1 00:00:02,035 --> 00:00:03,003 Friends, it is good 2 00:00:03,003 --> 00:00:06,006 to be back home with you. 3 00:00:06,172 --> 00:00:08,074 And I need to be honest with you, 4 00:00:08,074 --> 00:00:11,077 I'm struggling a little bit this morning. 5 00:00:11,144 --> 00:00:13,947 Because, 6 00:00:13,947 --> 00:00:17,017 I want to bring you up to speed with the last two weeks. 7 00:00:17,684 --> 00:00:20,787 But I want to make sure that I tell Jesus's story, 8 00:00:21,654 --> 00:00:24,657 and not my story, if that makes sense. 9 00:00:25,258 --> 00:00:27,327 I want to make sure that we're talking about the cross. 10 00:00:27,327 --> 00:00:29,629 The cross and the kingdom. 11 00:00:29,629 --> 00:00:32,365 And not about, 12 00:00:32,365 --> 00:00:34,200 the events in another land. 13 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,069 Only, 14 00:00:36,069 --> 00:00:39,773 and so I've been I've been praying a lot and thinking through a lot. 15 00:00:39,773 --> 00:00:43,643 And I'm gonna do my best to give you a glimpse 16 00:00:43,810 --> 00:00:47,280 in the last couple of weeks of my time in Ukraine 17 00:00:47,580 --> 00:00:50,283 with God's people. 18 00:00:50,283 --> 00:00:52,919 But to draw our attention not to 19 00:00:52,919 --> 00:00:56,189 the trip, but to the kingdom. 20 00:00:59,426 --> 00:00:59,926 If you're 21 00:00:59,926 --> 00:01:03,396 wondering why I went to Ukraine and the front lines, 22 00:01:04,064 --> 00:01:07,233 we had the opportunity to be invited with the group. 23 00:01:07,233 --> 00:01:09,803 I work with Excel Leadership Network, which is the church 24 00:01:09,803 --> 00:01:13,106 planting movement to plant churches all over the world. 25 00:01:13,740 --> 00:01:18,945 We were invited to go to Ukraine and establish what we've also established 26 00:01:19,112 --> 00:01:22,115 in Guatemala, in Mexico, in Cuba, 27 00:01:22,615 --> 00:01:25,085 in Ukraine. 28 00:01:25,085 --> 00:01:29,589 One of the things I know is that as far as evangelism is concerned, telling 29 00:01:29,589 --> 00:01:33,159 people about Jesus, people are most receptive to the message of Christ 30 00:01:33,493 --> 00:01:36,529 when they're under tension and in transition. 31 00:01:37,897 --> 00:01:40,767 When people are under tension, they're looking for someone 32 00:01:40,767 --> 00:01:42,902 to relieve the tension. 33 00:01:42,902 --> 00:01:44,304 And when people are in transition, 34 00:01:44,304 --> 00:01:47,307 they're looking for someone to give them stability. 35 00:01:47,707 --> 00:01:49,776 So think about what's going on in Ukraine. 36 00:01:49,776 --> 00:01:54,047 Everybody is under tension and in transition during war. 37 00:01:55,081 --> 00:01:57,150 And so what I told the people there was, 38 00:01:57,150 --> 00:02:00,153 your country is ripe for revival 39 00:02:01,454 --> 00:02:03,857 because everybody's looking 40 00:02:03,857 --> 00:02:06,860 for something to bring stability, 41 00:02:07,927 --> 00:02:10,930 for some semblance of peace. 42 00:02:11,331 --> 00:02:12,932 And as Christ. 43 00:02:12,932 --> 00:02:15,268 And so we were invited to go to Ukraine and start this 44 00:02:15,268 --> 00:02:18,438 church planning movement in their country. 45 00:02:19,172 --> 00:02:22,142 What I told them was, 46 00:02:22,142 --> 00:02:25,411 I will go lead that as long as I can 47 00:02:25,411 --> 00:02:28,381 also go to the frontlines. 48 00:02:28,982 --> 00:02:31,985 A couple different reasons. 49 00:02:33,153 --> 00:02:36,122 One, because the values of our church, 50 00:02:36,890 --> 00:02:39,893 three of them are this irrefutable love 51 00:02:41,294 --> 00:02:44,631 and what proves love more profoundly 52 00:02:44,964 --> 00:02:47,967 than going into someone else's battle 53 00:02:48,101 --> 00:02:51,104 and saying, I am with you and I love you. 54 00:02:51,804 --> 00:02:53,940 Presence does that more than words. 55 00:02:53,940 --> 00:02:55,775 Do you understand? 56 00:02:55,775 --> 00:02:58,111 Because that's exactly what Jesus has done for us. 57 00:02:58,111 --> 00:03:00,513 For God loved the world so much, he sent his Son 58 00:03:01,481 --> 00:03:04,484 to come to the frontlines of our war. 59 00:03:05,652 --> 00:03:06,486 Irrefutable love. 60 00:03:06,486 --> 00:03:09,756 That's why I had to go to the frontlines as well, but also 61 00:03:10,657 --> 00:03:14,093 illogical faith in. 62 00:03:16,296 --> 00:03:17,297 We were told when we were there. 63 00:03:17,297 --> 00:03:21,768 Listen, there's been a lot of pastors from huge, huge churches in America 64 00:03:22,402 --> 00:03:25,471 that have come to LaVey, which is right on the border 65 00:03:25,471 --> 00:03:28,541 of Poland on the western side, where there is no conflict. 66 00:03:28,808 --> 00:03:30,343 Basically. 67 00:03:30,343 --> 00:03:33,346 And they come there and take their pictures 68 00:03:34,147 --> 00:03:37,150 and give their money and then leave 69 00:03:37,951 --> 00:03:40,954 till nobody. 70 00:03:41,187 --> 00:03:43,223 Has come from America 71 00:03:43,223 --> 00:03:46,292 as far as the church is concerned, to the front lines. 72 00:03:47,260 --> 00:03:49,829 They don't do it. 73 00:03:49,829 --> 00:03:52,932 And so what that tells me is illogical. 74 00:03:52,932 --> 00:03:55,935 Faith says yes, 75 00:03:55,935 --> 00:03:58,605 you follow. 76 00:03:58,605 --> 00:04:01,774 But also one of our values is the invisible kingdom. 77 00:04:03,276 --> 00:04:03,943 We believe 78 00:04:03,943 --> 00:04:06,946 in this kingdom that you can't see right now, 79 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:09,549 and it is of utmost importance. 80 00:04:09,549 --> 00:04:11,884 And demands are all 81 00:04:11,884 --> 00:04:15,622 and any opportunity we have to expand that kingdom. 82 00:04:15,622 --> 00:04:17,357 We're going to take, 83 00:04:17,357 --> 00:04:20,260 because another one of our values is incessant 84 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:23,263 reproduction. 85 00:04:24,030 --> 00:04:24,964 It's evangelism. 86 00:04:24,964 --> 00:04:27,834 It's church planting. It's what we do. 87 00:04:27,834 --> 00:04:31,604 And any opportunity we have to tell people about Jesus and to plant churches. 88 00:04:31,604 --> 00:04:33,940 We're going to take. 89 00:04:33,940 --> 00:04:36,943 And so I said, I have to go to the front lines. 90 00:04:37,577 --> 00:04:39,545 People need Christ. 91 00:04:39,545 --> 00:04:42,682 And when you get close to your own mortality, you start asking questions 92 00:04:42,682 --> 00:04:45,685 that you should ask before you realize you're going to die. 93 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:49,989 And so I had to go to the front lines 94 00:04:49,989 --> 00:04:52,625 also, because when my daddy got back from Vietnam, 95 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,963 there was a great struggle. 96 00:04:56,963 --> 00:04:58,831 Any of you who have served in our military 97 00:04:58,831 --> 00:05:01,801 to be in an active war, you understand 98 00:05:02,568 --> 00:05:05,104 that if God blesses you with living through that, 99 00:05:05,104 --> 00:05:08,107 you wrestle with who you became, in that 100 00:05:08,608 --> 00:05:11,611 oftentimes. 101 00:05:13,079 --> 00:05:16,082 And, well, there in death is redemption. 102 00:05:16,082 --> 00:05:19,085 We're redeemed by Jesus. 103 00:05:19,452 --> 00:05:21,587 Sometimes in life 104 00:05:21,587 --> 00:05:24,590 there's a struggle with restoration. 105 00:05:25,358 --> 00:05:28,695 Can God restore who I've become? 106 00:05:30,730 --> 00:05:31,731 Knowing my own 107 00:05:31,731 --> 00:05:34,734 father's struggle after Vietnam, 108 00:05:35,735 --> 00:05:37,870 in the church, 109 00:05:37,870 --> 00:05:40,873 for people who did not understand, 110 00:05:41,708 --> 00:05:44,010 I was compelled 111 00:05:44,010 --> 00:05:47,013 by the grace of God for my father 112 00:05:47,180 --> 00:05:50,850 to bring that message to other men and women on the front lines. 113 00:05:50,850 --> 00:05:53,853 Do you understand? 114 00:05:54,654 --> 00:05:56,089 And so well the impetus 115 00:05:56,089 --> 00:05:59,459 was to plant churches and start a church planting movement in Ukraine. 116 00:05:59,459 --> 00:06:02,495 There was also the call to the front lines. 117 00:06:03,763 --> 00:06:06,466 And for me, I was not allowed 118 00:06:06,466 --> 00:06:09,469 to separate the two. 119 00:06:09,936 --> 00:06:12,572 And so let me just walk you through this is where we were. 120 00:06:12,572 --> 00:06:14,440 This is Ukraine. 121 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,175 Way on the left is Poland. 122 00:06:16,175 --> 00:06:19,178 And we flew into Poland, into Krakow, 123 00:06:19,445 --> 00:06:22,815 and through a series of busses and trains, 124 00:06:22,982 --> 00:06:27,086 we made our way all the way across to where the green is in Kiev. 125 00:06:27,086 --> 00:06:29,055 That's the capital city of Ukraine. 