 For us to grow we must understand that it's not just about masses coming to Christ It's about these people being cared for and Disciple Discipled or connected to other people and growing in other people than Christ see circles are better than rows Because in circles is where we get Grow as disciples of Jesus Christ Jesus had a ministry to the masses But Jesus also had a small group of people that he poured his life into and these people they shook the world These people they spread the message of Jesus and this message of Jesus came to us if you read book of Acts Which is like the acts of his disciples you see that the people Jesus healed are not there The people Jesus raised from the dead are not there The only people who were there and made a difference with a small group of people Jesus gave his attention and care for I Want to tell you something that as great as our conferences are and they will be our desire is what we saw this weekend to see this every Single weekend amen But what it's not going to change our city and it's not going to change the world until each one of us We get discipled or we disciple others We're stepping into a season right now within few weeks about two weeks We're gonna launch or relaunch our small groups We're not a church that has small groups We are church of small groups Meaning all of our pastoring all of our care is done through small groups if you have a baby They got born most likely pastors not gonna be there Or if you have a funeral or other things It's done all of the care in our church is done through small groups. The pastor is not the big shot Every person is a big shot Because God calls the pastor to equip the saints to do the work of ministry Meaning God calls the pastors to allow others to rise up heal the sick prophesy cast out devils and mentor other people in some churches in a lot of churches the pastor is the belly button Everything comes to him. He is the only one that controls our desire is to empower not control And these are not just slogans These are not just words for those of you who make this church through your home You know that that's the reality of how we live in the conference Many people would come to me and say hey pastor a sickness came back. I said great. Ivan come over here Pray for and this person comes in. Hey, I think the demon is still tormenting. I said perfect pastor Sam And so when people come in they're like why you're not doing I'm like I'm surrounded with like Superman I Just I just enjoy standing back on I just enjoy how God uses them and then I hear how the Lord uses it Encourages me. I'm not intimidated when the Lord uses other people in our team better I'm actually happy for it and that is our team. That is our how church supposed to be can somebody say amen You can write few two things down is that the church will grow or shrink to the size that we of the care we provide 98% of all pastoral care is done by people who simply care You don't need a person who has few numbers of few things before their name for somebody to help you You just need a person who cares people don't care how much you know they want to know how much you care That's right. And so as a church we want to see grow not just grow big But once also want to grow small and in care. We don't want you to know everyone. That's not possible We want you to know someone and someone to know you and someone to notice you when you're here And someone to notice you when you're not here You must understand the early church the what we see in the Bible did not have a building or a cathedral for at least 300 years First 300 years when Christians were killed for support when they were burned for entertainment of Emperor Nero When Christians were thrown in the gladiator circles just for lunch for bears and lions and elephants Church grew like crazy. It eventually Impacted the Roman Empire, but it was not because the church had a permission to build buildings It because the church grew by house churches. It multiplied by house churches When a communism came to Russia Versus the communism in in China in Russia because the traditional church in Russia was based on two main things cathedrals and priests The only thing communism had to do is to burn the cathedral and imprison a priest and the church shut down In China on the other hand the church the early church did not just was not built on cathedrals and pastors it was built on home groups and small groups and the smaller gatherings So when the communism came in and thought they're gonna wipe out Christianity by killing the cathedrals and the priests the church During the emperor who banned Christianity the church was two million people in China By the time the emperor died and he killed the cathedrals and the priest the church was 80 million people Because of small groups and because the church spread other disciples telling other disciples 20 year olds leading 20 to 30,000 people in different groups in China and the church is growing even today They're not allowed officially to build a building, but they're multiplying We are one president away From the truth of the gospel being called hate speech We are one president away from preachers to be locked up for hate speech Which means we don't know What's gonna happen next in America where the churches will be allowed to meet like we meet right now? You may say well, this is a Christian country and everything smelled the coffee. We're not a Christian country and Our goal is not to make America Christian because America doesn't need to get saved people need to get saved Jesus didn't die for a country. He died for people our goal is the hearts of man Not the heart of a nation and when people are turned to God God begins to shift things and we're not afraid of whatever is