People Make The Difference - Difference Maker Part 2

Good morning, real life. We are excited that you have

come to worship with us this morning.

It's our privilege to join together and just to lift up the

praises to God. So whether you're joining us

here in person, we invite you to stand on your feet.

We're going to lift up some shouts of praise to God this

morning because it's because of His love, His work on the cross,

that our sins are gone. So let's lift him up.

It wasn't born nothing that you shed your blood.

So I'm going to live like my shame is gone.

Won't be shackled to the way I was.

So I'm going to live like my chains are gone.

Gone now my city's steady gone. And I sing Hallelujah, time,

time he is rising, it is time. And I sing Hallelujah.

So I'm going to shout like the battles won.

Hey, fall back there because the time is up.

So I'm going to live like the stone is gone, gone now my I've

seen his daily gone and I sing Hallelujah done, done.

He is arisen and he's done and I sing Hallelujah is how great the

power ever belongs. Oh, oh, Oh yes, I am the

righteousness of God. Oh.

Oh, singing out to him, cow, great, the power of the blood.

Oh, oh I am I the righteousness of God.

Oh, oh, oh, gone, gone now my sin is dead and gone, and I sing

Hallelujah, done, done He is arisen it is done.

And I sing Hallelujah, O and gone, gone, gone.

Now my sin is day God. And I sing Hallelujah, done,

done He is. I'll give it up for Jesus this

morning. Come on, so good to worship with

you this morning. Come rest on us, come rest on us

as the spirit was moved over the water.

Spirit, come over us, Come rest on us, come rest on us.

Calm down Spirit. When you, when you made my heart

hurt. When you fill the room, you're

here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you will

feel me. Calm down, spirit.

When you know you make my heart # When you fill the room, you're

here and I know you are moving. I'm here and I know you'll feel

me. Come on, see.

Fire and wind, Fire and wind coming to it again.

Hoping up the gates. Let heaven on it come rest on

us, come rest on us. Fire and wind coming to it

again, hoping up the gates. Let heaven on it.

Come rest on us, come rest on us.

Calm down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart # When

you feel the room, you're here, And I know you are moving.

I'm here, and I know you will feel me.

Calm down, Spirit, when you move, you make my heart # When

you feel the room, you're here. And I know you are moving.

I'm here and I know you'll feel me.

Come, Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, come rest on us.

You're all we want. You're all we want.

Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want.

You're all we want. Holy Spirit, come rest on us.

You're all we want. You're all we want.

Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want.

You're all we want. Calm down, Spirit.

We When you move, you make my heart # When you feel the room,

you're here and I know you are moving.

I'm here and I know you will feel me.

Calm down, Spirit. When you move, you make my heart

# When you feel the room. You're here and I know you are

moving. I'm here and I know you will

feel me. Calm down, Spirit.

When you move, you make my heart pound.

When you feel the You're here and I know you.

I'm moving. I'm here and I know you will

fill me. Holy Spirit hummus on us.

You're all we want. You're all we want.

Holy Spirit hummus on us. You're all we want.

You're all we want. Holy Spirit comest on us.

You're all we want. You're all we want.

And Holy Spirit comest on us. You're always we want, you're

all we want Holy Spirit, you are well kind, complete in this

place and fill the atmosphere cause your glory.

God is what our hearts are going to be over.

Come play to this place and fill the atmosphere.

Your glory card is what our hearts alone to be.

All my come by your praises Lord.

Amen. Lord Long.

For your presence in this place got in the name.

In your name. I want to take this moment to

introduce you to a new song, and it is called More Than Able.

And it comes right out of the Scripture in Ephesians 3 where

it says when we lean in and we plant our roots down deep in

Jesus, that he can do exceedingly, abundantly, more

than we can ask or think. And I think as we're leaning

into this season of difference maker for our church, there's

not more than we could ask because God, he can do above

anything we can think. So let's lean in.

Let's worship Him. So when did I start to forget

all of the great things you did? When did I throw away faith for

the impossible? And how did I start to believe

that you weren't sufficient for me?

Why do I talk myself out of seeing miracles 'cause?

You are more than able 'cause you are more.

Than able. You are more than anymore.

You are more than able and do am I to deny what the Lord can do?

It's easy for you and now I see all that I have.

Oh I've got my confidence back beside put my trust in the one

who still does miracles. You do miracles.

You are more than able. You are more than able.

You are. You are more than able.

Because you are more than able. Who am I to deny what the Lord

can do? Can you imagine with all of the

faith in the room, what the Lord can do, what the Lord can do,

and it's going to happen. Just let the waymaker through.

He's going to move. He's going to move.

Can you imagine with all of the faith in the room, what the Lord

can do, what the Lord can do? It's going to happen.

Just let the waymaker through. He's going to move.

He's going to move. Can you imagine with all of the

faith in the room, what the Lord can do, what the Lord can do?

It's going to happen. Just let the waymaker move.

He's going to move. He's going to move because

anything is possible and anything is possible.

Anything is possible. We remind to deny what the Lord

can do. If anything is possible,

anything is possible, anything is possible to deny what the

Lord can do. Who am I to deny what the Lord

can do? Who am I to deny what the Lord

can do? You are more than anymore.

You are more than able. You are more than able you.

Are more than able. Who am I to deny what the Lord

can do? Who am I, I to deny what the

Lord can do? Who am I to deny what the Lord

can do? The God of the impossible, man,

the God that shows up week in and week out, no matter what

state or what season you're in, man, God is always here.

God is always the God of the possible man.

Let's give I forgot one more time, man.

Love to hear you guys worship. I want you guys to know there

are a ton of new people here today, man.

Thank you guys for choosing to gather with us online in person.

Can we give those guys some love?

Just give them a round of applause, man.

If you guys know this or not, winter's coming.

Did you guys like that for a little little cool?

I'm man I'm not ready for. I told Pastor Sean we're not

ready for yet, but it's on the way.

So hey man, I want you guys to find somebody, greet them, let

them know how glad you are seeing this morning.

Right, you guys can go ahead and grab a seat.

Hey, as you guys are sitting down, I want you guys to know

that I am getting some feedback here.

You guys are getting ready to sit on something awesome.

It's called our connection card. This connection card is an all

play moment. It's for everybody in the house.

So let me tell you a little bit about it.

If you call real life home, we love it when you fill out these

cards. Let us know what's going on in

your life. You put on some prayer requests,

some praises. We love to pray over these week

in week out. Our team really looks forward to

it and they truly excited to see what you guys have going on when

you turn those in. If you guys are new with this,

I'm going to make a promise to you and I'm going to ask

anything else from you this week except one simple thing.

We just love for you to introduce yourself to us.

Let us know who you are, fill out the information to the level

that you're comfortable with. We're not going to show up your

door or anything like that, but we want you to that we care

about you. We'd love to send you more

information about real life this week so you guys have an

opportunity to turn those cards in a little bit later in the

gathering. We do all of this week in and

week out because we say that we are a church on a mission is why

we exist is why we do what we do.

That mission is to see people far from Jesus discovered the

real life of her. They're far from God discovered

the real life of purpose in Jesus.

What that means is this is like when you guys walk through your

daily life. Is everything always perfect?

Is it easy? It's not right.

And I get to talk to people at work just on on the daily

routine and they come in they're like, man, my life is destroyed,

it's broken. What do I do next?

That's why this real life church is here, is to get people

connected to what's next to find their next step, to find that

purpose, to find that mission because you're never going to

find that out in the world, but you're going to find that in

Jesus, in the pleasure and the joy of us.

