How A Table Waiter Started A Riot

One decision can set your whole life in motion, and Scripture keeps showing that God often starts with a simple word: go. We walk from Abraham’s call to leave home, to Joseph’s years of betrayal and integrity, to the moment Jesus is crucified and raised again when evil thinks it has won. The thread tying it together is steady and personal: what people mean for harm, God can turn for good, and He keeps inviting ordinary men and women into that story.

From there we move into the Book of Acts, where the promised Holy Spirit arrives at Pentecost and the church is born with a clear response to the gospel: repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Spirit. We talk about what the early church actually looks like day to day: devotion to teaching and prayer, real fellowship, open-handed generosity, and a mission mindset that refuses to stay quiet even when pressure and persecution show up.

Then the spotlight shifts to surprising leaders: Stephen the “table waiter” who speaks with Spirit-filled wisdom and becomes the first martyr, Philip who follows the Spirit into Samaria and to an Ethiopian official reading Isaiah, and Saul whose confrontation with Jesus turns a persecutor into Paul the missionary. We also wrestle with integrity and accountability through Ananias and Sapphira, and we bring it home with a practical challenge: do the next thing God calls you to do, even if it feels small, unseen, or costly.

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Big Steps Of Faith Begin

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You know, the last couple of weeks we've been talking about big steps of faith. The the life of of Abraham is is who was Abram is quite fascinating. The the nation of Israel starts with him. And it's interesting because Abraham's journey starts out with a simple call from God to go. God says, Abram, take your wife and go leave your father's household and go into the land that I'm going to give you, right? And so he does. He leaves and he kind of navigates through life and and he has some challenges and some struggles. And he makes some good decisions, he makes some poor decisions, but but all these things happen within the context of what God has promised. I love it. I love it. No, I love it, man. If you guys want to have like five more kids, I mean, we'll we'll make room. I'm not saying yeah, you can do everyone, but but but we were talking about Abraham and really it's just his willingness to go. And and ultimately, my my probably the craziest part of the story is God gives him a son at the age of a hundred years old. And I can't imagine having kids at a hundred. Like I just can't. And like, how do you play with like you can just sit there and like roll on the floor with him? I mean, I feel like at 100 you're probably eating the same kind of food they are. I don't know. Like, you know, I just just you know, so I can't imagine that. But but he gives him a son at the age of 100. And right? I'm just like baby food all day for dad and baby. Uh sorry, my brain's a little it's the caffeine, man. I shouldn't have drank that coffee. I knew I shouldn't have. So Abram, you know, has this has a son given to him. And then so he's kind of he's seen the promise fulfilled. And then God comes him and says, Now take your only son that you have and go sacrifice him. And Abraham says, Okay. And again, he's on his way to the mountain for the sacrifice, and they have everything but the lamb. And then Isaac says, Where, Dad, where's where's the sacrifice? And I can imagine Abram in a calm voice, says, Don't worry, son, God will provide. And then they get there and he lays him down, and he's about to sacrifice, and an angel stops him, and and God provides a ram in the thicket. What what kind of faith does it take to be a man like that? And then you get to the life of Joseph, who at 17 years old, God gave him this huge dream that his family would bow down to him, and then like every younger brother, he went and told his older brothers, and they hated it. They hated him for it. They they wanted to kill him, but but instead they sold him into slavery, and he spent the next 20, 30 years in Potiphar's house. He went to Potiphar's house, he rose up, God blessed him there. Potiphar's wife had a was a mess. Tried to you know get him to sleep with him, with her, and he wouldn't do it. He was a man of integrity, and but it doesn't matter. She lied, he was sent to prison, went to prison, interpreted two dreams, and the men who eventually left the prison. You know, Joseph says, Listen, when you leave, remember me. And two years later he sits and he's rotting away in prison before they finally recall. Oh, yeah, Joseph can interpret dreams. And Pharaoh has this dream about the famine of the land, and Joseph rises to this place of power. He's his second in command, and and he's saving the nation. And all of a sudden, his brothers show up. The ones who sold him into slavery. And again, he he's a man of integrity, and he messes with them a little bit, kind of back and forth. They don't recognize who he is. And but eventually he uses his position to save them. Save his entire family. What they intended for evil, God used for good. Because that's what God does. It's impossible to read through the scriptures and not see God's handiwork in everything that's happening. And you have Joseph and Abraham, you have the stories of Noah and Moses and Daniel and David and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and all the prophets, Isaiah, and you see God constantly moving towards this idea, this goal of essentially salvation for humanity. And then we get to the gospels, and we're confronted with Jesus who fed the thousands, he taught the thousands, he was the Son of God. He declared it. They declared it. He was crucified. He was beaten. He was bruised. He he died simply because he chose to speak out against the religious leaders. But but the mission never changed. They killed him and then God raised him from the dead. Because what men intended for evil, God intended for good. This is the God that you and I serve. He's a good God. The world is unable to stop his plans. Satan has failed and will continue to fail again and again because God knows what he's doing. But like Abraham, he's calling you and I to be faithful and obedient. Like Joseph, he's calling us to be men and women of integrity who do the right thing. Not because it's easy, not because we need to, but because that's who God is calling us to be. So Jesus comes, teaches his disciples, rises from the dead, and then we find him just before he goes back to heaven, just before his ascension, leaving the a command with the early church to build his church, to build his kingdom, promising