coming But what I believe might be happening and I agree with Francis Shen is that when the laws are gonna be risen up And they're only gonna get worse in this country Against the truth and against us speaking the truth of God's word and the Christians are gonna be busy fighting for the laws Instead of that we have to understand we have to build a system right now That in case they take the building They don't stop anything Because the church was without one for 300 years and it filled the Roman Empire Come on somebody Building doesn't determine the church the system of leadership development Home groups and mentorship is what the church was what the church truly is and what the church should be This is just a bonus. This is just a cherry on the top of the cake The real church is you and I living out our Christian life Discipling others mentoring others housing others helping the poor Responding to the emergency and being a blessing to others and bringing the power of the Holy Spirit in our everyday life Can somebody say amen and so I want to challenge you right now this message is going to be different We're gonna have a series in a few weeks What it's gonna be more focused on answering the hurts and the pains and the bad habits But today it's going to be a little bit different where my goal is to challenge you For those who've been sitting too long on your blessed assurance. Jesus is mine To stir you up a little bit and say listen You've been in church too long. You got to start mentoring and discipling other people And so today is gonna be if you're first time this message is not for you It's for the person who sitting next to you And if you've been coming for some time, I'm gonna be very direct and in the face partial It's my culture. It's like that so excuse the let's blame it on the culture But but another part is that in in this Conrogation and then this preacher doesn't like to sugarcoat things We just like to say the way it is and a lot of people love that when when I preach The only problem is when I continue to talk after I finish preaching come down from the pulpit I keep to need to use the same technique then that gets me in trouble But as long as it's on a pulpit, it's usually fine So while I'm on the pulpit, we're going to take advantage of that When I was getting married Because me and my wife already purchased all of our furniture Before we got married and so on my wedding day, you know I knew that people will come and it's it's a culture custom in our culture to bless people on their wedding And so I had a person that Requested every guest that I invited for the wedding for our wedding not to bring us any gifts in the form of vacuumers towels and plates But to bring us cash if they wanted to bless us because we already had everything Prepared for us. That's how I wanted people to bless me if they wanted to bless me and so and then we had these five people I still remember I still remember them Who are who got the text message? But they felt like they wanted to be very generous and one brought a vacuumer One brought a cook a crackpot like this thing that cooks things and then one brought a set of plates and Some of you're sitting here right now. I'm gonna call give an article for salvation And I understand they meant really well and some of them I know why they brought those gifts because that's what they somebody gave them on their wedding But it wasn't even opened and then I found that later. They just keep on giving it to different weddings And so and they brought that and I remember I came home and I was like man, that's that's great But you know what I did with those five things. I passed them on to some other weddings. I Didn't need them. They were nice. We already had the plates. We already had the vacuum and we already had those towels Today I want to talk about Christians who bring to Jesus something that is convenient to them But Jesus is very clear about that he's not necessarily interested in that which we're offering You have to understand that this whole thing that we have in our culture that it's the it's the heart that matters How you do it what you do doesn't matter. It's the heart. It's the thought behind it that matters It's not scriptural because God was very clear to people of Israel when you come to me you have to come this way He was very specific please make sure they wear specific clothing make sure the animal is killed in a particular way Make sure the blood is removed in a particular way. Make sure you come on a particular day I mean God was very specific and how he wants to be approached You can't just come to God and just do whatever you want and say well, it's the heart that matters It does not work like that and today I want to speak to you about that The first that I want to read to you as a way to begin is John chapter 11 verse 15. It says the following When they had eaten breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter Simon son of Jonah. Do you love me more than these he said to him? Yes, Lord, you know that I love you and he said to him feed my lambs So Jesus is asking Peter. Do you love me? Peter says si senor mucho grande My Corazon loves you a lot Love you a lot Jesus. You're great Jesus and you would think Jesus would respond back and say Simon don't smoke drink get high and don't cheat on your wife You would think Jesus would respond subscribe to a Bible reading plan on your version and do not miss the streaks You would think Jesus would tell him don't do this and don't do that But the response of Jesus to do you love me is not just morality. It's ministry He says feed my if you love me feed my lambs, and then he asks again Do you love me Peter and Peter says yes, Lord? You know that I love you feed my sheep Gee Peter. Do you love