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 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast.

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 Thanks for listening.

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 Well, good morning.

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 If you've got your Bibles, go ahead and open them up to Acts chapter 8.

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 That's where we're going to be this morning.

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 As you turn there, a couple things.

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 I want to echo what Moses said to our first-time guest.

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 We are glad and privileged and honored that you are here.

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 Nothing would warn me more than have the opportunity to meet you.

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 And so, after the service is over with, I'll be back over here.

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 You see that I've got some wood against the wall with a welcome sign.

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 I'll be back there.

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 Just would love to meet you, learn your name, and just have an opportunity to thank you for

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 being here and for worshiping with us.

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 We do have a lot of things that are going on in the life of our church that you can sign

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 up for.

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 I want to kind of draw some emphasis to several of those.

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 First, we've got our Black Mountain and Utah mission trips that are coming up in November.

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 This week, we're going to be scheduling some information meetings for those of you that

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 are interested in going and being a part of those.

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 Get some cost details, what we're going to be doing, what that looks like for you.

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 And so, if you're remotely interested, if you'd like to be a part of those meetings,

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 make sure that you sign up.

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 As you leave today in the lobby, we've got a table with some clipboards out, and you'll

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 see Black Mountain and Utah mission trips are there.

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 And then also, we are in our baptism series.

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 As we talk about baptism, we will be doing a baptism on Sunday morning, October the 10th.

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 And so, if you would like to be baptized, parents, if you've been talking to your child and they

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 would like to be baptized, sign them up.

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 We'll be in contact with you to talk a little bit more about baptism, what that Sunday will

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 look like, and have an explanation of what all we're going to be doing on that day.

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 And so, we would love to know and have an opportunity to be a part of that.

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 Well, I think fall has kind of hit us, which means that you only sweat for like eight hours

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 of the day in South Carolina, right?

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 And so, it is a good day.

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 There's plenty of places we could have all been this morning, but it's a privilege and

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 an honor to be here today to open God's Word.

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 And so, let's go ahead and dive in.

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 We've been talking about baptism for the last couple weeks.

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 And so, the last two weeks, as we talk about baptism, of the importance of what we see

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 from Scripture, of what Scripture teaches, we don't want to take baptism in an approach

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 of that this is some denominational exercise or requirement, but instead that this is something

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 that we draw from Scripture that Christ commands us to.

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 And just kind of take a moment, man, sitting here and worshiping just a moment ago, and Scott,

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 when you were sitting there singing that song, man, like, I went to that day baptizing you

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 and your wife right here that morning, man, and it was just, it was cool there in that moment,

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 man, because the words that you were singing, while those aren't words that you wrote, those

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 were words that God had given to someone else to write, but man, just telling your story

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 and the power of that.

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 So, just want to say thank you and so many of your steps of obedience to standing right

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 here and proclaiming who Christ is, man.

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 Love you for it and appreciate it.

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 You crushed it.

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 But what we've talked about for the last two weeks is baptism.

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 Why we do it, how we do it, what it symbolizes, and what it means.

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 Now, next week, when we talk about baptism again, we're going to kind of take, the last

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 week's going to kind of wrap it all up, put it in one neat package.

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 There's no way we can answer every question, but we want to kind of get to the heart of

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 the matter concerning baptism.

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 That's going to be last week.

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 But this week, what I want us to do is we're going to take, still in the narrative of baptism,

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 but we're going to take a step back and look at baptism in a more personal manner and ask

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 the question, for you and I, as individuals, for you and I, just as believers and followers

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 of Christ, what is our responsibility when it comes to baptism?

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 And so, I want to remove some of our titles, all right?

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 I want to remove the title for me of pastor.

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 I want to remove the title of you, church member.

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 And just give us all the title today of follower of Christ.

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 That what is our responsibility as followers of Christ when it comes to baptism?

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 Not because we're a part of a denomination, not as because we're a part of a church, but

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 because we are believers and followers of Christ when it comes to baptism in my life and into

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 yours.

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 When we stretch across cultures, when we stretch across denominations, when we stretch across

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 languages, what does baptism mean and what is our responsibility with that?

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 And as I started looking at that this week, there was something that, as I looked in scripture

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 and as I looked at this passage of scripture, as we're going to look at Philip and the Ethiopian

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 eunuch here in just a second, what it drew to me for all of us as a believer, that this

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 is going to apply for baptism, but so many areas of our life.

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 And here's what's going to come down to your and my willingness to be led by the Holy Spirit.

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 That when it comes to baptism, but also when it comes to so many different areas of our

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 life, when it comes to the gospel, when it comes to God's will in our life, what I want

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 us to do is to look at and to be able to answer and really wrestle with, are you and I willing

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 to be led by the Spirit, all right?

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 And so this morning, what we're going to do, we're going to get to Acts 8, but I want to

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 kind of look at a major theme of not only scripture as a whole, but a major theme of the book of

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 Acts, and especially in the first chapters, right, is the work of the Holy Spirit in Acts.

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 All right, so let's look.

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 We're going to kind of, I think I have about six verses that are going to pop up that I'm

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 going to read, or six different sections that we're going to have.

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 The first one is Acts 1-8.

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 Jesus is speaking, and he says, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on

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 you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and all Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of

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 the earth.

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 Now, Jesus is getting ready to ascend.

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 This is post-crucifixion and resurrection, and Jesus is getting ready to ascend into heaven.

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 And so Jesus looks at his followers, and he says, but here's what's going to happen.

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 I promise you, the Holy Spirit is going to come upon you, right?

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 Holy Spirit, part of the Trinity.

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 Oftentimes, you and I have a disconnect in the divine nature of God and the Holy Spirit.

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 God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit.

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 And so God the Holy Spirit, Jesus says, will come upon you, and he will give you power, and

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 you'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, and the ends of the earth.

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 So at the very beginning, in the book of Acts, laying the groundwork, Jesus says, the Holy

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 Spirit will come and indwell in the lives of the believers.

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 And then he gives a very specific reason for that, right?

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 The Holy Spirit's going to do a lot of things in your life and in my life, right?

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 The Holy Spirit teaches us.

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 The Holy Spirit convicts us, right?

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 The Holy Spirit does a lot of things in our life.

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 But the reason why Jesus gives here in Acts 1, 8 is very specific.

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 That the Holy Spirit's going to come upon you so that you can be my witnesses in Jerusalem,

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 Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth.

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 So Jesus draws a very clear connection in this moment in being led by the Spirit and the work

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 of the gospel in the lives of the believers.

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 So here's the connection.

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 So then in Acts 2, verse 1, you see what happens.

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 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.

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 And suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the

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 whole house where they were sitting.

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 And they saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each

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 of them.

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 And all of them filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the

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 Spirit enabled him.

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 Now, let's be honest, there's a lot of us who are deep-rooted in our Baptist traditions

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 that this passage of Scripture kind of scares us a little bit, right?

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 Like, we're not good with things that we can't understand.

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 And then all of a sudden we're like, oh, and now they're speaking in tongues, right?

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 So let's talk about this for just a second, all right?

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 First thing I want us to point out, what Jesus says will happen, happens, right?

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 Jesus said this is going to take place, and it takes place.

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 That the followers of God that Jesus promises to, Pentecost comes, and it says they're gathered

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 in one place.

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 So imagine, like, we're sitting in this room, concrete walls, there's no windows, we've got

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 these couple of doors.

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 Let's say that these doors don't exist, and we're barricaded in here, and all of a sudden

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 something like a tornado begins to work around here in this room.

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 Kind of catch our attention for a moment.

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 And that's what begins to happen.

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 They're gathered in a room, they don't believe that there's any way of any outside ventilation

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 that's coming in, and all of a sudden, like a whirlwind, like a tornado, this wind begins

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 to happen in here.

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 And then what the Bible says is that they saw what seemed to be.

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 So they actually see something.

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 They're not experiencing a feeling.

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 They're describing what they saw.

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 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on them.

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 And then verse 4, all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other

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 tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

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 So here's what God's doing here in this moment.

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 Now, remembering all the way back to chapter 1, verse 8, what we just read, so that they

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 could witness in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

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 So this is the setting that we see.

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 Right now in Jerusalem, there are men and women who are coming in Jerusalem for religious

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 festivals that are coming from all over the world, and they speak many different languages.

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 And so what God is doing, what God is mobilizing here in this moment is that the gospel will

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 have the opportunity to be shared with them.

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 And so we could get into more description about this, but we don't have time for today, so

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 please trust me.

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 If you've got questions, we'll talk about it afterwards.

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 So what we see is the Holy Spirit begins to fill them, and they begin to speak in tongues.

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 So just really quickly, this tongues, this isn't gibberish, this isn't an unknown language,

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 this isn't anything like that.

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 What happens right here in this moment to the followers of Christ is they begin to speak

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 languages, known languages, that they didn't know before, but now they have the ability

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 to speak in so that they can share the gospel.

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 So the context would be, like, imagine if the Holy Spirit of God came and rested on you

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 in such a way that as you go into another country in a language that you do not know,

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 but now all of a sudden you're able to speak in that language so that you can communicate

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 the gospel.

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 And that's what happens.

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 And it's part of the miracle of what we see.

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 So we see now in this moment the boldness of God coming in and resting on the followers

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 of Christ so they can share the gospel.

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 But now let's look at chapter 4, verse 8.

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 Then Peter, this is Peter, Apostle Peter, with Jesus, that had been with Jesus, right?

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 One of the disciples, the inner core, verse 8, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them,

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 rulers and elders of the people.

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 So in chapter 4, what Peter is doing, Peter and John are taken before the council, the Pharisees

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 and the Sadducees, and they come, and he lays it on them, right?

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 The truth of who Christ is.

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 And Peter is not able to do this because he's some great intellect.

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 Peter is not able to do this because he has this gift of speech and communication.

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 Peter is not able to do this because he sat back in the back and got this speech ready.

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 It says in verse 8 that Peter filled with the Holy Spirit.

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 And so what we see is that ministry in this moment as the early church begins to form is

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 resting in the power and the ability of the Holy Spirit.

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 So each single one, like there's not a pastor that they can turn to.

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 There's not a seminary to go to.

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 There's not a right now media resource where they can gain all their information from.

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 They can't go to Lifeway or Mardell's or any Christian bookstore and buy like the 10 steps

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 to how to share your faith, right?

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 Like here in this moment, they're resting in the only thing that they can do in ministry.

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 They don't know what they're doing, but it's through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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 And this is what we see.

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 And it's what we see in the people is moving and working in the power of the Spirit.

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 And then look at chapter 6, verses 3 through 5.

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 In those days when the number of disciples was increasing.

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 So let's kind of pause.

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 Like we've seen some other areas back in here.

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 Like we're not talking like three or four are getting saved.

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 We're talking like thousands are getting saved.

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 Thousands are getting saved.

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 It says in those days when the number of disciples was increasing,

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 the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews

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 because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

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 So the 12, okay, this is the inner core.

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 Like we see where this is coming from.

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 We see that only the power of the Spirit of God can do this.

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 So the 12, the core that had been multiplied into thousands,

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 but the 12 gathered all the disciples together

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 and said it would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the Word of God

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 in order to wait on tables.

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 Brothers and sisters, choose seven men from among you

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 who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom.

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 And we will turn this responsibility over to them.

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 And we will give our attention to prayer and to the ministry of the Word.

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 And this proposal pleased the whole group.

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 And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit.

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 Also Philip, Prochorus, Nisenor, Taman, Parmenius, and Nicholas from Antioch,

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 a convert to Judaism.

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 And so what is going on in the life of the church is people are coming.

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 And the 12, the apostles, they're looking around and they're like,

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 man, we can't handle this.

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 We can't do what we're supposed to do

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 and take care of all of these things as well.

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 So a problem arose.

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 Because very early on, what the church recognized is that

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 we're here for the spiritual needs, but there's also physical needs.

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 There's the emotional needs.

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 There's the things that are having to take place.

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 And we need to take care of this.

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 And as the church was growing and outgrowing its leadership structure,

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 they've got to react.

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 And so the apostles say like, hey, we want to focus in on prayer

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 and teaching of the Word.

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 So that's what we're called to do.

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 So there's these other things that have to take place.

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 And so what we find in here is this deacon ministry begins

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 and this ministry is formed.

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 Now, it's very interesting.

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 And I want us to look at this.

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 They looked out, began to pray through and decide like,

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 who's going to take this on?

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 And they didn't say, well, the most organized,

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 who are the most organized people?

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 They didn't say, who are the most educated people?

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 They didn't say, who are the most light people?

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 Who are the most popular people?

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 They didn't say, who are the wealthiest people?

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 Because they could probably fund this ministry.

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 That's not what they did.

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 They looked around, those who were called by Jesus

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 to be the apostles, and they looked around

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 and they saw these groups, they saw these individuals,

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 and Scripture tells us they were full of the Holy Spirit

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 and wisdom.

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 Now, here's what I want us to be able to see.

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 This is what's going to kind of carry us through, all right?

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 When an individual is full of the Spirit,

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 when an individual is full of the wisdom of God,

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 it can be seen.

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 It can be seen, it can be experienced.

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 You can look and you can know.

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 And they say, we see these men, right?

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 And this is what's leading them, the Spirit of God.

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 The Spirit of God that brought Peter to be able to speak.

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 The Spirit of God that brought these men out

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 to be able to proclaim the gospel

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 in languages that they had never spoken before.

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 They looked out and said, Stephen and Philip

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 and you and you and you, we see all of this in you.

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 And it's the choosing.

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 And it's how they were chosen to serve.

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 So as we look at this,

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 we're going to look at Philip,

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 a story, an encounter with Philip,

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 one of the deacons that was chosen.

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 This isn't a guy who had had years of church training.

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 This isn't a story of a guy

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 who had sat through 15 evangelism classes.

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 This isn't a story of a guy

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 who could answer every question about baptism.

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 This isn't the story of a guy

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 who had it all figured out.

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 But it is going to be the story of a guy

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 who said, I'm going to go and do

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 what the Spirit of God is telling me to do

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 and calling me to go.

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 And as I stand here this morning,

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 and as I look out at a group of people,

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 and as I stood in my bathroom this morning

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 and looked in the mirror myself,

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 that that's the call for all of our lives.

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 Are you and I willing to be led by the Spirit

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 to go places, to do things,

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 to form relationships that only can happen

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 through the Spirit and power of God?

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 Or are we trying to do things

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 in our own ability, in our own might?

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 And we'll see the connection to baptism here

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 in just a moment.

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 So let's read chapter 8, starting in verse 26.

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 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip,

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 go south to the road, the desert road

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 that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.

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 And so he started out.

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 And on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch,

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 an important official in charge of all the treasury,

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 the Kandake, which means queen of the Ethiopians.

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 And this man had gone to Jerusalem to worship.

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 Now that's not because he was a follower of Christ.