What we do every week is we can see people walk in here broken

and destroyed and they walk out with hope.

They walk out with the knowledge of that somebody cares about

them, that Jesus loved them enough to die for them.

That's what the gospel is and that's why we're on mission.

And so it really leads in also to what we're in the middle of

this Difference Maker series. And I'm so glad you guys are

here. We kicked it off last week.

And so for the next 5 weeks, we're going to lean into what

really this church has always been about, but we're going to

put an exclamation point on it. So for the last eight years, if

you don't know our story, God has used this body, this

gathering to bring hope and transformation throughout this

community and really across the world.

But God has asked us to step into a season for all of us to

become difference makers. And what that's going to look

like is we're got being called to not create a building, but to

create a movement. And we're hoping that God takes

this tool of a building that we're, we're, we're reaching for

in, in, in building some momentum to, to take that to

change to the next generation. It's what we're believing that

God's going to remove obstacles. We're believing in God to make

the impossible happen. We don't have the answers to

everything, but we're looking to the God that does.

And so we're hoping and we're praying and we're having faith

that God will take every person in this room individually to

become difference makers, to change the next generation, to

see souls transform. So once you guys take this

opportunity, let's give a big, huge, real life welcome and

bring up Pastor Sean as we continue Difference Maker.

Hey, I don't even need that today, Barry.

Oh, man, they, they, they upgraded me, baby.

So it's good. That's right.

I don't know if that's going to work out very well.

So well, man, who's feeling blessed today?

Come on, somebody that song, man, God is able.

Was that good or what? That was just something for your

soul today. It's it's refreshing to remember

what the Lord can do and it's possible to do anything.

And so I'm going to celebrate a few things.

Oh, by the way, if you're like what happened to Pastor Sean?

I fought a bear, I killed a lion.

It got me a little bit. I'm good.

But yeah, three weeks out of surgery from rotator cuff and

it's going really well. Amen.

I'm blessed, so don't worry about me, but just keep praying

it's good. So I got three more weeks in

this bad boy. Hopefully that's it and I'm good

to go. I'll slowly take a journey back.

But today I want to celebrate a few things.

One last week we had five people commit to life, to Jesus, Amen.

That's amazing. That's significant.

It's about why we're doing a building, why we have this

initiative. That's the best kickoff we could

ever have, Amen. Like that's why we're doing it.

The building is a tool, right? It's, it's, it's a, it's a means

to an end the, the mission, the movement.

Like Barry talked about, sometimes you put a building up,

it's like we arrived. It's like we just started Amen.

Like it's about the gospel, it's about souls.

It's not about concrete and steel.

And so we're excited 5 people come to Christ last week.

And I would encourage you guys, I've really what it looks like

today to be an everyday difference maker.

You know, we, we hear these stories like these five people

come to Christ. Let me just tell you a little

bit about how this, this usually happens.

It's, it's actually not a very complicated formula.

It's us going out and sharing the good news of Jesus and the

conversations around us. And it doesn't mean we're just

like preachers, like here's the gospel, but you weave the gospel

in the conversations and you see people hurting, you see people

in need, you see people broken, and you step in.

That's a holy moment, Amen. That's a spiritual moment.

And there's some people at our church that like have spiritual

eyes to see like you just walk around.

It's not like I go to church on Sunday like I am the church and

I just see what God's doing all the time.

I sense of spirit, I sense what the enemy is up to and I'm just

going to step on in. And what those ladies in our

church is Christy Hardy. She just has a spiritual sense

on her. She's invited so many people

who's been invited by Christy. Just show of hands.

Like, I mean, there's a lot of you guys, right?

I mean, a lot of people just know Christy, if you don't know

where she runs her kids, she's married to Barry, you know,

sorry, but she was out about 3 weeks ago, maybe a month ago,

and she ran some people she knew.

And one of his name was Perla and she divided Perla to church

with her family and didn't know what God's going to do.

She shows up the next week and that was a week Logan was

preaching, not Logie, all right, but he said he can do a good

Logie, he's good at that. Just don't do something.

And that Logan's preaching and guess what?

Perla and her sister, her family came to Christ.

Amen. Just because everyday roommaker

just somebody saw somebody and said man that God can make a

difference your life. It was just like come out to

real life like how you doing spiritual what's going on your

life. Hey, you know what's made a

difference in my life? It is Jesus.

Can you just come with me? I'll save you a seat like I'll

sit with you. Just just come on out and see

what God can do. She comes to Christ last week.

You know what they did They're so excited about Jesus.

They invited somebody with them. Amen.

Like this is how the gospel goes.

It's just relationship circles. And so sometimes you

overcomplicate this for like other spiritual, like spiritual.

I don't even call that like your, your spiritual pedestals.

There's spiritual practitioners, there's spiritual privilege.

No Amen. You have the same Holy Spirit as

everybody else does. The the ground of the cross is

equal by the way it's level and the power of God lives in you.

I will encourage you to when you're like living on mission,

please don't say you're not qualified or you're not good

enough or you don't have don't know enough.

Can I tell you you you know enough?

Like just tell people what you do know.

Amen. Like you don't tell what you

don't know. And then you Start learning.

So if you know like A to G, tell them about everything in front

of it, right? Don't worry about Z or like

bury, like triple Z like the dudes you know, watching all

these things, right? Like you don't have to tell

people what you don't know, but I encourage you to go out and

share and see what God can do. That's just a little story,

right? Everyday dress Baker, you can

make a difference to all this. Last week, those yard signs were

like flying off the shelf. They were going.

I talked about how many people come to church because they saw

a sign and I really wasn't planning on it.

And then all of a sudden people were taking signs.

That's an introverted dream. Amen.

I mean, you don't have to do nothing.

You just like, hey, I put it out and guess what?

You got one more MO left in this season, brother.

Boom, 8 months of being a witness, six months of being a

witness. Just stick it down in the yard,

right And all of a sudden you're proclaiming just the good news

of Jesus and there's a place of hope and people come because

that Amen. So there's some signs out there

for you. Take more than one right, put

them out, give some friends. Somebody actually left one last

week and you know, like you're always wondering like does

somebody taking on tear down or is this supposed to be here?

Well, they weren't taking it just got left out.

So I brought it home and a God's great sovereignty.

There's a man came house yesterday and said I meant to

grab a sign last Sunday. I said, well, did God set you up

for a reason? It's here in my garage.

Here's your sign, right? So, yeah, we went on a walk,

five mile walk last night and guess what?

That sign was in the yard on sunrise.

Come on somebody, right? And that's just a little

everyday difference maker. I want to encourage you guys as

well. There's a, a lady that goes to

our church, loves our church, loves Jesus and took everyday

difference maker, not just here, but across the world.

And she's been in Thailand just over three months and just got

back this this last week. She was really tired, but we're

going to stop her. And you, you know her.

She comes here if you don't know her, but her name's Rochelle

Morlock. And if she's watching online,

I'll just come to the second. But if you give up for Rochelle,

Amen, let me know. Your lover, turn the gospel out.

Every difference maker across the world.

And I'm a big fan. And that the gospel is not just

for here, it's for all places. And when you read the Great

Commission, it's not, it's not either or you can't be like,

well, I just don't do missions or like I'm the way out of

missions. I believe it's both ends.

I believe the light shines bright here and we take it

somewhere else as well. And so I believe you support

local and you support across the world that we stay and we go, we

pray. Some of you're supposed to go,

some of you're called to go. Amen, Amen.

You better keep your hands open. You got if you tell me no, I'm

like, God's been working on you, right?

