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The Audacity Of Grace | Pastor Scott Thomas

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  14. this message god is the absolute master

  15. in choosing the unqualified to do the

  16. unexpected

  17. this is his resume he's done this since

  18. the beginning of time the Bible is

  19. loaded with these kinds of stories y'all

  20. remember teenage he used teenage David

  21. in order to go kill the big giant

  22. Goliath like he he used a runt in order

  23. to knock down this this giant that that

  24. that doesn't that doesn't mix uh that

  25. what about Jacob the the the the second

  26. born the second born god violated all

  27. the cultural norms and gave him the

  28. birthright he was the one that hyper

  29. exceeded what what about Sarah who was

  30. barren and she's given birth at

  31. 75 if you're 75 you got one more in you

  32. that's all I got now at

  33. 75 at 75 and what does she do she births

  34. she birs the nation of

  35. Israel i mean thi think about that the

  36. virgin the ver

  37. virgin

  38. Mary

  39. births

  40. Jesus god God is is always mixing it up

  41. and he's flipping it and spinning it and

  42. doing the most amazing with the least

  43. expected that's what he's always done

  44. there's a Virginia boy named Scott who

  45. pastors a church called Lakeland and in

  46. Lakeland Florida called Freap Chapel

  47. that makes no sense that's the audacity

  48. of God what does he think he's

  49. doing and his audacity of grace is all

  50. over your life as well

  51. he it's he's choosing the unqualified

  52. that the people that would would not be

  53. expected to do the unexpected that's

  54. just audacious grace it's the only way

  55. to explain it that his reach is further

  56. than what people ever anticipated in

  57. fact I will tell you this god believes

  58. his ability in you more than you believe

  59. in his ability in you

  60. god sees you different than the way you

  61. see

  62. you god sees you as able and possible

  63. and can do it and we see ourselves just

  64. tripping and so small and a failure and

  65. a mess and unqualified

  66. i know I'm in your house right now

  67. that's okay we go have some coffee and

  68. talk today because this is exactly who

  69. he is it's what he does and and and this

  70. is what's so crazy it's this audacious

  71. grace that he puts on our life that he

  72. then turns around and assigns you and I

  73. the honor of being the ones to share the

  74. message of Jesus and the hope of Christ

  75. to the world like like us like in in my

  76. head shouldn't he be bringing somebody

  77. else to do this job because I'm just

  78. glad I'm a I'm just glad I'm going to

  79. heaven now i I just got my stuff fixed

  80. but God says "No now that you said yes

  81. to me now I want you to be a me my

  82. messenger." And I'm going "No you don't

  83. understand like I don't have it together

  84. like that i I'm I'm not professional

  85. enough i don't know enough i'm not

  86. qualified to do that." But he says "No

  87. if you said yes to me it's good you can

  88. go let's get the job done." He transfers

  89. to you and I there's no one else to do

  90. it there's nobody else going to carry

  91. the message and the hope of Jesus to

  92. other people the people you work with

  93. and especially the one that gets on your

  94. nerves that one god says "I put you

  95. there to deliver this message to them."