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 We need to pause here for just a moment.

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 But as we had seen, there had been a lot of people

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 who had come into Jerusalem for the religious nature of it.

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 And this is why he was there.

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 Verse 28.

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 And on his way home was sitting in his chariot

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 reading the book of Isaiah the prophet.

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 And the spirit told Philip,

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 go to that chariot and stay near it.

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 And then Philip ran up to the chariot

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 and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet.

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 Do you understand what you are reading?

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 Philip asked.

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 Verse 31.

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 And this is the passage of scripture that eunuch was reading.

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 It's found in Isaiah 53, by the way.

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 He was led like a sheep to the slaughter.

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 And as a lamb before its shearer is silent,

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 so he did not open his mouth.

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 In his humiliation, he was deprived of justice.

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 Who can speak of his descendants?

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 For his life was taken from the earth.

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 And the eunuch said,

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 Philip, tell me please,

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 who is this prophet talking about?

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 Himself or someone else?

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 And then Philip began with that very passage of scripture

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 and told him the good news about Jesus.

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 And as they traveled along the road,

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 they came to some water.

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 And the eunuch said,

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 look, here is water.

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 What can stand in the way of my being baptized?

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 And he gave the orders to stop the chariot.

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 And then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water

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 and Philip baptized him.

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 And when they came out of the water,

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 the spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away.

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 And the eunuch did not see him again,

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 but went on his way rejoicing.

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 Philip, however, appeared in Azotus

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 and traveled about preaching the gospel in all the towns

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 until he reached Caesarea.

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 The story, not of a pastor,

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 the story, not of a missionary,

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 but the story of a follower of Jesus Christ

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 who says yes to the spirit.

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 Yes to the spirit.

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 Yes to the spirit.

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 So what would it look like in your life and mine?

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 Let's lose the title.

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 Let's lose the organization.

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 What if we're there in this culture,

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 in this context?

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 We're not dependent on what the church,

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 the place we go is going to do,

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 the organization that we're a part of,

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 what we're leaning in and pressing in onto each other.

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 What if you and I just begin to put ourselves

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 as individual followers of Christ,

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 what does it mean to walk in the spirit?

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 What does it mean to be led by the spirit?

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 What does that mean?

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 What can we draw from this?

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 And I think number one,

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 what I want us to get to is this,

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 is God gives us unlikely people.

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 God gives us unlikely people.

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 Before we talk about everybody else,

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 let's talk about us.

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 You and I are unlikely.

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 Here's what I mean.

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 None of us, not one,

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 deserve to get used and to get saved by God.

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 Not one.

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 A few weeks ago,

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 I got a text message from someone

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 who's very dear to my heart.

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 They don't go to church here.

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 Very dear to my heart.

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 And this individual was going through

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 a series of grieving and loss.

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 And the question that was asked to me

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 was,

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 if a good person does bad things,

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 can that good person still go to heaven?

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 And my answer was,

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 we got to understand that it's not about being good.

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 It's about being saved.

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 We got to talk through and understand that.

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 Because the truth is,

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 in light of the gospel,

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 what I know,

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 what you know,

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 is that none of us are good.

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 We're not good.

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 We don't deserve to get used.

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 And you think,

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 well,

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 I've done these good things,

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 but said in the holiness of God,

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 you're not good and I'm not good either.

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 It's only by the blood of Jesus Christ,

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 it's only by the work that he's doing,

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 that God saves us and uses us.

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 So as we press into this,

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 as we think about,

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 as we look to the unlikely people,

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 let's understand that you and I

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 haven't established ourselves on some pedestal

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 because you and I are unlikely.

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 Your story's messy.

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 My story's messy.

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 It doesn't matter how good we think that we were.

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 God's not looking to save a bunch of good people.

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 God's just saving people.

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 And he's not even making us good

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 and he's making us holy

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 through who he is.

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 So you and I are unlikely.

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 And for Philip,

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 right,

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 as we see in his life,

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 there's not a whole lot that we can see

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 that is going on in his life,

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 but the Holy Spirit is leading him.

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 And so for him,

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 it's not about being good,

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 it's about following.

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 And sadly for most of us,

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 that's where the breakdown happens.

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 We're so focused in on all the things

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 that we want to do,

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 all the things we want to accomplish,

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 even if it's creating the spiritual checkbox

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 and marking those off.

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 But the question is,

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 are we following,

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 are we seeking the spirit of God

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 and what God has for us?

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 And so God in this moment

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 is going to give Philip someone.

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 And I guarantee you,

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 it's not the someone

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 that Philip would have been looking for.

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 It's not the someone

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 that he would have thought,

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 this is what's going to make it in.

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 This is what's going to be the story.

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 This is going to be the defining moment.

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 But this is what we see.

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 And God brings him

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 an Ethiopian eunuch.

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 Right?

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 And what's great that we can see in this,

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 and we'll talk about there in just a moment,

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 is God's taken the gospel context of the story

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 and he's magnifying even more

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 that he's moving it

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 just from what people would thought of

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 of a Jewish context

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 to a Gentile everyone.

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 So this Ethiopian eunuch,

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 who is he?

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 Number one,

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 he's a high-ranking government official

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 from Ethiopia.

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 Ethiopia is a long ways away

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 from Jerusalem, right?

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 And so he's on this journey

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 and he's religious,

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 he's spiritual.

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 And so he's come to Jerusalem

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 for a place of worship,

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 but now on his way,

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 he's leaving.

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 And a beautiful thing

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 of what we see is happening

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 is the Spirit of God

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 is drawing him closer to Christ,

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 is that he's reading a text

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 and he's beginning to wrestle him

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 with like,

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 who is this about?

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 Who is this about?

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 But he's this high-ranking government official

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 from a faraway land.

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 Now, he's the Ethiopian eunuch.

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 Real quickly,

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 we won't spend too much time on this, right?

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 He was castrated.

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 He was castrated.

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 Due to his career

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 and his position,

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 he was castrated

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 so the king

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 or the queen

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 at the time

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 would not have to worry

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 about what he was trying to do

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 or what he was trying to accomplish.

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 And he was a Gentile.

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 He wasn't Jewish.

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 And so what this would have built up

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 in the life of Philip,

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 if Philip were just seeing him

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 through his own eyes,

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 that this would have been a man

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 who was unworthy

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 of the gospel,

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 of the things he had done

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 to his body,

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 allowed to be done,

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 the things that he was doing,

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 the things that he was a part of,

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 the land that he'd come from.

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 He was unworthy.

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 But what's so important

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 is God didn't think so.

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 God didn't think so.

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 And so God brought this point

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 in time for Philip, right?

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 As we look about the gospel

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 and as we think about our role

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 and our part in it,

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 I want to kind of deal

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 with a tension

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 that I know

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 that is in the lives

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 of individuals

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 and what we think of

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 and what we do

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 and what pushes us.

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 We all have people

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 in our life

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 that we think

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 are unworthy

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 of the gospel.

00:26:07.180 --> 00:26:08.580
 When we're not being led

00:26:08.580 --> 00:26:09.420
 by the Spirit,

00:26:10.460 --> 00:26:11.860
 the sin begins to creep

00:26:11.860 --> 00:26:12.660
 in our mind

00:26:12.660 --> 00:26:14.240
 that they're not worth

00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:15.020
 being saved

00:26:15.020 --> 00:26:16.880
 or that God can't save them.

00:26:17.840 --> 00:26:18.720
 And so we chalk them up

00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:19.260
 as they're no good.

00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:20.820
 There's no use.

00:26:21.280 --> 00:26:22.060
 What's the point?

00:26:22.300 --> 00:26:23.060
 Why even bother?

00:26:23.900 --> 00:26:24.820
 And here's what I want us

00:26:24.820 --> 00:26:25.300
 to think of.

00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:26.940
 Think about that person

00:26:26.940 --> 00:26:27.580
 in your life.

00:26:28.460 --> 00:26:29.420
 That individual,

00:26:30.080 --> 00:26:30.880
 that family member,

00:26:31.260 --> 00:26:32.000
 that co-worker,

00:26:32.380 --> 00:26:33.100
 that friend,

00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:34.660
 that really obnoxious neighbor

00:26:34.660 --> 00:26:35.320
 that you don't like,

00:26:35.360 --> 00:26:35.520
 right?

00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:37.060
 Like, think of who they are.

00:26:37.980 --> 00:26:38.720
 They're not worth it.

00:26:39.720 --> 00:26:40.620
 They're too rough.

00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:42.800
 They're not worth it.

00:26:42.980 --> 00:26:43.940
 Think about their past.

00:26:45.180 --> 00:26:46.060
 They're not worth it.

00:26:46.100 --> 00:26:46.820
 Think of all the things

00:26:46.820 --> 00:26:47.880
 that they've done.

00:26:49.120 --> 00:26:50.200
 They're not worth it.

00:26:51.020 --> 00:26:52.500
 They're unlikely.

00:26:54.900 --> 00:26:57.060
 What if we started

00:26:57.060 --> 00:26:58.060
 viewing these people

00:26:58.060 --> 00:27:00.140
 not as burdens

00:27:00.140 --> 00:27:00.880
 but as gifts?

00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:03.120
 What if we started

00:27:03.120 --> 00:27:04.220
 viewing these people

00:27:04.220 --> 00:27:05.860
 not as a burden

00:27:05.860 --> 00:27:06.920
 that God has placed

00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:08.160
 to live next door to us?

00:27:09.280 --> 00:27:09.820
 A burden,

00:27:10.120 --> 00:27:10.880
 not as a burden

00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:11.640
 of the person that,

00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:12.640
 why do we have to work with them?

00:27:13.360 --> 00:27:14.240
 Not as a burden

00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:15.340
 of why did they be in my family?

00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:16.820
 What if we stopped

00:27:16.820 --> 00:27:17.560
 defining them

00:27:17.560 --> 00:27:18.800
 by their past failures

00:27:18.800 --> 00:27:20.100
 and mistakes?

00:27:21.220 --> 00:27:22.200
 And what if we started

00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:23.140
 defining them

00:27:23.140 --> 00:27:24.360
 as the gift

00:27:24.360 --> 00:27:25.380
 that God

00:27:25.380 --> 00:27:26.560
 is giving us?

00:27:27.380 --> 00:27:28.320
 And that's what it means

00:27:28.320 --> 00:27:29.620
 to begin to be

00:27:29.620 --> 00:27:30.820
 walking and being led

00:27:30.820 --> 00:27:31.380
 by the Spirit,

00:27:32.040 --> 00:27:32.960
 especially in the Gospel.

00:27:33.540 --> 00:27:34.280
 Second thing I want us

00:27:34.280 --> 00:27:34.700
 to look at

00:27:34.700 --> 00:27:35.820
 is the timing of God.

00:27:36.700 --> 00:27:37.400
 The timing of God.

00:27:39.900 --> 00:27:40.560
 I'm probably

00:27:40.560 --> 00:27:41.880
 the world's worst

00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:42.440
 at this, okay?

00:27:43.340 --> 00:27:44.060
 But I want to make

00:27:44.060 --> 00:27:44.460
 this statement.

00:27:45.900 --> 00:27:46.700
 God doesn't need

00:27:46.700 --> 00:27:47.560
 to check your schedule

00:27:47.560 --> 00:27:47.940
 or mine.

00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:49.620
 He doesn't.

00:27:50.320 --> 00:27:51.460
 I can't tell you

00:27:51.460 --> 00:27:52.060
 how many times

00:27:52.060 --> 00:27:52.700
 I think I've got

00:27:52.700 --> 00:27:53.460
 everything laid out,

00:27:53.520 --> 00:27:54.460
 I've got what I need to do

00:27:54.460 --> 00:27:55.680
 and then God detours

00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:56.520
 and in that

00:27:56.520 --> 00:27:57.240
 it creeps in my heart

00:27:57.240 --> 00:27:57.960
 the inconvenience

00:27:57.960 --> 00:27:58.580
 of the moment, right?

00:27:58.760 --> 00:27:59.900
 But let's kind of establish

00:27:59.900 --> 00:28:01.540
 God doesn't have to check

00:28:01.540 --> 00:28:02.680
 your schedule or mine.

00:28:03.420 --> 00:28:04.580
 His plans are bigger

00:28:04.580 --> 00:28:06.100
 and His plans are better.

00:28:06.940 --> 00:28:07.060
 Right?

00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:08.360
 His plans are bigger

00:28:08.360 --> 00:28:09.060
 than what you think.

00:28:09.120 --> 00:28:10.060
 His plans are bigger

00:28:10.060 --> 00:28:10.880
 than what I think

00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:11.980
 and here's what's remarkable.

00:28:12.300 --> 00:28:13.440
 His plans are better

00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:14.960
 than what you could describe

00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:16.540
 and His plans are better

00:28:16.540 --> 00:28:17.560
 than what I could describe.

00:28:17.760 --> 00:28:18.320
 They're even better

00:28:18.320 --> 00:28:19.580
 than what we can hope for.

00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:21.640
 As Philip is going into

00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:22.420
 to this day

00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:23.600
 of what is going to unfold

00:28:23.600 --> 00:28:24.140
 within this,

00:28:24.340 --> 00:28:24.900
 I don't know

00:28:24.900 --> 00:28:26.180
 what was lined up for him

00:28:26.180 --> 00:28:27.300
 but here's what I know.

00:28:27.520 --> 00:28:28.600
 What God had in mind

00:28:28.600 --> 00:28:29.100
 was bigger.

00:28:29.740 --> 00:28:31.080
 What God had in mind

00:28:31.080 --> 00:28:32.020
 was better.

00:28:32.660 --> 00:28:33.360
 And I want us to think

00:28:33.360 --> 00:28:34.540
 of the timing of this.

00:28:34.800 --> 00:28:36.360
 The timing of the characters

00:28:36.360 --> 00:28:37.560
 and who God chose

00:28:37.560 --> 00:28:38.160
 and all these things.

00:28:38.340 --> 00:28:39.660
 God sends a deacon

00:28:39.660 --> 00:28:40.720
 not an apostle.

00:28:41.360 --> 00:28:42.220
 This isn't Peter

00:28:42.220 --> 00:28:43.240
 who'd gone through

00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:44.240
 the test of this.

00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:45.400
 This was a deacon.

00:28:45.600 --> 00:28:46.340
 This was Philip.

00:28:47.380 --> 00:28:49.040
 This was the everyday guy.

00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:50.160
 This was a guy

00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:50.880
 who was sitting there

00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:51.760
 in a part of the church

00:28:51.760 --> 00:28:52.240
 one day

00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:53.120
 and he had a group

00:28:53.120 --> 00:28:53.840
 walk up to him

00:28:53.840 --> 00:28:54.340
 and he's like,

00:28:54.500 --> 00:28:54.760
 hey man,

00:28:54.860 --> 00:28:55.320
 by the way,

00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:56.420
 here's what we've noticed.

