WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.440 Now during this series, we've looked at God's five purposes 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:08.320 for your life. You are not an accident. They are 3 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:12.720 accidental parents. There are no accidental children. They're illegitimate parents. 4 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:16.320 There are no illegitimate children. Your parents may not have 5 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:19.519 planned you, but God did, and he planned you even 6 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:24.160 before the foundation of the world. And your life has value, 7 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:28.199 and your life has significance. And you are not an accident. 8 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.600 And the Bible says that God created you for five purposes, 9 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:38.799 for five reasons, for five assignments. The Bible calls them 10 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.640 your callings in life, your vocation in your life. Your 11 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:45.799 vocation is far more than your career. Oh no, no, no, 12 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:49.840 it's your reason for existence. And God says I made 13 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:54.159 you for five reasons. Now we looked first at I 14 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:58.079 am called to be loved. The number one purpose of 15 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:01.320 your life is you were made to be loved by God. 16 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:04.439 And until you get that, nothing else is going to 17 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:08.000 make sense. You're made by God and for God, and 18 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:12.200 He made you to love you in that base of love. 19 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:17.840 When you feel totally completely loved by God, then you 20 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:21.159 have the capacity to move into every area of life 21 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:23.760 that He wants you to move into and to experience 22 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:26.959 life in all its fullness. But first you're called to 23 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.000 be loved by God. Then we looked at the next 24 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.280 week at your called to belong. You're called to not 25 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:36.200 just be loved, You're called to belong. You're called to 26 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.000 belong to His family. You were not meant to go 27 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.760 through life on your own. You're not alone, ranger. You 28 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:44.760 are made for connection. You are made for community, and 29 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:47.760 we find our meeting and purpose in our relationships to 30 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:52.120 each other. You're made, You're created. You're called to belong. 31 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:55.319 Then we looked at the third calling in your life. 32 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:59.000 You're called to become. God has plans for your life. 33 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:02.239 He made you to become what He wants you to be. 34 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:04.799 You can't be anybody in the world. People will tell 35 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:07.120 you that. It's just not true. No matter how hard 36 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:09.879 I try, I'm never going to be an opera singer. 37 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.080 And no matter how hard I try, I'm never going 38 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:16.439 to be good at certain sports. I'm just not wired 39 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:18.879 that way. You can be who God has made you 40 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:22.719 to become, and joy getting in the Jay zone is 41 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:26.719 when you become who God made you to be. You're 42 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:30.639 called to be loved, You're called to belong, You're called 43 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:33.639 to become. And then last week we looked at the 44 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:37.039 fourth calling in your life. You're called to bless, You're 45 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:39.280 called to bless others. God didn't put you on the 46 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:41.639 earth to live a selfish little claw of a life 47 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:44.919 where it's all about me. No, it's not all about you. 48 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:47.879 It's all about God. It's all about others. And we 49 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.199 find our true meaning and purpose only as we give 50 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:54.319 our lives away. And as I bless other people, I 51 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.879 am blessed myself. And as I help others, I am 52 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:01.319 help myself. It's the law of so and reaping. But 53 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:03.360 when you sow a seed, you don't just get one 54 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:06.280 seed back, you get multiple seeds back. So whatever you 55 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:07.879 sow in life, you're going to get back more of 56 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:11.000 You sow criticism, you get back more criticism. But you 57 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:14.479 sow praise, you get back more praise. And you're called 58 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.759 to bless other people with your life using what we 59 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:22.280 call your shape, shape, your spiritual gifts, your heart, your abilities, 60 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:26.080 your personality, and your experience. And nobody is uniquely shaped 61 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:32.639 like you are. You have a unique voice, print, iPrint, mouth, handprint, footprint, heartbeat, 62 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:36.080 emotional beat, and God doesn't want you to be anybody else. 63 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:37.400 And when you get to heaven one day, he's not 64 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:39.080 going to say, why won't you more like somebody else? 65 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:40.840 He's going to say, why won't you more like you? 66 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:44.919 I made you to be you? Unless you be you? 67 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.919 Who's going to