Speaker 1: Welcome to Hanway Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose of inspiring,
Speaker 1: heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and speakers all over
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Speaker 1: good shape. And now here's your message. I'll give the
Speaker 1: Lord a handclap. He's great, yay, and we're gonna dismiss children,
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Speaker 1: Mss Laura and the team that's serving today. The rest
Speaker 1: of you get your bulletin, turn it over for the notes,
Speaker 1: and let's get our bible. Hold it up and declare
Speaker 1: who we are? You ready, let's say this the kids
Speaker 1: are going out. This is my Bible. It is the
Speaker 1: standard I live my life by. I am a spiritfuled believer,
Speaker 1: sustained by my personal relationship with the Lord, empowered by
Speaker 1: my commitment to community and express throughout reach to others. Therefore,
Speaker 1: I can say, and all right, hey, I really want
Speaker 1: to encourage you with these notes. Some of this as
Speaker 1: we're going through it, I'm going to challenge you to
Speaker 1: put it in your Bible and you'll see why in
Speaker 1: a little bit. Write it in your bible so that
Speaker 1: you can use it on Wednesday night, all our classes
Speaker 1: are up and running, my class, factory, culture, different ones
Speaker 1: in ministry. I'm having them give testimony right now. It's
Speaker 1: just powerful. Wednesday night was awesome, Todd Hunters shared. So
Speaker 1: each week it'll be someone different. Don and Perry have
Speaker 1: the Book of James Man up. They're doing a new curriculum,
Speaker 1: Women of Courage and new curriculum. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: going on, and our teens have their own service and
Speaker 1: so forth. Today we're going to complete this series Change
Speaker 1: your World, and in two weeks from today, I want
Speaker 1: to start a series on the Holy Spirit. Just really
Speaker 1: let's dive into the person of the Holy Spirit see
Speaker 1: work in our life and how we need to rely
Speaker 1: on him, trust him and receive him more. Amen, So
Speaker 1: be praying over that as we begin developing that. But
Speaker 1: let's conclude this Change your World. Just briefly recap for you.
Speaker 1: The first two weeks were on this. We just talked
Speaker 1: about the stewardship of influence that's needed. You need to
Speaker 1: steward your influence because you have influence. Three of you agree, okay,
Speaker 1: I said you have of influence? You do, and when
Speaker 1: you know that, it just changes your world. And that
Speaker 1: was a big picture week, and I gave you the
Speaker 1: vision night vision that let's see Bill Bright and Lauren
Speaker 1: Cunningham had on the same night in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1: They were scheduled to have lunch the next day and
Speaker 1: each one had the exact same vision from the Lord.
Speaker 1: And when they got to their lunch, they were so
Speaker 1: excited to want to share theirs and they pulled out
Speaker 1: their papers and it was exact seven points. Don't you
Speaker 1: think that's a confirmation from the Lord? And because both
Speaker 1: of them affect the world, how about that they affect
Speaker 1: the world. So let's start lifting up our eyes, because
Speaker 1: you can change your world, and you change it by
Speaker 1: changing your world. That's how we change the world. If
Speaker 1: the Body of Christ would think this way, we really
Speaker 1: could change the world. So that's why I'm challenging us
Speaker 1: with this. After we finished the study of Galatians, we've
Speaker 1: stepped right into this. But those seven areas I've given
Speaker 1: them to you, they'll come up on the screen. The church, family, government, education, media, business, arts,
Speaker 1: and entertainment. And for our area, entertainment would be more sports.
Speaker 1: We live in a very sports centered type of environment,
Speaker 1: and our whole state week three, we brought it a
Speaker 1: little bit closer in and we talked about our own sphere.
Speaker 1: What does your spe look like people around us? And
Speaker 1: we need to recognize and exercise that influence. So I
Speaker 1: gave you some practical ways how you can do that.
Speaker 1: Last week I gave you tools. We looked at the
Speaker 1: most excellent way from the word of God. It's not
Speaker 1: the only way, but it is the most excellent way.
Speaker 1: People experience the most in some type of relational connection.
Speaker 1: Everybody say relational connection. Let me say it this way.
Speaker 1: A person's life does not usually change with information. It
Speaker 1: really doesn't. It does not change with information. It always
Speaker 1: is changed relationally. Think about how you came to Christ.
Speaker 1: Most of you, I think there was a person involved,
Speaker 1: right family member, a caring coach, somebody involved in your life.
Speaker 1: You probably can't tell me the message that you heard,
Speaker 1: the word that we're shared, to the scriptures that we shared,
Speaker 1: But you can tell me the person who prayed with you.
