Living in OVERFLOW // Summer Lean In series (part 9) // Pastor Drew

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>> Good morning collective. Come on. Who's

loving the worship today?

As always, I want to make sure that this

is a place where we we where we don't

transition out of a posture of worship.

And so, I just want to take some a

second. One thing I'll do if I find uh

whatever it is, whether it feels like

anxiety, whether it just feels like I'm

getting distracted, whatever. Whenever I

feel like I'm in too much of Drew is

involved and I need a little more Holy

Spirit. Amen. Anybody relate to me?

Right. Come on. I will just I'll just

take a second and it doesn't have to be

super long. This is one of the things I

encourage you guys to do. Uh especially

if you work super early mornings, you're

like, I can't spend the amount of time

with the Lord early that I want to and

I'm not very focused in it. This is

still something I like to do. I'll just

take a second, take an intentional

prayer and I'll just like inhale,

exhale. I'll just breathe. I'll spend

some time with the Lord. So, can we do

that for a second? Can you do that just

for a second? I just You can if you want

to close your eyes. I like to close my

eyes because I'm super easily easily

distracted. Uh, so you can close your

eyes, but what I want to do is I just

want to prepare our hearts here for this

moment. And so right now, take a moment,

[snorts] breathe in God's grace over

your life. The fact that he is right

here, he is with you and he has already

forgiven you.

Now, take a second, breathe in the

lessons God wants to teach you today.

I'm ready to receive. I'm ready to be

filled. I'm ready to for for you to

download what you need for me and then

breathe in God's blessings for you

so that we will receive all the good

things that he has.

Breathe in his his victory over your

situation. Am I forgetting something in

this breathing exercise?

Is anybody having a hard time exhaling

right now? Okay, that's for real. Okay,

you can exhale. If you can exhale,

breathe out.

All right, that wasn't intentional. I do

encourage you guys to spend some time in

prayer.

Inhaling and exhaling. But a lot of

times it makes no sense to just go. I'm

just going to breathe in. [snorts] Then

I'm going to breathe in.

And I'm trying. And I'm trying. You're

like, I'm trying, Pastor Drew. You're

making it really hard on me to follow

what you're telling me to do there. But

here's the reality. So many of us

actually live our lives in that way. Our

spiritual lives saying, "Lord, I receive

your grace.

Lord, I receive your presence. I receive

the lessons you want to teach me. I want

your blessings. Lord, give me your

blessings, Lord. I want to stand in your

victory. Give me your victory." Amen.

And we conclude our lives in this place,

in this posture. Yet the reality is is

that if I want to be healthy, if I want

I I have to have a income

[sighs and snorts] and an expense, I

have to receive

and I have to give.

>> That's what we're actually talking about

today. We're talking about living in the

overflow.

living in a place in a position where my

life is overflowing. And this is part of

our summer leanin series. We've talked

about the whole idea is how to avoid the

summertime spiritual slump. How are you

going to not let Oh yeah, what happened?

I was going to church consistently. I

was in my word consistently. I started

to build these habits and then they

started to disappear. What happened

there? No, we're actually going to lean

in. We're going to let summer make us

stronger. And so we've made a commitment

this summer to spend time in the word,

to spend time at church, to be a part of

this. And we've gone through a lot of

different lessons of things that we need

in order for your spiritual life to be

set on fire. Like a a a spiritual life,

you say, "Man, it's just it my spiritual

life is on fire. It is hot. It is hotter

than it is outside right now." Amen.

Right. Like I come on. Come on. Come on.

Give yourselves a hand for coming here

on a sweaty, hot day. Let's go.

I believe there's an extra blessing

inside the house. I just believe you

still get a blessing online. Don't

worry. But uh but I do believe that God

blesses the sacrifice given to make it

here. Thank you guys. Here's some of the

topics that we've hit on. We've got a

whole bunch of things that we've hit on

over the summer. Talking about our

righteous rhythms, talking about make

sure that we get in the right rhythm so

that my habits in my life are set on

fire. We got a slide for this if we can

pull it up. Talked about getting back to

our first love. talked about humility,

the key to God's heart, about how we

have to be a part if you want to have

your spiritual life on fire, I got to

surround myself with the right people.

How what does community look like? What

do I do? How do I how do I treat my lost

friends and family members? How do I

treat my my spiritual my friends that

are close to me? Uh forgiveness,

the freedom I need. how often we are

blocked. The breakthrough that you have

is blocked by unforgiveness with a

powerful message from Laura. Uh getting

my giving right. I got to get my

finances right in order if I'm going to

have my spiritual life set on fire. This

is a block that so many people have and

experience. And then Taylor shared last

week about walking with the Holy Spirit.

Come on. Who loved that message? Let's

go, Taylor. So good.