  96. Who else is going to do it

  97. i I I can't come to everybody's work and

  98. say "Everyone get your Bible out let's

  99. talk today." That's not going to work

  100. but you and I over lunch or standing by

  101. the cop here or sitting around the

  102. office or or or so we we have the

  103. opportunity to engage and share the good

  104. and amazing wonderful news with Jesus if

  105. you don't do it then

  106. who who are we who are we expecting to

  107. do

  108. it it's not going to happen if you and I

  109. don't 1 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 4

    1 Thessalonians 2:4

  110. and check this verse out here's what it

  111. says in fact everyone read it with me

  112. here we go we speak as messengers

  113. approved by God to be entrusted with the

  114. good

  115. news you're a

  116. messenger the message is on you the

  117. message is in your heart the message is

  118. in your mouth it it it's in what you've

  119. experienced in Christ you are the one

  120. that's supposed to be telling others

  121. about Jesus i am the one you know that

  122. stats tell us that

  123. 96% of believers have never led anybody

  124. to

  125. Christ it's

  126. like I got saved but then that's where

  127. it ended and nobody told me the church

  128. didn't really equip us to understand

  129. that now we are supposed to go share the

  130. good news with other people as well it's

  131. It's good that I'm saved i'm so glad I

  132. said yes to Jesus but I got to do

  133. something with this it's like get the

  134. faith keep the faith but just don't keep

  135. it to yourself like like give it to

  136. somebody else as well we've got to share

  137. this good news now we're we're not we're

  138. not perfect we're not sinless we're not

  139. professionals at this we're just people

  140. who have experienced the lifechanging

  141. reality of Jesus is anybody glad that

  142. you know Jesus as your savior if you are

  143. would you put your hands together and

  144. just celebrate right there that man I'm

  145. I'm just

  146. Woo now if you know Jesus has his hands

  147. full cuz there's a lot more work to do

  148. in you would you keep right on clapping

  149. right now because we got

  150. Yes would you tell your neighbor he's

  151. working overtime in your situation just

  152. tell him he's he's he's got he's got a

  153. lot going

  154. on the Bible is absolutely loaded please

  155. hear me the Bible is loaded with

  156. examples of God doing his greatest work

  157. through

  158. crazy messed up broken people ain't none

  159. of us got it all together person beside

  160. you's got issues just as big as yours

  161. yes they do yes no you think they're

  162. more saved than you are whatever that is

  163. you think they got it more together than

  164. you do y'all looking up here at the guy

  165. holding the mic thinking he's got it

  166. together you so crazy

  167. i'm as messed up as you are i got issues

  168. i got battles inside my head like you

  169. got battles inside every one of us do

  170. that it the goal is never to get rid of

  171. those issues the goal is to stay focused

  172. on Jesus and those are two things come

  173. differently completely you you got to

  174. make sure that he's our focus the Bible

  175. says be ye holy as I am holy do you know

  176. how you become holy you become holy not

  177. by pursuing holiness you become holy by

  178. pursuing Jesus

  179. and in the process of going after Jesus

  180. something begins to change in your life

  181. but in holiness is never our goal that's

  182. never my goal because I will find ways

  183. to be holy without Jesus

  184. i'll think if I give more money I'm holy

  185. i think if I if I serve somebody then

  186. I'm now worthy of heaven we're trying to

  187. earn our way if you get anything but

  188. Jesus in your mind you've got to make

  189. sure Jesus is the focus of your heart

  190. that's but but he still works with

  191. messed up people because we mess up

  192. we fall down

  193. but we get up donna McCclark told that

  194. she told us told that to us years ago

  195. and some of y'all don't have a clue who

  196. Donna Mccclan is and that's okay y'all

  197. need to get a life and Google that boy

  198. that's all I got to say

  199. we we we don't have we don't have a

  200. theology degree but we do have a

  201. testimony

  202. has he done anything in anybody's life

  203. that you say "You ain't going to believe

  204. this." Okay good good good i I I don't

  205. know the books of the Bible but I know

  206. Jesus that that's a you you don't have

  207. to have Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers

  208. you don't have to all that down in order

  209. to be able to share your story i can't

  210. quote scripture but I've got a story

  211. that what Jesus did in my life and I can

  212. share that right there i'm I'm not the

  213. pro i'm I'm not the professional i'm not

  214. the perfect Christian but I am the

  215. perfect example of what Jesus's love can

  216. do in somebody's life i'm in process i'm

  217. going somewhere i'm not where I used to

  218. be i've got a peace that I didn't have

  219. i've got a rest i got a joy i've got a

  220. hope that just wasn't there before and

  221. that's what he's done in my life i want

  222. to give you a few examples of people

  223. that Jesus used that's probably going to

  224. be a bit shocking to you but we're going

  225. to do it free lifestyle can we just go

  226. there and we we if you brought somebody

  227. new with you today you might want to

  228. lean over to him and apologize to them

  229. for the pastor today for for like he's a

  230. little bit you know he's he's not always

  231. Yeah all of that because let's just go

  232. here the first the first example we have

  233. of God using like he used who was the

  234. demon-possessed

  235. preacher and and the Bible tells us in

  236. the in the book of Mark chapter 4 that

