WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.360 Okay, so that's still line nine. If you're if you're new with us 2 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:08.640 in the last three to six months, you know you're newer to the body, 3 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:11.320 we want you to come out and meet some of the staff, hang 4 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:14.919 out with us. And then you've seen the ministry menu cards here and there. 5 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:19.000 We've been handing them out. So if you're a part of the body 6 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.960 and you want to get involved in an area of ministry, that's normal. 7 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:26.239 You're you're a Christian, that's cool. Uh. And if you want to 8 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:30.839 get involved, then check a box or two on that ministry menu, let 9 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:35.439 us know that you are interested, and then we'll connect you with a team 10 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:41.479 and begin to get you involved and give you all the information on that. 11 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:50.119 Amen. We We've had a crazy week and Tom Martello has been leading the 12 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:54.240 charge. He's the founder, the creator, the catalyst of City Quake. 13 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:57.119 A lot of you missed out, but you're going to hear a little bit 14 00:00:57.159 --> 00:01:00.479 this morning and uh and I hope that as you hear a little bit more 15 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:07.079 about Tom about City Quake, about what it's all about, that you'll want 16 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:11.519 to be a part of a city quake. City Quake has He's taken it 17 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.799 to twenty six cities. But before that, him and Todd White went to 18 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:23.519 one hundred and sixteen cities over many years with Power and Love conferences. City 19 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.280 Quake is similar, but it's got kind of a twist on the end where 20 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:34.719 we have after shocks and where we get the DNA of supernatural power evangelism into 21 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:38.319 the church and we make it a part of our DNA, and that's where 22 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:42.159 we're headed, that's who we are as a church. And so would you 23 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:44.879 just give a new horizon Welcome to Tom as he comes to share of the 24 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:48.879 word this morning. Yeah, come on, come on, come on, 25 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.519 leven. Yeah, I'm staying up here because I'm going to help with testimonies 26 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:00.599 and I'm guessing you're going to ask for yes, sir, yes, sir. 27 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:06.400 Yeah. So if you weren't here this week, we it's not just 28 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:12.080 a typical conference. We we came in, we learned, we were motivated, 29 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.319 but then we went out and so how many people had a chance to 30 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:17.719 go on one of the outreaches this week that we call them love and Action? 31 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:23.319 All right? I did? Did? Did something happen that you want 32 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.560 to share because you might have already shared it during the event, But we'd 33 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:29.919 love to hear. Did you have something happened that God God use you to 34 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:36.000 in a life? Come on up and share it. I'd love to hear. 35 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:42.639 Even if you're here and you shared in first service. Yeah, welcome 36 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:49.080 to come Hi. Okay, So this was my first time actually going to 37 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:51.800 City Quake, and I believe it or not, I actually was not going 38 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:53.439 to go, but I just like, after I got off work, I 39 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:55.800 just felt like, oh my gosh, I just felt like an excitement. 40 00:02:57.199 --> 00:03:00.400 But I went on one of the outreaches yesterday and that was my first time 41 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:06.719 going on outreach, and there was about seven of us and there was two 42 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:10.000 younger kids, nine and seven. So we decided to go to the hospital 43 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:15.280 and when we got there, we didn't really know what to expect. We 44 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:17.360 were just kind of like in the entrance, like maybe we'll just like hang 45 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.400 out in the lobby because we can't really go into the patient rooms unless we're 46 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:24.520 given access, so we're kind of just like going up to people, Hey 47 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:30.800 do you need prayer? And um, there's this one young gentleman or actually 48 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.199 an older gentleman. He was on his phone just kind of like strolling down 49 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:37.199 and we're like, hey, would you like any prayer for anything, and 50 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:38.680 he's like, yeah, you can pray for my wife. You know, 51 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:44.199 she just had her you know, hip hip surgery and she's you know, 52 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:46.000 not doing too well. So we're like we just figured ye oh yeah, 53 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:47.840 look, let's just crowd around and pray. And he's like, no, 54 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:52.879 she's in here, and so we're just like oh okay, So we're like 55 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:59.439 okay, um, yeah, let's go. And so we're just as we're 56 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:01.159 walking, just following him. It's just like we had been waiting, you 57 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:04.240 know, like find trying to find ways to get into the patient rooms. 58 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:06.280 But all of a sudden, it's like the doors open. It was like 59 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:11.360 a Peter moment where the doors open and we're just like there's seven of us 60 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:15.479 just walking through, all these walking in and we're just like should we be 61 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:19.160 here, Like you're just kind of like yeah. So we went into the 62 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:23.519 room and there she is, you know, she's just smiling. She had 63 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:25.759 a beautiful spirit, and she's like, well hello, you know, she's 64 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:29.600 just laying in the bed, and so we just all crowded around her bed 65 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:32.600 and just just started praying over her, just prophesying. Just it was just 66 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:35.519 amazing. You could feel the power of the Holy Spirit, and you know 67 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:42.040 her, her sister was there and she was just crying and just saying thank 68 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:46.160 you all so much, you know, for coming and just being here. 69 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:49.199 Um. But that was a powerful moment just to see all of us and 70 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:56.480 two younger kids just praying over the family. So yeah, yeah, so 71 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:02.040 praise the Lord. Way to step out anybody ef anybody else that that had 72 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.439 something that God do through them. I know you said you're here, and 73 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:15.959 yeah, come on, good God, how you doing. Uh this was 74 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.360 at my home. This should happened on Friday. I was out in the 75 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:21.639 front yard. I was doing some weed spraying and stuff like that, and 76 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:25.480 just up the street I hear this boom boom boom boom, boom boom. 77 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:29.040 Oh we got a car rumbling through with their boom box stuff going. So 78 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:30.040 I'm kind of back on my weeding and stuff like that. And then it 79 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:33.360 comes a little closer and I look up the street and here's this young man 80 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:38.360 walking down the street and he's got a boom box on his chest. It's 81 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:41.920 kind of a look like a little backpack. It was really cool. So 82 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.040 I go, hey, man, I really like to beat on your on 83 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:46.360 your music. You got there and he goes, oh, thank you so 84 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:48.560 much. I've been trying to get in some rap and you know, some 85 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:53.120 clean wrap stuff, you know. And in the kid was kind of a 86 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:57.240 ethic. I thought maybe Hispanic something. He actually in talking to him, 87 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:00.639 he goes, I am Hispanic, and uh, but people take me a 88 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.519 little more for Arabic look and stuff. Well, the kid's name is Edgar, 89 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:08.600 same as one of my boys, Edgar. My boy is Mexican. 