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What's Beyond This Life? - Questions

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

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  12. He'll never let you down. He's got your back today.

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  15. Gonna Let Me Down your God is good.

  16. I've searched the world. He couldn't feel me.

  17. Treasures of you came along. Here.

  18. He turns those Graves into Gardens, and if you believe

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  56. you. This morning.

  57. I got a challenge for he also, if you're brand new, what would

  58. happen if you gave God these next three Sundays to come on

  59. back to Real Life Church. To click that link in?

  60. What could he just do in your life?

  61. What relationships will you form with other believers?

  62. What shrews from the Bible that maybe you didn't know before?

  63. Will he reveal to you? Well, I don't know.

  64. And you won't know either, unless you come back.

  65. Out the next three weeks, but seriously, we'd love to see you

  66. and I hope the oldest think on that of prey on that this

  67. afternoon. Well, let me tell you a little

  68. bit more about Real Life Church. We are a church on a mission and

  69. that mission is to see people far from God discover their real

  70. life and purpose in Jesus. And so another way we like to

  71. say that we're church for the unchurched.

  72. So wherever you are on that spectrum of you know, you've

  73. been a Believer for a Year's A relationship with God in the

  74. word every day. You're just looking for a church

  75. home all the way to. I have no clue what the Bible

  76. says. I couldn't find a book.

  77. If you ask me to, I've heard of Jesus, don't know a lot about

  78. him wherever you fall. On that Spectrum, you're in the

  79. right place. You're in the right place.

  80. You don't have to know a lot to be here.

  81. A real-life Church. You'll fit right in with several

  82. of us. And that's okay.

  83. I just encourage you to be thinking about the people in

  84. your life that are close to you, but far from God, what just

  85. impact that God can have on their life, and their journey

  86. and their real life and purpose and you invited them out,

  87. sometime this fall, that would be huge.

  88. So again, thanks for being here. You know, I have a question for

  89. you who was super challenged last week when we started the

  90. brand new series questions man, I was challenge is really good.

  91. But, you know, it was really cool.

  92. Coming out of, that was learning that it's okay.

  93. When we have doubts, that God invites them, right?

  94. God just doesn't want us to be aimless and all that Subway.

  95. We're gonna tackle something deep today.

  96. Alright, so buckle in and it's going to be another challenging,

  97. a challenging message today, but I know you're going to leave

  98. here filled with hope and maybe even a few more questions.

  99. So these are the kind of questions that we hide from

  100. people that we've been wrestling with and Shawn just gonna just

  101. take us on a deep dive today. So I want you to lean in.

  102. Listen to what he To say coming. Come at this with an open heart

  103. and mind give it up for pastor. Sean.

  104. Petry has? He died.

  105. Listen to what's beyond this life.

  106. Give it up for. Sean.

  107. Come on. He's got a word.

  108. That's why I drew this guy. A spiritual we use.

  109. I'm telling you every Sunday. So he puts all spiritual we so.

  110. Hey, thanks for being house today, man.

  111. I'm really excited to see what God's going to do.

  112. You guys decide to go back to school, send the kids off.

  113. Come on one person. That's cool.

  114. Love it. They're like man.

  115. I'm missing somewhere already. So hey, I want to give a shout

  116. out to a few special people today.

  117. Our church has been growing and we have a lot of people to join

  118. our team and I'll give a shout-out to two people in

  119. particular. That just graduated on to her

  120. dream team mess. Graduate drink Dream Team.

  121. They've apprenticed under other leaders, just got confidence and

  122. competency and really, honestly these people doing a phenomenal

  123. job. And so this lady, she serves on

  124. new here, connection team from coming to church.

  125. She is looking for you connect. You, this person loves people is

  126. incredibly gifted and become the church too long, but they're

  127. like, man, throw me in. I want to jump it up.

  128. She's in the room or not. Kim right here.

  129. Kim Cooper. Come on.

  130. Give it up for Kim. If you haven't met Kim, it's

  131. because of you. You because Kim is everywhere.

  132. Kim's, use know everybody Drew's.

  133. Always create Drew trainer and he's like, Kim, Kim, Kim Kim

  134. everything. So thank you so much for

  135. serving. And even behind the scenes.

  136. She does way more than just a serve here on a Sunday.

  137. Just helping people especially this last few weeks.

  138. Just just go and be well, above and beyond.

  139. So, thank you so much. My love about you this last

  140. week. I talked to her and these are

  141. snowbirds, by the way, they have little place down in Texas.

  142. And so she goes, hey, when we leave for the, for the winter,

  143. is there anything I can do to serve the church?

  144. Well, I'm not even here. I'm like, dude.

  145. I've got like, 15, 20 things, you know, and so, she's getting

  146. trained up other stuff too. So very, very cool.

  147. So, give her Kim one more time. Just graduate this Sunday.

  148. Drew, these are all people. You've been training.

  149. So second person. She doesn't serve into the

  150. second Gathering, but just completely gifted for people get

  151. to evangelism. When Jesus talks about leave the

  152. 99 and go find the one. She literally took that

  153. seriously and went to find the one like she goes out.

  154. To people brings them every week.

  155. She served she's looking for somebody.

  156. She's invited is incredible. And so I don't know if she's in

  157. the house, don't think she is. But Rochelle Morlock, come on,

  158. give it up for her, letting her lover.

  159. Very very gifted for people. It's just sort of centime just

  160. graduated. So very very exciting.

  161. May God's doing cool stuff and I can't believe I'm saying this

  162. but return for years old next month and we need to celebrate

  163. with us, not be the same without you.

  164. So Mark, the countdown is September 26 on a Sunday, which

  165. is something very special tradition.

  166. We always do on this birthday. Sundae is we baptize people.

  167. So it's a baptism right here in the front and I would encourage

  168. you. This is so significant for your

  169. spiritual life and for us to the church to see what God is doing.

  170. So, if I'm a decision for Jesus. If you've raised your hand and

  171. said I'm all in for Jesus made it, maybe you're a youth camp

  172. and came to Christ during the kids area, maybe in a life

  173. group, maybe online, whatever, and you've never been baptized.

  174. I would encourage you to go to our website and just get signed

  175. up. Even if you're not a hundred

  176. percent, sure you want to get baptized because we're going to

  177. walk you through the process and see if it's a fit for you and

  178. make sure you understand what you're doing.

  179. So don't freak out. Like we're just going to say,

  180. okay. We'll see that Sunday.

  181. We want to help you through that.

  182. It's just such a huge, huge celebration.

  183. There's no better way to celebrate with guys doing this.

  184. People's life changed. Amen.

  185. And we're going to go, we're going to hear ya.

  186. We're gonna get through this morning.

  187. I'm telling you, we're going to start slow by the way, cuz I

  188. know my message and we're going to end really, really big.

  189. So I'm excited to get started. This is a question series

  190. questions while think about, but seldom ask and so on.

  191. You guys, texting your questions are all questions.

  192. Nice 7000. And so many you guys texting

  193. questions last week. It was awesome over 30 people.

  194. Some of the questions are crazy like, is water wet.

  195. That was a good one, Drew. I don't, he's not take a He's

  196. not allowed to answer shift, but there's a lot of great questions

  197. and I had a great time on social media, just diving, through,

  198. different questions, and answers this week.

  199. I'm going to sit down at Diana Tuesday at 1 o'clock and we'll

  200. be down at our lake house. So you can check that out.

  201. I'll know. Hopefully, they actually get

  202. better than my house. So it will go better than last

  203. time and basis walk through your questions.