Joseph’s Integrity Through Injustice

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them the Holy Spirit would come on them. The Holy Spirit was something that would aid the church in its future mission. And it's the thing that's been promised to us. We see this when we're baptized that the moment we're baptized, the spirit comes down upon us. It empowers us. The Spirit of God is what it's what convicts us. The Spirit of God is, and I've had this conversation before. When people who are not baptized believers study scripture, I do believe that they can understand it to an extent. But once the spirit is in you, it reveals, it reveals so much more of why this is important

Pentecost And The Birth Of Church

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and why this is needed. And so the spirit comes down in the book of Acts. The beginning. Chapter 2, the day of Pentecost. It comes down and anoints those who are there, and they start speaking in other languages so much so that it captivates the crowd around them. And Peter has this ability to stand in the middle and preach the message of the gospel. He speaks of this Jesus who's been crucified and why he was crucified and that he had to die for them and that he could save them. And he preaches with such a powerful authority that they're cut to the heart and they say, What do we have to do to save ourselves? And Peter says, Repent and be baptized, every single one of you. It says, For the forgiveness of your sins and the empowering of the Holy Spirit. This is the book of Acts. The start of the church. The church had one mission at this point in time, and it was to spread the gospel. Acts chapter 2 ends with, it says, um, verse 42 says, They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer, and everyone was filled with awe. And many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common, selling their possessions and goods they gave to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, and praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people, and for the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. That's what the church is supposed to be. A group of people who come together for one purpose. To spread the gospel. Because this this is supposed to be exactly what we're supposed to do. We continue on, and Peter goes and ends up healing a crippled man, a beggar. Him and John are they healing man who's been crippled his his whole life. And they have an opportunity to spread the gospel. And they end up getting arrested. At one point, they're beaten, and they're told by the religious leaders to stop speaking of this Jesus. And Peter and John's response is we cannot help, but talk about the good things that God has done. They're praying, they're they're worshiping, they're they're they're seeking him. They replaced Judas in the process. Now there's Matthias. And the early church is just running in a full-on sprint. They're teaching, they're preaching, they're they're showing miracles, they're doing exactly what Jesus did. And they come into my my favorite part of the the early church is probably Ananias and Sapphira.

Miracles, Arrests, And Costly Truth

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And if you know the story, they they ended up selling all their land and and they lied about how much money they had. And I'll tell you why I like that in a minute. Ania goes first and you know says, Peter says, Is this the money you've been given is all yours? And is it true? And and he says, Yes, and he's lying, and the spirit immediately kills him. I'm just saying, imagine if you're like giving your offering and you lied about it, and bam, done. That's it. I'd be like, Well, not how I thought today was gonna go. So his wife comes, because they've they've connived together, and Peter asked her separately. By the way, it's like interrogating people separately is a beautiful thing because sometimes I have to do that for my kids because you can kind of catch them and stuff, you know, because you know, as long as they're not looking at each other, making sure. So his wife shows up, she lies. Peter says, the men who just scared your husband out are at the door. She dies. And and I don't say that to try to scare people, but but I think we have to understand how serious what is happening in this moment. This is the start of the church, and and God is making sure that it is not started on the wrong foot. He will not deal with corruption, lies, deceitfulness, because again, we're called to be people of integrity. So God deals harshly in this moment. Rightfully so. He's God. But he proves a point. What's interesting about the whole thing is they didn't have to lie. It was their land. They could have chosen to give less, more, or none. No one made them do it. But what they gave they were deceitful with. That's that's the problem. They came into it with a poor attitude. Then we get to chapter six. Chapter six, seven, and eight, uh it's it's three different people. But all three of these men have the same purpose. Sorry. Six through nine. So starting in chapter six of Acts chapter six, verse one, it says, In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked on the daily distribution of food. So the twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables. Brothers, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the spirit and wisdom, and we will turn this responsibility over to them, and will give your attention to prayer, uh, give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word. This proposal pleased the whole group, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, also Philip, uh Procurus, uh Niconor, uh, Tamon,