be you? Now? Tonight we look at 68 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:52.800 the fifth calling, and this is the calling of being sent. 69 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:56.879 I'm called to belong, I'm called to be loved, I'm 70 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:59.319 called to become, I'm called to bless and I'm called 71 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:02.080 to be said. Now, I want you to write this 72 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:06.439 down on your outline. God's plan for history. If you 73 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:08.240 want to know the purpose of history, here it is 74 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:14.039 He's gathering a family. God is gathering a family that 75 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:19.319 will love and live with him forever. The Bible makes 76 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:22.199 us very very clear, and the message was brought to 77 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:25.240 us first by the nation of Israel. God gave this 78 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:27.600 message to the Jews to give to the rest of us, 79 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.519 and now we are to pass it on to others 80 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.199 that God's plan for history is that He's gathering a 81 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:38.240 family that will love and live with him forever. If 82 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:40.639 God hadn't wanted a family, he wouldn't have created a universe, 83 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:43.319 he wouldn't have created the human race. He wouldn't have 84 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:47.720 created you and me. The Bible says this in Ephesians, 85 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:49.759 chapter one, verse five, look up here on the screen. 86 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:56.120 His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into 87 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.199 his own family. This is God to adopt us into 88 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:03.680 his own family by bringing this to himself through Jesus Christ, 89 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:08.240 and this gave him great pleasure. All of us are 90 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:11.439 created by God, all of us are loved by God, 91 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:14.480 but not everybody is a child of God. You got 92 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:16.079 to choose to be in the family. In fact, there's 93 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:18.199 only two ways to get into family, be born into 94 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:20.879 it or be adopted into it, and the Bible uses 95 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:25.319 both of these metaphors. Spiritual rebirth and adoption is what 96 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:30.000 it means to get into God's family. Now for that 97 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:33.839 to happen. God's whole purpose in creating the universe is 98 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:37.160 to gather a group of people who choose willingly to 99 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:40.000 love him. And God gives me a free choice to 100 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.839 love or reject him. And God says, you ought to 101 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.920 give everybody else a free choice to love or of Jeppy, 102 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:48.600 it's not faith if it's forced. So we don't believe 103 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:52.560 in coercion. We believe in persuasion. We believe may the 104 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.279 best idea when but we don't believe in coercion, because 105 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:57.879 God says, I created you to love me, and it's 106 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:00.199 not love unless I can choose to not love him. 107 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:02.959 But those who choose to love him become a part 108 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:07.680 of God's family. Now, once God's family is gathered together, 109 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.879 we go into phase two, which is after earth, which 110 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.680 is after eternity, and that is excuse me, after life. 111 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.399 It's in eternity where the real life begins. This is 112 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:21.319 the preschool, This is the warm up back. This is 113 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:24.199 a dress rehearsal. This is the first lap around before 114 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:31.360 the real race begins. The race, the real life is eternity. Now, 115 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:35.480 for God to gather his family, somebody has to pass 116 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:38.800 on the good news. And here's what the Bible says 117 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:45.079 in Romans chapter ten, verses thirteen to fifteen. Anyone who 118 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:49.079 calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. 119 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:54.079 That's a promise. But he says, how can they call 120 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:58.439 on him to save them unless they believe in him? 121 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:01.480 And how can they believe in him if they've never 122 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:04.600 heard of him? And how can they hear about him 123 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:09.120 unless someone tells them? And how can anyone go and 124 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:13.680 tell them without being sent circle the word sent. This 125 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.240 is the fifth calling of your life. You are called 126 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.360 to be sent. This is what the scripture means when 127 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:23.800 they say how beautiful are the feet of those who 128 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:28.040 bring good news. Now what this verse means is this 129 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:33.079 my fifth purpose in life? My fifth calling in life 130 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:38.800 is this. I'm sent to bring others into God's family. 131 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:44.839 I'm sent to bring others in God's family. The moment 132 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.839 I step across the line spiritually, God wants me to 133 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:49.720 share the good news with others. You know, if I 134 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:52.279 had the cure for AIDS and I kept it a 135 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:54.959 secret and I didn't tell anybody, that would be criminal. 