Like this is so we play a part of the story.

And so everyday difference makers, man.

And one of those ways to do that is through fasting.

And you guys have been fasting. How many guys have been fasting

last couple weeks? You've tried at least once

you've been doing it show of hands.

I mean, that is significant. Can you guys give it up for

everybody's fasting of the day, by the way?

I mean, that's a weird thing like, but this should be normal.

There should be normal language in the Christian world and a

church is that people prayer fast for the will of God and the

things of God and it makes an amazing difference.

And sometimes you forget like the power of fasting.

So I'm going to keep just kind of plug in this a little bit and

just pushing a little bit. There's a story of a lady in the

Bible named Hadessa. Has anybody heard of Hadessa?

My guess is you all have heard of her at some level, but you

don't know her Jewish name. I was kind of said Yep, on that

was kind of me in a little bit. She has a Persian name.

Maybe help out a little bit. Esther.

Her name's Esther. And I always think it's

interesting like we that the Bible kept like their slave name

or like, you know, Shadrach, Meshach and Benigo that that's

not their real names, right? Like they've been renamed by the

culture they're in. And so Esther's story is quite

amazing. I'm not going to give it

justice, just saying because I don't have a ton of time to walk

through the story, but I would encourage you to read it.

It'll take you about 30 minutes. So if you find Psalms back up,

go through Job, go back Esther's story.

It's 10 chapters and it's very, very powerful.

It's let me give you like the big context and the power of

prayer and fasting. So Esther, she's a young teenage

girl, OK? She's not some mature person.

She doesn't have all put together, but she has great

faith. She's part of the remnant that

came down from Babylon captivity.

Her her cousin Mordecai came with her end up adopting her.

And so she's just in this Kingdom of Persian.

The Kingdom of Persia is massive.

It goes from Egypt, Turkey, all the way east, all the way

through India. You're talking a huge amount one

of the one of the greats, you know, like you have the, the

Greek Empire, the Roman Empire, the Persian empires, one of

those empires and the the king Zarxies, his wife did not obey

him, which I didn't blame her because he's asking for some

pretty inappropriate things. And she says no.

And he basically talks to his counsel and they say, Hey, let's

just there's a law that she can't even talk to you unless

you unless you actually invite her to come in.

And so he casts her outtakes away her power.

And so we need to find a new queen.

And Long story short, to bring up Esther and God appoints her.

Now Esther's a Jew, but nobody knows she's Jewish.

She's hid it. And so there's this man named

Haman. Somebody say Haman, we're going

to hate on this guy day, OK, because he hated the Jews.

He was upset. Mordecai wouldn't respect him.

He wouldn't bow down. And so he said, hey, Mordecai,

I'm not going to just kill you. I'm going to kill every Jew in

the Persian Empire. We're talking about hundreds and

hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Jewish people.

They're going to be killed. And So what happens is this gets

spread out to all the the the area.

There's the edict that's put out.

The Haman had talked to king and to make an edict kill everybody.

And he did something very special.

He cast lots to pick the day of which he'd kill him.

It's what that means is they have these stones or these

sticks and they kind of throw them out kind of like you play

dice. And then whatever number it was,

I was like, OK, that's the day we're going to do it.

And so they cast lots to pick the day.

An actual day like this is the edit goes out to 127

territories, and that day you're going to eradicate and

distinguish every Jewish person in our Kingdom.

That's pretty crazy to think about.

And so Mordecai hears this. And at this point, the nation is

already fascinating. The people are hearing this.

They're carrying their clothes and sackcloth and ashes.

They're mourning and they're fascinating for how to make a

move. Mordecai calls that or calls up.

He didn't call her up, right? Oh, Esther, maybe he did that,

right? But he gets a hold of Esther and

he tells her about the plot. And he says she goes, well, I'll

talk to the king. I'm going to be killed because

against the law. And he said, well, maybe you put

in this position for just a time as this, right?

Like maybe God put you here on purpose.

And so she replies to him her plan, and she asked me something

very special. She asked me to fast.

So you can find this in Esther chapter 4 verse 16, she said

Esther 4:16

this. Go gather together all the Jews

who are in Sousa, which Sousa is the base of the place where the

king is ruling from, and fast for me.

And look at how long the fast is.

Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day.

That's a fast. Amen.

I mean that ain't like the 12 hour window of not eating.

We're talking about full on God. I need you or a backs against

the wall more than any of this food in this water.

I need you to make a move. I need you to deliver us.

I'm trusting you and they're begging for God to make a move

and praying for her for a divine favor with the king says I my

attendance will fast as you do, which is a great leadership

principle by the way. And when this is done, I will go

to the king even though is against the law.

And if I perish, come on somebody, I perish.

Like if I'm going out, I'm going out, but I'm going to go out.

But the way that I believe God has called me to go out.

And so God answers the prayer. There's actually something very

special happens. There's a dream, or it's not a

dream, but he keeps the king awake.

He can't sleep and sort of starts reading the Chronicles of

Anals, which is history book. And he finds out that Mordecai

has actually saved his life. The Mordecai found some spies

and he got them eliminated. And so he starts to honor

Mordecai and ticks off Haman. And it's all the backdrop of how

Esther meets with Haman privately or his Arxes.

And he and he, she tells them, hey, this is the man that set

the plot up that's even going to kill me.

I'm a Jewish person. And so she gives goes out the

next day, the third day, and she stands in front of the king is

what it says in chapter 5, verse one.

On the third day, Esther put on her roller robes and stood in

the inner court of the palace. That's a huge act of faith, by

the way, like you're going to go somewhere where the last person

was cast out and you're most likely going to be killed.

As she steps into this inner court and in front of the King's

hall. And the king was sitting on the

roll throne in the hall facing the entrance.

And when she saw the Queen Esther stay in the court, he was

what what's to say? Yeah, He was pleased with her

and held out his her and the golden scepter that was in his

hand, which was inviting her in. And the the the favor of the

king was amazing. King's archies told her, I'll

give you whatever you want, up to half the Kingdom.

That's a good day. Amen.

That's exactly what they've been praying for, God's favor.

And she goes, I don't want the Kingdom.

Matter of fact, I wouldn't even question this.

You've made us slaves, but they're going to kill us.

And who's in charge of this? And she pointed out Heyman and

get and guess who got killed that day?

Heyman. And then Mordecai got promoted

to the second in charge of the entire Kingdom.

And then out of that, they warned the Jews of the fight.

The Jews fight back. All of Heyman's kids get killed

and Mordecai steps in the place of prominence.

You had no idea that fasting could do that, Amen, That that

fasting could change A nation like this is a a teenage girl

that changed. That's an everyday difference

maker, by the way, Amen. Like, like she had no idea that

that little step of faith, like just walking into a hall and

going against the government, that would never happen.

Amen. Right.

Like that, that we would break some rules for Jesus would be in

the will of God and be used to save kingdoms.

I want to encourage you when you fast, it can change your

marriage, it can change the city, it can change this church,

it can change your family. And in this case, it actually

changed a nation. And so I'm encourage you guys to

faster in the season we talk about building or have this

initial campaign to raise money, this initiative so we can say

yes to a space because we're asking for divine favor.

Amen. We're asking for boldness.

We're asking to be in the right rooms, but I don't want you to

miss this. It's all about everyday people,

every one of us stepping into our call and asking Jesus, what

would you have me do today? Not just showing up on Sunday.

You know, I know a lot of churches and they have great

buildings, but sometimes those buildings are empty.

You ever been in the church? There's an empty building.

I mean, you ever worked somewhere?