Delegation, Gifts, And Stephen’s Boldness

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Parmenius, and Nicholas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. They presented these men to the apostles who prayed and laid their hands on them. So the word of God spread, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith. So there's something that happens here that's really important. The apostles look at the situation of these neglected widows, and listen, this is a leadership problem. That the apostles look at this situation, and their response correctly is to realize that it's not that they don't care, but God has gifted other people to do this particular work. It's funny when you teach on this passage that you know they call Stephen a uh waiter of tables, which sounds derogatory. Oh, he's just a waiter. But but before they say this, he was chosen because he is a man who's full of the spirit and wisdom. So the apostles they delegated their responsibilities because they knew that their focus had to be praying and spending time teaching the word. Because that's how the church works. Not everyone does this, not everyone does this, not everyone does that. There are things that that God has called you to, there's a ministry that God has called you to that only you can do. It's your gifting, it it's your talent, it it's your willingness. There are things that that only I can do. There are things that God has called me to, and there are things that that I don't do, and it's not because I don't want to, because I'm not good at them. So, so the decide the early apostles, they realize this, they pick these six men out, and and they focus, they start with Stephen, and Stephen goes, and he's waiting tables. This this man filled with the spirit and wisdom is waiting tables. He he's taking care of these widows. Verse 8. Said now Stephen, a man full of God's grace and power, again, I love it, full of God's grace and power, did great wonders and miraculous signs among the people. Wait, what? A table waiter did great things and wonders and miraculous signs among the people.

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I thought he was just feeding widows.

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Opposition arose, however, from members of the synagogue of the freedmen, that's what it was called, the Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria, as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. These men began to argue with Stephen, but they could not stand up against his wisdom or the spirit by whom he spoke. This table waiter was making these men look like fools. Then they secretly persuaded men to say that they had heard Stephen was speaking words of blasphemy against Moses and against God. So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law, and they seized Stephen, and they brought him before the Sanhedrin. They produced false witnesses who testified, This fellow never stopped speaking against this holy place and against the law, for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us. All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel. Because what man intended for evil, God intended for good. He's made a mockery of these men who are accusing them, accusing him. And he's standing before the Sanhedrin. All of chapter seven, and I'm gonna I'm gonna just kind of give you a rundown of it. My favorite part about chapter seven as he does this incredible speech starting all the way back to Abraham. He's talking to these very well-educated men who knew who Abraham was, they they knew of their history. Listen, there is there is nothing more infuriating than someone telling you what you already know. So he talks to these men and he starts talking about Abraham and how Abraham came to be. And he finds himself talking about Joseph and then Moses and Egypt, and he's talking about other prophets and what they've done and how they've led the way, and that the Old Testament has pointed to this moment. The Old Testament has been pointing to this Jesus he is now proclaiming. And he says to them, You know the story. You know the Messiah. Here he was, plain as day. You you watched him fulfill prophecy, you you well-educated men. Watched him fulfill prophecy over and over again. And here I am, just a simple waiter of tables, professing the gospel to men who should already know it. And then with great boldness at the end of his speech, he says, You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears, you are just like your fathers. You always resist the Holy Spirit. Was there ever a prophet your father did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the righteous one, and now you have betrayed and murdered him. You who have received the law that was put into effect through angels, but have not obeyed it.

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You stiff necked people.

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When they heard this, they were furious, and they gnashed their teeth at him, but but Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, Look, he said, I see heaven open, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. And at this they covered their ears, and yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed to him, dragged him out of the city, and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he fell on his knees and he cried out, Lord, do not hold the sin against them. When he had said this he fell asleep, and Saul was there giving approval to his death. This this simple table waiter standing in front of this anhedron preaching the gospel.