    Mark 4 chapter mention

  237. Jesus looks over to his disciples one

  238. day and he says as he he says this

  239. phrase "Let's go across to the other

  240. side." Now sidebar come with

  241. me how many of y'all grew up where you

  242. used to hear that phrase "They from the

  243. other side of the

  244. tracks?" Y'all know what I'm talking

  245. about how many of y'all were the people

  246. who actually lived on the other side of

  247. the tracks cuz that's where we live yeah

  248. okay yeah so you all understand me like

  249. we on the same page i thought you were

  250. we I thought we were neighbors i thought

  251. I saw you yeah we were we were those

  252. people in in Jesus's day rebbitically it

  253. was understood culturally whenever the

  254. phrase was pulled out across the other

  255. side they were on this side on the

  256. western side of the Sea of Galilee and

  257. across the other side would have been

  258. the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee

  259. and that was pagan

  260. country for my Bible students that are

  261. here that would be where the docopolis

  262. started there and it went south the 10

  263. cities that were pagan that were Greek

  264. inspired a lot of Roman there were some

  265. Jews that were scattered through there

  266. but for the most part it was

  267. paganism on this side of the Sea of

  268. Galilee was was a lot of Jews and a lot

  269. of people who worshiped the God of

  270. Abraham Isaac and Jacob but but on the

  271. other side so to go to the when Jesus

  272. said "Let's go to the other side," they

  273. going "Oh Jesus what is wrong with you

  274. why are you going there?" And so Jesus

  275. goes "Row row row your boat." And here

  276. they go and they went to the other side

  277. and guess who met them when they got to

  278. the other side the Bible says in Mark 5

  279. as soon as they landed the welcoming

  280. committee was a demon-possessed

  281. dude yeah the maniac of

  282. Gera gda by the way when you go with us

  283. to Israel in November I'm going to take

  284. you to Gera and I'm going to show you

  285. where this story took place ain't

  286. nothing like in the world gera is is

  287. here where where they meet this this man

  288. and the Bible gives us a description of

  289. this dude this dude was out of his mind

  290. crazy he was living amongst the

  291. tombs they tried to chain him several

  292. times he was breaking out of the chains

  293. they would hear him welling and

  294. screaming and yelling all throughout the

  295. night he was he was just haunting the

  296. people throughout that region and this

  297. was the welcoming committee the Bible

  298. says he was cutting himself he was

  299. screaming he was just a mess and he

  300. shows up and he confronts Jesus when

  301. when Jesus pulls up on the on the boat

  302. and as soon as he confronts Jesus Jesus

  303. starts talking to the guy and the demons

  304. start talking out back out of him now

  305. how y'all would have probably swam all

  306. the way back to the other side if you

  307. The demons start talking back to Jesus

  308. and pushing back and Jesus goes "We're

  309. going to deal with this." And all of a

  310. sudden he casts the demons out i wish I

  311. had time to get into this story he cast

  312. the demons out of this man into the pigs

  313. oink

  314. oink why the pigs because Zeus was the

  315. number one worshiped god in those

  316. regions and the sacrifice they used for

  317. Zeus were pigs

  318. so he cast the pigs that the the demons

  319. into the pigs the pigs run off the side

  320. of the mountain into the water and drown

  321. and there goes all the sacrifices that

  322. were being anyway it's a whole another

  323. story just a side note for what it's

  324. worth but here's what I want you to

  325. understand the man is completely

  326. delivered someone shout completely

  327. comes back to his right mind he's so

  328. humbled he's healed like man I I was a

  329. mess just a few minutes ago but I met

  330. Jesus and something has changed inside

  331. of me and and and Jesus is getting ready

  332. to leave and the guy goes "Wait wait

  333. wait wait wait take me with you." And

  334. there's room in the boat can I please go

  335. and Jesus pushes back on the guy jesus

  336. says "Absolutely not." In fact Mark 5:1

    Mark 5:1

  337. 19 says this "But Jesus said "No go home

  338. to your family and tell them everything

  339. the Lord has done for you and how

  340. merciful he has

  341. been." No you you want to come with me

  342. but but you're it it the goal is not for

  343. you to run from your life and then just

  344. hide with me the goal of your life is

  345. not to take what I've put in you and

  346. begin to tell other people about it

  347. that's the focus of what I'm trying to

  348. do with

  349. you go tell your story you go me yes

  350. you're the perfect one the

  351. demon-possessed preacher the guy that

  352. shows back up in the dopolis people go

  353. "Oh no." And he's in his right mind and

  354. he's got a smile in his face and there's

  355. peace in his heart and he's telling

  356. people who Jesus is and how he changed

  357. his life and here's what's amazing with

  358. that whole deal is Jesus comes back to

  359. that area two chapters later in Mark

    Mark 7 chapter mention

  360. chapter 7 and the Bible says that masses

  361. were showing up to meet Jesus and he

  362. began to perform miracles everywhere in

  363. other words the man did his job and his

  364. message and his story was so powerful

  365. all of the dopolis this pagan city

  366. wanted to show up and see a man who

  367. could change a guy like that how many

  368. you know that a lot of us in this room

  369. were the guy like that the gal like that

  370. like when you walk back in with peace in

  371. your on your face and joy in your heart

  372. your family is going "What you smoking?"

