Good In Tension | Tension in Time

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Transcript

Intention And Losing Sunday Fire

Message Theme: The Intention In Time

Three Lenses: Proverb, Parable, Prophet

Proverbs 24: The Neglected Field

Your Field And Why We Feel Unqualified

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Good morning. I was looking at some people out there, and I know that y'all were feeling nervous. You're like, oh, she's looking at me. Something's about to go down. Hey, can we get a quick hallelujah for the weather this week? Come on, y'all. We didn't sweat that much this week. We didn't sweat that much. But I'll tell you what, I had somebody that rode with me in my car this week that said, Hey, can you put those heat seaters, those seat heaters on? I said, get out. What are you doing? I don't know you. I don't know you. Well, good morning, y'all. My name is Pastor Susan. Maybe you have heard me speak before. Maybe this is your first time, but I am always honored and blessed to get to bring you the word today. Are you ready to hear the word today? Good. Our lead pastors, Pastor Sean and Pastor Angela, they are out today taking a rest because do you know we had a big event happen yesterday. Y'all give it up. Grace and Jackson got married yesterday. Another little relate wedding. We're so happy for them. So they are taking a break. So I'm gonna get the honor to bring to you the fourth and final installment to this incredible series called Intention. How many of y'all have been here the last three weeks? It's been good. And I'm telling you, I felt the move of the Holy Spirit in this place. And I know every week we walk out of here fired up. We walk out of here ready to do something for the Word of God. Amen. But oftentimes, what happens? We walk out that door and we go home and we take a Sunday nap. Hey, Sunday naps are the best naps. Sunday naps are the best naps, but then sometimes we lose that fire. And last week, Pastor really, he really encouraged us to get up and to go. And he moved us that it's time to start making a difference. Did you get that last week? It's time to get up and go. But see what happens is if we aren't ready to get up and go, meaning we don't see that next step, then we begin to freeze. So today I'm gonna bring you the final installment, and I'm titling this message, The Intention in Time. There's a lot of ways we could look at this message. I'm just gonna name a few that might create some tension in your life. How many of y'all got somebody in your family that's always late? We got some self-admitted. I saw some pokes to the side. I see some grins while other people are looking away. That'll create some tension. We gotta go, we gotta go. How about we flip that and say, how many of y'all got somebody in your life that always gotta be early? Why? Church don't start till nine. Why are we in the parking lot at 7:30, right? That'll create a little tension. But the specific tensions that I want to teach on today are the intentions of what we have left. The amount of time that you and I have left individually in this world. The amount of time that we have left as a body of Christ before our master splits the clouds and returns. So we're gonna talk about the tension of time, and I'm gonna give it to you in three ways. So, does everybody have your notes today? Does everybody have those line notes or your notebook? Raise your hand if you need notes today. I've got somebody passing out those papers because it's very important. I don't give you cliff notes. You have to fill in the blanks on your own. Write down what the Lord gives you, and I feel like you're gonna be writing a lot of notes today. I'm gonna deliver a message to you in a way that I have never done before. That's how I know it is spirit-led, and the Lord has been giving me this message for months, and I had no idea why until I was asked to bring this last installment today. I'm gonna give it to you in three ways. I'm gonna give you this message through a proverb. Everybody say proverb. I'm gonna give it to you through a parable. Say parable, and I'm gonna give it to you through a prophet, say y'all got y'all following me this morning. Amen. You're awake. I'm gonna give it to you in three ways today. And what I like to do when I teach is I like to deliver the word of God where that even our brand new converts to Christianity, those who just gave their life to Christ, who are just learning to read the Bible, can understand. Can I get an amen? Do you remember when you were there? I like to give the milk. But then I also want to give the meat of the message to those seasoned Christians, right? The ones who walk in or show up early