  204. So text them in and then we're going to get answers and help

  205. point you to resources and just really just give me a spiritual

  206. encouragement. So get your phones out all day

  207. long. Well, today is a kind of a

  208. heavier question. It's a more difficult question,

  209. is something you all think about and very very often don't ask

  210. and don't really want to think about so we're start little slow

  211. and kind of build up. But the question is this, what

  212. is beyond this life? Like what happens when I die?

  213. What's all about, you know, to guarantees in life, right?

  214. Death and taxes and you're going to pay them both.

  215. It's going to happen. Matt fact.

  216. Jesus said this way, in Hebrews 9:27.

    Hebrews 9:27

  217. He said it's appointed unto men once to die.

  218. There's no. It meant that we all have with

  219. death whether we like or not or what to be that way, that is

  220. reality, statistically proven that you're going to die.

  221. Now unless you're like Elijah or Enoch who didn't die.

  222. Come on somebody, that'd be really fun.

  223. Just skip that step. But I know if it made up for

  224. with like Lazarus and other people that were raised from the

  225. dead on, if it equals out statistics, but there's no

  226. chance we're going to make it without passing through to the

  227. other side. And so what is death?

  228. All about, like what happens when we die?

  229. Die for some of us, maybe believe it may be just as the

  230. world teaches this. But we believe Evolution and we

  231. kind of all by happened. Chance, this came to being and

  232. then we die. We just cease to exist.

  233. I've got people like that in my family where they believe you

  234. just that's it. It's just over and there's so

  235. many people in the world that believe that do we do is a real

  236. heaven. Is there a real hell like do I

  237. get to recognize people? What it is?

  238. Is there like a medium place, like Purgatory or do?

  239. We is it all for eternity or do we or do we get annihilated like

  240. what? Happens in eternity and there's

  241. all these questions around death.

  242. All these thoughts and processes now, it's going to start out by

  243. saying it's a hundred percent natural to question, everything

  244. about death. Now facts all hunters and Ashley

  245. have all the feelings about death may be scared of death or

  246. be afraid of death and I understand death.

  247. I mean death is very Bleak obviously permanent.

  248. We've all stood at the edge of a graveside and wondered what is

  249. on the other side. And so today we often forget

  250. something that's very significant.

  251. I think we're going to talk about death.

  252. We To kind of start where death started.

  253. We're going to go back to the origin of death because

  254. oftentimes we forget there was a time there wasn't death often

  255. times. You forget that death wasn't the

  256. way there was actually a way that wouldn't even lead to

  257. death. Matter of fact, Adam and Eve

  258. were in the garden. They walked face-to-face with

  259. God every single day, perfect communion.

  260. They had conversations with the maker.

  261. They had perfect Fellowship. All things are put together,

  262. don't you to imagine would have been, like, if Adam or Eve never

  263. sinned? This is pretty awesome thought.

  264. You know, they were naked and unashamed come all somebody and

  265. so they would have lived forever.

  266. They would never sinned and have had a death ever, lived forever.

  267. And so, if you think about their kids would have been living

  268. forever, and their grandkids, and all of humanity, and

  269. literally have been naked. So, Jesus would have started the

  270. first nudist colony. Come on somebody.

  271. I'm just it's biblical. I did.

  272. I'm not making this up. You should read the Bible.

  273. It's very selfish right there. Genesis.

  274. Wanted to just read it yourself, but look this there's no killing

  275. in the Bible. Matter of fact, Adam and Eve

  276. were vegetarians. Come on, where's the

  277. vegetarians? And Now say Amen.

  278. Exactly. Didn't think I was that kind of

  279. church. Now, some of you are right, but

  280. it's all good, your super healthy.

  281. You putting us to shame your secret vegetarians.

  282. By the way. Got some doubts about little

  283. shame. It's okay.

  284. It's cool. But there's no, killing not

  285. know, but nobody thought they're all vegetarians that there is

  286. they live forever. And I think about the animals,

  287. and they wouldn't fight. And so there's actually like,

  288. none of this basically Primal food chain that would occur.

  289. Matter of fact, we could get in the ocean and won't be afraid to

  290. be eaten by a shark. Come on somebody because it They

  291. did nothing attached to each other.

  292. Like it was in Perfect Harmony, all in unison.

  293. And verify this, what Isaiah says about that time periods of

  294. Prophecy of the future, what it would be like.

  295. That's actually a picture of the garden as found.

  296. Isaiah 11:2 says, the wolf will lay down with the lamb, like

    Isaiah 11:2

  297. they won't kill each other. Well the wolf not kill him, the

  298. leopard will lay down with the goat, the calf, and The Lion,

  299. and the yearling together, and a little child shall lead them.

  300. I love this, the cow will feed with the bear, not feed the

  301. bear. Come also by this little

  302. different head circle. The word with, I don't mess that

  303. up. Up and their young will lie.

  304. Together, lion will eat straw like the ox infant will play

  305. near the cobras in the young. Child will put his hand into the

  306. Viper's Nest when there's a time period where death didn't exist.

  307. We often forget about this. Go back to the very origin.

  308. We walked with God had perfect communion.

  309. We're living forever, and then send changed, everything.

  310. Matter of fact, it destroyed and dismantled and brought death

  311. into our culture and our lives. Matter of fact, that's weird.

  312. Most started fighting each other and you had the top dog animals

  313. now about you. I got a cat and a dog and they

  314. fight every day for the last six years.

  315. Come on somebody. And the cat always wins.

  316. Can you believe it? So I know the Egyptians are

  317. probably do something. They probably do something to my

  318. about this, but Romans 8 says this about creation and sin.

  319. It says, we know the whole creation has been groaning as in

  320. Pains of childbirth, right up to this present time.

  321. So you send just affect us, it affected, everything matter of

  322. fact, it infected. Good creation.

  323. And that's what have tornadoes and even just rain.

  324. And you have tsunamis, and earthquakes and thunder, storms

  325. and hurricanes. All this happened because

  326. creation is now battling with itself because of sin.

  327. And so, when you think about death, you think there's this

  328. nothing natural that feels about like this.

  329. Not this smooth transition. It's because it isn't, there's

  330. nothing natural about death. That wasn't the original play.

  331. See there was a time where God want us to be together with him

  332. and there was no sin. There Is No Death come off, but

  333. there's no hearses. There's no obituaries section

  334. the newspaper. Come on, there's no green tents.

  335. There's no six-foot hole. There's no casket.

  336. There's no tombstones my preaching to somebody today.

  337. Come on this didn't exist. This wasn't reality.

  338. And so we think about death it is completely awkward and

  339. completely unnatural because is the curse of sin that sin

  340. changed everything. So I think there's go back to

  341. the beginning and take a look of how the send Aaron is.

  342. In Genesis 3, if you've got your Bible, it says this now The

  343. serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals.

  344. The Lord God had made, and he said to the woman, did God,

  345. really say the first time that Humanity begins to question God,

  346. like, in this, God, be trusted. Did he really say that?

  347. Does he have my best in mind? Could drive to believe God or

  348. should I should, I believe myself in the same said you must

  349. not eat of any tree of the garden.

  350. Did he really say that? And the woman said to the

  351. serpent, we may eat fruit from the Trees of the garden, but God

  352. did say she quoted. Got she got it, right.

  353. Must not eat from the fruit in the tree.

  354. There's in the middle of the garden and you must not touch

  355. it, or you will die. And Satan says this to Eve says,

  356. you will not certainly die. This lie is planted into her

  357. mind. The surface said, the woman for

  358. God knows that. When you eat from it, your eyes

  359. will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil.

