The Gospel Is More Than Salvation

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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i'd like to welcome all of you that are here present with us today to our evening service and before we begin with our worship our group that's going to lead us in worship i just wanted us to you know take take this time in worship and just really center your hearts your minds you know on god and really try to press into him and so that you know this night of worship this whole evening that we're going to be here today so that it would be genuine so that we would actually be able to experience what god has in store for us you know and that's that's just my heart that's what i would like you know for all of us here today and if we could stand to our feet we're just gonna pray before we begin our worship and the service and ask god for you know to lead and guide us and speak to us today father god we thank you for this moment this time to be here in this place gathered all together to worship your name to glorify you we thank you so much that we have this time that we are able to uplift you worship and exalt you in this place god and we we ask that you with your holy spirit speak to us that you that you touch our hearts that you bring us the comfort the joy the peace and the revelation that we need today in this in this time god i pray that you touch the hearts of all of us here today in jesus name amen [Music] [Music] your love is devoted like a ring of solid gold like a vow that is tested [Music] [Music] will be [Music] will ever be on my lips [Music] [Music] lips [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] wow [Music] and yeah why [Music] is [Music] i uh and that's why [Music] is [Music] how's everybody doing tonight before we start our next song one thing i had on my heart to share while i was i was listening to a sermon this week and it was like of a youth service you could say at a different church and he was talking like the topic was depression but he was talking about more like all hardships and the most interesting thing for me when he said was that he could preach this topic every single week because he knows every single week somebody different could be going through something and my favorite point that he brought up he brought up like three different things that to do whenever like you're going through hard times or you're struggling with something and one of my favorites was when he mentioned worship and that was the third thing that he mentioned he said and lastly just worship and he brought up the story about paul and silas in the jail cell whenever they prayed and then they worshiped and the way i imagine it is like what if they weren't worshiping like we could worship today they were probably mumbling under their breath some kind of hymn but god still created miracles so i just want to encourage everybody here today just open up your hearts have a heart of worship and just like take it all in while you can [Music] all the noise dies lord speak to me now you have all my attention [Music] surrender [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] the breath in my soul all the life is [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] um [Music] i open up my heart to you i open up my heart [Music] jesus me [Music] jesus i jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh oh [Music] let's just continue worshiping him in prayer right now just open up your heart to jesus right now in this place hallelujah god just give him glory and praise because he is so good to every one of us lord jesus your name is so amazing so great hallelujah we praise you god we give you glory and honor forever and ever jesus for all that you have done for us jesus lord you love each and every single one of us so much lord from the bottom of our hearts jesus we love you so much we just praise your amazing name lord it is so powerful it does so much for us lord and just in this place right now lord we just all open up our hearts to you god we're just all inviting you into this place into our hearts right now god jesus so that you would just bless us all lord jesus we just pray that you bless this service and continue to bless this worship as we just lift your holy mighty glorious name lord let's just continue to lift his name up in worship yes lord jesus hallelujah god [Music] the cradle [Music] and keep [Music] foreign and you are [Music] our grace [Music] loves me [Music] oh [Music] for i am and you are [Music] is [Music] take me [Music] trust is the waters [Music] i will call upon your name [Music] my soul will rest in your embrace [Music] [Music] we come here before you get a god in front of uh on the sunday afternoon so praise your name your wonderful name you see that we have all came here there's some new faces and plenty of uh faces that have already been here god we ask you to bless this service allow your spirit to come down onto this place and just allow all of us to light like a fire lord jesus allow us all to leave this place feeling filled with your spirit not just this week but until until the next time and the next time just keep going more and more but jesus we continue we just keep asking you and just bless the service like that um so uh today uh before we get into our uh sir uh i'd say uh plan the planned words that we have uh we normally like to have a time for testimonies uh huh oh yeah you can take your seat uh we we like to have a time that you know people are able to come up here say their testimonies whatever they have in mind whatever they want to say so i just want to ask if anyone wants to come up here and say something so i'll uh i'll start with sharing just uh i mean it's been a long time it's probably been what a whole month um that we had this service so i mean there's a lot of things that you know go on in life and i actually like how david when he shared his message you can give me the other mic i liked how he shared that there's so many things that happens in life and not always do we realize that it's god that's you know the one behind it all and he's the one that's kind of orchestrating everything and um whether it's good or bad you know even the bad things he allows to happen and there's a reason for for their happening so um just a testimony that i'd like to share uh in the last month i would say you know a lot of things have been happening in my life you know uh that i wouldn't necessarily say you know are good things right so um just trials and different tribulations in the sense of uh you know in my with my work for example i drive for a living many of you know that i usually think things go really well god blesses it and you know very rarely do things happen that you know uh are unfortunate and kind of get me stuck i guess you could say but um this this uh month the last couple weeks you know there were a couple of things that kind of took place that were unfortunate and i was wondering you know and i i was asking god like you know why is it that these things are happening to to me like well the first time i was you know i drove to tallahassee and i had an air hose my braking air hose um blew and i wasn't able i didn't have brakes and you know i was stuck at a gas station tried fixing it spent the whole day and then we couldn't fix it so my dad had to bring us a hose from tampa all the way to tallahassee you know that took three hours he got there like 12 30 at night or you know in the early morning we didn't fix it until 4 30. you know then we started to drive back and then get back home so pretty much stayed up all night and it was just this i guess you could say to my natural man it was overwhelming stress