Speaker 1: You can do that. Life change happens in relationship. So
Speaker 1: by God's design and even our design, we're putting together
Speaker 1: some smaller groups settings so that you can develop more
Speaker 1: and we want you to see everything going on and
Speaker 1: things that you want to develop, giving you a platform
Speaker 1: far because you belong. And that'll happen again on September tenth,
Speaker 1: when we have everything out right after the Labor Day weekend,
Speaker 1: and we want to highlight all these things because we're
Speaker 1: still in vacation mode and people are vacationing and so
Speaker 1: forth till we get through Labor Day. This smaller groups,
Speaker 1: ministry groups, outreach groups. It sets you up for relationship,
Speaker 1: It sets you up for intentional interaction. Truth comes out,
Speaker 1: people share, iron sharpens iron. So today as we close this,
Speaker 1: I want to bring it down even smaller than from
Speaker 1: the big world to our spear to this, Let's just
Speaker 1: talk about one person at a time, just one person.
Speaker 1: Do you have one person you would love to see saved?
Speaker 1: Janette say she has two? Anybody have two? Do I
Speaker 1: hear three? Okay, hopefully we do just one person at
Speaker 1: a time. Let's begin by looking at a verse that
Speaker 1: starts the Gospel of Mark and ends the gospel, and
Speaker 1: to me, really even shares what the gospel is all about.
Speaker 1: When Jesus started putting his followers together, his close knit group,
Speaker 1: his disciples, he says, I'm going to make you into something. Right,
Speaker 1: he was going to make them into something. Now you
Speaker 1: think Jesus was going to turn them into something, make
Speaker 1: them nicer, make them kinder, make them spiritual, make them
Speaker 1: full of head knowledge. So when they walk there bobbling
Speaker 1: around because they've got the answer for everyone. No, when
Speaker 1: Jesus started gathering his followers together, he used the language
Speaker 1: of the time and what was important to the people
Speaker 1: and what was around the people consistently. Mark one, verse
Speaker 1: seventeen says this, Come follow me, Jesus said, and I
Speaker 1: will make you what. I'm going to make you into something,
Speaker 1: not just change you, but make you. I'm going to
Speaker 1: teach you, Jesus says, how to use your life in
Speaker 1: some way, or how to impact another person's life. Let
Speaker 1: me share the importance of this and hopefully remove some
Speaker 1: of the fears associated with this topic, because a lot
Speaker 1: of people are extremely intimidated about evangelism. That's a big word,
Speaker 1: and it kind of scares me too, to be honest,
Speaker 1: because when you think of an evangelist, what comes to
Speaker 1: your mind? Spit fire. Okay, I'm dating myself, white leather
Speaker 1: patent shoes in a three piece suit, right, come on loud,
Speaker 1: Maybe obnoxious. Yeah, come on, Chris. Chris is an evangelist,
Speaker 1: but he's not obnoxious. He's just loud and fun. It's great.
Speaker 1: How many got to hear Chris said our outreach back
Speaker 1: to school, he had everybody just mesmerize, and it is
Speaker 1: a gifting in him. But a lot of times we think, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not like that. I'm not like Chris, so therefore
Speaker 1: I'm disqualified from being that. No. Now look at Mark sixteen,
Speaker 1: verse fifteen. I'm gonna read this out of the New
Speaker 1: Century version. Jesus said to his followers, go everywhere in
Speaker 1: the world and tell the good news to everyone. That's
Speaker 1: pretty simple, right, very simple. Now, let's think us some
Speaker 1: adjectives to describe the person responsible for you to come
Speaker 1: into Christ. Caring, committed, faithful, cut me out, I'm saying
Speaker 1: them all, give me some others, loving, gentle, persistent, truthful. Interesting.
Speaker 1: How about that? That's kind of neat? Huh honest, bold,
Speaker 1: You're using whole different words than the words we used
Speaker 1: to describe in our mind of an evangelist. Somehow, some
Speaker 1: believers think evangelism is extreme behavior and approach to people,
Speaker 1: when really it's just caring, truthful, persistent, honest, loving all
Speaker 1: the things that you've just shared Acts one, verse eight.
Speaker 1: You're very familiar with this verse, but let's take this
Speaker 1: and use it in terms of what we're talking about today.