90 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:13.399 This young man who was saying, nah, yeah, I've been kind of 91 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:16.959 really walking about because I got surgery my stomach and I said, wow, 92 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:21.040 I'm sorry about that, you know, and he says, yeah, Actually, 93 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:26.160 what happened is in Federal Way where I live. I don't know if 94 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:29.399 anybody lives in Federal Way, but they had a shooting at the fred Meyer 95 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:32.399 gas station up there. This young man was the victim of the shooting, 96 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:39.519 shot three times, hip, leg, stomach. He lives the next street 97 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:43.120 over from me, and I go, you live right there? He goes, 98 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:45.959 yeah, so they're back next street over. So I got the prey 99 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:47.439 over him like that. I said, hey, you know you go to 100 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:50.160 church and you go, well, you know, I've had a early rough 101 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:54.680 life and stuff, and a friend inviding me for a Sunday and said, 102 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.279 well, won't you come down to New Horizon. We got a car show. 103 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.800 So he said, well, I got an obligation, but I'll come 104 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:02.720 next time. So I gave my phone number and stuff like that. But 105 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.879 this young man took the prayer. He just was like, wow, man, 106 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:11.439 this is powerful and stuff like that. But it was just hanging out, 107 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.160 meeting somebody walking down the street and make it a connection, you know, 108 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:18.720 And it was just beautiful. Yeah, come on, really good, 109 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:24.079 really good, love it, love it, thanks pass. Yeah, it 110 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.759 was. It was great. Literally we had I mean, I don't know 111 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.399 one hundred two hundred of those kinds of testimonies over the period of the last 112 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:34.879 four days. And I'll tell you when you hear one after another after another 113 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:40.480 of people stepping out. There was one that comes to mind. These two 114 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:44.519 guys went to Tacoma, got some coffee, just started walking around, and 115 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:46.079 all of a sudden, one of them felt like, I need to go 116 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:48.600 into this small convenience store. They went in. There was this gal there, 117 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:57.920 very alternative lifestyle looking, and they just started talking and the gal was, 118 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:03.279 you know, I think she'd had some kind of Christian background, and 119 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:09.319 and uh, I think she's now calling herself a pagan and uh and and 120 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.079 John Mark got a couple of words for her, and and and basically, 121 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:15.199 and I can't remember what the words were it or something like, oh, 122 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:18.399 you've got I'll just make up a couple, but it was it was like 123 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:20.120 specific, like oh, you've got a pain in your back, and you've 124 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:26.160 got you've had a problem when um I think one of them was when she 125 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:31.480 was like fourteen, something happened on the traumatic died, somebody died in her 126 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:33.559 life when she was fourteen or whatever. But anyway, he gets these words 127 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:37.639 and it's getting her attention. It's like, how do you know this about 128 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.519 me? You know? And she ends up just really they end up ministering 129 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:46.159 to her, sharing the Gospel of Jesus, apologizing to her if she if 130 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:50.960 she did not if she was kind of turned off by the church, and 131 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:56.519 um oh, oh, I know what. Um, I could be confusing 132 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:00.840 a couple of testimonies here because I do that, but but now I just 133 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:05.720 remember more specifically. They they asked her, you know, how are you 134 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.600 doing and and she said, well, I just found out I'm oh, 135 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:11.799 I know, Okay, it's come back to me now. Okay, it's 136 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:15.759 come back to me now. John Mark says, I'm so sorry. They 137 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.320 all kind of blurred together in my mind, but it's coming clear. So 138 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:22.519 John Mark says her, you know, I've really felt like that God wanted 139 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:24.279 us to come in here. Like I was walking by the store, almost 140 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.600 by it, and I felt like Lord said come in. I think we're 141 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.960 here for you. And she goes, well, I don't know, says 142 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:35.720 I'm not doing too well today because I found out I was pregnant yesterday. 143 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:37.120 I found out I was pregnant. And he goes, oh congratulation, goes 144 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:43.840 no, it's not good. I don't want to be pregnant, and and 145 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:48.879 so they just they began to to love on her and to care for her. 146 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:50.759 And then the guy that was with her, he's actually from he drove 147 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.679 up from Sacramento for the conference, and he he says, you know, 148 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.559 I want you to know something. I know it doesn't sound like you want 149 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:03.120 this space, baby, he said, but my wife and I have already 150 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:09.519 determined that if we run into somebody who is about to abort their baby, 151 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:13.279 that we want to tell them that we will adopt that baby. Don't abort 152 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:16.120 the baby. We will adopted. My wife and already decided if we run 153 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:20.720 into this situation we were doing. So we're here today to tell you that 154 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.080 please don't abort that baby. That we will. I'll give you my number, 155 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.639 we will if you want to keep the baby. We'll do our best 156 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:30.919 to try to help you to support that baby. But but please don't abort 157 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.519 that baby. And then and so she's like tearing up and she's like, 158 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:37.879 you don't understand. You know, I went to church and I never and 159 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:43.440 I just stopped going because I felt like I was never There was never love 160 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:46.480 in the church. There was just it was just no love. And so 161 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:52.679 they then um the guy who offers to support, you know, or to 162 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:56.720 help with a baby, or to adopt the baby. He went off. 163 00:10:56.039 --> 00:11:01.039 He had two of his paychecks and he cashed them, brought it back. 164 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:05.840 They gave her six hundred dollars and and she said, listen, we want 165 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.360 to help, but we're serious about this. And so I mean, she's 166 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:13.399 really uh, you know, broken up at this point, and they got 167 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:18.720 to pray for her. They got to show the love of God. This 168 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.879 gal who had just turned away from the Lord turned away from Jesus and be 169 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:26.759 able to just gave got her number and they're going to stay in touch with 170 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:31.679 her. I mean, that's Jesus. I mean, that's just like the 171 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.080 hands and feet of Jesus right there, And it's just it's that that's something 172 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.159 that we can be every day. We we don't today. I want to. 173 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:43.840 I want to raise the standard of our life to be able to say 174 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:48.399 we can we can be amazing witnesses for Jesus. That doesn't necessarily mean that 175 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:52.679 we're out there kind of being salesman for Jesus trying to talk. You know, 176 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.039 evangelism has really the E word. It's become like the E word. 177 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.679 It's like it's like, don't talk about the word evangelism because it's just so. 178 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:07.279 I bet some of you didn't come to this conference because you heard that 179 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.000 we're going to do the E word at the conference, right, and you're 180 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:15.600 like, I'm not gonna do that evangelism thing. But I'll tell you it's 181 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:22.080 because of a misunderstanding of evangelism. You think that evangelism is somebody who doesn't 182 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:26.480 want to be talking about Jesus talking to somebody who doesn't want to listen. 183 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:31.480 That's basically what evangelism has become to be. And it's not that at all. 184 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:37.279 It's the overflow of your love for Jesus. Like we just worshiped Jesus 185 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.360 with all our heart, some amazing his presence was here, and now we 186 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:43.240 just get to worship out there. Maybe not in song, we're not meaning 187 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:48.000 to be singing out there, but we're bringing the glory of God out there 188 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.679 with us everywhere we go, and we're just ready for Jesus to jump on 189 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.840 people through us, you know. And that's really what evangelism is. And 190 00:12:54.879 --> 00:13:00.519 then a part of that is when they're ready to share with them the great 191 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:05.320 news of the Kingdom. And but but it's not forcing it. We've become 192 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:07.399 this idea of we have to feel like we have to force it down people's 193 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:13.360 throats and and that's not it at all. And we're gonna learn about more 194 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.200 about that thing. So anyway, by the way, there's gonna be even 195 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:20.679 if you miss city quake, there's gonna be eight weeks of aftershock you're gonna 196 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.639 be hearing about it. There's gonna be aftershock services, which are kind of 197 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:28.039 gonna be many little outreach times where you're gonna come get a little bit, 198 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:33.559 a little bit of worship, a little bit of teaching within the half hour. 199 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:37.639 By the time you've gotten here or gotten to wherever the aftershock services that 200 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:39.759 you go, because there's several churches that are having in the area, you're 201 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:43.320 gonna then go out. You're gonna be paired up with somebody who's done this 202 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.799 before. I feel like you're scared and you've not done it before. You're 203 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:48.799 gonna be paired up with somebody who's done it before. Go out. Listen. 204 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:52.639 They won't even make you say a thing. You can just watch. 205 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:56.679 But I have a feeling within the first or second or third person that you 206 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:00.440 talked to, you're gonna be jumping in. You're gonna be, oh yeah, 207 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:01.120 and you know this, and this is what happened to me, and 208 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.440 you'll be sharing your testimony. You'll be you'll be saying, I think God 209 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.600 has this for you, and you'll be and you'll be jumping in because it's 210 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.080 natural. It's natural, because I know it's in you. Because the same 211 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:16.480 kind of worship we've we don't want to be segmented, we don't want to 212 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:22.759 have be one way in church in terms of worshiping and Jesus all our heart 213 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:26.240 and then be shutting him down the rest of the week. We want to 214 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:28.279 let it flow all week long. All right, With that, I want 215 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:31.200 you to turn to Mark chapter two. Mark chapter two. I'm going to 216 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:37.080 be talking about a passage that I know you've probably heard before, you've probably 217 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.840 heard preached on before, but I want to look at it with a little 218 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:46.000 bit different kind of eyes today. And this is the story of the paralytic 219 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.679 being carried to Jesus. So, Father, I thank you so much for 220 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:52.679 this time. I thank you for those that are here listening, those that 221 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:58.759 might be listening on video afterwards online. But Lord, we give you this 222 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:07.600 time. We say, Holy Spirit, come and teach us about faith, 223 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:13.159 and teach us about overflowing for you. Thank you, Lord, Jesus name 224 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:16.759 Amen, Mark two, verse one. When he had come back to Compirnium, 225 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.440 that's Jesus. He'd now come back. He was out ministering, comes 226 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.000 back to his kind of his home ministry base, Compernium. He was raised 227 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.639 in Nazareth, but he made Compernium his kind of his ministry base. He 228 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:33.600 came back to Compernium. Several days afterwards, it was heard that he was 229 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.639 at home, and there were many gathered together so that there was no longer 230 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:39.960 room even near the door. He was speaking the word to him. So 231 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:45.039 he comes back to his ministry base and he comes and he's at this home. 232 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.240 And I've actually been to that place in Compirnium. It's actually very large 233 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:52.440 for the time. It's a very large home, and yet still as the 234 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:56.399 large as it was, it was crowded, so crowded that you couldn't even 235 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:02.440 get inside because of all the people. And you know the reason why, 236 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:04.080 of course, I mean it doesn't say it here, but you know the 237 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:10.399 reason why there's so many because they've been advertising in the Capernium Gazette, full 238 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:17.960 page ads revival at Jesus House, pizza, served special meetings, bring a 239 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:23.200 friend. No, No, it wasn't Tom, Don't be ridiculous. It 240 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:30.519 was the radio ads. They're having radio and TV ads every No, why 241 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:34.679 