126 00:06:29,055 --> 00:06:32,058 And if you follow the news at all, you know how much that is 127 00:06:32,058 --> 00:06:35,161 constantly bombed, literally, almost day after day. 128 00:06:35,862 --> 00:06:36,629 That's a capital city. 129 00:06:36,629 --> 00:06:40,366 That's where we that's where we that's where we finally made it to Kiev. 130 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:42,135 And then we went from Kiev. 131 00:06:42,135 --> 00:06:45,138 We went down to where the blue is church. KC 132 00:06:45,838 --> 00:06:48,141 that's right on this, this, this, 133 00:06:48,141 --> 00:06:51,210 it's the largest river in Ukraine that flows down into the Black Sea. 134 00:06:51,210 --> 00:06:54,213 And that's where we did our discovery centers for church planters. 135 00:06:54,380 --> 00:06:59,085 It took us 27 hours from when we left to get all the way up to Turkey. 136 00:06:59,118 --> 00:07:03,122 It was a grueling trip, a grueling trip from the United States to there. 137 00:07:04,390 --> 00:07:06,626 From there, 138 00:07:06,626 --> 00:07:10,163 eventually up in the Orange is Ha Keith. 139 00:07:10,329 --> 00:07:13,733 And again, if you follow the news, you hear the word heart Kiev. 140 00:07:14,467 --> 00:07:17,136 That is on the front, both one of the places on frontlines 141 00:07:17,136 --> 00:07:20,940 that is constantly, constantly shelled drones, 142 00:07:20,940 --> 00:07:23,943 guided missiles, all of that 143 00:07:24,710 --> 00:07:28,314 from there down in the purple is, Kramatorsk. 144 00:07:28,815 --> 00:07:33,920 That's the place where we lived for three days with the guys 145 00:07:34,153 --> 00:07:36,823 literally on the front lines in their little house, 146 00:07:36,823 --> 00:07:39,826 and they would move out to visit the troops. 147 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:45,498 So that's kind of where we were in and in the orange in Kharkiv. 148 00:07:45,498 --> 00:07:47,200 That's where I got to preach last Sunday. 149 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,836 And it was and I'll tell you more about I'll tell you more about all this stuff, 150 00:07:49,836 --> 00:07:52,672 but I want to give you a picture of when I say the front lines, 151 00:07:52,672 --> 00:07:53,539 what I'm talking about. 152 00:07:54,674 --> 00:07:57,710 We slept in where the purple is, 153 00:07:58,544 --> 00:08:01,547 we ministered to Donbass. 154 00:08:02,415 --> 00:08:05,351 That is literally on the border of Russia. 155 00:08:05,351 --> 00:08:07,920 That's where we were 156 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,057 a couple kilometers from the Russian troops 157 00:08:12,425 --> 00:08:16,162 all along that area on the frontlines, 158 00:08:17,263 --> 00:08:20,500 with guys that know Jesus and guys that don't know Jesus 159 00:08:21,567 --> 00:08:25,004 and were able to do worship with him and pray over them and share communion 160 00:08:25,004 --> 00:08:28,007 with them and witness to them and minister to them. 161 00:08:30,676 --> 00:08:32,011 And so when we're talking about 162 00:08:32,011 --> 00:08:34,981 this is what we're talking about, we were there, 163 00:08:35,281 --> 00:08:38,251 because that's where the opportunity was for us 164 00:08:39,452 --> 00:08:42,321 to expand the kingdom of God. 165 00:08:42,321 --> 00:08:43,222 People don't go there. 166 00:08:43,222 --> 00:08:47,527 They told us while we're there, there's no there's no law, 167 00:08:48,561 --> 00:08:51,564 there's no overriding, 168 00:08:53,332 --> 00:08:56,402 system to say this is allowable and not allowable. 169 00:08:56,702 --> 00:08:58,137 Whatever happens, happens. 170 00:09:00,106 --> 00:09:01,541 And so we need to know your blood type. 171 00:09:01,541 --> 00:09:04,544 I said it's red. 172 00:09:10,082 --> 00:09:11,250 And so I want to introduce you to 173 00:09:11,250 --> 00:09:14,253 some of the people that are there. 174 00:09:15,354 --> 00:09:17,223 And I want you to pay 175 00:09:17,223 --> 00:09:20,226 attention to the names that you'll see 176 00:09:20,293 --> 00:09:23,296 on this piece of paper. 177 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,003 You will see. 178 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,443 Soon yours is. 179 00:09:43,683 --> 00:09:45,484 The two men who live in that house. 180 00:09:45,484 --> 00:09:47,687 And that's right there on the front lines where we stayed. 181 00:09:47,687 --> 00:09:50,856 The wall, the exterior walls, about 18in of concrete. 182 00:09:50,856 --> 00:09:53,793 It's really thick. And they try to reinforce it well. 183 00:09:53,793 --> 00:09:56,228 But the two guys who live there seem as a video game. 184 00:09:56,228 --> 00:10:00,366 And Sasha, I want you to put them on your prayer list with them and Sasha. 185 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:05,171 They have determined that God has called them to the ministry of the front lines. 186 00:10:05,972 --> 00:10:10,176 They've sent their families, their wives and children to, to Germany. 187 00:10:10,977 --> 00:10:14,180 And they've said, God has called us to ministry to the people of the 188 00:10:14,213 --> 00:10:16,015 on the front lines. 189 00:10:16,015 --> 00:10:19,018 And so they see their family about once every three months. 190 00:10:19,385 --> 00:10:24,724 And every day they start their day with scripture reading and worship. 191 00:10:24,724 --> 00:10:29,895 That was the worship music and communion, reminding themselves of the kingdom that 192 00:10:29,895 --> 00:10:33,899 they serve, the God that they serve, and that God has called them to this work. 193 00:10:34,467 --> 00:10:38,037 They ask for his provision, they ask for his safety, and they ask that 194 00:10:38,037 --> 00:10:43,175 through them God would save people who are lost without Christ. 195 00:10:44,777 --> 00:10:47,780 Those names on the papers, 196 00:10:47,847 --> 00:10:49,949 three different lists. 197 00:10:49,949 --> 00:10:52,451 Names of men, women who have been killed 198 00:10:52,451 --> 00:10:55,454 in the war that they had ministered to, 199 00:10:55,588 --> 00:10:59,825 that they remember the names of those who are missing in action, 200 00:11:00,693 --> 00:11:04,263 and the names of the current ones that they're current currently ministering to, 201 00:11:04,997 --> 00:11:08,000 so they can keep track of them with their families, 202 00:11:08,067 --> 00:11:11,070 care for them, care for their souls. 203 00:11:11,937 --> 00:11:14,640 And they every day they just make their way down 204 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,610 the front lines in worship, 205 00:11:17,677 --> 00:11:20,680 in foxholes, in bunkers, 206 00:11:21,347 --> 00:11:25,151 making sure that the guys know God hasn't forgotten about you. 207 00:11:25,618 --> 00:11:27,219 He knows you and he sees you. 208 00:11:27,219 --> 00:11:30,356 He loves you, and we're here for you. 209 00:11:30,423 --> 00:11:32,458 Amazing people, 210 00:11:32,458 --> 00:11:35,461 amazing people. 211 00:11:37,029 --> 00:11:39,632 Every community has this. 212 00:11:39,632 --> 00:11:43,335 These are memorials in every community. 213 00:11:43,335 --> 00:11:45,471 Every flag represents 214 00:11:45,471 --> 00:11:49,575 someone who's been killed from that community during this war. 215 00:11:50,643 --> 00:11:52,678 Every flag 216 00:11:52,678 --> 00:11:54,980 represents a life. 217 00:11:54,980 --> 00:11:57,083 I've shared some of these on social media while I was there. 218 00:11:57,083 --> 00:11:59,318 To give you a picture, 219 00:11:59,318 --> 00:12:01,353 but I want you to understand how 220 00:12:01,353 --> 00:12:04,356 pervasive and what they're living under. 221 00:12:05,291 --> 00:12:08,294 These little memorials just keep growing. 222 00:12:12,965 --> 00:12:15,968 And it's a stark reminder. 223 00:12:16,802 --> 00:12:19,805 Of life and death and eternity. 224 00:12:20,773 --> 00:12:23,776 And that life is fleeting. 225 00:12:28,380 --> 00:12:29,815 This is the top story 226 00:12:29,815 --> 00:12:32,818 of one of three apartment complexes. 227 00:12:35,755 --> 00:12:38,758 Has has nothing to do with the military. 228 00:12:40,092 --> 00:12:43,095 Completely civilian. 229 00:12:43,262 --> 00:12:45,631 And the results of 230 00:12:45,631 --> 00:12:48,634 Russian drone attacks and guided missile attacks 231 00:12:49,535 --> 00:12:52,538 at the basement of this building, 232 00:12:53,038 --> 00:12:55,374 people ran for safety 233 00:12:55,374 --> 00:12:58,377 and they were smothered and 50 of them died. 234 00:12:58,878 --> 00:13:02,047 The hole there is where the middle building was. 235 00:13:02,047 --> 00:13:05,050 There were three buildings. 236 00:13:06,919 --> 00:13:08,387 Community after community. 237 00:13:08,387 --> 00:13:10,489 This is this is the reality. 238 00:13:12,358 --> 00:13:13,359 There's more buildings that 239 00:13:13,359 --> 00:13:16,362 are destroyed that are. 240 00:13:16,462 --> 00:13:19,465 Untouched. 241 00:13:19,598 --> 00:13:22,601 And this is what they live with. 242 00:13:23,068 --> 00:13:26,071 A constant reminder that. 243 00:13:30,709 --> 00:13:33,712 Of what their reality is. 244 00:13:34,313 --> 00:13:34,647 What's. 245 00:13:34,647 --> 00:13:37,650 So this is going towards the front line. 246 00:13:37,950 --> 00:13:38,717 That's a drone. 