I mean, I used to work at a church and it's like, man, this

place could see the 800. You know, that's like, I wish I

could take the pews out because we're running too, right?

I mean, and and there's a lot of big buildings that doesn't have

healthy ministry. And the the point is this, if we

build a monument and we get back and we go, man, look what we

did. Whoo, those are the glory days.

Like don't waste our time, Amen? Like, like it's a movement and

the building is a tool. It's it's a means.

It's not, it's not really the vision like the that's part of

the vision to get to where we're going, but the vision is souls,

Amen? The division to see souls

change. And I've been crowned to God

asking God to give us 10s of thousands of souls, not

hundreds, not thousands, 10s of thousands.

Like why not us? Like why not in our generation

that we'd be a force for the Kingdom of God because we were

everyday difference makers for him.

It's really about stories, right?

Like we talked about the stories earlier of Perla and, and people

going out and just signs these little things.

That's what the church is made of, Amen.

And we can do that. We'll qualify to do that.

And so I believe there's been 10s of thousands of stories as a

result of the space that we're going to that God's going to

bring us to. But I want to share with you one

of these stories that's already happened that is so powerful.

And this is one of so many stories, right?

We talk about 500 people come to Christ so far.

This is one of those stories. So lean in and listen and ask

yourself how, what's the everyday difference makers that

made this story possible? Because you're going to see them

in the story. So this is it.

Check it out. I am this and this is my story

before real life, before coming to Christ at all.

I battled depression since I was a kid, full of anxiety, no self

worth, spent years trying to find myself and figure out who I

was and as I got older I turned to drugs obviously just made

everything worse. Nothing ever worked.

Coming back to a point of even being suicidal when I finally

had my breakthrough at a concert.

All the sudden in the middle of of this concert, I had the most

powerful, I don't know, goosebumps all over my entire

body and that moment I had actually heard God, he just said

come to me. It was a couple months after

that is when I hit one of my lowest lows.

Finally decided to push the pride aside and go with what God

was telling me and find him. I reached out to Kyle spread and

came to real life church. The start of my transformation

where the real difference in my life began.

My daughter Luciana had been asking me to go to youth group.

They eventually obviously took her.

It was a worship night when we like the first night that I took

her that I stuck around just to just to see how, you know, this

whole youth thing was going and how my daughter would do in it.

And as everybody is and going around the room praying, I just

I completely broke down into tears and couldn't help but feel

God's spirit just heavy on me. After that night, I couldn't

help but to come back and there was a joke that was made that

maybe I could step in and leave with Kyle.

I contacted Sean and I said, you know, that this was brought up.

You know, I was like, can we maybe talk about that, because

something that I want to do is help people and I feel like I

could, you know, help these kids.

After that, Sean said, you know, man, you got to meet me really

got to know Christ before you do this.

So let, let let's let's meet up. We met at Panera Bread.

There I was, Sean had me praying in public and Panera declaring

that I had given my life to Jesus Christ and he was my

savior and I had believed everything that he had done for

me. And the story kind of goes from

there, you know, going into and becoming the accused leader and

everything, the faith spreading through my family.

I don't know, every time that I was coming to church it was like

he was speaking directly to me most times.

All the love and acceptance I had felt from everybody in the

church and does everything about it.

Finally find that person and me that I had tried to find for so

many years. Being able to express my

happiness and but but finally express true happiness and in a

real way as kind of a roller toaster, but not really like a

downward roller toaster. There was no more depression, no

more feeling of being lonely as like a weight lifted off of me

like I could I could finally breathe.

I can find solace knowing that God is with me and I can turn to

him. I'm a completely different

person from just over a year ago.

I would have never gotten to experience any of this had I not

found my salvation. I got baptized 2 months or so

after I found my salvation, but not only did I get baptized, my

wife and my daughter got baptized along with me.

I can't thank God enough, and I can't thank this church enough

for having us all feel so loved and accepted.

It's changed all of our lives so much.

Just a couple months ago my 7 year old got baptized as well.

If you've never seen or heard a 7 year old and come up with her

own prayer and it's one of the cutest things ever.

I believe that it's important for us as a church to be

difference makers and step out and try to find a permanent

space for us because they can allow us to bring more people

in. And have that many more people

come to Christ and more lost souls just like me to find their

salvation. If somebody like me can find

Jesus here, then imagine the thousands more that could in our

first permanent home. And I'm proof that this is a

place where prodigals can come home.

For them. That story is so many levels of

go God, so many levels of redemption and just coming off

all the things and you know what, it's fun.

It's good to play part of the story, a small part of the

story. Amen.

Like you did you guys see this? This isn't just a story of how

God can make a difference in Lucas's life, although that is

the primary story. Like that's the banner.

Like thank you, Jesus, what you did, but behind the story,

there's a lot of small stories. Did you guys pick up on the

small stories that he he was hurting and he called his friend

Kyle. Kyle and Mandy had been praying

for Lucas and inviting him to go to church for over 15 years.

Like they never gave up on their high school buddies, ran

together, all those different things.

And Kyle and Mandy were broken for him.

And so when he got into a spot where he needed God and he need

to find an answer, who do you call the everyday difference

maker in his life? Amen.

The one that truly cared that like never gave up was always

there, always encouraging. And because that he invited him

out to to to the youth group. But you notice who invited him,

his daughter. Remember that his daughters beg

him to come to youth. By the way, didn't know Jesus

yet, but invited his her dad to come out to youth and come and

he shows up and you see the difference that happened.

There was a group of people that have this thing called a youth

team, Amen, that actually have a youth group and these people

come there and and their own time and energy and it's it's

effort and they set up like we set up here, not to this extent,

but they set up and they pray for those kids and they have fun

with those kids. I've I've broken my body for

teenagers in the past, right, I've had broken ankles.

I have a skull fracture. Great story, by the way.

We'll go there one day from playing dodgeball with

teenagers, right, and I'm just telling you like if something

special, just the power God being released because people in

praying and caring and leading and the whole team just weekly

just grind out for Jesus trying to show these young people faith

in Christ. Amen.

I mean, that's one little story right behind the scenes.

Like no, they get credit, they get credit How how about he's

back in this worship night. Do you hear him say that he was

in this worship night? That's a God moment.

We've done that one time, one time like and we were back in

this conference room and I believe Don was playing acoustic

guitar. The lights are out and the

member of the Holy Spirit in that space I'd have by people to

pray and many leaders prayed. I don't think there was a maybe

there's one teenager. I don't think there's any

teenagers that prayed that night.

Maybe there's one, but there was leaders that prayed and one of

those leaders, I'll never forget it.

He actually just walked in. I'm so glad that God brought you

in last, last second. It's Brett White back here and

for the first time I feel right. That was the first time you've

ever prayed out loud publicly. That right Amen and you had

known that the prayer he was praying would be a breakthrough

moment for Lucas praying over what God could do in this

generation because you can see the hope of the future in this

room and how desperate they need God himself and not the world

that's pulling in all this stuff and Lucas be actually begin to

cry in that space and he'd been to shed tears and he kind of

moved his daughter kind of off his lap and his tears are

dripping down his face onto me. Don't when people know he's

crying. He took him months and months

and months before he told me the story.

And then he wants to serve at youth ministry before he knows

Jesus. Come on, somebody.

That's amazing. It was like, OK, God, you're

obviously moving. Let's go to Panera because

that's, that's what we need, right?

And we just sat down and talked through a story and all the

things like many of you, there's just stories.

