 I'm super excited and I want to say thank you, first of all, to our pastors, even to my mom and to my dad, pastors Vasili and Luba for investing into our young generation, into our pastors and pushing the vision that you are never too young to change the world. You are never too young to be an impact to your generation that when the world looks at you and says you are a hopeless generation, God looks at you and says there's hope in this generation. And so super, super thankful for our pastors and pastors Vlad and Lana, for the rest of the pastors and the staff for believing in us and all this craziness on stage. This was more so asked for forgiveness later. I didn't want to take this one down. I was like, it's youth takeover. You guys like the crates? All right. All right. I was hoping for more reaction. We have youth coming to 1130, it's going to be youth takeover. I hope to get a better reaction there. Amen. Amen. Amen. God is so good in this place. Unashamed conference has been such a beautiful event. Our heart as HGY, our youth ministry, we are really focusing on our city. We really did not push for youth groups outside of Tri-Cities to come in because we want to build our church. We want to build our city. We have 40,000 plus students in our city. Jesus died for every single one of them. And for that reason, the blood of Jesus that was shed for every teenager, it will be the teenagers that we fight for today. Amen. So we're believing that stadiums will be filled not for football games, but to glorify Jesus. Teenagers will fill stadiums. Teenagers will not go to games or to this. They will go to stadiums to worship Jesus, glorify Jesus. Amen. And it's been such a beautiful event. We sing last night, the glory of God fell in the room. We saw so much miracle signs and wonders. People got baptized in the Holy Spirit. Just high schoolers, guys, girls, middle schoolers, encountering the presence of Jesus. People getting wrecked. And the most beautiful part is teenagers coming in here for the first time ever and saying, it's cool to serve Jesus. I don't have to be in the world to have fun. I don't have to be in drugs or in alcohol to have fun. I could be in church and have the best time of my life and not and remember what I did the next morning, not be hung over in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. And so we're thankful for everybody's support. We did have three days of conference, so I am at about 15% with my voice, but we're going to push through and we're going to believe for God just to bless tonight and encounter people in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. I have a message that I want to bring to you guys this morning. And the message, the subject that I'm going to speak on today is the fight for the future. Someone say the fight for the future. I believe the young generation, teenagers are the future. I don't believe teenagers are the next generation. I think they're the now generation. I believe no pastor how and pastor Leah, they write in their book generations, they write that teenagers are not the leaders of tomorrow. They are the leaders of today. Another quote they say is if you babysit teenagers, you will raise babies. But if you lead teenagers, you will raise leaders. I believe this church, hungry generation, the vision of this church, the vision of our pastors is we are leading not an audience. We are leading an army of young people that will look at their schools, not as just good grades and good school or good sports, but as a mission field to take back everything that the enemy has stolen from us. We will see a generation saved. We will see the Pharaoh of drugs, the Pharaoh of sexual immorality under our feet in the name of Jesus. If you believe it, shout amen, amen. The fight for the future and I'm going to be speaking out of the book of Exodus. If you guys want to turn with me, there should be some notes on the screen. You can pull out your Bibles or you can look up onto the screen and I'm going to summarize it a little bit. Exodus two, one through four, and it talks about about this time a man and a woman from the tribe of Levi got married. The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw he was a special baby. Someone shout back at me, a special baby. And she kept him hidden for three months, but when she could no longer hide him, she got a basket made of papyrus reeds and waterproofed it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in the basket, laid it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile River and sent it down the river. And then we're going to skip to Exodus three, nine through 10. This is when Moses, the story of Moses, he's already an adult and he encounters a burning bush. God through the burning bush talks to Moses and he tells Moses, now therefore behold the cry. Someone say the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. God said, I'm hearing the cry and also I have also seen the oppression with which Egyptians oppress them. Come now, therefore I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel out of Egypt. Let's pray and then we're going to get into the word. Father God, we thank you for this morning. God, we thank you for the testimony. God, we thank you for the lives that were changed. The lives that were healed, the lives that were restored. We invite you into this place. Do what only you can do. God, I surrender, I step aside, may be your words, may be your spirit that moves today in the name of Jesus Christ and everyone said. So the children of Israel, the context is a king named Pharaoh. He's not that good of a king, very bad king. He has these people, Israelites, captive and in chapter two or chapter one of Exodus, he starts to see that Israelites are multiplying very fruitfully. Let's just say that. And they are multiplying a lot. There's a lot of them and they also just don't like them. Israelites don't like Pharaoh, obviously they're keeping them as slaves. And so King Pharaoh starts to get a little bit scared. He starts to get like, hey, hold up, there's a lot more of them than there is of us. And he starts to get scared because he says if a future attack comes to us, to