WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.320 practical ways. Everybody, Welcome to the Bible guys. We appreciate 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:17.120 you tuning in and giving us a shot, another shot, 5 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:21.399 hopefully another shot. Yeah, maybe there's the second shot. No, no, 6 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:22.679 do you mean to take a shot at them? 7 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:23.000 No? 8 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:24.600 No, I don't want them taking a shot at us. 9 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:25.719 Just give us another shot. 10 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:28.679 But I just didn't realize how many implications that phrase 11 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:31.600 has take a shot, give us a shot. 12 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:34.560 Different implications, time different. 13 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:36.280 Yeah, that's or a big shot. 14 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:38.759 We're a fan of one, or I've been not a 15 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:39.240 fan of the other. 16 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:40.079 I've been shot. 17 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:42.520 Yeah. Yeah. 18 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:46.159 Anyway, Hey, welcome to the Bible guys. And we are 19 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:48.560 in the middle of a series called god Well, talking 20 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:52.560 about God's promises in different contexts, written by different authors 21 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:58.399 in different centuries actually, and all within the same book 22 00:00:58.439 --> 00:00:59.000 of the Bible. 23 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:01.399 Yeah one, it's all about him being faithful. 24 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:03.799 Yeah yeah, yeah, for sure it is. And we're gonna 25 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.560 be in tewod Timothy chapter two today. Yeah, but before 26 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:10.159 we do, we have a different segment for today. 27 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:12.760 This one's for you, Chris and all of our fans 28 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.079 to play along at home and try to beat you. 29 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:18.120 Uh so we're gonna see if Chris can guess the 30 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:24.640 keyword while I give you clues without using the forbidden words. 31 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:26.480 Okay. So so it's a race against me. 32 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:27.359 It's like taboo. 33 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:29.879 So they're racing against me. And hopefully if you're watching 34 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:33.040 a video, we'll put all the words, the italicized words 35 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.719 on screen that you're not allowed to say. 36 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:37.519 Yes, correct, okay, yes? Are you ready? 37 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:38.599 Okay? How many words are there? 38 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:41.159 Five words? Okay? Are you ready? 39 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:46.640 Can you tell me? Do they have a theme? Ummm no, okay, 40 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:48.439 all right, I'm always getting nervous about this. 41 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:49.400 Okay, are you ready? 42 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:50.159 Yes, here we go. 43 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.760 My wife has an obsession about this morning fluid. Oh 44 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:55.120 I'm not allowed to say morning. 45 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:57.120 Coffee. 46 00:01:57.439 --> 00:01:59.879 Answer, he's coffee, that's right. But I wasn't allowed to 47 00:01:59.879 --> 00:02:03.439 say morning. I wasn't gonna say caffeine, drink, mug or addicted. 48 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:06.400 Well, and normally you don't blow it, but you blow. 49 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:08.960 I know I blew that one this teah. 50 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:11.319 Do you ever see the people on family Feud? This 51 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:13.360 this team who's like ready to steal? They always go 52 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:15.439 like this with their hands they must tell them to 53 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:18.360 do that. That's right, it's so goofy. 54 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:24.719 Okay, here's another one. Uh, I don't feel like doing 55 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:27.560 it today, but I might do it the next day. 56 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:31.439 Procrastinate almost what's the whole word procrastination? There you go. 57 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:37.000 I wasn't about to say later, delay, avoid tomorrow, or task, 58 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:42.439 so I said the next day, okay. Uh, let me see. 59 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:53.000 This is a person who worries because they're putting too 60 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:56.520 much into it worry work. No, no, no, they're putting 61 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:57.159 too much into it. 62 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:58.560 They're putting too much into it. 63 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:02.199 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The word would uh, it's it's 64 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:03.520 it's all one word. 65 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:05.280 Investor what what? 66 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:08.879 But instead of above, you would say it's. 67 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:10.800 Oh, I don't think you're allowed to do that like 68 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:11.960 above a below. 69 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:13.479 I'm not I'm not allowed to do that. 70 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.680 Yeah, you can't do like rhymes okay, antonyms or like okay, 71 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:22.360 I thought I could sounds like okay rhymes with so. 72 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:26.080 So you're you're extremely worried about something because you're putting 73 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:30.319 too much mental work on it. 74 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:31.360 Too much mental work anxiety. 