  360. And for the first time Humanities wondering does, God,

  361. have my best intentions in mind. Can I trust God?

  362. It's got holes. Wholesome back for me, is God,

  363. keeping the best away from me. Can I really trust that?

  364. And when the woman saw, the fruit of the tree was good for

  365. food and please the eye and also desirable for gaining wisdom.

  366. All of a sudden she want to be like God, she will know good and

  367. evil. Before this.

  368. They had no idea about the separation of Good and Evil.

  369. They just didn't exist. There was no identity in sin.

  370. And so she took some a native, and she gave some to her husband

  371. who was with her and he ate and all of a sudden everything

  372. changed for us. Is the beginning of the

  373. beginning, like for our story of sin, all of a sudden our

  374. identity changed these words, I me in mine in the dictionary.

  375. They didn't exist before this matter of fact, Adam Eve look

  376. down. Like I'm naked.

  377. All of a sudden, they realized imperfections.

  378. They saw shame and they sawed out this all anxiety and

  379. depression in guilt, and they were good enough.

  380. And so they ran and hid themselves.

  381. They built close hide parts of their body.

  382. And then the saddest part. The story hits, they hid and I

  383. ran from God for the first time humanity turned his back on God,

  384. and ran from Jesus. In the truth, is we're still

  385. running today. This is the story of sin

  386. entering into the picture. This is the first time death

  387. comes into the picture as well. In Genesis 3, goes on to say,

  388. this is God looking for Adam after he's hidden.

  389. He said, where are you? And the man said, the woman he

  390. put me here with all of a sudden Adams like hey if you Make that

  391. woman. It's your fault.

  392. God, if you didn't bring her here, like I would never in that

  393. apple and she gave me some fruit of the tree and I ate it.

  394. So it's my wife's fault because they are married, that never

  395. gets in 2021, is my wife's fault.

  396. It's my spouse's fault. And the Lord said to the woman.

  397. What is it? You have done.

  398. And the woman said it was the serpent who deceived me and I

  399. ate it Satan baby do it. Come on somebody, like she did

  400. make her own choice. And so, lord said to Satan

  401. because you have done this. Cursed, come on say the word

  402. cursed cursed, says cursed. Are you above all livestock,

  403. talking to Satan? All wild animals, you will crawl

  404. on your belly. You either dust all days your

  405. life and I will put enmity between you and the woman

  406. between your Offspring and hers and he will crush your head and

  407. you will strike his heel. Now.

  408. If you're like me, you're like, I have no idea what you're

  409. talking about. Right there, that this is the

  410. first mention of Jesus in the Bible that fans of technical

  411. term for called protoevangelium. The first evangelist the Gospel,

  412. this is the picture Jesus on. I was going to stop for a sec

  413. because I love this, because the first thing that happens when

  414. mankind, sins is that God makes a solution to break the curse

  415. come, all somebody. And so, if you look at this

  416. passage, what it's saying is there's going to be a divide and

  417. evil between Mankind and Mankind and Satan.

  418. He says your Offspring talking to the woman, your Offspring

  419. being Jesus now Eva thought that'd been like her first kid,

  420. you know, I mean, she's like Jesus, like somebody's going to

  421. save us is gonna be the First generation, we have some kids

  422. are going to change everything. She had knows him like 50

  423. Generations later. But this all spring is Jesus and

  424. says he will crush your head. So I'm Not Jesus going to kill

  425. Satan. Jesus can take him down but

  426. Satan will strike Jesus heal and I don't have time to go into all

  427. the details of this passage. But this is the first planting

  428. the first mention of the Gospel. Never forget when we ran from

  429. God. God Ran to us verse 16.

  430. The woman said to him. I will make your pains in

  431. childbearing, very severe. Thank you sin and with painful

  432. labor, you'll get burchard children, yours.

  433. Before your husband, he'll roll over you and to Adam because you

  434. listened to your wife and eight from the fruit of the tree,

  435. which I command you. You must not eat from it curse.

  436. Somebody say cursed. Cursed is the ground because of

  437. you and through painful toil, you will eat from it all the

  438. days of your life, their produce thorns, and thistles for you and

  439. you'll eat the plants of the field.

  440. But the, by the sweat of your brow, you will eat your food and

  441. don't miss this. Here's the first mention of

  442. death and the Bible until you return to the ground and since

  443. from it you were taken for dust you are and to dust you will

  444. return. This is the first mention of sin

  445. entering This is broken a relationship with God.

  446. We went from living forever in perfect Fellowship.

  447. Face to face with Jesus like perfect communion having perfect

  448. person. No insecurities No Doubt's, no

  449. fear like doll. No cancer.

  450. No death. No rainy days.

  451. Come on somebody to living in a cursed life from sin and all of

  452. a sudden were separated from God.

  453. And this curse spread to all who made, this is really Good news,

  454. you guys, I feel it right now. I told you your start loading

  455. that skinny little just kind of lower.

  456. Just one more verse. Oh man, maybe to Romans. 5:12

    Romans 5:12

  457. says this it says this therefore just as Sin entered the world

  458. through one man. That's Adam and death through

  459. sin. And this way death came to all

  460. people, because all have sinned, what it's saying is there's no

  461. innocent person that's in permanently, permeated Humanity.

  462. Like there's no innocent person anywhere because sin is infected

  463. every Person. And so death is completely

  464. unsettling. It's completely unnatural.

  465. So we think about death. It's like, what should I think

  466. about it? Like, this is a result of a

  467. consequence this result of evil. This result of us being

  468. separated from God. And so for us, they have to ask

  469. the question. What is beyond this life, the

  470. Bible answers. It, it says, in James 4:14.

    James 4:14

  471. It says, what is your life? It says, it is a Mist that

  472. appears for a while and vanishes away.

  473. This is your Bible says about life.

  474. Here. That was it amidst?

  475. Just a moment of time just to the - between two dates.

  476. This is this how short your life is in for a so many people,

  477. every child like cheat death, you know, kind of get how to

  478. live longer, you know, like a mummy five people, right?

  479. Like we're on the Austin Powers was cryogenically frozen.

  480. Come on somebody. All right.

  481. We're just gonna go there today. Like, I'm just telling you, so

  482. many of us to think, what we can is, if he has outlived this, if

  483. we could just have enough Medics medicine, or we could just

  484. change. Rabbis enough if we can do the

  485. right things, as the right diet. It's like, no, there's a time

  486. where we had to Face Reality. Their life is just a vapor.

  487. It's just that quick. And so, how do we live in this

  488. perspective? How do we live knowing that

  489. death is really an appointment, our life.

  490. And only give you one just principle to help you process

  491. death, just one principle and it's this.

  492. It's not really complicated. You might recognize it.

  493. But Live Like You're Dying, just live.

  494. Like you're dying live, knowing that you have an appointment

  495. coming and what would you do differently today?

  496. If you You wouldn't be here tomorrow.

  497. Like what would you do differently today?

  498. If you knew that you had no guarantee of tomorrow.

  499. Like what would you do differently?

  500. If somebody came to you and said, hey, you got cancer and

  501. you have six weeks to live or you have cancer and you have six

  502. months to live. Like what would we do

  503. differently as Christians to live with the end in mind?

  504. Those are says, in Psalm 39, it says this and this is really key

  505. passage says, oh, Lord, help me. Understand my mortality.

  506. Help me be willfully, aware that my Life has an end.

  507. Help me to be thought out and come to grips with my mortality

  508. in the brevity of Life. The how short life is.