me? Yes, feed my sheep. Do you know how Jesus wants you to express your love for him? by caring for those That are his sheep now. That's not the only way But this is one of the main ways Jesus wants that love to be expressed to him For those of you who are married a Man especially you know one thing is that having love in your heart for your spouse is one thing that is a great thing Your wife feeling that love is a total different thing I've not met a husband in a good relationship who doesn't love his wife But you can meet many wives who are convinced husband doesn't love me So what is the missing link? We have this thing called love language a love language is the way you feel loved Gary I think as some author he described five of those love languages I had to learn this the earlier stage of our marriage. I remember this particular Saturday. We'll never forget it as long as I live My wife worked at BMW dealership as a part-time receptionist and she went to work It was very close to our house where we lived in Richland and on Saturday My love language means the way I feel loved is acts of service So if somebody does something really nice for me, I feel loved You don't have to tell me that you love me. You don't have to spend time with me Please don't spend time with me and hold my hand. You don't have to touch me. I don't like to be touched I just kind of my thing Childhood trauma or something but touching is not my love language And so acts of service is my love language for my wife It's the opposite her love language is physical non-sexual touch Meaning to touch her like this it would mean the world to her and so for me being touch is just What do you want? Why you touch me kind of thing? So this Saturday she's working. I'm thinking I'm gonna surprise her. I'm gonna make her life so much better So I take the whole house. I clean the house. I mow the lawn. I clean up the driveway I mean I make everything really nice. I take my car. I clean my car. I go to the dealership I take her car without her permission. I clean her car I mean everything is super spotless and after like six hours of doing this deep-fried cleaning I am tired and so I am thinking waiting in the house. She's gonna come in I think even that time even got roses I'm thinking she's gonna come in and she's gonna bow. I mean adore me At least like the wife of Abraham call him Lord. I thought he was she will say great ones I mean I could settle for the great one if she can't call me Lord So my wife comes in she doesn't notice the lawn. She doesn't notice the clean car She does not notice the clean house. She doesn't notice anything. She comes in and she drops her purse And she says I'm so tired sits on the couch and she says let's go for a walk and I'm thinking six hours Thank you wouldn't be enough. I Thought on your knees hands up But not even acknowledging That I I I Slave I'm like this is my day of rest and I I gave it for you and and I'm like I'm trying to comprehend. How is I am tired? Connect with let's go for a walk because in my world if I'm tired. I'm not gonna go for a walk And so I was really upset and I was hurt I went to the other room and I realized that I gave her something so means so much to me It meant so little for her Because she wanted to be loved differently Did you know how Jesus wants to be loved? He says care for my sheep Sometimes we give Jesus something that we love That Jesus appreciates, but what he really loves is people That's why it says in Matthew 25 He will look at some and say I was in jail and you visited me. I was hungry and you fed me I was thirsty. You gave me water. I was naked. You gave me clothing and they will say in response back to him Jesus we actually have never seen you naked hungry or in jail and he will say this what you did to the least once you did it for me No wonder Jesus looks at Apostle Paul who's persecuting Christians and killing Christians. He says Paul Why are you persecuting me and Paul says Jesus? I'm just just killing the Christians You you and me are cool just the Christians and Jesus says this how you're doing it to the Christians You're doing it to me Which tells me this is the way I express my love to Jesus is what I express my love toward his people If you disciple people Careful people bring them to Christ help people. It's the way you're expressing your love for Jesus Now it's true. You can love people and never love God But you cannot love God and not love people and some of you so many of you here today You mean well you live in a moral life You live a good life, but I want to challenge you today Could it be that you're cleaning a lawn and you're washing the car and you're preparing everything for Jesus and Jesus You may not feel that favor from him because Jesus is primary love language is people Begin to care for people. I'm not saying to smoke weed and care for people because Jesus doesn't care about that No smoking weed part and not drinking and not getting high watching porn that is for your good But for Jesus his heart is people That's why I champion the cause of Opening small groups encouraging you to be in a home group to bring other people to church and and lead home groups Because that's how you express your love for Jesus You don't have to lead a home group to disciple others But home groups are a great opportunity where you can gather people so that you can care for them They can care for each other and Jesus is hard can be full Can somebody say man, let's put our hands together for the Lord? Secondly Matthew 28 verse 19 it says the following get go there for and make disciples of all nations Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and lo I am with you always even to the end of the age So toward the end of his ministry Jesus before going