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Any Given Sunday

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

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  3. Church kc.com church we are so excited.

  4. You're here with us on this football son. and a, whether

  5. you're watching online or you're right here,

  6. You got some praise today, our God is good and he is fighting

  7. for you. He's fighting battles.

  8. He's already won on your behalf. And so on introduced a new song

  9. today it's called same God and it really leans into this idea.

  10. That the same God who did these big miracles from Years Gone by

  11. is alive today. He's fighting for you, he's

  12. active in your life and in your Circumstance, the god of Moses,

  13. the god of Jacob, the god of Mary, and David he is fighting

  14. for you. You and so, I hope that you'll

  15. like this one. I hope that you'll lift it up to

  16. our good God. You are the same.

  17. what are you thankful that we serve the same God who perform

  18. Miracles way back when he's performing them even right now

  19. and have got ever made a way for you if he's brought you through

  20. the darkness, if he's provided for you and you thought there

  21. was no, I don't want you to see In your hearts out to him today,

  22. as we continue to worship His goodness together.

  23. The goodness of our amazing God. And maybe this week, maybe this

  24. morning, you woke up just with the weight of the week, the past

  25. week, on your shoulders, and you were kind of debating, whether

  26. you wanted to even get up out of bed.

  27. Come and show up today and be a part of this Gathering but you

  28. did it anyway and you're here. And I think you're here because

  29. you needed to be reminded of the goodness of God, right?

  30. You need to be reminded that there's a God, that pursues you,

  31. that loves you, that is fiercely seeking after you, it has a

  32. purpose for your life. You're so glad you decided to

  33. join us. If you are not here in purpose,

  34. maybe you still got off. And you're watching us online

  35. today on Church online, we still want to give you guys a huge

  36. welcome. Would you guys all join me here

  37. in person and welcoming Church online?

  38. Give him a big round of applause.

  39. All right, we are so excited that they are here and I want

  40. you guys before we get started on us, exciting football Sunday

  41. to take a quick second and grease the people around.

  42. You say, I got hello happy, Chief stay and then take a seat.

  43. Well, happy, football Sunday, everybody.

  44. How about those How many of you guys are excited to watch the

  45. big game today? Yeah, it's going to be an

  46. awesome football funny. We have a lot of exciting things

  47. in store for you guys afterwards.

  48. But right now, for those of you guys that are brand new with us

  49. today, thanks for being here. Thanks for deciding to spin your

  50. Super Bowl Sunday here with us. Here are real at church at

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  63. here. Thanks for spending your Super

  64. Bowl Sunday here with us a real life church.

  65. And if you want to know a little bit about who we are, we are a

  66. church on a mission and that mission is to see people who are

  67. far from God, discover their real life and perv.

  68. Vez. And that mission goes far beyond

  69. the walls of this room even this building because everything that

  70. we do is intentional to reach the people of our city, and we

  71. have events like this today, like football Sunday because we

  72. love the people in our city. Amen.

  73. And we want to reach people in our community for Jesus and

  74. we're going to have some brats. We're going to have a good time

  75. here because we care so much about the lost souls in our

  76. city. And today is no different.

  77. It's football Sunday. You guys are so excited.

  78. I can feel the anticipation in the room.

  79. You guys are Chiefs fans like me.

  80. You know, we have a little bit of anxiety that comes right with

  81. following our Chiefs team, but if you guys watch games were

  82. always on the edge of our seat, right?

  83. We are always just so excited and expectant for what's going

  84. to happen next during the game because we've never really know

  85. what's coming up next and they're every play, every single

  86. down, every second, right? Can hold us in anxiety, and

  87. anticipation for what might be happening.

  88. Next, and as Christians, as Jesus followers, we get that

  89. same privilege and opportunity to be on the edge of our See and

  90. expectant and excited for everything that Jesus is going

  91. to do through our community Through us.

  92. With each decision that we make On Any Given Sunday to be a

  93. Jesus follower. So it's Pastor Sean.

  94. I'm invited to the Stacy's going to share with us today.

  95. Look and just happen as a Christian On Any Given Sunday.

  96. Give it up for pastor Sean. Thanks Gary.

  97. Come on. Welcome to football.

  98. Sunday, made you guys look ready?

  99. I'm gonna just say that live in Kansas City, in this era in time

  100. in the Chiefs kingdom is awesome.

  101. Come on somebody. I mean, it's amazing one day.

  102. I'll pry have to tell my kids. I came here when you're little

  103. and they were like in a Super Bowl three times in five years,

  104. amazing. But I want to get some honor day

  105. before you jump into football, Sunday to a few select group

  106. people that just want to Bone Beyond, we have a dream team,

  107. there's a group people in the dream team that really went the

  108. extra yards. Come on.

  109. Tended, the hard yards for us today, really for a tailgate

  110. party all the stuff. You're gonna see a special day

  111. and give us a big. Thank you and some honor to our

  112. Vince team to put the extra miles in today.

  113. Come on, it's good. Another person really family.

  114. Want to just highlight they brought Arrowhead to us today.

  115. Literally there was like grass from are ahead on the tailgate

  116. stuff. You can smell the fire pits and

  117. the in the barbecue and all that.

  118. That and so the guys are DieHard Chiefs fans, but they love

  119. Jesus. They love us.

  120. Ranger Smith care under the in the house, over here, somewhere

  121. to hide, and there's some other back.

  122. There we go. Hey, there they are.

  123. Dude, thank you so much for the extra miles, man.

  124. They'd be answerable, didn't win the lottery on this one but,

  125. man, it's exciting one other person.

  126. This is just something. I just felt today, but men that

  127. worship is on fire today, and there's, there's something to

  128. back. They got picked on last week,

  129. but did incredible job today and the worship set.

  130. I think some of your first week told, Your own little run.

  131. The audio, give it up for Logan back there.

  132. Come on, put your hand in this. Make up for last week.

  133. He's the guy in the Eagles jersey, we still love you.

  134. Come on, don't kill the audio guy.

  135. Okay we need him for next week. All right, it's all good.

  136. I mean there's always something special about Super Bowl Sunday

  137. and there is always some anticipation and you know,

  138. you're Andy Reid and his coaching and course you got the

  139. magic of Mahomes and it just like anything is possible with

  140. this team. It doesn't matter if the down by

  141. 28 come on and it also doesn't matter out by 28, right.

  142. We almost put blood pressure medication out the seats today.

  143. You know I'm saying? I'm just kind of team we got

  144. right here. Right?

  145. I mean 13 seconds, your Grim be the Grim Reaper right?

  146. This is the greatest quote of all time, you know, and just

  147. Kansas City history. But you need to Chiefs that

  148. you'd it's never over till it's over and that's what I love

  149. about football. It's exciting.

  150. Every down every play, every second, really, anything can

  151. happen. And for us as Christians, I just

  152. want to just spend this on its head because here's the reality

  153. in any Sunday. Anything Can Happen, amen.

  154. Anything in the move of God, in any moment, any time that same

  155. exhilaration expectation, that same culture that we could show

  156. up in the things of God and say thank you Jesus that the Holy

  157. Spirit can move at any moment. Amen.

  158. Think about being a Christian we're in a spiritual war now.

  159. Back to we're doing we're always taking yards from Satan amen.

  160. We're taking some hard yards. In fact, we pray and we work

  161. hard and we serve hard to all this stuff just for somebody

  162. today to know, Jesus to know Jesus and leave forever change

  163. today. Like, we're working her tail off

  164. for the things of Christ. East matter of fact, you think

  165. about what is the to be a Christian that we get to

  166. celebrate the things of God, we could to serve in the things of

  167. God, we will lean into the things go out every single week

  168. knowing that God can move. Amen.

  169. As we lead with expectation with with big expectation of what God

  170. can do, Any Given Sunday, mass effect.

  171. People walk in this house today maybe you walked in, you thought

  172. your life was kind of that spot was fourth and impossible.

  173. You thought maybe you're not going to make it maybe you're in

  174. a season of depression or suicide or maybe need some hope

  175. in people. Look at this every single week.

  176. People come to Christ here and today the Holy Spirit can be

  177. poured onto your life through Jesus, and you can leave changed

  178. and forever new. And I'll tell you what, I get

  179. excited about that, amen. I never give up on the fact that

  180. this maybe somebody Super Bowl Sunday.