with their Bibles, right? But sometimes need a little bit more of a shake, need a little bit more of a push to remember because we get into this repetitious cycle when we walk out that door and we take a nap. So what I'm gonna give you first is a proverb. So if you will look at the screen, we're gonna turn to Proverbs 24 and we're gonna go through 30 through 34. So I'm gonna give you a minute to turn in your Bibles or get that on your phone. And if you are new to using your Bible, if you will just open up your Bible about halfway through, you're gonna land right around the book of Psalms. That's in the Old Testament. Just turn a couple of pages. Well, Psalms is long. Turn about 25 pages, and the next book will be Proverbs, and that's where we're gonna go. But what I want to do today is I want to do something a little different. I want to invite you into this scripture. When we read this scripture, I want you to put yourself as the passer by. I want you to read it as it's happening to you. Here we go. Everybody got it? Say amen. Proverbs 24, 30 through 34. A proverb is useful life advice. This is the definition, or establish truths that reflect common experiences. That's what a proverb is. Here we go. We're gonna start with verse 30. I went past the field of a sluggard. Everybody say sluggard. Don't call each other that this week after this message. No do, no do. I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense. Thorns had come up everywhere. The ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was just in ruins. And I applied my heart to what I had observed, and I learned a lesson from what I saw. A little sleep, everybody say a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and here's what happens: poverty will come on you like a thief, and scarcity like an armed man. Now, just to break this scripture down for a little bit, what it's telling you is a man walks by a very what should be a fruitful field, a beautiful acreage of land, and he sees the vines withering away, and he sees that it's full of weeds, but it's got such potential. And he's thinking to myself, wow, what a waste. And then he comes upon the man who's asleep, and he says, Wow. And I want you to understand something today that this passage illustrates the consequences of laziness and neglect. And everybody in this room today, no matter where you're where you're at in life, no matter your age, no now, no matter how long you have been a Christian, do you know that you have been given a field? The Lord has given you an area, He has given you a circle of influence. So I'm gonna get you to ask yourself some questions today. So get your pens ready. We're gonna go through four different points today that's gonna lead us up to the tension of time, and I want you to write this down. The very first one is tension in the qualification. Many of us know that we have an area of influence. And if you didn't, you know now that the Lord has already called you. He has already called you to an area that you're supposed to work. And I want you to ask yourself right now, why do I feel unqualified? Because the only reason why we get lazy and sleep is we don't feel like we are equipped to do what God has asked us to do. Do you ever feel that way? Do you ever feel like, oh, that's too big of a job for me, God? I don't know why you're putting that one in my hands, but let me tell you, the very moment that you accept Jesus into your heart, he has called you out. He says, it's time to get busy, it's time to go work the field. Do you feel like you're not good enough? Is that why you answer these questions on your own? Do you feel like you're not good enough? Maybe your past is too sketchy. God can't use me. You can't use me, God. Do you not remember what I did way back then? Now I want you to think about your actual field. Where is that? What is your circle of influence? It's places like where you work. So many times we want to be somewhere else. We keep thinking about the job that we want in the future, but we forget about the very job that blessed us with today. Amen. Everybody around us is our circle of influence. Maybe when you go to high school or you're in college and you're taking courses, did you know that is your field of influence that God has put you in today? So, what is your field? Write it down. What is your field? Is it your home? Do you run a home? Is it your family? What causes you to feel unqualified? Where is your field? The next thing I want you to answer is what's the condition of your field? No, don't lean over and start telling people. I see it. Oh, you need to work on this. No, what is your field? What's the condition of your field right now? If you look at