Speaker 1: So when we do missions around here, we don't just
Speaker 1: do it inside in the big people room. We do
Speaker 1: it back in the back. So as you kids come up,
Speaker 1: these kids right here, they have all worked very hard
Speaker 1: to raise money for care Net so helping with crisis pregnancy,
Speaker 1: and they filled bottles. Come on all the way over,
Speaker 1: all the way over, They filled bottles up and they
Speaker 1: have brought in this morning just under five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: of money for the crisis pregnancy. Let's all of you
Speaker 1: step forward and put your bottles along the front edge
Speaker 1: of the stage. Okay, and then you guys can go
Speaker 1: back to your class. Hallelujah. Our kids are involved in missions.
Speaker 1: Go this way right there there you go, Oh they
Speaker 1: went halfway. Well, well, you know, the children just do
Speaker 1: what they want to do around here. So we've got
Speaker 1: bottles full of money and thought that money is going
Speaker 1: to be going straight to care Net and helping them
Speaker 1: continue with ultrasounds and all the things that they do.
Speaker 1: So our kids, we always want our kids to be thinking.
Speaker 1: They've been having stories back there about all the different missionaries.
Speaker 1: They've been talking about missions and what a missionary is
Speaker 1: and praying over them that someday maybe one of them
Speaker 1: would be a missionary. What do you think, moms and dads? Hallelujah?
Speaker 1: All right, I just want to take a moment right
Speaker 1: now and just thank you so much for being a
Speaker 1: missions church. Over the last twelve months, our mission well,
Speaker 1: our missions cycle runs from June to June, and over
Speaker 1: the last twelve months, you folks, you generous folks, have
Speaker 1: been giving, have given over ninety five thousand dollars for missions.
Speaker 1: We are so close to one hundred grand I think
Speaker 1: it's just I am so so so blessed to be
Speaker 1: able to just say that our church is a missions
Speaker 1: oriented church and we're going to continue that into this
Speaker 1: coming year. I just you know, if you came, I
Speaker 1: don't know why you came today. Maybe you came today
Speaker 1: because you knew it was International Sunday and it's the
Speaker 1: best Sunday of the year. But maybe you came because
Speaker 1: you wanted to get closer to God. And I've said
Speaker 1: this every Sunday through our series. Maybe you're sitting here
Speaker 1: because you want to be closer to God. And I
Speaker 1: would say once again, just know that the closer you
Speaker 1: get to God's heart, You're going to start hear it
Speaker 1: beating and as you hear it beating, it's going to
Speaker 1: be beating for souls and for the nation and for
Speaker 1: the lost. So as you get yourself closer to God,
Speaker 1: you are going to start hearing this now, I said
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, And I always need to
Speaker 1: have a good science fun fact for each of you,
Speaker 1: because I am just kind of a nerd that way.
Speaker 1: But if you were to take a little cell from
Speaker 1: your heart, a cardiac cell, and if you were to
Speaker 1: put it in a Petri dish and it would live
Speaker 1: for a little while, you would see if you look
Speaker 1: through a microscope that it would be beating in its
Speaker 1: own intrinsic beat. Every one of your heart cells has
Speaker 1: its own intrinsic beat. And then if you were to
Speaker 1: take a heart sell from somebody else and put it
Speaker 1: in the same Petri dish, they would have two very
Speaker 1: different beats. But the closer that you get them together,
Speaker 1: then they sink up and they start beating together. And
Speaker 1: I would say to you New Horizon that the closer
Speaker 1: you get to the beating heart of Jesus Christ, the
Speaker 1: closer you're gonna get to him, the more you are
Speaker 1: gonna be drawn to his heart. And you are gonna
Speaker 1: sink up and we will beat with the same heart
Speaker 1: as our heavenly Father. Amen. And that is our goal.
Speaker 1: That is what Missions Month is about. It's about bringing
Speaker 1: the heart of the Father to you so that you
Speaker 1: would know this, so that you would understand. Now, humans
Speaker 1: have a great need for governmental institutions. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of how God made us, and when
Speaker 1: we come to when we're people, and we come together
Speaker 1: as families, and then families coalesce together as tribes, and
Speaker 1: then tribes coalesce together as nations, and then you get
Speaker 1: this governmental sort of grouping of different groups of people
Speaker 1: in different areas around the world, and those groups of
Speaker 1: people become what's known as nations. And nations are mentioned
Speaker 1: in the Bible, believe it or not, just under five
Speaker 1: hundred times the word nation or nations. Nations and nations
Speaker 1: are in God's plan. God's plan is for the nations.