75 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.479 So you're a oh oh. 76 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:39.199 Oh, oh okay. Were you about to say overthinking? 77 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:50.919 Yes, yeh, I blew it overthink yeah, because you saw Yeah, 78 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:51.439 that's right. 79 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:55.240 You now to my verb. Yes, okay, oh my goodness, 80 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:59.120 creations Okay you said, oh and I was like over thinking. 81 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.159 So here you go. Are you ready for this? Sorry, 82 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.639 while I'm sorry for the fourth one, for the I'm 83 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:06.560 blown it, I've blown it on. 84 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:11.039 To be honest, this is not this is not real. 85 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:14.199 This is yes. Okay, are you ready? 86 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:14.599 Yes? 87 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:21.199 Okay. So people, yes, who are obsessed with social media, 88 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:25.720 always walking around taking selfies, the worst people in the world. 89 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:31.199 They their their job title is influencer. There you go, 90 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:35.399 very good. I wasn't allowed to say followers, Instagram, promote 91 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:38.680 brand or sponsored. Oh wow, okay, so influencer. 92 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:41.120 Yeah. By the way, I don't think all influencers are 93 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:42.759 the worst people in the world, but that's not who 94 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.720 you were describing at first. That's right, And some influencers 95 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.720 are good. Some actually I would say maybe most are bad. 96 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:52.639 When when here's the fifth one, this's the fifth one. Uh. 97 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:58.360 Sometimes you can be sending a message and it winds 98 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.279 up sending a cuss word instead to the word you typed. 99 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:07.759 What Sometimes you can be saying a computer oh, you 100 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:13.199 mean like a autocorrect autocorrect. Okay, okay, yeah, there you go. 101 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:15.800 You got that. So so we got three. Well, I 102 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:18.360 wasn't about to say type o, but I said typed. 103 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:19.560 Those are two different words. 104 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:20.079 They are. 105 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:22.160 Those are two with two totally different meanings. They're not 106 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:28.399 even related phone, fixed, wrong or text. I wasn't say 107 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:32.079 those words are pretty close cousins. Type, typed and typo 108 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:32.959 or two different things. 109 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:35.199 Yeah, they are different things, yes. 110 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:36.920 For sure, they're different actions. 111 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.000 I'm not sure if you are allowed to say a 112 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:40.360 form of the word or not, though there. 113 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.680 Is not a form. Typo was not a form of typed. 114 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:44.480 Are you allowed to say procrastinate? 115 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:47.040 If the words procussion a form a form of a 116 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:50.480 form of No, no, no, you're talking about different meanings. Typed, 117 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:56.879 types typing are all forms of type. But type o 118 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:01.959 is an incorrect thing. It's different. Yeah, it's so different, 119 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:04.079 very very very different. 120 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:06.879 It's the most different ever, it's. 121 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:10.879 The most differentest. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to make a 122 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:15.720 ruling on that one. That's unanimous. That's accepted, Okay, otherwise 123 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.480 we will three out of them. You blew it? Do 124 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:21.079 you both blew two? And then if you're gonna ding 125 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:22.879 me for typo, because I said. 126 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:25.639 Typed No, no, no, I'm not gonna ding you. You've 127 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:27.240 already been dinged. You've been dinged. 128 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:29.879 Typo is a noun, typed is a verb. 129 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:35.120 What about type type? Oh? That that's that's a verb too, right, 130 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:38.399 it's two type yes, okay, all right? 131 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:42.839 So anyways, man, that was great. It was really No 132 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:43.920 one else is really great. 133 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:45.959 Really, that's it. 134 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:47.319 That's transition. 135 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:51.279 I'll do. I'll do a sub I'll do a substantial tradition. 136 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:52.399 Are you ready? 137 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:58.480 Yes, Jeff, I feel like when you were doing that game, 138 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:02.160 you were discipling me. Really yeah, I feel like I 139 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:04.160 feel like you were big brothering me. The whole time 140 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:05.120 you were. 141 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:07.959 Leading those bringing you along, you were bringing me along us, 142 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:09.000 bringing you to the answer. 143 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.560 And you know what that reminded me? What the relationship 144 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:16.240 between Paul and Timothy. Yeah, and even though i'm your elder. 