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  1. Welcome to another inspirational podcast at Real Life, Church for

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  3. hey good morning and welcome to Real Life Church man.

  4. We are still expecting of all that God is going to do and this

  5. Replace today. So whether you're with us here

  6. at Kentucky Trail, are you are joining us online, go ahead and

  7. stand to your feet. We're going to worship God, they

  8. together today. So soon for like I did, I saw

  9. Darkness Run for Cover. Yes, I do.

  10. Very cool. Get I just can't get away.

  11. My name is registered in his grace rewrote, my story.

  12. This Is My Testimony. The Praises of the spirit shown

  13. your father, I got will finish what you started.

  14. We believe I got will finish what he started.

  15. This is my sister-in-law. This is my testimony

  16. this morning. From Death To Life his grace

  17. rewrote my story. I'll take the fall Jesus Christ.

  18. This morning. I'm so glad that, that is my

  19. story. The story of our savior that he

  20. died on the cross, so that we can have a story of life.

  21. And so, we're going to continue and praise our God today,

  22. because he is worthy. Rumors of the stories of the

  23. savior. Holiness with you and treasure

  24. for the traitor. No, wait.

  25. Until heaven to live with me. A rescue like no other.

  26. Lift him up. He's worthy today, shoe.

  27. You did not speak. Because you're my, my Ransom, My

  28. Savior, my refuge, my Hiding Place.

  29. Enjoy my My healer, my Blessed Redeemer, my answer, my Saving

  30. Grace. We're not done yet.

  31. I love your name, my G. Jesus.

  32. Praise him together. We need to give God the one

  33. thing you can't do. So as we sing this next song of

  34. surrender, really this prayer of surrender to him.

  35. Don't let it be just words that you say.

  36. Me and shake up the ground today.

  37. Break down a wall or something that is holding

  38. This is my surrender. This is my survey.

  39. How do we say we make room for you in our hearts and our lives?

  40. Are we have? We are.

  41. Thanks to you God. Father, take every selfish

  42. ambition, every distraction out of the way from getting to you

  43. today that we want nothing else than you.

  44. So can we give us back to you today as a sign of surrender?

  45. Rather, all we are all we have is yours got all the glory, and

  46. all the honor is yours today in Jesus name.

  47. Amen. Amen.

  48. Let's give God some praise this morning.

  49. Me and I know you make room for God to move in your life.

  50. And he shows up, he can move there and you don't know what we

  51. are making room for God to move in this face.

  52. You may have noticed some extra chairs in here this morning.

  53. And we are expecting for all God is doing and want every person

  54. who walks in know, there's room for them here, room for them to

  55. experience. God, so find a seed.

  56. Come up front student. It's a lot of fun.

  57. Thank you guys for being here today.

  58. I'm excited to see you all excited to see you in the house

  59. today. And let's give a quick shout out

  60. to our friends who are real life church kc.com, all my Church

  61. online. Let him hear you today.

  62. Yeah, man, we're excited that you're joining with us.

  63. So hey, we're take a second before you sit down, reach out.

  64. Give somebody a high five, a fist bump, but wave smile, and

  65. then have a seat in just a couple minutes.

  66. All right, you guys can have a seat.

  67. Hey if you're new with us today it means the world to us that

  68. you have chosen to come out and worship with us today to spend

  69. your Sunday and so I hope that you have felt welcomed but we

  70. would love also to connect with you and there's a couple ways

  71. that we can do that in. The first one is this you can

  72. take out your phone. You can text RL new tonight.

  73. 2,000. There is a queue are on the back

  74. of the seat in front of you. You can scan that that's gonna

  75. give you a place where I'd love to invite you to fill out our

  76. digital connection card, so we can just connect with you.

  77. Thank you for coming out praying for you and we would just love

  78. to welcome in the next you in that way.

  79. And also, if you're here with us in person head on out to the new

  80. here Booth, right after this gathering in the hub, our team

  81. there would love to welcome you as well, but we have a free gift

  82. for you. Just to thank you as a small

  83. token to say, thanks for coming out and spending your Sunday

  84. with us here. At real life.

  85. And why do we do that? Why do we do all this?

  86. Because we believe that Souls matter to God, The Souls of

  87. people are so important and that is really it's our mission.

  88. It's why we exist for people who are far from God, to discover

  89. real life and purpose in. Jesus, man, God's heart is

  90. people loves people in the messy, the lost the broken, the

  91. hurting, those people who are just searching for something God

  92. loves those people. We love those people.

  93. We are those people. Those people, right?

  94. We are messy and God loves us and so we get to come together

  95. on Sundays. Just as a place where prodigals

  96. can come home, come here, get filled up and then scatter back

  97. out across our city to help people who don't know the love

  98. of God, help people who are far from, that is why we exist.

  99. And so, I hope that you're encouraged and inspired by being

  100. here today. To leave this place on fire to

  101. be able to bring the people of God and we have these empty

  102. chairs. So thank you.

  103. For those of you who've been inviting, we have so much coming

  104. up with ease. Stir.

  105. And just it's an exciting time to be bringing somebody to sit

  106. alongside you next week because sometimes I think it's kind of

  107. hard maybe to bring her invite somebody with you, right?

  108. It feels weird, but I think that maybe it might be not as

  109. complicated as we make in. What if bringing somebody to

  110. Jesus wasn't about saying the right words or having the right

  111. strategy, maybe it's a lot simpler than that.

  112. And, you know, it might be that the most powerful Arsenal that

  113. you have in the toolbox of your weapons against, or Your weapons

  114. for bringing people to, Jesus is something that you already

  115. possess, it might be the simple way that you use your voice to

  116. show others. Jesus and so today, Sean is

  117. going to walk us through as we discover how God uses people.

  118. Like John the Baptist and Andrew and John to Simply use their

  119. voice to help people, come to see Jesus.

  120. And so let's continue our series bring, that's what babe.

  121. Good morning, guys, how you doing?

  122. Does alive out there. Well, maybe we'll get a good

  123. week, praying. They really planting seeds for

  124. the gospel were in the series called bring it about, bringing

  125. people to Jesus. And today we're going to make it

  126. a loose complicate as possible and we'll get to the heart of

  127. the gospel. And I'll start with a question

  128. today ever been in a room with somebody that's famous me like

  129. an icon or maybe it has a lot of followers and you'd recognize

  130. and you couldn't help but to meet them maybe in that space

  131. maybe it's after a football game or backstage at the concert or

  132. maybe you're at the airport and a lot of people, a lot of people

  133. Famous the airport at the stall. Next to him, come on somebody,

  134. right? You couldn't help but shake

  135. their hand, right, I know about you but I've had this happen in

  136. my life until 15. I was in Colorado.

  137. I was hoping buddy. Just launched a church on a

  138. Sunday. It was as cool thing.

  139. We end up by God's Providence at the red rocks and Denver and

  140. just so have to be worshipped in America.

  141. So here's Chris Tom and Louie Giglio Kari Jobe at Mar all

  142. these other guys, and this mazing concert venue.

  143. And we are the hotel and the next morning wake up and

  144. meantime, reporter luggage out of the front.

  145. And Lo and behold who's there? There's Kari Jobe and the crew

  146. eating the breakfast, right? And it's like, that'd be kind of

  147. weird like to go over. And so were like, hey, let's go

  148. for the door. You know, I'm not going to go

  149. bother people but on the way out the door, there's this little

  150. short guy. Come on somebody, and it was

  151. Chris Tomlin you stand right there.

  152. I was like, oh, this is awesome. So like, hey, babe, we gotta go

  153. meet Chris and you know, I'm going to die or not but she's a

  154. complete introvert. She really get bamboo shoved

  155. under her fingernails, then go meet Chris Tomlin, right?