247 00:13:38,717 --> 00:13:39,285 Look on. 248 00:13:39,285 --> 00:13:41,887 They don't have them on all the roads. They have them on some of the roads. 249 00:13:41,887 --> 00:13:42,655 That's it. 250 00:13:42,655 --> 00:13:45,791 Their attempt to prevent one of the smaller drones 251 00:13:45,791 --> 00:13:48,794 from moves out of the ground through to the traffic. 252 00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:51,330 This this is somebody 253 00:13:51,330 --> 00:13:53,632 there's some music going off that some of these are real lights. 254 00:13:53,632 --> 00:13:54,333 It's their phone. 255 00:13:54,333 --> 00:13:57,303 And turn it off. 256 00:13:57,870 --> 00:13:59,071 This is one of the bunkers 257 00:13:59,071 --> 00:14:02,041 where we were with some of the, guys on the front lines, 258 00:14:03,142 --> 00:14:04,777 and they didn't let me go all the way down. 259 00:14:04,777 --> 00:14:07,680 Oh, we went all the way down, but they didn't let me film all the way down. 260 00:14:09,181 --> 00:14:10,482 Pass or stuff. 261 00:14:10,482 --> 00:14:12,351 But these are this. 262 00:14:12,351 --> 00:14:15,321 There's there's two, four man troops 263 00:14:15,321 --> 00:14:18,324 that rotate two days on and two days off. 264 00:14:18,490 --> 00:14:21,493 And it goes down a couple different layers. 265 00:14:21,594 --> 00:14:25,731 And these guys have watch for the Russian drones. 266 00:14:28,234 --> 00:14:31,237 Not fill the skies. 267 00:14:32,304 --> 00:14:34,907 And they have their own surveillance drones that they'll send out 268 00:14:34,907 --> 00:14:39,478 to kind of keep movement or keep eyes on the on the Russian troop movements. 269 00:14:39,712 --> 00:14:42,715 Again, right on the front lines there while we were there, 270 00:14:42,915 --> 00:14:45,217 there was there were a lot of events that were happening 271 00:14:45,217 --> 00:14:48,220 on the outside when we were underground. 272 00:14:48,287 --> 00:14:49,455 And this is what they live with. 273 00:14:49,455 --> 00:14:52,691 And there's a there's a man here, I think I have him. 274 00:14:52,858 --> 00:14:55,995 He's he's he's the tall bald guy, not the short bald guy. 275 00:14:58,063 --> 00:15:00,332 And his name is Sergei. 276 00:15:00,332 --> 00:15:02,968 And he loves the Lord. 277 00:15:02,968 --> 00:15:04,970 And he follows Jesus. 278 00:15:04,970 --> 00:15:08,307 And he's got three guys in his unit with him who don't know the Lord. 279 00:15:09,475 --> 00:15:10,142 And he is. 280 00:15:10,142 --> 00:15:13,746 They're not just to do his service, but to witness to them, 281 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,650 to help them come to faith. 282 00:15:17,650 --> 00:15:20,753 And in the middle of that, that's the that's 283 00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:24,356 their biggest room in the in the bunker. 284 00:15:24,990 --> 00:15:27,660 It goes down into another room. 285 00:15:27,660 --> 00:15:29,295 Two guys are up top there. 286 00:15:29,295 --> 00:15:33,766 Kind of keep an eye out if there's any, any boots, troops coming at them. 287 00:15:34,867 --> 00:15:37,870 One guy sleeps and one guy is on the computer with the drone. 288 00:15:38,404 --> 00:15:41,407 And that's where they live for two days on and two days off. 289 00:15:41,707 --> 00:15:43,542 And so we got to be with them. 290 00:15:43,542 --> 00:15:45,678 We got to worship with them. We got to encourage them 291 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:50,082 for these guys and for some other troops I was with on a place 292 00:15:50,082 --> 00:15:53,619 called Seven Winds, this, this outlook that looks over this valley. 293 00:15:54,186 --> 00:15:56,655 And they had their, you know, 294 00:15:56,655 --> 00:16:00,859 military guys there with their weapons looking for drones coming in and missiles. 295 00:16:00,859 --> 00:16:03,963 And I told them, I said, guys, I want you to understand something 296 00:16:05,664 --> 00:16:07,800 you, as commanders 297 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,337 have under you men who rely on you 298 00:16:12,171 --> 00:16:16,308 and your job is not just to fulfill the commands 299 00:16:16,308 --> 00:16:20,646 of your commanding officer, but is to secure the life of your men. 300 00:16:21,413 --> 00:16:24,416 And if need be, lay down your life for them. 301 00:16:25,150 --> 00:16:27,152 I said, I want you to understand something 302 00:16:27,152 --> 00:16:29,922 that reminds me of another man 303 00:16:29,922 --> 00:16:33,792 who, at the command of his commanding father, 304 00:16:34,593 --> 00:16:37,162 was given the charge 305 00:16:37,162 --> 00:16:40,466 of watching after the lives of those under him 306 00:16:41,367 --> 00:16:45,571 to secure their life, and if need be, give his life for them what he did. 307 00:16:46,739 --> 00:16:47,439 I said, I want you to 308 00:16:47,439 --> 00:16:50,642 understand something that you are for your men. 309 00:16:51,276 --> 00:16:54,279 You can be a visible reminder of Christ. 310 00:16:55,347 --> 00:16:58,350 So lead well. 311 00:16:59,118 --> 00:17:02,121 Lead well and serve well. 312 00:17:02,888 --> 00:17:05,391 And help them reframe 313 00:17:05,391 --> 00:17:08,394 what their role is in this. 314 00:17:08,894 --> 00:17:11,864 And that's who he is to these guys. 315 00:17:11,864 --> 00:17:14,867 He's a visible picture. 316 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,203 Of one who came into their conflict, 317 00:17:18,203 --> 00:17:21,206 their war, and gave his life. 318 00:17:22,274 --> 00:17:23,709 And it was really significant. 319 00:17:23,709 --> 00:17:27,646 We were able to go just outside that bunker in this big concrete, 320 00:17:28,213 --> 00:17:31,083 room and lead him in prayer and worship 321 00:17:31,083 --> 00:17:34,486 and do communion with them, anointed him with oil. 322 00:17:34,486 --> 00:17:37,022 We prayed over him 323 00:17:37,022 --> 00:17:40,025 all while the explosions are going around outside. 324 00:17:41,226 --> 00:17:45,531 And it was a beautiful it was a beautiful moment of worship. 325 00:17:45,697 --> 00:17:48,300 It was a beautiful moment of ministry. 326 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:53,305 And it was a beautiful realization that God is the God of minutes and moments, 327 00:17:55,174 --> 00:17:56,708 time and time and time again. 328 00:17:56,708 --> 00:18:00,779 While we were there, it was minutes or moments that separated us 329 00:18:01,346 --> 00:18:03,782 either on just before something happened 330 00:18:03,782 --> 00:18:07,719 or just after something happened that God was orchestrating. 331 00:18:07,719 --> 00:18:12,024 All the minutes and the moments that we were there, there was never fear. 332 00:18:12,024 --> 00:18:14,493 There was never concern because we knew everyone of us. 333 00:18:14,493 --> 00:18:17,463 There knew that God was the God of minutes and moments. 334 00:18:18,831 --> 00:18:21,834 You understand that? 335 00:18:23,569 --> 00:18:25,471 For your minutes and moments, guess what? 336 00:18:25,471 --> 00:18:28,474 God is the God of them all. 337 00:18:34,947 --> 00:18:37,282 Minutes of moments 338 00:18:37,282 --> 00:18:40,319 just before or just after. 339 00:18:46,391 --> 00:18:49,394 Multiple times. 340 00:18:49,495 --> 00:18:52,498 Where you realize, okay, Lord, 341 00:18:52,798 --> 00:18:55,801 you're the God of my minutes, of my moments 342 00:18:56,435 --> 00:18:59,438 and you're orchestrating them all. 343 00:18:59,605 --> 00:19:02,608 So what have I to fear? 344 00:19:04,443 --> 00:19:07,446 Right. 345 00:19:10,449 --> 00:19:12,718 Time and time again. 346 00:19:12,718 --> 00:19:14,319 Had it been a moment earlier 347 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,323 or a moment later? 348 00:19:20,325 --> 00:19:20,993 Things happened. 349 00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:22,094 We got to rescue people. 350 00:19:22,094 --> 00:19:25,097 We got to care for them. 351 00:19:28,267 --> 00:19:30,469 Because we knew God is the God of minutes of moments. 352 00:19:30,469 --> 00:19:33,472 And he positioned us strategically. 353 00:19:34,239 --> 00:19:35,040 And it was beautiful. 354 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,043 Get to get to be a heart, a part of. 355 00:19:39,878 --> 00:19:42,881 That's. 356 00:19:43,382 --> 00:19:45,350 She doesn't know a world without war. 357 00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:48,353 She's on a living on the frontlines. 358 00:19:48,420 --> 00:19:51,423 And her family had to be extracted. 359 00:19:53,992 --> 00:19:56,995 The day we got her and her family out, 360 00:19:57,162 --> 00:20:01,567 right at the tail end of getting them out, the drones came and decimated 361 00:20:02,701 --> 00:20:05,671 her neighborhood. 362 00:20:06,104 --> 00:20:09,241 And that night, she spent her first night in safety. 363 00:20:09,241 --> 00:20:12,244 And her whole life. 364 00:20:12,711 --> 00:20:15,714 And it was beautiful. 365 00:20:18,150 --> 00:20:21,153 Minutes and moments. 366 00:20:24,623 --> 00:20:28,260 I got to preach in her Kyiv on the front lines last Sunday. 