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Well, good morning everybody.

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Welcome to the early service.

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You made it. And you look great.

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I'm honored to welcome everybody that's in
the room and people listening online.

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If you don't know who I am,
my name is Sam,

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and I serve as one of the pastors on staff
here.

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And, we're in this new series
called rhythms.

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Come on.

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Who's made it to at least one
week of rhythms in the new year?

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There's been a great series, and,
we're excited that you're here

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today is a really great day
to be at church.

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If you didn't know, after every service
today, it is community group launch day.

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And, would you put your hands together?

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If you've been in a community group
before, you've loved

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the people you've done life with,
put your hands together.

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And, today we've got actually

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62 community groups
launching for the winter session.

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62 people open in their homes
to do community a life with you.

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And, today,
if you're a service, do me one favor.

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If you're the person that in 2025
and before you showed up to church late,

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you know who you is and you left early.

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You know who you are today.

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Make it a rhythm
that I'm going to stay through service.

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I'm going to actually listen
to the response song.

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I'm going to go outside
and I'm going to get a donut

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and sign up for a community group.

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Unless you're, you know, 2026, you're
not eating donuts and don't get a donut.

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But join us on the porch.
Sign up for a community.

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We are a brotherhood.

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Sisterhood. We are coed.
We got young adults.

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We got everything
that you could possibly want,

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so make sure you show up outside
if you got your Bibles, turn with me.

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Mark. Chapter two.

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When we

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read in Mark chapter two, verses
one through 12 and it reads like this.

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Go ahead and throw it up, because I,
Pastor Caleb has my Bible right now.

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Mark, chapter two, starting in verse
one says, When Jesus returned to Capernaum

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several days later, the news
spread quickly that he was back home,

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and soon the house where he was staying
was so packed with visitors

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that there was no more room
left, even outside of the house.

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So while he was preaching,
God's word to them,

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says, four men arrived
carrying a paralyzed man on a mat.

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These are good friends right here.

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They couldn't
bring him to Jesus because of the crowd.

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So they dug a hole through the roof
above his head, and they lower

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the man on the mat
right down in front of Jesus.

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Verse five.

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Seeing their faith,

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Jesus said to the paralyzed man, my child,
your sins are forgiven.

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But some of the teachers of

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the religious law who were sitting there,
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what is he saying?

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This is blasphemy.

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Only God can forgive sins.

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Jesus knew immediately
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so he asked them,
why do you question this in your hearts?

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Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man,
your sins are forgiven?

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Or to say, stand up,
pick up your mat and walk?

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But so I will prove to you
that the Son of Man has the authority

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on earth to forgive sins.

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Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man
and he said this.

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He said, stand up,
pick up your mat and go home.

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Come on.

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The greatest place to preach the gospel
right there is in your own home.

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And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat,
walked out to the stunned onlookers.

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They were all amazed.

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Praise God!

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Exclaiming, we've never seen
anything like this before!

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I don't know if you know this,
but one of the greatest human

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desires that each and every one of us
has on the inside of us.

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A God designed to
this way is to know other people,

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and it's to be known by people.

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We were made to be known by people.

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We were made to just simply float
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job, just going to church,
you know, crossing it off the list.

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But each and every one of us,
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to be intimately connected
to people in relationship.

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I've been in the church long enough now.

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Pastoral ministry long enough
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there was this amazing expression
that the church used all the time.

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And maybe you've heard it.

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We used to say something like this
that you don't have to believe

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in order to belong.
Have you heard this before?

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And there's truth to this.

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You can come here today to project church.

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It can be your first time you go.

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I don't know if I really believe in Jesus.

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I don't know if I really want to follow
Jesus.

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I don't know
if I want to change my life, really.

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But I'm just here

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because some of you invited me
kind of stop for a moment and remind you

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that you don't have to believe
to belong here.

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We will love you.

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We will walk with you.
We will do anything we can to serve you.

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As long as you're on this journey,
you don't have to believe to belong.

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But the problem is, is as the years
have went on, this expression is changing.

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Now we are seeing many people
come to Jesus.

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This is good news.

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But now the expression is is now
people come in here and they've come

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to start believing in Jesus
and they believe in Jesus.

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They just don't really know
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You come in here and this supposed to be
a house filled with sons and daughters,

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but we got a bunch of orphans,
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and that is all that we have.

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And we have to understand in our own life

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that each and every one of us,
we were made for connection.

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And when you come in and you go
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communion in your life,
you don't really have people

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that link arms
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It just builds into our life.

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More of a problem
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And this is word called individualism.

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There's a lot of people in 2026 where
it's, you know, it's just me and God.

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I don't need the church.

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I don't need people to walk with me.

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I don't I got my job all by myself.

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I didn't need anybody's help to get here

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was all me and in today's culture,
there's a lot of individualism.

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In fact,
I see it where there's a lot of people.

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That man, you're starting

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seven, eight, nine, ten businesses
because you can't work for anybody.

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You can't be submitted to anybody.

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And so you have to
do everything on your own.

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And there's a lot of individual,
a lot of individualism happening today.

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I remember now four years ago,
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that we bought our first home and,
you know, we bought a brand new home.

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We were blessed.

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And when we got in our home,
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Turnkey. Nothing I had to fix.
It was amazing.

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But what they didn't tell me
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if you bought a brand new house,
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It was a dirt yard.

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It was muddy. It was a mess.

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I had two dogs at the time.

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We had newborn twins on the way
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And so I told my wife, I'm gonna do this
work.

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I'm just going to put grass
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Now, I'm not good at managing grass.

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And if you are in here, hey, kudos to you.

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I couldn't manage my grass. A year later,
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Every single summer
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Finally, four years in.

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My kids have now lived their entire life
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Never once have I let them outside
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So I told my wife one week I got home
from summer camp and I'm inspired.

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I got a couple weeks off
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I'm a turf. The backyard.

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I'm gonna rip out all the grass.
I'm gonna put turf in the backyard.

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Now, some of y'all, you are blessed
and highly favored in the Lord.

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He is provide
you finances to hire people for that. Me?

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I'm balling on a budget.
I gotta do that work myself.

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So I take whatever money I can get.

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I buy turf,
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it's finished and it's beautiful.

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But what I didn't know is two weeks later,

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our first rain would come in
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I'd be looking outside of my backyard
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Puddles are everywhere.

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Puddles all in my turf.

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Now, if you do turf right,
there shouldn't be puddles anywhere.

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My wife was like, yo,

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if you would have just got some help

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if you were to just call
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this would look immaculate, tired.

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Some friends come over
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judging me like, bro,
why didn't you call me a turf?

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My back yard?

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I could have helped you,
but I said I didn't need you.

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And here's why they need you.

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I'll learn everything on YouTube,

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YouTube, University.

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I got a four year
degree in turf and backyards.

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I can figure out how to change a tire.
You tube.

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You need help. I'm
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I'll figure this thing out.

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Yesterday in my garage, I'm
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I throw out the instructions.
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YouTube you?

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It used to be duct tape. Fixes everything.

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Now YouTube fixes everything.

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I said, I don't need you.

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I had YouTube University at my disposal.

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I could just get on my phone.
I didn't have to coordinate schedules.

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I didn't need to figure things out.

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I could just do it when it worked
best for me.

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But the problem is, is because
I was trying to do it all on my own.

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I made mistakes, there were some things
I cut some corners on that it

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with some help,
I could have actually done the right way.

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And what I find today
with individualism in our culture

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is this happens for you and I, where
some of you you've walked in in this 18

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days of the new year, and you said, I'm
going to be in the gym every day.

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Yeah, I'm not going to eat donuts.

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I'm going to cut carbs.
I'm gonna have a six pack by December.

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It's gonna be great.

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In 18 days in, you've already you haven't
seen the gym in a week and a half.

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And if you just get some accountability
in your life, you maybe you wouldn't fail

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so often.

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Some of you, it's your finances.

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God has blessed you.

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He's provided for you above and beyond.

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But we if we're honest sometimes
we haven't stewarded our money super well.

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And with those great finances,

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you've made some risky decisions
and you've lost money along the way.

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And if you just get some mentors in your
life, you'd stop making bad decisions.

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You'd have people
that would walk alongside

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you and teach you where you should invest
your money, what you should do with it.

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But for some of you,
maybe it's relationship problems,

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maybe it's your marriage,
maybe it's your friendships.

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You think everybody else is a problem,
but what you fail to recognize is

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every time you point the finger, there's
four of them pointing right back at you.

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And until you learn to get some mentors
in your life that you can share

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every part of your life,
all you're ever going to do is stay

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in the cycle of repeated bad decisions
and brokenness,

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and each and every one of us,
we need people to walk with us in life.

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Maybe for you, for honest, it's

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not even that you just try
to cut people out of your life.

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You just become so self reliant on ChatGPT

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ChatGPT will teach you how to text people
back,

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teach you how to respond to an email and
you want to blast somebody with on Monday.

