. 00:12:38.950 --> 00:12:46.000 Now, Paul is a perfect exhibit of what it means to live out the incarnation, but here's what you're going to say, and here's what I say. 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:48.399 You look at Paul's life. 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:50.440 Paul was astounding. 00:12:51.070 --> 00:12:52.389 I don't know if you know this or not. 00:12:52.690 --> 00:13:02.440 Next to Jesus Christ, I believe that Paul probably bought, brought about more social, social, cultural, and worldwide change than any other person. 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:04.779 Paul was bold. 00:13:05.169 --> 00:13:08.590 He stood before Kings and Caesars and proclaim the gospel. 00:13:09.129 --> 00:13:10.899 Paul was brilliant. 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:15.100 It just intellectually brilliant. 00:13:15.100 --> 00:13:17.830 You read through what Paul wrote. 00:13:18.610 --> 00:13:24.159 We can we struggle just to grammatically diagram his sentences. 00:13:25.210 --> 00:13:27.480 He was profoundly brilliant here. 00:13:28.570 --> 00:13:31.059 He wrote like 13 books of the Bible. 00:13:31.061 --> 00:13:31.419 Yo. 00:13:32.470 --> 00:13:33.279 Anybody else? 00:13:33.370 --> 00:13:39.909 I struggled to write texts without getting auto corrected and Paul wrote 13 books of the Bible. 00:13:40.090 --> 00:13:50.019 So what you're going to say and what I'm going to say is, yeah man, that made Paul great, bold, big, brilliant, but I could never be Paul. 00:13:50.769 --> 00:13:51.970 Just let me enter into that. 00:13:53.019 --> 00:13:54.309 Is Paul great? 00:13:54.311 --> 00:13:55.629 Does the scripture hold forth? 00:13:55.629 --> 00:14:03.549 The apostle Paul, the one who wrote 13 books of the new Testament, is he great because he was big, bold, brash and brilliant? 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:05.289 No. 00:14:06.370 --> 00:14:17.950 Even if I am being poured out as a drink offering, Paul was great because he was willing to follow Jesus Christ and becoming nothing. 00:14:18.340 --> 00:14:20.409 I call it the Maxwell house principle. 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:23.470 See nobody. 00:14:23.620 --> 00:14:25.389 Does anybody drink Maxwell house anymore? 00:14:25.390 --> 00:14:25.870 Anybody? 00:14:26.620 --> 00:14:27.159 Anybody? 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:28.899 One good. 00:14:30.820 --> 00:14:31.360 That's good. 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:32.799 I'm glad you instant. 00:14:33.549 --> 00:14:34.090 Okay. 00:14:35.649 --> 00:14:46.450 I was going to be concerned for a minute, but I'm glad Maxwell house had this brilliant ad campaign before Starbucks, before Maxwell house. 00:14:46.690 --> 00:14:49.000 Good to the last C. 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:55.519 y'all know, even though you don't drink it, I horrible coffee to some, sorry, I'm sorry. 00:14:55.549 --> 00:14:56.480 That just happened. 00:14:57.470 --> 00:14:58.100 That was real. 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:00.500 Some people delight in it. 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:05.870 99.9% of us go a different route and there there's freedom. 00:15:06.169 --> 00:15:07.070 I'd stepped in it. 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:17.809 The point is, their ad campaign was you can pour it out to the last drop and up to the last drop. 00:15:17.811 --> 00:15:18.350 It's good. 00:15:18.830 --> 00:15:31.340 Paul was great in the eyes of God, not because he was bold, not because he was brilliant, not because he wrote 13 books of the new Testament, but because he was willing to be poured out to the last drop. 00:15:31.341 --> 00:15:42.350 If you want to be great in God's kingdom and I pray that you do, you want to be great in the kingdom of God, be willing to be poured out so that others might be filled up. 00:15:43.220 --> 00:15:44.809 That's what made Paul great. 00:15:45.649 --> 00:15:50.149 I'll tell you this about me because I know man, I live with me and I've spent 44 years with me. 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:55.940 You pour me out where my battery level is low and I'm down to the last drops. 00:15:56.269 --> 00:15:57.289 Energy speaking. 