  509. Let me realize how quickly my life will pass.

  510. And look, you make my days short-lived and my life span is

  511. nothing from your perspective. Matter of fact, you get an

  512. eternity. You're gonna be looking back and

  513. he's like, hey, can we can you zoom in on my life?

  514. Can we rewind? The tape little bit, I won't

  515. fast forward rewind or fast-forward, zoom in.

  516. Zoom in zoom in. Zoom in Zoom, is there I am,

  517. does that you just a little speck?

  518. Just a thing in eternity, 80 years, hundred years, six years,

  519. whatever it is. It's just a little moment in

  520. time of this reel of Eternity and says, you're nothing from

  521. your perspective is, says surely all people.

  522. Even those who seemed secure come on those, who have

  523. everything, who can ride a rocket outer space, because they

  524. have enough money. Come on, even those that have

  525. Botox and when they're 80 years old.

  526. Come on JLo. Come on somebody, they look good

  527. right there. Like what are you doing?

  528. And there's permanent Smiles. Like even those have everything.

  529. It seems to cure Bible says, this are nothing but help me out

  530. here. Vapor.

  531. That's it. That's our life.

  532. Just this moment of depleting time.

  533. In other words, the Bible saying Live, Like You're Dying, like

  534. help us know our mortality. Like, let's live with the end in

  535. mind that there is a date. When we were going to leave this

  536. planet are numbered our days. Our number life is short.

  537. So I'll give you three best practices to live like you down.

  538. You guys ready for this. Nobody's ready.

  539. There's something already. All right.

  540. Number one, go skydiving. Come on to go.

  541. Rocky mountain climbing. Three, two point seven seconds

  542. on a bowl, main vein Foo Manchu, come on somebody, you know, Tim

  543. McGraw was coming today. I know idolizing you guys up a

  544. little bit. I would sing it for you, but

  545. it's not going to go. Well, you never forget it and

  546. never come back. I know that much.

  547. All right. I've only got one principle for

  548. you. Alright.

  549. One Prince about have three. I just got one quick practical

  550. principle for you to live like you're dying.

  551. No, I'm not going to sing it to you.

  552. Although I may be should, but it's real simple.

  553. Begin with the end in mind. Just begin with the end in mind.

  554. What's the first thing you do when you go playing for a

  555. vacation? What's the first thing you do?

  556. No, you study the destination, you say this?

  557. It was first. You're all you on there.

  558. Like, is this a Shabby where my board Shores or a parka?

  559. You know, I'm saying? Is this a four-star hotel or

  560. should I bring the roach killer? I've got, I've got some stories.

  561. You can ask my his to have. I'm not even bring reproach

  562. comes can heal others, sleep, my car.

  563. You know, like what were you doing this?

  564. But what's the weather? Like where we staying?

  565. What hobbies are we going to have?

  566. Are we going hiking? We're going out on the town or

  567. going to cruise on the beach listening to soothing sounds of

  568. Actually boys, like what are we doing?

  569. Right? Like, you get so you don't know

  570. what to pack and less, you know where you're going.

  571. Amen. As Christians.

  572. You better know where you're going.

  573. Like, you're going to study where you going to land.

  574. You know, what the weather's like, you know where you're

  575. going to hang out, you've already put you are both the

  576. hotel's. You're in.

  577. Never works out this perfect, but you go, right.

  578. It's like buying a house. How many guys are buying a house

  579. in the season by ourselves. Where you at?

  580. Come on, don't be shy the like, yeah, it was me.

  581. That's me. Right.

  582. I know some of you guys are looking for some houses T,

  583. right, but what's the first thing you do when you You look

  584. at a house, you know who my slippers can go right here.

  585. Oh man, and this wall. I give a hundred and 55 inch TV.

  586. Come on three foot from my bed. Yes.

  587. The shower is big enough for two.

  588. Oh, you know, you know what they did we go there today, you know

  589. I'm saying, there's a kids rooms, the nursery, the home

  590. office and there's like the extra space.

  591. It's the man cave. Come on.

  592. Somebody got the chairs, they shake and vibration.

  593. In video games, you got some work right equipment.

  594. That collects dust. Come on right over there.

  595. Send me, you guys got like a cigar lounge.

  596. I don't know who you are. But somebody I know what your

  597. thing is, or it could be a craft room, a craft room right here.

  598. You can find out. All right, let's be real, you

  599. know, it's going to be, you can use this storage.

  600. You can put your Christmas trees in there.

  601. And this is never going to go use the root, right?

  602. That's just how it's going to roll.

  603. Or could be a workshop. Come on.

  604. Maybe just me. I like the workshop, but we

  605. always begin with the end in mind with a Vision for the

  606. property, like we start looking at like we know exactly what we

  607. want. So today I just want to do.

  608. Can I just dream little bit about having the day?

  609. Can I dream about having just for a minute like a what its

  610. gonna be? Like when we get there?

  611. Can we just begin with the end? Like what is it gonna look like?

  612. Like, what's all, what is going to happen in heaven?

  613. And so this is what it says. In John 14 1 through 3.

  614. This is Jesus talking. He says do not let your hearts

  615. be troubled. You believe in God believe.

  616. Also in me. My father's house has many rooms

  617. and if we're not. So, what I've told you that I'm

  618. Going there to what to, what to prepare a place for you.

  619. Come on. I mean, what I've told you that

  620. I'm going to paraphrase for you if I'm not preparing a place for

  621. you. This is Jesus talking about

  622. preparing heaven for us. He says, if I go and prepare a

  623. place for you, I will come back. Dude, the original Terminator.

  624. Come on somebody, I will come back and take you to be with me

  625. that you all some be be where I am.

  626. Now. Love this.

  627. Jesus is Being us as Jesus followers a home in heaven.

  628. You know, what? Jesus, there's a reason he came

  629. as a carpenter. Come on, he's always been a

  630. carpenter. Like he's the Creator.

  631. He's the architect. He's the engineer.

  632. He's the sustainer that holds everything together.

  633. He's the planner. He's the Builder.

  634. He's the contractor. He put everything together now,

  635. he's in heaven. Building us a home.

  636. Can I tell you something? When you get there, this home is

  637. gonna get hooked up behind your truck.

  638. Come on, son. You're not going to back your

  639. truck up and start pulling it, that I could cut the tongue off

  640. and stick it on the front of it in a park.

  641. It's not going to be a modular home.

  642. It's like a prefab or cookie cutter.

  643. I'm just gonna guess it's all custom.

  644. Come on, somebody, just a custom home by Jesus.

  645. This is what he's doing for us. I mean, what do you think about

  646. when you think about heaven, you know, I think about I think

  647. Sonny and no rain, come on. I mean, I say Sonny, I mean sson

  648. Sonny because there actually is no son.

  649. It's just Jesus as light that lights.

  650. Heaven, I'm getting all biblical here but a preacher but a

  651. preacher, right? No earthquakes.

  652. No tornadoes. No sin.

  653. We see Jesus face-to-face. This was says in Revelation.

  654. It says the Angels showed me. This is John Talking to Angels,

  655. showed me the river of water or literally River, the river of

  656. Water of Life as clear as crystal.

  657. That's a pretty sweet-looking spring flowing from the Throne

  658. of God and the lamb. This is Jesus down the middle of

  659. the great Street of the city, but I'm about you.

  660. I can't wait to see this View. Like, we go hiking, we go out

  661. into, like, the Ozarks. We are always boating.