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Teach you how to respond to somebody
when you don't really know what to say.

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They're not good at conflict resolution.

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Talking about ChatGPT,
I asked you a question this week.

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ChatGPT.

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I said if you were the devil
and maybe he is.

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I said,
how would you keep people out of community

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and they're gonna throw up on the screen?

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I thought it was really,
really insightful, this one, he says,

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I just assume ChatGPT is a man.

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So my apologies right there.

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ChatGPT said this,
I would never attack community head on.

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That would be stupid.

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People defend what they know they need
instead of make community feel

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unnecessary, exhausting, or unsafe.

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I discourage community
because community exposes the devil.

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And when they gather, when they do this,
when they gather, they notice

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lies faster.

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They interrupt spirals.
They remind each other of who they are.

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They pray
when someone is too tired to pray,

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they pull people back
when they wander and watch.

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This isolation lets me work undetected.

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A person alone will call my whispers
their own thoughts.

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Here's how I do it.

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I convince them
that they're stronger alone.

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I tell them
you don't need help. Defending.

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Depending on people is weakness.

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Your faith is between you and God.

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And watch this
ad rebrand isolation as maturity.

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I wouldn't call with all their wounds.

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People do that just fine.

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I simply say, see, this is what happens
when you trust people.

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Protect yourself. Next time.

252
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Stay guarded.
I wouldn't tell them to heal.

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It's for the people right here.

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I would tell them to withdraw.

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I wouldn't tell them to submit.

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I'd tell them to leave the church.

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I keep them busy but lonely.

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I'd fill their calendars
and empty their souls.

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They'd be too busy for meals together.

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Long conversation.

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Church beyond attendance on Sundays.

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Real friendship.

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They'd feel productive but hollow.

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I'd replace community
with cheap substitutes.

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Now watch this for my online people.

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I'm coming for you now.

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I give them content
instead of conversations.

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Followers instead of friends, messages

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instead of meals, podcast
instead of pastors who know their name.

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They feel connected
without ever being known.

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Next, I'd weaponize shame.

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I'd whisper, if they really knew you.

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They believe you should be further along.

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By now.

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Everyone else has it together
because shame keeps people quiet.

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Silence keeps people alone
and alone keeps the devil in control.

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If they do find community, I'd poison it.

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I wouldn't destroy it.
Rather I'd divide it.

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I turn preferences in a moral lines.

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Elevate politics over people, encourage
comparison, stir up suspicion,

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I reward outrage, I made them sit

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next to each other at church
but never truly trust each other.

283
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My end goal. It's not destruction.

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It's disconnection.

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Because once somebody is isolated,
I don't need to lie loudly,

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tempt aggressively, or attack openly.

287
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They'll do my work for me.

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They'll call despair, reality,
isolation, peace, survival, freedom.

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And the best part?

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They'll think they chose it
all on their own.

291
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And the real reason is everything
God does.

292
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I try to undo and God

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builds people together.

294
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I don't know, maybe ChatGPT is
the devil has a good plan right there.

295
00:12:02,655 --> 00:12:04,156
That's a good plan right there.

296
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I'm reading

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this and I'm thinking about how we all
desperately need connection in our life.

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And I need you to understand this morning,
as we get started, that individualism

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might start small
and it might not seem like a big deal,

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but individualism will eventually lead you
to a life of isolation,

301
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and you and I were not designed to live
life in isolation.

302
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You're open to attacks from the enemy.

303
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In isolation.

304
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You tend to make bad decisions.

305
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In isolation, you tend to do things
that you're not proud of in isolation.

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Each and every one of us

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were made to live a life of connection
with the people around us.

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Do you know why?

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Because where there's real connection
with people around you,

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there's real protection.

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There's protection for your marriage.

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There's protection for your finances.

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There's protection for your faith.

314
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There's protection for your mind.
There's protection for your heart.

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Where there's real connection in life,
there's real protection.

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And in Mark chapter two, we see right away
that Jesus, he's come home.

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Now we know
Jesus is not born in Capernaum.

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We just got out December.

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We know he's
born in Bethlehem, in Nazareth.

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But it says that Jesus
came home to Capernaum.

321
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Now why Jesus was born in Bethlehem of
in Nazareth.

322
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But later in his life he would relocate
for his earthly years of ministry.

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At the age of 32, a city called Capernaum.

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And he comes home,

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and the Bible shows us right away
that the houses were filled with people,

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and there was no room for anybody
to get in.

327
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Now this to me, it's
kind of like our 10 a.m. service.

328
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Like there ain't no room at the 10 a.m..

329
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We're breaking
all sorts of fire codes in here.

330
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There's an emergency. Like this
whole church is going down.

331
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People gotta spread out
and go to different services.

332
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But there's no room for anybody
to get in this house.

333
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And the Bible shows us that there's one
man who specifically couldn't get to where

334
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Jesus was. There was a paralyzed man.

335
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He had no way to get himself to the church
where Jesus was, and he had no way,

336
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even if he could find a way
to get to this house, to this gathering,

337
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there was no way for this man

338
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to actually get in the house,
because it's completely full.

339
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And why?

340
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The Bible tells us
that he's paralyzed from birth.

341
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He has had no way of walking,
no way of really getting around.

342
00:14:03,742 --> 00:14:04,276
And you know what?

343
00:14:04,276 --> 00:14:07,413
I've experienced today is there's
a lot of people that come to church

344
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skeptical, and they have paralysis
of Jesus, meaning this.

345
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They have no way of coming to Jesus

346
00:14:12,318 --> 00:14:15,321
because all they live with
is the shame that they carry,

347
00:14:15,588 --> 00:14:18,023
the shame that you carry,
the decisions that you made in the past,

348
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the things that you've done

349
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that you're not proud of,
and you think that I don't know

350
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if anybody could love me
if they really knew me.

351
00:14:23,229 --> 00:14:26,565
And so you think this about people around
you, but then you attribute this to God.

352
00:14:26,799 --> 00:14:28,834
God wouldn't accept me.
God wouldn't love me.

353
00:14:28,834 --> 00:14:31,303
I don't know if I can come
before a perfect and gracious God

354
00:14:31,303 --> 00:14:34,006
if he knew all these things about me,
but he does.

355
00:14:34,006 --> 00:14:37,543
Maybe for you it's misconceptions
that you have these thoughts in your mind,

356
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or these things that you think
you got to live up to in these

357
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these lines that you have to achieve
if you're going to follow

358
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Jesus in misconception
has kept you back from Jesus.

359
00:14:44,984 --> 00:14:48,487
But maybe, just maybe,
the thing that has kept you back

360
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from really coming to Jesus in this room
is you've had Christians around you

361
00:14:53,592 --> 00:14:54,159
your whole life,

362
00:14:54,159 --> 00:14:57,563
and all you've ever seen and witnessed
is the hypocrisy of believers.

363
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You say they say one thing here,

364
00:15:00,266 --> 00:15:02,835
they do another there,
and then all of a sudden

365
00:15:02,835 --> 00:15:05,838
you put your faith in people
and you take it out of God.

366
00:15:06,138 --> 00:15:10,576
And there's some things like this that
keep us back from truly following Jesus.

367
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And that's where this man is.

368
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He can't actually get to Jesus.

369
00:15:13,779 --> 00:15:16,815
And I think this man has a moment
where he thinks to himself, a realizes

370
00:15:16,815 --> 00:15:18,117
maybe something that you've
thought to yourself

371
00:15:18,117 --> 00:15:21,287
before that it's always easier to do life
alone, isn't it?

372
00:15:21,921 --> 00:15:24,023
You got nobody to disagree with you.

373
00:15:24,023 --> 00:15:25,991
You got nobody to challenge you.

374
00:15:25,991 --> 00:15:28,127
You got nobody to call you higher.

375
00:15:28,127 --> 00:15:29,395
You got nobody that's going to actually

376
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try to walk with you
and actually really know you.

377
00:15:32,598 --> 00:15:36,368
It's always easier to do life
alone, isn't it, until it's not

378
00:15:37,636 --> 00:15:40,606
until
you're desperate for a miracle from God,

379
00:15:40,706 --> 00:15:43,876
until you don't know where that next
paycheck is going to come from to sustain

380
00:15:43,876 --> 00:15:47,713
your life, it's always easier
to do life alone and tell it's not.

381
00:15:47,713 --> 00:15:49,415
And that's exactly where this man is.

382
00:15:49,415 --> 00:15:52,651
He has no way of getting to Jesus,
and he realizes in this moment

383
00:15:52,785 --> 00:15:55,554
I might not want people,
but check this out.

384
00:15:55,554 --> 00:15:58,657
I need people,
I need godly people around me.

385
00:15:58,657 --> 00:16:01,160
I need people with faith around me.

386
00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,395
And so I remember a couple of years ago,
I was a youth pastor

387
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here, and I had this student,
this middle schooler,

388
00:16:05,564 --> 00:16:08,534
and, he's here today,
so I'm not going to say names.