136 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:58.160 In fact, they'll put me in prison. If I had 137 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:02.519 that good news and didn't telp people, I should be incarcerated. 138 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:04.839 If I had the cure for cancer and I didn't 139 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:08.480 tell anybody about it, that would be criminal. But God 140 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:11.079 has given us an even greater message. How to have 141 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.759 our past forgiven, how to have a purpose for living, 142 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:17.839 how to have a home in heaven and then not 143 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:20.920 share that would be criminal. So my fifth purpose in 144 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:23.680 calling in life is I'm sent to bring others into 145 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:27.199 God's family. The Bible says in First Corinthias, Second Corinthians 146 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:35.399 five eighteen. Through Christ, God made peace between us and himself. 147 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:41.159 Then God gave us the work of bringing others into 148 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:43.519 peace with him. I want you to circle the word 149 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.960 peace twice there on your notes. God made peace between 150 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:51.200 us and himself through Jesus. Then God gave us the 151 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:54.279 work of bringing others into peace with him. So God's 152 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:57.679 not mad at you. You can be at peace with him. Now. 153 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:01.320 This is God's eternal peace plan. The Bible calls it 154 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:07.080 the Ministry of Reconciliation. One day, Jesus is walking down 155 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.480 the street and a guy comes up to and says, Lord, 156 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:12.840 what's the most important verse in the Bible? And Jesus 157 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:14.960 that I can summarize the whole Bible and two sentences. 158 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:18.240 Here's cliff notes on the Bible. Here's the whole Bible 159 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:20.759 in two sentences. Love God with all your heart, and 160 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:25.000 love your neighbor as yourself. Be reconciled to God, and 161 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:28.200 be reconciled to each other. Make peace with God and 162 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.840 make peace with each other. Stop your war with God, 163 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.240 stop your war with each other in the conflict with God, 164 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:39.519 and then you'll be able to end the conflict with 165 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:42.600 each other. Get the Prince of peace in your life, 166 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:44.799 and you'll be able to live at peace. It's all 167 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:50.000 about relationships. Life is not about accomplishments. It's not about achievements. 168 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:54.240 It's not allow about acquisitions. It's about relationships. Your relationship 169 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:57.360 to God, your relationship to yourself, and your relationship to 170 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:59.320 other people. Love God with all your heart, and love 171 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:02.519 your neighbors, yourself. Oh, this is the ministry of reconciliation. 172 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.679 This is what God calls we call the peace plan. 173 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:09.399 Make peace with God and then make peace with others 174 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:13.240 and bring the peace of God into their lives. Now, 175 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.080 this peace plan, of God's eternal peace plan, will only 176 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:23.240 happen if you fulfill your fifth calling. The Bible says 177 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:25.519 it like this, John chapter twenty, verse twenty one. In fact, 178 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:28.279 let's read this verse aloud together. Let's read it aloud 179 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:35.000 with great enthusiasm. Jesus said, peace be with you, as 180 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:40.960 the Father has sent me. I am sending you now again. 181 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:44.480 Circle three words, circle the word peace. It's the peace plan. 182 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:46.720 Peace be with you. We get peace with God, and 183 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:49.240 we give the peace of God, and we explain the 184 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:52.200 peace of God to others. As the Father has sent me. 185 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:55.320 I'm sending you circle the words and sending. This is 186 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:59.240 your fifth calling, and this is the one calling that 187 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.600 most people want to shy away from. I can imagine 188 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:04.639 some people get in heaven and God says, Okay, let's 189 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:07.360 go through the purposes. I created you for the reasons 190 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:09.960 you exist. Let's go through the callings I give in 191 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.879 your life. Did you let me love you your call 192 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:16.000 to be loved? Yes? Got that one? Bingo you're call 193 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:18.440 to belong, got that one. I did that. You're called 194 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:21.320 the book to become. Got that? Did that You're called 195 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:23.600 the bus. Others got that you're called to be sent 196 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:26.120 and passed it on to others? Ah, wrong answer, I 197 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:29.840 didn't do that one. And God's gonna say, and what 198 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:32.840 were you thinking? You think I put you on earth 199 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:35.759 to live for yourself. Once you have the good news, 200 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.679 