367 00:20:34,833 --> 00:20:35,567 And when they 368 00:20:35,567 --> 00:20:38,570 do church service there, they have a basement 369 00:20:38,937 --> 00:20:42,541 so that when the air raid goes off at the church, goes down to the basement, 370 00:20:42,541 --> 00:20:45,544 and they keep worshiping. 371 00:20:50,315 --> 00:20:53,018 And because their country is under tension 372 00:20:53,018 --> 00:20:56,221 and in transition, the message of the gospel 373 00:20:57,489 --> 00:21:00,292 is good news. 374 00:21:00,292 --> 00:21:02,461 And probably about a quarter of the people in that church 375 00:21:02,461 --> 00:21:04,162 made a decision for Jesus that morning. 376 00:21:04,162 --> 00:21:05,931 It was it was beautiful. 377 00:21:05,931 --> 00:21:08,934 We shared communion together. 378 00:21:11,603 --> 00:21:12,804 Because when you realize 379 00:21:12,804 --> 00:21:16,041 how close your mortality is, you start asking the eternal questions 380 00:21:17,276 --> 00:21:20,279 and looking for eternal answers. 381 00:21:22,414 --> 00:21:25,050 The guy to the right and the lady, 382 00:21:25,050 --> 00:21:28,053 next to me, in the lady next to me, that's the pastor and his wife. 383 00:21:29,588 --> 00:21:31,757 Years ago, she was diagnosed with cancer. 384 00:21:31,757 --> 00:21:33,625 Very aggressive, fast spreading cancer. 385 00:21:33,625 --> 00:21:35,360 The doctor said there's nothing we can do, 386 00:21:36,762 --> 00:21:39,665 so just take her home and I'd be comfortable. 387 00:21:39,665 --> 00:21:42,668 And the pastor and his wife prayed, and they said, Lord, 388 00:21:43,835 --> 00:21:46,238 your will be done. 389 00:21:46,238 --> 00:21:50,042 But if you give my wife life, we will stay in this community 390 00:21:50,375 --> 00:21:53,512 and we will proclaim your name and plant churches. 391 00:21:55,614 --> 00:21:58,617 And miraculously, 392 00:21:59,017 --> 00:22:01,853 suddenly she was healed. 393 00:22:01,853 --> 00:22:02,854 No ramifications. 394 00:22:02,854 --> 00:22:06,458 No, no, no, no proof of cancer at all in her body. 395 00:22:07,793 --> 00:22:08,927 And then the war broke out. 396 00:22:08,927 --> 00:22:11,863 The war has been going on since 2014. 397 00:22:11,863 --> 00:22:14,866 The current invasion has been since 2022. 398 00:22:15,534 --> 00:22:18,270 And so as this invasion is happening, 399 00:22:18,270 --> 00:22:22,040 his wife said, honey, we're on the front lines. 400 00:22:22,841 --> 00:22:24,676 We need to move. 401 00:22:24,676 --> 00:22:26,912 Everybody's leaving. They're going to Germany and Poland. 402 00:22:26,912 --> 00:22:27,913 We need to go. 403 00:22:27,913 --> 00:22:31,249 And he said, sweetie, what did we tell God? 404 00:22:34,152 --> 00:22:37,155 That if he gave you life, we would stay 405 00:22:37,322 --> 00:22:40,492 and we would minister and we would plant churches. 406 00:22:40,759 --> 00:22:43,762 We're not going anywhere. 407 00:22:46,898 --> 00:22:47,699 You know why? 408 00:22:47,699 --> 00:22:51,002 Because they believe in an invisible kingdom and they have illogical faith, 409 00:22:52,204 --> 00:22:55,207 just like us. 410 00:22:56,074 --> 00:22:59,077 Their kids left with their grandkids. 411 00:22:59,344 --> 00:23:02,347 And she said, honey. 412 00:23:02,681 --> 00:23:05,684 Not only are we on the front lines, 413 00:23:05,784 --> 00:23:09,154 but now I don't get to see our children or our grandchildren. 414 00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:13,392 And he said, sweetie. 415 00:23:14,192 --> 00:23:17,162 We told God. 416 00:23:17,496 --> 00:23:20,499 That if he gave you life, we would stay. 417 00:23:22,334 --> 00:23:24,503 And when we give God our yes, 418 00:23:24,503 --> 00:23:27,506 we cannot take it back. 419 00:23:32,377 --> 00:23:32,711 We'll 420 00:23:32,711 --> 00:23:35,714 get our kids in eternity right now on this earth. 421 00:23:35,714 --> 00:23:38,717 We're staying. 422 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:42,354 Sometimes this is how I feel. 423 00:23:42,354 --> 00:23:47,826 Sometimes it's good for donkeys and jackasses to be around thoroughbreds. So 424 00:23:49,194 --> 00:23:52,197 that's what I felt like. 425 00:23:54,366 --> 00:23:56,968 Can you imagine 426 00:23:56,968 --> 00:23:59,971 that level of commitment to the Kingdom? 427 00:24:03,341 --> 00:24:06,445 One of these guys told me, they said, you know, before this war, 428 00:24:06,445 --> 00:24:10,282 before I was here on the frontlines, I would get so worked up. 429 00:24:10,715 --> 00:24:13,051 I want a different car. I want a bigger house. 430 00:24:13,051 --> 00:24:14,319 I want a better job. 431 00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:16,254 I want more, he said. 432 00:24:16,254 --> 00:24:19,224 But now. 433 00:24:19,224 --> 00:24:22,227 Things have been clarified. 434 00:24:22,794 --> 00:24:25,797 And if God gives me one more day on this planet, 435 00:24:26,465 --> 00:24:29,067 I'll be grateful 436 00:24:29,067 --> 00:24:31,203 and especially give me one more person to share 437 00:24:31,203 --> 00:24:34,172 Jesus with. 438 00:24:36,975 --> 00:24:40,111 That's the first group of staff and church planters, 439 00:24:40,912 --> 00:24:44,883 that we worked with to plant churches and excel leadership network. 440 00:24:45,116 --> 00:24:47,018 We follow acts 13. 441 00:24:47,018 --> 00:24:49,521 God calls high level leaders 442 00:24:49,521 --> 00:24:53,291 and sets them apart for church ministry and for planting churches. 443 00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:57,062 And any chance we get to go call out and train high level 444 00:24:57,062 --> 00:24:58,663 leaders to plant churches, we're going to take it. 445 00:24:58,663 --> 00:25:00,165 And these were some of the first ones 446 00:25:00,165 --> 00:25:03,401 that we got to work with in Ukraine to start a church planting movement, 447 00:25:03,401 --> 00:25:05,270 because they want their country to come to faith. 448 00:25:06,238 --> 00:25:07,305 That was the first group. 449 00:25:07,305 --> 00:25:10,308 This is the second group. 450 00:25:10,809 --> 00:25:14,913 During our time while we were there, one of the largest strikes missile, 451 00:25:15,213 --> 00:25:18,216 guided missile and drone strikes on hard Keith 452 00:25:19,317 --> 00:25:21,019 decimated parts of the city, 453 00:25:21,019 --> 00:25:24,022 decimated the place where we were just 24 hours earlier. 454 00:25:24,022 --> 00:25:27,025 God of minutes a moments. 455 00:25:27,726 --> 00:25:30,662 As I walked into the training room 456 00:25:30,662 --> 00:25:33,665 for all these church planters and pastors, 457 00:25:34,099 --> 00:25:35,400 we had to address what? 458 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,869 Just because it was their family, it was their loved ones. 459 00:25:37,869 --> 00:25:40,872 It was their homes that had just been destroyed. 460 00:25:41,907 --> 00:25:45,510 And they're here to to serve God and to honor God and to plant churches. 461 00:25:45,510 --> 00:25:48,513 And we had to like, how do you deal with that? 462 00:25:50,682 --> 00:25:52,250 This is how they dealt with it. 463 00:25:52,250 --> 00:25:55,620 Oh, some guy that 464 00:25:57,222 --> 00:26:00,458 we had been, 465 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:03,361 he called 466 00:26:03,361 --> 00:26:07,532 us up. 467 00:26:11,303 --> 00:26:13,705 For some 468 00:26:13,705 --> 00:26:16,708 to see. 469 00:26:26,051 --> 00:26:27,152 We woke up early 470 00:26:27,152 --> 00:26:30,355 in the morning to the drones overhead and the explosions around. 471 00:26:30,355 --> 00:26:33,358 We get word that what has happened in heart, Keith. 472 00:26:37,362 --> 00:26:40,365 And their first response 473 00:26:40,632 --> 00:26:43,635 was, let's worship God 474 00:26:43,668 --> 00:26:46,071 name above all names 475 00:26:46,071 --> 00:26:48,840 worthy of our praise. 476 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:49,608 How great. 477 00:26:49,608 --> 00:26:52,611 Oh, how great is our God. 478 00:26:55,380 --> 00:26:58,016 And I'm standing there and I'm filming this and I'm just crying, 479 00:26:58,016 --> 00:27:01,019 thinking, Lord, why? 480 00:27:01,886 --> 00:27:02,354 Like, why? 481 00:27:02,354 --> 00:27:05,357 Isn't that my first response? 482 00:27:06,491 --> 00:27:09,494 When something bad happens. 483 00:27:10,028 --> 00:27:10,261 What? 484 00:27:10,261 --> 00:27:12,497 You really have to redefine bad. 485 00:27:12,497 --> 00:27:15,367 Sometimes. 486 00:27:15,367 --> 00:27:18,370 Their first response was God is a good God. 487 00:27:18,970 --> 00:27:21,973 Worthy is his name. 488 00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:25,644 Though there was great sadness, 489 00:27:26,544 --> 00:27:29,547 there wasn't depression. 490 00:27:30,248 --> 00:27:31,683 Though there was confusion, 491 00:27:31,683 --> 00:27:34,653 there wasn't rage. 492 00:27:36,121 --> 00:27:39,090 There was worship. 493 00:27:43,695 --> 00:27:46,064 That's one of the couples 494 00:27:46,064 --> 00:27:48,867 that I got to work with that is part of Excel. 