145 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:20.279 By significantly, you're significantly older than. 146 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:21.920 Me when it comes to this game. 147 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:28.759 I think our viewers at least can tell. Yeah, they say, they. 148 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:29.279 Say, who's the guy with the white hair, who's the 149 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:32.560 guy with the black hair? But they always actually nobody 150 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:35.560 nobody says that, but they say, and your hair is 151 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:41.360 not even white Beard. It's big time, big time white 152 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:44.879 But anyway, I was going to say, uh, even though 153 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.639 I'm your elder when it comes to this game, Jeff, 154 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:49.480 you were my mentor mentor. 155 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:49.759 Yeah. 156 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:50.439 Yeah. 157 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:54.120 So this is what's happening is Paul wrote a couple 158 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:57.120 of letters to Timothy while he was in prison, and 159 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:02.199 Timothy was his young protege, and he's kind of mentoring Timothy, 160 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:07.399 and Timothy is about to step into primary elder leadership. 161 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.160 He's sending him off to crete and different places to 162 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:15.240 establish churches and to establish elders and leaders of churches, 163 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:16.959 and so he's given them guidance even though he's a 164 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:22.399 young man. And so in two Timothy, Chapter two, he says, Timothy, 165 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:24.680 my dear son, be strong through the grace that God 166 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:27.839 gives you. In Christ Jesus, you've heard me teach things 167 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:31.279 that have been confirmed by many reliable witnesses. Now teach 168 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:34.360 these truths to other trustworthy people who will be able 169 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:37.679 to pass them on to others. Endure suffering along with 170 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:40.799 me as a good soldier, Christ Jesus. Soldiers don't get 171 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:42.799 tied up in the affairs of civilian life, for then 172 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:45.720 they cannot please the officer who enlisted them, and athletes 173 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.240 cannot win the prize unless they follow the rules, and 174 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:50.519 hard working farmers should be the first to enjoy the 175 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:52.679 fruits of their labor. Think about what I'm saying. The 176 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:55.279 Lord will help you understand all these things. I always 177 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:57.720 remember that Jesus Christ, the descended the King David, was 178 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:00.000 raised from the dead. This is the good news I preach. 179 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:02.799 Because I preach this good news, I'm suffering and have 180 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:05.000 been chained like a criminal. But the Word of God 181 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:07.600 cannot be chained. So I'm willing to endure anything if 182 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:10.480 it'll bring salvation eternal glory in Christ Jesus to those 183 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:13.879 God has chosen. It's a trustworthy saying. If we die 184 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.480 with him, we will also live with him. If we 185 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:19.440 endure hardship, we will reign with him. If we deny him, 186 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:23.519 he will deny us. If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, 187 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:27.799 for he cannot deny who he is. Remind everyone about 188 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:30.159 these things and command them in God's presence to stop 189 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.440 fighting over words. Such arguments are useless and they can 190 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:37.519 ruin those who hear them. Well, there you go, there 191 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:40.360 you go. He goes on and says, work hard, Oh, 192 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:41.559 he keeps going. 193 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:46.440 He does, he does so being a good soldier of 194 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:49.320 Jesus Christ. That's the heading on chapter two for me. 195 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.919 And he starts off by saying, Timothy my dear son, 196 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.200 and I love that, isn't it so endearing? So again, 197 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:59.480 you've already explained that he's a mentor to Timothy. And 198 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:02.879 you know he's not necessarily related to Timothy, or he's 199 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:05.519 not related to Timothy, but he's but your firs name 200 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:08.799 as my dear son, be strong through the grace that 201 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:11.879 God gives you in Christ Jesus. You've heard me teach 202 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:15.480 things that have been confirmed by many reliable witnesses. Now 203 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:19.600 teach these truths to other trustworthy people who also be 204 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:22.039 able to pass them on to others. Now, a lot 205 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.919 of people don't know this. In fact, I would venture 206 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:28.559 to say maybe even I don't know, eighty percent, maybe 207 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:32.440 possibly of everybody who listens to the Bible guys regularly, 208 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:36.639 they always hear us talk about the Timothy initiative. Yeah, right, 209 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.279 or Tti we say that, And a lot of time, 210 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.159 not always, but a lot of time when you're not 211 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.960 here and we have the platinum edition or just the 212 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:48.600 average edition with Kyle, he said he was the average ed. Right, 213 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:49.679 that's true, that's true. 214 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:54.600 Worth his name was Chad, Right, You're welcome. 