  373. Like they they ain't ready for that

  374. right there like I I wasn't expecting

  375. that and that's why your message and who

  376. you are and what Jesus has done in your

  377. life is so powerful because people

  378. remember you before Jesus

  379. and they remember you and now now

  380. they're meeting you after Jesus and

  381. there's a whole different person that

  382. they're running into you got the

  383. demonpossessed preacher that God used

  384. what about this one there was another

  385. one called uh the getaround girl

  386. evangelist the getaround girl evangelist

  387. that's my that that's the way I that's

  388. what I called her that the Bible refers

  389. to as a Samaritan

  390. woman the Bible says that Jesus was

  391. going somewhere one day and he goes 30

  392. miles out of his way 30 m it's one thing

  393. if you drive I hate to drive five miles

  394. out of the way anywhere jesus wasn't

  395. driving he was walking a 30 mile detour

  396. uh-oh now that didn't end no detour that

  397. was intentional he goes 30 miles out of

  398. the way and there's a he goes to Samaria

  399. now you got to understand the tension

  400. that I'm sharing with you already jews

  401. and Samaritans don't mix that's a no no

  402. samaritans were considered half breeds

  403. that's how they were referred to half

  404. breeds that that and and and they

  405. worshiped differently than the Jews and

  406. there was this clash and the Samaritans

  407. hated the Jews the Jews hated the

  408. Samaritans that's why the story when

  409. Jesus tells the parable of the good

  410. Samaritan it was so contradictory and

  411. conflicting in culture because it was a

  412. Samaritan that was actually saving you

  413. you got to read your Bible anyway so

  414. Jesus now in this he goes and he visits

  415. the woman at at the well and she's there

  416. by herself drawing

  417. water and and and and as

  418. he's her standing there drawing water

  419. and we're going to understand more of

  420. her story in just a minute it it we

  421. understand some things about her because

  422. it probably means that she's an outcast

  423. to the community the fact that she is

  424. alone and not with other women there was

  425. a time a day that women would go

  426. together to for fellowship and for

  427. protection and they would draw water

  428. together the fact that she's by herself

  429. drawing water at a different time of the

  430. day would show she didn't mix with the

  431. ladies she was a loner she was one that

  432. was not welcome she didn't fit into the

  433. to the housewives club y'all understand

  434. like it it was a different kind of thing

  435. that she was pushed out and and and and

  436. the Bible tells us that she had been

  437. married five times she was living with

  438. number six but she was about to talk to

  439. number

  440. seven she got around girl she got around

  441. that's And so so the Bible says that

  442. that now she's having this encounter and

  443. John 4:39 tells us as Jesus is talking

    John 4:39

  444. to her says "Many Samaritans in that

  445. city believed in Jesus because of the

  446. woman who said "He told me everything

  447. I've ever done." Jesus has an encounter

  448. with this woman at the well sharing his

  449. heart with her hearing her heart hearing

  450. her fears and her concerns and he loves

  451. on her and gives her hope and gives her

  452. a strength that even though you've been

  453. with five and you're living with number

  454. six I'm telling you now God's plan for

  455. your life is good he loves you right

  456. where you are and she went running back

  457. into town y'all i got something to tell

  458. you and everyone's like "Oh my god here

  459. she comes look oh no who is this?" And

  460. she starts talking about this man that

  461. just knew her past and changed her life

  462. and the Bible says that people begin to

  463. come out of the city based on what she

  464. said based on her testimony based on the

  465. one that was ostracized and overlooked

  466. and laughed at and mocked and gossiped

  467. about now she's this evangelist she's

  468. sharing y'all ain't going to believe

  469. this and the people showed up and