I mean, conversations like, hey, man, I grew up with this and

this and this and I just don't, I don't know, man, my dad, like,

I don't know if I can really trust, you know, God because

man, my family was so broken and all of a sudden like God just

shows him and he comes to Christ.

Do you see the difference makers behind the story?

Like I'm just thankful to play a part of the story.

It's the most fun when you're part of the God's work is

getting a front row seat to the things of God.

There's just something special about seeing the stories and

knowing the people and the people have been invited, how

things are working and just be able to share the a little piece

and then seeing their life changed.

And that's the stories we're looking for.

Amen. That's the stories we know God

will write. Lucas is a story of a prodigal

that came home and we believe our city is full of prodigals.

We we've prayed for our city before we launched the church in

this city. Like we want to be a movement of

God in our city and around the world.

We believe this is the next step to do that.

But I want to encourage you guys in in the in the Bible, there is

and this is going to be kind of like skipping a rock.

OK, so it's going to be a little different type of message, but I

was going to encourage you guys of the everyday difference

makers you see in Scripture. It's just the ones we kind of

skip by. You may go, I don't know who

that is or maybe I forgot about that story, but just a small

acts and how they make big extraordinary differences

because sometimes we think there's this pedigree they must

have or some of this education level or a stage in a

microphone. Christianity really doesn't need

a stage in a microphone. Amen.

Like it does really well without it too.

Like this can be mistaken for a church.

So we call it a gathering because you guys gather together

and then we scatter out. It's a 24/7 mission.

Amen, Amen. Like most guys like just want to

like have a great Sunday. It's like, no, I want to honor

God all days of my life and receive ourselves be redemption

to the world, salt and light, giving answers to those who are

broken all throughout the week. We come back here to get

encouraged, refreshed and sent out.

So let me give you some examples in the Bible.

How about this? This isn't John 6 and there's

not on the Scripture of this, but just know they're at this is

the boy with a sack lunch everyday difference maker.

Remember there's 5000 people. It's not it's just the men, OK.

And and Jesus is telling the disciples like how we get some

you need some food, how we going to do it?

And this little boy gives 5 fish and two loaves.

You guys know that story. You know, it's one of the only

stories miracles of Jesus that's recorded all four gospels.

That's how powerful it was. But what made it so powerful?

It's because the 12 disciples lacked the faith that God could

do the miracle and we just sang a song that God is able.

Do you guys believe that today? Like he can do the miracle and

this little boy full of faith says here, you can do it.

And he did everything. He says all I got Lord, but you

can do more with than I can. And God multiplied it and broke

it. Do you remember the end of the

story? What happened?

He sent out the 12 to pick up the baskets.

That was the point of story. He's like, look, boys, I did it.

You're going to pick up every one of those last piece of bread

and you're going to carry it to the next city and don't forget

it. His act of faith, Amen.

He's teaching them that's significant.

God can do extraordinary things when we open our hands to him.

You know, you don't have to have a lot to be generous, Amen.

You don't have to have $1,000,000 in the account.

You don't have to. All things work together.

Like it's just open your hands to what you have to God.

That's what God can do. Think of a man named Andrew.

Andrew is 1, is one of the disciples, right?

But his story started out, he was a follower, John the Baptist

and John the Baptist, he was a forerunner.

He kind of proclaimed The Who Jesus was.

And he just disappeared into the limelight.

He went into obscurity. And I do think there's a point

in your Christian life where you have to be OK with and believe

deeply. It's OK to slip in, slip into

his obscurity because the story was never about you.

It was about Jesus. So it doesn't mean my name in

lights or real life name in lights.

There's not going to be no name in the church names in heaven,

by the way, but it's the name of Jesus, Amen.

Just step back and say, OK, and this is what John the Baptist

did so well. And he pointed out and they

said, oh, there's followers of Jesus.

He goes, that's good because I'm not even worthy of laces,

sandals. And the first thing that John

the Baptist said about Jesus was behold, the Lamb of God.

The Lamb of God, like Jesus was born to die.

And John the Baptist knew it. He said, you need to follow him.

And so Andrew started stalking him with this other disciple,

which we know now is the one writing John.

So John himself and Andrew stalking him.

Emma's household days, kind of weird introduction.

Like, what are you guys doing? And he hangs out juice all day.

And the first thing Andrew does know, he does come.

You guys know? Where's Andrew go?

Somebody say it. Yeah.

Went to his brother Peter. First thing Andrew does, he's

all day with Jesus and he gets done with Jesus and he runs back

home and says he's Simon, Simon, Simon.

We found the one been looking for this Messiah.

I met him today. You need to come with me.

And then Peter goes to Jesus. I said Peter, Simon goes to

Jesus and the first thing that Jesus does is so significant is

he looks at Simon and he says you are no longer to be called

Simon, but your name would be Peter.

Because on this rock, I'm going to build my church.

That's the first moment ever. Being Jesus, He gave him a new

name, a new identity, a new purpose, a new calling.

He knew exactly what was up for. And Peter would go on to be the

one that preached on Pentecost, go on the one that plant the

churches in Rome and be a force for the power of God in the New

Testament. It's amazing, Amen.

But if it wasn't for Andrew, there'd be no Peter.

If there wasn't for somebody that just had a just a curiosity

enough to follow somebody and a bold faith of a simple invite,

we can do that. Amen.

You think about the Samaritan woman at the well, right?

This this probably a prostitute or been through this crazy

stories of being married, you know, and at least five other

men in her life, right. And Jesus sits down and he's the

first one to ever tell him that tell anybody in the world that

he was the Messiah. You're talking to him and he

says, I'm going to give you living water.

And she tells her everything she's done and give us living

water. She recognized what Jesus is,

and she runs from that well to her city and she says, guys,

I've got to introduce you to somebody that told me that

everything I've ever done in my life, this is the Messiah.

We can do that, Amen. You don't have to have a degree

or any theology to know that Jesus changed your life.

Matter of fact, I think the best story is the one that you tell

about how your life's been changed.

People need more like Christianese, Amen.

They didn't know that God made a difference in your life and he

saved you and he changed you and you worship him.

And so she goes back and she convinces these people the least

likely person by the way, in the city that you would listen to.

It'd be like a homeless person coming up to you and saying you

got to go check this guy out. You'd be like kind of time for

that, right? Like you're this the outcast.

And she convinces the city to go find Jesus and says many came to

faith, Amen. And everyday difference maker

like don't make don't act like you're not qualified.

You are qualified by Christ, by the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Like there's not these different levels, like you're saved or not

saved, you're holy or unholy. Like Jesus made you holy through

his Spirit. And there's no small spirit.

You don't get a little tight to the Spirit and then you start

doing better with your life and he upgrades the Spirit of God,

Amen. You don't earn your way to God.

Like that's religion. It's two things that will pull

you away from God. It's rebellion and religion.

And I can preach another message on that tomorrow if you want me

to. But OK, come back, Brett, I love

you. How about Rahab?

We, we mentioned on the huddler, this lady Rahab, she's a

prostitute. She's in a foreign country.

These spies come in, she hides them in the roof.

When they come in and take over the nation, she puts a a cloth

out the window and it protects her.

And just by faith, she protects these spies and she's a

prostitute. You know, she end up in the

lineage of Jesus. Do you guys know that she was,

she, she was in lineage of David and through the lineage of

David, like we're talking lineage.

I'm like, mom, you know, father, son, father, son, right?

If you go to Matthew, she's, she's in the lineage of Jesus, a

prostitute, Amen. And, and her act of faith was

I'm going to hide you so you don't get killed from the people

coming after you. That was an act of faith.