00:28:56.620 --> 00:28:57.160
 We've noticed

00:28:57.160 --> 00:28:58.180
 that you love the Lord.

00:28:58.320 --> 00:28:59.720
 We can see this in you.

00:28:59.900 --> 00:29:00.380
 Would you come

00:29:00.380 --> 00:29:01.020
 and start serving

00:29:01.020 --> 00:29:01.520
 and doing some

00:29:01.520 --> 00:29:02.020
 of these things,

00:29:02.060 --> 00:29:02.260
 right?

00:29:04.060 --> 00:29:05.120
 And then from this

00:29:05.120 --> 00:29:07.420
 what we begin to see

00:29:07.420 --> 00:29:09.400
 is the journey

00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:10.320
 of salvation

00:29:10.320 --> 00:29:11.620
 of what God's

00:29:11.620 --> 00:29:11.960
 going to do

00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:12.540
 in his life.

00:29:13.740 --> 00:29:14.580
 That's God's timing,

00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:15.100
 not ours.

00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:15.840
 That's God choosing,

00:29:15.980 --> 00:29:16.960
 not ours.

00:29:18.340 --> 00:29:19.580
 But in the timing of God,

00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:21.960
 God sends him

00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:22.660
 to a Gentile

00:29:22.660 --> 00:29:24.800
 and not a Jewish leader.

00:29:25.520 --> 00:29:26.460
 And what we're going to see

00:29:26.460 --> 00:29:27.080
 in this moment

00:29:27.080 --> 00:29:28.220
 is the gospel

00:29:28.220 --> 00:29:30.000
 is going to go global.

00:29:31.060 --> 00:29:32.020
 The gospel is going to

00:29:32.020 --> 00:29:32.920
 begin to expand

00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:33.700
 even more so.

00:29:34.560 --> 00:29:35.560
 The gospel is going to go

00:29:35.560 --> 00:29:36.500
 from largely

00:29:36.500 --> 00:29:38.140
 a group of men

00:29:38.140 --> 00:29:38.780
 and women

00:29:38.780 --> 00:29:40.500
 of financial

00:29:40.500 --> 00:29:42.040
 insignificance

00:29:42.040 --> 00:29:44.360
 to now an individual

00:29:44.360 --> 00:29:45.420
 who heads up

00:29:45.420 --> 00:29:46.200
 the treasury

00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:47.680
 of an entire kingdom.

00:29:48.580 --> 00:29:49.760
 And that's what it's going to do.

00:29:50.420 --> 00:29:51.400
 But that didn't happen

00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:52.700
 in anyone else's timing.

00:29:52.800 --> 00:29:53.200
 That happened

00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:54.440
 in God's timing.

00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:56.800
 And here's what I think

00:29:56.800 --> 00:29:57.960
 is remarkable, right?

00:30:00.380 --> 00:30:02.080
 God sends to a desert,

00:30:02.280 --> 00:30:03.040
 not to a city.

00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:05.160
 I don't know about you.

00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:07.040
 I was just telling somebody,

00:30:07.300 --> 00:30:08.600
 I was telling Kim and Kyle,

00:30:08.760 --> 00:30:09.400
 I think this morning

00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:09.880
 we were talking

00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:11.300
 before the service started.

00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:11.980
 I said,

00:30:12.040 --> 00:30:12.540
 how's that thing going?

00:30:12.620 --> 00:30:12.800
 I was like,

00:30:12.860 --> 00:30:14.560
 man, busy, right?

00:30:15.500 --> 00:30:16.840
 No one told me

00:30:16.840 --> 00:30:18.040
 that 13-year-olds

00:30:18.040 --> 00:30:19.040
 are busy, right?

00:30:19.660 --> 00:30:20.180
 And that's what

00:30:20.180 --> 00:30:21.240
 we're learning, right?

00:30:21.780 --> 00:30:22.920
 A 13-year-old boy,

00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:23.860
 a 13-year-old girl,

00:30:23.940 --> 00:30:24.500
 they're busy.

00:30:24.840 --> 00:30:25.700
 No one told me

00:30:25.700 --> 00:30:26.260
 when I was in,

00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:27.620
 I thought when I was

00:30:27.620 --> 00:30:28.880
 in college, right,

00:30:29.180 --> 00:30:30.280
 that going to school

00:30:30.280 --> 00:30:31.780
 for five classes a week

00:30:31.780 --> 00:30:33.060
 was like the most

00:30:33.060 --> 00:30:33.820
 I would ever have

00:30:33.820 --> 00:30:34.660
 to work in my life.

00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:35.300
 And then I got

00:30:35.300 --> 00:30:36.340
 like a job, right?

00:30:36.840 --> 00:30:38.180
 And then it got even more.

00:30:38.560 --> 00:30:39.560
 And then I got married

00:30:39.560 --> 00:30:40.460
 and I got even more.

00:30:40.560 --> 00:30:40.960
 I got married

00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:41.760
 and got kids

00:30:41.760 --> 00:30:42.460
 and got even more

00:30:42.460 --> 00:30:43.920
 and time and time and time.

00:30:44.120 --> 00:30:45.640
 And so I thrive

00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:46.500
 with being able to say

00:30:46.500 --> 00:30:47.940
 like here's the schedule

00:30:47.940 --> 00:30:48.960
 of what's there

00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:50.080
 of what I need to do

00:30:50.080 --> 00:30:51.400
 and when something happens

00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:52.000
 to cause me

00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:53.040
 to break from it

00:30:53.040 --> 00:30:54.740
 and so God goes to Philip

00:30:54.740 --> 00:30:55.060
 and says,

00:30:55.320 --> 00:30:55.800
 not in the city

00:30:55.800 --> 00:30:56.880
 where we see everything going,

00:30:57.140 --> 00:30:57.740
 not in the city

00:30:57.740 --> 00:30:58.780
 where you see everything planned

00:30:58.780 --> 00:30:59.480
 and not in the city

00:30:59.480 --> 00:30:59.780
 where you think

00:30:59.780 --> 00:31:00.160
 everything's going,

00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:01.780
 but I'm going to take you

00:31:01.780 --> 00:31:02.940
 and I'm going to take you out

00:31:02.940 --> 00:31:03.820
 and I'm going to send you

00:31:03.820 --> 00:31:05.200
 into the desert.

00:31:06.560 --> 00:31:07.040
 I'm going to send you

00:31:07.040 --> 00:31:07.460
 in the desert.

00:31:08.460 --> 00:31:09.540
 And I have a moment,

00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:10.360
 I have a feeling

00:31:10.360 --> 00:31:11.060
 in that moment

00:31:11.060 --> 00:31:12.580
 like Philip's calendar

00:31:12.580 --> 00:31:13.700
 got messed up a little bit.

00:31:14.660 --> 00:31:14.820
 Right?

00:31:15.860 --> 00:31:17.600
 But what's remarkable,

00:31:18.580 --> 00:31:20.240
 what I want us to see

00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:23.360
 is what this looks like in this.

00:31:23.980 --> 00:31:24.920
 What does it mean

00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:27.060
 to be led by the Spirit?

00:31:27.300 --> 00:31:28.240
 It involves this

00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:29.180
 listening and looking.

00:31:30.020 --> 00:31:31.080
 And it's kind of connect.

00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:35.540
 The angel came

00:31:35.540 --> 00:31:36.760
 and went to Philip

00:31:36.760 --> 00:31:38.880
 and Philip goes.

00:31:40.520 --> 00:31:40.620
 Right?

00:31:41.080 --> 00:31:42.560
 Look back at that first,

00:31:43.140 --> 00:31:44.020
 very first verse.

00:31:45.060 --> 00:31:45.920
 Now an angel

00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:47.880
 of the Lord

00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:48.760
 said to Philip,

00:31:49.360 --> 00:31:51.140
 go south to the road,

00:31:51.280 --> 00:31:52.240
 the desert road

00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:53.440
 that goes from Jerusalem

00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:54.520
 to Gaza.

00:31:55.520 --> 00:31:56.840
 In the very beginning

00:31:56.840 --> 00:31:58.680
 of verse 27,

00:31:59.620 --> 00:32:01.480
 so he goes.

00:32:02.700 --> 00:32:03.260
 He goes.

00:32:04.760 --> 00:32:05.400
 It didn't matter

00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:06.020
 with his schedule,

00:32:06.100 --> 00:32:06.300
 it didn't matter

00:32:06.300 --> 00:32:07.060
 with his time.

00:32:07.800 --> 00:32:08.800
 So what's the difference

00:32:08.800 --> 00:32:09.900
 between Philip

00:32:09.900 --> 00:32:11.060
 and us oftentimes?

00:32:12.280 --> 00:32:12.420
 Well,

00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:13.460
 Philip was listening

00:32:13.460 --> 00:32:13.840
 and looking.

00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:14.080
 Now,

00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:14.860
 let's be fair.

00:32:16.140 --> 00:32:16.300
 If,

00:32:17.420 --> 00:32:18.900
 an argument could be,

00:32:19.800 --> 00:32:19.960
 well,

00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:20.700
 if an angel

00:32:20.700 --> 00:32:22.020
 says to me,

00:32:22.300 --> 00:32:22.580
 go,

00:32:24.020 --> 00:32:24.680
 then I'll go.

00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:25.740
 Right?

00:32:25.940 --> 00:32:26.800
 Is that a fair statement?

00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:27.080
 Like,

00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:28.600
 if an angel comes

00:32:28.600 --> 00:32:29.200
 into your,

00:32:29.280 --> 00:32:30.720
 into your home tonight,

00:32:30.800 --> 00:32:30.940
 like,

00:32:31.100 --> 00:32:31.940
 you're sitting there

00:32:31.940 --> 00:32:32.780
 watching TV

00:32:32.780 --> 00:32:33.400
 and says,

00:32:33.500 --> 00:32:34.220
 go do something.

00:32:34.300 --> 00:32:34.420
 Like,

00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:35.440
 we'd all probably agree

00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:36.060
 in that moment,

00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:37.220
 it was just me

00:32:37.220 --> 00:32:38.260
 and then all of a sudden,

00:32:38.380 --> 00:32:39.140
 right,

00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:39.980
 like angel there.

00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:42.620
 You know what it looks like,

00:32:42.660 --> 00:32:43.600
 don't know what's gonna happen.

00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:44.620
 Be careful.

00:32:44.740 --> 00:32:45.060
 Most of the time

00:32:45.060 --> 00:32:45.720
 when angels show up,

00:32:45.740 --> 00:32:46.500
 people are scared,

00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:47.200
 but I guess

00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:47.660
 if there's somebody

00:32:47.660 --> 00:32:48.900
 standing behind my recliner

00:32:48.900 --> 00:32:49.340
 and I didn't know

00:32:49.340 --> 00:32:49.800
 that they were there,

00:32:49.860 --> 00:32:50.800
 I'd be scared too,

00:32:50.840 --> 00:32:51.020
 right?

00:32:51.540 --> 00:32:52.160
 So we would say,

00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:52.380
 well,

00:32:52.380 --> 00:32:53.360
 that's easy,

00:32:53.460 --> 00:32:53.620
 Bo.

00:32:54.180 --> 00:32:55.080
 Philip's at his house,

00:32:55.140 --> 00:32:55.980
 an angel appears,

00:32:56.100 --> 00:32:57.080
 so he's gonna go.

00:32:57.260 --> 00:32:58.400
 So here's what I'd like

00:32:58.400 --> 00:32:59.360
 to ask you,

00:32:59.560 --> 00:33:00.760
 just in rebuttal,

00:33:01.120 --> 00:33:01.980
 rebuttal to that,

00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:02.960
 right?

00:33:03.700 --> 00:33:04.280
 Quick question,

00:33:04.660 --> 00:33:05.300
 do you believe

00:33:05.300 --> 00:33:06.200
 that this is the

00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:06.980
 authoritative,

00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:08.420
 inspired word of God,

00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:09.700
 that it is perfect,

00:33:09.820 --> 00:33:10.700
 that it is true,

00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:11.460
 that every word

00:33:11.460 --> 00:33:12.780
 that it is written

00:33:12.780 --> 00:33:14.440
 came from God to us?

00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:15.480
 We'd all shake our heads,

00:33:15.540 --> 00:33:15.720
 yes,

00:33:15.760 --> 00:33:15.940
 right?

00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:17.360
 We agree with that.

00:33:17.620 --> 00:33:17.920
 Well then,

00:33:18.140 --> 00:33:18.880
 what we talked about

00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:20.220
 in Matthew chapter 28,

00:33:20.320 --> 00:33:20.960
 what we talked about

00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:22.140
 in Acts chapter 1

00:33:22.140 --> 00:33:23.260
 is that Jesus says go.

00:33:24.220 --> 00:33:24.900
 Jesus says go.

00:33:26.120 --> 00:33:27.300
 So I think that

00:33:27.300 --> 00:33:27.960
 in our hearts

00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:28.620
 there's some of us

00:33:28.620 --> 00:33:29.220
 that would even argue

00:33:29.220 --> 00:33:29.680
 with an angel

00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:30.180
 that pops up

00:33:30.180 --> 00:33:30.840
 behind our recliner,

00:33:31.340 --> 00:33:32.040
 right?

00:33:32.780 --> 00:33:33.660
 Because we won't listen

00:33:33.660 --> 00:33:34.380
 to Jesus to go.

00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:37.520
 But that's what we see.

00:33:38.620 --> 00:33:38.760
 You know,

00:33:39.860 --> 00:33:42.140
 he says yes.

00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:44.020
 He says yes.

00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:45.500
 And then I love this.

00:33:46.620 --> 00:33:47.340
 Verse 27,

00:33:47.360 --> 00:33:50.880
 before the interaction

00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:51.640
 begins,

00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:53.840
 it says simply

00:33:53.840 --> 00:33:54.760
 in verse 27

00:33:54.760 --> 00:33:57.080
 that he met him.

00:33:58.180 --> 00:33:59.140
 That he met him.

00:34:00.320 --> 00:34:01.040
 How many people

00:34:01.040 --> 00:34:01.800
 a day do you meet?

00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:04.440
 How many people

00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:05.580
 a day do you interact with?

00:34:07.180 --> 00:34:07.880
 How many people

00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:08.780
 a day do we

00:34:08.780 --> 00:34:10.100
 pull through

00:34:10.100 --> 00:34:11.260
 a drive-through

00:34:11.260 --> 00:34:13.080
 and scan our card

00:34:13.080 --> 00:34:14.160
 and grab our food

00:34:14.160 --> 00:34:14.480
 and go?

00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:16.100
 How many people

00:34:16.100 --> 00:34:16.780
 a day do we

00:34:16.780 --> 00:34:17.720
 interact with

00:34:17.720 --> 00:34:18.760
 at a grocery store

00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:19.040
 or a line?

00:34:19.100 --> 00:34:19.580
 How many people

00:34:19.580 --> 00:34:19.980
 a day?