were there so many people at Jesus House. Why why did so many people 242 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:41.000 gather? You know why? Because they heard the Jesus stories. They heard 243 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:47.080 the stories about what had happened through this man, and they're like, I 244 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:48.320 need to I want to I want to get around him, I want to 245 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:51.720 hear from him. I want to maybe he'll, hey, he'll do a 246 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:56.799 miracle for me, Maybe he'll tell me something about my life. They heard 247 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:00.200 the Jesus stories. You know, I'm not a game media. I'm not 248 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:06.519 against publicity and signs and ads and you know the different things. But I'll 249 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:11.079 tell you the Church of Jesus Christ that should be minor in terms of how 250 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:18.000 the word gets out. The major should be the testimonies of Jesus churches people, 251 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.799 His people need to be telling the Jesus that we call him testimonies, 252 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.039 right, They're just stories about what Jesus did, stories about what he did 253 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:29.680 through us, what happened through us, what happened to this person. If 254 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:33.000 we're telling the Jesus stories, I'll tell you it will be a lot more 255 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:37.799 effective than any advertising you do. And because people want to hear, they 256 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:41.400 want to hear you. I was sharing two days ago on this and I 257 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:48.400 said, here's a little hint. Ninety nine point nine percent of people, 258 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.119 let's they're really super busy. They're like on their way something like if you 259 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:56.440 say, hey, want to hear a cool story, They're gonna say yes. 260 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.319 Everybody wants to hear a story. You know you don't have to say 261 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.480 you want to hear a testimony, Like, what are you talking about? 262 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:06.680 What's a testimony? People don't even understand what testimonies did. Don't use the 263 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:08.359 word testimony. Hey want to hear a cool story. Hey, let me 264 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:11.920 tell what Jesus did for me. Hey, this is so cool when I 265 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.359 was this way and then this happened and then and I mean, you can 266 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.960 and it couldn't be about your salvation. It could be about freedom in an 267 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.640 area you have testimonies to share, just say, hey, I want to 268 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.599 tell a cool story. Anyway, So they gathered together, they were all 269 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.720 crowded in this place, and verse three, and I'll get We tend to 270 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:36.599 read this so quickly because we're used to the story. You've heard these stories 271 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:38.119 before. It's very easy for you to get said, oh I know the 272 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:44.519 story. But think about what happened. Think about being there. What happened? 273 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:49.000 And they came to they and they came bringing to him a paralytic carried 274 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:56.759 by four men. And just stop there, four men are carrying a paralytic 275 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:07.240 on a palette. What happened? How? Why was it? The paralytics 276 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:11.680 ideas he's not been able to move he's not been able to walk. Um, 277 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:15.920 was it his idea saying, hey, guys, Jesus is in town. 278 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:21.319 You gotta get me to Jesus. Or was it one of the guys 279 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:23.319 saying, hey, man, our friend here. He's been all he can 280 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:30.200 do. His bag, he has can't not been able to walk. Maybe, 281 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:36.400 just maybe, man, if we got him as Jesus, maybe something 282 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:41.920 would happen. We've heard stories. Maybe let's you know, friends get their 283 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:47.319 friends to Jesus. And so I don't know. They picked him up, 284 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:49.160 they got on his palate, they were carrying him. I don't know how 285 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:52.960 fright they went. You know, it's it's not easy to carry a guy, 286 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:57.079 right, they're carrying him and they're getting him to Jesus. Now did 287 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:00.799 they go a block? Did they go three blocks? A mile? I 288 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:03.880 don't know. But they get to the door or they get to the place, 289 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:07.279 and they say, and they're unable to get to him because of the 290 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:14.519 crowd. But here's interesting, he said, being unable to get to him 291 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:18.640 because of the crowd, they remove the roof above him. Now again, 292 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.400 we read this so fast, it's like what happened there? They get to 293 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:26.160 the house, they're thinking they're gonna go in the door. They're gonna set 294 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:30.599 this guy down in front of Jesus and they can't get in. So what 295 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:33.720 was the conversation. I don't know. I might be reading into it, 296 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:37.759 but I think it went something like this, Oh my goodness, look at 297 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:40.400 how busy. It's so crowded. We can't even get him to Jesus. 298 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:44.160 What are we gonna do. Let's go up on the roof, up on 299 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:47.000 the roof. What Jesus isn't up on the roof? How do we what's 300 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:48.759 gonna happen? I don't know. We'll figure that out. At least we 301 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:53.279 be closer somehow. They were like, let's get we gotta get our friend 302 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:57.440 to Jesus. I love that attitude. We gotta get our friend of Jesus. 303 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:00.000 Friends get their friends to Jesus. They went up on the roof. 304 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:03.559 It's kind of the area in those days, it was like a patio, 305 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:11.839 patio bathing put out their wash up there, and so they went up on 306 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:15.759 the roof and they're getting their friends to Jesus. You know, you might 307 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:18.640 think today, how do we get our friends of Jesus? I wish Jesus 308 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:22.440 would like walking the door. Then I could I can invite my friends if 309 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:26.559 I knew where Jesus was, if he was walking around Tacoma or five or 310 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:30.039 Seattle, I could get my friends of Jesus. But he's not. How 311 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:33.119 do we get our friends of Jesus? How do we get our friends at 312 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:40.400 Jesus? Today? I'm gonna turn you to a passage here that does not 313 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:44.799 seem to relate to what I'm talking about. We're gonna go to Luke seven, 314 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.200 verse eighteen does not seem to relate, But it's going to relate. 315 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:55.440 I promise. This is a story of John the Baptist. Remember John the 316 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.119 Baptist, you know, right, make wave, prepare the wave of the 317 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:00.960 Lord. Right, and and I can't even untie his sandal. He's just, 318 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:07.160 and he knew that he was preparing the way for the Messiah, Jesus, 319 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:12.000 right, Jesus, not just his cousin who's from Nazareth, but Jesus 320 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:18.799 the Christ, the anointed one. Right. But something happened that John wasn't 321 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:22.160 expecting. After this happened, you know, John was in prison. He 322 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:26.880 got in trouble. He was like declaring righteousness, and that the leader there 323 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:30.599 did not like it, and he put him in prison, and he says, 324 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:37.160 you're sentenced to die. And so this wasn't what John was expecting. 