  156. And so I'm just like, no, no, no.

  157. We're going to do it. So I grabbed her hand like going

  158. to be Chris, right? So I'm like, hey Hey Chris.

  159. I'm Sean's wife. Diane and man, would incredible

  160. concert last night. It was awesome.

  161. And little small talk. I said you great job.

  162. And how do you, how do you the passion?

  163. Try all your songs niggers, man, I just got to give some credit

  164. to David. I think one day when I get in

  165. heaven, we have a little conversation about me stealing

  166. all his words, you know, I thought.

  167. Wow, he's thought about this a few times right?

  168. Gets all the time, right? And so, without missing a beat,

  169. I don't know what is wrong with me, but literally chrisstambo

  170. I'm like, Hey, where's Louie Giglio, right?

  171. I mean, he spoke last night, I love Lou.

  172. He's like, man, you know. Diane.

  173. She's like this like just like what an idiot right?

  174. He's like, he went home last night to Atlanta.

  175. I was like oh that's cool. It was great talking.

  176. Chris, you know. And so I walk off and Diane.

  177. She's just next to me. She's just like, what an idiot.

  178. What is wrong with you? You know, like where's Louis

  179. right? And so I'll know again awkward,

  180. but I told Diana's it look who can say that they've met Chris

  181. Tomlin. Come on somebody, right?

  182. It was weird, but we can always say we did it, right?

  183. And so I would encourage you to think about this, if Jesus were

  184. to walk into To this gathering. At any moment, come down the

  185. aisle. What would it be?

  186. Like, what would it be like for you?

  187. Matter of fact, I think it's going to happen is you can say,

  188. forget this Pony preacher, come on somebody.

  189. The word of God is here. The presence of guys here, and

  190. you're going to get to Jesus. Amen.

  191. You're going to gathered around Jesus, matter of fact, I don't

  192. think you just go by yourself. I think in a grab the house and

  193. the Hand of your spouse with a lost or whatever, they think

  194. about God and you can just bring them to Jesus.

  195. Amen. And there's gonna be a line

  196. forming Around Jesus. You're Bade, the kids program

  197. come on somebody. You're gonna go through the

  198. doors, break through security and get your kids.

  199. You're going to be on your phone.

  200. You're going to lift your voice and you're going to start

  201. calling people. Hey Mom, you got to get to real

  202. life. Today, Jesus is here in person.

  203. You're going to be in line or you start taking selfies with

  204. Jesus, right? Your hashtag presence of God and

  205. manuals here, you're going to have all this energy to share

  206. just all of a sudden. The news is going to spread the

  207. lines going to go out to the hub and announce the parking lot in

  208. the world. You know Jesus here that fast.

  209. Amen. That's would be like Jesus came

  210. in. We forget the entire Programs,

  211. the presence of God. And today's, just a reminder

  212. that Jesus is Alive, that he's to want you to bring people who

  213. maybe can't see him in this moment, we share the same

  214. passion, obviously walked in the room today.

  215. Amen. It's a reminder of what it is to

  216. be a follower of Christ or minor.

  217. How to bring people to Jesus and not some like fake strategy or

  218. some phony. Like, oh, here's the words to

  219. say, here's the thing to do, but the heart of some of you is an

  220. evangelist. That's what today is all about

  221. and what it looks like for somebody when they actually beat

  222. Jesus, For the first time. And so I'm just praying that God

  223. moves in this room and more than that.

  224. I'm praying that you and be a part of the movement of God.

  225. This next two weeks that you'd be just focused and praying and

  226. planting seeds and investing, and inviting and Redemptive

  227. relationships to bring people to Jesus and let them get in his

  228. presence. Let them see who Jesus is and

  229. let God get into them because they can't help, but the humble

  230. ourselves and follow him. And so, they were start with a

  231. story another video. This is a young couple that just

  232. began a relationship. And ship with Jesus.

  233. They've overcome skepticism and doubts.

  234. And really, the little things, the world puts out and have just

  235. taken a step of faith. And today, we're going to

  236. celebrate the voices that played a part of the story to find

  237. Jesus. So check this out.

  238. My name's Gavin Mackenzie in this is our story.

  239. When I was growing up, I thought there's it just doesn't make

  240. sense. A man died and came back to life

  241. it just doesn't make sense. But as I grew I just kind of

  242. grew further and further away from the church from God from

  243. Jesus because of that battle between logic and faith.

  244. I think it was just losing part of myself.

  245. The parts that I enjoyed the fun parts of my life, it was a

  246. battle between that and logic. And at the end of the day, what

  247. I believed in as I Growing up, I went to church with my

  248. grandparents and my parents but after a while we kind of stopped

  249. going. So that was the time for me to

  250. kind of question Christianity. As a whole, I was wondering just

  251. different stuff. So I wanted to Branch off on my

  252. own and kind of learn at my own way, not the way my parents and

  253. my family. See it, my best friend was Logan

  254. growing up, and I spent countless nights hours days

  255. weeks at a time at Logan's house and And what Logan does on

  256. Sunday, he gets up at like 5:00 in the morning goes and sets up

  257. for real life. I'm like, Okay, Kevin you want

  258. to go with me to real life, set up with me, tear down with him,

  259. I guess, eventually, I kind of got tired of it because as a

  260. kid, I wasn't as into the faith last year.

  261. Christmas Eve, I think I was on the wrong end of Noah's Ark

  262. because we went out having Christmas eve lunch with her

  263. family and we get back and And as we pull into the parking lot

  264. where like what is, there's water all over our parking lot,

  265. where did this come from and we get closer and see the patio

  266. it's just pouring and I'm thinking somebody's pipe busted.

  267. So I was all freaked out about water being everywhere sighs,

  268. you know, I was crying like an but I didn't really have The

  269. seeing how he was handling it. I wanted to handle it as well as

  270. he was and then we open the door and everything is ruined.

  271. It's been running for hours but the pipe bursts between our

  272. floor and the upstairs floor and everything got ruined and I

  273. think it was a point for me to take me out of the logical, the

  274. physical mindset. None of this stuff matters.

  275. It's not the point of life. And so then I calling Insurance

  276. calling the apartment calling maintenance calling everybody.

  277. Nobody really had a good answer because it was Christmas Eve.

  278. Everybody was with their family. They weren't answering the phone

  279. insurance. They just gave me a claim and

  280. put a bunch of work on me. So that night, I decided to call

  281. the one line that I hadn't called, and I've sat down.

  282. And I, she was asleep and I just laid next to him prayed, and I

  283. got I got a feeling of comfort and like I was forgiven, that

  284. was my sign. That was my goal against time to

  285. go back to church. Gavin if God is willing to let

  286. everything, you think you love get ruined.

  287. Maybe it's time to start loving something else.

  288. He really wanted to go back to real life.

  289. This these over these past few months, I was like okay that

  290. sounds like a cool church. I would enjoy going to.

  291. It just took me a while to really start to believe in it

  292. more. So, I've been trying to read the

  293. Bible and trying to just keep Christian values in my life.

  294. I think God is trying to tell me that.

  295. What where do we need to work through?

  296. Is we need to have both of us against what we need, and have

  297. God on, you know, on our shoulders, helping us through.

  298. Nothing feels whole like your whole life, no matter what you

  299. do, how much money you make, how many girls you sleep, whatever

  300. it is. Nothing feels whole until you

  301. find God. You have to put logic aside.