By the way, most people don't know this, but she's actually

listed in, in Hebrews 11. Do you know what the Hebrews 11

is? It's the Hall of Fame, baby.

That's the Hall of Fame. That's the Hall of Fame of

faith. Like the world wasn't worthy of

these people. And Rahab is listed everyday

difference makers. Amen.

Like we all could have done that.

OK, how about Jokabed? Anybody heard of Jokabed?

By the way, most of us have probably never heard this name.

This is like one of the most obscure people in the Bible, but

a great act of faith. This is Moses's mom, Jokabed.

She looked at her son. There was a law from the

Egyptians that every person that that was a was a Jew, that the

boys should all be killed, thrown into the Nile River.

And she goes, there's something different about my boy, which we

all should have as parents, Amen.

And she took Moses and she put them in a Reed basket and put

them in these on the Nile River. And Pharaoh's daughter found

Moses and a God's sovereignty. Mariam Jochabed's sister was

watching and just line it up. We're like hey, this baby, I'm

this lady that can nurse him and guess who nursed Moses joke Abed

his very mom nursed him after he she saved his life and of course

Moses we don't know Moses should probably get well know Moses,

but got the 10 commandments like rescued the people from Egyptian

slavery like chose not to follow the wealth of all of Egypt.

He was second in command, but instead she was a suffer with

his people. And you'd go on to write the

first five books of the Bible. Without his mom, there's no

Moses, Amen. But we can have that everyday

faith, right? Like the Jogabed type of faith.

How about the friends that laid down, lowered down, the

paralyzed man through the roof? By the way, one of my favorite

stories ever in the Bible because I had friends that

brought me to Jesus, right? Somebody cared enough about me

spiritually to invite me to church and to say no, You got to

go, man. You got to go.

And these men, they picked up this mat.

This man was paralyzed. You couldn't walk.

And he just, they carried it. I don't know if the guy wanted

to go or not. Amen.

He didn't have a choice. You're going to get to Jesus.

And the crowds are so big they couldn't get to see him.

He was inside this house and said, do we got an idea?

Let's just go up on the roof as against the side of the hill.

We're going up on the roof and we're going to just breakthrough

the roof. So as Jesus preaching, the roof

starts coming and caving in and Jesus like, all right, let's see

it. And it'll lower this man down in

front of Jesus. And Jesus says because of your

faith, these friends, your sins are forgiven.

And these people get mad at him. They're religious people.

And they said, who are you to forgive sins?

And he goes, well, what's easier to forgive sins or say take up

your mat and walk? And that dude stood up, was

healed, rolled his mat up and walked out the front door.

Amen. That's the power, everyday

difference maker. Just great friends.

You need to have friends, by the way, like that.

And you need to be one of those friends, like we have some in

our life that needs Jesus, right?

Like, and we pray for them, we care for them and there's divine

appointments and divine opportunities.

And we say, you know what, I'm going to get you to the feet of

Christ if we just get you in the presence of God.

It's just simple. That's what we do.

How about Philip on the Ethiopian official, the

Ethiopian, the, the man from Ethiopia, right?

He's in this chariot and he just left this big feast and he, he's

on the way home. He pulled over and the Spirit of

God, he goes to Philip, it says run up to the chariot and he

runs the chariot and this man's reading Isaiah 54 and he's like,

there's a like a sheep led to the slaughter.

And Philip goes, you know what you're reading?

He goes, I have no idea. Everyone felt like that when you

read the Bible, right? I have no idea what I just read.

It's like it's easy to do because there's so much there's

so many different stories and way God's been working and he

goes, I just need to know. And so he explains to him that

that's the sheep is Jesus, right?

Behold, the Lamb of God. This is Jesus who dies for our

sins. He took our iniquity of us all.

He was bruised for our sins. He was raised alive again.

He preached the Gospel and it's this Ethiopian man comes to

Christ. And what's amazing about the

story is he's probably the first convert that is going to Africa,

Amen. You think about one conversation

has the potential and did change a continent, one conversation,

Amen. And so you're like, oh, I'm just

telling somebody Jesus. You have no idea who you're

telling about Jesus. You have no idea.

There's a church, There's a Macedonian church.

It's in 2nd Corinthians 8, it's in the Romans, it's in Acts as

well. This masculine church.

It is something very special. You may not know the story.

It's a very small, obscure story, but it's very powerful.

They gave an offering and took up money for the church in

Jerusalem. That was that was in a famine,

that was in a plague and they were suffering.

And this is a Gentile church, isn't it?

No Jewish people at all. And they were poor.

They were, they were a broke group of people.

And the Bible says they gave out of what they had and beyond

their ability. And they said, don't give.

And they said, we have a desire to give to the church in

Jerusalem. Don't rob us from that blessing.

We're going to do it. And so Paul was so moved by

their generosity that he wrote to the Church of Corinth and

told them, Hey, look, if you are willing, will you have the same

amount of desire as these guys? Because it's not about the

amount. It's it's a it's about the

desire. And he even says the equality of

the gift, like if they're willing to give in their poor

and their brokenness, would you be willing to give in your

excess, in your wealth? And he says, this is this.

I'll just have to read part of it.

I just got to do it. He says this and I, I didn't put

on the screen and saw our guys in the back.

But it says in verse 842, it says for if the willingness is

there talking to Church of Corinth, the gift is acceptable

according to what one has not according to what 1 does not

have. That's good theology can talk to

a lot of people. It's like, well, I just don't

have enough or, and I wish I could because you know, it's

like you're not called to give what you don't have, Amen.

And these this this this poor like strapped church gives these

credibly generous gift. And then God and Paul, like

teaching these people about God's will is telling these

other people, Hey, look, if your desire matches the desire, but

then I'm good, Amen. That'd be pretty amazing.

Like, so if you don't have a lot in the church, guess what?

You can set the example. If you don't, if you don't have

anything in your name, you'd be like, hey, I gave $10, set the

example. I've been talking to teenagers

like, hey, man, you got a lot, right?

If you only have $100 bank account to give 10, that's

generous. Amen.

And these people gave out their excess.

And I'm telling you, man, God just shows up.

There's been two times in my life where I've given the last

dollar I've ever had and I gave it to church.

And God has always shown up. I've never missed a meal.

Come on somebody, I've never missed a meal.

And God has always been so faithful.

And I think it's one of those times like, if you don't have a

lot, man, just give open your hands.

What do you have? And say, Lord, can you multiply

this, use this hand to him and then we can brag on your story,

say, see what God's doing here. Will you guys step into the same

level of generosity and faith? Paul said the goal is equality.

As is written, the one who has gathered much did not have too

much and the one who has gathered little did not have too

little. Like we all were together on

this. Amen.

And so, you know, you look at the commitment card and you're

like, man, there's a lot of big numbers on here, right?

I'm just down there, the down to low.

I don't know if my number is even on the card.

It's so small. Like go God, be generous at what

level you could be generous, like have an act of faith

wherever that act of faith is now for some of your numbers on

the card, for some of your numbers not on the card the

other way. I'm just being real.

Like I didn't put a line above that, but you could say no, I

could do that because it'd take more than we're even asking for

it to do all the grasping we're trusting God to do.

But the commitment card, we're not going to collect it right

now, obviously, So please don't like fill it out to freak out.

But down the road on the on the series, last thing I want to

tell you about you guys ever heard of Billy Graham Little bit

just a small guy, right? Thank God for Billy Graham, by

the way. Thank God that somebody actually

finished the race strong. A lot of gays get that last lap

and sometimes they're like actually dead and then they

still fall. It's crazy.