  662. We look at amazing stuff. We've traveled to Hawaii.

  663. We've seen all sorts of things. But I'm telling you nothing is

  664. going to look as amazing as this river flowing from the Throne of

  665. the Lamb of God down the middle of the city.

  666. And so the east side of the river, stood, a tree of life.

  667. This is back in Genesis 3, the same Tree of Life, burying 12

  668. crops of fruit. Yielding, its fruit in its month

  669. and leaves the tree are healing for all nations.

  670. Love this. Don't miss verse 3.

  671. No longer will there. Be any curse.

  672. Come on. Somebody sin is eliminated.

  673. The Satan, the serpent himself has been thrown into the Lake of

  674. Fire, and we were walking with Jesus.

  675. Everything. That was broken is now fixed.

  676. There's no cancer. Come on somebody.

  677. There's no covid. There's no mask.

  678. There's no vaccines. Nobody's excited about it.

  679. Okay, you'll get there. No menopause.

  680. Well, I got some claps on that one, on the who was clapping but

  681. it's good the Throne of God and the lamb Jesus here is God, the

  682. father. Jesus himself will be in this

  683. city. And his servants will serve him

  684. and they will don't miss. They will see his face.

  685. Don't miss this because since Genesis 3, we have not seen the

  686. face of God for all of eternity and are like the middle of

  687. Eternity in humanity. We have been running from God

  688. and God is pursuing us. Us.

  689. And for the first time we see the face of God, the Bible says

  690. to be absent. The body is to be present with

  691. the Lord. And as Christians, when you

  692. leave this side of attorney, you're instantly in the presence

  693. of Jesus. And for the first time we look,

  694. look into the eyes of our creator and the author and the

  695. architect of our life. And it says, our name will be on

  696. their foreheads and there'd be no more night.

  697. There'd be no need for a lamp. I'm sorry.

  698. The Energizer Bunny is not, keep going and going and going and

  699. the light of the Sun the Moon. Light for the Sun for the Lord

  700. God will give them light and they will reign.

  701. Don't miss this little piece forever and ever and ever.

  702. And ever. I told you it was sunny with no

  703. chance of rain. This is like returning to Eden.

  704. This is what it looks like to go back to what it would be.

  705. Like if we never sinned walking the presence and a perfect

  706. relationship with God. There's no more suffering.

  707. That Jesus has wiped all tears away from our faces.

  708. There's a lot of questions about heaven.

  709. Okay, because obviously that Tell us all the questions you're

  710. going to have. So you need to text in your

  711. questions. So maybe I can maybe get more

  712. detail. I didn't not going to go all the

  713. way through all things that happen.

  714. We know in the Bible, but text me questions.

  715. There's a couple. Do we recognize our loved ones,

  716. had this come up a life group, just a few months ago.

  717. What will it look like on about you?

  718. Hope it's a with less weight more muscles, right?

  719. Like, I'm not sure, well, how would be given all these crowns

  720. about talks about rewards in the Bible.

  721. There's Seven Crown's like endurance, and soul winning.

  722. There's all these crowns that we can earn and is the point we're

  723. God. Us and God, he gives us a Jules

  724. and her crap. This isn't made up and there's a

  725. point. Where do we give an account for

  726. our lives? Like every other word?

  727. We spoke in this, the most important question.

  728. You can ever ask. Will there be a Chick-fil-A.

  729. Come on, somebody. Will there be a Chick-fil-A in

  730. heaven? I hope the line moves just as

  731. fast, right? This is how it's going to roll,

  732. but we begin with the end in mind.

  733. The end of my, what do you think about?

  734. You think I have it? I think a two things.

  735. There's only two things that come from this earth into

  736. heaven. The first thing is this, it's

  737. the word of God. God this word of God, endures

  738. forever and ever and ever, and you're going to find this word

  739. of God in heaven, but the second thing that isn't Heaven is

  740. people It's people every tribe. Every tongue every nation is

  741. people. The only two things that you can

  742. take with you from this side of Eternity.

  743. To that side is the word of God. And people.

  744. That should change everything about how we walk out of here

  745. today. That's a change.

  746. Everything about how we love people that we would go out of

  747. our way for people. Now.

  748. In fact, how we love people, and how we treat people, it says,

  749. everything about our theology says everything.

  750. What we believe about God. It's just everything would be

  751. about people. The only thing is people then

  752. what are we doing with people? It's a life about you.

  753. Can't attach a U-Haul to a hearse, but you can take people

  754. you can bring other people with you.

  755. Remember when I was in 2003 that was in Mexico, and we're looking

  756. into the face of people wondering.

  757. Am I willing to get uncomfortable enough to tell

  758. them about Jesus? My fact, I think about that

  759. about every day walking through Walmart.

  760. Come on, somebody or Target. All these people who need Jesus,

  761. who need somebody to come her life and point them, to the one

  762. who broke the curse for them. And how uncomfortable willing to

  763. get to love on people, to give up College planes, may be a

  764. change dreams, maybe to serve on a team.

  765. Maybe to give sacrificially. Maybe to lead maybe to stop

  766. following ourselves. Like, how uncomfortable.

  767. Are you willing to get my fat? Jesus, at this in Mark 12?

  768. Somebody asking what's the greatest commandment Jesus?

  769. He said, the most important one will hear this.

  770. Oh, Israel. The Lord Our God.

  771. The Lord is one. It says, love the Lord God, with

  772. all your heart, all your soul, with all your mind and all your

  773. strength. The second one.

  774. Is this. Love your neighbor as yourself

  775. and this is the greatest commandment.

  776. In fact, Jesus goes on to say in John 15.

  777. He says my commitment is this love each other as I have loved

  778. you. So milk your neighbor and say I

  779. love you. Now.

  780. Look your other neighbor you left behind.

  781. I love you. This is used to the greatest

  782. commandment - she loves somebody, the think, outside

  783. yourself to give your best men. Fact, he goes on to say greater.

  784. Love has no one than this, than to lay down his life for his

  785. friends. There's no greater act.

  786. You can ever do in this side of attorney there, lay down your

  787. life, for somebody else. And this is what Jesus did for

  788. us. Jesus laid his life down for us.

  789. Matter of fact, he decided to lay down his life back in

  790. Genesis 3, if not sooner. And he decided.

  791. As soon as Sin entered the picture, he said, one day.

  792. I'm coming. I'm going to orchestrate all of

  793. eternity, everything happened in humanity, all the prophecy, all

  794. the all the kings, all the kingdoms, all the things.

  795. All the events that transpire. I'm going to make myself across.

  796. I'm going to bring in some of that Roman culture.

  797. I'm going to show up. So the whole world can see me.

  798. So Jesus, did you know why? Jesus did this?

  799. Because he had the end in mind. He knew there was a very real

  800. heaven. The very real Health, Jesus knew

  801. that, and he wanted us to go to heaven.

  802. And so he ran towards us Mary that he think about the last few

  803. days of his life or David's life.

  804. He was betrayed by one of his followers.

  805. For 30 pieces of silver. He's praying in the garden.

  806. He was put on false trial and it will ignite the false

  807. accusations. And he was, he was put out to

  808. die instead of something else deserved named Barabbas, then he

  809. was scourged. He took at nine tails just piece

  810. of teeth and bone on. Leather whips and ran across his

  811. back, you strapped around a rock and stripped him of his skin.

  812. Bible said it. He was so disfigured.

  813. You couldn't recognize him as a human and Jesus beard was ripped

  814. out and he was stripped naked in the crown of thorns was shoved

  815. on to his brow piercing into his skin.