495 00:27:48,867 --> 00:27:50,268 Network planting churches, 496 00:27:51,903 --> 00:27:53,471 young families. 497 00:27:53,471 --> 00:27:54,272 They have four kids. 498 00:27:54,272 --> 00:27:56,641 She's pregnant with their fifth. 499 00:27:56,641 --> 00:28:00,879 And every one of them has the opportunity to leave and go to Poland or Germany. 500 00:28:00,879 --> 00:28:02,414 And they said, God's called us here. 501 00:28:02,414 --> 00:28:05,216 We can't leave. 502 00:28:05,216 --> 00:28:07,552 We can't leave. 503 00:28:07,552 --> 00:28:10,355 He saved us from hell. 504 00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:13,358 How can we leave? 505 00:28:14,626 --> 00:28:19,097 They say it would be so disingenuous to say, God, you saved us. 506 00:28:19,097 --> 00:28:22,267 Now I'm going to leave and let others fend for themselves because I can't. 507 00:28:23,068 --> 00:28:25,770 We have to stay. 508 00:28:25,770 --> 00:28:27,672 And so they are. 509 00:28:27,672 --> 00:28:30,675 There's one young man who was a couple who was working with us, 510 00:28:31,876 --> 00:28:34,479 and he's right on the front lines, 511 00:28:34,479 --> 00:28:37,582 and there's so committed to the youth of that area. 512 00:28:37,782 --> 00:28:40,185 They don't have buildings to median. They've all been destroyed. 513 00:28:40,185 --> 00:28:44,789 And he will do a little WhatsApp app and say at 3:00 on Tuesday, 514 00:28:44,789 --> 00:28:46,357 we're going to meet in that burned out field. 515 00:28:46,357 --> 00:28:48,460 Let's just get together to talk about Jesus and worship. 516 00:28:50,662 --> 00:28:50,962 Let's 517 00:28:50,962 --> 00:28:54,032 meet at this burned out intersection on the other side of the road. 518 00:28:54,032 --> 00:28:57,001 And let's just talk about God. 519 00:28:59,471 --> 00:29:01,139 This another couple is going to Planet Church. 520 00:29:01,139 --> 00:29:04,142 I think they're 12 or 13 years old. 521 00:29:09,147 --> 00:29:11,483 They had the same conversation. 522 00:29:11,483 --> 00:29:14,486 We're just starting our lives. 523 00:29:14,853 --> 00:29:19,224 Why would we stay in Ukraine on the front lines and plant churches? 524 00:29:19,624 --> 00:29:23,328 And the resounding answer is because Christ gave his life 525 00:29:24,963 --> 00:29:26,364 and this is where he's put us. 526 00:29:26,364 --> 00:29:29,367 He's the God of the minutes, an ominous and will stay. 527 00:29:35,140 --> 00:29:37,008 You think if people could have an excuse 528 00:29:37,008 --> 00:29:40,011 not to go to church and not to do ministry, it would be them. 529 00:29:45,850 --> 00:29:47,952 There's a group of young people 530 00:29:47,952 --> 00:29:51,289 and a lot of young ladies, incredible 531 00:29:51,289 --> 00:29:54,859 leaders, valiant women, warriors 532 00:29:56,327 --> 00:29:59,330 who are so committed to their God in their faith. 533 00:29:59,798 --> 00:30:01,232 They make things like this. 534 00:30:01,232 --> 00:30:03,067 And the military patches are a big deal. 535 00:30:03,067 --> 00:30:04,502 In the current military. 536 00:30:04,502 --> 00:30:08,206 You get patches for missions served and ranks and all kinds of stuff. 537 00:30:08,439 --> 00:30:10,975 And so what they're doing is they're making patches 538 00:30:12,110 --> 00:30:15,046 and they're taking these to the troops on the frontlines 539 00:30:15,046 --> 00:30:17,882 so they can use these patches and talk about Jesus. 540 00:30:17,882 --> 00:30:20,685 You understand the symbolism of that, don't you? 541 00:30:20,685 --> 00:30:23,688 John 316, the crown of thorns. 542 00:30:24,589 --> 00:30:27,425 And they'll get these patches and they'll go into the bunkers 543 00:30:27,425 --> 00:30:32,530 and into the trenches, and they'll the young ladies talking to these 544 00:30:32,530 --> 00:30:34,833 men and hear, 545 00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:37,068 I want you understand who Jesus, what he's done for you. 546 00:30:37,068 --> 00:30:40,071 So they'll put it on and remember, 547 00:30:40,305 --> 00:30:44,042 one of the patches on the patches is this I love this patch. 548 00:30:44,042 --> 00:30:47,011 I put on one of my hats. 549 00:30:47,011 --> 00:30:49,981 The X represents the commands of God 550 00:30:50,715 --> 00:30:53,718 that have been defiled and broke, and that's why it's in black. 551 00:30:54,085 --> 00:30:56,721 It's dark, it's been darkened 552 00:30:56,721 --> 00:30:57,322 because. 553 00:30:57,322 --> 00:31:00,592 And you men and women who have served in the military, you know this especially. 554 00:31:00,592 --> 00:31:01,860 You've been in war. 555 00:31:04,162 --> 00:31:05,864 Oftentimes there are things 556 00:31:05,864 --> 00:31:08,867 that soldiers do in battle 557 00:31:10,235 --> 00:31:12,670 that cause them to question, who am I? 558 00:31:12,670 --> 00:31:15,206 Who have I become? 559 00:31:15,206 --> 00:31:18,209 How do I reconcile what I've had to 560 00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:22,380 with who I want to be as a human? 561 00:31:22,981 --> 00:31:24,515 It's one of the things my dad struggles 562 00:31:24,515 --> 00:31:27,518 with. 563 00:31:27,852 --> 00:31:29,020 And he comes back 564 00:31:29,020 --> 00:31:32,023 after Vietnam to a church that didn't understand 565 00:31:32,857 --> 00:31:35,860 and wouldn't have accepted him had they known. 566 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,596 Really? No. 567 00:31:38,596 --> 00:31:40,698 You guys have been on where you understand this. 568 00:31:40,698 --> 00:31:43,701 You women, you understand this. 569 00:31:45,103 --> 00:31:47,805 And you have to wrestle with what have I done? 570 00:31:47,805 --> 00:31:49,908 Who have I become, and can I be? 571 00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:51,042 Can I be redeemed? 572 00:31:51,042 --> 00:31:53,912 Can I be restored? 573 00:31:53,912 --> 00:31:57,448 So one of the ministries that these young ladies are doing with these men 574 00:31:57,448 --> 00:32:02,453 who are wrestling with this question, who, if they get to come back to the world. 575 00:32:05,223 --> 00:32:07,191 Are met with all of this. 576 00:32:07,191 --> 00:32:07,558 Yeah. 577 00:32:07,558 --> 00:32:11,596 But you so what they tell them is we've all broken God's law. 578 00:32:12,830 --> 00:32:14,332 Every one of us. 579 00:32:14,332 --> 00:32:17,335 We defiled his commands. 580 00:32:17,402 --> 00:32:19,604 And no matter what that looks like for you, 581 00:32:19,604 --> 00:32:22,607 there's a cross that covers it 582 00:32:23,074 --> 00:32:24,809 through the death and resurrection. 583 00:32:24,809 --> 00:32:27,712 Resurrection of Jesus. 584 00:32:27,712 --> 00:32:30,181 There's not just redemption. 585 00:32:30,181 --> 00:32:33,151 There's restoration. 586 00:32:34,085 --> 00:32:37,088 Beautiful, strong 587 00:32:37,922 --> 00:32:40,792 young women who are engaging 588 00:32:40,792 --> 00:32:44,662 in these soldiers on the frontlines to take them the gospel. 589 00:32:45,430 --> 00:32:47,031 You know why? 590 00:32:47,031 --> 00:32:50,301 Because the people want their country saved. 591 00:32:53,071 --> 00:32:55,139 It's incredible. 592 00:32:55,139 --> 00:32:58,142 And they understand God is a God of minutes and moments. 593 00:32:59,877 --> 00:33:02,880 And so there's this incredible resiliency 594 00:33:02,947 --> 00:33:05,950 and faith and courage 595 00:33:06,751 --> 00:33:09,787 and commitment not to run away, 596 00:33:09,787 --> 00:33:12,790 but to run and engage. 597 00:33:17,895 --> 00:33:21,199 So. Thank you. 598 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:25,903 Thank you for your prayers. 599 00:33:27,772 --> 00:33:28,172 When I 600 00:33:28,172 --> 00:33:31,876 when I told them that there was a church back in the United States 601 00:33:32,777 --> 00:33:38,149 that was praying for them 24 hours a day, every hour, every day, 602 00:33:39,684 --> 00:33:41,853 he couldn't understand it 603 00:33:41,853 --> 00:33:44,522 because have you ever now, we're not in that type of war situation, 604 00:33:44,522 --> 00:33:47,925 but but I bet we've had those times where something's going on 605 00:33:47,925 --> 00:33:50,928 and we think, God, do you even know I'm here anymore? 606 00:33:52,230 --> 00:33:53,297 Do you even care about 607 00:33:53,297 --> 00:33:56,300 what's going on in my world? 608 00:33:56,367 --> 00:33:57,301 Like, where are you? 609 00:33:57,301 --> 00:34:00,271 If you ever anybody. 610 00:34:01,339 --> 00:34:03,041 That's how they're all feel. 611 00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:05,910 But you understand. 612 00:34:05,910 --> 00:34:07,412 And to have a visible 613 00:34:07,412 --> 00:34:10,681 reminder that there's an invisible 614 00:34:11,015 --> 00:34:14,485 church and kingdom that is interceding 615 00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:17,855 before God on their behalf, 616 00:34:17,855 --> 00:34:20,792 they were absolutely overwhelmed. 617 00:34:20,792 --> 00:34:22,493 And they told me to tell you, thank you, 618 00:34:22,493 --> 00:34:25,496 thank you, thank you, thank you. 619 00:34:25,596 --> 00:34:28,833 Because you are the ones that stand in the gap with them 620 00:34:29,634 --> 00:34:32,637 and they know they're not alone. 