325 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:42.480 This was like, this was not the plan, okay, And so John 326 00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:48.839 calls his disciples Luke eighteen. John's disciples told him all these things, meaning 327 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:53.519 they told John's disciples home about what's happening with Jesus. But look at John's 328 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:59.440 perspective in prison. Calling two of them, he said to the he said, 329 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:04.119 he sent them to the Lord to ask, are you the one who's 330 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:08.839 to come? Or should we expect someone else? Meaning John is now having 331 00:23:08.839 --> 00:23:15.640 second thoughts. John is doubting this was not the plan. I wasn't expecting 332 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.480 me in jail. I thought that Jesus was really gonna make everything right here, 333 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:25.640 and it's not. It's like, I'm in trouble. Do you ever 334 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:29.279 have your plan not go the way you want it to go? Do you 335 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:32.000 ever begin to doubt Jesus? You really? I've been praying, Lord, 336 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:36.640 and it's not going the way I thought? Are you really? Are you 337 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:40.400 really? God? Are you really love me? Do you really? That's 338 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:41.880 what That's the kind of thing that was going on with John the Baptist. 339 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:48.720 So he sent them to Jesus So when the men came to Jesus, they 340 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:51.759 said, they said, John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, 341 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:53.200 are you the one who is to come? Or should we expect someone else? 342 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:59.200 Meaning are you just Jesus of Nazareth, regular man, maybe, good 343 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:03.680 teacher, whatever, but or are you Jesus the Christ, the son of 344 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:12.720 the living God. Okay, at that verse twenty one. At that very 345 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:17.720 time, Jesus careed many who had diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, 346 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:21.559 gave sight to the many who were blind. So we replied to the messengers, 347 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:23.359 go back and report to John what you've seen and heard. The blind 348 00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:26.799 received site, the lame walked, those are of leprosy or cleansed the death. 349 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:30.880 Here the dead rays, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. 350 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:37.880 Blessed? Is anyone who does not stumble on account of me? Do 351 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:41.880 you see what Jesus did here? They came Jesus, we really need to 352 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:44.799 know. Are you Are you really the Christ? Are you really the annointing 353 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:48.920 one? You you the one that was that been prophesied for hundreds of years 354 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:55.200 and now you're really here in real life? Or are we really just looking 355 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:57.720 ahead for somebody else? You see what Jesus did. He didn't answer the 356 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:03.480 question right away. He was like sight, healed, lame, walk, 357 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:07.960 dead, raised, miracle, miracle, boom boom, boom boom. Right. 358 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:11.039 And then he goes back and he says, look at it. Look 359 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:15.200 at what I just did. Look at did you see that? You know 360 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.680 what he was doing. He could have told them, oh, yeah, 361 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:23.079 I'm the Christ, but he didn't do that. You know why, same 362 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:27.319 thing what Paul said. It's the same concept to what Paul said. He 363 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:33.720 says he didn't want John's faith to rest in the wisdom of men, but 364 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:41.839 in the power of God. He could have said, yes, he said, 365 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:45.799 he said, yeah, believe in me, believe in me. But 366 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:48.759 he said, no, you will see the power of God flow through me, 367 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:52.440 and you just saw it. Now, believe in me. You see 368 00:25:52.480 --> 00:26:02.240 that. Why is that so significant? Because Jesus of Nazareth was filled with 369 00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:10.640 the Holy Spirit and he became Jesus the Christ. He was Jesus the anointed 370 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:15.119 One. That's how his last name was not Christ, it was in Jesus 371 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:21.279 Christ. It was. It was Jesus the Christ who was anointed with power 372 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:26.559 by the Holy Spirit. You know, it's no accident that when Jesus left, 373 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:30.000 he sent another. He sent the Holy Spirit, the same holy spirit 374 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:32.960 he was filled with. And he now says, oh, by the way, 375 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:38.839 you're the body of Christ. There's not Jesus of Nazareth walking around. 376 00:26:40.119 --> 00:26:45.240 They're his body who is now also has the same name, the Christ. 377 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:52.519 You're the anointed one. Let's rise up church, Let's fulfill the name that 378 00:26:52.519 --> 00:27:00.000 we've been given. And so you may run into people who are like, 379 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.839 oh, yeah, that's nice for you. Yeah, I grew up. 380 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:07.640 Yeah, there's going to church. I heard about that stuff. That's good 381 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.759 for you. I'm I'm now Buddhists. I'm now a new Age, I'm 382 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.960 now pagan, I'm in witchcraft. I'm I'm an atheist. I don't believe 383 00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:18.839 that stuff. If you want that crutch, you can have it. You've 384 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:23.240 heard that those kinds of things. You're like, no, you don't understand. 385 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:26.359 I don't want you just to believe me because the words. I don't 386 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:30.200 want you to just because because I'm teaching some good things. I want you 387 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:33.960 to know that I'm part of the body of Christ. You don't have to 388 00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:37.000 say this part, but you're thinking it, and you're like, no, 389 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:42.559 they need to see some boom boom, boom boom. They need to see 390 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:47.400 they need to have their faith rest on the power of God. That's what 391 00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:51.440 we're doing this week. We're going out believing that God can do healing through 392 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:53.480 us. He can give words through us. He can get prophetic words, 393 00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:56.960 he can get words of knowledge. He can he can bless people in a 394 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:00.799 way. There can be signs, wonders, miracles out there, and that 395 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:04.480 people all of a sudden, their hearts will be softened and they realize, 396 00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:10.799 oh my goodness, you're it's not You're just not another religion. You are 397 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:15.799 the Christ. You're the one who the one true religion that this is backed 398 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:22.920 up with power. A friend of mine named Gary, I'm gonna tell you 399 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:25.960 another story. I know I'm going I go in directions and it doesn't seem 400 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:27.440 like it relates, but then it's gonna relate. This is the same thing 401 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.960 