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Are you ready to STRETCH? | Jason Martin

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from Acts Church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your day.

  3. The sermon title for today is are you ready to stretch?

  4. Are you ready to stretch? Okay? I think I need

  5. to stretch after my half done this morning. Yeah, but

  6. are we ready to stretch? Okay? Because stretching all of

  7. us one. If you're hurt. The prayer of Jabez if

  8. someone you all are familiar with it, the prayer of

  9. Jabez is where you say, God, increase my territory, you know,

  10. increase my influence, increase my But to increase all that,

  11. it requires you to stretch. You know, we want the results,

  12. but we are not willing to put in the work,

  13. you know. So the title today is are you ready

  14. to stretch? Okay? So to start this off next night,

  15. I wanted to show you all this. So how many

  16. of y'all know the story of Apollo eleven, the first

  17. man to land on the moon Neil Armstrong? I think

  18. buzz I'll rain I forgot the odther guy's name. Yeah yeah,

  19. So anyway, I was I was watching this show on

  20. one of the TV series, Uh, and that opened my

  21. opened up my appreciation to this Apollo eleven mission, so

  22. that that TV series was what if the Russians landed

  23. on the Moon first, you know, and then they had

  24. a whole multiverse of history and different things that happened.

  25. But anyway, in nineteen sixty one, right, the President JF. Kennedy,

  26. he issued a call. He said that by the end

  27. of this decade, I want to place a man on

  28. the Moon and bring him back safely. Okay, no big deal.

  29. Right nineteen sixty one, there was no digital watches, There

  30. was nothing. Everything was analoged. Okay. There was no handphones.

  31. The biggest the computer that had the biggest memory was

  32. one megabyte. Your photo now one click was more than

  33. one megabyte. Right. They had no idea what was on

  34. the moon? If your spaceship landed on the moon, would

  35. it sink? What do they think? How would you get

  36. people back up? You know? How would you write in space?

  37. How would you simple things like even go to toilet,

  38. you know, in the rocket? Everything had to be invented. Nothing.

  39. They had no reference. They had no reference. All they

  40. had was the mission statement by the President. I want

  41. to send someone to the Moon and bring him back

  42. safely by the end of the decade. And you know

  43. what they did it. They did it. The people who

  44. were in mission control where NASA was, the average age

  45. of the people working there was twenty seven years old.

  46. Twenty seven years old. So how did they go from

  47. ninety sixty one where the statement I want to put

  48. a man on the moon and bring him back safely

  49. to nineteen sixty nine when they actually did it. They

  50. had to increase their capacity. Everything had to be stretched.

  51. You have to learn and relearn, and you have to

  52. do things fail, keep on trying. They had to do

  53. things that was never done before. It was impossible in

  54. ninety sixty one, it's impossible, but they still manage to

  55. do it. And this is man. So what more if

  56. God gives you a calling, a man gives you a

  57. calling and you make it and you can get it done.

  58. What more God when he is doing it with you? Okay?

  59. So capacity, there are three points which I want to

  60. give you. First one is conviction, second one is cost,

  61. and third one is the cause. Okay, So the first

  62. one I'll go straight into it. Conviction. So when you

  63. look in the mirror, right, what's your convictions? What do

  64. you see? Handsome man? That's the way. So you got.

  65. So what are our convictions? If you say you can,

  66. you can. If you say you can't, you can't. Whether

  67. you say you can or you can't, you are right.

  68. Have you heard that saying? Where do you say you

  69. can or you can't? You are right? So when God

  70. gives you a calling, what's your conviction? Is it optional?

  71. Or is it your conviction that, wow, if God says,

  72. then it will be done? Or is your conviction that

  73. God is God and I must submit to him? Or

  74. suddenly I'm an athiest after I heard the calling, I

  75. don't believe in God? Then you're like walk away? So

  76. what is your conviction? Your conviction can be in who

  77. God is. Your conviction can be whether God in you

  78. can do above and beyond what you can ask or imagine.

  79. With God, all things are possible. Is that your conviction?

  80. We know all the songs, we sing all the songs,

  81. but are we convinced? Because if not, just a song,

  82. might as well go to a karaoke right? If not,

  83. what's your conviction? So let's see the verse that I

  84. want to take it from. So numbers thirteen. So this

  85. is the twelve Spies. I think you all know the

  86. story of the twelve spies. The ten who were against

  87. going to the Promised land, and two were four. Okay,

  88. So Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood

  89. before Moses. Let's go at once to take the land.