Today we're talking about living in

overflow because once you're walking

with the Lord, there should be one thing

that naturally starts to come out of

you, but it so often is limited. We

limit it and we ignore it or we make

excuses for it. And it's the whole idea

of fruit. In fact, if you look at

scripture and you look at within the

word of God, when Jesus says you are, or

in the New Testament, when the Apostle

Paul or Peter or John or James says we

are, these core identity statements of

the church, of the body of Christ, I did

a study on this and there's a lot of

different key uh identity statements

that are made about this about you are

salt, you are light. You are Matthew

Matthew 10:31

10:31. You are of great value. Acts 18,

you are my witnesses.

You are not of this world. These are

identity statements that I got to

remember about who I am. I am not of

this world. You are God's house.

You are his field.

You are sent [snorts]

to be a blessing to the world. Acts

Acts 3:25

3:25. You are the body of Christ. We are

the body of Christ. Amen. We have We are

God's children. We are God's people. We

are God's workers. We're described as

all these. We are his workmanship

created for good works. We are children

of light. You are a myth. This whole

like again and again and again and again

it has all these identity statements

about who we are. That every single that

we all fall under the umbrella of this

identity. I promise you, if you're

trying to figure out who you are in

Christ, it's always going to fall

underneath the identity of who God is

and who he's created the church to be

and how we are created to function

within that. And so I look at these key

identity statements spoken over us. And

there is almost every single one of

these has a common denominator of either

directly pointing to being a people that

live life on mission or implies that in

the context like being the body of

Christ, right? The whole purpose of

being the body of Christ is being his

action being his be being of service

going and doing and moving because now

Christ his body has gone up to heaven

right he ascended and so now we are the

body and so the whole like we are Christ

on this earth and so Matthew 5:13-16

Matthew 5:13–16

this is where I want to focus it's one

of the first and biggest Jesus's biggest

you are identity statements and he gives

this in the sermon on the mount. One of

the most powerful sermons that he

preaches at the beginning of his

ministry to be able to kind of define

who we are, how we operate, where and

and and how the kingdom of God is

shifting with the presence of the

Messiah. So, we've got Matthew 5:13-16

Matthew 5:13–16

here. Jesus says, "You are the salt

of the earth." Not your salty. Come on.

If you're feeling a little salty here,

okay, I'm just going to like maybe a

couple more deep breaths would be good.

You are the salt of the earth. But if

salt has lost its taste, how shall it

saltiness be restored? It's no longer

good for anything except to be thrown

out and trampled under people's feet.

You are the light of the world. A city

set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do

people light a lamp and put it under a

basket, but on a stand, and it gives

light to all in the house. In the same

way, let your light shine before others

so that they may see your good works and

give glory to your father who is in

heaven. Now, we're described as a couple

different things. You are salt and you

are light. And what this was is this is

a I I love the way that the word is I

love the way that Jesus teaches because

he gives a revelation and then it

requires you to do a little bit of

digging on your own. Because what he

doesn't want to do is just say here you

go. Here's the here's the idea. Go live

on mission. Go be go go go go be a

people of overflow. Congratulations.

That's it. He says you are salt. What is

salt? What does salt do? And it makes me

think. And then the revelation now is

mine instead of just something that was

given to me. That's why when you read

the word of God and you go,

I don't know. I have no clue what I just

read. I think there's something good

there. I feel like there is. You read it

again. You read it again. You discuss it

with a friend. You journal. You write

about it. This is what I feel like I

just read. This is how it could

potentially apply to me. This is this is

what I think it means. And this is what

it means in my context for my life.

Right? So this is this is how we look at

this. What is salt? Salt is a couple

different things. Especially in this

time, we had salt do two things. We saw

that salt was primarily actually a

preservative. It was used to make sure

that things would last and keep on

lasting. It would preserve food. In the

same way, Christians should be the

people that extend the life,

the true life, the abundant life. When I

feel like I'm alive, should be the type

of people that preserve and extend that

idea within the world around us.

Everybody's living, not everybody's

alive, right? We have this idea of like,

I want to be that blessing. I wanna I

want to preserve that when you're around

me. It's a good thing that you are

blessed just because you're around a

fellow believer. That's what I want the

people at my workplace. I want the

people in your neighborhoods. I want the

people in your coffee shops to go like,

I don't know. I just I like it when they

walk into the coffee shop. Things just

things just get better. The mood gets

better. The energy rises. There's

suddenly joy in the place. Like, I don't

know. It's just different, right?

There's this preservation of life. And

then there's this other aspect of salt

that when we think about it, it gives it

gives flavor. It brings out the flavor

and it brings out the life that is in in

the same way Christians should be givers

of the true life of Christ. You are the

salt of the world of the earth. We are

created to be preservers where life is

just better around a believer

and to be givers to be people who

actually add. Come on. I want I want

people to come to collective. Do you

feel like you come to collective and you

go I feel like life has a little more

flavor here, right? Come on. I want

that. I want that to be who we are. I

want that to be what you experience

where you're like, I don't know. We just

come alive. When I listen to the worship

songs at home, it's good. But when I

come in and we worship together,

right? It's just it's there. We are

here. I can I'm in it. I'm present. I

can go all in. I I'm shouting it. Like

there's just a little bit more here. In

the same way, you are the light. You are

the light of the world. Light does a

couple different things. First of all,

it it draws it draws attention. If you

notice the way that the lights are in

here right now, right? We got a whole

bunch of lights on the stage. We got

some lights out here. The whole idea is

the attention supposed to be over here.