215 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:55.720 You're welcome Asthmon. 216 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:00.480 But anyway, so that's the average edition or the Platine edition. 217 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:03.559 With weight, that's right. But oftentimes when we're experiencing that 218 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.120 and you're gone, it's because you're on assignment with the 219 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:12.399 Timothy Initiative. So now the Timothy Initiative bases much of 220 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:14.399 their strategy on that verse. 221 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:16.639 Yeah, the whole idea of the Timoth Initiative came from 222 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:18.240 two Timothy. 223 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:19.559 To two, which is the what we just read. 224 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:21.759 Right. He said, you've heard me teach these things, so 225 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:25.480 now you teach them to trustworthy people who will pass 226 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:28.639 them on to others. So Paul's saying, Timothy, I taught you. 227 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:32.919 So I Paul taught you, Timothy, and you taught faithful 228 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.960 people who are passing it out to others. And Paul 229 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.279 is looking not just at making a disciple. And this 230 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:40.440 is where I think sometimes churches make mistakes. I think 231 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:42.919 it's where we've made mistakes here to church, we're just 232 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:46.440 trying to make more disciples, right, right, more Timothy's But 233 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:50.960 Paul was looking past Timothy to Timothy's disciple, hoping and 234 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:54.320 praying that his disciple would be a disciple maker for 235 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:58.679 others also. So I Paul taught you Timothy, who taught 236 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:01.840 faithful people, who taught others also. He was looking to 237 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:04.600 the fourth generation. It's the only reason why the Gospel 238 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:06.120 has made it all the way to you and me 239 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:09.080 and everywhere around the world in two thousand years is 240 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:14.480 because disciple making goes beyond just making a disciple. You 241 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:17.840 have to be making disciple makers. And there's a note 242 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:21.600 that's exponential. That's exponential growth. When Paul is not thinking 243 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:25.440 about how to replace himself, Paul's looking for the fourth generation. 244 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.679 That's exponential. Most churches, if they're growing at all, are 245 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:33.000 growing by addition. Even here's church. So the church you 246 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:36.639 and I pastor this last year we grew by. We 247 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:41.120 grew by about eleven hundred people, give or take. As 248 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.240 we finish up twenty twenty five, we'll see, but I 249 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:45.080 think it's going to be pretty close to eleven hundred 250 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:49.600 eleven hundred fifty people. That's amazing. God's blessed us. We baptized. 251 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:51.759 We're going to have baptized eight hundred people. We have 252 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:54.200 a big baptism coming up this weekend, so it'll be 253 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:55.639 eight hundred and something. 254 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:57.320 We have eighty people sign up right now. 255 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:01.559 Yeah, so we will baptize eight hundred and something people 256 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:06.399 this year. That is an amazing work of God. That's 257 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:10.039 I think we're borderline revival kind of stuff happening at 258 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:15.440 aer Tois Church. But that's not multiplication, that's addition, yeah, 259 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:19.320 because we already had thousands, right, right, right, So we 260 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:25.200 have thousands and then we add one thousand more, that's addition, right. 261 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:29.320 But the way Paul was, if we did Paul's math, one, 262 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:32.039 it leads to two, leads to four. 263 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:36.120 Right, if everyone leads to four, that's. 264 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.519 Right, then that would mean next year we would have 265 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:40.879 ten thousand people. The year after that, we'd have twenty 266 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:43.240 thousand people. The year after that we'd have forty thousand people. 267 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.759 That would mean next year we would baptize sixteen hundred people, 268 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.519 and the year after that we baptie thirty two hundred people. 269 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:52.600 After that we baptize sixty four hundred people. That is 270 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:55.879 exponential growth. And that's when you start leaning into that 271 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:59.879 third and fourth generation believers, not just addition, but multiply. 