  90. He said, we can certainly conquer it. But the other

  91. men who will explored the land with him disagreed. We

  92. can't go up against them. They are stronger than we are,

  93. so they spread this bad report about the land among

  94. the Israelites. The land we travel through and explored will

  95. devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people

  96. we saw were huge. We even saw giants there, the

  97. descendants of honor, and next to them we felt like grasshoppers.

  98. And that's what they taught too. Okay. So this is

  99. after they came back from the Promised Land. It was

  100. the land of milk and honey. But ten of them

  101. had different convictions. Ten of them God is not big

  102. enough for us to take the Promised land. Only two

  103. of them were convinced that God plus us is more

  104. than enough. Only two were convinced. So if you look

  105. at this right, it's easier. They are stronger than we are,

  106. so they spread this bad report again. When God gives

  107. us a calling. Sometimes we miss the point and think

  108. that we have to do it on our own strength.

  109. God will never lead us to a place where we

  110. are less dependent on him. We will always need to

  111. be more and more dependent on Him. And that's how

  112. He brings us from from Egypt to the Promised Land. Okay,

  113. so they thought first of all, they thought they had

  114. to do it on their own strength. Okay. And if

  115. we look here the descendants of Anna. You know who

  116. is a descendant who was one of the most famous

  117. descendants of Anna in the Bible, Goliath. So it's true

  118. they were facing giants. Okay, they were facing giants. But

  119. how come Caleb said, no problem? So he says he

  120. a right. We even saw giants there, the descendants of

  121. Anna next to them, We felt like grasshoppers. And that's

  122. what they taught too. How in the world would they

  123. know what they thought? How the world can they make

  124. that assumption that when they look at the Israelites, that

  125. they think that they are grasshoppers, these descendants of Anna,

  126. right when they knew who they were dealing with. This

  127. is the same people who God delivered from Egypt, who

  128. brought them through the Red Sea, who killed off Pharaoh's

  129. army and is now knocking at their doorstep. How do

  130. you think they would feel? They would be shivering in

  131. their boots. But then the Israelites missed the point. They

  132. thought that, Hey, they think that we are gross, and

  133. that's how they think also, So sometimes our assumptions are

  134. the ones that hinder us from God's blessing. What are

  135. we assuming? What are what are our convictions? Do you

  136. know this happened the coming out of Egypt?

  137. Right?

  138. They were saying, right from Egypt to the Promised Land?

  139. Did it really take forty years in terms of distance? No,

  140. I think they what happened was from Egypt to the

  141. Promised Land. It will only take two weeks. Well, what

  142. happened they keep on recalculating because they put their faith

  143. in man instead of God, and God had to because

  144. of their unbelief. They were stuck in the wilderness, and

  145. only Caleb and Joshua made it to the Promised Land.

  146. So when God God gave all of them one million

  147. Israelites the calling, only two of them were courageous enough

  148. to receive their calling and walk into it. So sometimes

  149. when God gives us a calling, we ignore it because

  150. we think it's too big or too difficult. And then

  151. we ask God, why are you not speaking to me?

  152. He said, I spoke already. I called you, I told

  153. you what to do. You you ignore, and then you're

  154. asking me for another calling. It doesn't work that way.

  155. God's calling for your life. You have to step into it. Yeah.

  156. Next slide, so numbers fourteen. Two of the men who

  157. had explored the land, Joe show us, son of None

  158. and son of Japuna, taught their clothing. They said, to

  159. all the people of Israel, the land we travel through

  160. and explored is a wonderful land. And if the Lord

  161. is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into

  162. the land and give it to us. It is a land.

  163. It is a rich land, flowing with milk and honey.

  164. Do not rebel against the Lord. Don't be afraid of

  165. the people of the land. They are only helpless. Pray

  166. to us. They have no protection, but the Lord is

  167. with us. Don't be afraid of them. Can you see

  168. that the convictions of the two were so different from

  169. the convictions of the ten, although they saw the same thing.

  170. Although they saw the same thing, You see right the

  171. first and if the Lord is pleased with us. Who

  172. is the one that sent them to count the land?