00:34:20.060 --> 00:34:20.420
 How many people

00:34:20.420 --> 00:34:21.140
 do you work

00:34:21.140 --> 00:34:21.820
 with people

00:34:21.820 --> 00:34:23.360
 that literally

00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:24.520
 their desk

00:34:24.520 --> 00:34:25.320
 is 20 feet

00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:26.120
 from yours

00:34:26.120 --> 00:34:26.700
 and you don't

00:34:26.700 --> 00:34:27.300
 know who they are?

00:34:28.260 --> 00:34:29.020
 How many people

00:34:29.020 --> 00:34:29.660
 do we meet

00:34:29.660 --> 00:34:30.400
 but we don't know?

00:34:30.980 --> 00:34:32.020
 God didn't give him

00:34:32.020 --> 00:34:32.600
 a sign

00:34:32.600 --> 00:34:35.260
 but it simply says

00:34:35.260 --> 00:34:36.940
 that he met him.

00:34:37.940 --> 00:34:38.760
 That he met him.

00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:40.280
 What if we begin

00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:40.920
 to think through

00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:41.660
 the individuals

00:34:41.660 --> 00:34:42.260
 and the people

00:34:42.260 --> 00:34:43.080
 that God bring us

00:34:43.080 --> 00:34:43.780
 and the timing

00:34:43.780 --> 00:34:44.540
 of all these things

00:34:44.540 --> 00:34:44.920
 and begin

00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:45.460
 to go ahead

00:34:45.460 --> 00:34:46.260
 and set

00:34:46.260 --> 00:34:47.660
 within the mindset

00:34:47.660 --> 00:34:48.600
 of our heart

00:34:48.600 --> 00:34:49.880
 and who we are

00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:51.020
 is this a God

00:34:51.020 --> 00:34:51.420
 appointment?

00:34:52.300 --> 00:34:53.100
 Is this a God

00:34:53.100 --> 00:34:53.400
 appointment?

00:34:54.580 --> 00:34:54.940
 And so now

00:34:54.940 --> 00:34:55.380
 the person

00:34:55.380 --> 00:34:56.060
 at Starbucks

00:34:56.060 --> 00:34:56.720
 isn't someone

00:34:56.720 --> 00:34:57.640
 just taking our order

00:34:57.640 --> 00:34:58.860
 but is it a God

00:34:58.860 --> 00:34:59.420
 appointment?

00:35:00.200 --> 00:35:01.420
 Now the person

00:35:01.420 --> 00:35:01.980
 who's delivering

00:35:01.980 --> 00:35:02.740
 our mail

00:35:02.740 --> 00:35:03.880
 isn't just someone

00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:04.600
 to be there

00:35:04.600 --> 00:35:05.020
 and then we can

00:35:05.020 --> 00:35:05.440
 yell at them

00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:05.940
 because they didn't

00:35:05.940 --> 00:35:06.620
 come the day before

00:35:06.620 --> 00:35:06.920
 right?

00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:07.840
 But it's a God

00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:08.260
 appointment.

00:35:09.540 --> 00:35:10.220
 What if the person

00:35:10.220 --> 00:35:10.920
 at the grocery

00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:11.420
 store

00:35:11.420 --> 00:35:12.260
 is not someone

00:35:12.260 --> 00:35:13.040
 to just give us

00:35:13.040 --> 00:35:13.500
 something

00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:14.900
 but what if it's

00:35:14.900 --> 00:35:15.680
 a God appointment?

00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:17.400
 But then what I love

00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:18.060
 within here

00:35:18.060 --> 00:35:19.340
 is God takes us

00:35:19.340 --> 00:35:20.400
 on this ride

00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:20.740
 as the

00:35:20.740 --> 00:35:22.220
 in verse 29

00:35:22.220 --> 00:35:23.380
 it does also

00:35:23.380 --> 00:35:23.920
 say though

00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:25.180
 that the spirit

00:35:25.180 --> 00:35:26.680
 says to him

00:35:26.680 --> 00:35:27.140
 right

00:35:27.140 --> 00:35:28.340
 and the spirit

00:35:28.340 --> 00:35:29.260
 said to Philip

00:35:29.260 --> 00:35:30.540
 go over

00:35:30.540 --> 00:35:31.620
 and join

00:35:31.620 --> 00:35:33.680
 this chariot.

00:35:33.940 --> 00:35:34.660
 I love that

00:35:34.660 --> 00:35:36.700
 because Philip

00:35:36.700 --> 00:35:37.560
 has got the mindset

00:35:37.560 --> 00:35:38.040
 of I'm gonna

00:35:38.040 --> 00:35:38.960
 go and do

00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:39.360
 and I've got

00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:39.860
 all of these

00:35:39.860 --> 00:35:40.280
 and so I'm

00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:40.520
 looking

00:35:40.520 --> 00:35:40.940
 I'm looking

00:35:40.940 --> 00:35:41.620
 I'm thinking

00:35:41.620 --> 00:35:42.320
 and then in this

00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:43.140
 moment the spirit

00:35:43.140 --> 00:35:43.840
 says to him

00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:46.480
 and I'm telling

00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:47.800
 more times than not

00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:49.380
 I've heard people

00:35:49.380 --> 00:35:50.480
 say so many times

00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:51.860
 I just wish

00:35:51.860 --> 00:35:52.500
 the spirit

00:35:52.500 --> 00:35:53.240
 would tell me

00:35:53.240 --> 00:35:54.620
 but I don't

00:35:54.620 --> 00:35:55.140
 hear him.

00:35:56.260 --> 00:35:56.660
 I go back

00:35:56.660 --> 00:35:57.160
 to our series

00:35:57.160 --> 00:35:57.640
 on prayer

00:35:57.640 --> 00:35:58.240
 we're not gonna

00:35:58.240 --> 00:35:59.020
 reteach it

00:35:59.020 --> 00:35:59.600
 but two of the

00:35:59.600 --> 00:36:00.080
 things that we

00:36:00.080 --> 00:36:00.820
 took out

00:36:00.820 --> 00:36:01.220
 do you want to

00:36:01.220 --> 00:36:01.640
 hear from the

00:36:01.640 --> 00:36:02.260
 spirit of God?

00:36:03.600 --> 00:36:04.360
 Two things

00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:04.700
 that I think

00:36:04.700 --> 00:36:05.180
 can help us

00:36:05.180 --> 00:36:05.540
 with that

00:36:05.540 --> 00:36:06.060
 number one

00:36:06.060 --> 00:36:07.280
 pray consistently

00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:07.920
 every day

00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:09.980
 every day

00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:11.580
 and listen

00:36:11.580 --> 00:36:12.420
 every day

00:36:12.420 --> 00:36:14.100
 but also pray

00:36:14.100 --> 00:36:14.840
 continuously

00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:16.220
 all the time.

00:36:17.720 --> 00:36:17.860
 You know

00:36:17.860 --> 00:36:18.340
 it's hard

00:36:18.340 --> 00:36:18.960
 to communicate

00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:19.740
 with someone

00:36:19.740 --> 00:36:20.220
 that we never

00:36:20.220 --> 00:36:20.680
 talk to.

00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:22.940
 Think about that.

00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:24.120
 It's hard

00:36:24.120 --> 00:36:24.700
 to communicate

00:36:24.700 --> 00:36:25.220
 with someone

00:36:25.220 --> 00:36:25.560
 we never

00:36:25.560 --> 00:36:25.960
 talk to

00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:27.580
 and we so

00:36:27.580 --> 00:36:28.240
 often times

00:36:28.240 --> 00:36:28.780
 want to hear

00:36:28.780 --> 00:36:29.280
 from God

00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:30.240
 but the question

00:36:30.240 --> 00:36:31.180
 is are we

00:36:31.180 --> 00:36:32.320
 communicating

00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:33.620
 with him?

00:36:34.680 --> 00:36:35.160
 Philip was

00:36:35.160 --> 00:36:35.600
 chosen

00:36:35.600 --> 00:36:37.020
 to be a

00:36:37.020 --> 00:36:37.340
 deacon

00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:38.840
 because people

00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:39.600
 saw the

00:36:39.600 --> 00:36:40.160
 evidence of

00:36:40.160 --> 00:36:40.600
 the spirit

00:36:40.600 --> 00:36:41.140
 of God

00:36:41.140 --> 00:36:41.920
 and the

00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:42.240
 wisdom

00:36:42.240 --> 00:36:42.760
 of God

00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:43.280
 in him

00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:44.260
 because before

00:36:44.260 --> 00:36:44.820
 it was a

00:36:44.820 --> 00:36:45.600
 job description

00:36:45.600 --> 00:36:47.200
 before it was

00:36:47.200 --> 00:36:47.920
 anything else

00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:48.980
 he was living

00:36:48.980 --> 00:36:50.280
 and communing

00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:51.200
 with God

00:36:51.200 --> 00:36:51.840
 right?

00:36:52.860 --> 00:36:53.460
 Listening

00:36:53.460 --> 00:36:54.860
 and looking

00:36:54.860 --> 00:36:56.900
 is not about

00:36:56.900 --> 00:36:57.500
 angels

00:36:57.500 --> 00:36:58.540
 in dreams

00:36:58.540 --> 00:36:59.980
 and burning

00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:00.400
 bushes

00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:01.080
 in the desert.

00:37:02.220 --> 00:37:02.620
 There's only

00:37:02.620 --> 00:37:03.100
 been a handful

00:37:03.100 --> 00:37:03.580
 of people

00:37:03.580 --> 00:37:04.800
 right?

00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:05.940
 That things

00:37:05.940 --> 00:37:06.300
 like this

00:37:06.300 --> 00:37:06.660
 have happened

00:37:06.660 --> 00:37:06.880
 to.

00:37:07.820 --> 00:37:08.760
 But listening

00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:09.960
 and looking

00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:11.080
 for the spirit

00:37:11.080 --> 00:37:11.520
 of God

00:37:11.520 --> 00:37:11.980
 to be led

00:37:11.980 --> 00:37:12.460
 by the spirit

00:37:12.460 --> 00:37:12.780
 of God

00:37:12.780 --> 00:37:13.440
 is simply

00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:14.020
 just being

00:37:14.020 --> 00:37:14.440
 obedient

00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:15.980
 to what

00:37:15.980 --> 00:37:16.640
 we know

00:37:16.640 --> 00:37:18.060
 the wisdom

00:37:18.060 --> 00:37:19.580
 that God

00:37:19.580 --> 00:37:19.920
 has set

00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:20.360
 for us.

00:37:21.080 --> 00:37:21.500
 What do you

00:37:21.500 --> 00:37:21.820
 think they

00:37:21.820 --> 00:37:22.340
 saw

00:37:22.340 --> 00:37:24.100
 in Philip

00:37:24.100 --> 00:37:25.640
 when they

00:37:25.640 --> 00:37:26.080
 chose him?

00:37:27.340 --> 00:37:27.860
 I bet

00:37:27.860 --> 00:37:28.420
 they saw

00:37:28.420 --> 00:37:29.020
 someone

00:37:29.020 --> 00:37:30.480
 who in

00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:31.220
 every moment

00:37:31.220 --> 00:37:31.600
 of his

00:37:31.600 --> 00:37:31.940
 life

00:37:31.940 --> 00:37:32.600
 was seeking

00:37:32.600 --> 00:37:33.700
 to be

00:37:33.700 --> 00:37:34.460
 obedient

00:37:34.460 --> 00:37:34.900
 to the

00:37:34.900 --> 00:37:35.520
 call of

00:37:35.520 --> 00:37:35.840
 God

00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:36.300
 on his

00:37:36.300 --> 00:37:36.660
 life

00:37:36.660 --> 00:37:37.120
 right?

00:37:37.540 --> 00:37:37.980
 And then

00:37:37.980 --> 00:37:38.240
 lastly

00:37:38.240 --> 00:37:38.500
 we're going

00:37:38.500 --> 00:37:38.860
 to close

00:37:38.860 --> 00:37:39.340
 with this.

00:37:40.340 --> 00:37:40.880
 What we

00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:41.600
 got to see

00:37:41.600 --> 00:37:42.500
 with Philip

00:37:42.500 --> 00:37:43.900
 what we

00:37:43.900 --> 00:37:44.420
 got to see

00:37:44.420 --> 00:37:45.160
 in his

00:37:45.160 --> 00:37:45.620
 life

00:37:45.620 --> 00:37:46.700
 is what

00:37:46.700 --> 00:37:47.000
 I call

00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:47.700
 participating

00:37:47.700 --> 00:37:48.320
 with God

00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:49.060
 right?

00:37:49.140 --> 00:37:49.560
 Participating

00:37:49.560 --> 00:37:49.940
 with God

00:37:49.940 --> 00:37:51.180
 and it's

00:37:51.180 --> 00:37:51.540
 what God

00:37:51.540 --> 00:37:51.920
 is inviting

00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:52.300
 us to

00:37:52.300 --> 00:37:53.880
 right?

00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:56.500
 I'm going

00:37:56.500 --> 00:37:56.740
 to take a

00:37:56.740 --> 00:37:56.980
 burden

00:37:56.980 --> 00:37:57.400
 off of

00:37:57.400 --> 00:37:57.580
 you.

00:37:59.520 --> 00:38:00.000
 You

00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:00.900
 can't

00:38:00.900 --> 00:38:01.600
 save

00:38:01.600 --> 00:38:02.280
 anyone.

00:38:03.180 --> 00:38:03.420
 You

00:38:03.420 --> 00:38:04.100
 can't.

00:38:05.340 --> 00:38:05.640
 Neither

00:38:05.640 --> 00:38:05.980
 can I.

00:38:07.300 --> 00:38:07.620
 We

00:38:07.620 --> 00:38:07.860
 can't

00:38:07.860 --> 00:38:08.060
 save

00:38:08.060 --> 00:38:08.180
 them.

00:38:09.180 --> 00:38:09.420
 God

00:38:09.420 --> 00:38:09.740
 saves

00:38:09.740 --> 00:38:10.060
 people.

00:38:11.200 --> 00:38:11.580
 And what

00:38:11.580 --> 00:38:11.960
 God

00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:12.600
 does

00:38:12.600 --> 00:38:13.900
 is God

00:38:13.900 --> 00:38:15.100
 invites

00:38:15.100 --> 00:38:15.540
 us

00:38:15.540 --> 00:38:16.080
 into

00:38:16.080 --> 00:38:16.460
 this.

00:38:17.260 --> 00:38:17.420
 God

00:38:17.420 --> 00:38:17.560
 says

00:38:17.560 --> 00:38:17.960
 here's

00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:18.280
 what I'm

00:38:18.280 --> 00:38:18.480
 going to

00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:18.820
 do.