What's what what's happening? The lights

will be a little bit dimmer, a little

bit a little different during worship.

Right now, we want you to be able to

read in your Bibles and take notes and

see. So, we got lights on over there.

But like, where do we want the

attention? Where's the focus supposed to

be? If we had the stage dark and the

lights on the back, we'd all be going

like, what's supposed to be going on

back there? Why is what? Like, we're

going to be all turning around the whole

time. Because light lit, it draws your

attention. It pulls you in. And the idea

is that we are supposed to be the same

way. Light is noticed. It draws in. It

attracts. But then also light reveals.

It gives. It reveals truth. Right?

Right? When I turn the lights on, I see

what's actually going on around me. It

reveals, it shines. It gives like in the

same way, we are to give hope and to

give life and to give peace. And we are

supposed to be givers and illuminate.

Here's the thing that we often get mixed

up because there's not a single light in

here that's anything remotely like the

light that they are talking about in

Matthew 5. When Jesus says, "You are the

light of the world." When D uh King

David says, "You are a lamp to my feet."

He's not talking about an LED light that

a flashlight that I'm shining, he's not

they're not talking about electricity.

They're talking about a flame. They're

talking about a fire. In the same way,

it's easy to miss this that light is

intentionally

naturally contagious.

Right? I I it's easy to pass it on. I've

got a flame. I've got a light. And when

I touch my flashlight to your

flashlight, it doesn't do anything. But

suddenly, when I touch a candle to

another candle, both are now lit. In the

same way, that's how we're supposed to

be to live. That's how you were created.

In fact,

if I'm not living in an external way, I

would argue that we are not even living

according to the definition that Jesus

gave us of what it means to be a

follower of him.

I say I'm a follower of Jesus. Well,

that means he says follow me and I will

make you I'm being transformed. I will I

it's a becoming process and I will make

you fishers of men. I have an external

outgoing

something that I express that's a

blessing to other people.

That's the definition of being a

follower of Jesus. And I got to take

that seriously. And so what what this

salt and this light reveals is that

there's two primary expressions of a

missional life. There's both the

attraction,

the fact that we are supposed to be a

people that like salt preserves and like

light draws attention. We're supposed to

be, do you know being a Christian is

supposed to be an attractive thing? All

over in in old like new early church

writings, they're concerned about how

are other people. Watch out. Don't Don't

let other people view you in a way where

they think that you're sinning, where

they think that you're living a life

that's remotely like theirs. You should

be living a life part of the the idea of

me living righteously is not just for me

being close to him, but for me being a

good example of who he is to the world

around me, right? The reality is I'm

supposed to be I'm supposed to live in a

way. Now, I like I like I like this.

I've heard it said before, live a

questionable life.

type of thing where you so stand out

that people are like,

"Why?

What's going on? You just got the same

email from our boss that everybody else

just got and yet you seem to like not be

shaken by it. What's going on? How come

when when you're so frustrated about our

team losing or whatever it is, it's

like, oh,

anyone want some chips and guac?" Right?

like you just you you're like YOU YOU'RE

YOU'RE DISHEARTENED BUT THEN YOU GET

OVER IT BUT YOU LOVE THE TEAM AND YOU'RE

CHEERING THEM. WHAT'S GOING ON? HOW COME

YOU'RE DIFFERENT? WHY ARE YOU LIVING?

WHY DO YOU GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY when

it's 100° out? Like wouldn't you rather

stay at home? Wouldn't you rather Yeah.

Well, I live a life that's intentionally

my habits, my the way that I live, my

righteousness, the things that I carry,

the words that I say, the words I don't

say, the way I speak, the way I don't

speak about my my my the conversations I

don't don't join in on in terms of my

co-workers and gossip and things like

that. I choose not to. Makes people go,

why,

right? We should live an attractive

life. We should live a life and I'm not

talking about like make sure you're

dressing to the nines all day every day,

right? The whole idea of like people

going, "Man, they carry something that's

different

that I don't see my other friends in the

world carry." What is What is that?

We're supposed to have an attractional

Isaiah 60 and61 talks about this about

how how we are a light to the world and

then we draw people into that and we

reach out to the lost as well. And that

is the second piece. It's the extending

two expressions to attract

and then to extend. I've got to be

intentional. I can't just go hey my

whole mission in my life is just to look

like as good a Christian as I can. The

whole purpose is actually I have an

extension. I have things that I'm doing

that I am pouring out that I am giving.