to heaven He gives disciples what we call great commission not a great option not a suggestion, but a commission It's our assignment on this earth and it starts like this goal which speaks of evangelism speaks of inviting people Speaks of giving altar calls giving people an imitation and then he says make I want you to see what it does not say It doesn't say make decisions Meaning don't just put yourself pledge yourself. Oh, they accepted Jesus. That is great. Jesus. That is not what really I'm after My goal is not to make decisions or make converts. He says I want you to make disciples the word make indicates There's a process The work mate indicates. They're not born like that. They don't become disciples the moment they get saved. They need to become Make disciples. Are you with me? And then he says you help him to get baptized you help him to learn more about the word of God and the Developed disciplines in their life and Jesus is low. I am with you always We must understand is when people give their life to Christ They have the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit touches them supernaturally Every person has a unique destiny from God Every person is uniquely loved by God and no matter how exciting Tremendous glorious supernatural magnificent their encounter with God was they still need another believer in their life Jesus Christ was the son of God and the savior of the world and he still needed Mary and Joseph Imagine Jesus The only person who did not need anybody would be Jesus because he was the son of God And he was the savior of the world yet Jesus needed Mary needed Joseph who were average Jewish couple who? Mentored Jesus. Excuse me. They gave birth to Jesus first They named Jesus and then they protected Jesus from Herod before Jesus could step into his destiny I believe God allowed the humans to take care of his child to model to us Is that we grow spiritually into position where the Lord from heaven and trust us with his newborn babies? If the angel of God would have come to you if you're a woman and says hey, I Want to bring forth my son on this earth. Can I borrow your womb? What would you say? Yeah, of course Lord You will be safe course Jesus. I'm they'll be so exciting Do you know that today the Lord comes to every man and woman and says can I borrow your schedule? Can I borrow your living room one time a week? Can I borrow your budget? Can I borrow a five minutes of your prayer time? So you pray for others instead of yourself and most of us we say our angel I mean, I don't think it is a good idea kind of busy right now. I do go to church though And you tell you saw my tidying record. I am fine The Lord wants to borrow Your life to begin to bring other people into maturity with him people need you somebody say a man I Remember when the first time I saw Etter We were playing soccer. It was many many years ago. We still drive by that field sometimes We played soccer our English was was very poor At the time and Etter came to see his mom here in town and after he saw him Saw her he started to work with it with the relative of his and he watched us from a window playing soccer And he came in and he didn't speak well English at all But Etter is very animated and so he doesn't need English to convey his point His hands can do the job and stuff so he quickly showed to us that he wants to be a part of the game He came he became part of the game We play together and we decided to take advantage of his lack of English And so we told him that we're going to a party afterwards. It was called a small group We didn't tell him we didn't want to explain too long We'll take too long to explain that it's a religious setting so we got him there not only he came there But we got him saved there. We don't know what he's signed up for but it didn't matter and stuff So we're like we take advantage of his lack of English. Let's get him saved and ever start coming with us I took him to my two trips with me and and everywhere that we went in and then after a while We we some of you know Etter he got married and then Etter came back here You know today There's family of his of Tatiana's relatives who are here some of them are in our team other people that he Interacts in the community that have come to know Christ But I can tell you one thing Etter would have not been here today if he would have only gotten saved We held on to him and still do till this day. I connected with him took him sometimes He slept in my house. We helped him with this would help them with that and now today He's a great blessing to this ministry all the beautiful photos. You see being taken by him because somebody Not just made a decision but made a disciple everybody say hi Etter So we were just talking about you Etter. Sorry, bro right behind your back Actually right behind the door and stuff and to me he's a reminder that people Can become somebody great Not only when we lead them to the altar, but when we lead them into our life I Was reminded even today a couple that came in for the first time You know how they came here not because an angel Gabriel showed up at home and say hunger generation 3203 West Silvestre go there on Sunday. He said my sister's been inviting me I met another young lady who returned back to church and she said Vlad You know kind of walked away, but my mentor kept inviting me Nobody's here because of God Only there is Mary's and Joseph's average people Who are used supernaturally by God to help people come to know Christ Can you be a Mary and Joseph for this fall season? Do you feel the call of God to help God's children? Would you adopt a child if God would come to you and say I have a child Could you adopt him for me? Could you care for them? Would you make room not in your womb and no