Speaker 1: Jesus said, you receive power when the Holy Spirit comes
Speaker 1: on you, and you will be my say the next word,
Speaker 1: witnesses in Jerusalem, that's right where you are. In Algidea
Speaker 1: and Samaria, that's the broader area, and to what the
Speaker 1: ends of the year. So Jesus is interested in the
Speaker 1: world being changed by believers because they are witnesses. In
Speaker 1: a courtroom, you have a prosecutor or a prosecuting attorney,
Speaker 1: you have a defense attorney, and then you'll have witnesses
Speaker 1: that are called to the stand. A witness is supposed
Speaker 1: to just share what they have, what they've seen, what
Speaker 1: they've witnessed, what they saw that took place. They're not
Speaker 1: there to prosecute, they're not there to defend. They're just
Speaker 1: telling their story. Can I tell you what has happened
Speaker 1: to me and the difference God has made in my life?
Speaker 1: And when you do that, listen, when you do that,
Speaker 1: the world is very interested in that. It puts them
Speaker 1: at ease and they're not defensive. This is your destiny
Speaker 1: if you are a follower of Jesus, because followers fish.
Speaker 1: Now listen. If you're not fishing, please hear me. And
Speaker 1: I say this in gentleness. You probably are miserable and
Speaker 1: critical because you're analyzing life or the Word, or family
Speaker 1: or this set and the other. But when you are fishing,
Speaker 1: you're so focused on the heartbeat of God. You're digging
Speaker 1: in the Word. You're digging to find out what you
Speaker 1: can do to help the person that's on your heart.
Speaker 1: Come on, help me out somebody. Who are you fishing
Speaker 1: for right now? Think about who? If I were to
Speaker 1: go up to you and say, give me the name
Speaker 1: of the person you're fishing for. If you can't give
Speaker 1: me one, whether it's a family member, a neighbor, coworker,
Speaker 1: someone you're going to school with, yeah, if you don't
Speaker 1: have one, ask God for them and all you got
Speaker 1: to do. And I'm gonna show you in a few
Speaker 1: moments how that can take place, because you will not
Speaker 1: find your purpose until you're fishing well. I like this,
Speaker 1: and I like to study and a great do and
Speaker 1: then it incorporates into fishing well. I want to study
Speaker 1: in times, I want to do this, great, it'll incorporate
Speaker 1: into fishing. It's not just having it here, but it's
Speaker 1: been able to take all the things that are important
Speaker 1: to you and use it in fishing and reaching the
Speaker 1: world and reaching the people around you. You know, you say,
Speaker 1: well I just want deep teaching. Well here's something deep.
Speaker 1: Let's do what Jesus ask us to do and you'll
Speaker 1: be happy. The person drowning and dying and their problem
Speaker 1: doesn't need the Greek word for life raft. They just
Speaker 1: need you to come on, so we can't get away
Speaker 1: from them. It's all through the Bible. And maybe we
Speaker 1: just need to ask God to give us a love
Speaker 1: for people. How about that? You know? And please, I
Speaker 1: mean if you watch too much of the news and
Speaker 1: this and so forth in everybody's opinion, and I tell
Speaker 1: you what, I limit it because it starts drowning my
Speaker 1: love for Christ and people. We need it. We don't
Speaker 1: want to be an ostrich with our hidden the sind.
Speaker 1: But please don't let anything drown your love out for people.
Speaker 1: Two Timothy four two through five. Preach the word of God.
Speaker 1: Be prepared whether the time is favorable or not. And
Speaker 1: normally it's not this be honest work look, work at
Speaker 1: telling others the good news. In other words, you've got
Speaker 1: to study and prepare and know what to do, work
Speaker 1: at telling the good news, use and fully carry out
Speaker 1: the ministry God has given you, which is telling the
Speaker 1: good news. So I'm just going to give you four
Speaker 1: simple things to make this simple and in all kinds
Speaker 1: of rhymes. You know, preachers got to do that. Evangelism
Speaker 1: is not you knowing how to explain the whole Bible
Speaker 1: to someone and convince them that your way is better
Speaker 1: than theirs. It's just one person at a time. So
Speaker 1: here we go. Point number one, Become aware. What do
Speaker 1: you mean, pastor, here's my little saying. I've said it before.
Speaker 1: Wherever you are, just be all there, and being all
Speaker 1: there is your eyes looking out. Ask people questions, ask
Speaker 1: them about their family, talk to them about their life,
Speaker 1: find out their need. Become aware of others. This is
Speaker 1: your ministry. Becoming aware number one the two things it
Speaker 1: is your ministry. This is a strong word, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to use it. It really is God's expectation of us.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean he doesn't love us if we never
Speaker 1: witness I'm not saying that or that he won't be
Speaker 1: happy with you. But you know I want I don't
Speaker 1: want Jesus just to accept me because I've prayed a
Speaker 1: sinner's prayer and I'm trying to follow him. I want
Speaker 1: him to be happy with me too. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know lil saying. It was in our John Beavie
Speaker 1: series we completed. John and his wife Lisa told their
Speaker 1: children at some point, we want you to know there's
Speaker 1: nothing you can do that makes us love you less,
Speaker 1: and all the kids smiled, and then they said, there's
Speaker 1: nothing you could do that would even make us love
Speaker 1: you more, but you can determine how happy we are
Speaker 1: with you in that good I want Jesus happy when
Speaker 1: your name is mentioned, not just why. I've got my
Speaker 1: past to heaven and I'm going to hold on. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what stage, how young, oh whatever this
Speaker 1: gets burning in your heart, you come alive. It just
Speaker 1: come alive. It's the way of life. Romans ten, verse
Speaker 1: fourteen through fifteen. Romans ten fourteen and fifteen. How then,
Speaker 1: can they call on the one they have not believed in?