uh you know but the whole time i was like you know in a deep state of prayer i guess you could say and just kind of trying to see you know maybe what is god trying to show me what is he trying to teach me in this and uh it was very interesting how the sequence of events that took place you know dad came and uh he brought the hose but we weren't able to take the old hose off so you know we were working trying different tools different methods and nothing was working and looked like we were you know pretty much stuck we were ready to call the towing company and then somebody pulls up to the gas station and that that decides to go ask you know hey is there any you know do you have this in this tool and this guy he he you know he was having problems with his wife and he decided you know he's he pretty much had his whole house in his car he's like yeah let me take a look and he's like pulling all the all his you know like clothes and and wires and all kinds of you know pretty much household goods out of his trunk and trying to find his tools and you know he just happens to find the tools that we needed at that time and so you know he gives them to us and we try to work at it and he's like oh my i was a mechanic and i do you know mechanical work so he started to help us and mind you this is at 1 00 a.m 1 30 a.m in the morning so you know he's under the truck trying to loosen that hose and no matter what he's even doing it's not working and we're just like wow like we thought this was going to be the answer you know and and and we're still we're stuck again uh so then another guy pulls up to a different part of the gas station and that decides to go up to him and so this guy i mean i don't know how it's possible but i mean he does he's in the music industry uh he does like lighting and sound and things like that but he just so happened to have like a two foot uh like a jigsaw and it just so happened that that's exactly what we needed and then not only that but he had a 100 foot extension cord and uh so he's like yeah yeah you know you guys can use it and we needed we you know we cut the part that we needed uh we even were able to use the power inside the shell gas station that we were at it was just it was just the most unbelievable i don't know if you like you guys probably being in that moment it would be like unreal it was it was as if you went to sleep and it was a dream when all this was taking place and and yeah so we we cut it we get it off you know and we fixed it and then the one guy left but this other guy the one that was homeless you know he was living in his car and having troubles with his wife we decided you know to bless him obviously financially for his time he stayed with us to 4 30 until we got it fixed but then we all i you know i had a feeling and along with my father that we we had to like pray for him or with him or just it felt i felt like drawn kind of to to uh spiritually provide for his need that he that he was in and we just kind of got me dad and him right in the gas station just kind of held hands and we started to pray and i'm not sure if my dad noticed and didn't get to ask him but as soon as we started to pray um you know i was praying over him just a general prayer nothing special necessarily and i started to notice that his hand like started to kind of like you know tighten like harder and i kind of like in my prayer i kind of looked up at him and he started to tear up and cry and soon right after the prayer i don't know that if you notice the same thing but right after the prayer he just kind of like you could tell that the presence of god the love of god you know that that interaction it was worth all of that stress all of that worry for him to kind of experience that whatever he experienced in those two minutes so all of this like natural you know stress and problems you know that happened even if it was just for this man to experience god for those two minutes you know it's worth it and it's really hard kind of for me to you know um accept that you know but we know that our life as believers can have you know suffering and hardships and trials and tribulations right and we should what i've realized from this and my encouragement to you guys you know and i i had other issues i'm not going to share because it's going to take a long time but like i also ran into a couple and it took a couple of times for me to kind of realize this concept that uh you know everything that happens regardless of what it hap what happens we have to be more focused on what god is trying to do in those situations whether good or bad in order for us to you know fulfill or complete the task or the will that he has for us in those situation situations or moments that we're in so it's very important this is what i learned no matter what pressure no matter what's kind of standing against me i should be able to to withstand that pressure trust god in spirit and try to be aware and see what he is trying to do in each individual moment even if it is at my sacrifice even if it is bringing me a burden or hardship it is my job to make sure that i find you know what is it that he's trying to do and and that's my encouragement to you guys you know you may you may be going through things in life and you know maybe it's back to back or months on end or even years and you're just trying to kind of you know figure out like okay i'm a christian why is god doing this to me sometimes you know things just happen like i said whether good or bad and there's there's something god's trying maybe to teach you to try to make you realize something and and and it's i believe it's very important that we're you know we're sensitive to that whether whether good or bad things are happening in my life so that's just kind of what i had on my heart to share based on you know my experiences in the last month so thank you thank you trast that was a wonderful testimony um and as you were speaking about that a verse came to mind is i don't know if you have to pull it up off philippians 4 6 and i guess you'll pull it up it says do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving present your quest to god and you know like about the beginning of his uh well his testimony he was talking about as soon as all this thought all this started happening to him he as soon as the air hose wasn't gonna fit he wasn't gonna be able to take it off he was already you know worrying and he was like oh man i gotta already call the tow truck i gotta get this figured out i gotta do this this and he kind of like stepped back and he went and he allowed you know he prayed he told he asked god and he kind of allowed god to do everything for him because you know he's greater he's has more authority he can do all that you ask him to do um this oh yeah that's just all that was came to my mind after his uh so that's testimony um jacob i see already someone's coming up thank you okay so i don't necessarily have a sermon but i have like a encouraging word that i'd like to share with you guys i have my notes this is my first time preaching so i'm not a professional but i have notes so i guess that's what a sermon is um so my topic or my sermon topic is blessings our blessings did not come for free someone had to pay a very high price not only are we blessed materially but we are all suspect uh we are also blessed spiritually we are all children of god someone had to pay a big price for us to be blessed in today's time i would like to open galatians 3 14. um that the blessings of abraham might come upon the gentiles in jesus christ that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith in this in this example i i understand that the gentiles are people