your circle of influence, are there weeds growing? You know, uh, our neighbor, does anybody have a good neighbor? You live next door to somebody amazing. Only the people that live next to each other are raising their hands. I see it. Our neighbor is wonderful, but she's moving. Sam, we're disappointed. When you get a good neighbor who is kind, who is quiet, who is clean, you want to cling to them, right? But we were at her house a couple of weeks ago and we were just talking about where she's going and why she's moving, and and we walked through the backyard, and let me just tell you, her and I we share a fence. So I had a good idea that it was kind of nice back there. I might have peeked once or twice. But as we walked out her backyard through her screened-in porch, where she has this lovely little area to drink her coffee, and she has this beautiful, beautiful, manicured lawn and these beautiful, gorgeous flowers growing. I literally walked out there and my mouth went like this. And I looked at my husband, and I said, Why doesn't ours look like this? And what I wanted from him, women, can I get an amen? Was I wanted him to validate all the excuses I had for why I didn't, right? Oh, we get far too much sun in our yard than she does. It's too hot. Or no, we have clay on our side when she's got the good soil over there. No, no, no, no. He didn't validate my excuses because that's what we do. We make excuses for why ours looks the way it does, right? You know what he said? It could look like that, but we got to put in the work. Many times we look around at somebody else's field. Why does mine not look like that? Why are they walking in favor and walking in blessings and everything? Every time you turn around, something's good is happening to them. Because you know what? They're being fruitful in what God has already given them. They're focusing on their fields, they're putting in the work. He's gonna remind me of this this week when I start getting lazy. Next, I'm gonna give you a parable. Everybody say parable. Now you know you have a field, right? Everybody understand that? You have a circle of influence. You've already identified what yours is, you've already written it down, it's ink. Now I'm gonna tell you a parable, and this is gonna have a lot of scriptures. I'll read through some of it, but a lot of it I'm just gonna paraphrase. I am a storyteller by nature, so I want you to jump into the scriptures again with me, all right? This is gonna be found in Matthew 25, verses 14 through 30. Turn there for me. And while you do that, I'm gonna tell you what a parable is. A parable, the definition is a story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson as told by Jesus in the Gospels. Matthew 25, we're gonna start with verse 14. Let me hear you say amen when you got it. All right, so here we see Jesus. I love the way Jesus talked to his people. I love the way Jesus talked to his people because he would break it down and break it down until finally they got it. He's like, I'm gonna tell you like you're five, okay? But he was trying to tell them that look, I've got to go away. I've got to go away. My father is calling me, but here's the deal: it is your responsibility now to pick up and take off where I'm leaving, okay? It's your responsibility. And so here's the story in the parable that he tells that he says, again, it will be like a man going on a journey who called his servants and entrusted some wealth to them. See, this parable is normally known as the parable of a talent, of the talents. And so if you don't know what a talent is, it's like a denomination of money back in the day. So we're reading in the NIV version, and we're gonna refer to it as bags of gold, okay? He says it'll be like a boss who has called his servants and entrusted wealth to them. And to one, he gave five bags, okay? Number two, he gives them two bags, and then the last one only one bag, and he gave it to them, what? According to their ability. Well, right away the first one took his five bags of gold. He said, Oh, I'm not gonna waste any time. I'm gonna I'm gonna make an impression on my boss. He goes right out and invests it and flips it and right away doubled it. Second one goes out and he says, Okay, you know what? I'm gonna do it too. He gave me two bags that, you know, it's not five, but I'm still gonna double it because this is what I have been entrusted with. But see, number three, servant number three. Do I have any overanalyzers in the room? Okay, you're also known as spreadsheet people. You're those people. I am not. ADD does not allow me. But see, here's what an over-analyzer does, and this is what I figure the one with one bag of gold did.