  470. encountered Jesus and gave their lives

  471. to him because of her story the woman

  472. was culturally unacceptable folks it was

  473. out of order and I want you to know your

  474. life may have been out of order too and

  475. there's some folks that you ran with and

  476. there was some places that you were and

  477. your reputations and all that world and

  478. I'm telling you right now despite where

  479. you've been what Jesus has done in your

  480. life is powerful enough for you to step

  481. back in those places and share this hope

  482. and share this joy and share this peace

  483. and people will listen tell somebody

  484. people will listen just tell them people

  485. will listen why why why would they

  486. listen because there's audacious grace

  487. on your life to do this you shouldn't

  488. have been picked i shouldn't been picked

  489. what am I doing here right now i'm a

  490. Virginia boy that just learned to wear

  491. shoes three years ago but I'm telling

  492. you right now that when God puts his

  493. hand on your life and he comes alive on

  494. the inside of you he will radically

  495. transform who you are and give you an

  496. authority and an influence that you

  497. never knew

  498. possible your story is more powerful

  499. than what you think it is where you've

  500. been and what he's done in your life

  501. will touch hearts and one word from you

  502. of I can show you a man that can give

  503. you some peace ladies and gentlemen that

  504. changes things in so many people's

  505. lives what

  506. about what about the third one the wild

  507. and out

  508. witness this is a good

  509. one lady was named Mary Magdalene

  510. from the city of Magdala mary Magdalene

  511. yeah and by the way I'm going to take

  512. you to this city in November also we're

  513. going to stand right there it's amazing

  514. spot

  515. jesus Jesus cast the Bible tells us cast

  516. seven devils out of her seven devils

  517. some going "Well I know someone that's a

  518. little bit low that they going to have

  519. to go higher." Well Jesus can handle all

  520. of them but but seven devils se seven

  521. devils out of her and so transformed her

  522. life that when Jesus throughout his

  523. ministry she kept showing up she was

  524. there for all the watching miracles

  525. happen to the point that when he died

  526. she was there she was at his tomb

  527. waiting on him looking for him to be

  528. resurrected on the third day and she was

  529. the first to encounter him when he rose

  530. from the

  531. grave whenever Jesus came back from the

  532. dead she mistook him she thought he was

  533. a gardener and Jesus called her name

  534. Mary and immediately she understood who

  535. he was and here's what Jesus told her

  536. that day this woman who had been

  537. possessed messed up listen to what Jesus

  538. said to her john chapter 20 go to my

    John 20 chapter mention

  539. brothers and sisters and tell them I'm

  540. going to my father and your father to my

  541. God and to your God

  542. he chose Mary the former demon-possessed

  543. woman the wild and

  544. outwitness to be the one to go and

  545. proclaim the gospel that he has risen

  546. the very first one to share the good

  547. news of his resurrection was a woman and

  548. this is what's so powerful because

  549. culturally that's a no no if you were

  550. writing the Bible and you were

  551. fabricating not telling truth but you

  552. were trying to make the story sound

  553. better and give it influence you would

  554. never let a woman be the first one that

  555. would share the good news because her

  556. voice was discounted in these days you

  557. would have chosen a man to proclaim it

  558. but no Jesus said "I'm turning the

  559. tables i've got audacious grace and I

  560. know how to use anybody i can mess up

  561. culture i can play with their heads i

  562. know what I'm doing." And he did that he

  563. chose this woman who had been written

  564. off before but you see when people

  565. remember the past they can't explain the

  566. present be without Jesus being the one

  567. who changed their life and he used her

  568. to tell the good news of

  569. Jesus here here's the last example that