Speaker 1: And how can they believe in the one whom they've
Speaker 1: not heard? How can anyone preach unless they're sin of
Speaker 1: course we use this for missions and so forth as
Speaker 1: it is written. And I love this promise from the
Speaker 1: Old Testament. How beautiful are the feet of those who
Speaker 1: bring what goodness? Bring people good news. Don't go fix people.
Speaker 1: Don't go to other believers and tell them everything's wrong
Speaker 1: in their life. Don't do that to one another. You
Speaker 1: hear me. If you do that, stop it, Just stop it.
Speaker 1: That doesn't help any of that. It hurts relationships. Just
Speaker 1: bring good news to people. Everybody say good news. Do
Speaker 1: that MENO set you free, It'll help you. Two Corinthians
Speaker 1: five twenty says this, we're christ ambassadors. God is making
Speaker 1: his appeal through us, so this is your ministry. And
Speaker 1: number two still on this point, God doesn't have a
Speaker 1: plan be you're it. The appeal is through us. So
Speaker 1: be aware of this and what you're to do. Be
Speaker 1: aware of the simple process. Now this guy ingles, I
Speaker 1: don't know it, but I found this chart and I
Speaker 1: liked it, and I encourage you to even write it
Speaker 1: in your Bible somewhere, because this will help you to
Speaker 1: see where people are that you're wanting to bring to Christ.
Speaker 1: I think very often we think, Okay, I've got to
Speaker 1: seal the deal, and if I can't do it the
Speaker 1: first time, I'd just turn them over to the devil
Speaker 1: and send them to hell. And it's a process very often.
Speaker 1: And the whole thing is you're wanting to just keep
Speaker 1: bringing people closer along. I gave you the illustration of
Speaker 1: Carl Delatt over the last couple of weeks and what
Speaker 1: he did when he was in sales, and how he
Speaker 1: had a revolving door in his office because he baited
Speaker 1: people so much and loved him. They'd be in his
Speaker 1: office begging him what makes you difference? And he did, Well,
Speaker 1: you're not ready to know. He'd send them away for
Speaker 1: weeks at a time until the point where they so
Speaker 1: trusted him. When he would then share about Jesus, every
Speaker 1: one of them would get saved. How about that? How
Speaker 1: many think that win his souls his wives? He was
Speaker 1: wise in his approach, and he had love for people.
Speaker 1: So how does this process work? Look at this? Well,
Speaker 1: let me Readfirse Corinthians three, verse six, out of the
Speaker 1: Living Bible. My work was to plant the seed in
Speaker 1: your arts, and then Apollo's work was to water it.
Speaker 1: It was God, not we, who made the garden grow
Speaker 1: in your hearts. This shows you there is a process.
Speaker 1: There is a process going on. So where are people
Speaker 1: number one resistant? Negative six? Just resistant? This is all
Speaker 1: from Ingles in his study, just far from God. Probably
Speaker 1: resistance because of fear, hurt, unforgiveness, bitterness, ignorance. And I've
Speaker 1: used this before when someone says, well, I've been hurt
Speaker 1: by Christians. I've had that. I go, yeah, me too,
Speaker 1: and that just takes them off guard, like you have. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You gotta get over it though, because you're gonna hurt someone.
Speaker 1: Everybody hurt someone, and someone who holds onto a hurt
Speaker 1: and uses that as their foundation, they're sunk. They're sunk
Speaker 1: at that point and they just go down. So we
Speaker 1: all deal with hurt, and you deal with it in
Speaker 1: your home relationships. We all eat a meal that makes
Speaker 1: us sick. You get over it and you eat again,
Speaker 1: don't you. You don't stop eating at that point. So
Speaker 1: it's just trying to get them to move closer so
Speaker 1: they're resistant. What happens after that, well, there's just a
Speaker 1: slight crack in that hard shell and they become receptive.