00:15:57.909 --> 00:15:59.539 I am not good to the last drop. 00:15:59.929 --> 00:16:01.669 Amen, and you're not either. 00:16:02.629 --> 00:16:06.169 This is why, man, you talked to me on a Friday. 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:07.909 Likely I'm going to grouch at you. 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:09.409 That's when I workout. 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:11.899 I get, I just, my energy level is really low. 00:16:11.900 --> 00:16:13.519 I'm not good to the last drop. 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:15.230 Paul was great. 00:16:15.529 --> 00:16:21.529 Acts 2024 because he was willing to be poured out to the last drop. 00:16:21.530 --> 00:16:35.029 He said, I do not consider my life on any account as dear to myself so that I might finish that course in ministry given to me by God to testify solemnly of the grace of God that's been given to me in Christ Jesus. 00:16:35.629 --> 00:16:37.789 You want to be great and I pray you do. 00:16:38.179 --> 00:16:38.870 I really do. 00:16:38.870 --> 00:16:39.649 I pray. 00:16:40.580 --> 00:16:46.970 This was the discussion that the disciples were talking about who is greatest in the kingdom and I pray you want to be great. 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:56.600 If you want to be great, be willing to be poured out to the last drop so that others might be filled up. 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:02.629 That's greatness and Paul was willing to do it, so that's 0.1. 00:17:03.289 --> 00:17:09.109 Be poured out so that others might be filled up and God will look at you and say, that's great. 00:17:09.500 --> 00:17:11.059 Now I'm not just gonna leave it there. 00:17:11.390 --> 00:17:16.250 What's one step you can take today with your wife to be poured out? 00:17:17.420 --> 00:17:20.599 Listen, don't come to me and talk about pouring out on Africa. 00:17:21.619 --> 00:17:24.829 If you're not willing to pour out on your wife and serve her, please. 00:17:24.859 --> 00:17:27.559 I get so that's when I get grouchy, yo. 00:17:28.609 --> 00:17:31.430 It's like, Dave, we need to do more over there. 00:17:32.390 --> 00:17:38.390 And I happen to know that your marriage is falling apart and I'm just going to tell you, go home and pour out on your wife and kids. 00:17:39.019 --> 00:17:44.839 Don't talk to me again about reaching Pygmies because you can't reach your princess at home. 00:17:45.500 --> 00:17:46.789 So don't go there. 00:17:47.210 --> 00:17:50.369 You want to know why the church is so in America? 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:52.680 You want to go there for a minute? 00:17:53.809 --> 00:17:57.529 It's because we're not willing to apply these truths at home. 00:17:58.009 --> 00:17:59.720 You want to do something amazing. 00:18:00.170 --> 00:18:02.210 Be willing to be poured out on your neighbor. 00:18:02.211 --> 00:18:03.920 I know they don't know Jesus. 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:10.079 So start there with neighboring be poured out and God's going to say 00:18:10.430 --> 00:18:11.450 beautiful. 00:18:11.630 --> 00:18:12.470 Amen. 00:18:12.980 --> 00:18:14.660 Now you can tell me, Dave, I tried that. 00:18:14.750 --> 00:18:15.500 I tried that. 00:18:15.500 --> 00:18:16.039 It didn't work. 00:18:16.040 --> 00:18:17.269 I tried that last week. 00:18:20.390 --> 00:18:21.559 You tried it last week. 00:18:21.589 --> 00:18:22.430 Are you serious? 00:18:23.390 --> 00:18:24.349 You understand 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:34.630 when we're being poured out, there've been five, eight, and 10 year periods of my life where I was poured out and there was no fruit, none. 00:18:34.631 --> 00:18:37.000 I never saw anyone come to Jesus. 00:18:37.329 --> 00:18:41.289 Sometimes it's just him pouring you out and pouring you out and pouring you out. 00:18:41.349 --> 00:18:43.660 I guarantee you his graceful fill you back up. 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:45.700 He loves to fill us up. 00:18:46.099 --> 00:18:48.950 If we're willing to pour out TWI. 00:18:48.951 --> 00:18:51.230 Jesus said, follow me and I'll make you fishers of men. 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:53.480 He didn't say, I'm gonna make you catchers. 