who are who do not know god did not know the true god historically gentiles were sinful and they went to the extremes of burning their children and sacrifices today you might think man we don't have like burning sacrifices or we do not worship idols we attack we you could also so uh how do i explain this oh so in today's age we we have idols so in today's stage anything that's an idol could be a phone anything that you prior prioritize over god and how do we how do we sacrifice in today's age if we do not follow if we do not read the bible then this could be also a sacrifice because we are not putting our time into what is actually necessary to be a christian and my last uh before i close my last text that i would like to read is going to be proverbs 10 6. all right prophecy blessings are on the heads of the righteous but violence covers the mouth of the wicked did you hear what that just said it said blessings are on the hand of the righteous do you know how to be righteous in today's age we must live according to the bible and how can we live according to the bible if we're distracted by everything that's in today's age and um the only way that we can be righteous is to read the bible and be blessed and redeemed by jesus christ himself amen yeah i think that was a wonderful thing to speak about because uh i do feel like in this time and age you know it's maybe not burning your children as sacrifices but you in fact are sacrificing a lot of your time that you could be you know working to get uh you know closer to god or get closer with your family friends you're wasting all that time just looking through social media on your phone watching movies and that is it's i just feel like that's a big thing and now now i need you so so uh is there anyone else that would maybe that's something jacob or thrawn said that might have sparked uh i thought her testimony david thank you dan i kind of want to talk a little bit about what i talked about this morning in our morning service you know dan's being taught a lot of patients today on this stage huh so anyways i kind of wanted to talk about you know today in the morning pastor asked me about a week and a half ago to share a sermon and i shared it in our morning service but you know a lot of times you just see the preacher preaching on stage but you don't know how he got there or how he got his message and i kind of wanted to share a testimony a little bit similar to what terrace was speaking about because how god sent me the message that he did was kind of very similar to that experience so about a week and a half ago the pastor comes up to me on like a wednesday service or something like that and he comes to me and he's like david you know you haven't preached in a while he's like how do we get you up on stage this sunday and i'm like whoa it's wednesday already pastor what you want me to come up with the whole sermon in like three days i'm like i don't know about that and he's like okay how about not this sunday i'll schedule you for next sunday i'm like okay a week and a half all right you can schedule me for then and so you know time was moving on you know sunday pass and then it came to wednesday's service again this past wednesday and it was like i knew he asked me to preach but i was like man i've been praying about it but i don't have any word that god sent me i don't know what i'm gonna preach about yet like i don't have much more time to come up with the word i'm asking god to send me a word but i don't have anything and so i'm kind of stressing about it and then pastor comes up to me again on wednesday it's like three or four days so i have to preach and he's like david so you're going to preach yeah and i was thinking in my mind like the right thing to do is tell him no i don't have anything ready yet give me another week but i don't know why i just kind of went with the flow and i'm like yeah it's all right i got it i could preach the sudden he's like okay i'm writing you down on the schedule for sure i'm like okay i'll preach and then friday comes along and i'm working on my car and i don't know if you guys heard my sermon but i incorporated that that's how i got my whole topic of my sermon you know i was working on my car i couldn't get things done i was getting very frustrated and then it's all of a sudden like things clicked you know pastor told me he was praying for me he was praying about me that hopefully i have a good message i was praying that god would send me something to share not only for the people but something that i could learn a lesson in my own life and it just like all of a sudden happened when i had problems in my life when my car broke down i had to i had i still can't drive it yeah it's not completely fixed but i have to go work on my car and we all think we have these problems why do all these problems happen to good people because there's a different reason i'm working on my car and god is teaching me patience over here he's giving me a beautiful message that i am able to share with others and i'm able to learn in my own life and i just wanted to encourage you guys that you know we never see the big picture as people you know because we only see half of things we only see the physical side of things we don't see the spiritual side of things that god sees god sees the big picture and many times we think you know why does this happen to me you know god hates me he completely forgot about me but no god is a loving god and he he does things for a very specific reason for every single one of us so if your car breaks down if your friends might get into an accident if you know you might get you know left by someone you love or something like that you know there's a reason for everything god has a specific purpose for everything he does and i just want to encourage us you know not to get down but through all these trials to you know stay close with god continue to walk in the spirit and then he will truly i think we will be able to learn the lessons that he wants us to amen thank you david um i think that's that's a wonderful wonderful thing that david preached about this morning service about patients i think i think everyone would do do great with even more patients than maybe they currently think they have i think it's something that everyone maybe might struggle might struggle with so is there anybody else that might gotcha thank you hi everyone i was just sitting back there and looking through my notes i write little notes whenever i do my devotionals and one of them popped out at me and if you guys could pull up judges 6 11 i want to talk about that verse so the verse reads the angel of the lord came and sat down under the oak of ophra that belonged to joash the abiaz right where his son gideon was threshing wheat in the wine press to keep from the midianites maybe 12 too pulled that one up and they and then it says when the angel of the lord appeared to gideon he said lord is with you mighty warrior okay so first i want to go back to the 11th verse and what i like got from this verse it's like it was it was common for gideon gideon was there gideon was just like in his daily life and what i want to talk about is how god reveals himself in the common in the mundane life and i wrote down the ordinary is a disguise of divine because if we look at the words it says the angel of the lord came but in the next verse that's when it says the angel of the lord appeared so it's like in this in this common thing that gideon was doing the angel of the lord was there but then god like revealed himself after and um i also was i have a couple of things to share so i'll i'll i'll add this is like off track a little bit but it's i don't even