  302. Coming to real life with Gavin, knowing the Hardy.

  303. So having someone I know they're kind of helped me because I'm

  304. more shy, but I'm just really grateful that I wasn't forced,

  305. but he greatly encouraged me to come to church.

  306. And when we got there, I just fell in love.

  307. Everyone was so nice. You know, meeting, Sean, and

  308. Diane, and Brian. They all just so welcoming and

  309. it was really awesome to see and be a part of thankful for God,

  310. for fighting my apartment, I'm thankful for all the Earnings

  311. Logan, woke me up early even though I didn't notice it at the

  312. time he was he was teaching me the most important things.

  313. Logan brought me to church, Gavin brought me to church.

  314. Now we invite you to bring somebody to Come on, give it up

  315. for Gavin. Mackenzie how cool is that?

  316. There's one of the voices is life, right there weeks at your

  317. house Mary, it's amazing and I just love the story because you

  318. got a really growing up through normal education, right?

  319. And playing those seeds of doubt and skepticism and this young

  320. man finds Jesus and he could point back to say, there's some

  321. voices in my life, the Hardy family.

  322. Let me crash there and mash out till Logan right for pouring,

  323. the him Logan, and he's at March Madness.

  324. That dog, right? Man, but can you get for the

  325. Hardy family for being a voice that pulling the Jesus?

  326. Come on. I think Barry was tearing up

  327. over there. I was sitting next to him, but

  328. man, it's cool to be a part of story, and I love how he called

  329. on Jesus and Jesus answered, amen.

  330. It's just how Jesus works. There was a calling him Lord

  331. shall be saved and in that moment, like, just desperation

  332. for the one thing you know can be sure isn't Jesus and how God

  333. is always faithful to show up. And today I believe some of you

  334. guys are going to put your faith in Jesus today.

  335. I'll send you guys going to make that call.

  336. You pick up that phone, you're going to say, Jesus.

  337. I need you. If you have to do my own way of

  338. and follow my own path but today, I believe you were the

  339. one. True, Son of God and you gotta

  340. cross for my sins gonna change everything for you.

  341. What's really cool is Gavin in McKinsey.

  342. They were signed up to get baptized on Easter.

  343. Come all somebody is that amazing, man, it's full circle,

  344. but God is going to do. And so today we're going to

  345. celebrate and really, look at it talks about like to bring

  346. somebody to Jesus. What's the heartbeat have to

  347. have inside of you to get somebody to the Cross?

  348. Like what's the heartbeat of evangelist?

  349. We're all called to share Jesus. I'm not give you some kind of

  350. some Method, or strategy, or whatever, but we'll look at the

  351. heart of somebody that what they look like on the inside and get

  352. some of the Cross and what it looks like when somebody finds

  353. Jesus. And so, they were going to jump

  354. in, really, to a story of a man named John, the Baptist, John is

  355. a cousin of Jesus and he uses voice to point people to the

  356. cross. And so if you have your Bible

  357. and I hope you do, I don't you turn to John chapter 1 and it

    John 1 chapter mention

  358. will be in verse 19. Will start out says this.

  359. Now, this was John's testimony. Now, anytime you see the name

  360. John in the Book of John? He's not talk about.

  361. Self, he's talked about John the Baptist and so it says this was

  362. John the Baptist testimony. When the Jewish leaders in

  363. Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.

  364. You think about these Jewish leaders?

  365. These are maybe the Temple Police, maybe part of the

  366. Sanhedrin, the family of the high priest, these people would

  367. hostile things of God, hostile, things of Jesus and they're

  368. definitely hostile to John the Baptist and so they sent them to

  369. ask. John the Baptist who he was,

  370. they say did not fail to confess but confessed freely this is

  371. John the Baptist he said I'm not the Messiah.

  372. They asked him, who are you? So are you Elijah?

  373. They would have known this out of Malachi chapter 4.

    Malachi 4 chapter mention

  374. There's a prophecy that would say Elijah was going to come and

  375. John. The Baptist said he said, I am

  376. not Elijah but you know, in the New Testament that John the

  377. Baptist had the spirit of Elijah on him but he was not Elijah.

  378. He goes on to say, are you the prophet?

  379. Not, are you a prophet? But are you the prophets?

  380. And the referring back to Deuteronomy 18:15 ra says, this

    Deuteronomy 18:15

  381. Prophet will rise up. His voice will rise and the word

  382. of God will come out as mouth. Mouth.

  383. And it's we're talking about Jesus, the Messiah, and so John

  384. the Baptist replies. No verse 22 says this finally.

  385. They said well, who are you? Give us an answer to take back

  386. to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?

  387. Who are you, what who sent you? Why are you on a mission?

  388. What is going on in John, says something that's so profound is.

  389. So prolific is so important that even speaks to us today.

  390. John humbly replies, this he says, in the words of Isaiah,

  391. the prophet Prophet. See John the Baptist we're back

  392. to the scripture. So Jesus was done and he quotes

  393. Isaiah 40:3, like, almost verbatim and he says this, I am

    Isaiah 40:3

  394. the what? I'm the I'm the voice, I'm just

  395. a voice, he didn't call himself, John the Baptist, even call

  396. myself a person. He said, I'm a voice calling in

  397. the wilderness to make straight the way for the Lord.

  398. Here's the first thing you're going to bring people to Jesus

  399. and play part of the story. You have to answer the question,

  400. who are you Are you a businessman?

  401. Are you a concrete Guy? Come on, Barry?

  402. Right? Are you a pickleball player?

  403. Are you a son or a dad? Are you a hard-working American?

  404. What? What are you who are you?

  405. And so for John, the Baptist to answer this question, his reply

  406. was simply this I am a voice, that's all I am.

  407. I'm just the one that's going to point people to Jesus and I'm

  408. going to fade away Into Obscurity.

  409. I'm not even anything else. Do you recognize anything else

  410. about my life? I'm just a voice.

  411. That's going to point people to Jesus, to 9, and 12 the Messiah.

  412. I'm my whole life is leveraging for the kingdom of God.

  413. So people know his name and not my name.

  414. I'm simply just a voice thing about this voice calling out in

  415. the wilderness. He was actually quoted a prophet

  416. in Isaiah 40 verse 3. He literally quoted another

    Isaiah 40:3

  417. person who said this this was spoken to the to really the

  418. Jewish people that are in captivity in Babylon.

  419. He said that your A voice calling out in the wilderness.

  420. Make straight the way to the Lord.

  421. What's Happening Here is he's quoting this Prophet that said

  422. hey these Jewish people that are in captivity, they're being

  423. persecuted. They've been exiled out of their

  424. country in Babylon. I want you to make a straight

  425. path home through the Eastern desert.

  426. I want you to level out the sand dunes to bring these people out

  427. of captivity. You see, this is going I mean

  428. for John the Baptist this was so profound that he was going to

  429. level the ground. He's going to move barriers and

  430. obstacles and make a path of Freedom leads directly to Jesus.

  431. And for us as Christians, is there any better terminology

  432. that we should have in our life to say that?

  433. We are making straight the path to the Lord?

  434. Amen. That removing barriers and

  435. obstacles and the things that stop people from seeing God

  436. including her own pride and we move out of the way just humbly

  437. say There's Jesus there's Jesus I'm going to make a path to the

  438. freedom found in Jesus and level the ground so people can find

  439. and know Jesus and lift my voice so people can find him.

  440. So who are you today? You're just You're just a voice.

  441. You're just a voice. It's more important than

  442. anything. You do is more important, they

  443. need toddler. You have it's more important

  444. than anything that you Proclaim is more important.

  445. Your name on lights and your name being successful and people

  446. knowing you and erecting a statue that you're just a voice

  447. in this generation to point people.