389
00:16:08,534 --> 00:16:11,971
He's out on the porch and he's like,
you know, every, every, let's just call

390
00:16:11,971 --> 00:16:15,207
for what is every spastic middle school
kid, you know, can't contain him.

391
00:16:15,574 --> 00:16:16,875
And, he's out on the porch.

392
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He's like, dude, all these, like, jump
kicks and moves and stuff.

393
00:16:19,111 --> 00:16:20,412
Weird stuff, you know?

394
00:16:20,412 --> 00:16:21,947
And, middle schoolers.

395
00:16:21,947 --> 00:16:24,917
No deodorant, no deodorant, by the way,
and just be coming into puberty.

396
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He's like, does this flip on the porch?

397
00:16:26,685 --> 00:16:27,286
He lays out?

398
00:16:27,286 --> 00:16:30,022
So I'm like, oh, that didn't look good.

399
00:16:30,022 --> 00:16:31,857
I'm like, hey, bro, you need help?
I'm like, coming up like this.

400
00:16:31,857 --> 00:16:33,692
I'm hey, bro,
I need help. And he just turns around.

401
00:16:33,692 --> 00:16:37,463
I don't know what spirit was in it, but,
you know, just get away from me.

402
00:16:37,463 --> 00:16:40,199
I'm like, whoa,
I'm just trying to help you.

403
00:16:40,199 --> 00:16:42,167
He said, don't look at me.
Don't talk to me.

404
00:16:42,167 --> 00:16:42,735
Just walk away.

405
00:16:42,735 --> 00:16:45,304
And I'm like,
that is a really weird reaction to me.

406
00:16:45,304 --> 00:16:48,307
Just trying to lend a hand
and help you right now.

407
00:16:49,008 --> 00:16:51,010
Why? Why didn't he want my help?

408
00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:52,711
He was embarrassed.

409
00:16:52,711 --> 00:16:54,046
He was ashamed of himself.

410
00:16:54,046 --> 00:16:57,216
He didn't want me to help,
and he didn't want me to help him

411
00:16:57,216 --> 00:16:59,485
through that situation.
He wouldn't take my help.

412
00:17:00,486 --> 00:17:03,655
And while this is a dramatic scene,
a lot of us live this way where

413
00:17:03,655 --> 00:17:06,658
we don't want other people to carry us
through life when we're going through it,

414
00:17:06,825 --> 00:17:09,795
when we're hurting,
when we're desperate for help,

415
00:17:09,962 --> 00:17:13,432
when we don't know how to ask for,
when we're embarrassed, we don't know how.

416
00:17:13,432 --> 00:17:16,568
Because sometimes in life when we don't
want to be carried, the biggest part of it

417
00:17:17,169 --> 00:17:20,172
is that we just we're afraid of
other people seeing us differently.

418
00:17:20,205 --> 00:17:23,175
Some of you, you've been going
to project church for a lot of years.

419
00:17:23,175 --> 00:17:25,010
You're like, man,
I wish I could talk to Pastor Caleb

420
00:17:25,010 --> 00:17:27,346
and Chris about what I'm going through,
but I think if I actually tell them

421
00:17:27,346 --> 00:17:29,148
what I'm going through,
maybe they're not going to let me serve.

422
00:17:30,349 --> 00:17:32,751
Maybe they're not gonna let me lead
this small group.

423
00:17:32,751 --> 00:17:34,620
They're going to see me differently.

424
00:17:34,620 --> 00:17:36,855
Or maybe for you, you've been going
through some financial problems.

425
00:17:36,855 --> 00:17:38,057
Like, I can't tell my friends this

426
00:17:38,057 --> 00:17:40,125
because I've always done well,
but now I'm struggling. I.

427
00:17:40,125 --> 00:17:41,360
I made some bad decisions.

428
00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:42,194
I lost my job,

429
00:17:42,194 --> 00:17:45,197
and they're going to see me differently
if they know that I'm struggling.

430
00:17:45,697 --> 00:17:48,801
But all of it comes back to one thing
pride.

431
00:17:49,835 --> 00:17:52,805
Pride is the one thing that is preventing
you and I from the work

432
00:17:52,805 --> 00:17:54,673
that God really wants to do in our lives.

433
00:17:54,673 --> 00:17:57,976
The Bible says that God draws near
to those who are humble in heart,

434
00:17:58,577 --> 00:17:59,645
but he resists.

435
00:17:59,645 --> 00:18:05,350
Those who are prideful in pride is the one
thing that pushes us away from people,

436
00:18:05,451 --> 00:18:09,154
and it pushes us away from the very things
that God wants to do in our life.

437
00:18:09,655 --> 00:18:13,792
And maybe today, maybe you don't want
to be carried by the people around you,

438
00:18:14,326 --> 00:18:18,630
not because of pride, but maybe you've
tried to be vulnerable people before.

439
00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:21,366
Maybe you tried to be transparent
with people before

440
00:18:21,366 --> 00:18:22,634
you try to share
what you're walking through.

441
00:18:22,634 --> 00:18:23,902
You tried to share
what you're going through,

442
00:18:23,902 --> 00:18:26,905
and all you got in
return was judgment from people.

443
00:18:27,139 --> 00:18:28,674
Maybe all you got in return for people

444
00:18:28,674 --> 00:18:32,211
was them taking your vulnerability,
your transparency and gossiping about you.

445
00:18:32,845 --> 00:18:34,847
And you told somebody
something in private.

446
00:18:34,847 --> 00:18:37,116
And they they thought it was public news
to share with everybody.

447
00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:38,951
And you tried it and it backfired.

448
00:18:38,951 --> 00:18:40,953
And maybe for you,
this is the very reason why I said,

449
00:18:40,953 --> 00:18:42,554
I'm never going to trust anybody again.

450
00:18:42,554 --> 00:18:44,623
I'm never going to open up
about these things again.

451
00:18:44,623 --> 00:18:46,458
But hear me loud and clear.

452
00:18:46,458 --> 00:18:47,759
People are always going to fail. You.

453
00:18:49,228 --> 00:18:52,030
I'm going to fail you, our pastors.

454
00:18:52,030 --> 00:18:53,298
We're going to fail you. Why?

455
00:18:53,298 --> 00:18:56,101
Because people are not perfect.
What do we say here at Project Church?

456
00:18:56,101 --> 00:18:59,438
We are all people in progress
and we're always going to fail you.

457
00:18:59,438 --> 00:19:01,406
The good news is God never will.

458
00:19:01,406 --> 00:19:03,375
You can bring everything
to the feet of Jesus.

459
00:19:03,375 --> 00:19:04,676
You can always trust him with you.

460
00:19:04,676 --> 00:19:06,445
What you're walking through. He's
a good shepherd.

461
00:19:06,445 --> 00:19:08,447
He loves to supply for you.
He loves to give you peace.

462
00:19:08,447 --> 00:19:11,383
He loves to walk with you.
God won't fail you.

463
00:19:11,383 --> 00:19:13,685
But what? I've seen a couple things happen
with people that have tried.

464
00:19:13,685 --> 00:19:16,421
It's backfired. When people fail you.

465
00:19:16,421 --> 00:19:19,124
You either will victimize yourself

466
00:19:19,124 --> 00:19:21,593
or you're going to demonize others.

467
00:19:21,593 --> 00:19:22,995
What do you mean, pastor?

468
00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:26,632
Well, victimization is you say, man,
they meant to hurt me.

469
00:19:26,932 --> 00:19:28,700
Yeah, I should have never been honest.

470
00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:30,302
I should have never told them
what I was going through.

471
00:19:30,302 --> 00:19:33,305
This is exactly what happens
when I trust people.

472
00:19:33,472 --> 00:19:34,806
Or maybe you think to yourself, man,

473
00:19:34,806 --> 00:19:38,210
it wasn't just the intent of my pain,
but man, they were out to get me.

474
00:19:38,610 --> 00:19:41,313
Man, that church right there. Hypocrites.

475
00:19:41,313 --> 00:19:44,283
Those people fake
and you victimize yourself or man.

476
00:19:44,283 --> 00:19:46,151
Every bad decision
that's happened in my life

477
00:19:46,151 --> 00:19:50,489
since that moment, it's their fault
and you start pointing the finger.

478
00:19:50,489 --> 00:19:52,090
But maybe for you,
you don't victimize yourself.

479
00:19:52,090 --> 00:19:53,992
Maybe you demonize other people.

480
00:19:53,992 --> 00:19:55,994
Maybe you go, man, they're evil.

481
00:19:55,994 --> 00:19:57,162
Those are bad people.

482
00:19:57,162 --> 00:19:58,997
You can't trust those
people. And church people,

483
00:19:59,998 --> 00:20:02,100
they look one way, but they act another.

484
00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:03,835
And we begin to demonize other people.