with this. Let me tell you a story about my friend Gary Oates in 402 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:37.119 Brazil. He was he was about to preach at this large church. One 403 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.039 two thousand people were coming that night and they're filling the place, and the 404 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:47.160 ushers came before the meeting and said Pastor Gary, Pastor Gary um we've got 405 00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:51.000 a little bit of a problem here. Uh, the place is filling up, 406 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:56.039 but there's a bunch of folks from the mccumba Center Witchcraft center down the 407 00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:00.559 street, all dressed in their witchcraft garb, and they're up there in the 408 00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:07.359 balcony and they're they're casting spells and we should we remove them? Should we 409 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:10.319 make them leave? And Gary's like, oh no, no, no, 410 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:14.279 don't do that. I'll handle this. So he wasn't. The worship was 411 00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:17.200 just about to start, but he decided he's gonna, he's gonna get up 412 00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:19.240 before the worship and he's gonna and so he gets up and he welcomes everybody. 413 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:22.640 Welcome. It's so good to be in the city, and thank you 414 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.599 so much for being here. Um, and I specially want to welcome those 415 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:30.119 from the mccumba Center down the street. So glad you're here. Just two 416 00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:36.440 things I need to share with you specifically. First is that we've prayed and 417 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:40.079 we're protected here by the power of God, and we want you to we 418 00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:42.440 encourage you to not cast spells because we don't know Him to come back on 419 00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:51.079 you. Just just just some advice just to to so that you don't get 420 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:57.559 hurt um. But the other thing is more important. I need to apologize 421 00:29:57.559 --> 00:30:03.759 to you on behalf of the body of Christ, because I believe that probably 422 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:07.400 this is something that happened to you. You grew up knowing, as every 423 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.799 one of us should. You grew up knowing that you were somehow created by 424 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.279 God for supernatural power to flow through us, because that's how we're all created. 425 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:22.279 But when you looked around, especially when you saw in the Church of 426 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:26.359 Jesus Christ, that it was not exhibiting the power of God, you went 427 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.119 for the next best thing in the mukamba. And there's real power of the 428 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:34.079 makamba. The only problem is it's power of the enemy of Satan. And 429 00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:40.599 we tonight I just apologize that the Church of Jesus Christ is not putting on 430 00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:45.319 display the power of God like it should. And I believe that tonight you're 431 00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:48.160 going to see the power of God in this meeting and you're gonna want to 432 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:52.480 give your lives to Jesus Christ. Is that good? That's good? You 433 00:30:52.519 --> 00:31:00.799 can borrow that. I'm serious because out there all around today at the carsh 434 00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:03.720 or other places, they're gonna be people that are saying, oh yeah, 435 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:08.799 no, you know I'm I'm this lifestyle, I'm doing this, I'm I'm 436 00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:11.759 psychic, I I do this, I do that. And they're going to 437 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:18.440 talk about what they've turned to because they've not been demonstrated the power of God 438 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.480 through the Church, the body of Jesus Christ. And you need to step 439 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:26.079 up and say, I am so sorry that you had a bad example, 440 00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:30.319 but right now I want to be a good example for you. Give me 441 00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.519 your hand. How can I pray for you? You have a problem, 442 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:36.480 you get headaches, you get migraines, Oh, you have a pain in 443 00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:37.480 your knee. Come on, give me your hand. You're going to see 444 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.599 the power of God right now. See, that's where every Christian needs to 445 00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.720 be to have that kind of confidence that Jesus, that the power of the 446 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:51.119 same Holy Spirit that flew that flowed through Jesus when he was on earth, 447 00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:56.039 it's going to flow through me today. That's where we need to get there. 448 00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:59.759 If you're not there, it's okay, just get there. And the 449 00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:07.000 way you get there, one way is going out and trying it. Get 450 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:09.440 together with people. There's people in this church that have done this before, 451 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:15.480 who have practiced this before, and you're gonna learn not just knowledge wise what 452 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:17.039 the gifts of the spirit are. You're going to learn how to practice them 453 00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:22.359 through your life, and you're gonna see how you can bless people and change 454 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:25.880 their lives and change their eternities. It's why you're still here. He could 455 00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:30.240 have just jettisoned out to heaven with the minute you prayed to receive Jesus, 456 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:32.839 but he kept you here because you get the partner. This isn't something we 457 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:36.200 have to do. People like, oh, I have to do evangelism. 458 00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:39.799 No, you don't have to do evangelism. You get to you get to 459 00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:45.759 we get to partner with God. When you see that person's knee getting healed, 460 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:49.960 a person who was anti God, you see them getting healed, and 461 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.039 then they're like, what just happened to me? And oftentimes they don't just 462 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.920 say what that happened to me? They say what the blank just happened to 463 00:32:54.960 --> 00:33:00.640 me. They're expressing praise in a different way. They have to just be 464 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:06.359 taught more about the real way to praise. And you just ignore that and 465 00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:08.079 you're like, let me tell you what has happened to me. Jesus just 466 00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:13.960 loved you, healed you as a sign that he wants a relationship with you. 467 00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:17.440 Can I tell you about how to have a relationship with him? See, 468 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:21.960 that's what we get to do. This is not hard. This is 469 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.799 an overflow. It's already in you. It's already in you. And at 470 00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:28.119 times you've come close, they're like, oh, I pray for people in 471 00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:30.720 church and whatever, and I've seen this and that. No, it's time 472 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.920 to go to a whole new level in this. Okay, back to Mark 473 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:40.000 verse four and five, and being unable to get to him because of the 474 00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:45.559 crowd, they remove the roof above him, and they had when they had 475 00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:47.559 dug an opening, they let down the paler on which the paralytic was lying, 476 00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:52.319 and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic paralytic, my 477 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:54.880 son, your sins are forgiven. Again, we read through this because we're 478 00:33:54.960 --> 00:34:00.640 used to the story and we don't understand the dynamic. These guys couldn't get 479 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:02.720 to Jesus. They go up on the roof, they start digging down. 480 00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:07.799 Do you know the size of the hole you have to dig in order to 481 00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:12.480 get a man and a palette through the roof? I mean it's not it's 482 00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:17.199 not like that. It's something. They're pretty big. So they're digging through. 