  448. To Jesus, to lift the banner High men, to flatten the path of

  449. freedom to Jesus, remove, all obstacles for Freedom, so other

  450. people can know him. It says, in verse 24 says, now

  451. the Pharisees who had been since So, the question that I said,

  452. why do you baptize? If you're not the Messiah or

  453. Elijah or the prophet is that, baptized with water, John

  454. replied, but among you stands one who you do?

  455. Not know. He is the one who comes after me

  456. and says the straps of whose sandals.

  457. I am not worthy to untie. He imagined the humility for

  458. John to say this met. John the Baptist and I'm worthy

  459. to unstrap his sandals. So what you have to realize is

  460. this and that custom that culture, the job of and tying,

  461. somebody sandals was a job of a Slave.

  462. Like you go into somebody's house in a slave with a strap,

  463. your sandals and take your sandals, off your feet, that was

  464. the job of somebody. Those are indentured servant and

  465. what John the Baptist saying is, I'm not even worthy to be a

  466. slave of the one that's to come. I'm not even worthy to be a

  467. slave of Jesus, because he is so great.

  468. He is so mad. He's so powerful.

  469. I'm not worthy but only by God's grace.

  470. Amen. That I could serve Jesus.

  471. It's all by God's grace, that I can baptize.

  472. So my God's grace, I can proclaim the voice that there is

  473. Jesus. Imagine humility would take to

  474. call yourself, unworthy to slave.

  475. I mean, James is half-brother. I'm a slave of Jesus, John the

  476. past, I'm not even worthy because it's late.

  477. It says the first one, a, this all happened in Bethany on the

  478. other side of the Jordan, which the Jordan River where John was

  479. baptizing, that's rights at verse. 29 says the next day.

  480. So with this is day one. Now, we're in the day to John

  481. saw All Jesus. Now this was the first time that

  482. John recognizes who Jesus is, he saw Jesus coming toward him and

  483. he said, look behold what to say the what the Lamb of God, Behold

  484. the Lamb of God who God who takes away the sin of the world

  485. made what an incredible introduction to Jesus.

  486. Amen. The Lamb of God, who takes away

  487. the sin of the world, of all the things that John, the Baptist

  488. could have started out with. He says there's the That's going

  489. to come for the world. You think about the Lamb of God?

  490. These people around him in that culture, or custom and culture

  491. would have understood what it meant to be a lamb of God.

  492. They understood that the lamb Was An Old Testament sacrifice

  493. every single day in the temple. They would take lamb and it

  494. killed lambs, and they would shed the blood over the altar in

  495. that shed blood would pay for the sins of God's people every

  496. single day. And what what simply saying is

  497. John, the Baptist, saying there's the Lamb of God, there's

  498. the innocent one of God. That there's the permanent.

  499. Perfect sacrifice for our sins. Amen.

  500. It's a very first thing. I'm John.

  501. The Baptist says, prepared the way playing the way he didn't

  502. know what was going to happen. Matter of fact, he had no idea

  503. that Jesus was the Messiah. He had no idea that the Messiah

  504. was in his family. I mean, he had no idea who's

  505. gonna prepare the way and then God was revealed to him and

  506. revealed to the nation of Israel.

  507. He said this is the Lamb of God who's going to die for the sins

  508. of the world. I know what kind of In that we

  509. have for Jesus. But if you're going to bring

  510. people to Jesus, you have to recognize the sacrifice that

  511. Jesus made, amen. It never can leave your heart,

  512. you can never get past the cross.

  513. If your Christian walk is more about like Conformity and people

  514. looking a certain way and you forgotten about the cross of

  515. Jesus that's called religion that that's called Ferris

  516. itical, right? And we can never get past the

  517. point of that moment. We know Jesus died for me like

  518. Behold the Lamb of God, Amen. Like That's the name that we

  519. first know by Jesus, don't we? I mean, when you first came to

  520. Jesus, did you know him as a savior of the sacrificial?

  521. One that died for you, we never get past that name of God, the

  522. Lamb of God, the anointed one that died for us, that his blood

  523. shed for us that paid the price for our sins that made us whole.

  524. We could never get past that moment where it clung to the

  525. Cross as on by God's grace that were alive today.

  526. Amen. So Jesus is the Lamb of God who

  527. takes Away The Sins. He removes it.

  528. He Bears, the sins. He carries off our since he

  529. lifts Away The Sins for us. This is exactly what John the

  530. Baptist came through. Was to Proclaim Jesus, his voice

  531. and lift up Jesus and then, Fade Into Obscurity.

  532. So, who are you today? You're a voice, a voice that

  533. recognizes the sacrifice of Jesus.

  534. You're a needed voice in this culture.

  535. You know, your voice matters in this culture.

  536. You know, most people don't understand the things of God,

  537. they see churches, the kind of a relic and an Me and an outdated

  538. retreaded, institution of a dead God, but it's a good kind of

  539. thing to do, but that's not the truth.

  540. Amen. The with the presence of God

  541. that that shows as into people's lives and see them Souls change

  542. their sins, forgiven and people are in desperate need of

  543. relationship with Jesus. They need the Hope found in

  544. Christ and we are the voice with a mouthpiece.

  545. The soundtrack of pointing people to God.

  546. Because you realize the sacrifice that Jesus has made

  547. for us John. The Baptist goes on to say this

  548. in verse 30 says, this is the One, I meant when I said a man

  549. who comes after me has surpassed me, he's greater than he's a

  550. higher rank than me because he was before me that this man was

  551. before all things in the beginning, God, Jesus always was

  552. and is and is to come. He says, I myself did not know

  553. him but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he

  554. might be revealed to Israel. He won the movement of God.

  555. He started baptizing and leading the way and doing the things of

  556. God because he He wanted God to reveal himself to the nation and

  557. I just can't think of a better thing you should do in your

  558. Christian Life. The be the kind of person

  559. there's once the will of God and the presence of God to come and

  560. our generation. Amen, that we live in such a

  561. way, we're God, reveals himself, Revival breaks out, where people

  562. know Jesus, their lives are changed.

  563. We do all, we can to, to magnify, to lift up to point

  564. people to Christ, and our generation is see things change.

  565. For God, he won the move of God. Verse 32 says this, then John

  566. gave this test. John the Baptist gave this

  567. testimony. He said, I saw the Spirit came

  568. down from heaven as a dove and remain on him.

  569. Remain on Jesus. Now this would be the really the

  570. remaining on Jesus, was this permanent possession that Jesus

  571. would have had that. This Holy Spirit would have just

  572. fallen on Jesus and would enjoy well, Jesus and a compass cheese

  573. and stay with Jesus every step of the way.

  574. He says, I myself did not know him but the one who sent me to

  575. baptize with water told me the man on whom you see the Spirit

  576. come. Come down here.

  577. Remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.

  578. And I have seen and testify that this is God's chosen one and

  579. maybe you have your Bible open, you might see this as God's

  580. chosen, son. And what's amazing In this

  581. passage is that John the Baptist is baptizing with water but it's

  582. a picture of the one that said, come that's going to baptize was

  583. what the Holy Spirit. And for those of you guys do to

  584. get baptized in two weeks, for those who have been baptized,

  585. this is exactly what happened when you were baptized by water

  586. is a picture of what the Holy Spirit has already done in you.

  587. Amen. Baptism by water is not

  588. salvation. It has zero to do with

  589. salvation, it really has to be about something will get to.

  590. It's really just a picture of the Holy Spirit coming into your

  591. life. The moment you called on Jesus.