remember the verse where it is where it says um speak to the mountains and they will move and when i was reading that in one of my devotionals what came to me is um that god doesn't want us to pray about the mountains god doesn't want us to just like pray like oh god i have this problem like and whatever he wants us to speak to the mountains like with power with authority i feel like a lot of us could use it in our lives where we just we have to speak upon our problems in jesus name like this or something like that like in jesus name i will be healed in jesus name this he wants us to speak and just overcome the battles that we're going through anything that we're going to just like have have that authority god gives you just like the angel of the lord was talking to gideon i guess it does make sense it does tie in together the angel of the lord was talking to gideon and he said the lord is with you mighty warrior then gideon was not a mighty warrior he was just a regular guy but god wants to like reveal what he has planned for you he wants to just like give you that authority that you can just do great things in your life and i think i had one more cool thing that i thought was cool okay so it says we know who is with us but god wants to reveal what is in us so gideon knew what he was whenever he was there but god wanted to reveal what was within him this mighty warrior that was within him and i just think there's like a mighty warrior in each of us and that just have that at that authority and just be blessed guys thank you for sharing some of the cool things you found while whatever maybe reading your bible um so the first part that she was talking about it was saying how he he was there and then he appeared and i feel like that kind of correlates also to what david was saying about how you know god's there he's always working he's even if we don't see it there's always another side to all that and like there's so many times where you know you might be going going on track on track and just because you don't see the finished product or just because you don't think he's working you might stop but you know god was sitting there watching you maybe telling you to take that one last step and then he would come and show you what you've done or like the path that you've made and i just feel like we all gotta you know cur have courage and like persevere through everything that you know might be troubling us you know those stones in our pathway you know uh anybody else that you know i have something that they want to say hey scott everybody so i just wanted to say something just really short that i realized when i was listening to everybody else talk so everybody was talking about how like not everybody but i was just thinking about this i guess but um how like how like god's a loving god and how he doesn't like even though like bad things are happening and this is going bad and you're struggling with this and that that it's not like like it's god doesn't want that to be the bad for your life he wants like like there's that other side that is going on and it was just um i was thinking about how i actually just got back from a trip from to greece and while we were in greece went to this one place and we were on this tour and we were touring like different monasteries and stuff like that and um the tour guide was telling us how like a long long time ago like to the times of the byzantine empire and like long ago there were like these monks who lived in the monasteries and and they were like hermit monks and basically their whole goal in life was just to go and sit in their monasteries and just suffer like they they weren't allowed to move they were in a dark cave they were just isolated from everybody and they just had everything bad and their life was just a dark hole and they wanted it that way because they thought god wanted them to suffer basically so he basically they would just sit there over years they would get paralyzed they would have all these problems and they thought that oh this is what god wants for my life i'm so holy because i'm suffering and it just kind of like struck me because it's so interesting that so many people can think that god wants them to suffer and god wants them to have problems and and fail and be paralyzed in a cave but it's really not what like even the whole golden verse of the bible that god so loved the world that he gave his son just shows us that like there is always that other side of the of the thing we're going through where god's about to teach us patience or teach us that there's somebody else that he was trying to save through our struggles and like he always so many times in this past week or month or two months i've been everything that i was like struggling with or everything that just got me down and stuff literally the next day god would send something to completely like give me peace and comfort about everything that i was going through and i just want to encourage everybody to be waiting for those times whenever you do get to see why all of that was happening and you do get to see how god is going to help you through that and amen i just wanted to share like a quick i got touched by what jacob said and i just wanted to elaborate that a little bit because for a real long time i didn't understand it like you know how could you pull up the verse about gentiles he was talking jacob was talking about how um we we overshadow like we can idle things and so a lot of people i talk to a lot of people i talk to my friends and they don't understand like well we don't sacrifice we don't burn our babies but um we sacrifice other things prior to god like we don't we spend time on our phone and we watch i'm not trying to come for guys but sports like idolizing inner life will take place where you will have less and less time spent with god by the time it's so late that you will never realize that so i feel like it's important just to like you know to take that one little step of faith and like what if today is the day that i ask somebody like it never hurts to ask what if today is the day that will help me or help my friends to bring them to the gym those were those are two wonderful quick words or just whatever came into their minds by them too you know god god just he never wants the worst for us you know he he doesn't want us to be there suffering you know for him he wants quite the opposite you know god is love he wants us to you know to continue to grow continue to you know gain that relationship with you he doesn't want you to you know walk away with him he wants you to continue to walk with him and as close as possible so that he could you know have a friend in that like he doesn't see as you just like as another person he has he wants to have that close relationship he wants to be your best friend and he that's like it's so important to like know that and know that that's what god wants and doesn't want anything else for you anybody else you know might be tough to get on stage but you know there might be one of you that just might want to ah no all right come up here thank you dan thank you for leading us in that that time thank you everyone that shared testimonies um we love to hear what people are going through what people have gone through and especially what god has helped people face and have victory over so um i'm actually uh gonna share the main message tonight and uh it's gonna be it's already with you guys you know if it's the gospel right the good news we we all we're all here for that so it would be okay for me to share something that that we're here for why i say that is because i open my notes so a lot of times you know a lot of times okay actually let