  181. Amen. I never give up on that.

  182. The never changes. So we leave with expectation.

  183. And so, this looks like it looks like this.

  184. When somebody ask you to pray, they've been a life group, or

  185. maybe it's in the Huddle, maybe it's in your family.

  186. And someone says, who wants to pray this way?

  187. Expectation looks like right there.

  188. Amen. Who was the prey is a boom,

  189. boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom hands everywhere, right?

  190. And really kind of leaders have to say.

  191. All right guys, one at a time. One at a time, right?

  192. Or hey, I'm really sorry. I got some bad news today.

  193. Only one person can pray in the group.

  194. Oh, right? Because expectation, that what

  195. God can do and uh, this kind of silly, it's like, oh yeah, that

  196. never really happens, but it wish it would.

  197. Amen. Because here's the thing, how

  198. you pray is really how you play. Like we don't step on this stage

  199. without being prayed over. Look, we're not going to talk

  200. about the Word of God without praying for all of you.

  201. But praying for God to move, forgot to change Souls.

  202. We don't show up to a life group and were like, oh, yeah, hey,

  203. hey Jim yeah, Jim Jim, how you doing Jim?

  204. Then the we prayed for a gym this week, amen.

  205. Like we came with expectation that God is going to change

  206. Jim's life, and so we care for people with so prayer, really

  207. sets the expectation that God is going to move.

  208. Amen. Like I mean, we're behind the

  209. scenes constantly asking God to do these things.

  210. And so we show up on Sunday, it's like, okay, God, like who

  211. are prayed? Sup were trusting you with this

  212. think about worship. It's my expectation of worship.

  213. I'm how we come in is Jesus followers and worship Jesus, and

  214. we can worship Jesus in a lot of ways.

  215. But worship juice through song is one of my favorite ways we

  216. come here and we just look to Jesus say thank you.

  217. Jesus, we have Open Hearts and Hands for the things of God and

  218. obvious picture Jesus on today, on the cross and him pursuing me

  219. and died for me and really heartfelt, tears come down our

  220. face and worship. Amen.

  221. But, you know, we saw people come to church, and I saw this

  222. me and I probably shouldn't say this way, but I must say, It was

  223. this Meme and it was a Baptist enjoying worship, and it was

  224. like this. Now, if you come fast come fast,

  225. but the reality is there. So if people hold on the chair,

  226. it's like there's so Express expressionless and people so

  227. worried about like being emotional church and I'm sorry

  228. that somebody told you back at your, like, whatever, religion

  229. experience. They told you to hold back on

  230. the things of God. I'm sorry that somebody told you

  231. to show up on a Sunday and be reserved.

  232. I mean, I think about Chiefs game, I'm like, when I go to

  233. Chief Stadium ever had stadium and I see what's happening, I

  234. always imagine heaven and I'm saying they're having, I'm not

  235. saying But I'm saying there's just countless thousands of

  236. millions of people that worship Jesus in heaven, that we do part

  237. of that, that the anthem forever.

  238. And so for me, like we should get excited about the things of

  239. God, just like the Chiefs, amen. I mean, we where the Chiefs

  240. jersey, right? We represent, but we represent

  241. the kingdom of God. The so we show up on Sunday,

  242. there's any place. Just have some expectation of

  243. come around if people should think a little crazy up here a

  244. little bit. Okay.

  245. I'm just saying this you walking like something's weird.

  246. Hey, we just love you and with the whole experience here and we

  247. love that we love Jesus. Amen.

  248. And so any moment I believe this any moment today somebody's

  249. going to come to Jesus so he made came to Jesus in the

  250. parking lot. So maybe in the hallway and had

  251. a heart-to-heart conversation to connect with somebody and you

  252. say, hey there's The Wonder of God in my life or maybe sitting

  253. next to you you're like, hey I don't know this guy but am I

  254. getting this guy or maybe they do know him but today's the day

  255. or maybe it hang out that tailgate Tent today.

  256. And I will those Jesus conversations, right?

  257. Or maybe it's in the kids room they give them Jesus or in the

  258. youth group. I'm just showing this is

  259. expectation to have today. Amen.

  260. This is this expectation house. We're going to do we're going to

  261. kind of set the expectation so I'm going to go ahead and pray

  262. and maybe ask you once the prey. All right so I picked the right

  263. topic to talk about today. Come on somebody, right?

  264. So we're gonna set up the expectation that God the midday

  265. father come before you with open hands.

  266. Open Hearts. God that we would be the type of

  267. Christians that expect you to move any given day the week

  268. especially on Sunday. It's a God.

  269. Help us to be enthusiastic to be expectant, got to our faith and

  270. our worship and our Prayer removed from a private Faith to

  271. a public Declaration of the Wonders.

  272. And the glory of God that changes today.

  273. We pray this in Jesus name, maybe the church said, amen.

  274. By the way, I will say, your worship is a weapon weapon for

  275. Jesus. Do you think about this when

  276. you're worshiping Jesus? It's like, I trust you, I

  277. believe in you, you've got this. It's also telling saying

  278. something to it, you look at saying, you say, hey guess what?

  279. This is our been decided, this are decided in heaven.

  280. So, whatever scheme you're trying to put on me and going to

  281. happen. Amen.

  282. And so worships like real. I'm the heart so I love to get

  283. into worship and I like her just to be a worshipping church.

  284. We were blessed and the search to have amazing worship.

  285. Amen. And I'm just telling you like we

  286. should come in with some expectation at allow you guys do

  287. but we got to get breaks them out of the mold.

  288. They be of just Comfort to say, Okay God people should go in

  289. here and say these love these guys love Jesus, a little weird,

  290. but they love Jesus. Amen.

  291. And so we're going to jump into really what set the expectation

  292. where did this all come from? Its, we're going to go back to

  293. one of those original Sundays The original Sunday really

  294. outside of Jesus on the cross and Resurrection Sunday, we're

  295. gonna go to the Sunday, the relaunch, the church, and you

  296. find this in Acts chapter 2, and what is called Pentecost.

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  297. And so, he used some context of Pentecost.

  298. This is where Jesus had been crucified.

  299. He was killed. He resurrects from the dead.

  300. He came back to life. Obviously, four days.

  301. He went around to be seen by people.

  302. He restored Peter and then he ascended to Heaven.

  303. You have Acts chapter 1, you have pure kind of stands up a

    Acts 1 chapter mention

  304. little bit with disciples that pick Matthias.

  305. To take over for Judas and then you have Pentecost and so picks

  306. up an axe chapter 2. We're going to be there pretty

  307. much the whole day Acts chapter 2, verse 1, says this, when the

    Acts 2:1

  308. day of Pentecost came. So this is something significant

  309. Pentecost is already an event and Jewish calendar.

  310. It's already holiday. This isn't we think of Pentecost

  311. and just like launch on this day, this is something that

  312. Jewish culture. We already had in place.

  313. What's really interesting about the Pentecost?

  314. It's actually 50 days past Jesus.

  315. Resurrection, the whole Pinta cost, it's Greek for 50 days.

  316. So this is actually a feast that the Jewish culture would have

  317. had. It's called The Feast of the

  318. early Harvest. Come on somebody.

  319. You think Jesus had a plan when he claimed that the Pentecostals

  320. me the feast early Harvest and 3,000 people come to Christ.

  321. That fact you back up, 50 days, Jesus actually, resurrected on

  322. the feet, the Feast of the first fruits, come on somebody.

  323. So Jesus resurrects, the first resurrection of the dead and

  324. Jesus didn't resurrect just to life to die again.

  325. Jesus resurrected and immortality.

  326. And so he's the first of those that would resurrect wrecked

  327. from Mortal to Immortal. Now, Jesus was a little

  328. different but for us, we resurrect from Mortal to

  329. Immortal and we were like, kind of like the last fruits, come on

  330. somebody, right. And today, we need to play a

  331. part of the story. And so, when you line up all

  332. these cultures of the Old Testament, Jesus really God

  333. started and Jesus fulfills them, do it is amazing.

  334. Amen, to see the plan of God and how it works.

  335. And so, it says this and when Pentecost came, they the

  336. disciples were all together in one place.

  337. And suddenly, a sound, like a blowing of a violent wind came

  338. from Heaven waiting, all week for that.