485
00:20:03,835 --> 00:20:07,439
But hear me, just because people fail you,
it doesn't mean

486
00:20:07,439 --> 00:20:10,576
you need to victimize yourself or demonize
anybody else.

487
00:20:10,809 --> 00:20:13,845
You just got to recognize
every single person that you encounter

488
00:20:13,845 --> 00:20:18,417
on a day to day up, day to day
encounter is a person in progress.

489
00:20:18,750 --> 00:20:20,185
We're all people trying to figure it out.

490
00:20:20,185 --> 00:20:22,054
We're all people who are imperfect.

491
00:20:22,054 --> 00:20:25,757
You don't have to demonize or victimize
anybody else.

492
00:20:25,757 --> 00:20:29,294
You see this man,
he needed help getting to Jesus.

493
00:20:30,028 --> 00:20:32,564
He had no way of getting there on his own.

494
00:20:32,564 --> 00:20:35,434
And in life for all of us, we're
going to have moments where we realize

495
00:20:35,434 --> 00:20:38,537
if there's certain places
I'm going to get, I can't do it on my own.

496
00:20:39,004 --> 00:20:40,138
I need people around me.

497
00:20:40,138 --> 00:20:42,241
I love it
when people are applying for a job.

498
00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:44,409
This isn't in my notes, but you know,
people are applying for a job.

499
00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:45,577
And the one thing that you hear
from people

500
00:20:45,577 --> 00:20:49,014
who are overconfident, they go,
oh no, no, no, no, you don't understand.

501
00:20:49,381 --> 00:20:51,083
I know somebody on the inside.

502
00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:53,652
Yeah, yeah,
I know somebody who works there, you know?

503
00:20:53,652 --> 00:20:55,487
Don't worry. They're going to get
me in there. Give me a job.

504
00:20:56,488 --> 00:20:57,856
Let me just share this.

505
00:20:57,856 --> 00:20:59,524
Maybe even prophetically for a moment.

506
00:20:59,524 --> 00:21:01,627
It doesn't always matter
who you know in this earth.

507
00:21:01,627 --> 00:21:02,461
As long as you know

508
00:21:02,461 --> 00:21:06,265
God and God knows you, any space
you walk into, you're already favored.

509
00:21:06,265 --> 00:21:08,000
You're already blessed.

510
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,601
It doesn't matter if people know you.

511
00:21:09,601 --> 00:21:13,105
God knows you, and God walks with you
and God opens your doors.

512
00:21:13,105 --> 00:21:13,905
In this moment,

513
00:21:13,905 --> 00:21:16,575
this man realized
he needed people around him,

514
00:21:16,575 --> 00:21:18,377
and all of us are going to come back
to that place

515
00:21:18,377 --> 00:21:19,845
of realizing that there's moments

516
00:21:19,845 --> 00:21:22,814
where we can't carry ourselves
to where we need to go, and God,

517
00:21:22,814 --> 00:21:25,817
the community will always carry you
where you can never get yourself.

518
00:21:26,084 --> 00:21:27,719
I don't know what season
you find yourself in.

519
00:21:27,719 --> 00:21:29,955
I don't know
where you find yourself today,

520
00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:32,357
but what I know is when there's times
where you can't get yourself

521
00:21:32,357 --> 00:21:35,327
to where you need to go, godly
community will pick you up.

522
00:21:35,527 --> 00:21:36,928
So let us walk with you.

523
00:21:36,928 --> 00:21:38,363
Let us take the weight with you.

524
00:21:38,363 --> 00:21:40,799
The Bible says that we should bear
each other's burdens.

525
00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:43,568
That's what community
do. Just let us walk this thing with you.

526
00:21:43,568 --> 00:21:46,705
So the first thing that godly community
does is it carries you with.

527
00:21:46,705 --> 00:21:49,308
The second thing is, is community.

528
00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:50,042
It covers you.

529
00:21:50,042 --> 00:21:53,412
You see, when these four men show up
carrying their paralyzed friend,

530
00:21:53,979 --> 00:21:57,749
and there's no room in the house
for them to get in, they get creative.

531
00:21:58,283 --> 00:22:01,086
Now, I think this is another
beautiful thing about great community.

532
00:22:01,086 --> 00:22:02,421
It's community. It's creative.

533
00:22:02,421 --> 00:22:04,790
Like if you're going through a hard
season,

534
00:22:04,790 --> 00:22:06,792
you're going through a lack of finances,
you're going through whatever

535
00:22:06,792 --> 00:22:09,628
you're going through your community
that's godly, that's walking with God.

536
00:22:09,628 --> 00:22:12,764
They're going to find any way they can
to sustain you, to get you through.

537
00:22:12,864 --> 00:22:16,435
Because where you are right now
is not where you're always going to be.

538
00:22:16,902 --> 00:22:18,503
Did you know this?

539
00:22:18,503 --> 00:22:21,306
Well, let me encourage you for a moment.

540
00:22:21,306 --> 00:22:24,309
The people here that you're
in the greatest season of your life,

541
00:22:24,676 --> 00:22:26,878
you won't always be there for

542
00:22:26,878 --> 00:22:29,881
the people that are in the worst
moments of their life.

543
00:22:30,015 --> 00:22:32,084
You won't always be there.

544
00:22:32,084 --> 00:22:36,121
The Bible says that God takes us
from glory to glory, strength to strength.

545
00:22:36,121 --> 00:22:37,322
And wherever you are,

546
00:22:37,322 --> 00:22:42,227
God has a way of using that season
to edify you and to grow you in.

547
00:22:42,227 --> 00:22:44,029
In this moment,
this man is all by himself.

548
00:22:44,029 --> 00:22:46,965
And his friends say, no, no, no.
We we think we can get you to Jesus.

549
00:22:46,965 --> 00:22:49,434
We think we can get you in the house
where the Bible tells us,

550
00:22:49,434 --> 00:22:50,435
says it says in

551
00:22:50,435 --> 00:22:53,605
Mark chapter two that the friends, they
take their friend up on top of the house.

552
00:22:53,839 --> 00:22:56,174
They begin
to rip the shingles off the roof

553
00:22:56,174 --> 00:22:59,177
and they lower their friend
down into the house.

554
00:22:59,211 --> 00:23:02,547
This is creative
and this is what godly community will do.

555
00:23:02,547 --> 00:23:05,283
They will get creative to help
you get to Jesus.

556
00:23:05,283 --> 00:23:09,121
I remember a couple of years ago, 
when I was serving as a youth pastor here,

557
00:23:09,454 --> 00:23:14,025
I had a team that was predominantly
young adults, like 19 to 23.

558
00:23:14,025 --> 00:23:15,327
So that means a few things.

559
00:23:15,327 --> 00:23:16,962
They were broke.

560
00:23:16,962 --> 00:23:19,231
They were college kids,
and their wisdom was still maturing.

561
00:23:19,231 --> 00:23:22,901
They were all the way there, yet perfect
for youth ministry, always available.

562
00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:25,370
And I remember one night
we had some students that were,

563
00:23:25,370 --> 00:23:27,305
they were just hyper students.

564
00:23:27,305 --> 00:23:29,341
High school was getting ready to graduate
doing dumb stuff,

565
00:23:29,341 --> 00:23:32,911
you know, young and dumb, like
like Khalid would say, young and dumb.

566
00:23:33,245 --> 00:23:34,579
And so this, this leader's

567
00:23:34,579 --> 00:23:37,682
trying to leave the parking lot,
and the students think to themselves,

568
00:23:38,383 --> 00:23:38,884
you know what?

569
00:23:38,884 --> 00:23:40,452
We should
we should go down the parking garage,

570
00:23:40,452 --> 00:23:41,420
and when she leaves,

571
00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:44,322
we should get on top of the car
and just bounce up and down on it.

572
00:23:44,322 --> 00:23:45,657
This is a good idea.

573
00:23:45,657 --> 00:23:47,993
So they go down the garage,
they're bounce up and down the car.

574
00:23:47,993 --> 00:23:50,462
She's trying to drive away
like this is a terrible scene.

575
00:23:50,462 --> 00:23:52,464
As a 29 year old man, I'm
just closing my eyes.

576
00:23:52,464 --> 00:23:54,166
I don't see a thing happening.

577
00:23:54,166 --> 00:23:57,536
Next thing I know,
they snap the bumper, clean off the car.

578
00:23:58,503 --> 00:24:01,273
She gets out of the car, tears
coming down her face.

579
00:24:01,273 --> 00:24:02,641
She don't understand, Sam.

580
00:24:02,641 --> 00:24:06,745
I just had that bumper replaced
and it cost me $1,500.

581
00:24:06,745 --> 00:24:10,749
And she said, I'm young and I'm in college
and I ain't got no money.

582
00:24:11,216 --> 00:24:13,285
I don't know how I'm gonna pay for this.