me let me let me rephrase that so when when people say the gospel the good news what first comes to mind like what what do what do you know what just let me get some volunteers somebody raise their hand when i say the gospel what comes to your mind salvation okay jesus taking up our sins on the cross so jesus in general the gospel okay so the gospels in the bible all right so we have a pretty uh pretty good idea of of what the gospel is so the gospel is the good news that's what it directly translates translates to is the good news that was brought by who jesus right so i'd like to open up to mark chapter 1 verse 7. where jesus says this is the first thing in the gospel of mark uh that's that's red and we know red is what jesus said so the first thing jesus says is after me wait i'm sorry not uh it's actually 15 uh verse 15. so chapter 1 verse 15. so he says the time has come the kingdom of god is near repent and believe the good news some translations say gospel good news gospel same thing so what's interesting is if if you notice so this was before this is before jesus died on the cross right this is before he resurrected this was before you know he even started his ministry i mean this is at the start of his ministry let's say he says the time has come the kingdom of god is near repent and believe in the gospel repent and believe in the good news so it's interesting to point out here that you know he's he's telling the people to believe in the good news that has not even what where what we have called the gospel you know the the salvation and his death and resurrection on the cross he's already telling people to believe in the good news right so what i like what i'd like to point out here is that if you look at the first sentence where he says the time has come the kingdom of god is near or the kingdom of god is at hand so when jesus came he came actually you guys sang a second song where it said touch uh a touch of heaven right is that the is that the name of the song so so uh we were praising and worshiping we were asking god you know give us just a touch of heaven let us you know we need to experience that you know your kingdom your the heaven so that that those burdens and the things that we're going through so that we can find peace and relief in in things in our life i guess you could say so we know that before jesus came sin ruled the world and people were not able to get freedom from the sin they were not able to live a life they were always born you know bound to it and they couldn't they couldn't find any kind of freedom so by jesus saying this he said the the kingdom of god is at hand so he came and he brought the kingdom of god to the earth so now you have this dark you know dying world that was in need of a savior right it was in need of the presence of heaven or of of the kingdom of god and jesus comes and he says it is here i i have brought it right and he begins his ministry okay so jesus jesus begins his ministry and he begins to demonstrate the work of the kingdom so we know the things that he did he taught you know he preached he he healed he delivered you know he he forgave sins he brought light into the darkness you know he he he brought what people desperately needed people were dying they were you know in agonizing pain physically mentally and spiritually and they needed this touch of heaven or this kingdom to come and jesus came and brought it right but uh like like you guys said but the but the main part that is so special about this coming of the kingdom is the salvation part of it the death and the resurrection of jesus christ why because that's what enables us to enter into this kingdom that's what enables us to be born again because it says the bible also says those that are born again you can only see the kingdom if you are born again so by jesus dying on the cross and resurrecting for our sins redeeming us that's what allows us to step into this kingdom now what's also interesting to point out is that is that a lot of times we as christians like like i asked what was the gospel right and a lot of people said salvation resurrection of jesus death and resurrection of jesus so my question is my next question to you guys is so if the gospel is that does it end there you know jesus dies jesus resurrects right we're saved what's the next step what did jesus say what was that go out and share the good news and what is the good news the gospel what is the gospel okay jesus came and he said the time has come the kingdom of god is near repent and believe in this good news and and that good news so he brought the kingdom he healed he delivered he brought the answer to people's pain to their to their to the darkness in their life he brought darkness into i mean he brought light into the darkness in their life right so so when jesus died on the cross resurrected and gave us those who would believe in him entrance into this kingdom right what is the next step based on what the scripture says it's this is not this is i i wouldn't say this is something that is practiced very often but it but it's in the scriptures anybody okay so in the scriptures it also says that the believers that believe in jesus are going to be ambassadors of the kingdom right doing what like i just said preaching the gospel right so the gospel okay i'll try to i'll try to draw it out because it's in my mind but i want to try to kind of give a representation of it so the self uh the salvation so the death and the resurrection of jesus christ is our entrance into the kingdom of god right when we enter into the kingdom of god then our job and jesus told the disciples to do this as well is to go out and preach this gospel and have others also enter into the same kingdom that we have entered into by what by what methods heal the sick you know uh deliver uh deliverance healing rights uh uh preaching salvation the salvation message so so the so what i'm trying to say is that the gospel does not stop at the salvation jesus did not just you know die for our sins for us to be saved and then just kind of like oh okay so now that we're saved you know we're just going to wait for his second coming and then we'll you know we'll be in heaven will be in eternity and it ends there for example luke chapter 10 verse 9 he tells he tells the disciples again he says heal the sick who are there and tell them the kingdom of god has come near you right so this is a demonstration of the work of the kingdom why because he is trying to demonstrate okay the lord's prayer thy kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven so so so the kingdom coming to the earth and and the believers that are that um we as believers our job is to do that same thing that jesus did he came and he brought the kingdom of god to this dying world right and then he he died and resurrected so that anyone who would believe in him would enter into the same kingdom why in order for them to also continue the work that he did how he said he would send the spirit and the spirit would lead them and also work through them to do the same things jesus did and jesus says and greater things they will do right you guys you guys understand right so my message today is of the gospel message is that we as christians i believe and this is my own personal belief and i i and i also see it in the bible it's evident in the bible that our faith in the gospel does not end in salvation right we we have tasks god has has a will for our life god has a purpose for our life and we know that the great commission is to go out and preach the gospel right to heal the sick you know the blind the lame to to deliver rights free people from their bondages their addictions because why because