272 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:03.080 And that's the model and that's why the gospel has 273 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:08.000 spread so far, so fast. It's almost unbelievable how fast 274 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:12.879 the gospel spread in that first hundred years with no cars, 275 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:22.519 no planes, no radio, no television, no electricity, no motors, 276 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:28.440 no internet, no phones. Right, it's unbelievable how fast it 277 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:31.559 spread in that first hundred years. And it's this way. 278 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:34.000 It's because of this. It was exponential growth. 279 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:36.480 As you were doing that list, my mind went to 280 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:40.159 no phones, no lights, no motor cars, not a single 281 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:44.960 luxury like Robinson Crusoe, as primitive as can be. 282 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:47.919 So you've got the Gilligans Island going on in your head. 283 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:49.919 Join us here each week, my friends, you're sure to 284 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:54.120 get a smile with seven stranded castaways here on Gilligans Are. 285 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:00.639 Yeah, that wasn't exactly what I was thinking. But no, that. 286 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:03.080 You were going through all the. 287 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:03.720 All the things that didn't exist. 288 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:04.600 That's right, that's right. 289 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:07.320 And the gospel spreads so fast. And this is what 290 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:11.879 this is the reason why is because the metric, the 291 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:17.639 matrix that Paul was using was a multiplication matrix. And 292 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:22.559 most of us, most pastors were thinking addition. Always we're 293 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:25.600 thinking a percentage edition. If we could just add ten percent, 294 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:28.240 if we could just add fifteen percent, if we could 295 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:31.039 just add five percent, right that that that's that's usually 296 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:33.080 what we're doing. And we're happy with that because corporate 297 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:36.320 America is happy with a two three percent, four percent return. 298 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:39.399 And so we've kind of gotten this corporate mindset rather 299 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:42.639 than this holy spirit and tend to cost kind of 300 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:44.360 mindset of multiplication from the get go. 301 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:47.039 Yeah, I know all that, but like, there are plenty 302 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:50.320 of churches that really don't experience growth. There's a lot 303 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:52.480 of churches that you know, sometimes go into the red. 304 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:55.159 Only ten percent of all churches grow by ten percent 305 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:57.559 or more in any given year. That these ninety percent 306 00:15:57.559 --> 00:16:01.519 of churches don't grow by double digits, Well, isn't that amazing? 307 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:04.559 Yeah, well, it's amazing considering and I say this with 308 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.720 the obviously we both do with a grand amount of humility. 309 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.279 But last year's growth was thirty five percent, so. 310 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:14.000 Was the year before. I know, yeah, yeah, yeah, So 311 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:16.240 it's it's one of those things that that's why I'm saying, 312 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:18.480 I think heritage is on the verge of if we're 313 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:25.679 not rate in our revival revivals always precede awakenings. Revivals, 314 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:27.639 are you know, God says, if my people who are 315 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:30.279 called by my name will humble themselves and pray and 316 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:33.039 seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then 317 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.840 while I hear from heaven, I will forgive their sins, 318 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:38.919 and I will heal their land. So what our desire 319 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:41.720 as Christians is, we want God to heal our land. 320 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:43.960 We want we want God to just sweep through our 321 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:47.240 nation and the millions of people who are far from Him, 322 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:49.799 we want them to meet Jesus. And there are these 323 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:54.399 great awakenings that have happened in history, even in American history. 324 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:57.360 There's been three great awakenings in American history, at least two, 325 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:01.120 maybe three. There seems to be revival that sweep through 326 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.039 the American culture about every fifty years. We're sitting right 327 00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:06.640 on the verge of one of those time slots right now. 328 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:10.960 This is about it. So God's people come back, and 329 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:13.359 what was dried up in their faith and what was 330 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:17.160 starting to be kind of old news suddenly has this fresh, 331 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:21.720 revived feeling. God brings all this new life into it. 332 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:24.200 And it's because we come to the point where we 333 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:28.440 begin collectively seeking God's face. We're coming back to him, 334 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:30.799 We're confessing our sin we're trying to get right with God, 335 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.960 and then what happens is He breaks people's hearts for 336 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.119 the lost, and then there's an awakening that begins to happen, 337 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:38.880 where the God's spirit begins to spread. And I think 338 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:42.559 we're seeing awakening among our young people in our nation today. 