483 00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:22.840 You know, when you dig down, you don't just get everything right. 484 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.639 And I don't know whether it's through a mud roof or through a through 485 00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:30.000 a thatched roof or whatever, but somehow, when they're digging down, stuff 486 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:37.719 is falling. But you know what, it doesn't say. It doesn't say 487 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:43.119 Jesus looked up and saw this, all this material falling from the roof. 488 00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:50.239 It doesn't say Jesus looked up and saw this strange sight of these four men 489 00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:57.239 lowering down another. You know what it does say Jesus looks up and sees 490 00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:06.159 their faith. Do you know that Jesus is looking through all the stuff that's 491 00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:09.360 crashing down in your life? Say, I wonder if they're gonna have faith. 492 00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:15.000 I wonder if they're gonna have faith today. And he's not just talking 493 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:20.360 about faith for salvation. In this passage. It wasn't saving faith. It 494 00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:25.280 was faith to see a miracle. Faith that it was drawing on the Son 495 00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:30.719 of God to say, will he show up right now? Because either he 496 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:40.320 shows up Jesus does something and they look pretty durn foolish. Jesus looked up 497 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:45.480 and saw his faith. He is looking for faith in our life today. 498 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:49.239 He's like, Okay, how are they express faith? They got this? 499 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:54.880 I think believing that what I love to read. I love to define terms 500 00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:59.360 sometimes so they make really practical sense to me. And here's how we define. 501 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:00.480 If this makes sense to you, you use it, If not, 502 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:07.239 throw it out. I define faith is this. God loves me and he 503 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:12.159 wants to be good to me and through me. Right now. Faith is 504 00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:16.719 always a right now thing, and God loves me, he wants to be 505 00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:20.960 good. I'm believing on the character of God that he is so good that 506 00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:22.960 he's gonna be good to me and through me right now? Who's he gonna 507 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:27.000 be good too? Oh? I'm looking around, I'm at the GROSSI I'm 508 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:30.119 in line at the Who does he wants to be good? That one does 509 00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:31.000 that? Or that one? Right now? Who? Who's he going to 510 00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:36.920 be good too? Through me? And you're expecting God to show up. 511 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:42.400 I'll tell you if you were in the second row that day, you had 512 00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:52.880 gotten there early and you were looking what is that? Let what's this they're 513 00:36:52.920 --> 00:37:00.920 digging through the roof? What they're cutting? In line? I know you 514 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:07.440 would have thought that what are they doing? These fools? Who's gonna pay 515 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:14.199 for that? Roof. You know that's going through the thoughts they're mine. 516 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:17.599 You know what, sometimes when you step out in faith, you look like 517 00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:28.239 you're being foolish. I don't know about you, but I was trained all 518 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:34.000 my life to do things so I wouldn't feel foolish. I was taught to 519 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:38.400 talk a certain way so I wouldn't sound foolish, to dress a certain way 520 00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:44.199 so I would look foolish. Our whole life, we're really doing our best 521 00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:50.119 to not look like fools out there. And here's this guy speaking on Sunday 522 00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:52.880 morning saying, Hey, if you're gonna have faith, you might look like 523 00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:58.280 a fool. Now. I'm not saying that every foolish thing you do is 524 00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:01.599 faith. Sometimes you just do foolish things. Okay, take credit where credit 525 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:09.199 is due, But there's times where you know, I'm stepping out right now, 526 00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:14.960 I'm gonna pray for this person right here in this walmart, and there's 527 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:20.639 other people watching, and I don't know if anything's gonna happen, but I'm 528 00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:24.440 gonna be a fool for Jesus. I love what John Wimber used to say, 529 00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:31.559 I'm a fool for Christ. Who's fool are you? Let's be a 530 00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:34.800 fool for him. If we're gonna be a fool, let's be a fool 531 00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:37.000 for him. Let's step out, let's believe, let's live on the edge 532 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:40.800 of faith. Is this going to happen or not? Let's do it for 533 00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:46.079 the sake of their eternity. Maybe, just maybe God might show up in 534 00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:50.039 this time, right now. He might give me a word. He might 535 00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:52.880 I love. A friend of mine used to say, Oh, I'm a 536 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:57.719 Christian, and when I look at people, God speaks to me about him. 537 00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:01.280 And when I look at you, and he had no idea what he 538 00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:06.559 was gonna say when he got to when I look at you. But he's 539 00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:09.440 putting himself on the line. He's like saying, God, I'm drawing on 540 00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:16.400 you in faith that you're gonna show up right now. Let's just take a 541 00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:20.920 second, right now before the Lord. The Lord's looking for faith. Just 542 00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:24.039 close your eyes, just right now, say just tell the Lord. Are 543 00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:27.480 you going to be a vessel of faith? Are you gonna be a vessel 544 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:34.079 that brings this amazing good news to others? Or you're gonna wear a basket 545 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:37.760 on your head? Are you gonna be one of those lights that just gets 546 00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:51.639 covered up? Father, I bless every single person here the decisions that are 547 00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:53.760 being made, but more than just decisions, Lord, I pray they'd make 548 00:39:53.760 --> 00:40:00.719 a decision to see this process change. They make a decision that would lead 549 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:06.639 to another thousand decisions, a thousand decisions of reaching out, a thousand decisions 550 00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:10.639 of becoming more bold, a thousand decisions of acting on who they really are 551 00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:16.199 in Jesus. And so I bless them right now. Lord, I can't 552 00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:22.320 wait to hear the testimonies from this group of what you've done through them over 553 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.000 these coming weeks and months, and I commit them to you in Jesus name. 554 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:45.519 Amen. Lord. Yeah, so many cool things. I wish you 555 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:51.639 had time for all the testimonies. Oh my word, it would inspire you. 556 00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:54.679 Thank you Tom for sharing, and thank you for bringing some of those 557 00:40:54.719 --> 00:41:02.079 testimonies. Part of what we've been learning, and Tom has been at the 558 00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:09.639 forefront of helping us learn