00:38:19.600 --> 00:38:19.900
 Here's

00:38:19.900 --> 00:38:20.100
 how I'm

00:38:20.100 --> 00:38:20.200
 going to

00:38:20.200 --> 00:38:20.740
 work.

00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:21.580
 Here's

00:38:21.580 --> 00:38:21.820
 what I'm

00:38:21.820 --> 00:38:21.920
 going to

00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:22.080
 make

00:38:22.080 --> 00:38:22.600
 known.

00:38:23.080 --> 00:38:23.580
 And in

00:38:23.580 --> 00:38:24.040
 this

00:38:24.040 --> 00:38:24.660
 you

00:38:24.660 --> 00:38:24.900
 get

00:38:24.900 --> 00:38:25.180
 to

00:38:25.180 --> 00:38:26.280
 participate

00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:27.380
 in it.

00:38:28.220 --> 00:38:28.560
 Now I

00:38:28.560 --> 00:38:28.880
 went to a

00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:29.460
 Carolina football

00:38:29.460 --> 00:38:30.120
 game last

00:38:30.120 --> 00:38:30.420
 night and

00:38:30.420 --> 00:38:30.600
 we don't

00:38:30.600 --> 00:38:30.880
 have to

00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:31.480
 really talk

00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:31.760
 about how

00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:32.120
 that game

00:38:32.120 --> 00:38:32.620
 turned out

00:38:32.620 --> 00:38:34.020
 but I'm

00:38:34.020 --> 00:38:34.520
 used to it

00:38:34.520 --> 00:38:35.000
 by now.

00:38:35.340 --> 00:38:35.540
 All right?

00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:37.100
 Been 42

00:38:37.100 --> 00:38:37.720
 years of

00:38:37.720 --> 00:38:38.080
 suffering.

00:38:38.700 --> 00:38:38.860
 All right?

00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:40.560
 Even when we

00:38:40.560 --> 00:38:41.100
 were good we

00:38:41.100 --> 00:38:41.520
 weren't good

00:38:41.520 --> 00:38:41.880
 enough.

00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:42.220
 All right?

00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:43.380
 It's the

00:38:43.380 --> 00:38:43.780
 gospel.

00:38:44.160 --> 00:38:44.360
 All right.

00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:47.220
 We were in

00:38:47.220 --> 00:38:47.740
 the stands

00:38:47.740 --> 00:38:49.980
 and me

00:38:49.980 --> 00:38:50.440
 and Grayson

00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:50.900
 were those

00:38:50.900 --> 00:38:51.620
 obnoxious

00:38:51.620 --> 00:38:52.540
 fans come

00:38:52.540 --> 00:38:52.960
 up on the

00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:53.600
 thing make

00:38:53.600 --> 00:38:54.300
 some noise

00:38:54.300 --> 00:38:55.640
 and we'd

00:38:55.640 --> 00:38:56.100
 lean over

00:38:56.100 --> 00:38:56.460
 and hit the

00:38:56.460 --> 00:38:57.020
 metal bleachers

00:38:57.020 --> 00:38:57.480
 as hard as

00:38:57.480 --> 00:38:57.840
 we could in

00:38:57.840 --> 00:38:58.300
 front of us

00:38:58.300 --> 00:38:59.500
 and my

00:38:59.500 --> 00:38:59.840
 wife and

00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:00.160
 daughter would

00:39:00.160 --> 00:39:00.420
 look down

00:39:00.420 --> 00:39:00.720
 at us like

00:39:00.720 --> 00:39:01.040
 really?

00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:01.620
 Yeah.

00:39:03.900 --> 00:39:04.460
 We're that

00:39:04.460 --> 00:39:04.860
 guy right?

00:39:05.720 --> 00:39:05.900
 Yeah.

00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:08.240
 In a

00:39:08.240 --> 00:39:09.200
 slight glimmer

00:39:09.200 --> 00:39:09.660
 that we can

00:39:09.660 --> 00:39:10.220
 get like three

00:39:10.220 --> 00:39:10.880
 turnovers in

00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:11.480
 three seconds

00:39:11.480 --> 00:39:11.660
 right?

00:39:11.720 --> 00:39:12.080
 We stay to

00:39:12.080 --> 00:39:12.420
 the end

00:39:12.420 --> 00:39:12.820
 you know?

00:39:13.540 --> 00:39:14.080
 Just in

00:39:14.080 --> 00:39:14.700
 that hope

00:39:14.700 --> 00:39:15.100
 right?

00:39:15.520 --> 00:39:16.040
 In that

00:39:16.040 --> 00:39:16.340
 moment.

00:39:18.460 --> 00:39:19.120
 And sometimes

00:39:19.120 --> 00:39:19.860
 we think that

00:39:19.860 --> 00:39:20.180
 that's what

00:39:20.180 --> 00:39:20.600
 the gospel

00:39:20.600 --> 00:39:20.960
 is.

00:39:22.520 --> 00:39:23.080
 We just

00:39:23.080 --> 00:39:23.540
 stand on the

00:39:23.540 --> 00:39:24.200
 sidelines and

00:39:24.200 --> 00:39:24.760
 cheer for what

00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:25.220
 God's doing.

00:39:26.560 --> 00:39:27.100
 And that

00:39:27.100 --> 00:39:27.480
 ain't it.

00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:29.240
 That ain't

00:39:29.240 --> 00:39:29.440
 it.

00:39:30.780 --> 00:39:31.360
 Participating in

00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:32.360
 the gospel is

00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:33.040
 not about standing

00:39:33.040 --> 00:39:33.920
 on the sidelines

00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:34.480
 and always saying

00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:35.080
 yeah God

00:39:35.080 --> 00:39:35.660
 yeah God

00:39:35.660 --> 00:39:36.160
 yeah God

00:39:36.160 --> 00:39:36.780
 you go do it

00:39:36.780 --> 00:39:37.220
 all right?

00:39:38.620 --> 00:39:39.200
 Participating is

00:39:39.200 --> 00:39:39.580
 getting in the

00:39:39.580 --> 00:39:39.840
 game.

00:39:41.060 --> 00:39:41.540
 Getting in the

00:39:41.540 --> 00:39:41.740
 game.

00:39:42.540 --> 00:39:43.020
 And when you

00:39:43.020 --> 00:39:43.380
 get in the

00:39:43.380 --> 00:39:44.700
 game you get

00:39:44.700 --> 00:39:45.300
 bruises and

00:39:45.300 --> 00:39:46.040
 you get cuts

00:39:46.040 --> 00:39:46.500
 and you get

00:39:46.500 --> 00:39:47.160
 bloody and it's

00:39:47.160 --> 00:39:47.560
 hard.

00:39:48.240 --> 00:39:48.800
 When you get

00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:49.360
 in the game

00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:50.520
 it's a battle

00:39:50.520 --> 00:39:51.800
 it's pressing

00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:52.780
 but what is

00:39:52.780 --> 00:39:55.100
 beautiful is

00:39:55.100 --> 00:39:55.920
 your teammate

00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:57.620
 is the one

00:39:57.620 --> 00:39:57.940
 who never

00:39:57.940 --> 00:39:58.320
 fails.

00:39:59.220 --> 00:39:59.840
 Your teammate

00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:00.800
 is the one

00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:01.160
 that crosses

00:40:01.160 --> 00:40:01.640
 the finish

00:40:01.640 --> 00:40:01.920
 line.

00:40:02.420 --> 00:40:02.980
 Your teammate

00:40:02.980 --> 00:40:03.880
 is the one

00:40:03.880 --> 00:40:04.820
 who does it

00:40:04.820 --> 00:40:05.300
 all and who

00:40:05.300 --> 00:40:05.980
 gets all the

00:40:05.980 --> 00:40:07.020
 glory and the

00:40:07.020 --> 00:40:08.200
 beauty of it

00:40:08.200 --> 00:40:09.720
 is he says

00:40:09.720 --> 00:40:11.240
 come do this

00:40:11.240 --> 00:40:11.780
 with me.

00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:12.440
 Right?

00:40:13.120 --> 00:40:13.640
 Come do this

00:40:13.640 --> 00:40:13.980
 with me.

00:40:14.940 --> 00:40:15.480
 And so what

00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:16.080
 we see is

00:40:16.080 --> 00:40:16.560
 God saves

00:40:16.560 --> 00:40:17.060
 people you

00:40:17.060 --> 00:40:17.380
 and I

00:40:17.380 --> 00:40:18.120
 don't but

00:40:18.120 --> 00:40:18.360
 we can

00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:18.780
 participate

00:40:18.780 --> 00:40:19.200
 with him.

00:40:19.720 --> 00:40:20.100
 What I

00:40:20.100 --> 00:40:20.580
 love about

00:40:20.580 --> 00:40:21.580
 this story

00:40:21.580 --> 00:40:22.860
 is God

00:40:22.860 --> 00:40:24.020
 provided the

00:40:24.020 --> 00:40:24.340
 word.

00:40:25.160 --> 00:40:25.760
 When Philip

00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:26.400
 walks up

00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:27.360
 he's reading

00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:28.200
 out of

00:40:28.200 --> 00:40:28.700
 Isaiah

00:40:28.700 --> 00:40:29.500
 but God

00:40:29.500 --> 00:40:30.060
 says hey

00:40:30.060 --> 00:40:30.420
 Philip I'm

00:40:30.420 --> 00:40:30.500
 going to

00:40:30.500 --> 00:40:30.960
 provide the

00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:31.200
 word.

00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:31.540
 I'm going to

00:40:31.540 --> 00:40:32.280
 provide the

00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:32.540
 setting.

00:40:32.640 --> 00:40:32.760
 I'm going to

00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:33.060
 provide all

00:40:33.060 --> 00:40:33.440
 these things

00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:34.000
 but here's what

00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:34.120
 I'm going to

00:40:34.120 --> 00:40:34.380
 give you to

00:40:34.380 --> 00:40:34.580
 brother.

00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:35.500
 Go be the

00:40:35.500 --> 00:40:35.960
 messenger in

00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:36.360
 that moment.

00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:37.840
 Well who is

00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:38.780
 this lamb?

00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:41.580
 Let me tell

00:40:41.580 --> 00:40:41.820
 you about

00:40:41.820 --> 00:40:42.020
 this.

00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:42.840
 Jesus.

00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:44.360
 God

00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:45.440
 provided the

00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:46.360
 person.

00:40:47.580 --> 00:40:48.060
 Philip just

00:40:48.060 --> 00:40:48.740
 simply told

00:40:48.740 --> 00:40:49.060
 him who

00:40:49.060 --> 00:40:49.820
 Jesus was.

00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:50.820
 Look at

00:40:50.820 --> 00:40:51.660
 verse 34

00:40:51.660 --> 00:40:52.320
 and 35.

00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:56.120
 And the

00:40:56.120 --> 00:40:56.480
 eunuch

00:40:56.480 --> 00:40:57.640
 said to

00:40:57.640 --> 00:40:57.980
 Philip

00:40:57.980 --> 00:40:59.940
 about whom

00:40:59.940 --> 00:41:00.700
 I ask you

00:41:00.700 --> 00:41:01.140
 does the

00:41:01.140 --> 00:41:01.920
 prophet say

00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:02.480
 this about

00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:03.820
 himself

00:41:03.820 --> 00:41:05.500
 or someone

00:41:05.500 --> 00:41:05.920
 else?

00:41:07.180 --> 00:41:07.680
 In verse

00:41:07.680 --> 00:41:08.480
 35 then

00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:09.160
 Philip opened

00:41:09.160 --> 00:41:09.880
 his mouth

00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:11.300
 beginning with

00:41:11.300 --> 00:41:11.920
 this scripture

00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:13.160
 he told him

00:41:13.160 --> 00:41:13.600
 the good

00:41:13.600 --> 00:41:14.700
 news about

00:41:14.700 --> 00:41:15.080
 Jesus.

00:41:16.700 --> 00:41:17.620
 He provided

00:41:17.620 --> 00:41:17.940
 it.

00:41:19.580 --> 00:41:19.880
 In these

00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:20.100
 moments

00:41:20.100 --> 00:41:20.560
 here's

00:41:20.560 --> 00:41:22.200
 where I fail

00:41:22.200 --> 00:41:22.560
 so many

00:41:22.560 --> 00:41:22.860
 times.

00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:25.800
 I answer

00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:26.600
 the question

00:41:26.600 --> 00:41:28.600
 but I

00:41:28.600 --> 00:41:29.060
 don't dive

00:41:29.060 --> 00:41:29.460
 into the

00:41:29.460 --> 00:41:29.780
 gospel.

00:41:32.180 --> 00:41:32.660
 Philip

00:41:32.660 --> 00:41:32.880
 could have

00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:33.180
 just said

00:41:33.180 --> 00:41:33.620
 man it's

00:41:33.620 --> 00:41:33.980
 Jesus

00:41:33.980 --> 00:41:34.420
 catch you

00:41:34.420 --> 00:41:34.800
 later man

00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:35.000
 I know

00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:35.200
 you're on

00:41:35.200 --> 00:41:35.440
 a journey

00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:35.700
 right?

00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:37.040
 But it

00:41:37.040 --> 00:41:37.800
 says he's

00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:38.360
 in the

00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:38.700
 chariot

00:41:38.700 --> 00:41:39.240
 he's

00:41:39.240 --> 00:41:39.840
 in his

00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:40.160
 life

00:41:40.160 --> 00:41:40.660
 he's

00:41:40.660 --> 00:41:40.900
 going

00:41:40.900 --> 00:41:41.300
 wherever

00:41:41.300 --> 00:41:41.980
 he's

00:41:41.980 --> 00:41:42.160
 going

00:41:42.160 --> 00:41:42.360
 he's

00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:42.620
 doing

00:41:42.620 --> 00:41:43.120
 whatever

00:41:43.120 --> 00:41:43.640
 he's

00:41:43.640 --> 00:41:43.900
 doing

00:41:43.900 --> 00:41:44.380
 that are

00:41:44.380 --> 00:41:44.620
 on the

00:41:44.620 --> 00:41:44.900
 journey

00:41:44.900 --> 00:41:45.640
 it doesn't

00:41:45.640 --> 00:41:46.220
 matter

00:41:46.220 --> 00:41:47.480
 and he

00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:47.900
 begins to

00:41:47.900 --> 00:41:48.280
 share with

00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:48.440
 him.

00:41:49.540 --> 00:41:49.780
 And then

00:41:49.780 --> 00:41:50.600
 I love

00:41:50.600 --> 00:41:50.920
 this

00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:51.480
 I love

00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:51.820
 this

00:41:51.820 --> 00:41:53.320
 participating

00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:53.760
 with God

00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:54.320
 God provided

00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:54.740
 the water

00:41:54.740 --> 00:41:56.100
 God provided

00:41:56.100 --> 00:41:56.520
 the water

00:41:56.520 --> 00:41:57.720
 What road

00:41:57.720 --> 00:41:58.160
 are they on?