don't you pass it on to others? Jesus said it 201 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:44.440 like this in John fifteen sixteen. You did not choose me, 202 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:50.320 but I chose you, and I appointed you to go 203 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:53.279 circle the word to go. I've appointed you to go. 204 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:57.000 Part of your appointment, part of your mission in life. 205 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:00.399 Your life mission is to go. You are to sent, 206 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.120 and you were to go. I chose you and appointed 207 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:08.240 you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. Now, 208 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:12.360 fruit is a metaphor for a successful life, a fulfilling life, 209 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:17.159 a productive life, a fruitful life. And Jesus said, I 210 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:21.799 want you to bear fruit in your life that will last, 211 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:24.159 that will last. Let me, now, let me be honest 212 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:28.519 with you. Most of what you do in life isn't 213 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.960 going to last. Most of what I do in life 214 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:35.559 isn't going to last. The things that we spend most 215 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:38.000 of our time on people aren't even going to remember 216 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.600 in ten years, much less than thirty fifty or one hundred. 217 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:44.480 Most of the things you do in your life, it 218 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:48.240 isn't going to last. Nobody's going to care what movies 219 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:51.200 you went to, what books you read, what how you 220 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:54.519 spent your summer. And Jesus said, I want you to 221 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.559 do something with your life that lasts. Now. There are 222 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.639 only two things are going to last forever, truth and people. 223 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:04.480 Truth and people. So if you invest your life in 224 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:06.879 truth and in people, then you're investing your life in 225 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:10.200 things at last. Can you imagine getting to heaven one 226 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:12.039 day and somebody comes up and says, I just want 227 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.600 to thank you, and you say thank you. I don't 228 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:16.559 even know you said no, you don't know me. But 229 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:19.200 you helped in a ministry, you helped in a project, 230 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.960 a humanitarian effort, you helped in your church. And you 231 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:25.360 know what, you did something that caused me to get 232 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:28.080 to know God. And I'm going to be in heaven 233 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:30.320 because of you. I'm your friend forever. 234 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:44.440 Pastor Rick has put together a special resource called Daily 235 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:48.279 Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life to help you reflect 236 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.320 on the key Bible verses found in his best selling book, 237 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:53.679 The Purpose Driven Life. 238 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:54.879 As you dive. 239 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:59.159 Deeper into these verses, you'll experience the transforming power of 240 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:03.639 God's words. This beautiful hardcover gift book features gold detailing 241 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:07.279 on the cover and has three hundred eleven pages filled 242 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:11.720 with scripture and also includes reflection pages so you can 243 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:15.799 record the life changing truths God reveals to you. This 244 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:19.919 book is a wonderful spiritual growth tool and it makes 245 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:24.120 a perfect gift for your friends and family. When you 246 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:26.759 give a gift to help daily Hope share the Gospel 247 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:29.639 with people around the world, will send you a copy 248 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:33.879 of Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life to say thanks. 249 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:43.320 It's amazing that two thousand years later after Jesus came 250 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.720 to there's still three thousand tribes that had never even 251 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:51.320 heard of Jesus. Now there's small tribes between five thousand 252 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:54.000 people and at the most one hundred thousand. But you 253 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.639 know what, God loves him as much as he loves you, 254 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.799 and Europe and the United States of America and every 255 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.840 the place. And God says, I want you to send 256 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:06.039 you to go to those people. But that's really kind 257 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:10.360 of like going to the moon. We know where these 258 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:12.879 three thousand tribes are, like, for instance, four hundred of 259 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:19.240 those tribes are in Sudan, very difficult places to reach politically, economically, 260 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:23.080 and even in travel. And he said, that's where we 261 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:25.320 want to go as a church. Jesus says, go to 262 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:28.200 all the world and go to all the tribes. And 263 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:31.519 so he said, let's let's do it twice. In the 264 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:33.919 Book of Revelation, that's the last book in the Bible, 265 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:38.000 there are verses that give us a scene from heaven 266 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:41.240 in the future, and it says this that one day 267 