he has given us the holy spirit that will enable us to do such things right and the only way we do this is the same way we receive the salvation right by faith so if we receive salvation by faith we have received the spirit by faith then by faith we must expand the kingdom of god right so i believe just by if we were to stop at salvation and then just wait for jesus the second coming we are not doing we i don't believe we are doing the full work of what god has called us to do you know what i mean another example matthew chapter 16 verse 19 he says i will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven again here's an example of him giving authority to us as believers to to bring the reality of what's going on in the heavens to hear on earth right even though jesus said that he we are we are in this world but we are not of this world so in other words he left us in this natural world even though we were born again into into you know spirit the spiritual realm we do not necessarily see into it but it's the holy spirit that works through us that brings the reality of the heavens into this earth right the same way that jesus was able to bring the realities of heaven into the earth by healing and and and delivering and forgiving sins right the same way we as believers can execute the same power and authority that is given to us by him through the holy spirit in order to do these things so in other words why what i would like to encourage all of us today is that to change our our mindset of what the gospel really is in a more in a more progressive uh you know approach to it in the sense of we have something that we need to do while we are here he said he left us in this world i mean if if if it were just for salvation if the gospel were just for us to be saved why did he say you know we are in this world but we are not of this world right he left us here for some reason why did he leave us here he could have just saved us and took us out of this world and that's it you know wiped his hands and said that's it they're saved they're with me they're in my family they're in heaven with me but he said no he he saves us and he says they're still here but what are they doing there they're preaching the gospel but i thought the gospel was salvation see so then the real question lies there is so much more we have to do here than just be saved agreed there is a way bigger task at hand for us as christians we are we are given the what's the word for it we are given the task of bringing continuing because jesus started he said he brought the kingdom and he demonstrated the work of the kingdom and then when he left he said i will send you the holy spirit that will empower you give you give power and authority over all things here on earth in order for you to execute and walk in that power in order to dem to to bring people on this earth to reconcile the people with god through the power and the revelation of the kingdom in order for them to come to salvation and also bring others into that same kingdom until he comes amen amen so my prayer today is that we all approach the gospel with this kind of mindset a great commission mindset that jesus didn't just come die you know and and give us salvation for us to warm uh a seat at church for us to kind of like you know just come and see our friends and hang out and then just you know in our mind be like well you know we're saved so let's just you know but for us to truly seek him to truly you know build our relationship with him in a way so that he can reveal to us the purpose he has for us so he can reveal there are so many gifts in this room there are so many talents in this room there are so many things that we are each each one of us is capable of that when we are empowered by the holy spirit and the holy spirit can use those little you know those things that we think oh well i all i do is sing or all i do is you know small you may think it's so small but by the power of the holy spirit just a simple sentence of encouragement can shake someone's life it can completely shake you know their whole reality and they can they can the holy spirit can change their whole life just by a word of encouragement but it's not because that was the the proper wording and the way to say it and they thought about it for a week no it's because the holy spirit was behind it came from a relationship it came from a feeling of the spirit that allowed that word of encouragement to have effect same with singing you know many people sing in this world today right but if you have a relationship with the holy spirit you're empowered by the holy spirit the kingdom of god is in you and when you sing then that kingdom of god is reflected out of you onto the people that are listening to you sing you see what i mean so so the goal after salvation is to be filled with the kingdom of god to be filled with the spirit of god to be filled with the presence of god why in order to fulfill the mission of that god had you know god has for us here to bring others into the kingdom so that when the day comes that he comes back we have done our work here on earth many people are asking oh when is jesus going to come you know what's taking him so long he's probably looking down at us and saying well what's taking you guys so long you know what i mean he's like well what are you guys doing and that's that's kind of that's just my own you know like that's how i feel like he's asking me you know what i mean like i'm whether i'm working doing things i'm like you know always in my mind i need to be advancing the kingdom of god i need to be the light i need to be that encouragement i need to be the word i need to use the capabilities the talents the gifts and the things that he poured into me in order to demonstrate that kingdom to others so that they may also enter and then bring others as well so that's that's my word uh for for you guys today and as we go into prayer you know let us let us just kind of press into what god has in store for us if we don't know what our gifts and talents are ask him you know pray ask god you know what what is it you want me to do what what do you how do you want me to demonstrate your kingdom how do you want me to to bring people to you whether it be you know through speaking words of encouragement singing you know maybe maybe you're just a person that you know by by supporting somebody i mean there's so many if you look into the bible there are so many different gifts so many different talents you know just just by being you know there's by giving you can be revealing the power of the holy spirit by like i said encouragement there's so many different ways but pray that in order for god to reveal to you what are your what are your specific what are the specific things he put into your life that you need to be using in order to reveal him to others that you need to be using to bring people into his kingdom so we can stand to our feet as we go into prayer and i just i just kind of was thinking also um about how how do we how do we do it is it out of our effort is it out of what we're you know out of our you know like the more effort we put in the more things we do then then the more it's gonna be able to bring people into the kingdom of god or is it let me read from colossians chapter three before we pray colossians chapter 3. sorry i think they read it in the morning service as well yeah but i'm going to read a little bit prior to that so 312. let's let's read it from 312. it says therefore as the elect of god holy and beloved put on tender mercies kindness humility meekness long long suffering bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has to complain another man as cr