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Conditions Of Your Field And Excuses

Parable Of The Talents: Stewardship

Analysis Paralysis And Burying Gifts

Tension In The Waiting

Prophet Lens: Moses And The Staff

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He went and did that, so I can't do that because then it's gonna look like I'm copying him. Well, then the second one, he went and he did this one. I can't do that because then he's gonna think I copied him. And so I've got this one bag. So maybe if I do it this way, but then what if I lose it? What if I don't invest it right? What if I oh, forget it. And see what happens is we do that every day in our life. We question everything, we overanalyze everything, then we get to this point where we get to analysis paralysis. And so he takes that one bag of gold, and what does he do with it? He says he buried it. I don't want to risk it, I don't want to lose it. I'm just gonna bury it. But see, Jesus also says that the master returns. Did you know our master's gonna return? He's gonna come back. We've got this tension. We know that time is coming to an end. We know that the Lord is coming back one day, and did you know our master is gonna ask you, hey, what did you do with what I gave you when I left? What's what about that gift? What about that talent that I only gave you, Kathy? Are you using it? Are you investing it in my kingdom? Are you growing and giving me something back? But see, he comes back and he tells the one with the five bags, oh, awesome, good and faithful servant, come join in the master's happiness. And then the one with two bags, yes, great job. I can trust you with little, so now I know I can trust you with much. But then the last one, okay, what'd you do? Well, well, well, here we go. Here goes our excuses, right? We're naturally wired, that human flesh, to have an excuse. He says, Okay, okay. Do you know how we always try to justify it? We always try to justify our excuses. Well, he says, No, man, let me let me tell you. I know you to be a hard man. It says, you sow from where you didn't even invest, which means you make so much money, you don't even have to touch anything to make money off of it. And it scared me, it made me nervous. But here's what I did is I buried it. But here, you can have it back, and you know what the master says? You wicked, lazy servants. I have entrusted you, and you did nothing with what I gave you. What is your gift and your talent today? Write it down. I don't have anything. Yeah, you do. You know what you're good at. What is your gift and your talent? Because I'm telling you right now that the Lord gave that to you. And this parable really, it really encourages us to take risk, right? With our stewardship. The things that we have been entrusted, we have to take risk because we have a whole field of people out there that need to be reached for the kingdom of God. Do you agree with that this morning? We will be held accountable for our actions. And you know what? I gotta tell you something. Do you know what happens when you have this? Say you have a big idea for an outreach. Oh, I've got a great idea where we can reach all these people, but then you start to analyze and you start to think and you start to talk yourself out of it, and you go, Well, it's been done before. They probably don't want to do it again. So this dream, this gift, this idea that God gave you, you start to bury it. You start to push it down. Or maybe there's a ministry that in your soul and your spirit, you know you are called to start. But then you look around and you see 25 other ministries nearby doing the same thing, and you go, Well, maybe, maybe that's just me. I'm gonna bury that down. But do you know what happens when you bury things? Buried things suffocate. And after they suffocate, they begin to rot. And when they begin to rot, that dream, you begin to forget about it. What are you doing with what God gave you? Number two, there's tension in the waiting. What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for the church to do something? What are you waiting for? Ask yourself this question. Write it down. What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for somebody else to join you? Are you waiting for somebody else to lead the project? Are you waiting for you to get your act right? Oh, until I clean up my sin, I can't do anything for John for God because people will laugh at me. Right? People will judge me. That's so common to hear, but I'll tell you the number one reason when I have conversations with people and I say, Hey, why haven't you joined a team? Why aren't you in a small group building relationships? We teach grace and truth in this church. Can I get an Amen? One more time so I hear you clearly. We teach both grace and truth in this church. Amen. I'm gonna give you some truth right now. I'm gonna give you some truth. The number one, people say, Well, I'm waiting on God. Okay. Waiting on God to do what? He's already given you a field. You already have a circle of influence. You were already knit. The scripture says he knit you in your mother's womb. He oh see that? The enemy said, ah, somebody don't want to hear that, that they were already born with the gift. I'm waiting on God. Did you know that you can still wait on God