  570. I think is really cool it's it's the

  571. assassin

  572. preacher some of you say "I think I know

  573. him." Well I I that's that's horrible to

  574. think but but but the assassin preacher

  575. and and and just to give you context

  576. this guy his name would have been

  577. Saul saul of Tarsus you know him as Paul

  578. we talk about him being the quarterback

  579. of Christianity right but but but but

  580. Saul before he was Paul he was a mess

  581. some of y'all's best friend is who I'm

  582. talking about right like like he was a

  583. mess he was a master of the law he knew

  584. he knew that the the law and I don't

  585. just mean the penal law i'm talking

  586. biblical Jewish law he was a master at

  587. all that and he was a persecutor of

  588. Christians he used that to go after

  589. Christians y'all you don't even

  590. understand this guy basically he was the

  591. John Wick of the first century Jerusalem

  592. church do you understand like he he was

  593. he was that he was busting in door y'all

  594. don't know who John Wick is but that's

  595. okay some of y'all do where's my where

  596. where's the people who know okay enough

  597. said he He was kicking down doors

  598. busting in places and arresting

  599. Christians and throwing them in prison

  600. that's exactly who Paul was in fact when

  601. Stephen one of Jesus's disciples was was

  602. was stoned to death whenever that

  603. happened the Bible says that they the

  604. people who did the stoning laid their

  605. coats at Saul's feet when they went and

  606. did it as if Saul was the one that was

  607. presiding over his death lay them down

  608. and go take care of it i'm not getting

  609. my hands dirty but you kill him under my

  610. watch that's who Paul was that he he was

  611. feared in that entire region and while

  612. Saul was on the way to Damascus to

  613. extradite some more Christians for

  614. persecution and for prison God knocked

  615. him off his ass his donkey his his he he

  616. knocked him he knocked him off and the

  617. Bible says that that bright light shine

  618. knocked him to the ground

  619. knocked him i'm just I'm just I'm

  620. talking King James knocked him off and

  621. knocked him to the

  622. ground a bright light shone on him god

  623. began to speak to

  624. him he's blinded for three

  625. days and then he's led to a man who

  626. begins to tell him about the good news

  627. of Jesus radically turns his life over

  628. to

  629. God and everything changed in fact the

  630. Bible says in Acts 26:16 here's what God

    Acts 26:16

  631. said stand up i have appeared to you for

  632. a reason i'm appointing you to be a

  633. servant and witness of what you have

  634. seen and of what I will show

  635. you god caught him on the way to do

  636. something wrong and intercepted him it

  637. wasn't because Paul was just Saul was

  638. just this good-hearted guy no no he was

  639. good at doing wrong that's like him

  640. intercepting you while you on the way to

  641. the club in Eore and you have this

  642. encounter on I4 with God and all of a

  643. sudden you find Oh my God what is going

  644. Yeah that that's what I'm talking about

  645. right

  646. now and God chose Saul watch and God

  647. chose

  648. you let me remind you if God can use

  649. John Wick to write twothirds of the New

  650. Testament

  651. then he can use your life too yes sir

  652. that's audacious grace

  653. unexplainable grace is that favor that

  654. move that presence the residue of God on

  655. your life that can't be earned can't be

  656. deserved it's it's that and by the way

  657. some of y'all going "Well I I I just

  658. really don't know if I can relate with a

  659. possessed preacher or or a get-around

  660. evangelist or a wild out witness or or

  661. or or a John Wick preacher." Well then

  662. let me remind you God also spoke through

  663. an ass when he talked back to Balum i

  664. don't know how you need to relate in

  665. this all I'm trying to tell you is God

  666. can use anybody and everybody to get his

  667. message across and that's what God's

  668. plan is for your life and my life we are

  669. his

  670. witnesses yes we are the ones who are to

  671. carry this good news everywhere we go i