339 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:47.440 So we have to have a plan as church leaders, 340 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:50.759 not for audition. When we're sitting on the verge of 341 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:54.240 a revival and awakening is beginning among us, we have 342 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:59.200 to have a multiplication strategy. And that is I believe 343 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:01.799 genuinely that we are. One of the things we do 344 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:06.880 with the Timothy Initiatives is we'd lay out a strategy, 345 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:11.799 a matrix where we share the Gospel regularly. I'm sharing 346 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:13.759 my story in God's story. I have an opportunity to 347 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:16.079 lead you to Jesus. Finally, you know, you share the 348 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.519 Gospel fifteen times, You're gonna lead somebody to Jesus. I'm 349 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:20.519 just telling you, if you would learn how to share 350 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:26.079 the Romans Road, the Three Circles, the Great Divide, the 351 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:30.480 ABC's of Salvation, any model of sharing your faith. If 352 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.960 John John three sixteen, if you would share the Gospel 353 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:38.000 fifteen times, you will lead somebody to Jesus. That seems 354 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:40.559 to be true in every nation in the world. It 355 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:41.359 seems to be every. 356 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:42.839 Culture is why do you say fifteen? Is that an 357 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:43.480 actual step? 358 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:46.839 Yes? O, yes, yeah. On average in the West it's ten. 359 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:50.240 But in the whole world, you share the Gospel fifteen 360 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:53.759 times and offer to lead them to Jesus. Offer, hey, 361 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:56.319 would you confess your sins and avite Jesus, come your Savior. 362 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:00.599 Get to that point fifteen times after you share the Gospel, 363 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:03.359 you're gonna lead somebody Jesus. So I lead you to Jesus, 364 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:06.039 let's say. And then from there I start kind of 365 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:09.680 downloading with you the fundamentals of the faith, you know, 366 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:11.880 the idea of walking in the spirit, the idea of 367 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:14.200 learning how to share your faith. What is God's story? 368 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:17.200 What's my story? You know, your testimony, because there's two 369 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:20.519 bullets that take the devil out in the book Revelation. 370 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:23.839 It's the blood of the lamb and the word of 371 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:26.000 their testimony. Right, those are the two things that take 372 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.559 out the devil. So we need those two things, God's 373 00:19:28.559 --> 00:19:30.920 story and my story. And then beginning to learn about 374 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:33.200 what it means to function in the church and to 375 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:36.839 serve and to you know, the basic theological components. So 376 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:39.079 I'm bringing you along on this one on one. It's 377 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:41.400 not just a generic sit in church. But then it's 378 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:44.640 also obedience based discipleship. Do these things, Paul said, I 379 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:46.720 taught you, and then you did them, and you taught 380 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:49.880 others and they're doing them and they're taught. These faithful 381 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:52.200 men are teaching others to do these things. This is 382 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:55.119 what he's saying. It's an obedience based discipleship, not a 383 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:58.640 knowledge based discipleship. And then I'm modeling it for you. 384 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:00.680 And Paul says, you saw me do it, now you're 385 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:02.680 doing it, and you're teaching others to do it. They 386 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:06.640 see you do it. So we're using the matrix I 387 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:11.680 do you watch and then maybe it's sharing the gospel 388 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:17.000 or something, and then I do you help? Now I'm 389 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:22.039 recruiting you into it, and quickly, not years days of 390 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:25.839 I do you help, and then it pivots you do 391 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:27.880 I help Now. I've got to trust you, and that's hard. 392 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:29.920 That's the hardest thing for leaders is to let their 393 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:32.640 followers begin doing and we stand back and watch. It's 394 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:35.839 incredibly difficult. I do or you do? I help you? 395 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:37.559 And then finally I step back and not do it 396 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:41.319 all you do. I watch, and by that point I'm 397 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:43.599 able to spin you off. This is why Paul was 398 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:45.720 able to be in prison and send Timothy off to 399 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.279 go make new new elders in the church. He's a 400 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:50.720 young man, but in a fairly short amount of time, 401 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:53.680