Billy Graham finished the race strong.

But here's a story that you may not know about Billy Graham.

Billy Graham is South Carolina's 15 or 16 years old, 1938.

He's a teenager and he there's a guy that's going to come in

town, circuit, ride and preach in his name, Mordecai Ham.

Mordecai Ham is a fiery, fundamental Baptist preacher.

Like he's fire and brimstone kind of guy.

Billy Graham is like, I'm not an interested man.

Like, I don't want to go. And his teenage friends are

like, no man, you got to go. You got to hear this guy.

You got to hear this guy. You know how teenagers are.

They drag people with them, right?

And so these teenagers, by the way, about to change the world,

they, they dragged Billy Graham to this crusade.

It's called the Sawdust Crusade. And they bring him to this tent.

And the tent is packed full of people because teenagers are

what? Late?

They're late. Who knows?

Billy Graham was late to church. Come on, somebody, right?

And he was late. And so it was packed out.

And so they walk out. They're like, there's no room.

And so this group of teenagers are leaving, and there's two

ushers that chase down this group of people.

They say, hey, man, we'll make some room for you guys.

We'll make some room. Come back, we'll get you.

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

And they get these teenagers, and they stuck them in the choir

loft in the tent. That means they're probably

behind the Mordecai hand, right? And this dude's preaching.

And Billy Graham did not come to Christ the first night of that

revival, but he came back and he came to Christ.

Do you know that Billy Graham preached in person, not as ISM

number online to 100 and 525,000,000 people.

That's a force of God. It's amazing if 3 million people

came to Christ. Now think about this story and I

think about everyday difference makers.

Everybody knows Billy Graham, but they don't even know the

names of the two ushers. Those guys made an impact for

eternity. Amen.

Those teenagers made an impact for eternity, an everyday

difference maker just by inviting somebody, bringing

somebody open the door, chasing. No, no, we got room for you,

man. Take my seat.

You've been to church. That's been that.

That's my seat. Get out.

You've been that church. I've not been to that church.

You know, you just look around. You're like, why is everybody

staring at me? Am I miss the wrong place?

I've been, I've been to churches as a pastor.

We're not a single person that said hi to me.

I was asking questions like, what do you guys stand for?

What are you guys doing? Where's the bathroom if you know

somebody's new when they ask where the bathroom is, it's your

first sign. I'm not a single person gave me

the time of day. I really didn't even care.

I was like why am I even here but thank God for the people

that do care. Amen.

They see what spiritual lies and like no, come on in.

Hey, how are you doing? Hey, what's your story?

Hey, what God bring you here? What'd you came today for all

these things, right and just love on them and hear them out

and just kindly point them to Jesus.

That's all it takes. Now think about these ushers and

they're probably older than these teenagers, right?

And they must have for surely passed away some point before

today. It's been a long time, 1938.

And I just think about them being in heaven and probably the

next sixty, 8090 years, 3 million people walk in the gates

of heaven and they're there to usher them in.

And they say thank you. You don't know who I am, but if

it wasn't for you, I would not know Jesus today.

Can you imagine having 300 handshakes in heaven by opening

a door? By being faithful to small

stuff? That's amazing.

Amen. You've never heard of the Feast

of Purim? The feast of Purim?

Most people never heard of it unless you're Jewish.

The word the word purr or poor. It actually means a lot when we

talk about casting lots. Remember harem?

The guy who hated the Jews cast lots.

Well, this feast is actually a slap in the face to everything

that harem was trying to accomplish.

And this man harem, he cast lots, which was basically

saying, oh, this is the day they're going to die.

And what what man thought? Well, by chance, this is just

the way it's going to go. But God was in control.

And so Mordecai, he did claimed, he claimed there'd be a feast

that take place called the Feast of Forum that would take place

on the very day that harem tried to kill every single Jew.

And that feast started in 473 BC.

Do you know the Jewish people still have that feast today that

they actually read the story of Esther?

And every time they say the word harem, they start stomping their

feet screaming Boo. That's pretty fun.

And for 2500 years, just shy about seven years or so they've

been having this feast. Isn't that amazing to think

about? Do do do you think that Esther

at all had any idea that for 2500 years?

What has been happening for a millennia?

Is anything last of the millennia or two or two and a

half a little girl's faith to stand up to a king and say, can

you save my people? It's been celebrated for 2500

years. Everyday difference makers.

And we can be that for our generation.

Amen. It ain't rocket science.

We don't have to make it super crazy.

Just very simply share Jesus. There's people outside these

doors. Walmart and Target need Jesus.

Amen. And you sit down at coffee shops

and you're on the phone and you got an interruption and there's

things that happen. That's called ministry.

And those people, if we could just slow down a little bit and

just get our eyes off of ourselves and on to a lost and

dying world, we will not have just a building, We will have a

building full of ministry and life.

But if we get our eyes off of the of the mission and we go, we

got this amazing look what God did, and it's a past tense look

at the glory days of God. We build a monument, we'll have

an empty building that the city came and sell.

It's the truth. And so the strength of the

building is a strength of its ministry and a strength of its

people. And so the call today is that we

don't just think about building a building because that's not

the call is that we would actually live on mission and

that we would fill a building with the work and the wonder and

the worship of God because we go out.

Can you guys do that take that challenge Who this week can you

be an everyday you're a difference maker for I've got

family members that know Christ. I've got neighbors new Christ.

I've got people that I can share with.

And if you can see what spiritual eyes this week.

If you look at people and see a sign on their head says bound

for hell, you have a great start of being a difference maker.

There was a man, he was a, he was an evangelist in England and

he was a great evangelist. People asked him, well, how you

be, how you so successful, How do you do this?

And he took him to the window and he said, tell me what you

see. And they said, oh, I see cars

and I see businesses and I see this down the other.

He said, I see souls, I see souls.

And that's the difference. It's souls, not concrete and

steel. It's not accolade, it's not your

job, it's not building wealth. It's souls.

Amen. And if you could just walk out

this week and just see every day a soul that needs something, a

soul you can measure to, a soul you can pray for.

You can start wearing those shirts that kind of get people

to ask questions. Like I'm not a fan like Rick

wore the other day. Like you could just kind of live

out a mission, like your social media.

What a great place to start living on mission.

Some of you guys are missing. I'll be real honest to you, some

of you guys, more about your opinions than about souls, about

saying stuff that doesn't even help anybody, especially

yourself. You can just like minister, like

digital platforms, like use the things of that God's put in

front of us to make a difference in this generation.

And you never know how God's going to use that.

You could be that person that does something for somebody and

you never meet him again and you get to heaven.

You're like, brother, I had no idea that you got 3 million

people that come to Christ because I just showed up to hold

a door. That's what I'm asking for.

Amen. Play part of the story.

So Father, come before you. God just help us be everyday

difference makers. I mean, the house would say, you

know what the Spirit of God speaking to me like I'd be more

bold. I'd have more faith.

At least you trust the Lord in the small stuff.

I want to be an everyday difference maker, but that's you

just put your hand high this place.

So let the Lord know that's you, God speaking to you.

Come on, Lord, thank you so much for speaking to these people.

They got help us to remember that we're qualified at the

cross. God, we're not behind that.

We don't have to be on a pedestal.

God, you've given us enough to share God, it's not it's not a

comparison game. And so Lord, help us to show one

other person another beggar where the food is that help our

our our building initiative not to be about a building, but

about souls about people. Remind us God, as we go out this

week, we have the power, the greatest power given the gospel

to save in the name of Jesus, the greatest name ever given

every that every person's knee shall bow in heaven on earth,

every single person that we have the power in the name of Jesus.