while you work for God? Did you know that your field is still growing weeds as you wait? Amen? And maybe we need to flip this to Pastor Susan's style and say, maybe you're not waiting on God, but maybe God's been waiting on you. Okay? He says, I can trust you with little, so now I know I can trust you with much. Maybe you haven't gotten that job yet because you ain't been working the field where you're at right now. There's tension in the waiting. Everybody say prophet. Ooh, this is my favorite one, y'all. Are y'all getting a word today? Are you feeling something in your spirit? I don't want you to walk out here and saying, you know, I didn't get nothing today. I want to open your eyes to the scripture in a new way so you can receive in a new way. That's what's so important. Everybody say prophet one more time. A prophet is a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God. Did you know you're all prophets? Some are like, uh-uh, I'm not ready for that part. Let me just work on my field first. Let me work on my feel. Well, the prophet I'm gonna talk to you about today is my man Moses. Everybody say Moses. Well, I love me some Moses. And if you've heard me preach before, I talk about him a lot. And let me tell you why. Because Moses makes me feel better about myself. That's why. Out of all the excuses that I can give God, Moses has given him more. Out of all the shady things that I got in my past, oh yes, y'all got quiet right then. Nope, I ain't telling today. But Moses had some stuff in his. Sean, all right, nobody be laughing right now, okay? Today, this is gonna be Moses' staff. Now, here's the thing. I looked on Amazon for a staff, and every single one of them looked like a little bow peep. And I was not gonna do that to my man Moses. Amen. So, what I found here, this is just an old walking stick of my dad's that somebody carved for him, and I thought, well, it looks really old and it's got a cross on it, so it must be biblical. This is what we're going with today. But see, we're gonna come up on the story of Moses, and what I love, and there's so much about Moses that we can talk about today, but we're gonna find Moses 40 years. Everybody say 40 years, 40 years after he has fled Egypt. He's already left the palace, he's no longer in his fine threads, he no longer got his bling on, he's already killed somebody and took off in hiding. And we're finding him 40 years later out in the field as the lowest of low, shepherding sheep. Big old Moses, prophet, man of God, out there tending to the sheep. But 40 years later, God hadn't forgotten that Moses had a calling on his life. So I don't know if you're a week out, if you're a year out, if you're 25 years sitting here salvation. You you need to know today, it doesn't matter how long it's been, you have been called. The minute you accepted Jesus into your heart, you have been called. Can I get an amen? Now you know you got gifts, you got talents, you got a field. And we're gonna pick up on this conversation where the Lord comes to Moses and says, Hey, I haven't forgotten about you. Guess what, Moses? It's time to bring my people out. Here's the first excuse. We love Moses. Moses says, but what if they don't believe me? What if I go out there and I take all this time and energy and they say, God didn't send you? What if they don't believe me? Do you see how we naturally just go to excuses? Naturally, you know what he says, Moses, what's that in your hand? It's a staff. He says, throw it on the ground. And when he throws it on the ground, what happens to it? It turned into a snake. And then he says, Moses, now I want you to grab that snake by the tail and I want you to pick it up. Okay. And it turns right back into a staff. And he says, Did you see that power right then? Did you see what I just did? That's how they're gonna know that I sent you. Excuse number two. But God, I can't speak. I've never had eloquent speech. I gotta stutter. Do you not remember? And I love God's answer. Did I not make your mouth? The God of the universe has created everything. Did you forget, Moses, that I'm the one who created your mouth? And the most fabulous part of this story is right here. He literally, Moses, literally just watched a miracle happen in his very own hands. The power of God at work and his very how many times have you seen prayers answered? Delivery happened, right? Healing happened, and we still say, but God. The power was in his hand. And he still made an excuse. I want to go back to verse two. This is such a powerful verse. And I want y'all to read it with me. What does it say? Up there? Then the Lord said to him, What? What's in your hand? I'm asking you today, right where you're at, in the field that God has given you, with the gifts and the talents that you alone have, what's in your hand? He will use anything. You know what? Somebody asked me once, well, what am I supposed to do? I'm a stay at home mom. I can't do anything for the Lord. I don't have a circle of influence. I don't have people around me. I got diapers and bottles all day long. What am I supposed to do with that in my hand, Pastor Susan? You know what the word says? Can I give y'all some word today? You want to hear what the word says? He says, if you will dedicate your children to me. All I do is raise babies and give them