There's a lot of different ways to be

able to do this. We see like that's why

we actually one of the big reasons and

how we structure our church is with

serving. So that when you come, it's the

safest place to learn how to go. How do

I use the gifts that I've been given to

be a blessing to everyone else? I don't

really know how to do that. And I

certainly don't know how to do that in

front of my lost friends, my family

members that they've they've seen me get

blackout drunk and like they're not

really sure. They don't think that this

is like this whole Christian thing is

going to last for me. Like they've seen

all that. And so they don't they I I'm

I'm I'm not thinking about that. I'm

just trying to figure out how do I how

do I do this? This is a safe place to

figure that out, to find the gifts and

the calling of God that he has on you.

That's why I I encourage you guys join a

team. If you haven't come to discover,

it's one of the best ways to be able to

get get jumped in and figure out how do

I get involved? What does that look

like? Uh who is Collective Church?

What's the heart that we operate with?

What's our story? All that happens.

That's the first Sunday of every month,

1 hour right after service. I want to

invite you into that. But we have we

have to extend by serving. We can extend

by reaching the lost.

I beg you guys, I promise you this is

not there. There's the the other way of

of extending and expanding the kingdom

is is disciplehip.

If you've been a believer for two or

three years, that's how long Jesus's

disciples followed him. And then he

said, "You better be going and making

your own disciples. Go."

If you have been a believer for a few

years

and you don't have someone that you are

saying, "Hey, I've taken a couple steps

closer towards Christ. Let me grab your

hand and walk with me as I follow him

really imperfectly, really poorly, but

I've I've found out a couple things. I

figured out some habits that worked. I

figured out some things that I should

avoid. I've stepped on some landmines I

can help you avoid.

And let me walk with you. Let my ble the

blessing that I have received become a

blessing to you. I want to encourage you

in that. But if you want to go, how do I

have impact right now? I'm brand new in

this whole faith journey. I prom you are

the best evangelist we've got in the

house. If you just recently go, "Holy

smokes, this Jesus thing is amazing. He

has just recently transformed me in a

powerful way." You have the best

testimony. It's fresh. It's like you're

stumbling over and you're like, I don't

I don't know. It's just amazing. Like I

was I was so anxious and then when I get

into the I go to church and I get this

presence and then it was freed from me.

You know, we just had at our last uh

encounter night, we just had someone

give a testimony about like, I always

operate with this anxiety and now I've

been given all these stressful

opportunities and moments and now I'm

just like, huh? I'm supposed to be

anxious right now and I'm not. What's

going on? Something just changed.

There's a testimony in that. You're the

best evangelist that there is. If you

just discover this, start to give that

testimony out again and again and again.

And who is the person in your life that

doesn't know Christ

that you you so desperately want to know

him?

If you don't have someone like that,

find someone like that. You go, man, I I

need to I I need to see them. I need to

see them worshiping the Lord with me,

sitting beside me in church. I need to

see them carrying the hope that I have

discovered in Christ. I need to see them

getting freed from the same things that

I got freed from. I need to see them

living with purpose in ways that I've

been given purpose. I need to see them

find the safety that I found in the arms

of Christ. I need it. I need it. I need

it. And that is that's this place where

we go, I I've got a one. In fact, that's

what our love into the lightboard is out

there. When I have that person, I'll

take two keychains. I'll write their

name down on both of those keychains.

I'll put one on the board on the black

side on the dark side of dark. Like they

they're not living in the light. And I

pray they get to live into the light.

And I'm going to and then I keep the

other keychain and I go I'm going to

remember this. I'm going to pray for

this person. Every single time I see

this keychain, I'm just going to say a

quick prayer. Lord, would you please

help me to be an example to be a light

to this person? Would you use me? And

then would you use other people? Would

you draw them near to you? And I pray

and when we see that person that I've

been praying for, come meet Christ,

experience him, come to church. I'll

move that over from the dark side to the

light side. And I've walked them. I've

loved them intentionally into the light.

That's that we are called. We have a

missional expression that's both

attractional and expanding and extending

and giving out. So I want I want to

encourage you guys in Genesis 12:2. Uh

Genesis 12:2

this is this is what Chad just hit on

and this is actually one of these

identity statements early early on in

the gosp in in the whole story of the

gospel before Jesus. This is like 2500

years before him. God speaks to Abraham

and he gives him the definition of who

I'm creating as my nation. And he

creates Israel as this nation out of

here. And he says, "I will make of you,

Abraham." At this time, his name was

just Abram. I'll make of you a great

nation. I will bless you. I will pour

out my blessing on you. It's the

receiving. It's the I want that. I want

to receive this. I will bless you and I

will make your name great so that you

will be a blessing. I'm going to give to

you so that you give away. That's the

whole purpose of this whole thing. We

are created to be blessed. If he's Come

on. Who's been blessed by the Lord? Come

on. Amen. Amen. [applause]

If I'm not using every single blessing

that he's given to me to be a blessing

to someone else, I'm missing it. And

this is what it's like. See, this is

this is this is what we do. This is how

most people most Christians live their

lives. And I don't want to have us do

this here collective. Okay? We live our

life, we go, I feel empty of something

inside of me, of life or of purpose or

of mission or of just I don't know what

it is. There's something inside of me

that I'm missing. And then I come to

church, right? And holy smokes, the Holy

Spirit start filling,

starts pouring out. And I feel so full.