this, is that in most of these settings, 559 00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:16.119 shorter prayers are more powerful than long prayers, that the Holy Spirit doesn't need 560 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:25.719 us to wax eloquent with a long prayer. These short commanding prayers nee be 561 00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:35.679 restored, ears be open. Just short commanding prayers release the Holy Spirit to 562 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:40.079 do supernatural things and then people get these crazy breakthroughs and it's just as simple 563 00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:46.679 as check yourself, can you do what you couldn't do before? And so 564 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:52.960 many people are instantly touched. And I think that's also part of what makes 565 00:41:53.559 --> 00:42:01.119 power evangelism so powerful, is that it's non religious. It doesn't it doesn't 566 00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:09.039 need you don't need to bring this long religious prayer, just a simple commanding 567 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:14.960 prayer in faith, and then their hearts are opened up. The people's hearts 568 00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:17.840 are opened up to receive the word of the Lord, or to receive a 569 00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.280 prophetic word, or to receive the love of the Lord, or to receive 570 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:28.639 salvation. And so just so thankful for you, Tom and what you've done 571 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:31.760 and leading the charge with City Quake. Can we give him in their hand? 572 00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:39.760 I want you to I want you to do something. I want you 573 00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:45.320 to go to Cityquake dot org. So, you know, so many of 574 00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:50.119 us missed out on this, but this is life giving and if we're gonna 575 00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:54.159 you know, we're believing for a billion soul harvest. And I know a 576 00:42:54.159 --> 00:43:00.239 lot of you are on board with us to believe for a billion soul harvest. 577 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:07.360 But we're part of the strategy to bring it the past. We're we're 578 00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:19.239 part of that strategy. And as the world is really in chaos and just 579 00:43:19.320 --> 00:43:25.960 kind of a mess, it's gonna be It's gonna be the harvesting technique of 580 00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:34.360 the Spirit. And what's happened is the enemy has hardened people's hearts, like 581 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:45.079 the harvest is also a mess, and people's hearts are hardened. And what 582 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:51.400 opens the door of their heart is a touch, a miraculous touch of the 583 00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:58.039 Holy Spirit. A miraculous touch of the Holy Spirit opens up their hearts. 584 00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:04.079 And so I want to encourage you to go to Cityquake dot org and connect 585 00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.920 with some of what they're doing. And I want you to go to their 586 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:15.119 YouTube channel. They've got over a hundred of these like the best of the 587 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:21.760 best, great testimonies posted on their YouTube channel, and you can literally you'll 588 00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:27.239 be encouraged, you'll be inspired, but you'll also be coached. As you 589 00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:30.960 watch some of this stuff, it will coach you, it will embolden you, 590 00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:36.239 it will strengthen you. And the Holy Spirit wants to use all of 591 00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:40.960 us in this season with the supernatural and with the love of the Lord. 592 00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:49.760 We do it. I want us to give in to Tom this morning, 593 00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:53.320 and we held him over on purpose, but we also want to give in 594 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:58.840 to him. So there's envelopes right in front of you in the chairs, 595 00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:04.400 right in front of you, if you would grab an envelope. We've got 596 00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:09.440 the giving methods up here, the text giving and the QR code. I 597 00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:16.000 want to ask you to partner with us in loving city quakes, supporting city 598 00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:22.920 quake. They've been the twenty six cities in three years. Their goal is 599 00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:30.039 a hundred cities a year. So they're raising up others, they're empowering others. 600 00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:36.719 There's a whole team of people growing around Tom to take this message and 601 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:43.400 this life giving power into every city across the United States, big cities, 602 00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:52.000 little cities, big churches, little churches, and bring the fire and the 603 00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:58.400 inspiration because most of us aren't winning souls, most of us aren't engaged in 604 00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:02.400 this. Like night, eight percent of the church aren't really sharing their faith. 605 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:13.760 And I want to partner with somebody who's encouraging this. I want to 606 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:20.440 partner with somebody who's on board with igniting the church in the power evangelism, 607 00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:23.679 loving evangelism. So I'm gonna ask you to give into them this morning. 608 00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:30.079 And I'm gonna pray. We're just gonna pray a blessing over Tom and his 609 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.400 family and the City Quake crew, and then we hope you stay for lunch 610 00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:40.360 and hang out with us, get a car show's shirt, get some merch, 611 00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:46.280 and be a part of what we're doing here this afternoon. From now 612 00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:52.119 until three thirty, we're just having fun together, and we want you to 613 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:57.000 be a part of it. Holy Spirit, We thank you that you're igniting 614 00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:10.519 the passion and the fire of redemptive hopefill salvation in our hearts. We welcome 615 00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:15.119 you. We welcome you to use us, We welcome you to speak through 616 00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:21.360 us. We welcome you to guide us and direct us. Thank you even 617 00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:25.920 for today's stories, even today's testimonies, even with Ron, that was just 618 00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:31.480 a setup that young men in his neighborhood, a divine setup. And you 619 00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:37.920 have that for every one of us. And we just shout blessing over Tom 620 00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:45.760 and the Apostolic grace, the grace of evangelism on the City Quake, on 621 00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:52.679 him and on his ministry team. Holy Spirit, we just partner with them. 622 00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:55.360 We partner with them, We partner with them. Let the work be 623 00:47:55.440 --> 00:48:04.400 done in us fully and break break out with harvest, break out through us, 624 00:48:04.639 --> 00:48:10.039 with harvest in this region. We thank you for it in Jesus name. 625 00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:15.960 Everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. Yeah, Let's 626 00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:21.719 give Tom and the present the Lord another hand. Lord. We just thank 627 00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:24.679 you for what you're doing. Thank you for what you're doing. Let it 628 00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:28.360 be done fully. Let it be done fully. Let it be done fully. 629 00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:31.159 We've got after shock coming, so you're gonna hear about that. Eight 630 00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:36.440 weeks of after shock. There's gonna be outreach teams going to the business community, 631 00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:43.280 outreach teams going to the hotels, motels, homeless camps. But there's 632 00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:45.400 gonna be several opportunities for you to be involved. We want you to be 633 00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:50.679 a part of that. We'll let you know more of it as we're getting 634 00:48:50.760 --> 00:48:55.440 into it. But we're just excited about what God's doing through us the body 635 00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:59.119 of Christ. Amen. God, bless your church. We love you.