Speaker 1: Everyone has hurts, disappointments. You're able to start relating to them.
Speaker 1: Maybe about some of that and showing that you understand.
Speaker 1: Then a negative four seeking well, they realize, Okay, I
Speaker 1: do need to change. I need to quit kicking the
Speaker 1: dog or whatever. I need to change. I need to
Speaker 1: deal with these addictions. I need to deal with stuff
Speaker 1: that's causing defeat and depression. So there's even a greater
Speaker 1: opening there because they realize change is needed. And you
Speaker 1: just meet them at that point of reception number negative
Speaker 1: three considering, well, they're looking at options. They're looking at
Speaker 1: maybe some of the things that you have shared. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've given them a book to read, or a CD
Speaker 1: or some music, something of that nature. What's cool about
Speaker 1: this stage is that they don't like where they are
Speaker 1: right now. You hear me. See that's a signal. When
Speaker 1: a person doesn't like where they are and you have
Speaker 1: the relationship, there's a door because they don't like that spot.
Speaker 1: Here's something we know as believers. Ready, nothing in this
Speaker 1: world works outside of a relationship with Christ. Nothing. Try
Speaker 1: living a life without God and the center of it.
Speaker 1: It will always lead to misery. It always grieves me.
Speaker 1: At a funeral or something, when you know the family
Speaker 1: or people they don't know Christ. Where's their hope, where
Speaker 1: is it? So therefore we've got to help people come
Speaker 1: to Christ, sir. If they're not measurable, well yet they
Speaker 1: will be. Life throws curveballs at all of us. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's be honest. Life can stink sometimes when you face
Speaker 1: something you weren't expecting. The difference for us is we
Speaker 1: have someone to run to who gives you peace and
Speaker 1: helps you no matter what's going in the world or
Speaker 1: turmoil or this set and the other negative three understanding
Speaker 1: this is where you just start sharing simple truths and
Speaker 1: you're testing because you've befriended them and you know them.
Speaker 1: You're able to relate some of your life to where
Speaker 1: they are with the truth of what God has done
Speaker 1: for you. God wants to and you just share it. Look,
Speaker 1: God's not interested in all your religious activity. He wants
Speaker 1: relationship you just you. Just He wants relationship. You're pointing
Speaker 1: them in this way. So there's understanding Negative one ready,
Speaker 1: and I want to I'm going to challenge you. There
Speaker 1: are people around you in your sphere of influence that
Speaker 1: are ready right now. Y'all are quiet today. I said
Speaker 1: there are people around you that are ready right now.
Speaker 1: They really are you don't have to have every answer.
Speaker 1: You just need to give them an invitation of some type,
Speaker 1: something for Christ, some activity, your small group, whatever I encourage.
Speaker 1: You have one or two miserable drowning people around your life,
Speaker 1: family members, friends, neighbors, co workers, well, I don't know anybody.
Speaker 1: Get out of your house and find some Go to
Speaker 1: the health club, do this, join a sport, do something
Speaker 1: where you befriend some people, and it gives you an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Zero ground level. Here we go, new life in Christ,
Speaker 1: salvation taking place. Now there's a tendency, especially in the
Speaker 1: Bible belt area. Great, you've prayed to receive the law,
Speaker 1: I'll see you in heaven, and we get out of
Speaker 1: their life. You got a problem, go see the priature
Speaker 1: and the priacher doesn't know the person. You know the person.
Speaker 1: Often can you solve this? I go, you know the person,
Speaker 1: you work with, the person, you minister to, the person,
Speaker 1: you help them. So the first thing after Christ, they've
Speaker 1: got to belong. They need to see that they belong.
Speaker 1: That's next steps belonging to something. Make sure they belong
Speaker 1: to the Body of Christ, the local church. Get connected
Speaker 1: to something, get connected to a small group, something of
Speaker 1: that nature. It's a process, and we went through that
Speaker 1: last week. After they belong, They've got to grow, They've
Speaker 1: got to discover the Word of God. Growing means you
Speaker 1: finding out what God has for your life and who
Speaker 1: you are in Christ, and how to overcome the devil,
Speaker 1: how to be back tithes in the holy ghosts, and
Speaker 1: how to tie and how to move forward, and how
Speaker 1: to put your family together. So that's an ongoing process
Speaker 1: your whole life. Would you agree, So growing you never
Speaker 1: reach a place where you stop growing because life has
Speaker 1: different stages all the way through, and each stage of
Speaker 1: life takes a new place of growth to encompass that.
Speaker 1: And where it really becomes a home run is when
Speaker 1: suddenly they're serving. They're serving in the body of Christ.