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You know, it's interesting because they I think it's on purpose when Luke wrote the book to call him a table waiter.

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Because this simple table waiter would become the first martyr for the faith. This man stood against well educated religious leaders. And called them to the table. And they stoned him to death. Because he was filled with the Spirit and the wisdom that God had given him. There's something about living for God. There's something about living a life for Christ that oftentimes puts us in situations where we have to sacrifice. I can't imagine Stephen in his mind ever thought that helping a bunch of widows would lead to his death. But even at the end of his life, he said, God, forgive them. So now we continue to chapter 8. The church scatters. This was the start of a great persecution, often led by Saul, who becomes Paul. Well, we know him as Paul. So the church scatters. And here again we have a man, chapter 8, by the name of Philip, and Philip was the second one in line of the six that were set aside. So those who scattered, uh, who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went. Philip went down to the city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ there. When the crowds heard Philip and saw the miraculous signs he did again, simple table waiters. He went into the city, did miraculous signs and did. They paid close attention to what he said. With streaks, evil spirits came out of many, so many paralytics and cripples were healed. So there was great joy in that city. Then now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all

Philip’s Spirit Led Evangelism

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the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great. And all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, This man is the divine power known as the great power. They followed him because he had mazed them for a long time with magic. But when they believed Philip, as he preached the good news of the kingdom of God in the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Simon himself believed and was baptized, and he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he had seen. This man, this sorcerer, this magician, this conniving man who had manipulated people saw real power performed by a table waiter. So much so that it changed his life. He was baptized.

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Followed Philip around.

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This isn't for sale. You don't understand. So Philip goes in, brings Simon the sorcerer to the knowledge of Jesus. And then the second half, we find uh Philip uh verse 26 says, Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Go south to the road, the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch. An important official in the in charge of the treasury of Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians. So he meets someone who has incredible access to Candace, the Queen of the Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in his chariot, reading the book of Isaiah the prophet, and the spirit told Philip, Go to the chariot and stay near it. Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. Do you understand what you are reading, Philip asked? How can I? he said, unless someone explains it to me. So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. The eunuch was reading this passage of scripture. He was like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shear is silent, so he did not open his mouth. In this humiliation, he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth. The eunuch asked Philip, Tell me, please, who's the prophet talking about? Himself or someone else? Then Philip began with that very passage of scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. As they traveled along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, Look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized? And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him. And then when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. So so Philip shows up, he's he's attentive to the Holy Spirit, right? So this is what's happening with Stephen and Philip. They're filled with the Spirit and they're trusting that God is leading them. So he goes and he baptizes this eunuch. He shares the gospel with him. And the natural response to someone who hears the best of the gospel is to lead a confession, repentance, and baptism. That's our response to it. And so the eunuch says, let's stop here. And the moment he comes up out of the water, Philip's gone. But the eunuch's life has been changed forever. And who knows what this man did. And so he went back and shared the message of the gospel.

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And then we get to chapter 9. Remember Saul who was standing at the feet?

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He was standing there as they crucified, sorry, as they stoned Stephen. They laid their coats at his feet. Saul was watching everything as it happened. That was his job, right?

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To protect the Sanhedrin, to to protect the the religious leaders of the day. This man who who witnessed the first martyr from Jesus Christ. His entire life shifted.

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Said, Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples. He went to the high priest and he asked him for letters to the synagogues of Damascus, so that he found any, uh if anyone was found there who belonged to the way, which is what they would have called it,

Saul Meets Jesus On The Road

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whether men or women, that he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. And as he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? What are you, Lord? Saul asked. I am Jesus, who you are persecuting, he replied. Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do. So he gets up and he goes into the city and he's blind, he can't see. Then God sends a man by the name of Ananias. By the way, this is you talk about a step of faith. This is a step of faith. God comes to Ananias and says, Hey, listen, do you remember Saul, the guy who's trying to kill you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I know him. Very well. Go. Go where? Go to him. This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel. I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.

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So Ananias goes.

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He prays over him. He's freed him free from his blindness. He gets filled with the Holy Spirit. And then Saul, we eventually we we call him Paul. This is his Roman name. This man who was a persecutor of Christians would become the greatest missionary that ever existed. He would eventually find himself in prison, beaten, tortured, killed for the same Jesus that he was persecuting.