Help us to believe what we're saying today that you were able

to do miracles. God used us to do a miracle and

sometimes it's holding the door and sometimes being bold in our

faith. God show us today what's one

person that we can, that we can be a difference maker for God.

Help our church not to just put up steel, but to see souls

changed, transformed like Lucas and that we could multiply that

that we could exponentially see more people come to Christ, grow

in their faith and sent out. That's the heart of this church.

So thank you, Lord, we're begging God, we're asking you

help us to continue to fast and pray and seek you, God, for our

nation, for our church, for our families.

God, we trust you. I'll pray for one more group of

people in the house. That's those of you that say,

you know what I need. Jesus, you talk about this lamb

that came to die. I see the faith in this church.

I may be invited. You might be that person that's

been welcomed here today and you're wondering what's this all

about? You've heard these stories of

deliverance. You're wondering, man, I did.

I need that in my life. I need deliverance in my life.

I heard Lucas's story. I can relate to the depression,

to the story, to the brokenness. I'm the person that's been

running. I'm the prodigal.

Here's where you know that that God loves you.

He loved you enough to have somebody invite you here today.

He loved you enough to send his one only son to Donna Cross for

your sins. And it was your sins that put

him on the cross as well. They died for you because he

loved you and he wants your relationship with you.

And the Bible says if you call on Jesus under his name because

he died for your sins and exchanged all of your wrongs for

all his rights, they will come into your life.

The Holy Spirit will be in your life in this moment and save you

from your sin and make your right with God.

You can be one of those people that are delivered from your

sin. You're made new, you're made

righteous, you're made whole. And you have the greatest story

to ever share, the story of the gospel, the story of God's work

in your life. And today, if you need Jesus, if

you need forgiveness, you need the hope that even Billy Graham

had to step into. You can have it today.

It's a free gift. And so that's you.

You say you need to say yes to Jesus without him to be looking

around. Just put your hand high in his

place and say, I messed me. I need to say yes to Jesus

today. The relationship of Christ

today. Come on, see your hand.

And Bill said he say yes to Jesus.

This is your hand and your hand and your hand and your hand.

Kind of like a revival going on today.

So thank you, Lord, if that's you and you need Jesus, I'm just

going to invite you to pray this prayer.

The prayer does not save you, but it is your heart towards

Christ. It is your humility and your

obedience. And so they say, Father God,

thank you so much for sending Jesus to dine across for my

sins, to love me enough to come to this world, to to the worst

neighborhood in the universe that love me and dine across

through my sins. God know my sins put you there,

but thank you Lord for loving me myself before you.

God I I I'm not anybody special, but today I know I'm your son,

I'm your daughter. I've been changed and God's you

that gets the glories of God. Use my life God to be a

difference maker. God that you've you've given me

a new testimony today, a new name today a new purpose today,

just like I went from Simon Witt to Peter.

God give me a new name today. Remind me of my call where I'm

I'm going and I'm yours God. Thank you for loving me God.

I pray this in Jesus name. The church said Amen come on, go

God today, Amen, Amen come on. That was I could have.

Kept going just story after. Story of just ordinary people

and how God does extraordinary things through that.

And some of you today, a lot of you today recognized maybe some

of the ordinary things that led you here today to meet Jesus.

And if that's you and you raised your hand and you prayed your

that prayer this morning to commit your life to Jesus, we

are so excited for you. I mean, we want to come beside

you and read source you and help you as you're starting your

journey with Jesus. If you would just grab that

connection card that's on your seat.

You can fill out the information in the top section, but make

sure and check that box that says I committed my life to

Jesus. And you can drop that in the

giving buckets as I pass here in just a few minutes.

But just by doing that allows us to get you a couple of

resources. The first one is a free book

we'll drop in the mail to get to you.

It's a short read. It's called begin, but it truly

is a really good resource for you as you are taking the steps

with Jesus this week. Also, if you prayed the prayer,

raise your hand here at Kentucky Trail as you exit the worship

center right before the doors to your left is a table with some

red bags. Please, please grab one of those

inside as a free Bible for you. There's a a letter from Sean

with some resources that we know will just be a blessing to you

this week. And hey, if you are newer with

us here at real Life church, thank you so much for being here

today and just choosing to spend your morning here with us, man.

We don't want anything from you except just introduce yourself

to us. And you can do that by grabbing

that same connection card. Fill out your information there

and check first time here. You can actually take that to

the new here booth as you leave today outside the worship center

doors. Just to your right is a new here

booth. You can turn that in there.

Someone will be there love to chat with you and just get you a

free gift. Just our way of saying thank you

so much for being here this morning and we'd love to see you

back next week as well. Man.

Week 2 of this message series, man, it's just got my brain

going, but just reminders that you can be a difference maker.

You can be an everyday difference maker through your

faith and just sharing with other people how Jesus changed

your life and man, through your generosity and just saying God,

what do you have for me in this series?

What are you asking me to do? What step of bold faith are you

asking me through that to change hundreds, thousands of lives

through this next chapter at Real Life Church.

And we believe the best truly is yet to come.

Sean had mentioned we had five people except Jesus last week.

We had almost 500 this year. Maybe we're believing for

thousands of people to come to know Jesus through this next

chapter at Real Life Church. And you got the Difference Maker

booklet, which you can look through that, answer some

questions in there, take message notes in there through this

series. But you also got a commitment

card. And we're not like Sean said,

we're not filling that out today.

We're not collecting those until later in this series.

But now is the time to take the card and to pray over it, to

fast over it, to ask God, what part are you asking me to play?

What step of bold faith are you asking me to take to be a part

of this initiative? And often times, like Sean said

to me, we just feel like I just don't have enough.

I don't know what part I can play in this, but I was reminded

as he was saying that of the new song that we sang today where it

says who am I to deny what God can do?

And that is so true. Who am I to deny what God can do

through me saying yes and taking an act of bold faith through

what He's asking me to do and what part he has for me to play?

Who are we to deny what God can do through that?

And so take that card and pray over it and fast over that.

God, what do you have for me in this chapter at Real Life

Church? Hey, if you call Real Life

Church home, there are a lot of ways that you can give here.

You can scan the QR code up on the screen.

You can text to give. You can drop cash or check in

the buckets as they pass here. Also, there's a giving box in

the back. You can drop cash or check in if

that's more convenient for you. And hey, if you or your family

find yourself at any kind of immediate need this week, food,

clothing, shelter as the buckets pass here in just a minute,

please reach in there. Just grab out any loose cash

that you see. We really do want to help you

this week in your time of need. Man, what an.

Awesome time just to celebrate the fact that God uses the.

Common God uses the ordinary God uses the broken man.

I see across this room. I see a room full of difference

makers. So can we get it for God one

more time before we get ready to get out of here and go God?

Hey, couple things to mark on your calendar before we do roll.

So October the 26th, we're going to have a super kids Sunday.

So there's an opportunity for your kids to come hang out,

bring your favorite costumes. There's going to be faith fun

candy. They're going to get to read

talk about the the real hero of of the Bible and that's Jesus.

So mark that calendar. And then October the 29th, real

life youth, they're going to have a talent show, costumes,

candy and again, this message of hope and change.

So you guys do not want to mess this miss out on this.

You go online or click this URL code for some details.

So hey, if you guys need prayer for any reason, we would love to

pray with you up here either as individuals or as families.

So anything you want to pray about, we would love to pray

with you in which you guys can next with the nine O'clock 6:45

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