583
00:24:13,285 --> 00:24:17,055
She drives away
and we're in our post post rally service,

584
00:24:17,055 --> 00:24:19,458
and we're talking about
all the things that happened and,

585
00:24:19,458 --> 00:24:21,526
and we're sharing
about all the great things God did.

586
00:24:21,526 --> 00:24:25,363
And one of the young leaders, it's
19 years old, says, Sam, I got an idea.

587
00:24:26,198 --> 00:24:29,868
I think we should
all right, here talk about you, she says.

588
00:24:29,868 --> 00:24:32,103
And you know, in acts chapter two,
the Bible says that

589
00:24:32,103 --> 00:24:34,239
when the church came together,
they all sold their possessions,

590
00:24:34,239 --> 00:24:37,242
and they gave to wherever there was need
should we should do that tonight.

591
00:24:37,542 --> 00:24:38,310
We should get all the money

592
00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:41,313
that we can together in Blesser
and see if we can pay for that bumper.

593
00:24:41,513 --> 00:24:42,447
So that's a great idea.

594
00:24:42,447 --> 00:24:46,151
So that night it was a small sacrifice
for a broke 19 year old.

595
00:24:46,151 --> 00:24:49,087
It was gonna cost me a little bit more.
I said, great idea.

596
00:24:49,087 --> 00:24:51,456
So we leave and throughout the night
from 8 p.m.

597
00:24:51,456 --> 00:24:56,161
to eight in the morning, I look at my
Venmo and in my Venmo, it's $1,500 broke.

598
00:24:56,161 --> 00:24:58,096
College kids put this money together.

599
00:24:58,096 --> 00:24:59,965
I call it I call this leader.

600
00:24:59,965 --> 00:25:02,601
I said, I need to know how much does that
bumper cost?

601
00:25:02,601 --> 00:25:03,935
She said,
I don't know how I'm gonna pay for it.

602
00:25:05,036 --> 00:25:07,706
She said it cost me $1,500 to replace it.

603
00:25:07,706 --> 00:25:09,374
And I said, Praise God, she.

604
00:25:09,374 --> 00:25:10,876
What do you mean, praise God?

605
00:25:10,876 --> 00:25:13,578
How about I got no bumper on my car?

606
00:25:13,578 --> 00:25:16,047
I said, you don't know this last night,
but while you were sleeping,

607
00:25:16,047 --> 00:25:17,449
God was working.

608
00:25:17,449 --> 00:25:18,917
He knew exactly what you needed.

609
00:25:18,917 --> 00:25:21,987
I said we got $1,500 to pay
for your bumper tonight.

610
00:25:22,187 --> 00:25:24,289
We put all that money together.
We sent it to her Venmo.

611
00:25:24,289 --> 00:25:25,524
She was able to get that replace.

612
00:25:25,524 --> 00:25:28,226
And that is the power of community.

613
00:25:28,226 --> 00:25:32,731
That maybe it seems small
and maybe it seems insignificant to you,

614
00:25:32,931 --> 00:25:36,368
but can I just remind you that community,
it covers you and your need,

615
00:25:36,635 --> 00:25:38,603
and when you link arms
with people around you

616
00:25:38,603 --> 00:25:40,505
who say, hey,
I want to do this life with you,

617
00:25:40,505 --> 00:25:42,173
they will walk with you
through everything.

618
00:25:42,173 --> 00:25:45,544
I love it because in this moment
when she didn't have the money,

619
00:25:45,944 --> 00:25:47,078
it was like the phone where she thought

620
00:25:47,078 --> 00:25:50,081
to herself, like in isolation,
miracles seem impossible.

621
00:25:50,949 --> 00:25:53,818
But in community
the Bible shows us that they're commanded.

622
00:25:53,818 --> 00:25:56,354
See, in Matthew chapter 18,
Jesus is talking to the disciples

623
00:25:56,354 --> 00:25:58,723
where they were having some disputes,
and he's trying to show them

624
00:25:58,723 --> 00:26:00,825
how to go through
healthy conflict resolution.

625
00:26:00,825 --> 00:26:03,895
And Jesus tells him in
Matthew chapter 18 verse 20, he said, for

626
00:26:03,895 --> 00:26:07,666
where 2 or 3 are gathered in my name,
that there I am.

627
00:26:07,699 --> 00:26:08,600
Now let me take a second.

628
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,102
Just reminds you that God is omnipresent.

629
00:26:11,102 --> 00:26:13,071
He's in all places at all times.

630
00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:15,040
Nothing can stop the work God wants to do.

631
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,043
Whether you're ready or not, God
will still work and God will still move.

632
00:26:18,843 --> 00:26:22,247
But the Bible shows us in Matthew 18
that something special,

633
00:26:22,247 --> 00:26:25,917
insignificant,
and supernatural happens in community.

634
00:26:26,151 --> 00:26:29,421
That when you gather yourself here
on people who've got faith, the Bible

635
00:26:29,421 --> 00:26:33,124
says, if you got faith of a mustard seed,
you can move mountains.

636
00:26:33,825 --> 00:26:37,062
Now we get 2 or 3 people believing
with that kind of faith together,

637
00:26:37,162 --> 00:26:38,597
and miracles aren't impossible.

638
00:26:38,597 --> 00:26:40,665
We see that they're actually commanded,

639
00:26:40,665 --> 00:26:43,835
and this man is being lowered
by his friends who have faith.

640
00:26:44,402 --> 00:26:45,770
Now, I got a mess. Y'all uncomfortable
with me?

641
00:26:45,770 --> 00:26:47,439
This man can't move.

642
00:26:47,439 --> 00:26:48,673
All he can do is see what's happening.

643
00:26:48,673 --> 00:26:51,076
And they're dropping him through a roof.
And I'm afraid of heights. Right.

644
00:26:51,076 --> 00:26:52,811
So this already freaks me out.

645
00:26:52,811 --> 00:26:54,346
He's going down through the roof.

646
00:26:54,346 --> 00:26:57,349
There's a service happening like this,
and everybody's like, yo,

647
00:26:57,882 --> 00:26:59,317
this dude, dude, he's getting lowered

648
00:26:59,317 --> 00:27:01,486
in the middle of the service
right in front of everybody.

649
00:27:01,486 --> 00:27:03,888
The Bible says he's getting lower
right in front of Jesus.

650
00:27:03,888 --> 00:27:05,523
This had to be uncomfortable.

651
00:27:05,523 --> 00:27:07,459
That's how to be awkward for him. Be like,
yo, guys.

652
00:27:07,459 --> 00:27:09,561
Like, hey, somebody carried me here.

653
00:27:09,561 --> 00:27:11,696
I didn't I didn't do this on my own.

654
00:27:11,696 --> 00:27:14,733
Get lower
right into the center of the service.

655
00:27:15,266 --> 00:27:18,069
But I love that it was this moment
that illustrates how sometimes

656
00:27:18,069 --> 00:27:21,072
community, it'll make you uncomfortable.

657
00:27:21,339 --> 00:27:25,543
I think that a godly community won't allow
you and I to live a life of comfort,

658
00:27:25,543 --> 00:27:28,546
but rather to challenge us
to live outside of our comfort zones.

659
00:27:28,847 --> 00:27:31,983
I think godly community will remind you
that there's so much more in you

660
00:27:31,983 --> 00:27:33,051
than you even know.

661
00:27:33,051 --> 00:27:33,985
I think godly community

662
00:27:33,985 --> 00:27:37,022
will call the gifts in you
out of the godly community will remind you

663
00:27:37,022 --> 00:27:38,189
God's got more in store for you.

664
00:27:38,189 --> 00:27:41,326
I think godly community will remind you
not to settle where you are.

665
00:27:41,526 --> 00:27:44,829
I think godly community will remind you
you got a calling even when you failed.

666
00:27:45,030 --> 00:27:48,600
I think godly community will pick you up
when you can't get a godly

667
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,937
community is amazing because it reminds
you of who you really are.

668
00:27:53,471 --> 00:27:56,474
And in this moment, as he's being lowered
down, is uncomfortable.

669
00:27:56,841 --> 00:27:59,844
It's like what we read in in Proverbs 2717

670
00:28:00,345 --> 00:28:03,014
it says is iron sharpens iron,

671
00:28:03,014 --> 00:28:05,984
so another sharpens another.

672
00:28:05,984 --> 00:28:08,086
Now as you see, this iron sharpens iron.

673
00:28:08,086 --> 00:28:10,255
You know that that causes friction.

674
00:28:10,255 --> 00:28:11,823
That's uncomfortable,

675
00:28:11,823 --> 00:28:15,660
that causes some some ripples, that causes
some disputes in relationship.

676
00:28:15,660 --> 00:28:18,563
When iron sharpens
iron, that could be uncomfortable.

677
00:28:18,563 --> 00:28:19,597
But I need you to understand this.

678
00:28:19,597 --> 00:28:21,232
And this is where
I'm gonna start laying the plan.

679
00:28:21,232 --> 00:28:22,667
Are you ready for this?