621 00:34:33,571 --> 00:34:34,672 You've been so generous. 622 00:34:34,672 --> 00:34:37,041 I was able to give every church planting 623 00:34:37,041 --> 00:34:40,812 couple $500, which is a year's salary for pastors. 624 00:34:40,812 --> 00:34:41,079 There. 625 00:34:44,015 --> 00:34:45,850 Just say we love you. 626 00:34:45,850 --> 00:34:48,853 And it's not just lip service. 627 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,523 You're such a good church. 628 00:34:54,826 --> 00:34:56,360 And they wanted to make sure I told you. 629 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,363 Thank you for letting your pastor go. 630 00:34:59,864 --> 00:35:02,700 I mean, there's other church that might go and take some photo ops 631 00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:05,670 and use it as propaganda. 632 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:11,175 You partnered with me, and we were there with them 633 00:35:11,175 --> 00:35:14,178 on the frontlines in the bunkers and trenches. 634 00:35:14,946 --> 00:35:16,581 And it's important. 635 00:35:16,581 --> 00:35:19,283 So what's next? 636 00:35:19,283 --> 00:35:22,286 Well, I'm going back to Ukraine. 637 00:35:24,155 --> 00:35:27,158 Because there's churches that have to be planted, 638 00:35:27,625 --> 00:35:30,928 and we have to establish this thing so they can run it on themselves. 639 00:35:30,928 --> 00:35:33,931 So we don't have to keep going back. 640 00:35:33,998 --> 00:35:36,767 But in the beginning, we do, 641 00:35:36,767 --> 00:35:40,671 because we believe in an invisible kingdom and incessant reproduction. 642 00:35:40,671 --> 00:35:41,739 That's why we're here. 643 00:35:44,041 --> 00:35:44,475 The Holy 644 00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:47,478 Spirit woke me up on Thursday morning. 645 00:35:48,312 --> 00:35:50,214 And he gave me this. 646 00:35:50,214 --> 00:35:54,452 It's wrong for people who want to be right simply to do no wrong 647 00:35:54,452 --> 00:35:57,455 rather than do what's right. 648 00:35:59,657 --> 00:36:02,393 It woke me up in such startle with those words ringing through my ears. 649 00:36:02,393 --> 00:36:03,227 I had to write it down. 650 00:36:03,227 --> 00:36:06,230 It's wrong for people who wanted to do right, simply not to do wrong 651 00:36:06,264 --> 00:36:09,267 rather than do what's right. 652 00:36:11,736 --> 00:36:14,739 The Almighty said this. 653 00:36:14,972 --> 00:36:16,908 Our greatest fear should not be failure, 654 00:36:16,908 --> 00:36:19,911 but in succeeding at something that doesn't really matter. 655 00:36:25,049 --> 00:36:27,351 We've been given such grace here and it's beautiful. 656 00:36:27,351 --> 00:36:27,752 It's wonderful. 657 00:36:27,752 --> 00:36:32,523 And I don't want to guilt us into, into, into the enjoyment of grace. 658 00:36:33,824 --> 00:36:37,195 But I want us to realize the grace we've been given and not waste it. 659 00:36:40,998 --> 00:36:42,033 In succeeding at 660 00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:45,036 stuff that doesn't really matter. 661 00:36:47,238 --> 00:36:50,041 And so I have seven minutes 662 00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:53,010 to preach my message. 663 00:36:54,345 --> 00:36:56,948 A couple of big ideas, 664 00:36:56,948 --> 00:37:00,918 friends, because God is the God of your minutes and your moments. 665 00:37:01,852 --> 00:37:03,120 Trust. 666 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,090 Even when it feels like the clock's ticking against you. 667 00:37:07,658 --> 00:37:11,095 Remain patient and stay faithful in the minutes 668 00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:14,232 before the moments come. 669 00:37:14,765 --> 00:37:16,667 And be bold to step into your moment. 670 00:37:16,667 --> 00:37:19,303 When it comes. 671 00:37:19,303 --> 00:37:24,008 If God is the God of your minutes and your moments, be bold 672 00:37:24,008 --> 00:37:27,011 and step into them without fear and without trepidation. 673 00:37:28,379 --> 00:37:31,082 I believe with all my heart you've heard me say this before. 674 00:37:31,082 --> 00:37:35,219 I hope you're starting to believe me when I say it, that as long as you are 675 00:37:35,219 --> 00:37:38,656 on God's mission for your life, you are absolutely invincible. 676 00:37:38,656 --> 00:37:40,124 Until that mission is complete. 677 00:37:44,028 --> 00:37:47,031 Yep. Stan. 678 00:37:50,568 --> 00:37:52,136 God is the God of your minutes. 679 00:37:52,136 --> 00:37:54,005 In your moments, 680 00:37:54,005 --> 00:37:56,741 he works in the tiniest detail and he works in the big, 681 00:37:56,741 --> 00:37:59,744 life altering opportunities. 682 00:37:59,810 --> 00:38:02,647 Whether it's a five second decision or five year delay, 683 00:38:02,647 --> 00:38:04,081 God is the God of your minutes. 684 00:38:04,081 --> 00:38:06,917 In your moments, you've got nothing to fear. 685 00:38:06,917 --> 00:38:08,686 Trust him. 686 00:38:08,686 --> 00:38:11,689 Be bold and be courageous. 687 00:38:12,690 --> 00:38:13,424 Because God 688 00:38:13,424 --> 00:38:16,560 is the God of minutes and moments, you can trust his precision. 689 00:38:17,194 --> 00:38:19,764 He's a precise God, and God is is the God 690 00:38:19,764 --> 00:38:22,767 of every minute that you think you've missed. 691 00:38:23,267 --> 00:38:26,270 He's the God of every moment, every minute 692 00:38:26,570 --> 00:38:29,106 we get so wrapped up of what we think we've missed out on. 693 00:38:29,106 --> 00:38:32,109 God says we just relax. 694 00:38:32,343 --> 00:38:35,212 I'm the God of it all. 695 00:38:35,212 --> 00:38:38,416 The Israelites came to the for the Red sea and they were completely trapped. 696 00:38:38,416 --> 00:38:40,718 The army behind them, the sea before them. They had no way out. 697 00:38:40,718 --> 00:38:41,752 They didn't know what they were going to do. 698 00:38:41,752 --> 00:38:43,954 They think they thought, God, you missed the moment. 699 00:38:43,954 --> 00:38:45,623 You missed the minute. 700 00:38:45,623 --> 00:38:47,291 And God said, I have missed a darn thing. 701 00:38:48,559 --> 00:38:49,093 And what God 702 00:38:49,093 --> 00:38:52,263 said through Moses was this don't be afraid. 703 00:38:52,263 --> 00:38:54,932 Stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord. 704 00:38:54,932 --> 00:38:57,935 He's going to work out. 705 00:38:58,235 --> 00:39:00,004 Relax. 706 00:39:00,004 --> 00:39:02,673 God is the God of your minutes and your moments. 707 00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:04,875 Stand where you are. 708 00:39:04,875 --> 00:39:06,510 Be firm. 709 00:39:06,510 --> 00:39:09,513 You will see the salvation of the Lord 710 00:39:10,181 --> 00:39:13,184 because God is the God of your minutes and your moments. 711 00:39:14,251 --> 00:39:15,953 God didn't open the sea early. 712 00:39:15,953 --> 00:39:21,258 We want God to work in ahead of time for us, so it requires no faith to follow. 713 00:39:21,258 --> 00:39:24,128 That's not how God works. 714 00:39:24,128 --> 00:39:27,131 We trust him in the minutes, in the moments. 715 00:39:28,332 --> 00:39:30,000 So we can follow God 716 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,970 before he acts because we know what. 717 00:39:34,505 --> 00:39:37,508 He will act. 718 00:39:37,541 --> 00:39:41,412 So we can follow him before he does the thing, because we know he will do with he. 719 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:44,982 And so we can follow without fear, 720 00:39:44,982 --> 00:39:48,352 without trepidation, with completely unreserved. 721 00:39:50,588 --> 00:39:52,623 Because we know that Joseph at the right time, he'll step in. 722 00:39:52,623 --> 00:39:54,992 He'll. 723 00:39:54,992 --> 00:39:57,962 Because that's what he does. 724 00:39:58,562 --> 00:40:01,265 You may be waiting on a healing. 725 00:40:01,265 --> 00:40:02,900 You may be waiting on a spouse. 726 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:05,903 You may be waiting on an opportunity. 727 00:40:06,103 --> 00:40:09,106 Don't confuse silence with absence. 728 00:40:10,441 --> 00:40:13,344 God is timing every minute and every moment 729 00:40:13,344 --> 00:40:16,347 you can trust him. 730 00:40:18,282 --> 00:40:19,617 And because God is the God 731 00:40:19,617 --> 00:40:22,620 of the minutes of the moment, you can trust the bigger picture. 732 00:40:23,554 --> 00:40:25,322 He's got a bigger picture that he sees, 733 00:40:25,322 --> 00:40:28,325 and we don't trust him in the minutes, in the moments. 734 00:40:30,060 --> 00:40:32,062 One moment with God 735 00:40:32,062 --> 00:40:35,065 can change every moment after. 736 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:37,902 Don't run away from him. 737 00:40:37,902 --> 00:40:40,805 Don't run out on him. 738 00:40:40,805 --> 00:40:41,672 One moment. 739 00:40:41,672 --> 00:40:44,442 God can change every moment after. This was the story of Esther. 