  339. Also, buddy, violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole

  340. house, where they were sitting, and they saw what seemed to be

  341. tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of

  342. them. So you're the picture there in

  343. this house, the praying together they've been seeking for Jesus.

  344. That's been pasted about nine or ten days.

  345. They've been unified together, trying to figure out, hey,

  346. what's going to happen next? The been praying and all of a

  347. sudden you have this wind just rush from heaven and what seems

  348. like tongues of fire come and they separate and they land or

  349. they rest over the top of these people.

  350. And what's amazing about this is this is ruler with the Holy

  351. Spirit kind of enters in. He feels these people and so

  352. there's really the launch of something very special and I

  353. love when this pulley Spirit shows up it's not like today

  354. where Holy Spirit comes your life it's invisible.

  355. You don't see the Holy Spirit but for them this was there was

  356. a physical symbol of the Holy Spirit of this Fire and Fire is

  357. representative God. Matter of fact the Holy Spirit

  358. came and Pryor was Jesus. Baptized right and came down as

  359. a dove. And so here you see the fire of

  360. God, the tongues on these people laid, on them representing

  361. really the things. Christ.

  362. Now you think about this fire is said that rabbis used to have

  363. fire rust on them as they stood the word of God, these teachers

  364. of the Old Testament, my factors actually Roman coins as pretty

  365. interesting as a these leaders about a tongue of fire above

  366. them that represents a new era and this season, these tongue

  367. comes, it's really represent a new era for us as relationship

  368. with God. This new way as it's called as

  369. Christians. And so here's the real this is

  370. very interesting. So the Pentecost actually came

  371. out of when Moses received the law from outside, I That's when

  372. I started celebrating the Pentecost is, that's called the

  373. Feast of the weeks, it was seven weeks.

  374. And so the reality is this is that Pentecost was the chosen

  375. day that God sent the Holy Spirit to us to abolish or

  376. fulfill what Jesus did with the law and represent the new time.

  377. We walk with Jesus called the New Covenant, the age of Grace,

  378. amen. I'm just telling you, this is

  379. for the mature Christians, that know, some of the stuff, right?

  380. This is amazing how God has moved.

  381. They settle all up and they celebrated and then Go to

  382. celebrate the said we're done with that.

  383. The holy spirit is here, there's a new way to know God and it's

  384. through this spirit that we can walk with Jesus, Spirit, enters

  385. into man for the first time, they're in this set and they're

  386. filled with the spirit, they wiped away.

  387. Along verse 4 says this, all of them, this is every person in

  388. the house, unconditional these guys have been praying and

  389. seeking after God, unconditionally were filled with

  390. the Holy Spirit. Now you see this all throughout

  391. the Bible that says this extra anointing of the Holy Spirit,

  392. that's on somebody's Samson. Pushed the pillars, over all the

  393. different times where people are filled with the spirit of God.

  394. They begin to Speak in other tongues, as the spirit enabled

  395. them. Now I'll say this, there's

  396. different types of tongues, the New Testament.

  397. If you want a Christian, anytime at all, you've debated this at

  398. some coffee shop with somebody right, come on, right?

  399. And so there's different tongues and this other tongues, there's

  400. three different forms of tongues in the Bible, tongues of angels,

  401. tongues of men. Here, you have other tongues.

  402. This other tongues is referring to other languages very

  403. specifically, so it says they spoke in other languages as the

  404. spirit, enabled them. Now, here's why this is so

  405. significant for us today. We call the expectation of

  406. Expectations what God can do on a Sunday morning.

  407. Any Given Sunday? It says, this verse 5, now there

  408. are staying in Jerusalem. These God-fearing Jews.

  409. Hey, get the picture. So, here's this Feast, this of

  410. the early Harvest. It's happening, Jerusalem.

  411. And he's Old Testament followers of Judaism.

  412. They actually feared God, but they do about Jesus, and they

  413. were coming to celebrate the Pentecost.

  414. And once you have to know about this, it's very significant.

  415. It says they're from every nation under heaven, then

  416. incredible. This is a global scale, C

  417. Pentecost was a pilgrimage. If you're a Jewish, man, you're

  418. required to come back in to go to Pentecost, to go to this

  419. feast. And so, the Holy Spirit, God

  420. picked the perfect moment at a global scale that the good news

  421. will go out to all the world that have represents the world.

  422. Would be there, it says this. And when they heard the sound,

  423. which is a great quote, by the way, I heard the sound right of

  424. the spirit of God. They heard the sound of rushing.

  425. Wind everybody, talking their loan?

  426. Languages a crowd came together in.

  427. Mulder mate. These guys are confused.

  428. All right? And because each one heard their

  429. own language being spoken. Look man.

  430. This is a little crazy. So it's they're amazed and they

  431. ask aren't all. These are speaking galileans

  432. like on the world. They speak in my language, what

  433. in the world is going on? And then how is it that each of

  434. us here them in our native tongue or day of language?

  435. And so they got parthians and medes, and elamites and

  436. residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia Pontius.

  437. Asia friken says, 14 Ghia. I was a Fergie.

  438. Come on, somebody. Right.

  439. We're not going there philia, Egypt.

  440. Maybe it's in the playlist later, I don't know.

  441. Right parts, Olivia. Cyrene visitors from Rome, both

  442. Jews and convert to Judaism cretians.

  443. Arabs, we hear them declaring. And this is so good.

  444. What are they declaring in their own tongues?

  445. What were they saying? They're declaring.

  446. What the The wonders of God, this is incredible.

  447. This Holy Spirit comes with the exact moment.

  448. The exact Sunday would all rule, is there to celebrate really the

  449. Old Testament law being given but they're saying, no, no, this

  450. is being changed and they're declaring in their own tongue to

  451. the Holy Spirit, the wonders of God, this is amazing.

  452. I hope we haven't changed or left is very first message.

  453. Come on somebody to declare the wonders of God, why in the world

  454. of the Holy Spirit? Picked this because there was

  455. there was good news. That was too good.

  456. Kept private, it was too good to worship like this.

  457. It was too, it was too good. Not to pray before you showed

  458. up. It was too good to be kept

  459. silence. He was good news.

  460. It was too good, not to share. And so the Holy Spirit showed up

  461. and said we're going to get this good news out.

  462. Amen. To a lost and dying world that

  463. needs Jesus. It's amazing to me that the very

  464. first Act of the Holy Spirit. Now, in fact, you don't know the

  465. book of Acts is actually called the book of Acts because it's

  466. the acts of the Holy. Spirit, the very first Act of

  467. the holy spirit of God, the, the helper, the promised comforter?

  468. Remember, Jesus, that would be one that's coming Gina.

  469. Come for you, the encourager, the ones going to indwell us

  470. live in us. The very first thing that is

  471. Holy Spirit does it's been locked up right?

  472. From the hearts of man. For all these centuries.

  473. All these These are is these thousand Millennials right to be

  474. locked up in a sense of released into this moment.

  475. And the very first thing that this His Spirit, it does is it

  476. makes a way for us to declare the wonders of God to the entire

  477. world? Come on.

  478. Somebody am I excited? I'm excited because this this

  479. is, this is incredible. Like, this is the launch Sunday.

  480. Come on somebody of the capital c church.

  481. We just repeat what the Holy Spirit did every single Sunday

  482. really every single day or life. Declaring the wonders of God to

  483. all people around us, do we? Not lose that passion, amen.

  484. And so we're in with the kids program or working with

  485. elementary kids or even Nursery, kids or Pre-K.

  486. And we're doing a Bible lesson that we're sharing the wonders

  487. of God. Amen.

  488. And we get we did we move Heaven and Earth to share the wonders

  489. of God with people. And so people show up like a cot

  490. guys, this is all about me share that with our kids and our

  491. families and we go to youth group and you got kids that are

  492. struggling with identity struggling crisis, meant I love

  493. about you, it's kind of a world. We kind of afraid to have

  494. teenagers go through this section of life like the world

  495. is so Much different. Even when I was a teenager,

  496. that's how I know I'm getting old.

  497. I'm saying things that sound old.

  498. Come on. So he right.

  499. But it's just so much different. They're questions that have to

  500. ask themselves are insane, what kind of right asks, any of the

  501. questions have to ask them. So that was a really, and

  502. they're struggling, but they have the hope of Jesus.