  592. The moment you said, yes. Lord, I believe that you died on

  593. the cross for me. The Holy Spirit, invaded your

  594. life. Amen.

  595. It came into your life and what your life in a washed, your sin

  596. as white as snow as far as the East is from the west and it

  597. made you pure. And so when you get water,

  598. baptized what you're doing is you are just saying this is what

  599. God has done in sided with me, this is a picture of what's

  600. already taken place and ultimately as John the Baptist

  601. says right here he says I testify that this is God's

  602. chosen one. This is God's son that why I'm

  603. getting baptized, I'm sorry. I believe in Jesus and he is

  604. God's son. Amen.

  605. You come out the waters. Like, Behold the Lamb, amen?

  606. Like this is all about Jesus, I'm Lynn for him.

  607. I'm on a shame for the cause of Christ.

  608. And so I would encourage you today.

  609. If you have not been baptized and, you know, Jesus made to get

  610. baptized, there is a cards and stuff on your seats around you

  611. and me just indicate let us know.

  612. Maybe you're baptized before. He knew Jesus.

  613. That's not the order of which the Bible talks about getting

  614. baptized is not something you do as a kind of rite of passage or

  615. confirmation or some kind of you know thing you do.

  616. Little baby. I would encourage you that you

  617. get baptized after news of Jesus.

  618. That's a picture of what God has done in you.

  619. If you get baptized for, you know, Jesus, it's really just

  620. getting wet. Come all somebody right.

  621. You just got wet and that's cool, right?

  622. But if you're curious or you have questions because I don't

  623. there's so much that goes around this and everything's you know

  624. individual stories just mark on there that you want to get

  625. baptized and will reach out to you begin this week and just

  626. just work with you talk to you see if it's something that it's

  627. a step you want to take or need to take and so we'd love to help

  628. you on that Journey. But there's nothing more

  629. exciting than really See, new Believers take that step, it's

  630. not just I know Jesus, but I'm on ashamed of Jesus because

  631. you've done something inside my heart inside my life.

  632. So who are you today? You are a, your voice, your

  633. voice matters. It's the most important thing

  634. you can do is to share Jesus. Now, we live in a world that

  635. likes to say, hey, just by osmosis people know Jesus,

  636. because I'm a good person, I'm living it out.

  637. I go to church on Sundays or a Bible like my lifestyle

  638. evangelism is going. To lead people to Jesus and in

  639. yes, you should walk the walk right there.

  640. You talk talk, talk, talk, talk, right, but in a day, you have to

  641. Proclaim Jesus. Amen.

  642. You have to bring it up. Is it didn't happen by osmosis

  643. folks like you never be good enough?

  644. People go. Hey, tell us about your God.

  645. You know, you've got to share Jesus.

  646. You gotta make this, a porn your life, to sure the be a voice for

  647. the cause of Christ. So, you are voice today, the

  648. recognize sacrifice of Christ verse 35 says this.

  649. Then the next day. This is the third day.

  650. John was there against John the Baptist with two of his

  651. disciples? This is amazing story.

  652. As soon as they saw Jesus passing by, he said, look the

  653. Lamb of God and the two disciples help me out.

  654. They what they they heard him say it's not when they saw Jesus

  655. but when they heard the voice of John, the Baptist They followed

  656. Jesus. This verse is so significant for

  657. us. This verse is beyond

  658. significant. Now, in fact, John the Baptist

  659. this woman the first time that he got to invite other people to

  660. Jesus. He imagined having a Ministry of

  661. just preparation. It's like Noah come all somebody

  662. right? You building the ark for 100,

  663. some years just preparing the way.

  664. I mean he's baptizing, he's got followers.

  665. I mean he Must have purely. Convince these guys, the Messiah

  666. was coming because all John, the had all job as had to do, was

  667. point out and said, Behold the Lamb of God and these boys pack

  668. their stuff up and started stalking Jesus.

  669. Amen, that's the kind of guy John.

  670. The Baptist was he was full-on. He was all in like they knew he

  671. was a follower of God and he prepared the way for them to

  672. know Jesus. Now, what's interesting about

  673. the story is this is that these two followers, these two

  674. disciples, they didn't recognize God.

  675. They didn't recognize Jesus as the Son of God, didn't recognize

  676. Jesus as the Lamb of God, then recognize Jesus, as the ones

  677. going to die on the cross. For our sins, didn't recognize

  678. Jesus the Messiah, the anointed one.

  679. The chosen one. They didn't recognize Jesus

  680. because they saw him. They recognize Jesus because

  681. John the Baptist, Told them. Amen.

  682. He told them do, we honestly believe that people are going to

  683. show up to God because they see us we get to help people

  684. understand like that's the work of God in their life.

  685. Like you got to get around people and you guys say Hey you

  686. know, I feel like Josh trying to show you something like what do

  687. you mean by that? They're not even Christians

  688. right? Well thank you guys trying to

  689. get your attention. What do you say that?

  690. Well if you ever thought about going to church like if you ever

  691. need a church, we have a church for you.

  692. Like I seems like you're struggling like I love you.

  693. Like man, I just tell you what, made the difference in my life

  694. and maybe makes difference here life.

  695. I'm not really sure. But could we present Jesus and

  696. like a conversation, amen. Like we don't have some try

  697. silly, whatever thing. But we're just doing like with

  698. people. People need your voice, amen.

  699. Like there's nobody is going to show up to God without somebody

  700. going. We into this last week, with the

  701. passage in Romans 10, right? 14 and 15, how beautiful feet of

  702. those who proclaim, the good news of the Gospel, right?

  703. They're supposed to know unless somebody tell them house was

  704. telling was somebody sense. How beautiful are the feet of

  705. those? Who go with the gospel?

  706. That's what were called to do. Amen.

  707. So the question is a Christian is whose voice like where we

  708. taking her voice? I really kind of people that get

  709. back and say, to thank you. Jesus, you brought a few of my

  710. life, this stranger. I'm going to point in the Jesus.

  711. And so, you guys had the opportunity last week to share.

  712. I was just bragging on Tim little bit.

  713. He was held me off my truck yesterday and he was telling me.

  714. He's like, man by six people. To real life and to Shared share

  715. a little bit at Bank of America Kamal.

  716. Somebody Bank of Doom, I mean, Bank of America, right?

  717. They love you so much. So take your money but I'll know

  718. if they help a lot, right? I love you.

  719. Make America right? But the reality the reality is

  720. this is he's just in there, just sharing Jesus and some people

  721. were interested in the one that he talked to said you don't

  722. thank you for inviting me to church because I've never in my

  723. entire life, been invited to church.

  724. Dude this is our city, right? This is our city, this isn't the

  725. Backwoods of Bangladesh, this isn't some crazy Mission work,

  726. this is Belton. Come on somebody, right?

  727. Like how in the world I mean it wouldn't be that hard for us to

  728. get out there and invite every single person to God.

  729. Ultimately your goal is not to bring in the real life, your

  730. goal to bring the Jesus. Amen.

  731. And this game too. Presence, but you don't have to

  732. like, leading the Jesus. I feel like you just give them

  733. to the cross and died around God's presence enough that God's

  734. presence just gets in them because Jesus has a way of just

  735. capturing. It's amazing.

  736. Jesus hung out with Sinners all the time.

  737. They loved hanging out with Jesus.

  738. Jesus is not some stuck-up snooty whatever thing, right?

  739. Like he calls people that are in Desperate darkness and in need

  740. and he surrounds with his grace and then we could proclaim the

  741. gospel and he works in their heart and they get changed

  742. because the spirit God comes in them and they're baptized by the

  743. spirit of God. Like, John the Baptist talk

  744. about it. What greater message do we have?