Speaker 1: God has an ultimate plan for the nations. They aren't
Speaker 1: just something that's there. They are spoken of constantly in
Speaker 1: the Bible, and they need to be close in our
Speaker 1: own hearts. The nations show the creator activity of God
Speaker 1: and what you're gonna find when you walk around this room,
Speaker 1: You're gonna find different foods. You're gonna find different colors
Speaker 1: of skin, You're gonna find different languages, different color of eyes,
Speaker 1: different hair, You're gonna find different ways of doing things,
Speaker 1: different cultures. You're gonna find different Why didn't God just
Speaker 1: make cookie cutter human beings just like this and then
Speaker 1: make us all love him and then at the end
Speaker 1: of all of it, we would just all be fine
Speaker 1: and go to heaven. That's not how He's done it,
Speaker 1: not at all. Instead, He's made every single one of
Speaker 1: us ever so different. Every nation is so different and
Speaker 1: so unique and so fun and so incredible, and we
Speaker 1: all have this opportunity to come to him. It's God's
Speaker 1: heart that we would come to him, because he absolutely
Speaker 1: loves us. I'm gonna open up my Bible to Acts
Speaker 1: chapter seventeen, and they're gonna put this up on the
Speaker 1: on the screens, and I'm going to do this in
Speaker 1: the NIV. Make sure I get it right. Acts chapter seventeen.
Speaker 1: This is Paul talking to a bunch of people in Athens.
Speaker 1: He was a missionary himself. Everybody say, amenda that from
Speaker 1: one man he made all the nations that they should
Speaker 1: inhabit the whole earth, and he marked out for their
Speaker 1: appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
Speaker 1: God put nations in specific times in history. There have
Speaker 1: been nations that no longer exist, but those nations were
Speaker 1: so important to build the next nation and then to
Speaker 1: bring forth new things into the world and into onto
Speaker 1: the earth. Nations have had their appropriate times. The United
Speaker 1: States has its appointed time in history. Every nation around
Speaker 1: here has its appointed time, and what is supposed to
Speaker 1: happen during its appointed time the next verse. God did
Speaker 1: this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach
Speaker 1: out for him and find him, though he is not
Speaker 1: far from any one of us, for in Him we
Speaker 1: live and we move, and we have our being. I
Speaker 1: would say to you, people of God, that any group
Speaker 1: of people that does not find themselves in Christ is
Speaker 1: not in their best life. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but sometimes when I'm following Jesus real close, and my
Speaker 1: heart is beating just like him, and I'm listening to him,
Speaker 1: and I'm doing what he says to do, and i
Speaker 1: am obeying his ways and his direction in life, you
Speaker 1: know things, I'm kind of my best self at that point.
Speaker 1: I love better. I listen better. I'm more peaceful, I
Speaker 1: live a better life. But when I'm separated from him,
Speaker 1: I am not my best self. How many of you
Speaker 1: have ever not been your best self? Y'all know? Oh boy,
Speaker 1: how's Frankie been these days? That's what I want to know, Angie,
Speaker 1: just kidding. We all know what it means to not
Speaker 1: be our best selves, but we know that when we
Speaker 1: find Him, we do become our best selves. And God
Speaker 1: is calling the nations out of their brokenness, out of
Speaker 1: their fear and their folly, and their foolishness, and their
Speaker 1: their poverty and their brokenness, and calling the nations to Him.
Speaker 1: And when the nations come to Him, he changes them
Speaker 1: into their best way of being. Open up Isaiah, let's
Speaker 1: go to Isaiah. And I want you to go to
Speaker 1: Isaiah too. I was laughing with first service. You know,
Speaker 1: we used to say open up your Bibles, and you'd
Speaker 1: hear all these papers swishing back and forth, and people
Speaker 1: would be licking their finger and going like this and
Speaker 1: finding the table. Now it's not so much. So just
Speaker 1: turn on your Bible, push the app and go to Isaiah.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna do this one in the Passion translation.