  816. It picked up across willingly and carried up the hill of

  817. Calvary for us on top of that Hill.

  818. They drove spikes into his risk and then to his ankles and they

  819. stood him up. For the whole world to see

  820. because for God. So loved the world that he gave

  821. his son. He willingly went to the cross

  822. for us, on that cross. He did the grace Act of Love

  823. Ever Getting. He took all of our wrongs and

  824. place it on himself. The Bible says he was crushed

  825. but not destroyed. Is he saying that he'd won?

  826. But Satan didn't know the power of God.

  827. And on that cross. He paid every single one of our

  828. debts. He paid our hell, he was our

  829. wrath bearing. Vice not just for you, but for

  830. all of humanity and on that cross, he said these words are

  831. so powerful for us today. He said it is finished.

  832. What is finished sin is finished.

  833. Satan is finished. Universe has said that he's

  834. going to crush the head of Satan will just went down because

  835. Jesus on that cross took out Satan.

  836. He defeated hell. And agitated said his final

  837. breath. He took his final breath.

  838. He died and gave up The Ghost. And the first thing he did is he

  839. ran through the gates of hell and he's All our keys, he stole

  840. our keys and he ran through every single cell that we were

  841. locked in his prisoners, from this curse of death and sin in

  842. the grave and a rose on the third day and Rose erected his

  843. life for our freedom, with our within our keys in hand.

  844. Amen. This is what Jesus did for us,

  845. on the cross. He laid down his life so that we

  846. can have life. And all of a sudden, the curse

  847. was reversed and Jesus made away.

  848. This is a love story. Of God.

  849. And so you think about death? And I think about, I think about

  850. Jesus, I think, how much I love Jesus and his plan for us.

  851. This is what God did for us. And so how uncomfortable.

  852. Are you willing to get four people?

  853. Because Jesus got little uncomfortable for us to didn't

  854. he? He didn't just go across the

  855. road and put a track on a roll of toilet paper.

  856. Come on. I'm, he went to the cross for

  857. us. And so, how long will, how

  858. willing are you getting willing to get together and comfortable?

  859. Like, what would you do for somebody?

  860. Know A love of Jesus? How far are you willing to go?

  861. It's what Jesus prayed for us, in.

  862. John 17. He says my prayer is not for

  863. them alone. But for those who will believe

  864. in me, somebody else today, all believers all time.

  865. He says, I pray in me through their message says that all of

  866. them may be one, the Jesus prayed that his Christians will

  867. be United together under the banner of Jesus.

  868. Not anything else, but we would know Jesus.

  869. He goes on to say. Father, just as you are in me

  870. and I am in you, we should be. So.

  871. So close to God, then when people see us, they don't see

  872. Sean Petrie. They see Jesus, you know, you

  873. might be the only Bible that somebody reads you might be the

  874. only picture of the love of God in somebody's life.

  875. He says, may they also be in us with the world.

  876. Like this may believe that you sent me that your life is the

  877. greatest apologetic of all history that the way you live in

  878. this moment in this season of division and chaos, and all

  879. these riots, and all these things are happening in our

  880. community and across the world that you are.

  881. The Sure of Jesus. He says given the glory that you

  882. gave me that they may be one as we are one and in them and I in

  883. them and you and me so that they may be brought to complete

  884. Unity. Then the world will know that

  885. you have sent me and have loved them.

  886. Even as you have loved me and how we treat people as our

  887. greatest apologetic that we were single-minded one.

  888. Mind. One Accord as Christians were

  889. not divided. It's so easy.

  890. Be divided in 2021 in it. Vaccines.

  891. What's your opinion? Oh, no, tell me already know

  892. it's on social media. Mask Sports, red, blue, black

  893. white. Where Do We Stand?

  894. We stand for Jesus. Amen.

  895. There's only one name that we unify under his name of Jesus.

  896. He is the Supreme. Everything is second to him.

  897. You're the world doesn't need know what.

  898. We're against the world doesn't need to know that we don't like

  899. this and we don't like this and we don't like this.

  900. And we don't like this know, the world needs to know about Jesus,

  901. the Wolves, know what we're for. And he has a name.

  902. His name is Jesus. And so he's love people that

  903. don't treat us fair. And I got a text this morning.

  904. 10 minutes. We're going up here, land

  905. blasting things because there's life is hurting.

  906. They don't understand this Jesus.

  907. I'm just telling you, we just showed grace and mercy and

  908. forgiveness and how you post people are watching and what

  909. you're saying, people are watching every word.

  910. There's a watching world and they're asking the question, are

  911. they different is your marriage different?

  912. Does it look just like everybody else?

  913. Is how do you treat your kids? What do you believe about

  914. people, which aside, I look like what your bank account look,

  915. like, what your prayer life look like.

  916. What supposed to look like these people forgive people.

  917. They seem awfully better. Meet the patient with people.

  918. So Eugene has always begin with the end in mind.

  919. He knew what attorney look like. If the only thing that goes from

  920. here to there is peep. We should all bow people.

  921. And we sit down, we start thinking 401 K's your houses and

  922. all this stuff. We just forget about people we

  923. can walk by right down the aisle.

  924. We leave here today and I say a word to somebody else because we

  925. miss it. I'll give you a bonus principal,

  926. get a squirt. Tony Horton of it.

  927. Didn't P90X3 bonus principle. Here it is.

  928. I talked about live like you're dying and that's really not the

  929. full picture because it has a structure that fair because

  930. you're actually not dying because you die, you go to

  931. heaven. It's only give you a better

  932. principal. If you taking notes write this

  933. down because this is really good least, I think it is.

  934. It's real simple live. Like you were dead and now

  935. you're alive live. Like you were dead in sin, but

  936. now you're alive to God. It changes everything live.

  937. Like you're in your free from this debt of sin.

  938. Like this world is not your home.

  939. We're not just like oh a die then it's over.

  940. Yeah. I'll enjoy having.

  941. No, no. No, we're going home.

  942. Somebody. Come on, like we're not just

  943. like, oh, one day, we'll get there.

  944. No, no, that Saturday. That's what we're supposed to

  945. be. The only reason God hadn't left.

  946. You here is for people. He live here for a title.

  947. He leave here for stuff. You know, he who dies with the

  948. most stuff. Still dice.

  949. Still nice. The only thing that matters is

  950. people that was says, set your mind on things above and not

  951. below that we were Heavenly minded.

  952. They're not daydreaming or we're playing on that trip.

  953. We're bring as many people as possible to be a big old party.

  954. I can't wait to go to. We're just thinking of Heaven,

  955. they were dead in sin, that Jesus broke the curse somewhere

  956. alive to God and we look forward to seeing Jesus face-to-face,

  957. you know, our mission is not to accumulate the most stuff.

  958. Although I'll tell you what, the only thing that seems unified

  959. people in our countries shopping.

  960. Whole place in here. Be together is a row in Target,

  961. or the middle aisle at Aldi. I'm Tom, I'm talking about

  962. something called the Isle of Shame earlier.

  963. I say, it's really good. It's like I need these things is

  964. the only thing that brings us together spending, but were

  965. supposed to unified for. Jesus is Love people.

  966. I would encourage, are you willing to get uncomfortable?

  967. Jesus? Like, why not you, what, why not

  968. be a leader? Like, when I step up and say I

  969. can do more for God. What can I do?

  970. Put me in coach? I love that Kim would ever put

  971. me in. I'm willing.