00:18:54.349 --> 00:18:57.680 We fish and we fish and we fish. 00:18:57.740 --> 00:18:59.809 I went fishing with my kids down in Mexico. 00:18:59.810 --> 00:19:00.769 We went on vacation. 00:19:00.890 --> 00:19:02.569 We were on that boat forever. 00:19:02.570 --> 00:19:03.170 Yo, 00:19:04.180 --> 00:19:07.150 lines in the water of my poor kids were like, dad. 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:08.589 Fishing's awful. 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:12.450 Honestly, they're like, dad, can I play video games? 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:16.650 No, we're fishing dad, but we're not catching anything. 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:26.819 I know we call it fishing hours trolling and then all of a sudden boom, and everything changed. 00:19:27.869 --> 00:19:35.460 We had a Barracuda on the line and the kids were all like, yeah, listen, you may be fishing for years. 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:42.930 Honestly, at your workplace, you be willing to be poured out and you watch at the right time, at the right place for the glory of God. 00:19:42.990 --> 00:19:46.950 Boom, that Lionel band, and you'll never, you'll never be the same. 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:48.119 You want to be great. 00:19:48.121 --> 00:19:49.170 Be willing to be poured out. 00:19:49.259 --> 00:19:52.289 Let's go number two, watch this Timothy. 00:19:52.859 --> 00:19:54.509 Man, the time change messed me up. 00:19:54.730 --> 00:19:56.789 Alright, 15 we're going watch this. 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:57.539 Watch this. 00:19:57.569 --> 00:19:58.740 Stick with me and your notes. 00:19:59.039 --> 00:19:59.670 Timothy. 00:20:00.210 --> 00:20:03.059 Now, Paul was big, bold, brave, and brilliant. 00:20:03.539 --> 00:20:05.970 Timothy was kind of behind the scenes guys. 00:20:06.980 --> 00:20:08.400 He was different than Paul. 00:20:08.490 --> 00:20:10.500 In fact, I identify when I read through person. 00:20:10.500 --> 00:20:13.470 Second Timothy, Paul's words are like words to me. 00:20:14.019 --> 00:20:15.960 Like, be brave, Dave. 00:20:16.109 --> 00:20:17.009 Stand up. 00:20:17.250 --> 00:20:18.000 Go for it. 00:20:18.210 --> 00:20:19.109 Don't be timid. 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:20.190 Don't stand back. 00:20:20.250 --> 00:20:23.789 So Timothy, some of us are like, Oh, I could never be Paul. 00:20:24.630 --> 00:20:25.920 Watch Timothy behind the scenes. 00:20:26.069 --> 00:20:27.450 I hope in the Lord Jesus. 00:20:27.539 --> 00:20:28.440 Here's your verb. 00:20:28.769 --> 00:20:31.019 I want to send Timothy to you. 00:20:32.069 --> 00:20:33.960 So Timothy was just going to be a messenger. 00:20:34.130 --> 00:20:35.369 He was just going to run over. 00:20:35.430 --> 00:20:39.690 Here's what he's going to do so that I may be encouraged when I learn of your condition. 00:20:39.691 --> 00:20:40.529 I have no one else. 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:43.710 That kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare. 00:20:43.829 --> 00:20:45.210 So Timothy was tender. 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:46.799 He was concerned. 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:53.980 He cared about the church at Philippi for they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. 00:20:53.980 --> 00:20:54.519 Next slide. 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:58.599 Watch this, but you know of his proven worth. 00:20:58.601 --> 00:21:01.180 That's Timothy's that he served with me. 00:21:02.619 --> 00:21:03.430 He was sent out. 00:21:03.460 --> 00:21:08.140 He was simply a servant in the furtherance of the gospel, like a child serving as father. 00:21:08.259 --> 00:21:09.279 Therefore, I hope to. 00:21:09.280 --> 00:21:11.589 Here's your verb again, send him to you. 00:21:12.309 --> 00:21:14.470 He's just going to be like a FedEx messenger boy. 00:21:14.471 --> 00:21:16.569 I'm going to send him up to send them to you. 00:21:16.690 --> 00:21:18.369 I'm going to send them to you immediately. 