And I leave and I go, "This is amazing.

I've never felt so full in my life. I've

never felt so full of purpose. This is

incredible. I walk out and I'm like,

"THIS IS GREAT." BUT then I get the text

as I'm walking out and I get distracted

and I can figure out where am I going to

go for lunch. Oh, I got to cook lunch.

Wait, that house is a mess. Oh my

goodness. I forgot about that work

meeting that I have. I forgot about all

this stuff. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

Thursday start coming in and I get

distracted. And the problem is is that I

leak.

I love the Lord. I get filled with him,

but I leak. And again and again and

again, I'm trying to just live this

life. And then what do I have? Oh, I

can't wait for Sunday because I just

feel so empty. And then guess what?

Sunday comes. Sunday comes. Oh, just at

the right time. Oh, Lord. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. I AM FULL AGAIN. I FEEL IT.

I am re I have received your spirit. I

feel so much better. And I walk out

those magical doors and I forget what

the sermon was even about. I forget what

I what God spoke to me in the worship

time. And I and now I'm in this place

where I'm just I'm slowly draining. I'm

slowly losing who I'm supposed to be.

And I'm I'm I'm going, where was that

life? I know I had it. I'm trying to

access it. I'm trying to say a little

prayer. Or maybe I'll I'll even go to

church and I'm like, ah, I'm just kind

of showing up today and I don't I'm not

fully available

and I don't I don't give my whole self

and I don't I don't get fully exposed. I

don't allow the Holy Spirit to fully

mention or maybe I open up the word and

I'm like, I should probably read a verse

or two. There you go. And I'm just, you

know, okay, I did it. I did it. I I read

my verse. Why isn't it working? Let me

say quick prayer. Come on, Jesus. Help

me, please. All right. Now, I'm going to

spend the majority of my day. Thank you.

Please, please help me. I'm going to go

do my thing. And we go, why isn't this

working? I feel so empty. I feel so

hollow. I feel so lost.

One of the greatest breakthroughs I

think we need in this house. More than

more. Most people in here, I don't think

the next step that you have is you need

to spend even more time with Christ. You

need to spend even more time in the

word.

I believe that the next step you have is

actually

posturing yourself in a way so that when

I have received from him, I posture

myself in a way where I can then give

and then what happens is now I am able

to pour out to give. I can receive more.

I give more. I'm alive. I'm still

draining.

>> I still have flesh. I still got things

I'm dealing with. But suddenly, I am

experiencing this ability like I need

Jesus all the time. I got a friend that

is lost. I got something that I I got

someone that needs him. And so I need to

be receiving him so that I can give him

out. Otherwise, guess what they get? Get

a lot of Drew.

That's not that special, right? Can be a

little overwhelming at times.

The reality is is that I want when

people experience me, I want them to

have a even greater experience with the

Holy Spirit.

>> Which means I've got to position myself

in a different way. I've got to put

myself in a place where, hey, I want to

I want to pour out to you. Build your

own mission field. figure out what your

mission field is going to be where you

go, this is no longer my workplace. This

is now my mission field. And I'm going

to do excellent at my job as part of the

attractional piece of my mission, but

I'm also going to have an extension. I'm

also going to have something that I give

away. I'm going to start bringing lunch

for just a whole bunch of people uh so

that whoever wants lunch on Mondays,

right? We got a case of the Mondays. How

can I help minister on Mondays in my

workplace? Oh, they hate it. Everybody's

complaining, in a bad mood on Mondays.

Let me bring lunch. Let me bring some

dessert. Let me bring a suite. Let me do

something like that, right? What What do

you carry? What do you have that can be

a blessing to other people? I'm not good

at cooking. I'm not. I certainly am not.

Maybe that's you. And so maybe that

ain't going to be it. But you know what?

You can like I'm going to write a note.

I'm going to encourage someone if I see

that I'm I'm walking to my desk. I'm

walking to my office and I'm just

looking around. Who's around me? How are

they How are they carrying themselves?

Are they just I I I notice that this

person shows up, they just glue

themselves to their screen, they

disappear, right? I notice that this

person never talks on the company Zooms.

I just But I have access to message

them. Hey,

Ive I've I've never really gotten to

know you. I'd love to just get to know

you. How can I just start to extend and

just be a blessing for the sake of being

a blessing? Right? Like yes, I want you

to experience the life and the light

that I have found in Christ. And I do

maybe want to eventually invite you into

church. But guys, I just want to start

just be a blessing. Just give. Let

people be blessed because they are

around you. And it doesn't have to be,

wait, will you will you first receive

the gospel? Will you first come to

church with me? And now, oh, you said

no. Okay, well, I'm kind of going to

back off the blessing. I'm going to back

off the niceness. The reality is is

position yourself. Get yourself in a

posture where I have to keep on

receiving because I'm already pouring

out. Otherwise, I'm going to find myself

pouring out nothing and I got just a

couple drops to give. What do I need? I

need more of him. And I don't got to

wait till Sunday.