680
00:28:22,667 --> 00:28:27,105
What I found in today's culture
is that everybody wants community,

681
00:28:28,206 --> 00:28:31,209
but not everybody wants accountability.

682
00:28:31,776 --> 00:28:33,545
Everybody wants to get in community,

683
00:28:33,545 --> 00:28:37,182
and they want to be encouraged,
but they don't want to be corrected.

684
00:28:37,749 --> 00:28:40,418
They want they want to come in a community
and they want to be more.

685
00:28:40,418 --> 00:28:43,955
They want to be motivated, but they won't
want their lives to be modified.

686
00:28:44,456 --> 00:28:47,292
They want to come into community
and they want to be comforted,

687
00:28:47,292 --> 00:28:49,227
but they don't want to be challenged.

688
00:28:49,227 --> 00:28:50,462
It can't just help you for a moment.

689
00:28:50,462 --> 00:28:53,465
If you've read the scripture
for any glimpse of time,

690
00:28:53,498 --> 00:28:56,334
that community well down accountability.

691
00:28:56,334 --> 00:28:58,503
It's not discipleship, yo.

692
00:28:58,503 --> 00:28:59,537
You're not growing.

693
00:28:59,537 --> 00:29:01,005
If you're not being challenged,

694
00:29:01,005 --> 00:29:03,641
you're not growing
as people are calling you higher.

695
00:29:03,641 --> 00:29:06,578
You're not growing
if you've got surface level relationships.

696
00:29:06,578 --> 00:29:09,581
But nobody knows the depths of your soul.

697
00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:13,051
So we can't come to church on Sunday
mornings and say, I'm being discipled,

698
00:29:13,051 --> 00:29:14,252
but nobody knows your name.

699
00:29:15,620 --> 00:29:18,356
I know that the knee jerk reaction
is just to get into community

700
00:29:18,356 --> 00:29:19,791
where people make you feel good,

701
00:29:19,791 --> 00:29:22,427
but if you really want to grow in life,
you got to get around people

702
00:29:22,427 --> 00:29:25,430
who are not just going to agree
with everything you have to say.

703
00:29:25,563 --> 00:29:27,699
You don't just need more
yes men around you.

704
00:29:27,699 --> 00:29:31,603
You need people who are going to call you
out, call you higher, call you out,

705
00:29:31,703 --> 00:29:33,471
tell you what's inside of you.

706
00:29:33,471 --> 00:29:35,974
Community has got to challenge
you a little bit.

707
00:29:35,974 --> 00:29:38,977
And that's what Proverbs
2717 is trying to tell us, that iron

708
00:29:39,377 --> 00:29:42,347
sharpens iron,
but it can be uncomfortable.

709
00:29:42,514 --> 00:29:45,517
And as I'm getting ready to close,
I want to say this.

710
00:29:45,917 --> 00:29:49,687
Why am I harping
on accountability in 2026?

711
00:29:50,255 --> 00:29:53,691
I just believe that for people in here
that you've got goals you want to hit

712
00:29:53,691 --> 00:29:55,226
and you've got some, some,

713
00:29:55,226 --> 00:29:56,628
some lines that you want to cross,

714
00:29:56,628 --> 00:29:59,898
you got some things that you really hoping
to achieve that accountability.

715
00:30:00,031 --> 00:30:01,599
It could save your life. Yeah.

716
00:30:02,967 --> 00:30:05,970
Let me speak to married people.

717
00:30:06,004 --> 00:30:09,007
Accountability can save your marriage.

718
00:30:09,107 --> 00:30:10,875
Let me talk to the single people.

719
00:30:10,875 --> 00:30:13,478
Accountability can save your purity.

720
00:30:13,478 --> 00:30:14,879
Let me talk to business owners.

721
00:30:14,879 --> 00:30:17,448
Accountability can save your finances.

722
00:30:17,448 --> 00:30:20,451
Accountability could save your life.

723
00:30:20,952 --> 00:30:24,322
And the only thing keeping you back
from all that God wants to do.

724
00:30:25,056 --> 00:30:27,792
Pride.

725
00:30:27,792 --> 00:30:30,361
If I had to guess for
the people are going to be tempted

726
00:30:30,361 --> 00:30:33,364
to walk out these doors
and get in the elevator, get in their car.

727
00:30:33,464 --> 00:30:34,065
It's pride.

728
00:30:34,065 --> 00:30:37,001
I don't want people to know me,
but yes, you do,

729
00:30:37,001 --> 00:30:40,004
because the greatest human desire
is to be known by others.

730
00:30:40,271 --> 00:30:42,640
And maybe the most humble step
you and I could take

731
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,809
today is to say,
I'm not just going to leave early.

732
00:30:44,809 --> 00:30:46,711
I'm not just going to dodge people.

733
00:30:46,711 --> 00:30:48,880
I'm going to go down there
and I'm going to get in a community group.

734
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,249
I'm going to get people around me
who are going to do life with me.

735
00:30:51,249 --> 00:30:52,817
I want to get in community,

736
00:30:52,817 --> 00:30:55,820
but I want community
that's going to bring me accountability.

737
00:30:56,254 --> 00:30:57,522
The next one,
I'm getting ready to close here.

738
00:30:57,522 --> 00:31:00,491
The keys can come back up is a community.

739
00:31:00,491 --> 00:31:02,093
It cultivates your faith.

740
00:31:02,093 --> 00:31:05,630
You see, in this moment, this man's been
lowered down into the house.

741
00:31:06,397 --> 00:31:10,368
It shows us in Mark two that it's he's
being lowered right in front of Jesus.

742
00:31:10,835 --> 00:31:13,838
And the only thing that we see that
Jesus really recognizes

743
00:31:14,305 --> 00:31:17,742
is, is that it says this, that Jesus,
he saw their faith.

744
00:31:18,676 --> 00:31:22,013
Did you know that your faith can
be seen and it can be heard?

745
00:31:24,148 --> 00:31:26,718
Did you know that if you say
that you have faith but it can't be seen

746
00:31:26,718 --> 00:31:29,721
it, it can't be heard that maybe it's
not as strong as you once thought it was?

747
00:31:30,588 --> 00:31:35,627
Jesus said that he saw their faith,
and I think we all ought to be people

748
00:31:35,860 --> 00:31:38,897
who we know that I want my faith
to be seen, and I want to be heard.

749
00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:42,166
Every place that I walk into,
every business that I go to,

750
00:31:42,267 --> 00:31:45,270
every person I have conversations with,
every time I show up to the

751
00:31:45,336 --> 00:31:49,007
the games for my kids, everywhere I go,
I want people to know, oh, that's the guy.

752
00:31:49,507 --> 00:31:50,642
He's got faith.

753
00:31:50,642 --> 00:31:53,745
I think we all ought to be to be
the people that encourage others.

754
00:31:54,078 --> 00:31:56,881
I think we all ought to be the people
that walk with the fruits of the spirit

755
00:31:56,881 --> 00:31:57,415
in our life.

756
00:31:57,415 --> 00:32:00,685
That when people get around us,
it's like, man, I love being around them,

757
00:32:01,519 --> 00:32:02,553
but it's not us.

758
00:32:03,755 --> 00:32:05,023
This is what happens when we

759
00:32:05,023 --> 00:32:08,226
empty self in front of God and say,
I want my life to be yours.

760
00:32:08,226 --> 00:32:10,428
And he fills us with him

761
00:32:10,428 --> 00:32:13,431
so that when people get around us,
it's like they get around him.

762
00:32:13,464 --> 00:32:16,467
It's like when people hear us talk,
it's like they're hearing him talk.

763
00:32:16,601 --> 00:32:19,637
It's like when we serve people,
it's as if God is serving them.

764
00:32:20,338 --> 00:32:23,274
And this is what happens in our life

765
00:32:23,274 --> 00:32:26,277
when we make the decision to say, God,
you can use me.

766
00:32:26,577 --> 00:32:27,345
I think we all are.

767
00:32:27,345 --> 00:32:29,781
The way these people say, God,

768
00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:31,783
you can use me

769
00:32:31,783 --> 00:32:35,153
wherever I am, whatever words I got,
whatever days I have,

770
00:32:35,153 --> 00:32:36,287
I don't know when the end is coming.

771
00:32:36,287 --> 00:32:39,557
I know Jesus is coming soon
and I gotta live with urgency.

772
00:32:40,558 --> 00:32:43,594
And I want to encourage you today
that you start speaking words.

773
00:32:43,594 --> 00:32:44,195
You know that

774
00:32:44,195 --> 00:32:46,731
they tell you that with your finances
that you should invest it

775
00:32:46,731 --> 00:32:51,869
in a savings account or in a portfolio
so that your your money works for you.

776
00:32:52,670 --> 00:32:55,006
And just like money works for you
if you do it the right way,

777
00:32:55,006 --> 00:32:57,542
I believe that your words will work
for you to see.