to me. If he will bring them up in my house and you will bring them up in the way of the Lord, they will not deter from it. And you know what I'm gonna give you back for that? For that faithfulness? Strong men and women of God. Don't tell me he can't use a baby bottle. What's in your hand? What's in your hand? Write it down. What's in my hand? Where am I at? You know what? Where's Leo? Just raise your hand, Leo. I got to watch this boy in his element, in his element Friday night. Like I think it's MMA, if I'm wrong, I'm sorry. But let me tell you that something that was so fantastic about watching this kid. Before he even entered that match, I saw him get down on his knees and pray. All he had in his hand was a glove. But he gave it to the Lord. He gave it to the Lord. What's in your hand? 1 Peter 4:10, each of you should use whatever gift you have received as others, as faithful steward of God's grace. And it's what's in your hand is not going to be what's in your neighbor's hand. Anything that God has given you can be used to grow the kingdom of God. Number three, there's tension in the truth. There's so much truth to the fact that people are nervous these days. We live in a crazy, tensed up time, right? It is there's tension out there. People are scared to walk around with a shirt that says Jesus on it, really. There's so much tension in our times. People are nervous. But you know what the word says? You ready for a little bit more word? The Lord says, who cares if they hate you? Because guess what? They hated me first. I endured it for you. Matthew 9 32. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. What the scripture tells us is that you know what? We have a whole world out there that's dying. We have so much land, so much fields, acres, and thousands and millions of acres of people's land that's dying. And our workers, we're too scared, we're still nervous. We don't want to use, we think we need to wait till God bless us with something down the road when we don't have our eyes open and we're not awake out of our slumber to realize we have everything out we need that we need right here. Right here in our hands. We're too busy taking a nap. Three weeks ago, Pastor put up the scale. Raise your hand if you remember seeing that. Right here for that? Okay, so this is the consumer versus the contributor scale. He says, I want you to take a look at that, and I want you to write your own personal number where you fall on that scale. Do y'all remember that? Because it got me good sitting right here. I was like, ooh. And so here's what I want you to do is I want you to remember this scale for every single field and circle of influence that you have. Where are you? When's the last time you put in some work on that field? But the biggest question, do you remember your number? Do you remember your number? Has it moved? It's been three weeks. I'm not here to beat you up this morning. But there's tension in the time. We don't have a lot of time left, y'all. We don't have a lot of time left. We gotta wake up from our slumber. Amen. Number four, the tension in the time. You know what? Do we have the Thanksgiving? Can we put the Thanksgiving uh yes, there it is. If you want to be able to jump in, now's the time, y'all. The holidays are upon us. You want to start contributing this right here. And let me explain. I'm not just trying to recruit you to get some some meals to give to some people, we're doing it a little bit different. We're gonna do it Susie style this year, okay? Susie style this year, and here's how that happens. When you get to adopt a family, to sponsor a family, we're not just dropping the meals off here at the church, and you know, we're just gonna go drop it off anonymous. Uh-uh, uh-uh. We got a field to work, amen. We got a field to work. Here's what you get to do: you get the contact information for that family, you get to call them up personally, and you get to set up the arrangement of how you're gonna give them that food. And if you can bake it yourself, you can pre-order that mail, you can buy it frozen. I don't care how you do it. That's up to you and how the God, uh the creator of the universe wants to lead you. But here's the deal: we're gonna have those people come and meet you here. And not only are you gonna get to talk to them on the phone, you're gonna get to meet them in person, you're gonna get to hug their neck, you're gonna get to pray over their needs, you're gonna get to meet their children, you're gonna know their children's names, you're gonna get to invite them to church, you're gonna get to hug them the first time they walk through those doors when maybe they've never been to a church in their life. This is how we contribute to the kingdom of God. It's not just make a little donation. So, if you're gonna do this, I want you to know we're serious about it. Amen. I'm gonna read some scriptures to you. I'm gonna read a lot, and I'm gonna go really fast. You may not be able to write them all down, but you can take pictures or read them later when you go over your notes. First thing, revival. We talked about revival at the beginning of this message, and I really feel like we're on the cusp. It's just so close. It's just so close. And the definition of revival is this it's an improvement in the condition and