  503. We need to clear the wonders of God, to these young Souls, had

  504. the holy spirit of God, they can live a life on Mission.

  505. Amen. You need to clear that when

  506. somebody connects to the front door and you get to have the

  507. heart to heart conversation that sold his soul.

  508. And you could maybe just Are the ones of God like hey man, I've

  509. been in your shoes but God man. He's just done it for me.

  510. He's done it for me. And you get to have those

  511. conversations. The soul shaping conversations

  512. every single time we interact with people.

  513. That's what we're doing. We're declaring the wonders of

  514. God to a lost and Dying World. Maybe somebody sitting next to

  515. you, maybe somebody at life group and maybe a neighbor.

  516. I mean, when you come on the stage, this is all we do as

  517. pastors and leaders and people on the stage.

  518. I don't care who you are. You come on stage, all use like

  519. this. You see The Wonder of God?

  520. It's not the Wonder of me. It's a wonder of God, what God

  521. has done in me. So if you want to be a preacher

  522. and a speaker just Galloway, amen.

  523. He just point to Jesus this, The Wonder of God is to really any

  524. stage. You know, I was looking at their

  525. passing out the AFC championship trophy, right?

  526. Lamar, Hunt Trophy and he have Clark hunt, he walks up on the

  527. stage. The first thing he says I want

  528. to thank my Lord and Savior. Come on somebody he'd have to

  529. say that. I mean my home's used to thank

  530. God for my you know, for healing me this week and if you Follow

  531. his story, anything. His faith is strong, actually,

  532. so much anxiety is so much pressure.

  533. He lives under he's like only because of God, I can do this.

  534. I'm just telling you. When you got a platform, all you

  535. do is like this. Amen.

  536. And that's why I love. Does.

  537. My favorite part of the ACC Championship was like, thank you

  538. for Gilbert glory to God. Amen.

  539. Who gave you those talents and abilities and that, that money.

  540. And all these things that you be on that stage, this moment due

  541. to his, by the power of God. And that same spirit of God

  542. lives in us. Come on somebody.

  543. Any Given Sunday we can point to Jesus.

  544. Anything can happen. We could occur the words of God

  545. to anybody. Now, look at the clouds

  546. response, I heard the rushing wind that they saw was going on.

  547. They are be speaking. These tongues, like, I heard his

  548. people. What in the world and they're

  549. amazed and verse 12 and four Plex or confused and they asked

  550. one another, what does this mean?

  551. And some however, this is this, how it goes, made fun of them

  552. come. All right.

  553. And they said they had too much wine.

  554. It sounds like a tailgate party done it.

  555. I mean the told you tell get Sunday right man, these guys are

  556. the parties are fanatical fans. These guys just zealots men,

  557. they're drunks these guys are out there.

  558. Salute mind, but they weren't but they weren't come on

  559. somebody. I mean, when's the last time

  560. somebody somebody show up to church and thought these guys

  561. are crazy. I like that little bit.

  562. I'm not saying we should be crazy to be crazy but I'm just

  563. saying, I think it should be a little different in here.

  564. I think those walk in the other. Something different about these

  565. people is that we love Jesus, and we love you.

  566. Amen. That just was different.

  567. So when people raise their hands or they sing off-key, but they

  568. sing loud for the glory of God, make a Joyful Noise.

  569. Come on somebody. This reason I sing from the

  570. front row, right? Some of the few months ago is

  571. like I heard you singing. I was right behind you.

  572. It was good. I was like, yeah.

  573. Sure. You know, like this.

  574. I know. I can't.

  575. Sing this one on stage. Come on somebody, right.

  576. I did it. I'm not talented.

  577. Like that all of those gifts that's all right.

  578. Okay. But we're just excited for the

  579. things of God. Verse 14 says this, these guys

  580. are confused and people, making fun of me, all you guys are a

  581. bunch of drunks. Now some things, well, enough

  582. and Peter, there's that Peter Wright that very talked about

  583. last week that Peter, that was kind of like down on himself.

  584. I love this verse 14, says then Peter did what?

  585. How may I help you? Peter stood up.

  586. This might be the best words of a Christian stand up.

  587. This is what we do in this culture.

  588. Amen, we stand up. We make a wave and Peter, he

  589. finally got the courage. He stood up with the eleven, he

  590. raised his voice and he addressed the crowd.

  591. He's got to get a business. He said fellow Jews.

  592. All of you live in Jerusalem. Let me explain to you this.

  593. Listen carefully to what I have to say.

  594. I'm, you talk about a bold Proclamation Peters.

  595. Bout to just lay it on them and it's good.

  596. He's about to give one of the best unrehearsed message has

  597. ever. Given from the spirit from got

  598. heart of God to these people. He says these people are not

  599. drunk as you suppose. It's only 9:00 in the morning,

  600. come on somebody. It's Sunday morning that I drunk

  601. yet. Wait till afternoon, what are

  602. you thinking? Yeah.

  603. Just a question as to her Tony's voice out there and what's going

  604. on. I'll stop I'll stop right?

  605. But this is the same Peter, literally very talked about

  606. this. Got this guy is has the Forsaken

  607. Jesus. He said I'll never die, you

  608. know. No, I never deny you and then

  609. it's little girl. You know, you're a gal with

  610. those disciple know. And he runs off member.

  611. He he went barely aware that he was broken as the same period

  612. that like, walked on water, awesome, club in, right.

  613. But then he sank, right? And Peter was really defeated

  614. and then he met with Jesus at a fish fry.

  615. Come on somebody. And he Stored and heat is also,

  616. his boldness, start swelling up and Peter.

  617. There's something that the Peter starts watching, like he would

  618. see the crowd. He's recognizes, this is the

  619. spirit of God moving, he recognizes that.

  620. This is a moment for the gospel to go out.

  621. He starts, recognizing there's all nations represented and

  622. there's just me somethings, and having side Peter, he's gonna

  623. remember something. Because Jesus gave Peter

  624. something very special. Jesus gave Peter two things.

  625. One, he gave me a new name it to, he gave me a promise.

  626. There's something to come back to Peter and found in Matthew

    Matthew 16:18

  627. 16:18. And it says this, This is Jesus

  628. talking to Peter. He's I tell you that you are

  629. Peter, and on this rock, some of Peter being pet.

  630. Ross, that's his new name. You know.

  631. A first name is Simon, that was his original name and in Jesus

  632. said, you know, who Simon, your name is Petra.

  633. Ross name is rock. This is the original Rock.

  634. Come on, somebody, can you smell what The Rock is?

  635. I'm not going to quote, Travis Kelce, all right?

  636. But that was the best part, all right?

  637. I mean, I was like, okay, we're good.

  638. Thank you, Lord Jesus and then Travis Kelce, right?

  639. I mean that guy hadn't drunk yet, you know, so it's great,

  640. whatever right? But on this rock Simon met on

  641. this rock, I love this. If you ever wondered what

  642. success looks like a Ministry, had this conversation, my staff.

  643. I should have been this verse. I Jesus will build my church.

  644. There's nothing new about you. I'm going to build my church and

  645. the gates of Hades or Hell will not prevail.

  646. Missed it. And so Peter this is running as

  647. mine is like man I was given a name for the rock.

  648. I'm supposed to launch the church.

  649. This looks like launch Sunday to me.

  650. And so Peter like this was a promise that he was going to

  651. fulfill he stood up he's going to give one of the best messages

  652. ever. Preached right here.

  653. Found that acts chapter 2 is going to lay it on because it

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  654. boldness for the cause of Christ.

  655. You put in football terms. This is like Peter looking at

  656. the Chiefs game and going, hey this is our moment, a the guy

  657. that started the wave, right? Come on, guys, let's go.

  658. Come on. Come on, everybody.

  659. Listen to me and he's just starts.

  660. It looks like a fool. There's like a fool star in the

  661. wave in Bear. Been the first guy started a

  662. wave, right? You look like an idiot.

  663. How are those? Take it out, right?

  664. Right. And no sudden start, people

  665. start going right, and people start happening.

  666. It's like, man. This is Peter.

  667. This is a boldness and the courage to be the guy that

  668. starts the way. Now, the reality is this,

  669. Christian's termed. Peter was the guy who started

  670. the way. Come on somebody.