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:24.880 As soon as I see how things go with me and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly. 00:21:25.269 --> 00:21:27.069 You want to be great in the kingdom of God. 00:21:27.070 --> 00:21:28.000 And I pray you do. 00:21:29.230 --> 00:21:30.099 I really do. 00:21:30.101 --> 00:21:33.519 This is why one of our core values at hillside is serve. 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:37.809 Do you know when I put opportunities before you to serve? 00:21:37.900 --> 00:21:49.839 And it doesn't matter what it is, yo, if I invite you to serve coffee or serve donuts or serve by greeting, ushering, welcoming parking, children's youth, it's not because I need it. 00:21:50.730 --> 00:21:52.660 It's not like, Oh, please come serve. 00:21:52.661 --> 00:21:53.650 We need more servants. 00:21:53.651 --> 00:21:55.660 Would you come serve and fill slots? 00:21:56.019 --> 00:21:56.920 I don't want that. 00:21:56.921 --> 00:21:57.819 A lot of you, I don't. 00:21:58.839 --> 00:22:00.339 It's probably better if you don't serve kids. 00:22:00.340 --> 00:22:00.730 Amen. 00:22:04.990 --> 00:22:04.990 [inaudible] 00:22:05.529 --> 00:22:08.619 because if you know the joy of the Lord, you should inform your face. 00:22:08.621 --> 00:22:15.250 Because if you're grouchy, grumpy, crusty, constipated, Christian, I don't want you around kids because they're going to be like, that's what it means to serve Jesus. 00:22:16.569 --> 00:22:23.829 No, I don't like, and you're probably not best for greeting and ushering, but till I get it, the Lord's working on you, sanctifying you. 00:22:23.830 --> 00:22:25.630 I want to encourage you in that work. 00:22:25.690 --> 00:22:27.670 If you know the joy of the Lord, inform your face. 00:22:30.990 --> 00:22:30.990 [inaudible]. 00:22:31.250 --> 00:22:32.000 I dunno, Alan. 00:22:32.210 --> 00:22:32.960 It just happened. 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:35.869 I got into a coldest, a mental col-de-sac. 00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:37.400 I'm getting out and here we go. 00:22:38.170 --> 00:22:38.170 Okay. 00:22:40.940 --> 00:22:46.339 We offer you opportunities to serve because in Christ Jesus, I need it and you need it. 00:22:46.340 --> 00:22:48.920 We've got to be able to be poured out. 00:22:49.940 --> 00:22:51.950 You've got to be able to be sent out. 00:22:51.951 --> 00:22:52.519 You want to know why? 00:22:52.520 --> 00:22:53.779 Timothy was great. 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.359 You want to know why he's exhibit B in this? 00:22:56.930 --> 00:23:02.720 He was simply willing to be brought off the bench and used he. 00:23:02.721 --> 00:23:03.019 Yes. 00:23:03.020 --> 00:23:04.430 He was behind the scenes. 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:05.000 Yes. 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:07.400 He took years and years with Paul. 00:23:07.730 --> 00:23:10.970 Is he just, he was on the bench serving where he was supposed to serve. 00:23:11.029 --> 00:23:12.019 Whatever he could do, 00:23:13.589 --> 00:23:13.589 but 00:23:14.650 --> 00:23:16.900 he didn't say, I'm just going to sit here and do nothing. 00:23:18.069 --> 00:23:20.109 When Paul said, Hey Timothy, it's time to go. 00:23:20.650 --> 00:23:24.250 Timothy went to Corinthia Corinth and it was a mess there. 00:23:24.339 --> 00:23:26.259 Then Timothy went to fill a pie. 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:27.819 When it was time to go. 00:23:27.820 --> 00:23:30.519 When it was time to be used, he was there. 00:23:30.730 --> 00:23:34.839 He wasn't willing just to sit and do nothing. 00:23:35.109 --> 00:23:39.759 You see what happens is many of us, well I can't say that intelligently. 00:23:39.880 --> 00:23:45.470 Some of us we see, we come to church and we just sit in the back and nothing 00:23:46.549 --> 00:23:47.960 and we're like, why am I not growing? 00:23:47.961 --> 00:23:49.250 Why am I not changing? 00:23:49.369 --> 00:23:50.869 Dave, you need to preach better. 00:23:51.289 --> 00:23:52.309 We've got to do something. 00:23:52.310 --> 00:23:53.299 I'm not changing. 00:23:54.839 --> 00:24:00.750 You're not changing, growing and maturing, cause you may be hearing the truth, but you're not applying it and walking it out. 00:24:01.710 --> 00:24:02.730 You're not. 00:24:03.660 --> 00:24:05.069 Listen, it's the frigerator principle. 