no not not for that, but in your schedule in your budget in your heart That's the challenge once you're down number three Is leading a home group or discipling others is the way of spiritual maturity I write to you little children because your sins are forgiven to you for his name's sake I write to your fathers because you have known him who is from the beginning I write to your young men because you have overcome the wicked one apostle john writes in this letter and he breaks down three spiritual stages the first stage is spiritual children These are the people who need care You need to constantly watch over them. You need to help them to tie their shoelaces need to help them Remind them they need to brush their teeth or help them brush their teeth These are children and we have people in church who are spiritual children spiritual children can do this They come they got saved and they after salvation they went on the parking lot and they smoked it for the glory of god They invited their friends that night got drunk white to celebrate their salvation And so and when you hear stuff for that you lack omg and you're like how could very simple when you're a child you poop That's what you do. That's normal And so and when people do stuff like that and I hear sometimes pastors They come to our services or a confidant like I can't believe you have people smoke And I was like when you don't have people smoke. That's what bothers me Because that means you don't have non-christians coming to your church and your services And non-christians have to feel normal in the church the way I feel normal in the hospital when I have a flu I don't come to hospital and hear racism or people hating hating the people with flu No, it's they're I come in with flu and I leave without it And when people come in and they get saved and they have baby christians and they have challenges and everything That is normal and we have to be patient and we have to be long suffering and understanding Because somebody say amen But the second stage is the second stage of the youth somebody say youth Youth is not an age. It's a stage Meaning it's a time where you can now manage things yourself It's a time where you read the bible on your own It's a time where you don't need to be reminded to come to church It's a time where the worship leader doesn't need to go like this for you to Raise your hand. You are youth. You know how to do that. You know the system. You know the drill You are self cared means you can care for yourself And we have a lot of youth and we thank god for the people who are no longer needing that special attention. They're good But that's not what everything stops What everything really god is aiming for is the father somebody say father A father is somebody who cares for other people Father is somebody who mentors other people who doesn't just come in and say well, I'm doing great I had a great weekend been reading the bible. Um good with my streaks kind of fasting praying It's god's been great to me praise god. It's somebody who comes into church and he's noticing wait Where is he? I haven't seen him for two weeks three weeks and let me text him and find out They don't just come to church and happy they came to church. They're watching that other people Where they're at? I haven't seen you. Let me meet with you for coffee this week Why because I feel like you've been going through some stuff. They are father figure It's the fathers They make a difference Amen And what I want to tell you right now if you got stuck spiritually Perhaps You're trying to become a superman Or perhaps you're trying to become some this super youth when god wants you to be a father figure You don't have to have physical children to be a father You don't even have to have big money to be a father You don't have to have a house of your own to be a father You just have to have a hard enough that cares for other people and notices somebody Now remember You can't care for every person But you can carry for someone If each one of us cares for someone We make a difference Brian Astley who's Brian everyone say hi Brian And so Brian is sitting over here. He leads the team of ushers But Brian was invited by my sister solamita over facebook And Brian came to one of our services. He was overdressed for the Sunday that he came in And I for a moment thought that he come from like a more apostolic, you know Pentecostal I just did not know that he he comes completely from no christian background So he had this association with the church that he had to dress up and particularly dress up He came in and he didn't know how to behave in the service. I love those people who don't know the system Didn't know when to raise hands He didn't know how to pretend even because some people who don't know the system at least know how to pretend They know the system and so and Brian was so organic so real At a particular time Brian gave his life to christ but see because of Some of you know his story Brian. Oh deed four times in one month Brian's done more drugs and did all kinds of stuff And he had no his parents got divorced at the young age and he really had a rough upbringing And so Brian had no car and nazar Would pick Brian up every single Sunday Go out of his way bring him here and some Sundays Brian wouldn't text him back Wouldn't ask him for the ride so nazar would drive by himself without even asking Hey, do you want to go to church and pick him up and he would insist on picking him up For a month or so nazar was busy with something and Brian wouldn't come And nazar started to reach out to Brian finding out where where are you what's going on? Why we haven't seen you here and Brian when I was preparing for the book and I was writing a chapter and I mentioned Brian's