Speaker 1: They don't want to just take receive. Wa Wait, I
Speaker 1: need to give, I need to part. That's even one
Speaker 1: reason we're wanting to show you everything that you can
Speaker 1: be a part of with our ministry. Fair God's blessing,
Speaker 1: his provision, the way He speaks to you and moves
Speaker 1: in your life. Most of it happens when you start
Speaker 1: moving towards the thing that He has for you life
Speaker 1: and you start doing something that changes the world and
Speaker 1: requires sacrifice of your time, your energy, your focus, your talents,
Speaker 1: your resources. Because you're serving and sudday it makes you
Speaker 1: grow and it makes you come alive. And number four,
Speaker 1: the big big home run is suddenly, now you're sharing.
Speaker 1: You're a minister of righteousness, You're sharing real fulfillment. You're
Speaker 1: doing this, this process with people for the rest of
Speaker 1: your life. I ran into a lady this week and
Speaker 1: tell I didn't know who she was, but she came
Speaker 1: up to me and she just was almost sent tears
Speaker 1: wanting to thank me and thank you because I sent
Speaker 1: several of you to minister at First Christian Church several
Speaker 1: months ago. And the pastor a good friend in my
Speaker 1: local group. He gave our church the Sunday wandering service. Kathy,
Speaker 1: how many Sundays four or five Sundays four and so
Speaker 1: some different testimonies is looking for? So I sent four
Speaker 1: or five of you, and you preached at their church,
Speaker 1: Praise God, First Christian Church, and did the whole service.
Speaker 1: And then did the youth say nervous And she said,
Speaker 1: you know, when my pastors said he was going to
Speaker 1: I didn't remember. She said, it was wonderful. It changed
Speaker 1: my life it's making me think of others. Thank those people.
Speaker 1: So I'm thanking all of you that participated in going
Speaker 1: and preaching and sharing the love of Christ and your
Speaker 1: testimony and what God has done. It changed that lady forever.
Speaker 1: Look at this quote from Sam Williams. Evangelism is helping
Speaker 1: people discover how God has already at worked in their life.
Speaker 1: That's all it is, and helping people move. So I
Speaker 1: encourage you write that down in your Bible somewhere to
Speaker 1: help you. I know there's a tendency God to got
Speaker 1: him to pray this prayer. I understand it's critical, it's important.
Speaker 1: You've got to believe in, you've got to confess. But
Speaker 1: it's a process very often, and it's an ongoing process,
Speaker 1: even in us who would say we love the Lord
Speaker 1: with all our heart. When God uses you to help
Speaker 1: move them just a little bit, he soup. You have
Speaker 1: to be aware how God is working in people's lives. Oy,
Speaker 1: go to the next three points real fast, okay, number
Speaker 1: two Number one, become aware Number two, Commit to prayer. Now,
Speaker 1: this is very good right here. If I can say that,
Speaker 1: I'm giving you five quick points with a scripture how
Speaker 1: you can pray every day over that person that's driving
Speaker 1: you crazy, well, hallelujah, that one that needs to get saved,
Speaker 1: that one that needs to get baptized in on holigos,
Speaker 1: the one that's critical and can't say anything but something negative.
Speaker 1: This is what you need to do. Are you ready? Okay?
Speaker 1: Pray that the Father would draw them to Jesus John
Speaker 1: six forty four. Bring that verse up. No one can
Speaker 1: come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,
Speaker 1: and I will raise them up at the last day.
Speaker 1: Father draw them, draw them. So pray that. Number two.
Speaker 1: Pray against the spirit that blinds their minds, because deceiving
Speaker 1: spirit is in operation two Corinthians four to four. The
Speaker 1: God of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers
Speaker 1: so that they cannot see the light of the gospel
Speaker 1: that displays the glory of Christ. He's the image of God.
Speaker 1: I bind that off of them in Jesus name. Yes.
Speaker 1: Number three, pray that they come to know God. Relationally
Speaker 1: Romans eight fifteen. The spirit you receive does not make
Speaker 1: you slave, so that you live in fear again. Rather,
Speaker 1: the spirit you receive brought about your adoption to sonship, daughtership,
Speaker 1: and by him. What are we gonna cry? Ah, b Father,
Speaker 1: thank you Lord. They're gonna see that they're part of
Speaker 1: the family, can be part of the family in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Pray that believers will come across their paths and enter
Speaker 1: into a positive relationship with them. That verse Matthew nine
Speaker 1: thirty eight asks the Lord of the harvest therefore to
Speaker 1: send out workers into his harvest. Feel this is so crucial.
Speaker 1: So often you can't reach someone that's your own family.