  671. He did. He rose up to the occasion, he

  672. saw the spirit of God moving. He said, this is the moment that

  673. God has made me for my name is Peter and this is the rock.

  674. This is my time. This is the message I have for

  675. these guys and he stood up with boldness and proclaimed, the

  676. message of the wonders of God, and that's what were called to

  677. do to, amen. It says, in Romans 1:16 says,

    Romans 1:16

  678. for I am not ashamed of the gospel because it's the power of

  679. God to Salvation that bring Salvation to everyone who

  680. believes Nice aim to share the good news, amen.

  681. Because it's the power of God to change lives.

  682. This is the power of God that people leave forever changed

  683. because we shared Jesus and it's just the wonders of God, like I

  684. don't deserve this, but main god, this is my life.

  685. It says both first to the Jews and then to the Gentiles, we

  686. just left the banner high. It's kind of representing Jesus,

  687. you know, we got her, we got our Chiefs gear on.

  688. Come on somebody, right. But, but we're Christians in

  689. this tailgate part about to have.

  690. I mean, I'm hope we have the wonderful God conversation.

  691. Amen. It's not an accident.

  692. You're going to sit next to somebody today news to how you

  693. Doing it's a man's been a rough week because no one ever says

  694. I'm great. It's amazing.

  695. Right? And you say, you know what, I've

  696. been there, been there a little bit but God did this.

  697. You can share The Wonder of God for some of you can walk out

  698. forever change. Be that guy?

  699. That he's Jesus today. You'd walk out of the Holy

  700. Spirit today because somebody's going to share the Wonder, you

  701. see the Wonder, you see what we're seeing because you're not

  702. worshipping with your arms raised and having some passion,

  703. your voice and tear in your eye. You're not seeing what I'm

  704. seeing. You're not seeing the same thing

  705. and today we get to Point people to The Wonder of God, look up

  706. here, does unplanned unscripted from the Verse 16.

  707. He says no this is what spoken by the prophet.

  708. Joel. Hey these guys aren't drunk.

  709. This is actually found the Bible bro and I'm pretty sure he had

  710. this memorized. So he goes up there and just,

  711. bam, he's lays out on. This is found in Joel.

  712. This was says, 417 the last days God says, I will pour out my

  713. spirit on his people. That's what you're seeing your

  714. sons and daughters, will prophesy your young.

  715. Men will see Visions, your old men will dream dreams, even my

  716. servants, both men and women. I will pour out my spirit in

  717. those days. Days and they will prophesy.

  718. I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the

  719. earth below blood and fire and Billows of smoke.

  720. The sun will be turned to Darkness and the moon into blood

  721. before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

  722. I think Peter got their attention, it's crazy.

  723. What are you talking about? It says this verse 21, good news

  724. and everyone who calls on the name of the Lord.

  725. Will be saved Any Given Sunday any given moment.

  726. You can have the promise of God of Salvation, it's to everybody.

  727. Verse 22, the lose lights, listen to this.

  728. This gospel presentation is awesome.

  729. Jesus of Nazareth was a man a credit by God to you by Miracles

  730. and wonders and signs, which God did among you through him.

  731. As you yourselves know, this man was hand over to you, by God's

  732. were playing for knowledge and you with the help of wicked men,

  733. put him to death by nail him on the cross.

  734. But God raised him from the dead free and from the agony of death

  735. because it was impossible. For death to keep its, hold on

  736. him. These guys are like, oh whoa,

  737. the now we're now wow, Humble Pie.

  738. He said, David is Old Testament. Shepherd, we talked about,

  739. right? This the manager.

  740. God's Own Heart, became the King right, Chef?

  741. What he said, I saw the lord always before me, this would be

  742. the greatest line for Christians.

  743. By the way, I saw the Lord go before me, like I'm falling his

  744. footsteps, because that my right hand and there's a verse for

  745. everybody today, I will not be shaken.

  746. I will not be shaken. I'll not be wavering.

  747. Don't have fans xiety. Come on somebody, I'm not

  748. worried about everything today or tonight or tomorrow.

  749. I'm not so wrapped up in all these crazy stuff because I know

  750. God and I will not be shaken. He says, therefore my heart is

  751. glad and my tongue rejoices, my body will be rest and hope

  752. because you will not abandon me in the realm of the Dead.

  753. You will not let your Holy One. See Decay.

  754. You have made known to me the path of life and you will fill

  755. me with the joy in your presence, may God help us to be

  756. the generation, that will not be shaken.

  757. Amen. God help us with the generation

  758. that fix our eyes on Jesus, and follows his way and his path.

  759. And we have this Supernatural confidence to stand up.

  760. A men to just know the world's going one way.

  761. That's okay. We love them.

  762. We care for him. We're following Jesus.

  763. As for me and my house. I'm falling the Lord, right?

  764. So Any Given Sunday, God can strengthen you, any given

  765. moment, you call name of Jesus and say, okay God, you got this

  766. verse 29 says, this fellow Israelites.

  767. I can tell you confidently, that the patriarch David died and was

  768. buried. Reed and his tomb is here to has

  769. a, but he was a prophet and you knew that God had promised him

  770. an oath that he would place on a thousand since on his throne and

  771. seeing what was to come. He spoke of the resurrection of

  772. Messiah and he was not abandoned to the realm of dead nor does by

  773. see Decay, God has raised this Jesus to life and we are all

  774. Witnesses of it right here. All of us.

  775. We saw it with our eyes and exalted to the right hand of

  776. God. He has received from the father

  777. has promised, Holy Spirit, and has poured out what you now.

  778. See and hear these words that were speaking today are coming

  779. from the power of God. The reason you can hear also

  780. your own language because of the presence of the Holy Spirit and

  781. so he explains this to them that the sound is the holy spirit in

  782. us. It will people go to church and

  783. they're not used to not Christians and don't know about

  784. Jesus. There should be something about

  785. us. That's different that there's a

  786. sound that shoot here. There's a, there's something

  787. unique about us that we should put off.

  788. There's an aroma of the Saints. Not, not a bad rumor.

  789. Come on somebody Right? Now, some Old Spice Aroma, but

  790. there's an aroma of Grace. Amen.

  791. And the people should always says about you.

  792. There's something different about this guy, this lady, but I

  793. don't know exactly what it is. It's the wonders of God.

  794. Amen. It's the grace of God in your

  795. life. It's a spirit of God, moving the

  796. hearts of his people, and there's nothing more exciting

  797. than sharing the heart of God, and the one who's got to

  798. somebody else. This last few weeks have been

  799. really fun, and exciting and a little We lost the Hope Center,

  800. and we've had a, there's this homeless man in tray, and he's

  801. been stopping in at random times.

  802. Could be really late night. I don't know why I'm still

  803. there, but he stops in, right? And it's happened over and over

  804. again and so we just kind of modulation with them and it was

  805. so awesome, couple weeks. He owes couple things, couple

  806. fries ago, two Fridays ago, me Bill and Dan, Daniel might, how

  807. does he has come out? And we sat down with Trey and we

  808. got to share with him. The wonders of God because he

  809. stuck in the spot. I want to help him through his

  810. going through physical. Really.

  811. But there's still a war going on his heart for the things of God.

  812. Amen. And it was so cool to watch

  813. these guys who've walked through the same path.

  814. And the same things say, you know what, this is, what God did

  815. in my life. This is The Wonder of God.

  816. Amen. And so, I can't give you

  817. everything to fix your life that I can't give you Jesus and I can

  818. encourage you to follow him. And walk this guy, it was just

  819. amazing. It was a Spirit Led conversation

  820. through. There was tears that it's like

  821. coming in like a man or boiled leaving like a mankind thing.

  822. I was like, man, this is what the church does.

  823. Amen. We just share the good news and

  824. help people encourage people, but throughout is We play a

  825. story every single day. I'm telling you there's you look

  826. back on your life and those moments you want on The Fray and

  827. you stood for God and you shared the things of God with somebody,

  828. maybe it was in private and his lunch conversation, maybe he's

  829. on the phone with somebody. You always go back and say, oh

  830. man, I'm so proud. I'm so glad that you shared

  831. Jesus that it wasn't silence. The holy spirit is moving in my

  832. life and I just couldn't help because I've got some good news

  833. to share a Min. This is what Peter does.