the strength of someone or something. It's the improvement in the condition of you. And then my favorite part of this, it says it's a what? A reawakening. It's time to wake up out of your slumber. Romans 13, 11, and do this, understanding what the present time. The day and age that we live in right now. Understanding the and I love that this is way back in the day, and they were saying, understand the times we're in, Romans. We got some stuff going down. This is me telling you in the times that we're in right now, Reladians, we got some stuff going down. It says, understand the present time that the hour has already come for you to what? Somebody ain't awake up in here. Let's try that one more time. The hour has already come for you, too. From your because our salvation is nearer now than it ever has before. We are one day closer to the master returning. Romans 14, 12. So then each of you will give an account of yourself to God. You're not gonna be responsible to speak on relates field, relates circle of influence. You're gonna be held responsible to speak on yours. 2 Corinthians 5, 10. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. Matthew 16, 27. In just a moment, we're gonna we're gonna stand up and we're gonna worship here. But I want you to start thinking about these things. Are are you have have y'all identified some fields in your life that need a little cleanup this morning? Have you identified the fact that you've got some stuff, some dreams, some hopes, some some desires that the Lord put in your heart that you've been just burying down this morning? As we as we worship, I want you to pray over that. Matthew 16, 27. For the Son of Man is going to come. That's really all you need to know right there. He's going to return. The master is coming. And then Romans 12, 1. This is my favorite version of this scripture. It says, So here's what I want you to do. Okay? This is Paul talking to the Romans and me talking to you. Here's what I want you to do. God helping you, because everything we do is through his mighty power, not our own, right? What's in your hand? How is he gonna use it for you? It says, I want you to take your everyday ordinary life. Don't worry about where you wanna be, worry about where you are. I want you to take your everyday life. You're sleeping, you're eating, you're going to work, you're walking around, whatever you're doing. And I want you to place it before God as an offering. And watch him grow. Watch him grow. He will take that very thing from you. So I'm gonna get you to stand up for me. And as we as we worship through this song, I want you to think about that thing. I want you to think about your field. I want you to think about the thing that you're being called to do. And I want you to place it before him as we worship. We're gonna come to the point in the service where I'm gonna ask you if you're ready to give your life to God. Now, maybe many of you have already received salvation, and a lot of times we get you to repeat all together, but I wanna do it a little bit different today. I'm gonna pray. Everybody just bow your head, close your eyes, and I wanna ask right now, today, who has been stirred? Who feels the Lord calling you? Who knows that it's time to say yes to Jesus? It's time to be cleansed of all those sins and to move forward out this door, growing the kingdom of God. So if you could just raise your hand, all heads bound, eyes closed, thank you, thank you. And here's what I'm gonna do. I want you right now to ask Jesus, come into my heart. Jesus, wipe away my sins, Jesus, change me. Jesus. It's between you and God right now, and I want everybody who's in here, I want you to begin to pray. I want you to pray for all those that have raised their hand and they're ready to make a life change in this building today. And here's what I want to ask you to do. You got a field around you right now. There's people all around you. It's time to work the field. I'm gonna ask you to pray out loud. I want you to pray over those people who are committing their life to the Lord. I want you to pray over your own needs and the own things that the God has given you to go out and work. So as I pray, I want to hear you pray. I want to hear a roar of revival in this building. Praise God, amen. Lord God, we thank you. Lord God, we thank you for the souls that have finally said yes to your son Jesus. They believe that you sent your son to die for them, Lord God. That you've forgiven the sins, Father, and you have made them clean, and then they will walk out of here a new creation in Christ today. Thank you, God. We celebrate you, amen. God, I hope that you just work on all the hearts that are in this building today, that they walk out of here new, they're ready to go, they're ready to get out of their own and be able to work the field in which you have already given them. And we thank you for this today, Father. And the whole body says, Amen. I'm gonna call down our prayer team. I wanna call down our prayer team. We are gonna ask you if you wanna calm down for any prayer. Bring it down. But I'm gonna dismiss you today. But first, I need to challenge you. There's tension in the time, amen. I need you to go out, and I need you to work your field. Can you do that? Can we grow the kingdom this week? Amen. You'll dismiss.