uh even as christ forgave you so you must do above all these things put on love which is the bond of perfection and let the peace of god rule in your hearts to which also you are called in one body and be thankful that the word of christ dwelling you richly in all wisdom teaching admonishing one another in psalms in hymns and spiritual songs singing grace to your hearts to the lord in your hearts to the lord um what i'd like to point out in this specific verse and i mean there's there's other places in the bible too where it where it wards it this way it says therefore as the elect of god holy and beloved it says put on tender mercies kindness humility meekness we also know an uh apostle paul tells us about putting on the armor of god right as it it's it's not it it's not telling us be merciful be kind be you know it says put on tender mercies kindness humility meekness long suffering put on the righteousness put on the shield of faith put on you know what i mean and and this put on it it kind of signifies that we cannot do it in and of ourselves this isn't something that's ours to do you know i mean we can't be righteous you know so we're putting on what righteousness that belongs to god we cannot you know we cannot you know be merciful kind humility meek longsuffering in the way that god wants us to be so we need him we need to be filled with him and when he empowers us to be that way that's what that's what's going to allow us for i mean that's what's going to allow the holy spirit to actually work through us because if we're doing it in and of ourselves it's not his think about putting on clothes right you put on so if it belongs to god you put on to be merciful you put on kindness you put on you know these things and it's his so when when when he works through you and people see that in you it's going to be his work that's going to be done so what i'm trying to point out here is the key to it is relationship with him it's not the more you do it's what you do while in relationship with him that's important so as we pray press into that relationship with him and just ask him and and seek out what his purpose is for you what his plan is for you what he wants to begin like right now like you're probably wondering well you know where do i start what am i supposed to do what okay it's our job to expand the kingdom of god but what i do tomorrow what i do you know and for the next week and that's exactly what i want us all to ask god what is it that i can start doing tomorrow that's going to enable me empower me to actually expand the kingdom of god to actually touch the hearts of people in this dying world today that's what jesus did he came down in order to bring people out of darkness into light to bring people out of pain and suffering into joy and and freedom from their burdens and pain so that is our job to continue the work that jesus did but the only way we can do it is to be in relationship with him connected with him empowered by his spirit and the authority that has been given to us from him so let us pray father god we thank you so much for this time that we have here together this all these people all of us that are gathered here today god we have a desire to serve you we have a desire to do your work to do your will god and we thank you so much jesus that you came down and you and you brought this this uh a touch of heaven this kingdom down to this earth lord and we thank you that you demonstrated to us how how it is to be done you are you are our role model you are the one that we follow you are the one that that uh that showed us the example of what to do and how to do god and we thank you even more for the fact that you went out and died on the cross and resurrected for our sins and redeemed us from this darkness from this evil that is in this world today god and we know that it is only you it is only you and through you that we even even were able to be saved and it is through you and only through you that we are holy or righteous or merciful or graceful or any of these things in and of ourselves we are not capable of this but it is through you who empowers us to be able to do these things god we thank you so much that you that you did this for us but we also ask you we ask you lord jesus that you give us a revelation of what your kingdom really is a revelation of what you have called us to every person here individually i pray that your holy spirit speak to their hearts through their minds today i pray whatever is is in their minds distractions any kind of barriers that are there i pray that they be cast down they'd be broken in jesus name and that you're only your holy spirit be speaking to them god and just begin to reveal your plan your purpose your desire to them what can they start to do starting tomorrow in order to expand your kingdom god so that we so that we actually become people a royal priesthood like the bible says ambassadors of the kingdom of god and so that we can advance it and expand it the way you have called us to so that we begin to use the talents that you give us and not hire them so that we begin to activate the gifts that you have given us and not lack from using them i pray that you just speak to our hearts in this moment give us a clear revelation of who you are what your kingdom is and what our job is to do here while we are on this earth we do not have a long time here and it is it is you that we are here [Music] god i pray i pray i pray the the time that we have here we use for your glory that the time that we have here we used to bring your glorious light into this dark world [Music] i actually if the worship team if you guys come up and sing i just this is something that's kind of been on my heart the last you know what i shared today it's been on my heart for a while and it seems like you know the more we try to do things that we think we need to do and that doesn't work the more i realize that we need jesus we need a clearer revelation of who he is we need more of him we need more of his holy spirit we need to see a clear revelation of his power in action so that it's not just something that we're doing because you know that's what we've been doing for so many years and because that's what we were taught to do but to actually do truly what god has called us to do to actually be so close in a relationship with him to know that what his will is for us what he has what you know what he has purposed for us to do and just as we sing as the worship group leads us in in worship to really really be you know how the bible says not be drunk with wine but be filled with the spirit just to be filled with the holy spirit and to just ask him jesus how do i expand your kingdom how do i do your will here on earth how do i make the most out of the time you have given me [Music] it is the most beautiful among thousands [Music] yes [Music] yes [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] among thousands [Music] it is the most beautiful among those [Music] is [Music] yes [Music] [Music] is foreign glory yours [Music] is the kingdom yours is the glory yours [Music] is the kingdom of yours [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i is it in my heart that we you know what i spoke about today i would like us to in this in this place right now just find someone near you and just ask them maybe they have some kind of prayer requests maybe they're going through something maybe they're you know they have some kind of burden they're carrying maybe uh you know something in their life is troubling them and i want us to kind of to begin to to do what jesus did you know like ask somebody you know what are they going through what is it that they need in their life