  745. We are a voice. Amen.

  746. Maybe we can take Jesus to Bank of America.

  747. We can take juices of scooters and Starbucks needs Jesus.

  748. Come on somebody, we know they need Jesus, right?

  749. I mean, you can go around the whole city, just just make a

  750. thing of it. Just be that guy that voice.

  751. You feels like you're caught crying on the Wilderness, right?

  752. Because you might feel like the only one by Mattel.

  753. You today, your voice matters more than you think.

  754. So, You're staying. Think about this if you're going

  755. to bring people to Jesus, not only do you have to ask the

  756. question who you are, that your voice it recognized, that the

  757. sacrifice Jesus made, you have to recognize that your voice is

  758. so important. You have to use your voice to

  759. bring people to Jesus. You have to have those moments

  760. in your life, where you say? I think God's, trying to get

  761. your attention. You can grab a stack of cards,

  762. come all somebody, and you could just humbly invite, somebody,

  763. you can go out and you can go on social media and You can share.

  764. You can use that and leverage that.

  765. Imagine that Jesus walked in today.

  766. I bet your social media account people of different today.

  767. Come on somebody. I mean you might be hiding a

  768. little bit little quiet with Jesus.

  769. But today, if you walked in this room, it is going to be the

  770. headline. Come on somebody, it's not going

  771. to make. Local news is not going to make

  772. Kansas City news or United States news.

  773. It's gonna make World Wide News that Jesus was here.

  774. Amen. And that's the kind of movement

  775. that God is calling us to have with Jesus every single day of

  776. our life. How to make much of Jesus.

  777. You're like, that's weird. That's weird, that's weird, but

  778. that's the call of God. Amen.

  779. That we were voice and then we humbly Fade Into Obscurity.

  780. I don't you, check this out. This is amazing.

  781. First 38, here's what happens when other people find Jesus.

  782. I'll say this about John, the Baptist real quick.

  783. This is the last time you see, John the Baptist meeting with

  784. these two disciples. This is the last time you see,

  785. John the Baptist, they were followers of John the Baptist,

  786. their Disciples of John the Baptist, but then became

  787. followers of Jesus. And John, the Baptist goes

  788. behind the curtain and disappears.

  789. Is that not the perfect picture? What is be Christian Life?

  790. Like at the end of the day? It's not like I'm not Sean, it

  791. was a great preacher. Oh man you were this cool books

  792. and manuscripts was awesome blah blah blah.

  793. It's like dude Jesus I just brought people to Jesus

  794. disappeared. Anytime you read about, John the

  795. Baptist in the Bible, anywhere in the Bible, he's always making

  796. much of Jesus. He's never boasted Thomas, L,

  797. not talking. All things that God is doing his

  798. life. He's just saying there's God,

  799. Behold the Lamb of God and then Fades Into Obscurity.

  800. Verse 38 says this, those two disciples are stocking Jesus.

  801. This what happens for 38, Turning Around Jesus.

  802. He saw them, he saw these two disciples, They're following

  803. him. He says what do you want?

  804. I noticed you behind me, you know, Jesus has eyes of doctors

  805. head. Come on somebody.

  806. And I saw you and they said Rabbi which means teacher, what

  807. do you or where are you staying? And he said this, I love this.

  808. He said come he replied and you will see this is significant to

  809. note that any time somebody asked Jesus where he is going,

  810. it made calls on Jesus. The first thing you'll see Jesus

  811. do often, do he often says hey, we'll come and see for Jesus

  812. until the cleanup through mass or be perfect or they have to

  813. qualify themselves to be in his presence.

  814. No, Jesus is a humble invite all the time.

  815. He says come and see just come and see.

  816. Come on with me because he knows if they get into his presence

  817. long enough that the presence of God is going to give in to them,

  818. amen. It is this going to happen, you

  819. see, Jesus. He says all the time, hey, come

  820. and see and then they get in the presence of God and God just

  821. doesn't work in their life and Jesus calls.

  822. Nice, as Follow Me, Be My disciple.

  823. Like, lay down yourself. He called him to higher calling,

  824. and then he does one of the highest Cause you never having a

  825. Christian. He looks at them and says now

  826. that you've come and now that you lay down your life as a

  827. disciple. Now, I want you to go until

  828. amen. And that's what this message is

  829. about. Those that are saying, you know

  830. what? God is calling me.

  831. He is sending you out to reach the world so he said, come and

  832. see for yourself and so when they saw where he was staying,

  833. they spent that day with him, and it was about what time.

  834. Is about for an afternoon. Now, this is so significant that

  835. this this piece of scripture, that mentions the time you're

  836. going to realize that the next verse that, one of the disciples

  837. that's following Jesus is Andrew.

  838. He's one of the ones that's mentioned, but the second one is

  839. not mentioned in scripture. But there's no name.

  840. Like, who is this second disciple and what's so unique

  841. about this passage and you can't get past this because this is

  842. what happens when somebody meets Jesus, see, who else would have

  843. known. It was 4:00 in the afternoon

  844. with a bat. Jesus, who would have known

  845. that? well, the only person well-known

  846. that when the person who wrote the book, John, you know, John

  847. the Beloved jail, the one that Jesus loved, we don't know, John

  848. Wright that he took care of Mary right?

  849. When Jesus crucified here, the same John that wrote the Book of

  850. John, the first second, third John, in Revelation, which

  851. understand about this. It was make it.

  852. So significant is that when John, that Jesus would have been

  853. like 30 ad somewhere around that in John didn't write this book

  854. until 90 ad. It's been 60 years since this

  855. boy that Jesus and he still remembers the exact moment in

  856. time that he met Jesus Is that incredible?

  857. And when you bring somebody to Jesus and yours a voice crying

  858. in the wilderness of your life. And so he meets Jesus, you have

  859. forever Frozen. A moment in time for them

  860. because they realized that they were a sinner in need of a

  861. savior, and they put my eyes on Jesus and God forgave them, and

  862. that moment changed their eternity.

  863. That's a story. Read the Play.

  864. Amen. This is so significant for clock

  865. after and just read through that.

  866. Oh no, forever marked a turning. There's people in your life that

  867. you could pour into. And for 50 years later, they go

  868. man, that one Sunday or that time at that dinner in the

  869. dining room table, that moment that pipe burst in the house.

  870. Janki, the apartment building I was at God, broke a pipe like

  871. all the name of Jesus for the rest of his life.

  872. He's going to point that moment in time and we get to be people

  873. that make a path that level the grounds for people to call on

  874. Jesus. Amen.

  875. That's the Call. I mean, John the Baptist Mission

  876. complete. Come on somebody.

  877. Like I pointed the way and then somebody followed Christ and

  878. they remember their entire lives and change them from the inside

  879. out. It doesn't get better than this

  880. can tell, your voice matters more than you think.

  881. Matter of fact, this is really cool is when you when you get

  882. the opportunity to bring somebody to Jesus most of the

  883. time, most often they bring somebody back with them.

  884. It's so incredible. Check it out in verse 40.

  885. It says Andrew this is the other one though.

  886. Following John. The Baptist who walked with

  887. Jesus. This is Simon Peters.

  888. Brother was one of the two who heard what John had said and

  889. followed Jesus. He had heard John.

  890. The Baptist Behold the Lamb of God and he went and stock.

  891. Jesus verse 41, says, this don't miss it.

  892. It says, the first thing and your did was to what was to find

  893. his brother, Simon, and tell him.