778
00:32:57,542 --> 00:32:58,276
The Bible tells us

779
00:32:58,276 --> 00:33:01,646
that the words that we speak that either
bring life or death to those around us.

780
00:33:02,246 --> 00:33:05,116
In your words,
they matter not just in light of humanity,

781
00:33:05,116 --> 00:33:07,452
but in light of eternity.
Your words are working.

782
00:33:07,452 --> 00:33:09,354
The things that you're saying,
they're working.

783
00:33:09,354 --> 00:33:11,956
I think we should be
people who speak life over people.

784
00:33:11,956 --> 00:33:15,460
We should be few that encourage that,
that motivate that stick prophecy

785
00:33:15,460 --> 00:33:18,496
over people, that remind them
that God's not done yet.

786
00:33:19,230 --> 00:33:21,666
I love when I get around my friends
over the last couple seasons,

787
00:33:21,666 --> 00:33:25,570
and one of my friends has been unemployed
for a while and he's overqualified.

788
00:33:25,570 --> 00:33:27,905
He's got the degrees,
he's got the work experience.

789
00:33:27,905 --> 00:33:33,211
So I just every job I apply to, I just
can't get the job I'm overqualified for.

790
00:33:33,378 --> 00:33:33,945
I'm way better.

791
00:33:33,945 --> 00:33:34,746
They just gotta pay me.

792
00:33:34,746 --> 00:33:37,515
But they're just not hiring me.

793
00:33:37,515 --> 00:33:40,184
I just tell them, bro,
I don't know what's going on,

794
00:33:40,184 --> 00:33:43,021
but I wonder what God is holding for you
that he's allowing you to hear

795
00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:44,555
know every single time.

796
00:33:44,555 --> 00:33:47,558
It reminds me that God's got something
really great prepared for you.

797
00:33:47,959 --> 00:33:50,161
I love my friends out there
like they're 30 there my age.

798
00:33:50,161 --> 00:33:52,630
They're still single. It's the same.
I thought I'd be married.

799
00:33:52,630 --> 00:33:54,899
I thought I'd have kids by now,
but I'm not. And I'm.

800
00:33:54,899 --> 00:33:57,368
I don't even know where to start anymore.

801
00:33:57,368 --> 00:34:00,238
I go, I wonder why God has not allowed you
to have a relationship.

802
00:34:00,238 --> 00:34:02,306
I wonder what is working in you, I wonder?

803
00:34:02,306 --> 00:34:05,343
The husband and the wife that he's
curating on the inside of you so

804
00:34:05,343 --> 00:34:08,913
that whenever you do get married,
you don't repeat your parents mistakes.

805
00:34:09,113 --> 00:34:12,917
You don't repeat what you've seen before,
but you are a healthy, whole individual.

806
00:34:13,284 --> 00:34:16,354
I think we all ought to speak
words of life over people,

807
00:34:16,354 --> 00:34:18,923
and I love what Eugene
Patterson says about this.

808
00:34:18,923 --> 00:34:20,625
He says this.

809
00:34:20,625 --> 00:34:24,829
He said there can be no maturity
in the spiritual life, no obedience

810
00:34:24,829 --> 00:34:29,934
to Christ, apart from a full immersion
in and embrace of community.

811
00:34:30,234 --> 00:34:32,270
You want to know how to grow in 2026?

812
00:34:32,270 --> 00:34:35,006
Let me be really clear.
Get yourself in community.

813
00:34:36,507 --> 00:34:36,874
The Bible

814
00:34:36,874 --> 00:34:39,977
tells us in acts chapter two
that when the first church gathered,

815
00:34:39,977 --> 00:34:43,047
they they didn't just do it for prayer,
and they didn't just do it for teaching.

816
00:34:43,081 --> 00:34:46,084
They didn't just do it for
they did it for community.

817
00:34:47,185 --> 00:34:49,087
It often times you go,
I know I need the Word of God.

818
00:34:49,087 --> 00:34:51,923
Yeah that's good. Pastor,
preach about the Word of God.

819
00:34:51,923 --> 00:34:54,092
Yeah, I know I need prayer. Let's talk
more about prayer.

820
00:34:54,092 --> 00:34:55,927
And we are in the weeks to come.

821
00:34:55,927 --> 00:34:58,296
But there's a huge spiritual element

822
00:34:58,296 --> 00:35:01,299
wrapped up in a practical element
called community.

823
00:35:01,632 --> 00:35:03,835
If God does something special
or if you want to grow

824
00:35:03,835 --> 00:35:06,037
spiritually this year,
let me help you get around.

825
00:35:06,037 --> 00:35:09,140
Other people are going to challenge you,
but they're also going to encourage you.

826
00:35:09,574 --> 00:35:12,944
In the last point today, as I close
this community, it celebrates that

827
00:35:12,977 --> 00:35:16,481
Jesus heals a man
that his friends all had faith for him.

828
00:35:16,914 --> 00:35:19,784
I think there's gonna be seasons of life
if we be honest.

829
00:35:19,784 --> 00:35:23,354
Well, your faith might be lacking,
or you might walk through some difficulty

830
00:35:23,354 --> 00:35:25,156
where you don't know
what you're going to do next.

831
00:35:25,156 --> 00:35:27,225
And when you get some people around you
to say, man,

832
00:35:27,225 --> 00:35:29,193
I got faith for you,
I'm going to pray with you.

833
00:35:29,193 --> 00:35:31,295
I'm going to walk with you.
I'm going to believe for you.

834
00:35:31,295 --> 00:35:32,897
You get around those kind of people.

835
00:35:32,897 --> 00:35:34,932
It's like turning a spark into a bonfire.

836
00:35:34,932 --> 00:35:37,935
You go, oh man, I feel like
God is going to do something.

837
00:35:37,935 --> 00:35:40,571
Sometimes community
got to cultivate faith in you,

838
00:35:40,571 --> 00:35:43,107
but sometimes you got to understand
that when you're in a godly community

839
00:35:43,107 --> 00:35:44,208
that they're going to celebrate you.

840
00:35:44,208 --> 00:35:47,745
You see, in this moment,
this man is healed by Jesus,

841
00:35:48,079 --> 00:35:51,082
and he gets up
and he's able to walk out of this moment.

842
00:35:51,082 --> 00:35:54,552
And it doesn't say in the scriptures
that his friends were like, yo, Jesus,

843
00:35:54,552 --> 00:35:57,555
what about me?
I've been praying for a job.

844
00:35:57,855 --> 00:35:59,790
I've been praying for a life.

845
00:35:59,790 --> 00:36:00,825
I've been praying for more.

846
00:36:00,825 --> 00:36:03,828
What what what what what what
what what about me?

847
00:36:03,861 --> 00:36:05,329
That doesn't happen.

848
00:36:05,329 --> 00:36:07,365
The Bible says that when this man gets,
somebody walks.

849
00:36:07,365 --> 00:36:08,733
Out of there.

850
00:36:08,733 --> 00:36:11,235
Oh, God. You're amazing.

851
00:36:11,235 --> 00:36:13,037
I can't believe you healed him.

852
00:36:13,037 --> 00:36:14,805
I can't believe you changed him.

853
00:36:14,805 --> 00:36:17,175
I can't believe you answered that prayer.
I didn't think you're it.

854
00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:19,210
You did it. God. You're amazing.

855
00:36:20,745 --> 00:36:21,312
It says it.

856
00:36:21,312 --> 00:36:24,348
The community, they come around
and they're stunned.

857
00:36:24,348 --> 00:36:27,151
And they praise God.
And they clap their hands.

858
00:36:27,151 --> 00:36:30,154
They make noise and they celebrate

859
00:36:30,254 --> 00:36:33,257
what God has done for somebody else.

860
00:36:33,658 --> 00:36:35,259
Can I tell you that?

861
00:36:35,259 --> 00:36:37,495
Healthy community,
they won't compare with you.

862
00:36:37,495 --> 00:36:38,963
They'll celebrate you.

863
00:36:38,963 --> 00:36:40,364
They'll cheer you on.

864
00:36:40,364 --> 00:36:41,032
They're celebrate.

865
00:36:41,032 --> 00:36:43,734
When God works in your life,
they believe where God isn't it?

866
00:36:43,734 --> 00:36:45,436
It hasn't worked out that he's gotta work.

867
00:36:45,436 --> 00:36:48,439
They'll believe with you
and they'll celebrate you the whole way.

868
00:36:48,973 --> 00:36:52,476
Healthy people understand, hey,
God's going to do a lot of amazing things.

869
00:36:52,476 --> 00:36:55,580
And it might not be for me right now,
but he's doing it over there.

870
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:56,981
He's doing it over there.

871
00:36:56,981 --> 00:36:59,116
And I know that if he's doing it there,

872
00:36:59,116 --> 00:37:02,119
and I know that if he's doing it there
and if he's doing it day, one day,

873
00:37:02,653 --> 00:37:04,388
he's going to do it here
because everybody in this room

874
00:37:04,388 --> 00:37:06,324
was waiting on a miracle
and God did it for him.