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:15.029 How many of you have ever cleaned out your refrigerator and found something back in there that had been there months and there was stuff growing off? 00:24:15.059 --> 00:24:17.039 You are afraid to take off the lid. 00:24:18.390 --> 00:24:19.710 You take off the lid, a herb. 00:24:19.711 --> 00:24:19.950 I know. 00:24:19.951 --> 00:24:20.970 You know what I'm talking about. 00:24:20.971 --> 00:24:23.039 There's black mold spots in there. 00:24:23.220 --> 00:24:24.119 It's toxic. 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:25.529 You see, 00:24:26.059 --> 00:24:31.160 when you get hidden in the back and you just hide out, funky stuff starts to grow on you. 00:24:31.670 --> 00:24:34.400 When, gee, honestly, Jesus says, go. 00:24:34.460 --> 00:24:37.460 If you say no stuff will start to grow. 00:24:38.150 --> 00:24:39.380 It's a frigerator principle. 00:24:39.381 --> 00:24:40.670 I see it all the time. 00:24:41.210 --> 00:24:43.309 Jesus said, Hey, I'm going to send you out. 00:24:43.310 --> 00:24:47.210 Go to work and shine as a light in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:48.289 When he says, go. 00:24:48.290 --> 00:24:49.849 If you say no, you hide it. 00:24:49.851 --> 00:24:50.779 The back of the fridge, 00:24:51.569 --> 00:24:53.430 you're going to be a funky follower of Christ. 00:24:53.849 --> 00:25:00.599 I can guarantee you that because you weren't made simply to sit and to soak into chill. 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:01.980 You do that too long. 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:03.390 Here's what starts to happen. 00:25:03.869 --> 00:25:05.039 I've seen it over and over. 00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:06.329 I know this is true. 00:25:07.980 --> 00:25:17.970 When you become a funky follower and disgusting disciple, you start to grow mold spiritually, you get critical and bitter. 00:25:18.210 --> 00:25:19.680 Why don't you do more, Dave? 00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:22.109 Why don't you change things? 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:24.000 I didn't like the coffee. 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:25.380 I didn't like the donuts. 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:27.000 I don't care. 00:25:27.390 --> 00:25:28.920 We're not a donut shop. 00:25:30.829 --> 00:25:34.549 And that's what I get to say and I say it with less attitude. 00:25:34.550 --> 00:25:35.599 I'm very bold up here. 00:25:36.589 --> 00:25:38.089 I wouldn't be like, I don't care. 00:25:38.180 --> 00:25:39.559 I'd be like, I don't care. 00:25:40.500 --> 00:25:41.720 It probably be more like that. 00:25:41.750 --> 00:25:42.740 We're not a coffee shop. 00:25:42.740 --> 00:25:44.059 There's a number of those around. 00:25:44.660 --> 00:25:45.740 I don't like the temperature. 00:25:45.980 --> 00:25:48.319 Ah, you know, I don't care. 00:25:49.579 --> 00:25:51.140 You know, we're not an HVAC place. 00:25:52.490 --> 00:25:56.089 We're here to be willing to be poured out so others might be filled up. 00:25:57.380 --> 00:26:04.759 We're here to be sent out so that others might be brought in as gathering together as an about us and join. 00:26:05.630 --> 00:26:30.440 The church is here to reach those who are not yet here and I've got a bunch, a whole bunch addict and alcoholic friends that I invite and I say, come watch a group of people being willing to humble themselves, empty themselves and do all things without grumbling and disputing are you willing to be sent out so that others might be brought in Timothy's exhibit B because he was, he didn't do anything huge, massive. 00:26:30.441 --> 00:26:35.240 He ends up dying and emphasis hollering against them, celebrating Diana. 00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:48.569 He dies, he's dragged through the streets, he's stoned, he's put to death and that's his life sent out so that others might hear the truth of the gospel and see it modeled in his life and others might be brought into the fellowship of the saints. 00:26:48.869 --> 00:26:49.859 So that's exhibit a. 00:26:49.861 --> 00:26:52.500 Paul being poured out so that others might be filled up. 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:56.190