Speaker 1: Are you with me? So pray that that God will
Speaker 1: bring someone around them that can reach them. Yeah, someone
Speaker 1: that I someone cool, how about that not dripping with
Speaker 1: religion and looks like they've been weaned on a deal pickle.
Speaker 1: I mean, just someone loving and just caring and all that.
Speaker 1: Got to do it. We've got to do it. And
Speaker 1: then the last saying, pray for our revelation of who
Speaker 1: Jesus is and what he has done for them. They
Speaker 1: need a revelation of that. They need understanding Ephesians one seventeen.
Speaker 1: I keep asking that God of our Lord, Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: and Glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom
Speaker 1: revelation so that you may know him better. So there's
Speaker 1: a great little plan for you. Five scriptures, five points
Speaker 1: how to pray for those people and your loved ones,
Speaker 1: and if you will just make that your focus. No,
Speaker 1: Perry's on the front room. I'm thinking, Perry, you got saved?
Speaker 1: How were you? Eight years old? She was the first
Speaker 1: one in her family, her whole family, to get saved,
Speaker 1: and she made it a priority because Don and Perry
Speaker 1: and nine we were all friends in high school, praying
Speaker 1: in her whole family into the Kingdom of God. And
Speaker 1: all of them are saved. Now, okay, one sister a
Speaker 1: little wayward, but the rest of them and then their
Speaker 1: spouses and their children filled with the Holy Spirit. Because
Speaker 1: she made it a focus. I'm going to see my
Speaker 1: family saved, going to church by herself when she's eight
Speaker 1: years old. Praise God. So here's a good little plan
Speaker 1: to make that happen. We can do it in Jesus name. Amen,
Speaker 1: So we become aware. Let's connect to them in prayer,
Speaker 1: then show them you care. I know, kind of cheesy,
Speaker 1: but all that rhymes. But anyway, that was last week.
Speaker 1: We talked about that. Zach Kiss we little man, right,
Speaker 1: Jesus just went to lunch with the dude come on,
Speaker 1: how many of you can do lunch with a lost sinner? Yes,
Speaker 1: she can't climb in a sycamore tree. Well, you might
Speaker 1: be able to, but if it's low. Okay, Jesus just
Speaker 1: went to lunch. Bring up those scriptures. It's going to
Speaker 1: be in the Living Bible. I just love the way
Speaker 1: it says Jesus. Passing through Jericho, a man named zach Kiss,
Speaker 1: one of the most influential Jews in the Roman tax
Speaker 1: collecting business, and of course a very rich man, tried
Speaker 1: to get a look at Jesus. He's just too sharp
Speaker 1: to see over the crowd, so he ran ahead and
Speaker 1: climbed into a sycamore tree beside the road to watch.
Speaker 1: When Jesus came by, he looked up as the Kiss
Speaker 1: and called him by name. I think he had a
Speaker 1: word of knowledge of his name. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was a previous relationship with him. I think God just
Speaker 1: spoke his name and he knew he was supposed to
Speaker 1: reach out to him. Zach Kiss, he said, quick, come down,
Speaker 1: for I am going to be a guest in your
Speaker 1: home today. He hurried and climbed down and took Jesus
Speaker 1: to his house in great excitement and joy. But the
Speaker 1: Crials were displeased. All the religious people, he's going to
Speaker 1: be a guest of ventatory center. Please, let's not gossip,
Speaker 1: Let's not do stuff like that. Are you with me?
Speaker 1: Let's just use speech to build up the Kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: They all grumbled. Meanwhile, zach Kiss stood before the Lord
Speaker 1: and said, because of the conviction, because of all this,
Speaker 1: this process happened quick. And zach Kiss Sir, from now on,
Speaker 1: I'll give half my wealth to the poor, and if
Speaker 1: I have overcharged anyone on his taxes, I will penalize
Speaker 1: myself by giving him back four times as much. Jesus
Speaker 1: told him. This shows that salvation has come to this
Speaker 1: house today. This man was one of the lost sons
Speaker 1: of Abraham, and I the Messiah come to search for
Speaker 1: and to save such souls as his in it. Awesome,
Speaker 1: what a fabulous, fabulous story. So I believe we can
Speaker 1: all eat And it's okay if you take a juicy
Speaker 1: center out to lunch. And just what I mean by that?
Speaker 1: They just look like the world, smell like the world,
Speaker 1: act like the world, and you just love them. Why not?