what what can jesus do for them right now and pray for each other and just begin to to walk in this power begin to pray for each other begin to you know be be the answer for somebody here so that when you go out to your schools to your work to wherever you are to be able to be the answer for them there let us let us start to actually you know move in this let us start to practice it let us start to you know be first be filled with the spirit and be the answer for the person right next to us and when we see god do his work let it let us let us grow in faith and let it empower us to demonstrate that same power that same revelation of the kingdom outside of our church outside of who we know you may find somebody just find somebody and ask them what are theirs [Music] yes [Music] ah [Music] most beautiful among thousands and thousands of [Music] and thousands [Music] among thousands [Music] is [Music] yes [Music] sure [Music] we thank you jesus we thank you so much for this time in your presence god we pray that you continue to fill us you continue to use us we ask that you continue to reveal yourself to us we continue we ask that you continue to show us your plan for us your purpose for us jesus [Music] jesus we ask that your holy spirit just fills us your power just fills us a revelation of the authority that you have given to us from on high let it be revealed to us god let us be and when we are in those situations in life when we have people around us let us realize that the light the light that is with it within us is brighter than the darkness that is around us let us realize that the power that is in us is stronger than the power that is in this world let us realize that what we are capable and able to do for the kingdom that you have that you have originally brought here your kingdom god let us have the courage and the boldness to step out in our purpose let us have the courage and the boldness to step out in faith and to do your will and the things that you have planned for us to do let us stay in relationship with you let us grow in an intimate and deep relationship with you jesus so that we can fulfill the task that is at hand i pray for each person here individually myself as well that we stay close to you and seek your face and your will we thank you so much jesus we love and adore you and we thank you for this time that we had here today we thank you for everything that you have done and everything you will continue to do god i pray that your spirit goes with us as we go on through our week and we begin to step out in faith to progress your kingdom god we step out in faith to use the gifts that you have given us we step out in faith to use the talents that you have given us god let us not shy away from the things you have called us to but let us be bold and move forward in what you have called us to jesus we thank you so much and in jesus name we pray amen amen thank you guys and thank you everyone for you know praying for each other and and uh just listening you know to all the testimonies and everything that was said here today you may take your seats you know is the goal of this service this service even started for that for that reason in itself was to to spread the gospel to spare the kingdom of god the power of god and to bring people that don't know god that know don't know the truth that don't know the light you know that are living and and they don't have answers for the things they're going through and they don't know why things are happening to them in their life and we are here as believers knowing the truth knowing the light knowing that he has answers for the things that we are going through and it is our job here on this earth to proclaim the gospel to spread it and to bring that news to the people that are not aware of it yet and so that is what this service is dedicated to and you know um i actually have a desire on my heart you know that we go out you know starting this day and just begin to practice and walk in you know the holy spirit and begin to reveal the kingdom of god to those that are around us you know i see david and tony you guys are you know visiting for the first time um and you brought people to kind of you know come and join us for this time to see what what it's all really about and that's why i encourage all of us to be the same way bring your friends bring you know bring people that you know you're close to at work or maybe at school or whatever it may be maybe you just meet somebody you know and and let let them first of all experience god through you be be you know bear witness of of who god is in your own personal life and then and then bring them here where they can be in a fellowship of believers and we can all join together for the join the force of the kingdom of god and continue to do his will and bring that truth and light into this world today and more than ever the time now you know after coronavirus and everything going on with politics and you know there's so much uncertainty uh everywhere but you know but the truth of the kingdom of god of the gospel is so much needed especially in the time now so that's that's my encouragement as we close uh to everybody um and and when you bring them you know we're gonna start doing uh uh fellowship time so maybe we'll be doing you know whether it's before the services we'll have tea coffee you know maybe some sweets or or uh you know some food even whatever it may be but just just so that we have a time to kind of talk with people interact you know maybe ask each other questions and uh get to know each other better and and and you know what god's doing in us and through us and maybe even encourage each other and edify each other i feel like it's very important because you know a time like this you know i'm up here standing maybe you hear two three people but when we're in fellowship we can hear each other we can hear you know what god's doing you know through him and her and it can be very edifying and it can build us up and also for if there are visitors you know they may have questions and it gives us that time to kind of interact and and you know grow together so i guess we'll uh conclude in prayer and then um the next evening service will be announced we don't have a date as of yet um november will be somewhat busy month so when we get a date it will be announced at our sunday service and then you can let you know whoever know friends family or whoever you're bringing or instagram so i guess we're gonna be uh using instagram as well as a way to announce it so let us stand to our fee as we close our service um and let's just thank god for everything and for what he's done and he's doing let us pray god we thank you for this for this service that we just had for uh everything that you've done the word that you've spoken the testimonies that we heard and and what you have done for people and through people and we thank you that um you are an answer for us you are the light in our lives you are the one that provides comfort in our times of stress you are the one that gives us answers when we have so many questions god we thank you so much for the gospel for for sending your son to die on the cross to give us to give us eternal salvation for our souls god but let us not let us not just hold the salvation to ourselves but let us share it with others let us bring others into that same truth that has been given to us so graciously so freely given to us god let us with love and gentleness and kindness and with mercy do the same as you did and share this same gospel the revelation of your kingdom to the people around us in jesus name we pray amen [Music] [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you