00:41:58.460 --> 00:41:59.140
 The desert

00:41:59.140 --> 00:41:59.440
 road.

00:41:59.980 --> 00:42:00.480
 What makes

00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:00.820
 a desert

00:42:00.820 --> 00:42:01.320
 a desert?

00:42:01.600 --> 00:42:01.960
 Lack of

00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:02.260
 water

00:42:02.260 --> 00:42:02.840
 right?

00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:04.500
 And God

00:42:04.500 --> 00:42:05.020
 provided the

00:42:05.020 --> 00:42:05.260
 water.

00:42:05.380 --> 00:42:05.740
 He provided

00:42:05.740 --> 00:42:06.240
 the person

00:42:06.240 --> 00:42:06.720
 he provided

00:42:06.720 --> 00:42:07.240
 the means

00:42:07.240 --> 00:42:07.500
 of his

00:42:07.500 --> 00:42:08.360
 salvation

00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:08.880
 and the

00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:09.320
 working of

00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:09.800
 the spirit

00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:10.800
 God saves

00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:11.040
 him and

00:42:11.040 --> 00:42:11.520
 then God

00:42:11.520 --> 00:42:12.240
 provided the

00:42:12.240 --> 00:42:13.020
 water and

00:42:13.020 --> 00:42:14.320
 Philip simply

00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:15.320
 went and

00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:16.000
 baptized him.

00:42:16.200 --> 00:42:16.820
 Church I want

00:42:16.820 --> 00:42:17.280
 you to hear

00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:17.660
 this.

00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:19.080
 Please hear

00:42:19.080 --> 00:42:19.440
 this.

00:42:20.200 --> 00:42:20.760
 It doesn't

00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:21.060
 take a

00:42:21.060 --> 00:42:21.780
 pastor to do

00:42:21.780 --> 00:42:22.100
 this.

00:42:22.260 --> 00:42:22.780
 It takes a

00:42:22.780 --> 00:42:23.260
 follower of

00:42:23.260 --> 00:42:23.740
 Christ who's

00:42:23.740 --> 00:42:24.180
 willing to say

00:42:24.180 --> 00:42:24.480
 yes.

00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:25.940
 And Philip

00:42:25.940 --> 00:42:26.460
 doesn't say

00:42:26.460 --> 00:42:27.100
 no no no

00:42:27.100 --> 00:42:27.660
 now let's

00:42:27.660 --> 00:42:28.060
 wait a minute

00:42:28.060 --> 00:42:31.160
 we gotta wait

00:42:31.160 --> 00:42:31.800
 and hopefully

00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:32.300
 an angel

00:42:32.300 --> 00:42:33.140
 will appear

00:42:33.140 --> 00:42:33.440
 to one

00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:33.600
 of the

00:42:33.600 --> 00:42:34.000
 apostles

00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:34.620
 and then

00:42:34.620 --> 00:42:34.820
 they'll

00:42:34.820 --> 00:42:35.140
 come out

00:42:35.140 --> 00:42:35.860
 here too

00:42:35.860 --> 00:42:36.100
 and we

00:42:36.100 --> 00:42:36.380
 can kind

00:42:36.380 --> 00:42:36.760
 of wait

00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:37.160
 we can

00:42:37.160 --> 00:42:37.500
 see we

00:42:37.500 --> 00:42:37.760
 can get

00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:37.900
 this

00:42:37.900 --> 00:42:38.240
 scheduled

00:42:38.240 --> 00:42:38.520
 and we

00:42:38.520 --> 00:42:38.740
 can get

00:42:38.740 --> 00:42:39.080
 this taken

00:42:39.080 --> 00:42:39.480
 care of.

00:42:39.700 --> 00:42:40.100
 Now Philip

00:42:40.100 --> 00:42:40.720
 says now

00:42:40.720 --> 00:42:41.340
 let's get

00:42:41.340 --> 00:42:41.840
 dirty let's

00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:42.140
 get down

00:42:42.140 --> 00:42:42.540
 into this

00:42:42.540 --> 00:42:42.740
 and so

00:42:42.740 --> 00:42:43.380
 they walk

00:42:43.380 --> 00:42:44.660
 down into

00:42:44.660 --> 00:42:45.440
 the water

00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:46.020
 and he

00:42:46.020 --> 00:42:46.780
 baptizes

00:42:46.780 --> 00:42:47.000
 him.

00:42:48.340 --> 00:42:48.660
 And then

00:42:48.660 --> 00:42:49.180
 largely the

00:42:49.180 --> 00:42:49.560
 story of

00:42:49.560 --> 00:42:49.820
 Philip's

00:42:49.820 --> 00:42:50.020
 done.

00:42:51.020 --> 00:42:51.460
 We see him

00:42:51.460 --> 00:42:51.760
 again in

00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:52.180
 Acts chapter

00:42:52.180 --> 00:42:53.040
 21 when

00:42:53.040 --> 00:42:53.960
 he's visited

00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:54.460
 by Paul.

00:42:55.600 --> 00:42:56.200
 But here

00:42:56.200 --> 00:42:56.500
 in this

00:42:56.500 --> 00:42:57.300
 moment is

00:42:57.300 --> 00:42:58.760
 the high

00:42:58.760 --> 00:42:59.560
 emphasis

00:42:59.560 --> 00:43:00.960
 of importance

00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:01.460
 that we

00:43:01.460 --> 00:43:03.360
 see as

00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:03.960
 he seeks

00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:04.840
 to be

00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:06.000
 obedient and

00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:06.400
 to be led

00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:06.680
 by the

00:43:06.680 --> 00:43:07.000
 spirit.

00:43:08.040 --> 00:43:08.460
 What's your

00:43:08.460 --> 00:43:08.940
 responsibility

00:43:08.940 --> 00:43:09.440
 in baptism?

00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:10.860
 Take off

00:43:10.860 --> 00:43:11.280
 your title.

00:43:12.100 --> 00:43:12.460
 What's

00:43:12.460 --> 00:43:12.660
 my

00:43:12.660 --> 00:43:13.380
 responsibility?

00:43:14.120 --> 00:43:14.280
 Let me

00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:14.460
 ask you

00:43:14.460 --> 00:43:14.720
 this.

00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:16.480
 In all

00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:16.800
 that you

00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:17.220
 do are

00:43:17.220 --> 00:43:17.620
 you being

00:43:17.620 --> 00:43:18.080
 led by

00:43:18.080 --> 00:43:18.340
 the Holy

00:43:18.340 --> 00:43:18.620
 Spirit?

00:43:19.680 --> 00:43:20.220
 Are you

00:43:20.220 --> 00:43:20.740
 looking for

00:43:20.740 --> 00:43:21.580
 opportunities

00:43:21.580 --> 00:43:23.300
 of obedience

00:43:23.300 --> 00:43:24.480
 especially in

00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:24.860
 the difficult

00:43:24.860 --> 00:43:25.240
 ones?

00:43:26.100 --> 00:43:26.400
 And then

00:43:26.400 --> 00:43:26.640
 where is

00:43:26.640 --> 00:43:26.940
 he taking

00:43:26.940 --> 00:43:27.200
 you?

00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:28.520
 Who's

00:43:28.520 --> 00:43:29.040
 determining

00:43:29.040 --> 00:43:30.020
 your schedule

00:43:30.020 --> 00:43:30.540
 every single

00:43:30.540 --> 00:43:30.780
 day?

00:43:31.380 --> 00:43:31.840
 Are you

00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:32.420
 trusting in

00:43:32.420 --> 00:43:32.780
 God's

00:43:32.780 --> 00:43:33.140
 timing?

00:43:34.200 --> 00:43:34.560
 Admitting

00:43:34.560 --> 00:43:35.020
 that he

00:43:35.020 --> 00:43:36.400
 knows best

00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:37.100
 and not

00:43:37.100 --> 00:43:37.300
 you?

00:43:38.140 --> 00:43:38.520
 Who

00:43:38.520 --> 00:43:38.900
 has God

00:43:38.900 --> 00:43:39.220
 given

00:43:39.220 --> 00:43:39.500
 you?

00:43:40.240 --> 00:43:40.500
 Who

00:43:40.500 --> 00:43:40.840
 has God

00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:41.120
 given

00:43:41.120 --> 00:43:41.400
 you?

00:43:41.940 --> 00:43:42.300
 Who

00:43:42.300 --> 00:43:42.520
 is

00:43:42.520 --> 00:43:42.740
 that

00:43:42.740 --> 00:43:43.260
 thorn

00:43:43.260 --> 00:43:43.760
 in the

00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:44.220
 flesh

00:43:44.220 --> 00:43:44.600
 the

00:43:44.600 --> 00:43:45.140
 pain

00:43:45.140 --> 00:43:45.520
 the

00:43:45.520 --> 00:43:46.060
 depth

00:43:46.060 --> 00:43:46.220
 of

00:43:46.220 --> 00:43:46.400
 the

00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:46.720
 lost

00:43:46.720 --> 00:43:47.140
 person

00:43:47.140 --> 00:43:47.380
 that

00:43:47.380 --> 00:43:47.740
 you

00:43:47.740 --> 00:43:48.160
 know

00:43:48.160 --> 00:43:48.520
 and

00:43:48.520 --> 00:43:48.700
 you're

00:43:48.700 --> 00:43:48.920
 saying

00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:49.500
 no no no

00:43:49.500 --> 00:43:50.680
 you don't

00:43:50.680 --> 00:43:51.620
 know them

00:43:51.620 --> 00:43:52.780
 if you knew

00:43:52.780 --> 00:43:53.960
 them you would

00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:54.860
 know there's no

00:43:54.860 --> 00:43:55.780
 way God

00:43:55.780 --> 00:43:56.420
 would save

00:43:56.420 --> 00:43:56.820
 them.

00:43:57.180 --> 00:43:57.620
 Well can I tell you

00:43:57.620 --> 00:43:58.460
 before I got

00:43:58.460 --> 00:43:58.860
 saved

00:43:58.860 --> 00:44:02.040
 somebody said

00:44:02.040 --> 00:44:02.380
 do you know

00:44:02.380 --> 00:44:02.640
 him?

00:44:04.100 --> 00:44:05.000
 And more than

00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:05.640
 likely there's a

00:44:05.640 --> 00:44:06.300
 whole group of

00:44:06.300 --> 00:44:06.820
 us in here

00:44:06.820 --> 00:44:08.460
 that before you

00:44:08.460 --> 00:44:08.960
 got saved

00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:09.280
 somebody went

00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:10.360
 oh no

00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:12.460
 not him

00:44:12.460 --> 00:44:14.100
 and maybe

00:44:14.100 --> 00:44:14.880
 even after

00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:16.240
 are you

00:44:16.240 --> 00:44:16.560
 sure?

00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:17.600
 Right?

00:44:18.580 --> 00:44:19.160
 Who has God

00:44:19.160 --> 00:44:19.660
 given you?

00:44:20.980 --> 00:44:21.480
 But be the

00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:21.840
 messenger

00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:23.680
 share

00:44:23.680 --> 00:44:25.660
 study God's

00:44:25.660 --> 00:44:25.980
 word

00:44:25.980 --> 00:44:27.360
 give the

00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:27.700
 answer

00:44:27.700 --> 00:44:28.780
 and then here's

00:44:28.780 --> 00:44:29.160
 what I want to

00:44:29.160 --> 00:44:29.620
 challenge you

00:44:29.620 --> 00:44:29.860
 with

00:44:29.860 --> 00:44:30.400
 here's what I

00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:30.500
 want to

00:44:30.500 --> 00:44:31.080
 impress on your

00:44:31.080 --> 00:44:31.380
 heart

00:44:31.380 --> 00:44:31.900
 here's what I

00:44:31.900 --> 00:44:32.180
 want to lay

00:44:32.180 --> 00:44:32.360
 there

00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:33.320
 be the one

00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:34.080
 that baptizes

00:44:34.080 --> 00:44:35.440
 be the one

00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:36.100
 that baptizes

00:44:36.100 --> 00:44:37.980
 baptism is

00:44:37.980 --> 00:44:38.420
 not

00:44:38.420 --> 00:44:39.800
 it is

00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:40.360
 ordained

00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:40.620
 it is

00:44:40.620 --> 00:44:41.140
 called

00:44:41.140 --> 00:44:41.380
 it's what

00:44:41.380 --> 00:44:42.180
 the church

00:44:42.180 --> 00:44:43.380
 does

00:44:43.380 --> 00:44:45.640
 not just

00:44:45.640 --> 00:44:45.960
 by the

00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:46.380
 pastors

00:44:46.380 --> 00:44:47.920
 and so as

00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:48.360
 I'm talking

00:44:48.360 --> 00:44:48.980
 to someone

00:44:48.980 --> 00:44:50.500
 I'm asking

00:44:50.500 --> 00:44:50.940
 them

00:44:50.940 --> 00:44:52.100
 I mean

00:44:52.100 --> 00:44:52.460
 who shared

00:44:52.460 --> 00:44:52.920
 the gospel

00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:53.560
 with you?

00:44:53.680 --> 00:44:54.000
 Who's the

00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:54.240
 greatest

00:44:54.240 --> 00:44:54.840
 influencer

00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:55.540
 in your

00:44:55.540 --> 00:44:55.800
 life?

00:44:55.860 --> 00:44:56.180
 Who's the

00:44:56.180 --> 00:44:56.540
 one that

00:44:56.540 --> 00:44:57.100
 are bringing

00:44:57.100 --> 00:44:57.620
 you alongside?

00:44:58.020 --> 00:44:58.340
 Who's

00:44:58.340 --> 00:44:59.260
 discipling

00:44:59.260 --> 00:44:59.440
 you?