  834. He stands up? Declares the goodness of God.

  835. Verse 34 says, this for David did not ascend.

  836. Heaven and yet he said the Lord said to my Lord sit at my right

  837. hand, until I make your enemies a footstool to your feet,

  838. therefore let all of Israel. Be assured of this.

  839. God has made this Jesus. Whom you crucified both Lord and

  840. Messiah. Now that's not bad for a launch.

  841. Sunday message. Come on, somebody, I mean

  842. unrehearsed out of nowhere. The spirit of God is moving

  843. their tongues. What's going on people come

  844. together as a crowd this my moment and he just brings the

  845. word of God to these Jewish people and their Context in

  846. their way. Not bad for a failure like

  847. Peter. Come on somebody.

  848. Right. A guy that sank a guy that went

  849. barely a guy that have it together not bad for a

  850. fisherman, right? An uneducated fisherman.

  851. That fact in Matthew 4:19 is pretty cool that Jesus told

    Matthew 4:19

  852. Peter and the disciples said follow me and I'll make you

  853. Fishers of Men, dude, I bet, come on, Jesus, he taught feed

  854. on fish. Come on somebody, right?

  855. I mean, you lose going to catch 3,000 people with this net.

  856. He's gonna preach this message people come to Christ.

  857. This is exactly what Jesus set out to do was To Boldly

  858. proclaim. The good news of Jesus, verse 37

  859. says this and when the people heard this, they were cut to the

  860. heart and said to Peter and the other Apostles, this is how he

  861. knows a good message, right here, Brothers.

  862. What shall we do? What shall we do now?

  863. That's how, you know, the message of God.

  864. Hit the hearts of people. See.

  865. That's why I love that Peter Peter and get Peter didn't give

  866. some drying exegetical crazy up here.

  867. Theological, Exposition these things that nobody understand he

  868. to put up here. Peter brought the cookies are

  869. low shelf. Come on somebody.

  870. Like I'm not very smart so I'm going to go down here.

  871. I can reach these cookies and Peter just looked at the crowd

  872. and said, this is what they need and he spoke to them.

  873. He saw where they're at and he preached right into their Art

  874. matter fact, if you go back to the, the movie, Any Given

  875. Sunday, came out 99, how Pacino gives a speech right now?

  876. Remember the speech you just kind of lays on him.

  877. He says, football is about inches and all you gots the guy

  878. next to you and the six inches in front of him knowing that

  879. he's willing to die. For those six inches, you will

  880. die for yours. He says lies about inches and

  881. Rowdy for God. Here it is, most people they

  882. know Jesus up here but the reality is the difference makes

  883. is there. 13 inches to your heart to know Jesus here.

  884. Amen. And Peter Cut to the heart.

  885. Amen, he spoke right here to those people and today I'm

  886. hoping that God is speaking to your heart.

  887. Amen, the Holy Spirit speaking here, not here.

  888. This is an educational ceremony or Sunday.

  889. This is about the spirit of God speaking to you.

  890. So verse 38 says this and Peter replied repent, they asked what

  891. to do. And so he tells them it's right

  892. here. He says, repent and be baptized

  893. every one of you. In the name of Jesus Christ for

  894. the Forgiveness of sins, you know, turn from your way.

  895. You need to run to Jesus. He didn't forgive you and set

  896. you free. He said you baptized go public

  897. with your faith. He says, for the Forgiveness of

  898. your sins, and you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

  899. Do you know, you can walk out the Holy Spirit today, check out

  900. what it says. It says, verse 39 says, the

  901. promise is for you, talking to these Old Testament God-fearing

  902. men and women, there are there in the room.

  903. This giant Crouch to say it's not for you only, it's for your

  904. children. Come on, somebody.

  905. The good news is going to go through this generation to the

  906. Next Generation and for all who are far off.

  907. That's us. Thank God.

  908. Amen. That this gospel is for all

  909. people that are far off. Our mission is Reach people, far

  910. from God, Amen for all whom the Lord God will call This Promise

  911. is for us and the Any Given Sunday you could call in the

  912. spirit of God, really any day and spirit God will change your

  913. life. You can you can confess The

  914. Jesus, repent turn from your ways and God will save you, and

  915. make you new verse 40, says, this with many other words, he

  916. warned them. So, Peter really allowed to say,

  917. good preacher, right? And he pleaded with them.

  918. He said, save yourself some scrubs generation.

  919. Those who accept? This message were baptized and

  920. about 3,000 were added to the number that day.

  921. Not bad for a launch Sunday. Come on somebody, right.

  922. We had 345 people, we do not have 3,000 people.

  923. Get baptized come to Christ. Come on.

  924. SO Peter, man. Relations that is a great start

  925. to the church and I think about that.

  926. Those three thousand people showed up by Sunday.

  927. Dr. Going to the Feast of the Harvest.

  928. They came to Pentecost to celebrate, the law have been

  929. given to Father. Same rituals, the same old story

  930. religion, to do the same old thing.

  931. Those three thousand people had no idea that that Sunday was

  932. there, Sunday there. No idea what they're walking

  933. into, they had no idea that they're walking into a Revival,

  934. they had no idea their walk into the presence of Of the Holy

  935. Spirit. They had no idea about the war

  936. that Jesus wage for their soul that no idea that Peter had a

  937. promise who's going to stand on that day is you bring the word

  938. with power from memory from his heart with great expectation.

  939. That God would move those 3,000 people didn't know it was their

  940. Super Bowl Sunday. I'm here today to tell you that

  941. every Sunday every day is somebody Super Bowl Sunday.

  942. Amen. And maybe that's you today,

  943. Maybe today you recognize, you need.

  944. Jesus and today is Jewish serve your soup will suck.

  945. And that this what happens when the expectation is set, this is

  946. what happens. Look at it goes on.

  947. Last passage, we're done verse 42.

  948. They being all these new Christians, devote themselves to

  949. the apostles teaching and to Fellowship to Breaking of bread

  950. and to prayer. This is a team built on faith.

  951. Come on somebody is that this is a winning team.

  952. This is a recipe. Andy Reed can take this passage

  953. and say this is how As a Christian, both red, praying

  954. verse 43. Everyone was filled with awe in

  955. The Many Wonders of science is over the apostles, their

  956. student, all God, The Wonder of God, this point the I'd say,

  957. Okay God I can't do this, this is amazing, they hung

  958. themselves, no Blues were together United, everything in

  959. common, they sold property possessions, and give to anyone

  960. that had me there in love with Jesus and they cared for each

  961. other deeply, and every day they continue to meet together.

  962. I'm in the temple courts. I love this no longer were.

  963. They were they relict or they were recluse to a room or to a

  964. house. They said, bro, if we're going

  965. to use a church, we're going to reach the Jews first.

  966. We're going to set up church. Right there, the temple courts.

  967. Come on, somebody were to go public with our faith.

  968. We're not going to launch somewhere.

  969. That's hidden. Where you put the light up on

  970. top of the hill so the world can see it.

  971. So, we're going public. So every Sunday through the walk

  972. bias, we go, what's going on? Oh yeah, we're worshiping Jesus.

  973. You will know about Jesus and they're reaching the world.

  974. Amen. There stood up like Peter.

  975. Stood said, the example and they broke bread in their homes.

  976. Ate together. Gladys, is your hearts praising,

  977. God, and join the favorite, all people, and the Lord added to

  978. their number daily. Those who were being saved.

  979. Is it any coincidence that people were coming to Christ

  980. every single day? They look at their patterns,

  981. right? Why do they do this?

  982. Why they share in common, why, they why they go public, why

  983. they share the gospel, what was it?

  984. They had some good news, right? The good news, the gospel and

  985. they witness for themselves that the spirit of God was like,

  986. we're getting this out. It's coming through your lips,

  987. bro. To a loss of Dying World.

  988. You're going to speak that language.

  989. Good news is most you guys in here, speak English, come on

  990. somebody. So you've been equipped by the

  991. power of God, to tell the person next to you about Jesus, amen.

  992. And we have good news, we're sharing good news.

  993. That should be kept silence these men.

  994. They did everything they could to get the news out to share the

  995. good news of Jesus. And today as Christians that's

  996. our Mission. Amen, it's a share that same.