740 00:40:45,476 --> 00:40:47,645 I won't tell you the whole story, but she was she. 741 00:40:47,645 --> 00:40:50,581 She was given this position 742 00:40:50,581 --> 00:40:54,752 in a kingdom for a purpose for a moment. 743 00:40:55,019 --> 00:41:00,324 And what she was told is this if you don't step into your moment, 744 00:41:00,991 --> 00:41:04,462 God will move just without you. 745 00:41:05,763 --> 00:41:07,598 You'll suffer the consequences of not 746 00:41:07,598 --> 00:41:10,601 stepping into the moment God has prepared you for. 747 00:41:11,368 --> 00:41:13,504 But who knows, maybe 748 00:41:13,504 --> 00:41:16,540 this moment has come in your life for such a time as this. 749 00:41:16,540 --> 00:41:19,243 God is orchestrating your moments and your minutes. 750 00:41:19,243 --> 00:41:21,011 His perspective is bigger. 751 00:41:21,011 --> 00:41:24,181 One moment with God can change every moment after 752 00:41:25,983 --> 00:41:28,953 you understand. 753 00:41:31,021 --> 00:41:33,324 See, we we we, 754 00:41:33,324 --> 00:41:37,361 we want from God something to just be big and powerful and divine. 755 00:41:37,361 --> 00:41:41,599 But we have to understand that God's moments often don't look divine. 756 00:41:45,603 --> 00:41:48,606 They look like hard choices. 757 00:41:48,706 --> 00:41:51,709 They look like risky obedience. 758 00:41:52,376 --> 00:41:55,379 They look like unexpected opportunities. 759 00:41:56,580 --> 00:41:57,848 And in the hard moments 760 00:41:57,848 --> 00:42:01,652 and the risky obedience and the unexpected opportunities, 761 00:42:01,652 --> 00:42:04,622 you realize this might be God's moment and. 762 00:42:05,789 --> 00:42:07,992 We gotta realize 763 00:42:07,992 --> 00:42:10,494 every one of us faces God's minutes and moments 764 00:42:10,494 --> 00:42:13,931 that he's ordained, and those moments are often disguised as hard decisions. 765 00:42:13,931 --> 00:42:16,934 Dressed in ordinary clothes. 766 00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:20,371 Faithfulness in the moment without running away. 767 00:42:20,905 --> 00:42:22,273 Commitment in the moment without. 768 00:42:22,273 --> 00:42:24,842 Tap it out. 769 00:42:24,842 --> 00:42:27,111 You say, God, you are the God of the minutes, of the moments. 770 00:42:27,111 --> 00:42:29,280 And though this minute and moment looks horrible right now, I'm 771 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,283 going to trust you in the midst of it, and I'm going to be faithful, 772 00:42:33,117 --> 00:42:36,120 and I'm not going anywhere. 773 00:42:43,827 --> 00:42:44,562 Sometimes 774 00:42:44,562 --> 00:42:47,898 the greatest test of faith is in doing things is just in waiting. 775 00:42:51,268 --> 00:42:53,737 And it was so good for me to be in Ukraine with those people, 776 00:42:53,737 --> 00:42:57,007 because they're just waiting right now on God's intervention. 777 00:42:58,409 --> 00:43:01,111 And they're praying for miracles, no doubt. 778 00:43:01,111 --> 00:43:04,114 But they're realizing that before the miracle, God is still in the moment. 779 00:43:09,587 --> 00:43:10,921 And so three things real quick. 780 00:43:10,921 --> 00:43:12,389 How do you live? 781 00:43:12,389 --> 00:43:16,193 How do you live in God's timing without tapping out, 782 00:43:16,193 --> 00:43:20,130 without running away with faith and courage and boldness? 783 00:43:20,831 --> 00:43:21,632 How do you do it? 784 00:43:21,632 --> 00:43:25,402 Well, the one thing you do is you stay in the Word of God. 785 00:43:27,571 --> 00:43:30,975 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 786 00:43:32,042 --> 00:43:35,045 We will never understand God's timing of the minutes 787 00:43:35,045 --> 00:43:38,048 and the moments until we can understand and hear his voice. 788 00:43:39,783 --> 00:43:41,986 And we know the voice of God through His Word. 789 00:43:43,921 --> 00:43:45,723 I don't understand all that's going on, 790 00:43:45,723 --> 00:43:49,093 but I know that my God is the God of minutes and moments. 791 00:43:51,629 --> 00:43:54,632 To understand. 792 00:43:57,835 --> 00:44:00,504 You stay in His word and you trust his process. 793 00:44:00,504 --> 00:44:03,507 Romans 828 A soft pillow for a tired heart 794 00:44:05,009 --> 00:44:06,477 for those who love God. 795 00:44:06,477 --> 00:44:09,079 Not for those who don't, but for those who love God. 796 00:44:09,079 --> 00:44:10,781 He works all things together for good. 797 00:44:10,781 --> 00:44:12,983 So I don't know how 798 00:44:12,983 --> 00:44:14,018 I don't have those answers. 799 00:44:14,018 --> 00:44:17,021 I just have that faith that says he does. 800 00:44:18,222 --> 00:44:19,990 I don't know how the people in Ukraine say, God, 801 00:44:19,990 --> 00:44:22,993 you're going to, I don't know, but they do. 802 00:44:23,827 --> 00:44:26,764 And one of the things I told them is God can redeem this. 803 00:44:26,764 --> 00:44:29,767 If you use this to win people to Jesus, 804 00:44:30,267 --> 00:44:33,637 let God redeem the evil, not by making you bitter and cynical, 805 00:44:33,704 --> 00:44:35,205 but by making you motivated 806 00:44:37,174 --> 00:44:40,177 to tell people about Christ. 807 00:44:42,012 --> 00:44:44,782 See, even the detours of your life 808 00:44:44,782 --> 00:44:47,785 can be part of his design. 809 00:44:47,818 --> 00:44:49,153 If you trust that he's the God 810 00:44:49,153 --> 00:44:52,156 of your minutes and your moments. 811 00:44:52,389 --> 00:44:55,392 Some of you are in a huge delay right now 812 00:44:56,794 --> 00:44:58,562 and the dreams are falling apart. 813 00:44:58,562 --> 00:45:01,999 Trust God that he is still the God of your delays. 814 00:45:03,367 --> 00:45:06,770 He's still the God of your disappointments because he's the God of your minutes. 815 00:45:06,770 --> 00:45:09,773 In your moments, there's nothing to be afraid of. 816 00:45:14,478 --> 00:45:16,613 And be faithful in the waiting. 817 00:45:16,613 --> 00:45:19,616 The Galatians six nine don't get tired. 818 00:45:19,883 --> 00:45:22,953 Don't grow weary in doing what's right with God. 819 00:45:23,654 --> 00:45:26,657 In due season, the harvest is going to come. 820 00:45:27,725 --> 00:45:29,660 Jim, stand, 821 00:45:29,660 --> 00:45:31,528 Lord, I'ma be faithful in the moment. 822 00:45:31,528 --> 00:45:33,630 I'm not running the pole. I'm not running a jump. 823 00:45:33,630 --> 00:45:35,065 I'm going to be faithful right now. 824 00:45:37,735 --> 00:45:39,269 See, we have to understand 825 00:45:39,269 --> 00:45:42,206 that when I'm faithful in the minutes, God is fruitful 826 00:45:42,206 --> 00:45:45,209 in my moments. 827 00:45:45,609 --> 00:45:47,978 Some of you need to write that down. 828 00:45:47,978 --> 00:45:50,514 Take a screenshot on our app. Take a picture. 829 00:45:50,514 --> 00:45:52,816 You need to remember this. 830 00:45:52,816 --> 00:45:54,752 That when I'm faithful in the minutes, 831 00:45:54,752 --> 00:45:57,755 God is fruitful in my moments. 832 00:45:58,689 --> 00:46:01,859 And some of you are waiting on God to be fruitful in your moments. 833 00:46:01,859 --> 00:46:04,862 You need to start being faithful in your minutes. 834 00:46:07,231 --> 00:46:10,200 You follow. 835 00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:14,838 Listen. 836 00:46:14,838 --> 00:46:17,074 Every one of us wants God to step in and intervene. 837 00:46:17,074 --> 00:46:20,077 Miraculous. We all want God to show up, 838 00:46:20,277 --> 00:46:23,280 but we have to understand this 839 00:46:23,580 --> 00:46:25,949 that God is not just in the miracle. 840 00:46:25,949 --> 00:46:28,952 God is in the midst before the miracle. 841 00:46:29,987 --> 00:46:31,588 And some of you are waiting on God 842 00:46:31,588 --> 00:46:34,792 to step in and do something miraculous and wonderful and beautiful. 843 00:46:35,025 --> 00:46:37,895 And God says, look, I'm willing to, but I want you 844 00:46:37,895 --> 00:46:41,265 to first acknowledge me, that I'm not just in the miracle. 845 00:46:41,265 --> 00:46:45,435 I'm in the minutes before the miracle, and you won't see me in the miracle 846 00:46:45,435 --> 00:46:47,471 till you acknowledge me before the miracle. 847 00:46:51,341 --> 00:46:54,344 You understand? 848 00:46:55,646 --> 00:46:57,047 He's not just in the miracle. 849 00:46:57,047 --> 00:47:00,050 He's in the midst before it. 850 00:47:02,786 --> 00:47:04,788 And so, 851 00:47:04,788 --> 00:47:07,791 dear friends. 852 00:47:08,091 --> 00:47:10,327 I want to encourage us 853 00:47:10,327 --> 00:47:13,664 because we serve a God of the minutes, in the moments to live boldly, 854 00:47:15,032 --> 00:47:18,035 to be courageous. 855 00:47:19,203 --> 00:47:22,172 And live with great joy. 856 00:47:25,442 --> 00:47:27,144 Our response in this moment 857 00:47:27,144 --> 00:47:30,147 to God is thank you. 858 00:47:30,147 --> 00:47:31,515 Thank you for forgiveness. 859 00:47:31,515 --> 00:47:32,883 Thank you for your grace. 860 00:47:32,883 --> 00:47:34,785 Thank you that you are the God of my minutes. 861 00:47:34,785 --> 00:47:37,788 On my moments. I will trust you 862 00:47:38,088 --> 00:47:40,958 and I will be faithful. 