00:44:59.680 --> 00:44:59.900
 And what

00:44:59.900 --> 00:45:00.140
 I would

00:45:00.140 --> 00:45:00.580
 love to

00:45:00.580 --> 00:45:00.820
 see

00:45:00.820 --> 00:45:01.740
 what flips

00:45:01.740 --> 00:45:02.060
 this

00:45:02.060 --> 00:45:02.620
 country

00:45:02.620 --> 00:45:03.140
 what flips

00:45:03.140 --> 00:45:03.820
 this world

00:45:03.820 --> 00:45:04.300
 what flips

00:45:04.300 --> 00:45:05.080
 this community

00:45:05.080 --> 00:45:06.060
 upside down

00:45:06.060 --> 00:45:06.500
 is that when

00:45:06.500 --> 00:45:07.040
 men and

00:45:07.040 --> 00:45:07.460
 women are

00:45:07.460 --> 00:45:08.340
 investing in

00:45:08.340 --> 00:45:08.900
 the unlikely

00:45:08.900 --> 00:45:09.520
 sharing the

00:45:09.520 --> 00:45:10.060
 gospel with

00:45:10.060 --> 00:45:10.580
 them and

00:45:10.580 --> 00:45:10.860
 they're the

00:45:10.860 --> 00:45:11.140
 ones that

00:45:11.140 --> 00:45:11.400
 are seeing

00:45:11.400 --> 00:45:11.680
 through the

00:45:11.680 --> 00:45:12.120
 power of

00:45:12.120 --> 00:45:12.380
 the Holy

00:45:12.380 --> 00:45:12.860
 Spirit of

00:45:12.860 --> 00:45:13.200
 what God

00:45:13.200 --> 00:45:13.560
 is doing

00:45:13.560 --> 00:45:14.120
 and turning

00:45:14.120 --> 00:45:14.620
 their lives

00:45:14.620 --> 00:45:15.300
 upside down

00:45:15.300 --> 00:45:15.840
 and taking

00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:16.720
 those unlikelies

00:45:16.720 --> 00:45:17.080
 and making

00:45:17.080 --> 00:45:17.380
 them the

00:45:17.380 --> 00:45:17.980
 saved saints

00:45:17.980 --> 00:45:18.420
 that God's

00:45:18.420 --> 00:45:18.780
 going to use

00:45:18.780 --> 00:45:19.400
 to empower

00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:19.820
 the kingdom

00:45:19.820 --> 00:45:20.520
 and then it's

00:45:20.520 --> 00:45:21.120
 not the

00:45:21.120 --> 00:45:21.480
 bows

00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:21.860
 it's not

00:45:21.860 --> 00:45:22.500
 the pastors

00:45:22.500 --> 00:45:22.960
 it's not

00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:23.560
 the leadership

00:45:23.560 --> 00:45:23.940
 that's

00:45:23.940 --> 00:45:24.460
 baptizing

00:45:24.460 --> 00:45:24.980
 but it's

00:45:24.980 --> 00:45:25.440
 the men

00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:25.820
 and women

00:45:25.820 --> 00:45:26.140
 who are

00:45:26.140 --> 00:45:26.560
 boldly

00:45:26.560 --> 00:45:27.020
 sharing their

00:45:27.020 --> 00:45:27.300
 faith

00:45:27.300 --> 00:45:28.000
 living through

00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:28.460
 the power

00:45:28.460 --> 00:45:28.720
 of the

00:45:28.720 --> 00:45:29.040
 gospel

00:45:29.040 --> 00:45:29.760
 it's the

00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:30.220
 Philips

00:45:30.220 --> 00:45:32.320
 it's the

00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:32.780
 Philips

00:45:32.780 --> 00:45:34.800
 that are

00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:35.240
 out there

00:45:35.240 --> 00:45:36.820
 and it's

00:45:36.820 --> 00:45:37.460
 the Philips

00:45:37.460 --> 00:45:38.680
 that are

00:45:38.680 --> 00:45:39.180
 baptizing

00:45:39.180 --> 00:45:40.400
 let's pray

00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:44.060
 Lord I thank

00:45:44.060 --> 00:45:44.400
 you for the

00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:44.780
 life of

00:45:44.780 --> 00:45:45.040
 Philip

00:45:45.040 --> 00:45:47.620
 Lord I thank

00:45:47.620 --> 00:45:48.020
 you for who

00:45:48.020 --> 00:45:48.520
 he was

00:45:48.520 --> 00:45:48.880
 and what he

00:45:48.880 --> 00:45:49.180
 did

00:45:49.180 --> 00:45:51.720
 Lord I thank

00:45:51.720 --> 00:45:51.960
 you that

00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:52.780
 sitting here

00:45:52.780 --> 00:45:53.260
 in this

00:45:53.260 --> 00:45:53.980
 room

00:45:53.980 --> 00:45:59.020
 Lord there

00:45:59.020 --> 00:45:59.360
 are so

00:45:59.360 --> 00:45:59.980
 many men

00:45:59.980 --> 00:46:00.540
 and women

00:46:00.540 --> 00:46:04.900
 who are

00:46:04.900 --> 00:46:05.340
 Philips

00:46:05.340 --> 00:46:08.480
 they love

00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:09.260
 you Lord

00:46:09.260 --> 00:46:13.760
 they desire

00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:14.260
 your will

00:46:14.260 --> 00:46:14.620
 for their

00:46:14.620 --> 00:46:15.120
 life

00:46:15.120 --> 00:46:18.120
 Lord would

00:46:18.120 --> 00:46:18.420
 you just

00:46:18.420 --> 00:46:18.820
 help us

00:46:18.820 --> 00:46:21.080
 to open

00:46:21.080 --> 00:46:21.600
 our ears

00:46:21.600 --> 00:46:22.160
 to hear

00:46:22.160 --> 00:46:24.320
 open our

00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:24.740
 eyes

00:46:24.740 --> 00:46:25.280
 to see

00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:28.280
 Lord bring

00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:30.720
 bring our

00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:31.520
 unlikely to

00:46:31.520 --> 00:46:31.960
 us

00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:33.440
 Lord may

00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:34.140
 we pray

00:46:34.140 --> 00:46:34.700
 for them

00:46:34.700 --> 00:46:36.080
 that they

00:46:36.080 --> 00:46:36.420
 would know

00:46:36.420 --> 00:46:36.700
 you

00:46:36.700 --> 00:46:38.100
 Lord may

00:46:38.100 --> 00:46:38.780
 we share

00:46:38.780 --> 00:46:39.380
 with them

00:46:39.380 --> 00:46:40.460
 so that they

00:46:40.460 --> 00:46:41.040
 could know

00:46:41.040 --> 00:46:42.300
 Lord may

00:46:42.300 --> 00:46:42.800
 we be willing

00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:43.160
 to be

00:46:43.160 --> 00:46:44.280
 inconvenienced

00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:45.220
 Lord may

00:46:45.220 --> 00:46:45.640
 we be willing

00:46:45.640 --> 00:46:46.640
 to be bold

00:46:46.640 --> 00:46:49.360
 Lord would

00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:49.920
 we be willing

00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:50.100
 to

00:46:50.100 --> 00:46:53.400
 to stop

00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:53.760
 being the

00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:54.080
 people

00:46:54.080 --> 00:46:56.540
 that sit

00:46:56.540 --> 00:46:56.760
 in the

00:46:56.760 --> 00:46:57.280
 nosebleed

00:46:57.280 --> 00:46:57.700
 section

00:46:57.700 --> 00:46:58.140
 and

00:46:58.140 --> 00:47:00.360
 bang on

00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:01.080
 the bleachers

00:47:01.080 --> 00:47:04.760
 and watching

00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:05.300
 everybody

00:47:05.300 --> 00:47:06.400
 do the

00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:06.760
 work

00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:09.220
 but Lord

00:47:09.220 --> 00:47:09.580
 may we be

00:47:09.580 --> 00:47:10.200
 the ones

00:47:10.200 --> 00:47:12.160
 that get

00:47:12.160 --> 00:47:12.540
 off

00:47:12.540 --> 00:47:14.240
 and go

00:47:14.240 --> 00:47:14.460
 and get

00:47:14.460 --> 00:47:14.920
 the game

00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:14.920
 the game

00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:17.800
 game's

00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:18.300
 hard

00:47:18.300 --> 00:47:20.200
 game's

00:47:20.200 --> 00:47:20.700
 tough

00:47:20.700 --> 00:47:23.460
 we don't

00:47:23.460 --> 00:47:23.880
 always feel

00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:24.200
 like we're

00:47:24.200 --> 00:47:24.500
 winning

00:47:24.500 --> 00:47:28.220
 but Lord

00:47:28.220 --> 00:47:28.520
 we know

00:47:28.520 --> 00:47:28.780
 that you

00:47:28.780 --> 00:47:29.120
 win

00:47:29.120 --> 00:47:32.360
 so Lord

00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:32.720
 I thank

00:47:32.720 --> 00:47:32.960
 you

00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:34.820
 that all

00:47:34.820 --> 00:47:35.480
 you take

00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:37.180
 is unlikely

00:47:37.180 --> 00:47:37.660
 people

00:47:37.660 --> 00:47:38.120
 and save

00:47:38.120 --> 00:47:38.320
 them

00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:40.620
 that all

00:47:40.620 --> 00:47:41.360
 you take

00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:42.620
 is unlikely

00:47:42.620 --> 00:47:43.120
 people

00:47:43.120 --> 00:47:43.980
 and use

00:47:43.980 --> 00:47:44.280
 them

00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:47.240
 you're

00:47:47.240 --> 00:47:47.460
 taking

00:47:47.460 --> 00:47:47.780
 old

00:47:47.780 --> 00:47:48.200
 things

00:47:48.200 --> 00:47:51.140
 making

00:47:51.140 --> 00:47:51.340
 them

00:47:51.340 --> 00:47:51.600
 new

00:47:51.600 --> 00:47:54.120
 you're

00:47:54.120 --> 00:47:54.640
 redeeming

00:47:54.640 --> 00:47:54.820
 our

00:47:54.820 --> 00:47:55.520
 past

00:47:55.520 --> 00:47:55.820
 and our

00:47:55.820 --> 00:47:56.220
 failures

00:47:56.220 --> 00:47:58.140
 so that

00:47:58.140 --> 00:47:59.260
 people may

00:47:59.260 --> 00:47:59.760
 know what

00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:00.140
 we've

00:48:00.140 --> 00:48:00.520
 done

00:48:00.520 --> 00:48:02.260
 but that

00:48:02.260 --> 00:48:02.880
 just gives

00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:03.440
 us Lord

00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:04.340
 a springboard

00:48:04.340 --> 00:48:06.060
 to be able

00:48:06.060 --> 00:48:06.420
 to share

00:48:06.420 --> 00:48:06.860
 with them

00:48:06.860 --> 00:48:07.240
 what you're

00:48:07.240 --> 00:48:07.560
 doing

00:48:07.560 --> 00:48:09.920
 I know

00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:10.340
 that's who

00:48:10.340 --> 00:48:10.920
 I was

00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:11.360
 but now

00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:11.880
 this is who

00:48:11.880 --> 00:48:12.340
 I am

00:48:12.340 --> 00:48:12.920
 in Christ

00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:14.760
 I know

00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:15.160
 that's what

00:48:15.160 --> 00:48:15.660
 I did

00:48:15.660 --> 00:48:16.060
 but this

00:48:16.060 --> 00:48:16.380
 is how

00:48:16.380 --> 00:48:17.020
 I've been

00:48:17.020 --> 00:48:17.500
 saved

00:48:17.500 --> 00:48:17.960
 this is how

00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:18.220
 I've been

00:48:18.220 --> 00:48:18.800
 redeemed

00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:19.440
 this is how

00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:19.760
 I've been

00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:20.200
 forgiven

00:48:20.200 --> 00:48:22.000
 I know

00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:22.340
 that's who

00:48:22.340 --> 00:48:22.800
 my identity

00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:23.380
 was

00:48:23.380 --> 00:48:23.740
 but this

00:48:23.740 --> 00:48:24.040
 is my

00:48:24.040 --> 00:48:24.340
 identity

00:48:24.340 --> 00:48:24.840
 now

00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:26.080
 I know

00:48:26.080 --> 00:48:26.380
 that I

00:48:26.380 --> 00:48:26.940
 was dead

00:48:26.940 --> 00:48:27.280
 but now

00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:27.960
 I'm alive

00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:31.700
 we're all

00:48:31.700 --> 00:48:32.180
 unlikely

00:48:32.180 --> 00:48:38.580
 Jesus we

00:48:38.580 --> 00:48:38.920
 thank you

00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:39.220
 for the

00:48:39.220 --> 00:48:39.920
 opportunity

00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:42.440
 to be

00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:42.860
 a part

00:48:42.860 --> 00:48:45.120
 for you

00:48:45.120 --> 00:48:45.500
 choosing

00:48:45.500 --> 00:48:45.980
 us

00:48:45.980 --> 00:48:47.540
 saving

00:48:47.540 --> 00:48:48.060
 us

00:48:48.060 --> 00:48:49.240
 calling

00:48:49.240 --> 00:48:49.480
 us

00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:49.780
 into the

00:48:49.780 --> 00:48:50.040
 game

00:48:50.040 --> 00:48:51.940
 Lord I

00:48:51.940 --> 00:48:52.380
 pray that

00:48:52.380 --> 00:48:52.660
 we would

00:48:52.660 --> 00:48:53.420
 respond

00:48:53.420 --> 00:48:55.040
 in

00:48:55.040 --> 00:48:55.640
 likeness

00:48:55.640 --> 00:48:57.780
 Lord if

00:48:57.780 --> 00:48:57.940
 there's

00:48:57.940 --> 00:48:58.540
 anyone here

00:48:58.540 --> 00:48:58.900
 who does

00:48:58.900 --> 00:48:59.300
 not know

00:48:59.300 --> 00:48:59.700
 you

00:48:59.700 --> 00:49:01.280
 Lord

00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:01.640
 they're the

00:49:01.640 --> 00:49:02.240
 Ethiopian

00:49:02.240 --> 00:49:02.640
 eunuch

00:49:02.640 --> 00:49:04.480
 sitting

00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:04.720
 in the

00:49:04.720 --> 00:49:05.220
 chariot

00:49:05.220 --> 00:49:06.880
 doing

00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:07.360
 religious

00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:07.900
 works

00:49:07.900 --> 00:49:10.440
 showing

00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:10.760
 up to

00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:11.220
 religious

00:49:11.220 --> 00:49:11.880
 festivals

00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:13.940
 building

00:49:13.940 --> 00:49:14.780
 questions

00:49:14.780 --> 00:49:16.660
 Lord I

00:49:16.660 --> 00:49:17.080
 pray that

00:49:17.080 --> 00:49:17.560
 today

00:49:17.560 --> 00:49:18.840
 or through

00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:19.400
 the power

00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:19.740
 of your

00:49:19.740 --> 00:49:20.420
 spirit

00:49:20.420 --> 00:49:20.860
 Lord

00:49:20.860 --> 00:49:22.140
 their lives

00:49:22.140 --> 00:49:22.520
 would be

00:49:22.520 --> 00:49:23.200
 saved

00:49:23.200 --> 00:49:23.500
 that their

00:49:23.500 --> 00:49:24.080
 lives

00:49:24.080 --> 00:49:24.420