  997. Good news, not to be a jerk or to be judgy or to be ruthless.

  998. You love people to Jesus. You lay yourself down and say,

  999. it's only because of God and your humble because you don't

  1000. deserve it. We're at that special, not that

  1001. strong. But Jesus is we point people to

  1002. Jesus. So as Christians we show up on

  1003. Sunday, we come with, great expectation.

  1004. A men that God is going to move, amen.

  1005. That's what we believe and what we didn't walk Your men hope God

  1006. doesn't know. God is willing to do something.

  1007. Are we ready? Are we prepared?

  1008. We prayed up, is it personalized?

  1009. Are you walking with like a purpose and intention?

  1010. Are you talking to people about the wonders of God or you?

  1011. Are you leaving your family? Well, do you go home and say,

  1012. hey guys, let's talk about that. It was God, showing you may God

  1013. was speaking to me about this, it was getting the Bible, never

  1014. read pin it Pentecost, I'm gonna know more about that.

  1015. Google Pentecost, not be like Grace, Study Bible the world,

  1016. but you learned something, right?

  1017. Because we're after things, I've got the here's the reality for

  1018. some of you guys today is your Super Bowl Sunday.

  1019. Somebody can look back at this date in February 12th. 2023 you

  1020. go. Yeah.

  1021. Those are the Chiefs one. Come on, somebody.

  1022. Come on, hold my predictions right next week I'll get bagged

  1023. on right. But here's the reality.

  1024. You're a look back at this day and you say, you know what the

  1025. Chiefs won, but something else happened to so much greater for

  1026. my life. The Holy Spirit came on my life

  1027. was poured out in my life. Does it changed me?

  1028. Come on, Dano might forever changed by the power of God, the

  1029. change. It looked that the gospel that

  1030. you will receive today. It's not for just for you.

  1031. Come on, is that is for your children, it is for all people.

  1032. And so we get this pleasure of knowing Jesus, and they were

  1033. going to bring that Jesus to all people.

  1034. And today, we didn't just change a person by the power of the

  1035. Holy Spirit. We changed a generation of

  1036. people. Amen.

  1037. Super Bowl Sunday, Any Given Sunday, God can do anything and

  1038. change lives. That's the expectation.

  1039. We go to church and follow Jesus Paulie.

  1040. God, we come before you and I pray, God, that we've been kind

  1041. of The stand up with bold Faith. Got all pray for a group people.

  1042. Today that are Jesus follows. Those are no Jesus.

  1043. Maybe they had a private faith and your private worship, maybe

  1044. they've been private may be slow in their prayers and then

  1045. praying for all these things and low expectation.

  1046. But today they realized today that they need to stand up like

  1047. Peter that they have good news to share that they've lost the

  1048. Wonder with the now they're remembering.

  1049. Today going through this story in Acts chapter 2 that they need

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  1050. to be in all of God and so they are Pray for those G's false sat

  1051. there, that's me. Donny is stand up like Peter.

  1052. I have the The Wonder of God in my eye and the worship of the

  1053. full heart. That's me days of Christian that

  1054. she's put your hand. I said to me God's Boon my life

  1055. to stand up, come on, we'll cross this room with the end of

  1056. that's you. Come on.

  1057. Father, you see the hands into the hearts, God call us out into

  1058. The Fray. God calls the moments.

  1059. We have to speak without notes, cause those moments, we can

  1060. share Jesus with somebody next to us.

  1061. We just want people to heaven. Got less be the generation.

  1062. That's no longer. Her shaken as anything from this

  1063. generation is exactly and fear. But they believe in the power of

  1064. God and the peace of God, the presence of God, the holy

  1065. spirit. So God strengthen us as Jesus

  1066. followers to live on mission for you and unity everyday.

  1067. Molded. Proclaiming the good news of

  1068. Jesus. I pray for one more group people

  1069. and that's those. You may recognize today is your

  1070. Super Bowl Sunday. You recognize that Any Given

  1071. Sunday got to do anything. Just 50 days before Pentecost.

  1072. Jesus did the the On that Sunday, that changed your life.

  1073. It can change your life forever. He died on the cross and he was

  1074. resurrected a Resurrection Sunday with your freedom in

  1075. hand. He was crucified and put to

  1076. death for your sins. He paid for everything in your

  1077. life that was wrong. All your sin, past present and

  1078. future. They Rose Victorious bosses.

  1079. You call the name of Jesus to be saved or given.

  1080. And made new Bible says, the Holy Spirit was poured into you

  1081. that you'd be in 12. The holy spirit that the God

  1082. will the universe will be and you'll be forever changed by the

  1083. power. Power of God that you're a part

  1084. of the promise that Peter preached about today, for all

  1085. people and that's us. So they if you need, Jesus need

  1086. the Holy Spirit. May be forgiven and made new

  1087. that shoe that can be looking around.

  1088. We just raise your hand high this place today in the Super

  1089. Bowl. Sunday is my Sunday.

  1090. We put your hands high this place.

  1091. I need Jesus, come on, a see, your hand.

  1092. I see your hand. Maybe I'll slice your hand, the

  1093. back he does. I need Jesus, while this is your

  1094. Sunday, this is for you. This all for you.

  1095. Come on. Well, if you need Jesus, I don't

  1096. you. Ask you for his prayer to God

  1097. and it Prudence a view, buzzers your faith in God.

  1098. And say this father God, thank you for sending your best.

  1099. This Super Bowl Sunday for Sydney.

  1100. Jesus, for me. God, will you forgive me?

  1101. I Repent, I turn from myself. Not trust in you.

  1102. And God, I'm going to worship you with a full heart today.

  1103. Got my serve, you at the full heart and today, on the forever,

  1104. tell the story. Now, Super Bowl Sunday, not just

  1105. a football game, but my Super Bowl Sunday, you changed my life

  1106. forever. God, give me bold.

  1107. Ation to go out and share the gospel to live for you to stand

  1108. up in my generation. This situation behind me saving

  1109. changed because this moment God. We love you.

  1110. We thank you and praise in Jesus name and everybody said amen.

  1111. Come on. Give it up for guys doing.

  1112. Man, what an awesome day. And if this is your super

  1113. soldier Super Bowl Sunday, spiritually speaking, and

  1114. whether you're online, you're with us in person you made that

  1115. decision for God. Can I tell you that we're all

  1116. in? We are your backup.

  1117. We are your team got coaches. We got leaders.

  1118. We've got people that are going to just stand and hold your hand

  1119. and help you in any way. You can.

  1120. We're so excited for you. So if that's you today, can I

  1121. get you guys to do one thing you reach out and you can connect

  1122. with us by texting are all next 29. 7000 what we'll do is, we'll

  1123. have a team member reach out to Get you connected answer any

  1124. questions that we've got. We're not going to compete on

  1125. your door, anything weird. But we want you guys to know

  1126. that we carry about you and God cares about you.

  1127. It's a great way to get started off on the right foot and get

  1128. some people in your corner that are just going to help you make

  1129. the next steps to to follow God. And the way that he's calling

  1130. you to do another greatest next steps.

  1131. If you're with us a person on your way out of the Worship

  1132. Center, there's a red bag, grab one of those side.

  1133. There's a Bible, there's a link to some other great resources.

  1134. We want you guys to have that to grab that.

  1135. I love what Pastor Sean talked about having Enthusiasm, talking

  1136. about the things of God, the wonders of God is two things.

  1137. That when we're passionate about stuff, it just naturally comes.

  1138. So I've got a couple of great next steps for you guys.

  1139. And the first one is this, if you guys don't know about

  1140. YouVersion app, I would really encourage you guys to grab that.

  1141. Download it. Take over a billion people have.

  1142. So you're late to the party if you don't have it, but grab your

  1143. phone and bring that and download it.

  1144. What you guys can do is here at real life.

  1145. We have an events page and so if you follow that, Pastor showing

  1146. son, has a sermon says, But you guys can, as you guys were

  1147. listening to you guys, to write something down.

  1148. That we're God's touch your heart, you can go back.

  1149. You can share it on a car ride home in life group.

  1150. They talk about in staff meetings, what a great way to

  1151. declare the wonders of God. Just by going through a message

  1152. that we've gone through here, it is getting in God's word because

  1153. God is going to reveal stuff to you that you'll never ever come

  1154. up with on your own. So check out that a second.