  173. First of all God, God says that for example, God says, hey,

  174. this is the land I want you to take. I'm

  175. going to have a look first you go there. It's

  176. a land filled with murk and honey. The one no

  177. doubt because the the ten or so they cut the

  178. grapes and they brought it. It was really a foot

  179. full land that one's no doubt. But they were not

  180. willing to They were more afraid of the people of

  181. the land then they were afraid of rebelling against God.

  182. Are you more afraid of people then you are afraid

  183. of God? Because that's what there is. Realize they were

  184. more afraid of people, what will people say? What will

  185. this person think of me? What will this person say

  186. of me? Rather than what will God want me to do?

  187. So you can see Joshua and Caleb right for them

  188. right the only fear they had was the fear of

  189. the Lord. Your conviction is do you have the fear

  190. of the Lord. When you have the fear of the

  191. Lord is the beginning of courage. You know, that's when

  192. you get the courage and say, hey, God plus me,

  193. all things are possible, especially when it's God's will for you. Okay,

  194. so what do we need to do to change our convictions?

  195. You know what, there's the Bibles. So let's go into

  196. the next verse Romans twelve and so, dear brothers and sisters,

  197. I plead with you to give your bodies to God

  198. because of all He has done for you. Let them

  199. be a living and holy sacrifice, the kind He will

  200. find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.

  201. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but

  202. let God transform you into a new person by changing

  203. the way you think. Then you will learn to know

  204. God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

  205. Sometimes right not sometimes, Most of the times, God's plan

  206. for us is in conflict with what the world says

  207. is possible. Because right with God, all things are possible.

  208. But the plans and the custom the behavior and the

  209. customs of the world will be saying that put yourself first.

  210. It's about your comfort, you know, you see every ad

  211. that is posted right, it's about how to make your

  212. life better. It's about you. But God's plan for us

  213. is bigger than just our comfort. God is never just

  214. interested in our comfort. He would rather put us in

  215. discomfort so that we can achieve our calling. Our calling

  216. is much more important than our comfort. But the customs

  217. of this world is put comfort first. If it's not comfortable,

  218. then it's If it's not comfortable, then it's not from God.

  219. You know you'll be saying, because sometimes we think that, oh,

  220. only when it's comfortable, then it's from God. I got

  221. the favor from God. We mistake the favor of God

  222. as comfort. So sometimes we have to really test and

  223. see what are our convictions. If our convictions is based

  224. on the fear of the Lord, let us not rebel

  225. against the Lord. Then whatever he tells us to do,

  226. we will do it. Is it scary, of course it's scary.

  227. Is it tough? Of course it's tough. But God will

  228. go with us if it is his call for our lives.

  229. He has a plan and purpose for us. Okay, So

  230. you see here right, transform you into a new person

  231. by changing the way you think. How do you change

  232. your convictions? This is it. I have to change the

  233. way you think. Let God transform you into a new

  234. person by changing the way you think. If we fill

  235. ourselves with Facebook, Facebook will determine how we think. If

  236. we feel our mind with the word of God, then

  237. the word of God will determine how we think. So

  238. what are we filling ourselves with? We should not feel ourselves?

  239. What is the popular thing to do? Sometimes when we

  240. have God's call for our life, we go around asking

  241. everybody else and what should I do? What you? What

  242. you do? And some well meaning people may only be

  243. able to advise just based on their experience, but they

  244. do not know God's call for you. So are we

  245. seeking God or are we seeking men? To determine? What

  246. do we do? Without calling? If God gives you the call,

  247. who should you ask? A direction from God? Right? It

  248. doesn't make sense for us to ask the call from men.

  249. God asked me to go to Africa. If you ask

  250. everybody else, people say, why would you want to live

  251. your well paying job? You've got family here, you got

  252. this responsibility. Do you know that you are on your

  253. way to be promoted to partner in the company? Why

  254. would you want to do this? Are you sure it's God?

  255. What happens? Then all those is in alignment with comfort,

  256. all the advice given by men, If it's not in

  257. alignment with God's will, it's all with comfort. But then

  258. when we see God. Sometimes it doesn't make sense, that's why.

  259. But God asks us to have faith, and we have

  260. to have faith when we are convinced that He is

  261. God and we are not. That's the only way. Okay.

  262. So that's the point one. Next line, strong convictions proceed

  263. great actions. You don't have strong convictions, don't expect to

  264. do great things, because once you have strong convictions, which

  265. are in alignment with God's will, you can do great things.