 would be

00:49:24.420 --> 00:49:25.100
 changed

00:49:25.100 --> 00:49:25.380
 that they

00:49:25.380 --> 00:49:25.560
 would

00:49:25.560 --> 00:49:26.120
 surrender

00:49:26.120 --> 00:49:26.920
 every

00:49:26.920 --> 00:49:28.140
 part of

00:49:28.140 --> 00:49:28.300
 their

00:49:28.300 --> 00:49:28.820
 identity

00:49:28.820 --> 00:49:29.340
 of who

00:49:29.340 --> 00:49:29.540
 they

00:49:29.540 --> 00:49:29.840
 are

00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:30.260
 Lord I

00:49:30.260 --> 00:49:30.640
 pray that

00:49:30.640 --> 00:49:30.900
 they would

00:49:30.900 --> 00:49:31.200
 find

00:49:31.200 --> 00:49:31.840
 forgiveness

00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:32.680
 at the

00:49:32.680 --> 00:49:33.120
 cross

00:49:33.120 --> 00:49:33.440
 Lord I

00:49:33.440 --> 00:49:33.720
 pray that

00:49:33.720 --> 00:49:33.920
 they would

00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:34.700
 find hope

00:49:34.700 --> 00:49:35.320
 and eternity

00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:35.680
 and a

00:49:35.680 --> 00:49:36.020
 meaning

00:49:36.020 --> 00:49:36.800
 and identity

00:49:36.800 --> 00:49:37.440
 based on who

00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:37.980
 you are

00:49:37.980 --> 00:49:38.700
 and not who

00:49:38.700 --> 00:49:39.420
 they are

00:49:39.420 --> 00:49:39.840
 Lord I

00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:40.220
 pray that

00:49:40.220 --> 00:49:40.440
 they would

00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:40.980
 not lean

00:49:40.980 --> 00:49:41.320
 in on

00:49:41.320 --> 00:49:41.520
 their

00:49:41.520 --> 00:49:42.480
 limited

00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:43.480
 understanding

00:49:43.480 --> 00:49:44.060
 but they

00:49:44.060 --> 00:49:44.540
 would press

00:49:44.540 --> 00:49:45.000
 into

00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:45.800
 and lean

00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:46.280
 into

00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:47.140
 the wisdom

00:49:47.140 --> 00:49:47.520
 and the

00:49:47.520 --> 00:49:47.940
 sovereignty

00:49:47.940 --> 00:49:48.640
 of God

00:49:48.640 --> 00:49:51.660
 and that

00:49:51.660 --> 00:49:52.080
 today would

00:49:52.080 --> 00:49:52.480
 be the day

00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:52.720
 of their

00:49:52.720 --> 00:49:53.280
 salvation

00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:55.620
 Lord I

00:49:55.620 --> 00:49:55.960
 pray for

00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:56.480
 every single

00:49:56.480 --> 00:49:56.940
 one of us

00:49:56.940 --> 00:49:57.320
 that's in

00:49:57.320 --> 00:49:57.600
 here

00:49:57.600 --> 00:49:58.140
 that's

00:49:58.140 --> 00:49:58.480
 online

00:49:58.480 --> 00:49:58.820
 Lord

00:49:58.820 --> 00:49:59.540
 and I

00:49:59.540 --> 00:49:59.820
 pray that

00:49:59.820 --> 00:50:00.400
 right now

00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:00.840
 in this

00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:01.180
 moment

00:50:01.180 --> 00:50:01.920
 Lord give

00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:02.420
 us our

00:50:02.420 --> 00:50:03.000
 unlikely

00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:09.500
 through the

00:50:09.500 --> 00:50:10.100
 kindness of

00:50:10.100 --> 00:50:10.780
 your spirit

00:50:10.780 --> 00:50:11.660
 speak their

00:50:11.660 --> 00:50:12.180
 name into

00:50:12.180 --> 00:50:12.900
 our hearts

00:50:12.900 --> 00:50:15.340
 paint their

00:50:15.340 --> 00:50:16.080
 picture in

00:50:16.080 --> 00:50:16.680
 our brain

00:50:16.680 --> 00:50:21.880
 Lord would

00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:22.280
 we just

00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:22.780
 say yes

00:50:22.780 --> 00:50:23.280
 whatever it

00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:23.680
 takes

00:50:23.680 --> 00:50:25.460
 if it

00:50:25.460 --> 00:50:25.840
 means getting

00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:26.360
 on a road

00:50:26.360 --> 00:50:26.940
 to a desert

00:50:26.940 --> 00:50:27.280
 then I'll

00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:27.640
 get on a

00:50:27.640 --> 00:50:28.220
 road to a

00:50:28.220 --> 00:50:28.480
 desert

00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:31.180
 if it

00:50:31.180 --> 00:50:31.480
 means a

00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:32.000
 conversation

00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:32.380
 that makes

00:50:32.380 --> 00:50:32.740
 me feel

00:50:32.740 --> 00:50:33.260
 uncomfortable

00:50:33.260 --> 00:50:34.020
 then it's a

00:50:34.020 --> 00:50:34.460
 conversation

00:50:34.460 --> 00:50:34.800
 that I'll

00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:35.240
 have

00:50:35.240 --> 00:50:38.900
 because I

00:50:38.900 --> 00:50:39.120
 want to be

00:50:39.120 --> 00:50:39.780
 led by your

00:50:39.780 --> 00:50:40.140
 spirit

00:50:40.140 --> 00:50:41.180
 I want to

00:50:41.180 --> 00:50:41.560
 see people

00:50:41.560 --> 00:50:42.160
 saved

00:50:42.160 --> 00:50:42.940
 I want to

00:50:42.940 --> 00:50:43.220
 see the

00:50:43.220 --> 00:50:43.500
 kingdom

00:50:43.500 --> 00:50:44.000
 grow

00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:44.940
 I want to

00:50:44.940 --> 00:50:45.500
 see lives

00:50:45.500 --> 00:50:46.440
 transformed

00:50:46.440 --> 00:50:51.160
 and we'll

00:50:51.160 --> 00:50:51.720
 glorify you

00:50:51.720 --> 00:50:52.280
 for it

00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:54.760
 in Jesus

00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:55.020
 name we

00:50:55.020 --> 00:50:55.240
 pray

00:50:55.240 --> 00:50:56.720
 amen

00:50:56.720 --> 00:50:58.440
 we got

00:50:58.440 --> 00:50:58.720
 prayer

00:50:58.720 --> 00:50:59.280
 encouragers

00:50:59.280 --> 00:50:59.640
 on either

00:50:59.640 --> 00:51:00.140
 side of

00:51:00.140 --> 00:51:00.760
 the auditorium

00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:02.340
 maybe today

00:51:02.340 --> 00:51:02.720
 you would

00:51:02.720 --> 00:51:03.040
 like to

00:51:03.040 --> 00:51:03.520
 talk to

00:51:03.520 --> 00:51:03.960
 someone about

00:51:03.960 --> 00:51:04.540
 a relationship

00:51:04.540 --> 00:51:05.220
 with Christ

00:51:05.220 --> 00:51:06.660
 they're going

00:51:06.660 --> 00:51:07.060
 to be back

00:51:07.060 --> 00:51:07.320
 here

00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:07.740
 tell you what

00:51:07.740 --> 00:51:08.520
 I think

00:51:08.520 --> 00:51:09.440
 I'll be

00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:09.900
 I'll be at

00:51:09.900 --> 00:51:10.140
 the very

00:51:10.140 --> 00:51:10.520
 back

00:51:10.520 --> 00:51:11.080
 back here

00:51:11.080 --> 00:51:11.500
 as well

00:51:11.500 --> 00:51:13.980
 maybe today

00:51:13.980 --> 00:51:14.820
 you're saying

00:51:14.820 --> 00:51:15.040
 that

00:51:15.040 --> 00:51:15.460
 man

00:51:15.460 --> 00:51:15.920
 you're the

00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:17.280
 Ethiopian

00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:19.540
 you got

00:51:19.540 --> 00:51:20.120
 questions

00:51:20.120 --> 00:51:20.900
 we want

00:51:20.900 --> 00:51:21.160
 to talk

00:51:21.160 --> 00:51:21.480
 to you

00:51:21.480 --> 00:51:22.260
 we want

00:51:22.260 --> 00:51:22.520
 to share

00:51:22.520 --> 00:51:22.780
 we want

00:51:22.780 --> 00:51:23.320
 to point

00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:23.760
 you to

00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:24.260
 Jesus

00:51:24.260 --> 00:51:25.360
 we'd love

00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:25.580
 to do

00:51:25.580 --> 00:51:25.760
 that

00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:26.340
 but I

00:51:26.340 --> 00:51:26.660
 want to

00:51:26.660 --> 00:51:27.040
 do this

00:51:27.040 --> 00:51:27.320
 and

00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:28.500
 burger

00:51:28.500 --> 00:51:28.820
 promise

00:51:28.820 --> 00:51:29.060
 man

00:51:29.060 --> 00:51:29.380
 you'll

00:51:29.380 --> 00:51:29.560
 start

00:51:29.560 --> 00:51:29.840
 playing

00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:30.060
 here's

00:51:30.060 --> 00:51:30.140
 what

00:51:30.140 --> 00:51:30.240
 we're

00:51:30.240 --> 00:51:30.300
 going

00:51:30.300 --> 00:51:30.500
 to do

00:51:30.500 --> 00:51:31.600
 well you're

00:51:31.600 --> 00:51:31.800
 still

00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:32.060
 playing

00:51:32.060 --> 00:51:32.240
 man

00:51:32.240 --> 00:51:35.060
 here's

00:51:35.060 --> 00:51:35.120
 what I

00:51:35.120 --> 00:51:35.300
 want you

00:51:35.300 --> 00:51:35.600
 to do

00:51:35.600 --> 00:51:37.440
 if you've

00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:37.920
 got that

00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:38.420
 unlikely

00:51:38.420 --> 00:51:43.440
 if you've

00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:43.800
 got that

00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:44.200
 unlikely

00:51:44.200 --> 00:51:46.440
 I want

00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:46.780
 to ask

00:51:46.780 --> 00:51:47.580
 this morning

00:51:47.580 --> 00:51:47.940
 that you're

00:51:47.940 --> 00:51:48.380
 going to

00:51:48.380 --> 00:51:49.020
 respond to

00:51:49.020 --> 00:51:49.280
 God

00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:49.440
 and

00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:49.900
 acknowledging

00:51:49.900 --> 00:51:50.180
 that

00:51:50.180 --> 00:51:52.600
 and as

00:51:52.600 --> 00:51:53.180
 we stand

00:51:53.180 --> 00:51:53.700
 to sing

00:51:53.700 --> 00:51:56.080
 I want

00:51:56.080 --> 00:51:56.460
 to ask

00:51:56.460 --> 00:51:56.560
 you

00:51:56.560 --> 00:51:56.760
 if you

00:51:56.760 --> 00:51:56.920
 know

00:51:56.920 --> 00:51:57.060
 who

00:51:57.060 --> 00:51:57.220
 that

00:51:57.220 --> 00:51:57.620
 unlikely

00:51:57.620 --> 00:51:58.040
 is

00:51:58.040 --> 00:51:59.020
 I want

00:51:59.020 --> 00:51:59.220
 to ask

00:51:59.220 --> 00:51:59.320
 you

00:51:59.320 --> 00:51:59.780
 to come

00:51:59.780 --> 00:51:59.980
 down

00:51:59.980 --> 00:52:00.280
 front

00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:02.860
 in an

00:52:02.860 --> 00:52:03.180
 act

00:52:03.180 --> 00:52:03.500
 of

00:52:03.500 --> 00:52:03.820
 I'm

00:52:03.820 --> 00:52:03.900
 going

00:52:03.900 --> 00:52:04.240
 to submit

00:52:04.240 --> 00:52:04.480
 this

00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:04.760
 to the

00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:05.040
 Lord

00:52:05.040 --> 00:52:06.820
 submit

00:52:06.820 --> 00:52:07.400
 my

00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:07.720
 obedience

00:52:07.720 --> 00:52:07.880
 to him

00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:08.140
 and just

00:52:08.140 --> 00:52:08.780
 kneel down

00:52:08.780 --> 00:52:09.320
 kneel down

00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:09.700
 here before

00:52:09.700 --> 00:52:09.960
 him

00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:13.180
 and just

00:52:13.180 --> 00:52:13.500
 pray

00:52:13.500 --> 00:52:14.160
 that God

00:52:14.160 --> 00:52:14.780
 would use

00:52:14.780 --> 00:52:15.040
 you

00:52:15.040 --> 00:52:15.640
 pray for

00:52:15.640 --> 00:52:15.880
 their

00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:16.480
 salvation

00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:18.620
 that God

00:52:18.620 --> 00:52:19.060
 would use

00:52:19.060 --> 00:52:19.340
 you to

00:52:19.340 --> 00:52:19.900
 show

00:52:19.900 --> 00:52:20.260
 that God

00:52:20.260 --> 00:52:20.680
 would use

00:52:20.680 --> 00:52:20.800
 you

00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:21.160
 and that

00:52:21.160 --> 00:52:21.280
 God

00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:21.840
 would draw

00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:22.140
 them

00:52:22.140 --> 00:52:22.880
 to himself

00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:23.060
 and that

00:52:23.060 --> 00:52:23.160
 they

00:52:23.160 --> 00:52:23.380
 would be

00:52:23.380 --> 00:52:23.700
 saved

00:52:23.700 --> 00:52:27.180
 and so

00:52:27.180 --> 00:52:27.560
 as the

00:52:27.560 --> 00:52:28.160
 band

00:52:28.160 --> 00:52:29.360
 leads

00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:29.760
 us

00:52:30.060 --> 00:52:31.120
 if

00:52:31.120 --> 00:52:31.320
 you've

00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:31.520
 got

00:52:31.520 --> 00:52:31.740
 that

00:52:31.740 --> 00:52:32.140
 one

00:52:32.140 --> 00:52:34.280
 you

00:52:34.280 --> 00:52:34.560
 come

00:52:34.560 --> 00:52:34.780
 down

00:52:34.780 --> 00:52:35.140
 here

00:52:35.140 --> 00:52:36.740
 let's

00:52:36.740 --> 00:52:37.020
 get on

00:52:37.020 --> 00:52:37.180
 our

00:52:37.180 --> 00:52:37.440
 knees

00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:37.820
 before

00:52:37.820 --> 00:52:38.220
 him

00:52:38.220 --> 00:52:40.440
 say

00:52:40.440 --> 00:52:40.640
 God

00:52:40.640 --> 00:52:40.900
 whatever

00:52:40.900 --> 00:52:41.080
 it

00:52:41.080 --> 00:52:41.440
 takes

00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:42.160
 whatever

00:52:42.160 --> 00:52:42.340
 it

00:52:42.340 --> 00:52:42.640
 takes

00:52:42.640 --> 00:52:43.440
 respond

00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:43.620
 how

00:52:43.620 --> 00:52:43.820
 God

00:52:43.820 --> 00:52:43.900
 is

00:52:43.900 --> 00:52:44.060
 leading

00:52:44.060 --> 00:52:44.160
 you

00:52:44.160 --> 00:52:44.320
 this

00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:44.580
 morning

00:52:44.580 --> 00:52:57.760
 thanks

00:52:57.760 --> 00:52:58.980
 thanks

00:52:58.980 --> 00:52:59.440
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00:52:59.440 --> 00:52:59.980
 listening to

00:52:59.980 --> 00:53:00.120
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