  672. want to close with this today there's

  673. there's a purpose and there's a mission

  674. for your life you got to know this

  675. anybody remember Charlie's Angels

  676. boy I do too

  677. it was a good program it was a good

  678. program and a great poster i'm just

  679. saying like y'all remember posters back

  680. in the day we used to put posters on our

  681. on our on our walls yeah mom and dad

  682. didn't let me have that one i promise

  683. you that but I'm just saying my friends

  684. had it that's all I had to say

  685. you never met Charlie no one ever saw

  686. Charlie all you saw was the angels and I

  687. really didn't care about Charlie i just

  688. wanted to see the angels

  689. anyway but Charlie was always Charlie

  690. always had the mission

  691. angels yes

  692. Charlie those everybody who remembers

  693. Yeah see he's like "Oh my god I'm going

  694. to binge watch it." Yeah I know

  695. get all of a sudden now he gives them a

  696. mission

  697. charlie is sending these three beautiful

  698. ladies into the most dangerous

  699. situations they're having to like they

  700. riding boats and jumping out of

  701. airplanes and they're pulling guns and

  702. they're wrestling men that are 290 lbs

  703. to the ground and choking them out like

  704. a like these three it was crazy what

  705. they did never saw Charlie but they were

  706. living life on mission and they would go

  707. into dangerous places because Charlie a

  708. man they had never seen but they fully

  709. believed

  710. in said "I got a mission for you." And

  711. they went out and they put their life on

  712. the line to accomplish the mission of

  713. Charlie ladies and gentlemen the one who

  714. put everything on the line for us his

  715. name is Jesus and I have never seen

  716. Jesus

  717. physically but I can attest to his

  718. reality in my life amen the peace the

  719. rest the hope the wisdom the strength

  720. that I I I I I feel his I feel his

  721. pleasure i feel his joy i I I there's a

  722. reality of him in

  723. me the the word

  724. angel in the Bible is

  725. messenger charlie's angels were

  726. Charlie's

  727. messengers god's

  728. angels are his messengers and you and I

  729. have been called his

  730. messengers and if those three girls

  731. would do that for a man they've never

  732. met and put their lives on the line then

  733. why would I not put my reputation and my

  734. life on the line for the one that I've

  735. never met but I know his reality and I'm

  736. living my life on

  737. mission you and I are here to build the

  738. reputation of Jesus and to build his

  739. kingdom that is the reality of your full

  740. purpose in life whether you do that in

  741. the business arena you do that in

  742. education you do that as a stay-home mom

  743. dad whatever that looks like you you

  744. have an occupation that pays you but

  745. don't get it twisted your purpose and

  746. your mission is to build Jesus's rep and

  747. to build his kingdom as a believer that

  748. is it because there is a day coming that

  749. everything we have down here will not

  750. amount to a hill of beans as my daddy

  751. used to say but we will see Jesus face

  752. to face and I want to be able to tell

  753. him I was on mission man i was doing

  754. what I could to build your name and to

  755. build your kingdom this is why we're

  756. here that that it's it's it's just

  757. living that that that audacious

  758. bodacious gracefilled life that's what

  759. we're here to do not because we're great

  760. but because he's great not because I've

  761. got it together just because I'm

  762. grateful for what he did in my life and

  763. I want someone else to experience the

  764. same joy this same hope can anybody in

  765. this room admit that your life is better

  766. now that you know Jesus it's not that

  767. your problems all went away but but

  768. you're better now yes why would you not

  769. want a co-orker a family member a

  770. neighbor why would we not want them to

  771. experience Jesus like

  772. that matthew 5 Jesus said this "Let your

  773. light shine before people that they may

  774. see your good deeds and give honor to

  775. your father in heaven."