story Brian told me this he said Vlad if it wouldn't be for nazar To keep reaching out to me keep calling me and keep messaging me He says I would have never been back at this church He said I would have gotten lost somewhere over there in the world today. Not only Brian is serving christ Brian has his own car Brian has a job Brian is going for his bachelors Brian's mom got saved and today she went through the growth track Today his sister came to know christ and Brian is witnessing to other people I want to say big. Thank you to nazar I want to say big. Thank you to everyone who's like nazar who doesn't just come to church And watching me show you on time, but while you're at church, you're looking. Where's your friends? I have not not seen them for a few weeks What's going on with them and then you reach out when somebody doesn't have a car That you loaned your car and you picked them up. I want to say big. Thank you for that Because when you do that, that's your maturity Maturity is not just knowing if adam had a belly button or not Maturity is not knowing how many angels can dance on the top of a needle Maturity is not knowing a secret Hebrew code in the first 10 chapters of Genesis maturity is when you care For other people not just yourself Can somebody say amen? Praise be to god I want you to write down number four is that leading others can unlock miracles in your life Leading others can unlock miracles in your life And the story of ester and i'm not going to read the verse right now, but mardukai He became like a Adoptive father for hadessa hadessa. She was an orphan her dad and mom were were killed in the war And he took her under his wing He mentored her raised her up. He changed her name. He gave her instructions And then when she went to become a queen he still kept in contact with her and And mardukai saved the king's life Mardukai eventually saved the nation But I want you to notice something that mardukai had as mardukai had a trouble in his career Mardukai's political career was struggling And mardukai did not ever stop and say you know what i'm not gonna babysit nobody I'm not gonna help anybody. I'm not gonna save anybody because i'm gonna focus on my career There's nothing wrong with focusing on your career your education and your family But I can tell you one thing the best way to fix your problems Is to put them in god's hands Sometimes after you've done all that you've done you went through all the counseling you went through all the step points You've done and you just seem you can't break through What do you do you put the same energy you did for your problems to fixing someone else's problem and you say god Let's swap My battle is yours My financial situation is your financial situation. I'm gonna go and help someone else I'm gonna go raise someone else and god you will take care of my situation Me and my wife have been trying to have children for the last four years I'm not desperate For one reason In the last four years I helped a lot of children Even right now I have people living with me and people have always lived with me who couldn't afford to pay Some I paid after cars and and blessed them financially and I will continue to do that as long as I live And I told Andres Bessoni because he started to prophesy and I've had more prophecies about my children That I have had about my life in the last 12 months And I'm like, what's going on? Why people keep prophecy? I'm like, what about me? I want to prophesy not my child And I don't have in my culture you have to have children right away within 12 months and and all this stuff But you have to understand four years ago. I made a decision. I made a swap. It was in Ukraine What I said god about finances and about my future family I'm putting that into your hands and I'm asking you please take care of that and you worry about that I have a healthy desire to have children. I have a healthy desire to prosper my wife wants to have a house by the lake So I have a desire But I don't want the desire to be my desperation What I'm burning for is people who never had a father and mother and who are going to hell What I'm burning for is for people who have cancer in their body people who have diabetes people who are suffering and hurting And I say god i'm giving that into your hands and deep inside of my heart I know that god will give me children and they're not going to be normal children. They're going to be on steroids They're going to be crazy They're going to be nuts They're going to do stuff that I wished only to do and I want to tell you something right now As I even go through the season this this issue is in god's hands It will be resolved and we will all be witnesses of that miracle But god is going to do it at his time I have to take care of god's children that he puts right now into my life And you have to do the same Come on somebody Don't let your pain stop your purpose Don't let your struggle stop your purpose. Whatever you're going through don't say i'm not going to serve I'm not going to help other people why because i'm suffering the best way to get out of your suffering is to serve other people Can somebody say amen? Abraham prayed for other women who couldn't have children god unlocked his wife's womb Joseph translated other people's dreams god fulfilled his dream Job prayed for his friends and god unlocked the blessing in his life My savior jesus christ hanged on the cross while he was hanging he was witnessing to other people and god rescued him from the tomb Whatever your situation you are stuck in if you've done everything you can at your power Put it in god's hands Don't be desperate and burn with your purpose to save other people's lives Disciple other people's lives and god will solve your problem God will fix