Speaker 1: Look at that bada bing. I got a whole nother
Speaker 1: Bible up here in this little tiny box. How many
Speaker 1: Bibles do I have in here? Different translations. I'm amazed
Speaker 1: at it. I don't know if you are. Okay, So
Speaker 1: Isaiah chapter two, this is some of God's promises. What
Speaker 1: I'm going to read to you for the nations. This
Speaker 1: is God's plan. This is where we're And I wanted
Speaker 1: to build faith in your soul because sometimes we look
Speaker 1: around the world and we just are thinking everything's going
Speaker 1: to hell, and I am basket. Anybody ever wonder about
Speaker 1: that in your own little heart and mind. Well, God's
Speaker 1: got a better plan. He's got the best plan. Let's listen, okay.
Speaker 1: In the last days, the mountain of Yahweh's temple will
Speaker 1: be raised up as the head of the mountains, towering
Speaker 1: over all the hills. A sparkling stream of every nation
Speaker 1: will flow into it. Many peoples will come and say, everyone, come,
Speaker 1: let's go up higher to Yahweh's mountain, to the house
Speaker 1: of Jacob's God. Then he can teach us his ways
Speaker 1: and we can walk in his paths. Zion will be
Speaker 1: the center of instruction, and the word of Yahweh will
Speaker 1: go out from Jerusalem. He will judge fairly between the
Speaker 1: nations and settle disputes among many peoples. They will beat
Speaker 1: their swords they used against each other into plowshares, and
Speaker 1: their spears into pruning hooks. No nation will take up
Speaker 1: weapons against another, nor will they prepare for war no more, Oh,
Speaker 1: House of Jacob, Come let us walk in the wonderful
Speaker 1: light of Yahweh.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Doesn't that just move you with hope for the nations?
Speaker 1: That song we sang? He gives us hope for the nations,
Speaker 1: for the peoples of the world. I want to take
Speaker 1: just a moment and kind of go through them, just
Speaker 1: to these verses in the last days the mountain of Yahweh.
Speaker 1: Mountains quite often refer to kingdoms or governments. So God
Speaker 1: is saying, out of all the governments, he is making
Speaker 1: his government his mountain, and to rise above all the others. Now,
Speaker 1: remember two thousand years ago Christianity started with is one man.
Speaker 1: Now we have two point eight billion of us walking
Speaker 1: the face of the earth. I think the mountain of
Speaker 1: the Lord has grown just a little bit, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 1: Christianity is growing in Iran and in China at the
Speaker 1: fastest rate ever seen before. Those two nations are By
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty, they will be considered Christian nations.
Speaker 1: There are more Christians in China right now than the
Speaker 1: Communist Party has on their roles. Come on, people, the
Speaker 1: mountain of the Lord is increasing and increasing. This is
Speaker 1: not a time to be downcast, Oh my soul, Now
Speaker 1: is the time to look up. Now is the time
Speaker 1: to see the word of the Lord coming to pass.
Speaker 1: It will be raised up as the head of the mountains,
Speaker 1: towering over all the hills. A sparkling stream of every
Speaker 1: nation will flow into it. Isn't that an interesting way
Speaker 1: to put it? Doctor Brian Simmons interpreted the Hebrew of
Speaker 1: that verse, saying, a sparkling stream of nations will flow
Speaker 1: into it. The word river in the Hebrew can also
Speaker 1: be interpreted streams, cheerful, sparkling, all sorts of just beautiful, happy,
Speaker 1: radiant words. And if you're going to flow into the
Speaker 1: highest mountain, wait a minute, that's going to require it
Speaker 1: to flow up. That's not natural. The natural flow of
Speaker 1: nations is to flow to its lowest common denominator, to
Speaker 1: flow down into the depths of things and get lower
Speaker 1: and lower and lower. But this verse here tells us
Speaker 1: that there will be a sparkling stream of nations flowing
Speaker 1: up into the House of God, up into this mighty
Speaker 1: mountain of God. What he says is that this is
Speaker 1: a supernatural magnetism bringing the nations into the Kingdom of God. Hallelujah,
Speaker 1: because it's what he's doing. He is there's a flow
Speaker 1: up against the natural, you know, the grain of things.