He's available all the time. I want to

live my life in a position of overflow.

I promise you, you will be able to

receive more because you give more. I

receive more of the Holy Spirit. I

receive more of the word. The word will

come alive to you. I promise you. You

start putting yourself where you're

going, I am I I I am I'm got a someone

that I'm pouring into. I've got someone

whether it's not disciplehip, maybe I'm

new in my journey and I've just got

someone that is lost that I really hope

that they come and find the life that I

have found in Christ and I'm going to

position myself where I'm being

intentional. Maybe you'll tell them

straight and you're like forthright.

You'll just be like, "Listen, I want you

to know

I want you to discover the same hope and

the same faith that I have found. I'm

not going to make you. I'm not going to

force you. But I want you to know that's

on my heart because I love you that

much. I care about you in that way and

it's been a blessing to me beyond what I

can describe. [music] I believe that

Jesus will be a blessing to you beyond

what you can describe and you position

yourself for that. Do you want to know

how much living a life on mission makes

[music] you come alive? Do you the the

the best way if you want to if you want

to learn something, if you want to

retain something, do you know the best

way to learn something?

You teach it.

Every single Sunday I preach, [music] I

promise you, whoever was on stage and

preached the message got more out of the

sermon than you did. I promise you, the

best way to learn something, [music]

teach it.

Explain it. Talk to your kids. Talk to

someone else. This is what [music] I

learned at church today. That'll help

you to retain, that'll help you to

capture. And then you'll start saying

something and every once in a while, the

Holy Spirit will take over and you'll be

like, "That was really good. I really

needed that. They really needed that.

Holy smokes, that was amazing.

The best way to get more energy, man,

I'm always tired. I keep getting my

sleep and I just still always feel

tired. You want the best way know the

best way to get energy? Expend it. Work

out, exercise,

right? Do you want to know the best way

to get more money? Invest it. Want to

know the best way to get stronger? work

your muscles until they get little micro

tears in them and they're super sore and

you'll get stronger. The reality is is

the best way to give more is by to to

receive more is actually by giving more.

This works out financially. This works

out in in the way that God has designed

the body. This works out in the way that

that agriculture works. I want to have a

bigger harvest. Well, I've got to plant

more [music] seed.

>> I want to see this work. If I want to

see God move through me, then I've got

to make sure I've positioned myself for

even more impact than before. I'm

terrible at this, but you get the idea.

>> The whole idea is I want to position

myself [music] to see God move in and

through me. And I'm going to place

myself

like Jesus told his disciples [music]

to. And he said, "You are going to be

the church. You will go [music] and make

disciples." Who are the people that are

walking with Christ [music] today

because

partially because of the way that you've

lived

or the way that [music] you've reached

out to them? Who are the people that

their life is on fire or stronger

because of the way that you have [music]

ministered to them?

If you don't have anyone,

let's change that.

I promise you, living a life of overflow

will cause for you to find your

spiritual life on fire like never

before.

It's probably [music]

at least part of your next step of what

God is calling [music] you into. Whether

that's joining a team, whether that is

finding someone that you can start

pouring into and [music] discipling,

or whether that is I'm going to I'm I'm

going to find a couple lost people, a

group of friends, [music]

a mission field that I go, this is my

target. That coffee shop is no longer

[music] just a coffee shop to me. It's

my mission field.

I'm going to learn every barista's

[music]

name. I'm going to learn the name and

the drink of the regulars. I'm going to

I'm I'm going to buy drinks for people.

I'm going to get extra [music] snacks

and just hand them out and be a

blessing. I just want people when they

see me come in there, they go, "OH MY

GOODNESS, it's you. Yes,

I'm going to be a blessing.

I'm going to come at times that

intentionally maybe a little more dead

and I can just have [music]

conversation, right? Like what am I

going to do?" Start build your mission

field. And I want to encourage us to do

that. But the the the idea is that

[music] I don't want we have to

the vast majority of the time when I

have [music] conversations about growing

spiritually with someone. What's your

next step? How are you doing? How's your

walk with the Lord? 90% of [music] the

time, here's the next step. Uh I haven't

really been in the word that much. I

haven't [music] really been praying and

I need to get into that. Yes. Good. Yes,

that is that is your next step. Can we

please

Can we please [music] move past that?

Not get past it, like ignore it, but

continue to move on from that being our

problem.

I We need to be in a place where it's

like, well, duh. I'm spending every

[music] day with Christ. Like, I need

to, right? I I I may I may have missed a

day last week or last month. leg, but I

just I jump on and I feel so empty and I

feel so hollow and I feel so like what's

going on with me. Oh my goodness. That's

what it is, right? Like I we need to get

into a place where my time with the Lord

is good and now I'm living out and now

I'm having new problems. [music]

I got a new problem. I got this person

and they're asking me these questions

and I don't know how to answer them.

Good.