  972. I'm ready. Just send me in.

  973. Why not? Give more like, when I sacrifice

  974. more. I'm not saying give it to us.

  975. I'm saying, want to give more way to people, why not want to

  976. believe in people. Why not why give up on our

  977. family. So easily.

  978. Missy is all times people in our family don't act or look, or do

  979. things we want to do. And all of a sudden were

  980. offended. Personally.

  981. Don't be offended. Jesus will have some still,

  982. let's just help them. Encourage them.

  983. How about love on our kids? How about care about more about

  984. Unity than being right? There's there's an almost a

  985. non-american message in that. Kid more than we love on people

  986. more than politics or covid, vaccines and masks and all this.

  987. Jazz of people say that's going to go away.

  988. It would be alien ourselves from the very people who need Jesus,

  989. because we were so opinionated about what was so what is true.

  990. Is he relevant to somebody Who You're not winning their soul.

  991. Yeah, I'm Gonna Leave You the story.

  992. There's a friend of so many people in our church whose

  993. inspiration to generation is imposed and Iran.

  994. Use a canvas pass for Life Church.

  995. She passed away a few months ago and went to Dana's funeral.

  996. I didn't know Danny that well, I've been in a few times a lot

  997. of our team had shadowed and stuff and he was young, and he

  998. had three kids and do is mr. Smiley.

  999. This guy was phenomenally gifted.

  1000. I didn't know all about Danny's story about my head.

  1001. I'm going to go. This guy's funeral and show up

  1002. for the funeral enough know what happens if Most people do, but

  1003. people talk about you and your family says things, and your

  1004. friends, say, things in your neighbors, and your co-workers.

  1005. And anybody you influence, just cozy, if, you know the show,

  1006. they care. Never forget, Danny store

  1007. because it literally was the most powerful for, you know,

  1008. I've ever sat in as a shared story.

  1009. After story, after story of how day need is.

  1010. A lot of people. I've never been to a funeral.

  1011. That was so powerful about loving people, because he was

  1012. just Danny, he didn't do everything right.

  1013. Right. He was kind of a screwball, it

  1014. was fun. But he loved people.

  1015. And each other story of a guy. Those Marine big, dude -

  1016. araignee Smith, real big came into church.

  1017. Not a Christian. This guy brought him his Marines

  1018. to his my buddy and Danny runs up to him, and gives him a big

  1019. hug. This guy is standoffish.

  1020. And so, Danny snug little tired, you know, Danny, that's Danny.

  1021. And every week, this guy showed up to church, week after week,

  1022. after week, after week, to get a hug from Danny.

  1023. I was like, wow, this is what the gospel is all about.

  1024. I don't know about you. But how do you want people to

  1025. remember your life? Like, what do you want somebody

  1026. to come up here and say about you at your funeral?

  1027. Like what you want the story to be like thank God they were here

  1028. for me. That guy loved people.

  1029. That guy got uncomfortable. You know, Danny always go to

  1030. restaurants. Use that guy.

  1031. Those invite people to church. Don't talk about, right.

  1032. They said well, it's just really far away can't afford the gas.

  1033. He pulled out a hundred dollar bill and say gotcha.

  1034. Come on out, like just that kind of guy.

  1035. Just loving people. Now.

  1036. I thought man, this is a story. We all should have I left that

  1037. funeral change because his life spoke to me.

  1038. And I tell you today that your life.

  1039. That your love for people can break the curse and people's

  1040. lives and I told you they're watching you.

  1041. That Jesus said, you are the apology, you are the apologetic,

  1042. you are Jesus of this generation people watching your life.

  1043. And if you love them and you care for them and you pour into

  1044. them and you want to get too comfortable.

  1045. The world is like, I cannot believe that this person is

  1046. still doing this. How do you stay married that

  1047. long? How do you put up with this?

  1048. How do you go to that Spork situation and still have a

  1049. positive attitude? You'd like, how do you do this

  1050. stuff? Because they're watching and all

  1051. of a sudden their hearts begins to change because they're start

  1052. seeing you, but it's not you, they start seeing Jesus in you.

  1053. Amen. And so, we have the opportunity

  1054. as Christians to point people to Jesus.

  1055. The only thing that matters, the question leave with this is how

  1056. uncomfortable, because there's nothing comfortable about this

  1057. life because it's not meant for Comfort.

  1058. It's not our home. We're just passing through,

  1059. we're foreigners in a four lanes soon.

  1060. Build. Big houses will have crazy.

  1061. Nice stuff. We just push towards Jesus, and

  1062. we bring as many people on the journey as possible.

  1063. Amen. So father, we come before you

  1064. now. Pay will be passionate about

  1065. people. Gotta pray for our church to be

  1066. most uncomfortable Church in all of Kansas City because we're not

  1067. about ourselves. Got her all about your mission.

  1068. You're all about serving you and pointing people to you.

  1069. And God Is So sobering knowing that, the only thing that goes

  1070. through eternity with us that we can take Besides the word of God

  1071. is people. So help us to be uncomfortable.

  1072. So on a pray for somebody a day, maybe all of you today.

  1073. Somebody say, you know what? I'm willing to get uncomfortable

  1074. for Jesus. It's been it's been maybe

  1075. unconscious a little bit, but I'm going to be more

  1076. uncomfortable. I'm going to live my life on

  1077. purpose. I'm willing to step up.

  1078. I'm going to do whatever God calls me to do because this

  1079. isn't about me, it's about Jesus, about people, knowing

  1080. Jesus. So, that's your day.

  1081. You say I'm willing to go uncomfortable.

  1082. We put your hand high and say, that's me today.

  1083. I'm only going to control for Jesus.

  1084. Come on, put your hand up in this place.

  1085. I know that you're only getting comfortable, just kind of put

  1086. that up there and say, yeah, say and see me, you better put on my

  1087. back. So I'm going want to pray for

  1088. you. Father, God.

  1089. Thanks so much for every hand raised.

  1090. Got every heart, you're moving in God.

  1091. I pray that we would shape the world because your power through

  1092. US. Yes.

  1093. Not about us when it become about us.

  1094. God's all about you. So we surrender our life to you.

  1095. Yeah, we were going to rob hell of death.

  1096. God. We're going to point, people

  1097. were put up roadblocks. Got we're loving our neighbor.

  1098. Now. We're loving our family.

  1099. Got we were full of patience and kindness and Joy, even though

  1100. the world is pulling us down, we choose to stand up because we

  1101. know the end of the story, we know who the victory lies and we

  1102. lead from Victory, not for victory, Gallop.

  1103. We know who we are today. So God call us out as a

  1104. generation. Got to lead guess a church that

  1105. point people to you, God, that death, even though it's got tons

  1106. of questions. We know where our eternity is

  1107. got, we know that that an empty grave God.

  1108. It means somebody's present with Jesus, and they just beat us

  1109. home. So we're counting down the days.

  1110. God. We were numbered our We know

  1111. exactly where we stand and just a dash.

  1112. In a moment. We know that our days are

  1113. numbered God help us to know mortality and the brevity of

  1114. life because we're living on Mission in this season.