your issue and god will heal your disease and god will save your children And god will restore your business and god will move in your marriage And god will fix those things can somebody say amen And lastly is that when we disciple others when we lead other people to christ What happens is that we receive eternal Dividends Eternal diviners the bible says that it's appointed unto man to die And then we stand in front of judgment when we stand in front of judgment of jesus in greek it's called Beema or B E M A It's a trivial for rewards In large olympic arenas there was elevated seat on which the judge of the contest sat So when we say judgment seat of christ, I don't want you to think of benton county jail For some of you at the moment you hear where judgment you're like, oh jesus no and jesus is going to be the judge Definitely gonna be messed up. No, this is not a place where you come and you got a ticket And you're hoping that they're going to reduce the price This is different. This was more of like a place where if you compete in the game and you come in there to receive an award So this was not a place where you receive punishment, but you see rewards And so as christians when you die you will stand before jesus You already saved and you based on what you did for his kingdom for other people Jesus will determine if you're gonna get a reward in heaven Let me destroy this little bubble that some of us have in our mind that in heaven everybody is gonna be equal That's not true In heaven people will have different crowns different positions and different possessions We're all not gonna live in the mansion. I don't know where you got the idea that you're gonna live in the mansion Depends on what you sent there ahead of you If you don't if you don't waste your whole life The bible says some people in Corinthians will be saved as through the fire meaning they will go to heaven and absolutely have nothing except their salvation Because everything they did on this earth was only for themselves So now the basic package of heaven is really good The alternative is a lot worse But there is rewards in heaven Don't think that you're gonna come in heaven and receive the same reward of people who were murdered or people who were serving christ every single day So I want you to live for the some of you you are saving for your retirement save for something way way way more important That's your eternal life in heaven Now hell on the other side is also going to have degrees And ryan if you can put up the verse for us what it says in matthew chapter 10 Assuredly I said to you it will be more more tolerable for the land of soram and gamora in the day of judgment than that city Look at this word more tolerable means in hell Toleration pain level is not going to be the same for everyone Some people will have less pain Some more Based on what they did to other people and how they responded to the gospel And jesus says soram and gamora is going to have less punishment in hell, which tells me hell Is not a big lake where everybody gets dumped into There is levels of punishment in hell as the way there is levels of reward in heaven Now the basic package of hell is not good We just went through summer 100 degrees Cranked it up to 200 even if it's just hot like remove the worms remove the gnashing of teeth. It's already bad. I don't want to go It's really really bad. Whatever I have to do, but I don't want to go there if it's just that hot But it's a lot worse than hot it bible says is darkness darkness is separation Meaning every in earth right now you feel god's love everywhere you're in why because god's spirit is here You're in even if you don't believe in god even if you say I i'm an atheist You still feel god's love because the spirit is here He will never leave you when you go to hell Every ounce of light Every ounce of love And every ounce of hope that you ever felt will be vacuumed out of that place bible says outer darkness And you may say why would a loving god Send people to hell The real question is why would people reject a loving god? The real question I have for you is this I think it will be unloving to force you to be stuck with god Whose presence you don't like Imagine your parents forcing you to marry someone you can't stand Would you call that love? If god will force you to go to heaven would you call him loving? god gives you a choice I want you to see this verse that Has become a cry of my heart. It's in isaia chapter 5 and verse 14 in isaia chapter 5 verse 14 Therefore she all is another word for hell place of death has enlarged itself I want you to see this when satan rebelled against god god created hell For the devil not for us And not even for angels but satan recruited angels and rebelled against god with angels And guess what happened with hell It enlarged itself god created human race And god gave him perfect paradise and they rebelled against god hell enlarged itself Hell initially was never meant to hold humans That's why it enlarged itself If our church shrinks Hell enlarges If churches shrink Hell enlarges Today we are here in tri cities to shrink hell And enlarge the kingdom of heaven That's why we believe in home groups. That's why we believe in discipling. That's why on september 14 We're going to have a special training for people who are going to be leaders of groups And I want to challenge you to be there But right now what we're going to do first and foremost Is I want us to pray right now That the kingdom of heaven enlarges Then I'm going to give a call for those people who you have to make a decision today to give your life to christ Because jesus died on a cross for you some of you here today and You're you religious person and you're convinced that just because you're religious