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Because what evil men for bad, God meant for good. That's the kind of faith that you and I are part of.

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It's so interesting when when we read through these stories, we read through these different accounts, and and honestly, I think it's tragic. We treat these like they're good ideas. We can quote it. We can teach it. The same spirit that is in these men is the same spirit that's in you and I.

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A table waiter. We become the first martyr. Philip would change the life of a sorcerer.

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Paul would go on to to eventually bring the Gentiles into the message of the gospel. It wasn't just for the Jews, it was for Gentiles too. Because of what Paul did is why you and I sit here today. Because

The Same Spirit In Us

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he he took the message of the gospel and he took it to as far as he could. And he trusted that God would take it even further. Stephen stood among the wise men in the Sanhedrin and said, Let me tell you of this Jesus that you crucified.

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They did miraculous things, empowered by the Spirit of God, filled with the wisdom.

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None of this is written to make us feel inadequate.

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Instead, it's it's written to remind us of what we're capable of.

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What the church is capable of. All throughout the book of Acts, we we see it again and again that God shows up. We see people who no one who no one even knows their name. Stephen was a table waiter.

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Philip shared the faith.

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And Paul would become the most famous, but but we see story after story after story of what God can do.

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And we act like it stopped at the end of Revelation.

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We act like when they completed it, that there was nothing left for us. And that's just not how it works. The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is the same spirit that resides in us. The way the church was supposed to be in the beginning of Acts is that's what we're supposed to be doing. Loving each other, coming together, sharing with each other, giving, and helping and serving. To be a light in the darkness. You know, I just talked about this earlier, but when I talk about the community block party, you realize that it's not about the bounce house. It's not about the food, it's not about the music. Those things are great. We are hoping and praying for an opportunity to share the gospel with someone who's never heard it before. Because that's the power that you and I have. So don't think that just because you're a table waiter, that you can't change the course of someone's life. You don't have to be Paul to do miraculous things for the kingdom. You just have to be faithful and obedient to the calling God has called you to, the calling that He has placed on your life. That's where all of this starts. It's not about doing great things. It's about doing the next thing God has called us to.

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We had two meetings this weekend.

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Up on the property, which were exciting, by the way. I'm not gonna go into all the details, but I'm telling you, we we went with, we'll call them two contractors and an engineer. Yeah, trying to figure out. You can correct me if you need to, Nick, but we met with people on the property this weekend, which was fun, by the way. Talking about the future of this church and what it looks like and what it potentially could look like. And as we're talking about it and we're having these conversations, the one thing on the back of my mind that would not leave me alone was God kept telling me, Don't worry about it. I've already got this figured out. Because a lot of times we we we we can we can get in our own way. Because we overthink or we stress or or we try to make things fit into our mold.

Trusting God With The Future

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If it doesn't make sense to us, we we don't do it. And yet we continue to see story after story of God saying, hey, hey, hey, hey, watch this. Look what I can do with a man who's willing to wait on tables. Look what I can do with a man who's willing to be obedient to me. Look what I can do with a nation who's willing to sacrifice and follow me. Look what I can do with the men and women who have chosen to follow me.

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And don't forget, that's you. Because the plans of God are always going to be better than ours.

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The things that God has called us to, he will accomplish them. All he wants is for us to trust him and be obedient to him. And sometimes that obedience comes in the form of sacrifice. Sometimes we have to give more of our time and our energy. And we talk about resources. Sometimes God calls us to sacrifice, but it's always for his glory and his kingdom. And I love it because, again, the church, the early church, was quite literally started by a bunch of nobodies. Paul was the smartest among all of them. The rest of them were fishermen and tax collectors, people you would never ever, like if I had to pick an A team, they're not it.

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But God said, look what I can do with men and women who are obedient and faithful to the life I've called them to. I don't know about you.

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The reality is they're not gonna write another Bible. My name's never gonna be. And that's well, that's not true. My name's actually at the end of Romans. They stayed in some guy's house named Jason. That's a fun little fact. Not me though, that's a different Jason.

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No one's ever gonna write stories about me. No one's ever gonna know what I did. But it's never been about being known. It's about being faithful to the to the life that God has called me to. For twenty-two years. It has been through the ringer. It's falling apart. But I have seen God do incredible things in twenty-two years of life because that's who he is, and that's what he promised me. As long as we are faithful and obedient to the one who is faithful always, kept his promises.