Speaker 1: This is a reversal. Do you remember in the Book
Speaker 1: of Genesis with the Tower of Babel, those people were
Speaker 1: gathered together and they were disobeying God. And God came
Speaker 1: down and he divided them into nations, and he divided
Speaker 1: them into languages, and he said, go, you to go.
Speaker 1: But this time when they were dispersed, they were dispersed
Speaker 1: individually and broken up into pieces and disunified. But in
Speaker 1: this verse, it's telling me there's gonna be a reversal
Speaker 1: of that dispersion, and the nations are gonna stream together,
Speaker 1: begin to gather together in a sparkling, radiant flow. This
Speaker 1: is God's plan. Many peoples will come and say, everyone come,
Speaker 1: let's go up higher to Yahwei's mountain. Everyone come. This
Speaker 1: is what missionaries do. Missionaries gather people. They're out there
Speaker 1: calling in the highways and the byways. Come with us.
Speaker 1: Would you come with us to the higher mountain. It's
Speaker 1: better there. You will be your better self when you
Speaker 1: come there, Oh, people of God, even today I would
Speaker 1: save and to you. Come with me to the mountain
Speaker 1: of the Lord. Come with me, you will be your
Speaker 1: better self. We are on. We are all gathering together,
Speaker 1: letting go of the things in us that are not
Speaker 1: the best. And we're joining with that sparkling stream. Oh America,
Speaker 1: Oh America. I say, come to the mountain of Yahweh.
Speaker 1: Come to the mountain of Yahweh. El Salvador, Come to
Speaker 1: the mountain of Yahweh, all of the nations. You will
Speaker 1: be your best self. As you do, many people will say, come, everyone, come,
Speaker 1: let's go up higher. And then he can teach us
Speaker 1: his ways and we can walk in his has. This
Speaker 1: is the discipling of the nations that we are called
Speaker 1: to do. All wisdom, all knowledge, all righteousness is in
Speaker 1: the mountain of Yahweh. And as the nations come, they
Speaker 1: will be schooled in good things. They will be schooled
Speaker 1: in righteousness, they will be schooled in how to handle things.
Speaker 1: They will learn how to walk in the paths of God.
Speaker 1: Amen makes my heart so excited. Zion will be the
Speaker 1: center of instruction, and the word of Yahweh will go
Speaker 1: out from Jerusalem. He will judge fairly between the nations
Speaker 1: and settle disputes among the peoples. We've watched over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks a man brokering peace, and for that,
Speaker 1: I am very grateful. We find ourselves in so many wars,
Speaker 1: and so many people are dying, and so much bloodshed,
Speaker 1: and so much violence, and so much breaking of families
Speaker 1: and destruction, and oh, it grieves my heart. Between the
Speaker 1: nations and so a man is attempting to broke her peace,
Speaker 1: and I'm very grateful for it. But I keep thinking
Speaker 1: in the back of my head, one wrong room and
Speaker 1: you know, one wrong move, and it won't work. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times have we try to get Zelensky and
Speaker 1: Putin to come together and then somebody does something dumb.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when men broke her peace. And I
Speaker 1: love it when they do. Your heart yearns for when
Speaker 1: God brokers the peace, because then peace will be brokered
Speaker 1: by love itself. Peace will be brokered by peace itself.
Speaker 1: And it will come from God above. And there will
Speaker 1: be a time when our nations no longer rage against God.
Speaker 1: These are the promises of God. And no more war,
Speaker 1: no more war. We don't have spears, we don't have swords.
Speaker 1: We got ak forty sevens, we got tanks. God's promising
Speaker 1: us that there will be a day where those things
Speaker 1: will be melted down into things that are used for harvest, plowshares,
Speaker 1: pruning hooks. There is a day, people of God. That
Speaker 1: day will come when the mountain of the Lord becomes
Speaker 1: the highest mountain. We as the Church stand in the gap.
Speaker 1: We as a church stand between God's promises and the
Speaker 1: world we find ourselves in. We as the people of God,
Speaker 1: stand in this incredible spot. And it is our faith
Speaker 1: and is our prayers, and it is our strength. Through God.
Speaker 1: He has asked that we would be the ones that
Speaker 1: would stand in the gap and pull the two together.