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:46.519 in heaven, all surrounding God will be people from every nation, 268 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:53.840 every tribe, every language, and every people group who have 269 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:58.240 chosen to love Him, who have chosen to love God 270 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:00.840 and are part of his family. They are in the 271 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:03.399 family of God, and it says there will be people 272 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:05.200 from every tribal there's a problem with that. There's still 273 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.720 three thousand tribes who haven't heard the good news. The 274 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:10.440 Bible says this in Acts one to eight. They're in 275 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:13.960 your outline. You will receive power when the Holy Spirit 276 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.759 comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in 277 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:23.000 Jerusalem and in Judea, and in Samaria and to the 278 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:25.039 ends of the world. I want you to circle the 279 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:29.320 ANNs Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and in the world. 280 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:33.320 In other words, it's simultaneous, non sequential. When Jesus gave 281 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:37.080 these instructions, where were they in Jerusalem? So what's he saying? 282 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:39.240 I want you to start where you are, start in 283 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:43.480 your own city. The Bible says this in Acts Chapter twenty, 284 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:50.879 verse twenty four. The most important thing you're talking about 285 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:54.360 in my entire life, the most important thing with my 286 00:16:54.440 --> 00:17:00.559 life is that I complete my mission. God has a 287 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:03.159 mission for your life. God has a life message he 288 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:05.079 wants to say to the world to you, and God 289 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:07.839 has a life mission for your life. The most important 290 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:10.680 thing that I is my complete my mission. And what 291 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.599 is it? The work that the Lord Jesus gave me, 292 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:17.880 And what is it to tell people the good news 293 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:23.279 about God's grace? How do I do that? Can you 294 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:26.400 write quick? Let me give you four thanks? Do is it? 295 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:30.319 Wrap it up with us? Four thanks? Number one? Pray. 296 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:36.200 I pray that people will say yes to God. I 297 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.839 pray that people will say yes to God and accept 298 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:43.079 their life mission and their life message. In Matthew chapter nine, 299 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:47.000 this is what Jesus said when he sent his followers 300 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:50.680 out on the very first peace trip. Here's what he said. 301 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:56.200 Jesus said, there are so many people to harvest, but 302 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:00.720 only a few workers to help harvest them. Pray, pray 303 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:04.119 to the Lord who owns the harvest that he will 304 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.079 send out. There's that phrase, call to be sent. He 305 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:12.799 will send out more workers together his harvest. So part 306 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:16.440 of your calling in life is to pray that God 307 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:19.720 will send out people to reach everybody with the good 308 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:24.279 news of God's love because everybody deserves to hear Does 309 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:27.200 anybody deserve the chance to hear the good news twice 310 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:30.839 when there's some people who haven't heard it once. So 311 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.759 we pray, we pray that God will send people out. 312 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:35.880 And that's the first thing you do. Second thing you 313 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:40.000 can do is you can give, give to help others go. 314 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:42.960 Maybe you're in a stage of life you can't go 315 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:45.200 right now, but you can give to help other people go. 316 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:49.920 The Bible says this in third John, chapter one, verse eight. 317 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:52.799 We must support believers who go on trips like this 318 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:58.559 so we can work together with them in spreading the truth. 319 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:04.599 And Matthew ten, verse eight says this, freely have you received? 320 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:09.720 Freely give? So God says, I've been generous with you. You 321 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:12.559 should be generous and help get the word out. I 322 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:16.240 can pray, I can give Number three, step out, I 323 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:20.200 could step out in faith. And what does that mean? 324 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:25.680 Volunteer God's army. God's mission is one hundred percent volunteer. 325 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:29.599 It's no conscription, there's no draft. You got to volunteer. 326 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:32.680 You got to say, Lord, I'm in, I'm willing, I'm able. 327 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:35.359 Do you know what God uses me because I volunteered. 328 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:38.200 In fact, I volunteer every day of my life, said God. 329 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:40.599 I wake up in the morning, and before my feet 330 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:42.440 hit the ground, I say, Lord, I know you're going 331 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:44.400 to do some really cool things in the world today. 