Speaker 1: What other Christians going to do? It? Just a thought
Speaker 1: that was Jesus' evangelism style. First Corinthians nine, verses nineteen
Speaker 1: through twenty three. Look at this. Though I am free
Speaker 1: and belong to no man, I make myself a slave
Speaker 1: to everyone to win as many as possible. I have
Speaker 1: become all things to all men, so that by all
Speaker 1: possible means taking them to lunch, golf, watch a basketball game,
Speaker 1: fishing chocolate through that went out for my wife, whatever,
Speaker 1: by all possible means I might save some. In other words,
Speaker 1: they're not all going to receive the Lord, but some will.
Speaker 1: I do all this for the sake of the Gospel
Speaker 1: that I may share in its blessings. Become aware, commit
Speaker 1: to prayer, show your care, and then just just be
Speaker 1: ready to share. Be ready to share. You'll get an opportunity.
Speaker 1: It will present itself as you stay consistent and steady
Speaker 1: and you do this and you're loving them and you're
Speaker 1: in their life and you're around them and you're serving them,
Speaker 1: and so forth, it's going to happen. What do I do, then, Mark?
Speaker 1: What do I do well? Lead them to Christ, Pray
Speaker 1: with them. If you've never done it, you're not sure
Speaker 1: what to do. Bring them to your small group, Bring
Speaker 1: them to one of the things you're associated with the church,
Speaker 1: or bring them to church, share your church. Just have
Speaker 1: them come and sit with you. Hey, come to church.
Speaker 1: It's kind of cool. You can bring your coffee inside.
Speaker 1: How about that you don't have to wear fancy clothes.
Speaker 1: You don't have to do that. Wear clothes, but you
Speaker 1: don't have to wear fancy clothes. You'd be amazed how
Speaker 1: that intimidates people that you're trying to reach. Sometimes I've
Speaker 1: had them actually say I don't have fancy clothes, therefore
Speaker 1: I won't come to your church. Is that the type
Speaker 1: of image I want to portray to them? No, not
Speaker 1: at all, Not at all. So they need to be
Speaker 1: They need to know that they're welcome just like they are.
Speaker 1: Have them sit with you, and when you see that
Speaker 1: person's world change, you come alive. One Peter three, verse fifteen.
Speaker 1: Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who
Speaker 1: ask you to give the reason for the hope that
Speaker 1: send you and acts twenty our last verse, Andrew, you
Speaker 1: come on back up. The most important thing is that
Speaker 1: I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus
Speaker 1: gave me. What is it to tell people the good
Speaker 1: news about God's grace. That's what we do. We'll all
Speaker 1: do it in different ways. It's different emphasis in our life,
Speaker 1: different things we like to study, different books, we like
Speaker 1: to read, different music we like to listen to. But
Speaker 1: it needs to all deaftel back into this to see
Speaker 1: the world, reach, to see the loved ones reach. So
Speaker 1: let me ask a simple question. You enclose your Bible,
Speaker 1: put things up. How many do you're aware of that person? Now? One? Two, five?
Speaker 1: However many? But there is a person you know to
Speaker 1: target in an intentional manner, just intentional with the relationship.
Speaker 1: Let me see your hand. Okay, good, thank you. Hey,
Speaker 1: your work is cut out for It's awesome. You've got
Speaker 1: reason to get up every day and to be an
Speaker 1: overcomer and to worship God and to read his word
Speaker 1: and to be refreshed when you step out of your house. Wow,
Speaker 1: such great purpose to know that you're God's answer for
Speaker 1: someone you can't help but have a good day even
Speaker 1: in the midst of the struggles you do have right now.
Speaker 1: Everybody has struggles, Everyone has issues, Everyone has prayers that
Speaker 1: they're still praying and believing God to be answered. Let
Speaker 1: me just ask this, is there anyone here who has
Speaker 1: every prayer answered, and you have no petition before God
Speaker 1: and life is just grand one hundred percent. Can I
Speaker 1: see your hand? Look around you has your hand up
Speaker 1: because we're all in process. So let's step into the
Speaker 1: purpose of God even more. And as you do it,
Speaker 1: you look and go, well, wait, that's been answer. Well
Speaker 1: look there that way where childs come back to the Lord,
Speaker 1: because you're in the process of the Lord with every
Speaker 1: head up and every eye open. Maybe you need Jesus
Speaker 1: today and you're ready to surrender to him. Anyone just
Speaker 1: wave your hand at me, want to pray with you.
Speaker 1: Anybody you need Jesus, don't leave home without it. How
Speaker 1: about that? Or you need to return to him. It'd
Speaker 1: be our privilege to pray with you. Anyone didn't desire
Speaker 1: the unfilling of the Holy Spirit power for your walk,
Speaker 1: we would love to pray with you. To close the service. Amen,
Speaker 1: let's stand all over. Thank you for listening. We hope
Speaker 1: that you enjoy today's episode. Don't forget to share and
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