Speaker 1: Oh people of God, pray for the nations. My heart
Speaker 1: yearns for these promises. I would love all the people
Speaker 1: that came today, the host table hosts, would you come
Speaker 1: and line up right across. We're gonna do a little
Speaker 1: different than we did for service. Go ahead and line
Speaker 1: up all the way across. I don't care what order
Speaker 1: you're in. Just come on up here. Lineup, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do some praying. We got the band up here yet,
Speaker 1: Oh the band. Here we go, you, my people of God,
Speaker 1: we are gonna stand in the gap between God's promises
Speaker 1: and what we have happening even now. So we've got
Speaker 1: quite a few nations. Come on up here, Come on
Speaker 1: up here, find your partners if you're doing them together
Speaker 1: with somebody. And we got the band coming on up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna sing a little bit. We're gonna have music
Speaker 1: in the back of us. And you thought you came
Speaker 1: to church just to sit back and watch. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: You're a part of this here today. Will you pray
Speaker 1: with me? Will you pray with me? This morning, when
Speaker 1: we were singing a Hope's anthem, I started seeing peoples
Speaker 1: of other nations, other ethnicities, broken and in the dirt.
Speaker 1: They were literally sitting in the dirt cry with no hope.
Speaker 1: And I could see that as we were singing that song,
Speaker 1: as we were praying, as we were declaring things, God
Speaker 1: was ripping the heavens apart and things. They began to
Speaker 1: look up and they began to see Hope, and I
Speaker 1: would say, even now, you know, we're sitting here in Fife,
Speaker 1: little old Fife. Let's get some kingdom work done here
Speaker 1: in Fife. Let's do this. So we're gonna pray over
Speaker 1: these nations. Will you pray with me? I am gonna
Speaker 1: give them an opportunity to speak in their own language,
Speaker 1: declaration over their country. So some of them are gonna
Speaker 1: speak in other languages. They're getting all arranged all on
Speaker 1: their own here. Oh boy, howdy, do you're good? We'll
Speaker 1: make it work. What was I saying? We're gonna declare,
Speaker 1: We're gonna sing, will you will you lend your faith
Speaker 1: to mine? So are you ready? We're gonna start down here.
Speaker 1: We got Samoa and uh, this wonderful family. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be right over here. They got some really yummy sweet stuff.
Speaker 1: So the band's gonna start playing. We're gonna start playing
Speaker 1: Hope's anthem back there, nice and strong, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: bring some energy to this. And you're gonna pray. Now.
Speaker 1: She prayed in Samoan, and she tried to tell us
Speaker 1: she was no good at it, but you know what
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell. So, girlfriend, you just go. I thought
Speaker 1: you sounded pretty good. So maybe she was saying all
Speaker 1: sorts of things. I don't know. So are you ready
Speaker 1: let's lift up Samoa. Are you ready to pray for
Speaker 1: the islands? Okay, so this is Samoa. Here we go.
Speaker 2: Tama if butyava o ya eloa oho the the Father God.
Speaker 2: We just thank you for your grace, your goodness, your
Speaker 2: love through all the nations, Lord God, not to Samuel.
Speaker 1: Lord.
Speaker 2: I pray for my country, Lord God, that you will
Speaker 2: be their God, that the veil from their eyes will
Speaker 2: be removed, and they will know you as their true God.
Speaker 2: That they will know Jesus of the Bible, not of religion,
Speaker 2: and that they will break from generational curses of religion,
Speaker 2: of poverty, of fear, of sagnation, of sicknesses and disease,
Speaker 2: Lord God, that they will come to obedience and know you.
Speaker 1: Father God.
Speaker 2: You say that in your word to ask you to
Speaker 2: send to send workers to the harvest, Father God. So
Speaker 2: we just ask that you pick people from our country,
Speaker 2: Lord God, that will bring you honor and glory in
Speaker 2: every country, Father God. And we just ask that you
Speaker 2: send them in other countries. Let their obedience begin a
Speaker 2: domino effect in other countries as well, Lord God, that
Speaker 2: our love for you, Father God will bring unity in
Speaker 2: other countries along with ours. Father God, that we will
Speaker 2: find you as common brown, that you will be glorified
Speaker 2: in everything we do. Lour God in Jesus
Speaker 1: Name, Amen, Amen,