863 00:47:40,958 --> 00:47:43,961 In the midst of my minutes and my moments. 864 00:47:45,529 --> 00:47:46,430 Our responses. 865 00:47:46,430 --> 00:47:48,832 God, you deserve 866 00:47:48,832 --> 00:47:51,301 all of me 867 00:47:51,301 --> 00:47:54,271 unreservedly. 868 00:47:57,708 --> 00:48:00,711 I believe it was Jim Elliot, 869 00:48:00,944 --> 00:48:04,181 missionary, the Orca Indians, who was killed and beheaded 870 00:48:05,582 --> 00:48:08,552 as he was telling them about Jesus. 871 00:48:09,353 --> 00:48:10,921 He said he is an old fool 872 00:48:12,422 --> 00:48:14,157 who gives what he cannot keep 873 00:48:14,157 --> 00:48:17,160 to gain what he cannot lose. 874 00:48:19,329 --> 00:48:20,697 You're not a fool to give 875 00:48:20,697 --> 00:48:23,700 what you cannot keep your life 876 00:48:24,001 --> 00:48:27,004 to gain what you cannot lose. 877 00:48:27,170 --> 00:48:30,173 Salvation. 878 00:48:30,974 --> 00:48:31,909 You are no fool 879 00:48:31,909 --> 00:48:34,912 to give what you cannot keep, to gain what you cannot lose. 880 00:48:34,945 --> 00:48:36,947 Who seeks to save his life will lose it. 881 00:48:36,947 --> 00:48:40,717 He who loses his life for my sake, Jesus says, will gain it. 882 00:48:44,187 --> 00:48:46,757 All in 883 00:48:46,757 --> 00:48:49,760 every minute, moment. 884 00:48:50,327 --> 00:48:53,330 Because he deserves it all. 885 00:48:54,865 --> 00:48:57,868 To understand. 886 00:48:58,435 --> 00:49:01,438 This is what it means to follow Jesus. 887 00:49:02,973 --> 00:49:06,343 We've been given so much grace here, and it's beautiful. 888 00:49:06,343 --> 00:49:09,212 It's wonderful and ought to be enjoyed and celebrated. 889 00:49:09,212 --> 00:49:10,380 And I don't want to guilt us 890 00:49:10,380 --> 00:49:14,584 into enjoying God's grace, but I want to warn us not to waste it. 891 00:49:19,790 --> 00:49:22,793 Don't waste the grace of God. 892 00:49:25,228 --> 00:49:27,898 Fully engaged 893 00:49:27,898 --> 00:49:30,100 all in 894 00:49:30,100 --> 00:49:33,103 trusting the God of the midst of the moments. 895 00:49:34,171 --> 00:49:36,239 You understand? 896 00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:37,941 Thank you. 897 00:49:37,941 --> 00:49:40,944 You are a world class church 898 00:49:42,112 --> 00:49:44,214 and the kingdom is expanding 899 00:49:44,214 --> 00:49:47,217 in this world because of you. 900 00:49:47,851 --> 00:49:50,053 And it is a joy 901 00:49:50,053 --> 00:49:53,056 to get to be a part of you. 902 00:49:54,891 --> 00:49:55,892 And to do this together. 903 00:49:55,892 --> 00:49:58,895 Let's pray. Father, thank you. 904 00:49:59,062 --> 00:50:00,731 Thank you that you are the God of the minutes. 905 00:50:00,731 --> 00:50:02,766 In the moments 906 00:50:02,766 --> 00:50:05,769 you're trustworthy. 907 00:50:10,474 --> 00:50:13,477 You're good. 908 00:50:16,113 --> 00:50:18,415 You're the only God there is. 909 00:50:18,415 --> 00:50:21,418 There's none like you. 910 00:50:25,622 --> 00:50:27,090 You're the creator of heaven and earth, 911 00:50:27,090 --> 00:50:28,759 and you're the God of every one of our minutes. 912 00:50:28,759 --> 00:50:31,762 And you're and moments and. 913 00:50:32,329 --> 00:50:33,964 We praise you and honor you because of who 914 00:50:33,964 --> 00:50:36,967 you are. 915 00:50:39,302 --> 00:50:39,669 Father, 916 00:50:39,669 --> 00:50:42,739 thank that you've given us the opportunity to be a part of your work in this world. 917 00:50:43,573 --> 00:50:44,708 Here in the Ranchos. 918 00:50:49,379 --> 00:50:52,382 And in places like Ukraine. 919 00:50:53,450 --> 00:50:55,619 You're so good to invite us into your work. 920 00:50:55,619 --> 00:50:58,622 Thank you for the opportunity you've given us to say yes to it. 921 00:50:59,189 --> 00:51:01,825 Father, I pray that through this church you would continue to grow 922 00:51:01,825 --> 00:51:04,828 your kingdom, expand your kingdom, 923 00:51:05,028 --> 00:51:08,031 that you would call us into service, that you would employ us in your work, 924 00:51:08,598 --> 00:51:12,402 that we would respond great boldness and courage and joy and sacrifice 925 00:51:12,402 --> 00:51:16,573 and generosity, God, that we would follow you unreservedly, 926 00:51:17,641 --> 00:51:20,610 unashamedly. 927 00:51:21,812 --> 00:51:24,147 Father, that you would increase and we would decrease. 928 00:51:24,147 --> 00:51:26,516 That's our prayer. 929 00:51:26,516 --> 00:51:27,617 Thank you for this church. 930 00:51:27,617 --> 00:51:28,952 Thank you for their generosity. 931 00:51:28,952 --> 00:51:31,955 Thank you for their faithfulness. 932 00:51:32,222 --> 00:51:35,192 Father, I thank you 933 00:51:35,192 --> 00:51:36,860 for what you're doing in us and with us. 934 00:51:36,860 --> 00:51:39,663 Continue. 935 00:51:39,663 --> 00:51:42,632 I pray we trust you to be a God of our minutes in our moments. 936 00:51:42,632 --> 00:51:44,634 Guys, I want, I want like in this moment right now. 937 00:51:44,634 --> 00:51:47,637 Just keep your. Just shut your eyes. Just. 938 00:51:47,737 --> 00:51:49,139 Just pray with me for a minute. 939 00:51:49,139 --> 00:51:50,640 If you've never trusted God 940 00:51:51,975 --> 00:51:53,910 to be the God of your minutes, in your moments, 941 00:51:53,910 --> 00:51:56,713 if you never trust him to for after him to forgive your sin 942 00:51:56,713 --> 00:52:00,450 and given your life to this God that loves you, that would come 943 00:52:00,450 --> 00:52:03,453 to the frontlines of your life and give himself for your salvation. 944 00:52:03,453 --> 00:52:05,088 You're saving. If you've never done that, 945 00:52:05,088 --> 00:52:08,091 I want to invite you in this moment right now 946 00:52:08,658 --> 00:52:11,128 to do that 947 00:52:11,128 --> 00:52:12,162 simple prayer. 948 00:52:12,162 --> 00:52:13,463 It will cost you your life. 949 00:52:13,463 --> 00:52:15,932 It's all worth it. 950 00:52:15,932 --> 00:52:18,535 Say God forgive me of my sin. 951 00:52:18,535 --> 00:52:21,538 I admit I broken your law, your command, 952 00:52:21,638 --> 00:52:25,976 I need forgiveness, I can't be good, I can't be right. 953 00:52:25,976 --> 00:52:28,912 And myself make me right with you. 954 00:52:28,912 --> 00:52:30,981 I believe in what Jesus did on the cross. 955 00:52:30,981 --> 00:52:33,750 I accept you, Jesus, as a Savior and the leader of my life. 956 00:52:36,019 --> 00:52:38,155 This morning, I trust you 957 00:52:38,155 --> 00:52:41,158 would you would just pray that prayer. 958 00:52:46,229 --> 00:52:46,930 Father thank you. 959 00:52:46,930 --> 00:52:48,598 We love you. 960 00:52:48,598 --> 00:52:49,499 Help us to love you more. 961 00:52:49,499 --> 00:52:51,801 In your name I pray. Amen. 962 00:52:51,801 --> 00:52:52,035 This. 963 00:52:52,035 --> 00:52:55,005 And if any of you made that prayer, just come talk to me afterwards. 964 00:52:55,005 --> 00:52:57,140 Talk to us in the start here or the Welcome Center. 965 00:52:57,140 --> 00:52:59,042 I'm going to walk you through some next steps. 966 00:52:59,042 --> 00:53:02,045 I got a little book I wrote I want you to give you. 967 00:53:02,379 --> 00:53:05,382 But let me tell you this, man, I'm thankful for you. 968 00:53:05,615 --> 00:53:06,783 I'm very thankful for you. 969 00:53:06,783 --> 00:53:08,885 Thank you. 970 00:53:08,885 --> 00:53:11,888 And I'm really thankful for our wife. 971 00:53:13,623 --> 00:53:16,626 Just imagine, just for a moment, you 972 00:53:17,460 --> 00:53:19,429 wives, your husband 973 00:53:19,429 --> 00:53:22,432 came to you and said, hey, I got this idea. 974 00:53:24,768 --> 00:53:25,202 Imagine 975 00:53:25,202 --> 00:53:28,205 you husband, just for wife, came to you and said, hey, honey, I got this idea. 976 00:53:30,874 --> 00:53:32,742 Imagine for a moment if your son or your daughter 977 00:53:32,742 --> 00:53:34,077 said, hey Mom and Dad, guess what? 978 00:53:34,077 --> 00:53:37,080 God's called me. 979 00:53:38,281 --> 00:53:39,816 So thank you for being a church, I says. 980 00:53:39,816 --> 00:53:41,851 Now we get it. 981 00:53:41,851 --> 00:53:44,521 We'll support you. 982 00:53:44,521 --> 00:53:47,257 I'm thankful for you 983 00:53:47,257 --> 00:53:50,260 and I'm really thankful for my bride. 984 00:53:51,094 --> 00:53:53,163 You come back next week because we're going to start a series 985 00:53:53,163 --> 00:53:55,065 through the book of Matthew. 986 00:53:55,065 --> 00:53:59,069 It's going to take us about a year to get through it, verse by verse. 987 00:53:59,069 --> 00:54:01,638 Don't worry, it's going to be good. 988 00:54:01,638 --> 00:54:04,808 So start this week reading the book of Matthew chapter one. 989 00:54:05,242 --> 00:54:07,177 You're going to read a whole big long genealogy. 990 00:54:07,177 --> 00:54:10,180 It's not going to make much sense to you, but we'll unpack it next Sunday. 991 00:54:10,313 --> 00:54:11,581 You understand? 992 00:54:11,581 --> 00:54:14,584 We got a great opportunity to get a real clear vision of who 993 00:54:14,584 --> 00:54:18,455 Jesus is, the one who came and died so we can live. 994 00:54:19,623 --> 00:54:20,590 I love you, let's sing.