is going to get you saved I can tell you that being religious doesn't get you saved only following jesus will But we'll get to that in a moment. I want us to rise to a feat right now And as you risen to your feet If you if you don't mind and you find with your knees, I want you to kneel To kneel if your knees are good you can kneel Or you can sit if you can't kneel and I want us to take a moment right now and we're going to pray So lord you created heaven for people Hell was created for the devil. It was not created for the citizens of tricities We pray for the citizens of tricities. I want you to right now open up your heart The way you know how the best you know how I want you to pray passionately And pray right now with persistence that god will begin to enlarge the kingdom of heaven in tricities and masses will come to know jesus Hell has to shrink If it enlarged it has to shrink and the kingdom of god has to expand in jesus name. Let's pray church In jesus matinee father, we come before you This afternoon god and we crying out. We're praying lord We're standing in a gap for those that are lost father. You've put us for such a time as this You've put our church here for such a time as this You brought us to this place together for such a time as this to stand in a gap for those that are lost To stand in a gap for those that walked away from you to stand in a family's god that got that never got never had a Christians in their in their family tree god lord. We pray for those for first time christians lord We pray for those god that don't know you for those that nobody's praying for god today We stand in a gap lord for those lord and we crying out We pray we're singing your face and we ask you god Give us the grace give us the power to god to populate heaven and to shrink hell god Give us the grace lord to see many souls saved Give us the grace god open the windows of heaven lord to see lord the people Come to know you and come to know the power of the cross in our midst god in our city In our region lord. We don't want people god to hope to go to hell god We want to make it difficult to people to go to hell god as long as we are here in this city As long as we are in our schools in our communities lord We want to shine the true gospel in our city in jesus' mighty name. We pray I want us to rise to our feet right now I want to take your neighbor's hand on your right and on your left and we're gonna pray for those people Nobody else is praying for just take a moment right now My wife is gonna lead that prayer Let's begin to pray right now simple begin to pray that for those no one is praying Even if it's your first time here and you're not a follower of christ Just say your prayer right now for them. Let's pray right now for those No one is praying for in our city include your family members as well. Let's pray Let's intercede every eye closed every mouth open every spirit open. Let's cry out to the lord right now Yes, jesus We ask you lord that you will begin to touch their lives god Every single sick person in the hospital god If there are not that bad god, we ask you that you will touch their life lord We pray lord for people who are lost in false religions god Those who don't want this praying for god We're interceding right now on their behalf god and we ask you that you are super naturally Reveal yourself to them lord Precious holy spirit we ask you that you will begin to draw hearts to jesus christ That you will begin to super naturally Reveal yourselves to them god That their salvation will come in a mighty name of jesus christ. We pray more We pray that in jesus mighty name right now I want you to stretch your hands like this and we're going to pray right now Just stretch your hands like this begin to pray lord god. We release home groups Let's begin to pray for the home groups We're believing for 50 home groups that will be relaunched in the fall And I want you to pray maybe god is calling you to be the home group leader in the fall for your friends For your co-workers you have place of influence. We will provide with you with material with everything But right now let's begin to praise the lord god release leaders in our church Raise up leaders who will be pastors to people in our church. Come on Let's begin to pray for the intercede for that right now in the name of jesus Lord right now in the name of jesus we cry out lord What would you care about most lord the reason why you died lord? You want to see people saved you want to see the kingdom expanded lord right now We pray oh, holy spirit for our home groups lord We pray for our home groups lord for people to be mentored Lord, we pray for people to come and plug in and grow lord We pray in the name of jesus holy spirit and the hearts we open to to lead our home group lord Please move in our hearts. Oh, holy spirit. Please change your heart god Please take our focus off of ourselves. Please help us to see more than ourselves god Please help us to dedicate our life god to see So save to see people mentored lord that our finances our family our children Will be given to the mission field lord in the name of jesus. No, we pray for home group Holy spirit move my release array to be saved Mentorship lord we pray in the name of jesus holy spirit move Thank you lord god that you're raising up 50 home groups during this fall season We will see people healed delivered and baptized in the holy spirit lord god We thank you that we will see people cared for shepherd and lord god in jesus mighty name Thank you for watching this content I hope this was a blessing to you if you're like me and you like to click on things Click on this Subscribe to our channel and the content will come to you every time we post it and remember the best is yet to come