  266. A lot of times we want to do great things,

  267. but we do not have strong convictions. We just like think, okay, hey,

  268. how come this person was so successful or he's able

  269. here he knows God's calling for his life and stuff

  270. like that, which leads me to my second point. Okay,

  271. next cost. Once we have our convictions, right, we have

  272. to know it's going to cost us. It's gonna cost us. Okay,

  273. so let me take us to another uh oh, my

  274. life for timer. It's like, right, so Joseph. This is

  275. the story of Joseph. Right, so you know this story.

  276. I think we have done The Tailor Made Man before.

  277. If you're in acts so long ago, you remember the

  278. play The Tailor Made Man. From Prison to the Prime minister,

  279. you know, so this is it. Joseph, a young man

  280. of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the

  281. son of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah and his wife,

  282. his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad

  283. report about them. Okay, Joseph was not a very likable person.

  284. Did you know that at seventeen years old? He was

  285. not a very likable person. He's what you call it

  286. tell tale anything the brothers do, you're going to tell See,

  287. this is all in the Bible. I know it's how

  288. we read it. Sometimes you gloss over it. But there's

  289. important things that we wanted that God. There is no

  290. mistake that this is put there in the Bible. Okay,

  291. just remember that his brother said to him, then I

  292. skipped the words. His brother said to him, do you

  293. intend to rain over us? Will you actually rule us?

  294. And they hated him all the more because of his

  295. dream and what he said. So he shared the dream.

  296. They hated him. Then he didn't get the he didn't

  297. get a memoa. Okay, he had another dream, and he

  298. told you to his brothers. Listen, he said, I had

  299. another dream, and this time the sun and the moon

  300. and the eleven stars were bowing down to me. So

  301. he's like, arrogant prick, He's like, is this Joseph? You know,

  302. this is what the Bible says.

  303. You know.

  304. This was him at seventeen Okay, And then you know

  305. we first toward the story. You know, the brothers wanted

  306. to kill him. They sold him to the slave trader,

  307. and then he was landed, bought by Potifar. So he

  308. landed in Potiphar's house. Okay, So let's go to the

  309. next verse. So this is in Potiphar's house Genesis thirty nine.

  310. The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man.

  311. He was in the house of his master, the Egyptian,

  312. and his master saw that the Lord was with him,

  313. and that the Lord made all that he do prospered

  314. in his hand. So Joseph found favor in his sight

  315. and served him. Then he made him overseer of his

  316. house and all that he had put under his authority.

  317. So it was from the time that he had made

  318. him overseer of his house and all that he had had,

  319. that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake,

  320. and the blessing of the Lord was on all that

  321. he had in the house and in the field. Thus

  322. he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and

  323. he did not know what he had except for the

  324. bread which he ate. So this ride was amazing. Can

  325. you imagine that your boss, if you're working, your boss

  326. has complete trust over you. That means, right, he doesn't

  327. know anything that's happening in the company except the braid

  328. that he's putting into his mouth. That was the amount

  329. of trust that he put onto a slave Joseph. Yeah,

  330. then we fast forward. He went into prison right next

  331. So Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison,

  332. a place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he

  333. was there in the prison. But the Lord was with

  334. Joseph and showed him mercy, and he gave him favor

  335. in the sight of the keeper of the prison, And

  336. the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all

  337. the prisoners who were in the prison whatever they did,

  338. that it was his doing. The keeper of the prison

  339. did not look into anything that was under Joseph's authority

  340. because the Lord was with him, and whatever he did,

  341. the Lord made it prosper you can see right, the

  342. team is the same. The warden gave Joseph full authority

  343. over everything, because everything that Joseph did prospered. Okay, Then

  344. we fast forward and he finally ended up in Pharaoh's courts. Okay,

  345. so go to the next verse. So this was after

  346. the dream. Joseph interpreted the dream, and then Pharaoh said

  347. to his servants, can we find some one such a

  348. one as this, a man in whom is the spirit

  349. of God? Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, inasmuch as God

  350. has shown you all this, there is no one as

  351. discerning and as wise as you. You shall be over

  352. my house, and all my people shall be ruled to

  353. your word. Only in regard to the throne will I

  354. be greater than you. And Pharaoh said to Joseph, see,

  355. I've set you all, set you over all the land

  356. of Egypt. Joseph was thirty years old when he stood

  357. before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Okay, so there are a

  358. few questions that I want to Since you all know

  359. the Bible so well, right, you'll read this story like

  360. you know you can tell it. Okay. How long did

  361. Joseph take to go from his father's house to the

  362. palace thirteen years? Thirteen years. It took him thirteen years, okay,

  363. And can you imagine put yourself in the shoes of

  364. somebody that was in Pharaoh's court. If you were there

  365. and you see that Pharaoh appointed Joseph as the prime minister,

  366. second only to him, what would go through your mind?