332 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:46.759 Would you give me the privileges us being in on 333 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:50.480 some of them? And the trains move, and I just 334 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:53.599 want to get on his train. I want to get in. 335 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:55.680 I don't get up and say God, bless what I'm doing. 336 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:58.200 I get up in the morning, say God, help me 337 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:01.480 to do what you're blessing. I know you're going to 338 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:03.240 bless a bunch of things in the world today. Would 339 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:05.640 you let me get in on some of it? I 340 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:07.240 want to get in on this plan. It's not God 341 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:09.920 working on my plan. I'm working on his plan. I 342 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:11.839 say God, bless my plans, and say, God, what do 343 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:13.400 you plan to do today? Can I be in on 344 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:17.759 some of it? I step out in faith like Isaiah did, 345 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:20.920 the great prophet in the Old Testament Isaiah sixth st. Eight. 346 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:24.279 Isaiah says, then I heard the voice of the Lord 347 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:28.480 saying whom shall I send? There's that word? And called 348 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:30.720 to me sin? Who will I sin? And who will 349 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:33.799 go for us? And I said to the Lord, hear 350 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:38.640 my Lord, send me, send me. If you want God 351 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:41.480 to use you in any area, something like this or 352 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:44.519 anything else, you just have to say I'm in. I 353 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:49.480 dare you to pray the most dangerous prayer, the most 354 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:53.079 dangerous prayer you can ever pray, is only two words 355 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.240 you've heard me talk about this far. It's only two words. 356 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:57.839 The single most dangerous prayer you can say is this, 357 00:20:58.839 --> 00:21:03.079 use me. You tell that one to God. You better 358 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:07.200 get your boots on, because God is looking for people 359 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:10.279 to use. And what we need is the same attitude 360 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:12.599 that David had. Look at this verse Psalm sixty seven. 361 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:17.640 Send us around your around the world with the news 362 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:22.519 of your saving power and your eternal plan for all mankind. 363 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:24.920 That's the attitude Jesse Lord send me here, am I 364 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:28.720 send me like Isaiah said, the great Prophet of Israel. 365 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:32.640 So I pray that people say yes to God. I 366 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:36.279 give so others can go. I step out and faith myself. 367 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:40.039 And number four, this is really important. Go where I 368 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:44.279 can now. Maybe you can't go to Berlin now, but 369 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:46.799 you can go somewhere now. You go where I can. Now. 370 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:51.559 That's personal peace, that's local peace, and helping others. We 371 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:54.279 live in the county that is filled with needs all 372 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:58.279 around us. Once there was a guy who was just 373 00:21:58.519 --> 00:22:03.200 really struggling with some personal demons in his life, and 374 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:05.759 Jesus helped him get his head on right and helped 375 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:08.200 him get his act together, and he wanted to follow 376 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:10.359 Jesus on to the next town, and Jesus told him no. 377 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:13.799 Look at this verse Luke eight, verse thirty nine. Jesus said, 378 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:16.759 you go back home. He said, I want you to 379 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:20.440 go back home and tell people how much God has 380 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:23.559 done for you. So the man went all over town 381 00:22:24.359 --> 00:22:27.359 tell him how much Jesus had done for him. Some 382 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:28.960 of the things. I think, what God will see you. 383 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:30.960 You need to go back home. You need to tell 384 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:34.960 people in your on your campus, if you're in school, 385 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:37.680 or in your business, if you're in a business, or 386 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:39.759 in your neighborhood, if you live in a neighborhood, to 387 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:44.319 tell the people around you, tell them the good news. Now, 388 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:47.160 the last verse on your outline, tewod Timothy four or 389 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:51.640 five says, this work at bringing others to Christ. Why 390 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:56.160 because they'll experience His love, The experiences forgiveness. The experience 391 00:22:56.240 --> 00:23:00.160 is peace, the experience's purpose, the experience past forgives and 392 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:03.160 purpose for living all of these things that God offers 393 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:04.839 to us. Where and bring by the way, this is 394 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:07.960 our memory verse. You know, each week we're memorizing one 395 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:10.720 verse from the Bible. And this week I thought it'd 396 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:12.759 be really nice and light on you and give you 397 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:15.599 a word a sentence that's only so short anybody can 398 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:18.599 memorize it. So when you memorize the Bible verse, you 399 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:20.839 say the reference where are you find it in the Bible? 400 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:22.799 At the beginning, at the end. So let's say this 401 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:28.400