  1115. Gonna pray for one more group people and that's those.

  1116. You say, no, I recognize who Jesus is today.

  1117. I recognize that Jesus broke the curse.

  1118. I've been down this on my own. I've been fined, depression of

  1119. the find anxiety. I'm going through some deep

  1120. stuff. I've been running and running

  1121. and running from God. I had no idea has been chasing

  1122. you. But today, I know Jesus has been

  1123. chasing me and that's you. The Bible says this image called

  1124. the name of Jesus. Yes, we saved forgiven and made

  1125. new. You believe that Jesus died on

  1126. the cross for your sins and rose again, that you will have a home

  1127. in heaven. He'll forgive you, and make, you

  1128. need a day and you don't just get to spend eternity with

  1129. Heaven. You start to, spend eternity

  1130. with Jesus. Now, you start leading and

  1131. following and know who you are and be different and made whole

  1132. house. Is your new creation.

  1133. So, if you need Jesus today, you say yes to him.

  1134. Maybe online in person. Whatever.

  1135. You need. Jesus.

  1136. We put your hand high. So I need Jesus a day.

  1137. If that's you. Come on, put your hand high at

  1138. that, you. Chained up.

  1139. Meanwhile, 90 Jesus. I want to lead you in a prayer

  1140. prayer. Didn't save you, but your heart

  1141. towards God just say this father got thanks so much for sending

  1142. your best. You always had a plan.

  1143. You never left this by ourselves God, you ran towards us.

  1144. So we ran away from you and today I'm running back to you

  1145. because I recognize who Jesus is the down, across my sins and

  1146. pray, you can have my life and I serve you praise in Jesus name.

  1147. Amen. Come on.

  1148. Let's give it up for God today. Them know you love them.

  1149. Awesome. And if that's you today, you

  1150. made that decision when we are so excited for you today.

  1151. You're choosing life to be alive, not dead in sins but

  1152. alive to God. And so we have a couple of next

  1153. steps for you. You can take out your phone.

  1154. You can text RL next to 97,000. It's next because those next

  1155. steps are going to help you on your journey with Jesus.

  1156. And so on there, you'll click you'll take you to our website

  1157. with some resources to survival app.

  1158. To get you started on that Journey, but also a place where

  1159. you can share your Because we would love to celebrate what God

  1160. is doing with you today. Or if you're here with us in

  1161. person at Kentucky Trail on the way out.

  1162. There's a table with some red bags inside as a free Bible and

  1163. also a letter just to explain some of those resources for you.

  1164. So please take one of those on your way out today.

  1165. And then for all of us to have a few next steps today, man, the

  1166. only things that will go with us into eternity is the word of God

  1167. and people. And that's a powerful thought

  1168. about how we spend everyday, all the things that we do and so So

  1169. I want to encourage you. We are coming up on our fall,

  1170. life group semester and maybe you're thinking, man.

  1171. This might be something that God is calling me to maybe attending

  1172. a life group for the first time, but also may be leading a life

  1173. group for the first time and what I love about our life

  1174. groups are real life is that you don't have to come up with some

  1175. magical, amazing thing to bring people together to follow Jesus.

  1176. You can go out and serve, you know, your friends every

  1177. Wednesday night meal and do that together.

  1178. You can watch football together, you can Through a Bible study

  1179. together, but the point is that it's taking the things you

  1180. already love to do and you're working together.

  1181. Let's take that time and invest it into people of God and

  1182. Inspire them to be able to find Freedom and live the life that

  1183. they need to live. And so if that's something that

  1184. God's been working on your heart.

  1185. I want you to reach out to Holly Holcomb.

  1186. She is here today. Her email address is on the

  1187. screen reach out to her. We would love to get you

  1188. connected with our printing process, to help you be fully

  1189. equipped to lead a life group. And then our next Step is this

  1190. that we are so excited to be partnering with apartment life

  1191. as we are, sending out a missionary to the Eagle, Glen

  1192. Apartments to reach our community for Jesus.

  1193. And this is an incredible opportunity to go and be the

  1194. hands and feet of Jesus. Alongside people.

  1195. Connecting with people sharing their Vision, sharing your our

  1196. mission to be able to reach our community for Jesus.

  1197. And so if you want more information about this

  1198. opportunity to make a difference, be the hands and

  1199. feet of Jesus, be on the ground. The community taking the word of

  1200. God out of these walls to our community.

  1201. Let me know. We're looking for a person, a

  1202. couple or a couple of Roommates to go.

  1203. And to be sent out as part of real life to make a difference.

  1204. And so I would love to connect you with more information or if

  1205. you have any questions and lastly, is this Sean said that

  1206. the thing we have in common is spending and the first thing

  1207. that came to my mind is how easy it is to go and spend about how

  1208. hard it is. Sometimes to go and invest and I

  1209. think about the times that I've had the opportunity to give

  1210. back. Back to somebody who's hurting

  1211. to give to a cause that means something to me or to be able to

  1212. give and see the power of God move in someone's life, through

  1213. a counseling session or to see somebody come to Jesus, or to

  1214. see a young person, give their life to God.

  1215. And I don't ever regret that investment that I've made into

  1216. what God is doing. So I'd love to challenge you.

  1217. If you've never thought about investing in what God is doing

  1218. to be a part of that here at real life because your blessing

  1219. that you will receive back will be exponentially greater than

  1220. you ever could have thought. And you can do that three ways.

  1221. You can go to Real Life Church kc.com and click give, you can

  1222. text any amount to eight four, three, two, one, or you can drop

  1223. we have a box in the back that you can put cash or check in.

  1224. We have an envelope for you if that's easier this morning and

  1225. so be thinking about how you are going to play a part in people

  1226. that we can take to Eternity and I want you to check out this

  1227. video to see what's coming up next.

  1228. Real life. Thank you so much for coming out

  1229. today and texting your questions.

  1230. Last week. It was amazing and important and

  1231. insightful questions that you guys sent in.

  1232. As Pastor Sean, answer them last Tuesday on Facebook live.

  1233. And this week is a nanny different.

  1234. We would love to continue the conversation and help you find

  1235. answers and resources that have been weighing on your heart.

  1236. Remember, this week is focused on answering questions that we

  1237. normally don't talk about. What questions do you have about

  1238. today's message? What are you wondering about?

  1239. When you think about eternity? If you have questions, text your

  1240. questions to 97,000 in the text box.

  1241. Be sure to put RL questions and your questions within the

  1242. message and we will answer it on Tuesday, Facebook live at 3 p.m.

  1243. With Pastor shot next week. We dive into a question that

  1244. hits home for all of us. We've all had tragedy strike

  1245. this last week. Eek we've seen the unimaginable

  1246. pain and Afghanistan in Haiti. Many of us have empty chairs

  1247. around our tables, from bad things that have wrecked our

  1248. lives. So join us next Sunday.

  1249. As Pastor, Sean jumps into another heartfelt message with

  1250. another hidden question. Why do bad things happen to good

  1251. people? I'm so looking forward to that.

  1252. See you next week. There were part of a church that

  1253. we can get to ask the hard questions, the questions we all

  1254. have in our minds, man. Pastor, Sean.

  1255. What a great job. What a?

  1256. What a challenge to know that God has something for us

  1257. something that we should be for not just something that we're

  1258. against. Hey, don't forget, send your

  1259. questions in. Check us out at 1 o'clock.

  1260. Not 3 o'clock at Facebook live on Tuesday.

  1261. Can't wait to hang out with you guys then.

  1262. Hey, if you guys need prayer for any reason, we'll have a team

  1263. member who we would love to pray with you again, man.

  1264. I'm a super excited to get signed up for Life groups.

  1265. Check out the apartment life. Can't wait to see how guys going

  1266. to use that. Let's see what else we got.

  1267. Hey, 930 level next week. Can't wait to see you guys.

  1268. Then. There's always remember whoever

  1269. finds Jesus discovers real life, and purpose.

  1270. See you next week.