  367. What would go through your mind? Doubt so? Or you'll

  368. be like, okay, now jealous, You'll be like, whoa this guy?

  369. Overnight's success? Who's this guy? What's his qualifications? What does

  370. he know? How come a prisoner can suddenly become the

  371. prime minister? Didn't you ask these questions? Right? If you

  372. were in the court, right, you'll be asking these questions.

  373. But what do you think Joseph was then qualified? Not?

  374. Actually right? It took thirteen years from Joseph to answer

  375. the call. You can see his convictions were very clear.

  376. When he was in Portifa's house, he still did his best.

  377. He still put God first and honored God in everything

  378. that he did, and the Lord prospered the work of

  379. his hand. He was then thrown into prison, he still

  380. did his best, He still put God first, and God

  381. prospered the work of his hand. And then when he

  382. went into Piros Palace, he still put God first, and

  383. God prospered the work of his hands. Can you see

  384. his convictions didn't change. But you see it right at seventeen,

  385. If he became prime minister at seventeen, it would be

  386. a problematic prime minister, right and sometimes right, God has

  387. to mold us. So I give you a bit more

  388. if you go back too. Slides next light. Yeah, okay,

  389. So Joseph's was tasked to tackle the biggest famine the

  390. world had ever seen. What qualifications did he need? What

  391. vacations he needed to know? Agriculture? Right? Can you see

  392. here in Portifa's house. First of all, his master was

  393. an Egyptian, so he learned all the ways of the Egyptians.

  394. He knew all the ways of the Egyptians, the way

  395. of working their culture, their tradition. Right and then right,

  396. if you look at the one highlighted at the bottom, right,

  397. the blessing of the Lord was on all that he

  398. had in the house and in the field. So Joseph

  399. was actually very talented in the field as well, agriculture. Really,

  400. he was probably a guru. He was so good that

  401. Portifar didn't have to care about anything at at all?

  402. Where did he learn ag culture in partifars house? Where

  403. did he learn the traditions of the Egyptians the culture

  404. in party fas house? Then you ended up in prison, right,

  405. so what do you learn in prison? Next line? What

  406. do you learn in prison? To be a prime minister,

  407. second to the second to Pharaoh, you must learn to

  408. lead a country. If you can lead the worst of

  409. the worst in prison and get the utmost respect and

  410. transform the prison into a place that is so successful,

  411. don't you think that your leadership skills are fantastic? So

  412. you see, right, when God gives us the calling, we

  413. have to pay the price. It didn't come overnight. There

  414. is no overnight success. There's no overnight success. You all

  415. know the story of the Angry Birds, right the game.

  416. A lot of people they thought it was an overnight success. Wow,

  417. this this game created. They just came out with this

  418. thing and then overnight success. But they had so much

  419. of failures before that, which ultimately led them to this

  420. successful game. If not right, you'll be a one hit wonder.

  421. But you can see for Joseph, when we count the cost,

  422. we know it's going to cost us, but we still

  423. have our convictions clear that God is God and we

  424. are not, then God will use us all right, So

  425. next slide, So no pain, no gain? You know pain,

  426. you know gain you go to the gym. Got no pain?

  427. Confirm no muscle, confirm no muscle. I can tell you.

  428. I tell you my legs now are aching. I'm praying

  429. and declaring. This going to be gains. So the thing is,

  430. if we know this for the physical, why are we

  431. worried in the spiritual? If we are spiritually it's hurting

  432. us spiritually like it's uncomfortable. Why are we afraid of discomfort?

  433. This comfort, especially in alignment. God's will helps us to

  434. grow when we are willing to have our convictions clear.

  435. We paid the price, you get games. All of us

  436. wont the gains, but we're not willing to pay the price.

  437. So how you take steroids, you take things that were

  438. like probably harm you harm, you de riment to yourself.

  439. You know, there's no shortcuts, there's no overnight success. God

  440. way is you trust the process? Okay? And so now

  441. is my last point. Cause so like what I mentioned earlier,

  442. right in this world, everything is about us. I my comfort,

  443. my everything is about me. But in God's way. It's different.