I got this person. They're struggling

with this AND I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO

DO FOR THEM. MY HEART BREAKS FOR THEM.

OH LORD, I JUST NEED FOR THEM TO GET THE

BREAKTHROUGH. WHERE WHERE IS IT? I'M

GOING TO GATHER MY FRIENDS TOGETHER and

we're going to be praying because I just

want to see them see this breakthrough

in [music] their life. THAT'S A GOOD

PROBLEM. That's the type of problem we

are created for. How can we get together

and be a blessing to that person?

Live a life of overflow. [music] Because

the reality is is we've got a bunch

the American church has got a [music]

bunch of really spiritually fat

Christians

all ready to receive, all ready to

consume, all ready [music] to give me

give me. I want to find the right church

that get that has the comfy seats that

has the [music] that has the music in

the way that I want it. I want to I want

to make sure to have all this stuff and

and finding the right I'm not I'm not

joking. finding the right church is so

important, but a lot of times we end up

instead of making it about him and

what's going to challenge and grow me,

we make it about which church is going

to make me most [music] comfortable.

And that's actually a way that you're

going to get stagnant. You're going to

get stuck. And the reality is is if I

come here and I go, that was good, but

that was probably for someone else.

If I go, I'm looking for a place that ah

I felt really convicted with that

conversation that that leader had with

me. I don't I don't like that.

I don't like them.

You know what? I don't like this church.

That's so common because I don't I don't

want to grow. I [music] just want to be

fed again and again and again and again.

[music] And I don't expend any of that

energy. Spiritually, we've got to get

spiritually fit. We've got to get some

action, [music]

some extending out of us. So, I want to

tell you, I promise you, living in

overflow, it's going to do a few things.

We're going to jump through this super

quick. Living in through overflow will

help you to experience [music] purpose.

I promise you, you will find that God

has created you for the work that he has

called you to. And [music] he has

created you to be bad at it in certain

ways and to be amazing at others so that

you have a gift that you're operating in

and a weakness that he is making

manifest [music] his presence in. Okay?

You will experience purpose. You'll

receive more of the spirit. I promise

you, you will go, I never knew the Holy

Spirit could be so alive in me. I never

knew that this could be. It expands like

a balloon. Like my capacity to hold him

[music] and to carry his spirit is

expanded. Uh, I learned more of the

word. The Bible will come alive to you

when you [music] start to walk through

it with other people. When you start to

get someone else's heart on your heart,

the word will come alive to you. You

will grow in compassion [music] for

others because you're going to have to

start working someone through sin,

someone that you love so dearly with a

sin that you have judged so harshly

before. And now you're like, I get it

kind of and I want to see them freed

from this. And I've looked at other

people that carried this sin and I'm

like, wow,

I don't relate to that one. That's an

ugly one. You're really messed up.

Suddenly, you're going to find this

compassion [music] for other people in

the same way that Christ had compassion

for people when he didn't give into any

of the sins that they were dealing with,

yet he had incredible compassion on

[music] their sins. Living a life in

overflow will set your spiritual walk on

[music] fire. I ask you to increase your

output.

Increase your output. For a [music] very

small percentage people in this room, I

believe

and I hear this. I hear this more than

it's actually reality. Oh, I need I need

I'm giving too much. I need to just sit

back and receive. Very very very small

[music] percentage. It's probably not

you.

If you think it is, come find me. I'll

help you to like find a leader. We'll

help you to discern that. So that it's

like, hey, is that because I hear a lot

of people say that and really it's an

excuse because there's something

consciously or subconsciously in my

heart I'm avoiding. The reality is is

most of us need to learn how to give

differently. It'll set your mission on

fire. It'll [music] set your purpose on

fire. I can give more because I'm

receiving more. I promise you, it'll set

you [music] ablaze. Be the light of

Christ wherever you go. Start serving.

Find someone that you're going to love

into the kingdom [music] of Christ. Find

someone that you're going to disciple

and set their spiritual walk on fire. If

you don't have all three of those areas,

if you don't have people that you're

inviting, if you don't have a mission

field, get one. [music] That's your

application today. Can we stand up?

And this is

the the only way to actually live a live

a life in [music] overflow. It's not

just don't don't don't get me wrong.

This is not just uh living

othersoriented. [music]

It's selfless.

I live a life that's for others [music]

because I've been emptied of self. I've

been filled with his spirit. I can't do

that. I absolutely [music] can't do

that. I can't just empty and make myself

disappear into nothingness.

I've got problems. I've got [music] sin.

I've got flesh. And the only way to do

that is to live a selfless life where I

actually capture [music] God's heart for

other people is to surrender my life.

Not to make it disappear, but to

actually put it [music] at the feet of

Jesus. [snorts]

And when I put my life when I crawl onto

the altar of Christ and and and I

[music] say I am now your living

sacrifice. I am yours. I am dead. You

use me however you want. That is where

you will discover the greatest purpose.