  894. Tell him we have found the Messiah.

  895. This is the Christ and he brought him to Jesus and how

  896. incredible the first thing he spends a day with Jesus, a few

  897. hours with Jesus. I don't know what Jesus says,

  898. you know, it's not in the Bible, whatever.

  899. Jesus said to Andrew and John was so compelling was so

  900. heartfelt. It was so Soul shaping then when

  901. Andrew left that moment, he stalked down his brother Simon,

  902. he went everywhere to find Them really got him.

  903. He grabbed by the arm and said you're gonna get your butt to

  904. Jesus. Come on somebody, he brought him

  905. to Jesus, it has so incredible. We we could never get past this

  906. in our Christian Life. We bring people to Jesus.

  907. No statistics say that most Christians will leave one person

  908. that Jesus and the entire lives one person.

  909. So you can be Krishna since you're 15 or 20 years old and

  910. spend their entire life with a different title than a voice,

  911. the different tile, the submission, who on the

  912. Wilderness and Proclaim, God. We get so wrapped up in all the

  913. minutiae, all the phony, right? All things that have pipes burst

  914. and break and we forget about Jesus.

  915. And so they just a reminder of what it is, where people find

  916. Jesus. They're so excited.

  917. They found Jesus, that they Lily find the most important thing,

  918. some in their life. That's far from God, the

  919. brother, and then bring them to Christ.

  920. Goodnight credible that generational change.

  921. Amen, generational change without John the Baptist, you

  922. have no job, right? And God knew, and God used

  923. John's Voice without John the Baptist.

  924. You have. No Andrew, you know, Andrew, you

  925. have no Peter right in assignment.

  926. You have no church that launches because of a voice.

  927. Amen. God will use your voice.

  928. Just a single voice. This is probably the best part

  929. of the story. Verse for you to this, what

  930. happens when Simon meets Jesus verse 42, second half.

  931. This is Jesus looked at Simon and said, you are Simon son of

  932. John summary version. Say son of Jonah.

  933. That's the Aramaic form of John says, you're a Simon son of John

  934. and you be called you will Be called cephas, which is Aramaic,

  935. which when translated is, Peter may think about this.

  936. The very first moment that Simon who is now drug by his brother

  937. to Jesus, the very first interaction that Jesus has, he

  938. looks over at Simon and says you, my friend, are given a new

  939. name, your name is Peter because of a purpose for your life.

  940. You can be a rock. You're gonna walk on water boy.

  941. You're going to go out and make a difference.

  942. Difference. Cut that guy's ear off, right?

  943. The crowd that's going to take Jesus down and fusion throw

  944. after him. You give me the guy that's gonna

  945. deny me we restore, you know on you boy.

  946. We're going to change the world and relaunched the church first

  947. time he met. Mmm, is that incredible?

  948. I just can't think about. Wow, crazy is all the empty

  949. seats, right? All the people we walked by,

  950. everybody tried to the highway with and got Ari has a new name

  951. and a new purpose playing for this is an incredible.

  952. Who are we? Today we're a voice and your

  953. voice matters more than you think.

  954. John the Baptist's rows of a voice in his generation and the

  955. winter security, but we're a voice.

  956. In season and out of season. Amen.

  957. We're a voice that maybe has little faith.

  958. We're a voice that struggling, we're voice, that has messed up

  959. lives, the voice to have an altogether.

  960. The, the voice that Satan wants to tell you to keep quiet.

  961. The rule says, your Relic or relevance were the voice that

  962. point people to Jesus. Amen.

  963. We're the voice that says God is a lamb, a died for us.

  964. We recognize the sacrifice he made and every moment, every

  965. chance we get, we point People to Jesus.

  966. Amen. And we humbly our voices, humble

  967. enough to say, I'm not even worthy to untie the sandal of

  968. Jesus and I really be slave of Jesus.

  969. But by his grace I am saved. And so the day we're a voice

  970. that goes after people that we love it, people that we even

  971. don't love. Come on somebody, we should love

  972. and we bring in the Jesus and where the voice that sits back

  973. and watches. It multiplies disciples because

  974. those people are so excited. You know, somebody visits

  975. Church, they often come back with somebody else.

  976. Do you know that people don't come back alone?

  977. And so when you're like, making a difference, it may feel like a

  978. little conversation. You are, you're the voice of

  979. generational change. Amen.

  980. You're the voice that is forever changed the course of history

  981. for that family. Maybe even for a city, or for a

  982. nation because you just stood up.

  983. So you're the voice that maybe feels like you're in the

  984. wilderness for the voice that makes a pathan.

  985. Jesus. And so, that's why I do all this

  986. remove obstacles for people to know Christ.

  987. And so today, I just want to know, are you ready to raise

  988. your voice in this generation? Amen.

  989. I read a lift. Your voice with thanks to

  990. Christ. Those are baby little timid and

  991. a little like Diane. You want some, you know, bamboo

  992. shoots under your fingernails before you get out there, right?

  993. You're introverted right? Bone encourage you.

  994. There's a way to share a man and it is moments where people all

  995. day long. You have moments.

  996. So I'm not praying for a moment. I'm praying for bold. - I'm

  997. praying just to say, you know what, I'm just a voice today.

  998. It's going to humbly serve God and I can put my Name In Lights,

  999. can be servant. And the point people to Jesus

  1000. and they follow Jesus, yes. I stayed off and then they

  1001. return the cycle over and over and over Ray's.

  1002. Definition The Voice, father, come before you gotta pray, got

  1003. our church of rise up as a voice in our community that

  1004. individuals today. Gotta pray for the speak to

  1005. somebody day and it's been timid as put everything else in front

  1006. of this has been keeping the voice quiet and hiding it under

  1007. a basket. Basket.

  1008. The light is not shining today. I pray this rise up.

  1009. People got a raise up, people gathered proclaim, the good

  1010. news, the gospel everywhere they go.

  1011. I pray that we would be able to bring people to Jesus got who is

  1012. the person who life that you've called us to bring what lost

  1013. siblings people in our block and her co-workers doing you bring

  1014. today. And so you got it will pray for

  1015. those that are speaking that you're speaking to data raise

  1016. their voice up in this generation, just like you did in

  1017. John the Baptist in danger of Peter gotten John.

  1018. Can we play the Harvest story that pause the moment?

  1019. I'm from people as they meet you that tourney be changed so that

  1020. that's unions. They don't need to raise a voice

  1021. higher. I got God speaking to me Holy

  1022. Spirit speaking to me I've been on the back burner but Salman

  1023. I'm a little front burner for Jesus like I gotta find some

  1024. people. I've got a lift my voice up.

  1025. All the platforms are leveraged my life for Christ so that you

  1026. use, raise your hand high, this place.

  1027. Come on. These me, the gods of use my

  1028. voice. Come on, put your hand up that

  1029. you today sir. He is all around.

  1030. Father. You see the hands?

  1031. Got thanks for calling people. Not to be the voice just

  1032. preparing Hearts God, just leveling out paths and is

  1033. pulling people to you. Maybe it's on the maybe it's we

  1034. were the garage working on my car or it's out in the world.

  1035. God, maybe it's real. Pulping.

  1036. Got you've just given a mouthpiece, God, we can lift up

  1037. your voice this generation, but pray for one more group people

  1038. and that's those of you that you're like, Simon somebody

  1039. brought you here today. So maybe drug you here today.

  1040. So missing you get to real life. You need to be a part of this.

  1041. Is in the realized today that God wants to give you a new name

  1042. that I want to give you a purpose, a day.

  1043. You realize who Jesus is, he's a lamb of God.

  1044. They died on the cross for you. And today, you need new life in

  1045. him. You need to, you need a word

  1046. from the word today. You need to call on him.