  444. There is a cause. Okay, so I will go into

  445. the verse. So there's a typo here. Right, he's supposed

  446. to be John sixth, he said on Mark six when

  447. Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him,

  448. he said to Philip, where shall we buy bread for

  449. these people to eat? He asked this only to test him,

  450. for he had already in mind what he was going

  451. to do. Philip asked him it would take more than

  452. a half year's wages to buy enough bread for each

  453. one to have a bite. Another of his disciples, Andrew Simon,

  454. Peters's brother, spoke up, here is a boy with five

  455. small barley loaves and two small fish. But how far

  456. among these will go? How far will they go among

  457. so many? Okay, we'll stop here so we know this

  458. story again, very familiar story. And you see, right, Jesus,

  459. he said, where shall we buy bread? He didn't say

  460. where shall you wh where? He guys, where you're gonna

  461. get a bread? Said where shall we? When God gives

  462. us a calling, it's always we us and God. But

  463. how did Philip respond? It would take more than a

  464. half year's wages to buy enough bread for each one

  465. to have a bite. Philip missed the WII. He was

  466. thinking that, hey, if it's up to me, it's gonna

  467. take ages. I can't do it. It's impossible. But he

  468. missed the point. It was ially we God, Jesus and

  469. the disciples, okay, And then he says a Simon Peter right,

  470. brothers spoke up. Here is a boy with five small

  471. baldy loads and two small fish. But how far will

  472. they go among so many? So at least the boy

  473. came up with five bally loaves and two fish. Okay,

  474. do you think in the crowd of five thousand there's

  475. only five bally loafs and two fish? Huh? I think

  476. there should be more. But this boy was the only

  477. one willing to surrender everything to God. And what happened

  478. next line. Jesus said, have the people sit down. There

  479. were plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down.

  480. About five thousand men were there. Jesus then took the loaves,

  481. gave tanks, and distributed to those who were seated as

  482. much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

  483. When they had all had enough to eat, he said

  484. to his disciples gathered the pieces that are left over.

  485. Let nothing be wasted. So they gathered them and filled

  486. twelve baskets with pieces of the five bally loafs left

  487. over by those who had eaten. Can you see, right,

  488. when we surrender everything that we have to God, God

  489. is no man's debtor. He will bless us above and

  490. beyond what we could ever ask or imagine. So there

  491. was there was quite an interesting question that came across

  492. when when reading this. Who did Jesus perform the miracle?

  493. For most of the time we think it's the five thousand,

  494. But actually the five thousands they'll know, they just mcannie.

  495. The ones that knew were only the disciples. So Jesus

  496. did the miracle for the disciples. When we are in

  497. partnership with God, God will come true as long as

  498. we are in submission to Him. And you see, right,

  499. when we submit ourselves to God, he will bless us

  500. and we can be a blessing to so many more.

  501. So God doesn't bless us just so that we are blessed.

  502. God blesses us to be a blessing. So the cause

  503. is when God, you're asking God to bless you, it

  504. is so that we can bring others around to know

  505. the love of Christ. Okay, so the three points. First

  506. of all, you have to get your conviction correct. Then

  507. you know it's going to cost you, but it will

  508. be worth it. And when we do it, we will

  509. be not only ourselves be blessed, but we will be

  510. a blessing to so many more. So, even as I

  511. dropped to as a close right, I wanted to just

  512. play a video to just start off, summarize what stretching

  513. of capacity looks like.

  514. Okay, so XTV, so coach, how strong is Westview this year?

  515. How strong than we are?

  516. You already written Friday Night down as a lost Brock?

  517. Well, not if I know we could beat him?

  518. Come here, Brock, you too, Jeremy, What am I in

  519. trouble now?

  520. Not yet?

  521. I want to see you do the death crawling in

  522. except I want to see your absolute best. What you

  523. only go the thirty?

  524. I think you can go the fifty fifty.

  525. I can go to the fifty if nobody's on my back.

  526. Think you do it, Jeremy, on your back. But even

  527. if you can, I want you to promise me you're

  528. going to do your best, all right, your best? Okay,

  529. You're gonna give me your best. I'm gonna give you

  530. my best. All right, one more thing once you do it, mindfolded?