And there's [music] no way to be able to

do this. There's no way to be able to

give something that'll actually impact

people more than you can impact them

[music] without the Holy Spirit. So what

I want to invite us to do today is

actually practically figure out what

your what your out overflow is. Okay,

[music]

that's number one. But honestly, for the

majority of us in this room, we probably

need to just go, I need to start

receiving the Holy Spirit to a level

that I actually have something to pour

out.

And for some of you in this room, that

may be a first [music] time ever,

maybe the first time in a long time. And

I [music] want to invite you.

If you go,

I need Jesus. I need to receive him into

my heart. I need to [music] allow for

him to give me purpose, for him to give

me the life that he that Pastor Drew

keeps [music] talking about. Like, I

don't have that. I've still got all this

stuff weighing me. I I I need that. And

if and I need Jesus. I want to be

[music] filled. I just want him to fill

up my heart and my life so I can start

receiving and experiencing [music] that

that first filling so that I can start

to overflow.

Maybe for [music] the first time ever,

maybe for the first time in a long time,

you say, "I need Jesus and I want to

receive him into my heart." If that's

you, would you put your hand up real

quick just so I [music] can see? It

doesn't have to be super high. I just

want to be able to see. It's just you

and me. Come on. I see you. Thank you.

Who [music] else? Who else in this room?

I see you. Thank you.

I see you. Thank you. I I want to get

right over here. Right over here. Can we

[music] get some of our prayer team?

We're going to have our prayer team come

around. And what we want to do is we

just want to make sure that [music] you

get prayed for. You don't have to do

this alone. In fact, you're not created

to do this alone. In fact, I promise

you, I guarantee [music] you, you will

fail at this alone. It's bigger than

you. It's bigger than me. We have to do

this [music] in the body. We have to do

this. Anybody else? If you don't have

someone gather around you, I saw I saw a

hand over here. I saw a hand right here.

Can we get a gentleman [music] right

over here? I just want to make sure that

we are able to we're we're we're able to

give to you a blessing that you may go,

I don't necessarily [music] have it

myself. I promise you, we will bless you

in that. If that's you, go ahead and

throw your hand up as you see someone

walking down the aisle, one of our

prayer team [music] members walking down

the aisle. Just kind of wave them down,

flag them down. But I want to do a quick

prayer here. Can we do that?

Wave them down. If while everybody got

get your eyes closed, if that was you

and you responded, go ahead and wave

down a prayer team member right now. For

the rest of us, let's pray. Heavenly

Father, Heavenly Father, I'm sick of

living a life just to get more. When the

world says just receive more, you need

more. You're you you you need to just

get and give and get and get and get.

Lord, I pray that we would learn to live

a life that's built on purpose. we would

position ourselves [music] where we are

forced into a place of overflow. We are

forced into a place of dependence where

[music] we become desperate for you

because we are now in a position that we

cannot operate. We cannot [music] live,

we cannot do this without your spirit

FILLING US. FATHER GOD, I pray would you

allow for every person here at

Collective Church to have something that

opportunities to pour in and to fill us

up and [music] intentional opportunities

to overflow, to pour out, to give away

so that as we leak, [music]

as the enemy comes, as temptation comes,

as problems occur, as we experience

life, Lord, that we would still continue

to be filled and to fill others up,

Lord. Lord, I pray in the mighty name of

Jesus right now. I [music] declare that

the mission fields, the workplaces, the

coffee shops, the gyms, Lord, that the

places that these people go, their

friend groups, Lord, wherever it may be,

I declare in the mighty name of Jesus

that you begin to set your spirit in

their mission field, in their families,

in their homes, in their neighborhood,

with the right relationships, that you

would begin to stir in the in the

evangelism of the person that they're

praying would come into life with you.

Father God, I pray please would you go

before us? Would you go before us into

the conversations that these people

begin to build a curiosity? Lord, I pray

in spiritual relationships and

disciplehip relationships. Lord, we

would you begin to establish not just a

disciplehip or relationship, but the

right one [music]

where there's a spir a powerful

spiritual unity where there's a gifting

[music] and an ability to be able to

connect on a on a testimony, Lord, that

that that allows for each person to grow

and to be built off and [music] become

mutual encouraers of each other. Father

God, I pray that we would be a church

that pours out not just here in church

through serving, [music] but pours out

everywhere we go. Would you use us? You

have filled us. We ask for you to use

us.

Use us, [music] Father. Pour us out like

a drink offering to you. We give our

[music] whole selves in the mighty name

of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Come on.

Can we give a hand for the word of the

Lord?

>> Hey, thanks so much for watching today's

[music] message. Our prayer is more than

the words that were spoken in the

message that you would remember the

things that God [music] spoke to your

heart.

>> Yeah. And no matter what it was that God

spoke to you, I know that part of your

journey is other people being in a

community because we are better

together. So, if you made a decision to

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is going to help us so that we can

celebrate with you and [music] equip you

with some tools so that your next steps

are great steps.

>> Yeah. Thanks [music] so much for

watching. We're praying for you. We're

cheering you on. We believe that the

best days are ahead of you.