  1155. Great thing is this is if you guys want to be like Peter and

  1156. your family and take a stand and stand up and declare declare

  1157. publicly This is my family and I stand for God.

  1158. We got something really cool coming up on March, the 5th and

  1159. it's called child dedication Sunday.

  1160. So, if you've got a little one, a baby or maybe even our older

  1161. child, that you've never dedicated.

  1162. You want to take that opportunity to stand in front of

  1163. the world, front of this group and say me as for me and my

  1164. family, we're going to follow God, what a great opportunity.

  1165. You can sign up online who have people that pray over you as you

  1166. just commit, your family and dedicated to God and just a

  1167. great time. If you haven't ever been to one,

  1168. just a powerful time. Where's the church?

  1169. We wrap our arms around. Around a family that just wants

  1170. to do the right thing and follow God in their family.

  1171. On your way out of here, don't rush out.

  1172. We're going to have something really cool.

  1173. Got a tailgate party. You guys ready for a party?

  1174. I know you guys are a lot. See a red out there.

  1175. A lot of Chief and we're going to have a great time.

  1176. And here's the thing, we're going to have a blast just

  1177. celebrating with the Chiefs are getting ready to do tonight but

  1178. really it's a pretext and it's just like Peter and the apostles

  1179. and the early church they hung out.

  1180. So this again. An opportunity for us to hang

  1181. out because this tailgate party, it's about the Chiefs.

  1182. But more importantly it's about souls because I love hanging out

  1183. with you guys I love to hear your stories what God is doing

  1184. in your life. So don't rush out where have a

  1185. lot of cool things in the best of all.

  1186. It's my favorite word. It is free.

  1187. You guys like free especially brats, hot dogs.

  1188. Can't wait to hang out with you and really this all flows out of

  1189. generosity flows out of the dress generosity of your guys

  1190. was hard and one of the things that Pastor Sean read that I

  1191. still loved and it's just encouraging to my heart.

  1192. Did you guys see what happened in the early church?

  1193. Church. When they were on Mission

  1194. together. They sold property.

  1195. They gave stuff away to the people that were in need and

  1196. they brought it into the house, you know?

  1197. Why is because they had a big vision for what God wanted and

  1198. they love their community and they love people in the church

  1199. and I want you guys to continue to do you guys do this so well,

  1200. so once you just continue to extend your generosity and to

  1201. 2023 as we move the mission of God Ford in our community and as

  1202. always, you can connect with generosity three ways here at

  1203. real life. Number one, you can go online to

  1204. Real Life Church kc.com number, To, you can text any amount 843

  1205. to wonder if you want to use your cash or cheque, there's a

  1206. giving box at the back or in the buckets there.

  1207. Get ready passed a couple things if you're new at this.

  1208. This isn't for you. We don't want anything from you.

  1209. We want something for you. We are so glad that you are here

  1210. to celebrate football Sunday with us to hear God's vision of

  1211. what he has for your life. Last thing is, if you or your

  1212. family, find yourself an immediate need of food clothing

  1213. or shelter is these buckets past.

  1214. Please feel free to reach in and grab any loose cash that you see

  1215. to help your family at this time of need.

  1216. Hey take A quick second. We've got an awesome video on.

  1217. What the youth is getting ready to do launch at Hope Center?

  1218. Check it out. Hey guys, I am standing here

  1219. with Anna and we had gotten amazing opportunity to get to

  1220. know her over the past couple of months or family started

  1221. attending here. And she started to come to real

  1222. life, you can just really get invested in involved and I

  1223. really just wanted you guys to have an opportunity to hear a

  1224. little bit about her story. We had an opportunity to a

  1225. couple weeks ago, just about her commitment and passion for God

  1226. and like, kind of what draw that out in her just her decisions

  1227. personally, to really pursue. Ooh, him on her own.

  1228. So once you tell us a little bit about that in a, what does make

  1229. you decide? And how this passion for serving

  1230. God on your own? I started in the young age are

  1231. terms. Like my mom had always raised me

  1232. to go to church and then eventually on and I believe it

  1233. was sixth grade. I ended up getting baptized and

  1234. I was just going through a rough time.

  1235. And I'm like, all right, we're just gonna give everything to

  1236. God. I put everything in God's hands

  1237. and just really give it all. And honestly, like with youth,

  1238. it connects so much and like, they've phrase things

  1239. differently in like, In our terms of just giving our lives

  1240. to God is something so amazing. And just giving your life to God

  1241. and expensive, sold for stress-free.

  1242. And like makes things so much easier life.

  1243. Yeah. So she was talking to me a

  1244. little bit about just how she decided, you know, just a couple

  1245. of months ago, just doesn't matter whether her church is

  1246. going to continue to go. Whether her friends around her,

  1247. going to continue to go, to church with she decided on her

  1248. own that she was going to pursue time.

  1249. Not just sending mornings and makes youth apriority as well.

  1250. And she's really got some super connected.

  1251. With everybody there. And so I just wanted her to kind

  1252. of share a little bit about to about just what youth looks like

  1253. on a Sunday night for you and what makes you keep coming back

  1254. each and every week you on Sundays is such a good

  1255. environment. Like being able to build those

  1256. bonds with teams like my age and just that also have that same

  1257. love for God. As I do, it's just I love being

  1258. able to build those connections and be able to share my love for

  1259. God and others and bringing friends was like part of it,

  1260. like, oh well, I share my love of Jesus with them and they just

  1261. fall in love. Jesus as much as I do and just

  1262. yeah, it's really cool to see. And she's had a friend that's

  1263. been coming with her super regularly and just to see not

  1264. only the change in her life of the change in her friends like

  1265. just from coming each and every week.

  1266. We have you guys haven't heard. We're launching in the Hope

  1267. Center in just a few weeks. On the 19th.

  1268. We are so excited to finally sit down some Roots here and reach

  1269. to more people and our city. Without further Ado, Emma, there

  1270. was some people sitting in the audience here today because some

  1271. teenagers may be some adults and you just have been hesitant with

  1272. like taking that next step to really like, Check real life.

  1273. He's out. See what it's about.

  1274. What would you tell them? I would say, give it a shot.

  1275. Like you can't not want to do something.

  1276. If you don't try it. Like there's you have to take

  1277. that step of faith and just give it a shot because I was hesitant

  1278. to try new Trojans after my old one.

  1279. But I have finds like he's looking to love me, no matter

  1280. where I'm at, just giving that next step and really try it.

  1281. And if you don't like it try again, because every Surfer

  1282. sermon is different. Yeah, I was love that.

  1283. If you don't like it, try again. And just Keep coming.

  1284. So we would love to see your student, you may be sitting in

  1285. the audience today. I realized you've on the 19th,

  1286. check it out. At our Hope Center come hang out

  1287. with Emma and come hang out with me.

  1288. You cannot wait to see you guys on the 19th when we launch into

  1289. Hope Center. We are so pumped to hang out

  1290. with. You were going to make sure that

  1291. we save you a seat. Can we get for the Hope Center

  1292. and the youth group locks? You do you know what I see when

  1293. I see a video like that. I see two things.

  1294. I see a church that has invested in the Next Generation because

  1295. who knows who comes through that door?

  1296. The next Pastor, the expeditionary, the next business

  1297. leader, that loves Jesus and changes the world and it happens

  1298. because of what you guys did in your vest is.

  1299. So it's going to be so cool to just to see how God uses the

  1300. Hope Center and the real-life you through that.

  1301. So, I'm so excited about the hey, couple quick housekeeping

  1302. things. So, I need her for everybody, as

  1303. we dismiss here to head on out of here, we gotta Clear.

  1304. This space. We're going to take chairs down

  1305. and set up tables. You guys can go and hang out in

  1306. the hub for a minute. If you have kids, go and get

  1307. them checked out because we want the whole team to come out to

  1308. have a part of this party. Soon as we get that setup will

  1309. get you guys back in here. We're going to have an awesome

  1310. time. Can't wait to hang out with you

  1311. guys out there if you need prayer for any reason to have a

  1312. team member, we would love to pray with you.

  1313. And as always, remember whoever finds Jesus discovers real life

  1314. and purpose,