  531. Why because I want you giving up at a certain

  532. point when you can go further. Get down, Jeremy, get

  533. on his back. I get a good tight hole, Jeremy.

  534. All right, let's go, Brock, giving news off the ground.

  535. Just your hands and feet.

  536. There you go, A little bit left left, there you go.

  537. Show me a good effort at the way, Brock, you

  538. keep coming. There you go. It's a good start. A

  539. little bit left, a little bit left there you go, Brock,

  540. good strength, I said, Brock, I said, forget the twenty.

  541. You give me your best.

  542. You keep going.

  543. That's it.

  544. Don't stop, Rock. You got more than you than that.

  545. You gotta keep moving. Let's keep moving.

  546. Let's go.

  547. Don't quit till you got nothing left.

  548. There you go, keep moving, keep moving, keep moving, Brocking.

  549. That's it.

  550. You keep driving, cap your knees off the ground, keep

  551. driving it your very best.

  552. You're very bad, You're very best. Keep moving, Brock.

  553. That's it.

  554. That's it, that's it. Keep going, don't quit on me,

  555. keep going, keep driving it, keep keep your knees off

  556. the ground. That's it. You're very best.

  557. Don't quit on me, you're very best.

  558. Keep driving, keep driving.

  559. There you go, There you go.

  560. I said, you keep driving. Give your knees off the ground,

  561. keep driving it. Don't quit till you got nothing left.

  562. Keep moving, Brock.

  563. That's it, that's it, that's it. Keep going. I'm on

  564. everything you got. Come on, keep going words, don't quit

  565. on me. You're very best, keep driving, keep driving.

  566. There you go, there you go.

  567. I know you said you negotiate with your money to

  568. find more strength. But don't you give up on me. Frock.

  569. You keep going. You hear me.

  570. You keep going.

  571. You're doing good.

  572. You keep going.

  573. You not quit on me? Now, you keep going.

  574. I know I hurt.

  575. You keep going, You keep going. It's all hard from here.

  576. Thirty more stap you get going, Rock, Come on, get

  577. going and let it brow. It's all hard.

  578. You keep going, Rock, Come on, come on, keep going.

  579. You following me, your bath, your bath, don't stop. Keep

  580. going hard, it's not too hard. You keep going, Come on, Rock,

  581. Get me more, get me more, keep going, twenty more, Stap,

  582. twenty more, keep going, cron give.

  583. Me your bath. No quick, no, can't going, can't golling,

  584. can't dolling down, quat down quack quack rock Gally you

  585. don't que can't golling cae'p going dou crock Glly you

  586. quet on me now you get golling yo, game dolling

  587. doll riding dead bar Dat.

  588. Dad bar dann Bark dad bark.

  589. Gave dolling dog wadd gave a yard o gad yo

  590. gab by mar By mar Come.

  591. On right, come on dog wad dog wat.

  592. Come on right, dear Mark, why.

  593. Mart let's go. Let's go in the sisty o't Henry Moore?

  594. Look good, Brock, you're in the end zone. Rock, you

  595. are the most influential player on this team. If you

  596. walk around defeated, so will they? Oh tell me you

  597. can't give me more than what I've been seeing. You

  598. just carried one hundred and forty pound men across this

  599. whole field in your arms.

  600. Rock.

  601. I need you. God's gifted you with the ability of leadership.

  602. Don't waste it, Kurt? Can I count on you?

  603. Yes?

  604. Kurt?

  605. What is it?

  606. Jeremy ill are one sixty?

  607. All right?

  608. Oh?

  609. Nick?

  610. All right? Okay, you say even this again? The band up?

  611. If you can see from this video right, and it's

  612. thought most of us. If God asks us to stretch,

  613. they'll say we can't do it. And whose voice are

  614. we listening to? Are we listening to the voice of God?

  615. Are we are listening to our own inner self of

  616. self defeat, listening to the voice of the world saying

  617. that it can't be done, it shouldn't be done. But

  618. God has given us a calling, each and every one

  619. of us. God has given us the talent, the ability,

  620. the calling to do what He has called us to do.

  621. And it is for a bigger cause that all may know,

  622. that all may know. So if we don't do it,

  623. and who will know? If we are not willing to

  624. pay the price, then who will know? What are our convictions?

  625. Are we willing to pay the price because we know

  626. it is for a bigger purpose than ourselves.

  627. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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  630. this week is going to be.

  631. A good week. I hit for you. God bless