  1047. You made every phone call today. But today, you're gonna call him

  1048. Jesus, instead of that you've need forgiveness and new life,

  1049. also has a calls, him Lord should be saved for a given, it

  1050. made new. So, that's you day that I be

  1051. looking around. They need Jesus.

  1052. We Salute Your Hand high this place.

  1053. I need Jesus. Today, I'll put the hand up with

  1054. that to you. I need Jesus.

  1055. That's you down with you to pray this prayer and say, father God,

  1056. thanks so much for sending Jesus for senior best design across

  1057. for me. God God, thank you so much for

  1058. being the Lamb of God. The sacrifice yourself.

  1059. You do it without protesting your suffering.

  1060. Got the you do that. Protesting to sacrifice.

  1061. For me God you've made me clean dealt with spirits come into my

  1062. life. Wash away my sins white as snow.

  1063. Got, thank you so much for loving me enough.

  1064. It's in Jesus and raising voices in my life.

  1065. It was so humbly point me to you.

  1066. God, we love you and thank you. Pray?

  1067. This in Jesus name and everybody said, amen.

  1068. Come on scooter for God today. Come on.

  1069. Made it if that's you today, you made that decision for Jesus.

  1070. You pray that prayer what you to know that we are so excited for

  1071. you. Congratulations, we are all in

  1072. for you. We can't wait to see what's

  1073. going to happen next in your life.

  1074. What God's got for you? So, if that's you today, whether

  1075. you're in the online or you're with us in person, I've got a

  1076. couple great next steps for you. The first one is let us know

  1077. about your decision by texting our own next 29. 7000 what we

  1078. want to do is when you fill out that information card, we want

  1079. to bless you with this little book called begin.

  1080. And it's got a big blessing and It's a great way to get you

  1081. started off on the right foot. It's a short little book, but

  1082. it's a great step to get you guys started off to follow.

  1083. Jesus, become a disciple, become a follower, in the way that the

  1084. Bible would have you. So when you fill that out, we

  1085. would love to send that to you in the mail.

  1086. If you were with this in person, the other thing we've got for

  1087. you is on your way out. There's a red bag.

  1088. So, grab one of those inside. There's a Bible.

  1089. So I'll talk about having a Bible.

  1090. Take it. Bring it back next week.

  1091. It's awesome. It's just how you find God's

  1092. purpose for you and your life. And so take that their the re

  1093. great resource in there. We're so excited for you.

  1094. Thank you so much, and we're excited to partner with you and

  1095. to see what God's got for you. I love how sean talked about

  1096. your voice and there's a lot of different voices in here.

  1097. Some of us have deep voices, some of us have High voices,

  1098. some of us are quiet, some of us are loud, but can it tell no

  1099. matter where you fall on that Spectrum, your voice is

  1100. important. You guys going to use it in his

  1101. Sovereign way, just to reach the circles that you have in your

  1102. lives because there's people in your circles that none of us are

  1103. ever going to meet. So the best way that you can use

  1104. your voice in the next couple weeks is your and have an

  1105. awesome. Opportunity just to lift that

  1106. voice and reach into those circles and invite people out to

  1107. Easter. And you can do that in several

  1108. different ways and on your chairs for the chair next to

  1109. theirs. These Easter cards, grab one of

  1110. those you can just make a simple invite, just talk to somebody

  1111. about hey, I know what's going on in your life guys, got

  1112. something for you in that come hang out with this Easter, you

  1113. can share the event on Eventbrite.

  1114. So there's so many ways that you can use your voice just to just

  1115. to tie into people. And we're going to blow this

  1116. place. Up is so exciting.

  1117. I don't know. You guys can't.

  1118. We're going to have three special Gatherings at 8:30,

  1119. 10:00 and 11:30, just to make room for the new people that God

  1120. is going to bring into the room. And we're not leaving the kids

  1121. out there, going to have an awesome, an awesome, awesome

  1122. time bacteria that got through own their own egg, hunt

  1123. photobooth. So it is going to be cool what

  1124. an awesome opportunity to invite families with with kids.

  1125. So we can't wait to see how how God is going to use that.

  1126. And bless that, one of the things we're going to do next

  1127. week as we prepare for Easter, we're gonna do something called

  1128. communion. It's a way that we can time too.

  1129. The it's going to give us a time to sit and reflect on what God

  1130. did for us in that moment leading up to his death burial

  1131. and Resurrection, we can reflect on his suffering, what he did

  1132. for us to bring Redemption into our lives.

  1133. So prepare your hearts next week for that as well as we all

  1134. participate in communion. So, if you're new at real life,

  1135. can I let you guys know? We don't want anything from you?

  1136. We want something for you. This Gathering is our gift to

  1137. you, but if you call yourself a member in your, your home here

  1138. at your life, there's still three ways you can participate

  1139. in generosity in the One is by going online at Real Life Church

  1140. kc.com, you can take steam out, see four, three, two, one, or if

  1141. you want to use cash or check, you can drop that in the box at

  1142. the back or use one of these buckets.

  1143. As it is, they come back also. As these buckets past, if your

  1144. family find yourself in immediate need of food, clothing

  1145. or shelter please reach in and grab any loose cash.

  1146. Just you see just to help your family in the time of need.

  1147. So I want to give your attention one more thing on your chair.

  1148. The chair next to you. Sean talked about these cards.

  1149. We're about to watch a video in a second.

  1150. Is God's leading you. Or you have something or

  1151. questions about baptism, you've never done that.

  1152. You never taken that next step because you're watching this

  1153. video, grab one of these cards, fill it out and drop it off at

  1154. the baptism booth and we would love just to talk to you about

  1155. if this is the next step for you and your life.

  1156. So take a second, check out this video Hey, we're alive with

  1157. something so special, and so significant Happening Here in a

  1158. lifer Church in just two Sundays.

  1159. Of course, it's Easter Sunday, but something significant this

  1160. happening each and every gathering on that Sunday.

  1161. We are baptizing here at Real Life Church in Jesus.

  1162. He don't only commands as to, they actually models for us,

  1163. what is he baptized in? So important, the life of a

  1164. Believer to take this stem is over.

  1165. As you may wonder, what is this all about?

  1166. It's simply a picture of what Jesus did for us on Easter

  1167. Sunday that he was buried. He was dead, and he resurrected

  1168. for life. And so for us, we were dead to

  1169. send our may live, the Jesus and sought invite you to sign up

  1170. today. You were just curious, maybe a

  1171. little nervous to be afraid of what to expect.

  1172. We're going to help you every step along the way for this

  1173. journey from just giving knowledge about it to walk you

  1174. through it. You can even see what happens on

  1175. Sunday. How excited we are for you.

  1176. And so, this is a step of abuse Source.

  1177. Christ is just saying, Hey to the whole world, on the love of

  1178. Jesus. I'm passionate about Jesus now

  1179. with the world to know that I love Jesus.

  1180. And so, get signed up today, go, our website, click on Advanced

  1181. and let us know. You're interested.

  1182. We love to help you. Your next step in your faith

  1183. Journey, this Easter Sunday, And I'm so excited for Easter for

  1184. baptism. Come hang out with this next

  1185. week as we conclude our series on bring tearin'.

  1186. The roof off is to bring to people to the feet of Jesus,

  1187. were going to hear some more stories about prodigals that

  1188. have come home. So, don't miss next week, you

  1189. need if you need prayer for a reason, we'll have a team

  1190. record. We would love to pray with you

  1191. and it's always that you guys leave remember whoever finds

  1192. Jesus discovers real life and purpose.

  1193. See you next week.