875
00:37:07,458 --> 00:37:09,493
You know, that reminds me,

876
00:37:09,493 --> 00:37:14,098
God still working, God still moving,
God still changing.

877
00:37:14,298 --> 00:37:15,666
God still healing.

878
00:37:15,666 --> 00:37:17,835
God still providing. He's still Jehovah.

879
00:37:17,835 --> 00:37:20,238
He's the same yesterday,
today and forever.

880
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:21,138
He never changes.

881
00:37:21,138 --> 00:37:24,141
And if he did it for you,
then maybe he could do it.

882
00:37:24,942 --> 00:37:27,945
Maybe he can do it for me.

883
00:37:28,145 --> 00:37:31,048
See, no community is perfect
because people aren't.

884
00:37:31,048 --> 00:37:35,620
And yet Jesus modeled how to be in
community with imperfect people.

885
00:37:35,987 --> 00:37:40,291
The Bible shows us that Jesus invited
12 disciples to have a seat at the table

886
00:37:40,291 --> 00:37:43,828
with him, disciples
that he knew would fail him,

887
00:37:44,662 --> 00:37:46,864
that would walk away from him,

888
00:37:46,864 --> 00:37:50,167
that would deny him,
that would reject him,

889
00:37:50,835 --> 00:37:54,672
that Judas would one day betray him,
leading to his death on a cross.

890
00:37:56,073 --> 00:37:59,977
Jesus knew that these people
would do that, and he still loved them,

891
00:38:00,611 --> 00:38:03,547
and he still forgave them,
and he still walked with them,

892
00:38:03,547 --> 00:38:06,917
and he still gave them a chance
and he still saved them.

893
00:38:07,218 --> 00:38:08,986
Do you know what this tells me?

894
00:38:08,986 --> 00:38:12,189
That for people like you and me, that
whatever we're walking through,

895
00:38:12,189 --> 00:38:14,592
whatever we're dealing with
and whatever mistakes we've made

896
00:38:14,592 --> 00:38:18,763
or whatever shame we carry that Jesus too
has a seat at the table for you.

897
00:38:19,297 --> 00:38:21,132
And if he's got a seat
at the table for you.

898
00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:24,201
The Bible tells us that when just one

899
00:38:24,402 --> 00:38:27,705
mom as a child
today is one is the loneliest number.

900
00:38:28,806 --> 00:38:29,106
But the

901
00:38:29,106 --> 00:38:32,977
Bible tells us
that when one person surrenders their life

902
00:38:32,977 --> 00:38:38,115
to Jesus, repents and turns to God,
that all of heaven rejoices was just one.

903
00:38:38,983 --> 00:38:41,352
So today I'm not speaking to 150.

904
00:38:41,352 --> 00:38:43,187
I'm speaking of one.

905
00:38:43,187 --> 00:38:44,955
God didn't come for a crowd. God
came for one.

906
00:38:44,955 --> 00:38:46,957
What do we see in Luke and in this church?

907
00:38:46,957 --> 00:38:48,025
This Mark, chapter two.

908
00:38:48,025 --> 00:38:50,795
He didn't come for the crowd.
He came for one today.

909
00:38:50,795 --> 00:38:53,397
I don't know how you got here.
I don't know how you came in.

910
00:38:53,397 --> 00:38:55,666
I don't know what you're walking through,
but you know what's amazing?

911
00:38:55,666 --> 00:38:58,636
There's a lot of people here.
God sees one.

912
00:38:58,736 --> 00:39:01,739
So with every eye
closed, I'm going to pray.

913
00:39:02,907 --> 00:39:06,210
And if you're not one today, you've
come in and you're the one carrying shame.

914
00:39:06,210 --> 00:39:07,645
You're the one carrying guilt.

915
00:39:07,645 --> 00:39:09,947
You're the one carrying condemnation.
You're the one that you know.

916
00:39:09,947 --> 00:39:12,283
You've been doing things the wrong way.
You've walked the wrong way.

917
00:39:12,283 --> 00:39:16,987
And you said, this is the time, 
is the day I surrender my life to Jesus.

918
00:39:18,089 --> 00:39:19,757
And he
gives me peace, and he gives me joy,

919
00:39:19,757 --> 00:39:21,292
and he gives me life,
and he gives me hope.

920
00:39:21,292 --> 00:39:24,095
And everything from
this point is changed and transformed.

921
00:39:24,095 --> 00:39:25,763
If that's you, you say,
I need to surrender my life

922
00:39:25,763 --> 00:39:28,332
to Jesus today, with every eye closed,
you just put up your hand

923
00:39:28,332 --> 00:39:30,201
and put it right back down
so I know who I'm praying for.

924
00:39:30,201 --> 00:39:32,937
Thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you.

925
00:39:32,937 --> 00:39:33,804
I see those hands in the back.

926
00:39:33,804 --> 00:39:36,507
Thank you. Anybody else?

927
00:39:36,507 --> 00:39:37,408
Thank you, thank you.

928
00:39:37,408 --> 00:39:39,710
I see those hands call you praises.
Thank you.

929
00:39:39,710 --> 00:39:40,544
How can you pray this prayer?

930
00:39:40,544 --> 00:39:44,715
You say, Jesus,
thank you that you love me so much

931
00:39:45,916 --> 00:39:48,786
that you would die on a cross for me.

932
00:39:48,786 --> 00:39:50,121
Somebody who's in perfect

933
00:39:51,155 --> 00:39:54,158
some of you carries so much shame.

934
00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:57,395
And you tell me to come

935
00:39:57,561 --> 00:39:59,230
and surrender.

936
00:39:59,230 --> 00:40:03,100
That I might receive life and life
for abundantly.

937
00:40:03,467 --> 00:40:04,535
Today.

938
00:40:04,535 --> 00:40:07,071
I'm no longer who I used to be.

939
00:40:07,071 --> 00:40:10,074
But I'm a new creation in Jesus.

940
00:40:10,274 --> 00:40:13,110
I give you my life from this day forward.

941
00:40:13,110 --> 00:40:16,113
I'll walk with you forever in Jesus name.

942
00:40:16,547 --> 00:40:18,215
Come on. Could you say Amen?

943
00:40:18,215 --> 00:40:20,384
If we put our hands together.
For those who just made that decision.

944
00:40:20,384 --> 00:40:22,086
Come on, we get a little bit louder
than that.

945
00:40:22,086 --> 00:40:23,988
All the heaven rejoice
and we should rejoice.

946
00:40:23,988 --> 00:40:26,090
Come on. What a great decision.

947
00:40:26,090 --> 00:40:26,323
Come on.

948
00:40:26,323 --> 00:40:29,326
We can stand up to our feet today.

949
00:40:30,361 --> 00:40:30,928
Hey, listen.

950
00:40:30,928 --> 00:40:34,932
Today the word of the Lord for us
is a weekend in the community.

951
00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:37,535
I know the temptation right now
is I gotta go.

952
00:40:37,535 --> 00:40:39,437
I gotta get out here.
I got kids to pick up.

953
00:40:39,437 --> 00:40:42,840
The greatest thing you can do right now
is stay for this.

954
00:40:43,307 --> 00:40:44,742
Talk to God. Say God.

955
00:40:44,742 --> 00:40:46,010
Would you show me what community group

956
00:40:46,010 --> 00:40:47,678
to get into to one
for the next couple minutes?

957
00:40:47,678 --> 00:40:49,246
You just lift up your voice and worship.

958
00:40:57,521 --> 00:40:57,855
Thank you

959
00:40:57,855 --> 00:41:00,858
for being a part of our online
community here at Project Church.

960
00:41:00,858 --> 00:41:03,861
We hope that this message
and the whole service bless your life.

961
00:41:04,328 --> 00:41:04,662
Yeah.

962
00:41:04,662 --> 00:41:07,631
And if it did, we want to ask
that you would do something for us.

963
00:41:07,631 --> 00:41:09,733
First of all,
if you're not already subscribed

964
00:41:09,733 --> 00:41:11,635
to our YouTube channel,
be sure to subscribe.

965
00:41:11,635 --> 00:41:12,970
Like this video.

966
00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:14,872
But also,
we would ask that you would consider

967
00:41:14,872 --> 00:41:18,075
financially supporting
what God is doing through Project Church.

968
00:41:18,409 --> 00:41:20,611
You can give in a variety of ways.

969
00:41:20,611 --> 00:41:23,614
You can text project to 97,000. Right now.

970
00:41:23,647 --> 00:41:27,151
You can give to our Church Center app,
or you can give on our website

971
00:41:27,151 --> 00:41:30,221
project church.com/give.

972
00:41:30,254 --> 00:41:33,224
Thanks so much for being a part
of our online community.

973
00:41:33,224 --> 00:41:35,826
And once again
God bless you guys. We'll see you soon.