  776. rep Jesus out

  777. loud your our our living evidence it's

  778. not that I'm walking around with a Bible

  779. slapping people on the head in fact if

  780. that's what you do please leave your

  781. Bible at home do not do that

  782. we don't need any more foolishness out

  783. there related to No no it it's it's it's

  784. the choices that we make it's the

  785. attitude that we have it's it's our

  786. mouth

  787. it's it's all of that there's something

  788. different about my life i I want to live

  789. my life people go "There's something

  790. different about you." And they look to

  791. God because he's the source of all of

  792. this in my life psalm 96:3 here's what

    Psalms 96:3

  793. here's what David wrote "tell every

  794. nation on earth the Lord is wonderful

  795. and does marvelous

  796. things." Start with everyone you know

  797. don't you have to go find a stranger

  798. just somebody you know co-orker a

  799. neighbor that one that you think "Oh

  800. there's no way they would ever." Yeah

  801. well people said that about Saul also

  802. and now here he's the one that God is

  803. using that you and I are still drawing

  804. from his experiences with God there's

  805. something God has done in you that the

  806. world needs to hear so here's the

  807. message here's the message start praying

  808. for

  809. someone in fact we've got Easter on the

  810. way and this is a great time to begin to

  811. prepare your heart for who am I going to

  812. invite

  813. who will I invite to come meet

  814. Jesus i want you to begin to pray for

  815. someone and then and then and then

  816. here's something else you can do you can

  817. you can share your story i didn't say

  818. quote scripture i said share your story

  819. right right i just got to tell you what

  820. he did in my life i'm I man I got a lot

  821. of things I'm still struggling with and

  822. I'm still dealing with but boy I've got

  823. a hope and I got a peace and I got

  824. answers like I never had i got a

  825. community life is stronger and better

  826. most importantly I know that I'm good

  827. with God when when when you can begin to

  828. share just a hope again you don't have

  829. to quote scripture if they ask you

  830. what's the what's the 27th book in the

  831. Old Testament i don't know and right now

  832. I don't give a rip i just got to tell

  833. you who he's been to me

  834. ladies and gentlemen we we pray for

  835. people we share our story and we invite

  836. them to come and experience the reality

  837. of Jesus would you please stand to your

  838. feet

  839. i've got I got a message for you today

  840. charlie's

  841. calling he's got a he's got a

  842. mission and I just need you to

  843. understand that there's no room to opt

  844. out of this

  845. mission if you proclaim Christ as your

  846. Lord and

  847. Savior then you are living with a

  848. mission on your life i mean me too just

  849. because I preach on Sunday doesn't mean

  850. I well my duty is fulfilled no I've got

  851. to go out and I got to tap people on the

  852. shoulder hey how you doing i have to

  853. start those conversations i've got to

  854. shake hands i've got to begin to invite

  855. people i I I No one gets an out on this

  856. and I'm challenging you today i I'm

  857. praying just a a holy wonderful loving

  858. conviction that hits your heart like it

  859. hits mine that just irritates you that

  860. all of a sudden you're walking through

  861. Walmart and you see someone you ain't

  862. seen for three years and all of a sudden

  863. your heart starts to beat rapid and you

  864. know oh my god I'm supposed to invite

  865. them oh my god I that moment is

  866. beautiful it's wonderful it shows that

  867. heaven is working in you to impact glory

  868. your purpose and your mission are on

  869. point don't discount

  870. this in fact is anybody glad that God

  871. that somebody told you about Jesus

  872. just think about if someone said "Ah I

  873. just don't really want to invite him

  874. yeah I don't really want are you kidding

  875. me we're all here as the result of

  876. someone else's serving Jesus let's make

  877. sure that we have that voice and that

  878. heart i can't lay off of this enough

  879. we've got to go out and find where they

  880. are and tell them the good news about

  881. Jesus father today I pray that you would

  882. work in all of our lives not to just

  883. work in us but work through us i pray

  884. that you would stir us and burden us to

  885. reach for other people that don't know

  886. you yet god if you can use Mary

  887. Magdalene if you can use the Samaritan

  888. woman if if if you can use David if you

  889. can use

  890. Saul if you can use a maniac that was

  891. that was possessed and out of his mind

  892. but turned his If you can use these

  893. people surely you can use me today god I

  894. give you me i give you all that I am and

  895. and I give you especially all that I'm

  896. not where I fail where I come up short

  897. things I don't know i I don't have this

  898. together god it's that that I give you

  899. and I just If you can use anything then

  900. use me for your glory i want to live my

  901. life on mission i want to live it on

  902. point and I want to be your voice your

  903. heart and I want to be that hope dealer

  904. that everywhere I go every room I step

  905. into that Jesus steps in there with me

  906. and I realize that I have the

  907. opportunity of introducing people to a

  908. brand new

  909. life god I pray you forgive us a

  910. boldness stir inside of us holy Spirit

  911. work in us to affect and impact your

  912. kingdom i give you thanks for all this

  913. today in Jesus name everybody said

  914. "Amen." Amen amen amen you can put those

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