Pharaoh, the Israelites might ally with the enemy. And if they ally with the enemy, they will overcome us and they will destroy us, amen? And so Pharaoh, he's like, you know what, I'm going to be smart. I'm going to come up with a plan that can eliminate a future attack. I'm going to come up with a plan that can eliminate my destruction of my kingdom. And what he does is he goes to a few midwives and he tells them, I want you to go, he tries a few things that doesn't work, he goes to the midwives and says, I want you to go to every Hebrew male boy, young kid, newborn, and I want you to kill the boy. Because if I kill the boy, if we kill the boy, it will stop from a potential future attack on our camp, you guys sticking with me. And so as I begin to read this verse, I begin to realize and I begin to get encouraged. I begin to get pumped up. I begin to get excited because when the devil is scared for his future, what he gets scared about is not when just grown people are there. The first thing that he looks at when he says I want to stop a future attack on my enemy, on my camp is to take out the youth. That tells the church, that tells us the youth are the future. The youth have the power to remove the enemy from his camp to begin to destroy the kingdom of darkness. Amen. So I want you to see as a logical standpoint, when you look, what is an immediate threat to your kingdom? I'm just going to stand up right here. Do we have a baby that's like super young? Just a super, can I have just a baby? No, I have it. Can you come up with a Fabian? You able to come up just a little real quick. Come on, let's put our hands together for Fabian. This is super random, but hold two months. So I want you to see. This is beautiful. Wow, that's God divine. I want you to see Pharaoh is scared for a future attack. So if I'm scared of an attack, who out of him and this baby, two month old baby, would you be scared of? You're immediate. I'm like, the baby is defenseless. The baby can't fight back right now. The baby has no power. It relies on the father. It relies on this. But what Pharaoh saw it a little bit different, we see him as an immediate threat to us. But the Pharaoh said, if I want to stop an attack on my camp, I'm not going to try to destroy him. I'm going to try to destroy him. When we look at babies in chapter two, Moses was a crying baby. He was defenseless. What Pharaoh saw was not a crying baby. What Pharaoh saw was somebody that will answer the cry of God's people. The church needs to begin to embrace and I love this church because we're a church that in chapter two, like Moses' mother looks at Moses and says, Moses, you're a special baby. What's so special about a three month old? I mean other, of course it's a human life, but it can't play sports. It can't make it money. It can't make its own food. All it does is eat, sleep and poop. It does nothing. But Moses' mother looks at this month, this little baby and says, you're special. There's something about you that's great. There's an anointing on your life. There's a gift on your life. There's something about you that I had to hide you from the enemy. There's something about you that the enemy is scared of. And so he looks at the baby and we see a crying baby. But Pharaoh knows something, sometimes we don't. This crying baby in chapter two will be the person in chapter three that answers the cry of God's people. The youth are the future. They are not just crying babies. See when we saw Aden, Aden come here. When we saw Aden and on a shame club, Aden was in chapter two of his life. He was a crying baby, I'm sorry. He was broken, busted and disgusted. He was defenseless. He had nothing to his name. He was addicted. He was a drug dealer. He was depressed. He was kicked out of his house. But this is where it takes a church that can look at chapter two of his life and say, I know you're a, I know you're a dope dealer, but one day in chapter three of your life you will be a hope dealer. You will answer the cries to your school. You will answer the cry to your generation. You will be someone that doesn't deal drugs. You will deal hope to people. You will deal healing, restoration to your classmates, to your family. You will be your family, your parents into Christianity. You are the hope to this generation. Here we get an amen tonight, today. I love a church. That's a chapter two kind of a church. See we are a church, it takes sight to be able to look at a baby and say, this is three months old baby, it's nothing. It takes vision to say this baby one day will be a person that will answer a cry. So it's, see, I heard a quote that said, it's bad to be blind, but what's worse is to have sight but no vision. It's bad to see a crying baby. What's worse is just to look at the crying baby and say, oh, it's just a crying baby. But I love our pastor. When he looked at Pastor Vlad, Pastor Ilya at 13 years old, say you're chasing girls, stealing bikes from Goodwill, doing this, this, this and the other. The world may look at you like a crying baby. What I see is you're going to enter the cry to this generation. You will be famous on YouTube. You will have millions of subscribers. You will write books. You will release albums. You will do services in stadiums. You will do this. You will see school saved. You will have campus revival. You will do, teenagers will not be hung up on drugs. They will be serving Jesus, come on somebody. My God, we are a church that would invest in the chapter two of teenagers so that we can see them step into the chapter three of answering the call. Come on somebody. You can go before I scare the baby. Thank you. Let's put our hands together for them. You guys getting something? I want you to see this. It's good. Pharaoh was trying to kill the youth to save his future. We're investing into the youth to secure our future. So it's the fight of the futures. We're fighting for the future. We're fighting for our youth because this is why we asked to donate to sponsor what's happening in schools. It's not cheap. Yeah. Oh, you don't need pizza. He didn't want to be here if not for pizza. Of course. God's behind it. The leading of the Holy Spirit. God says, I chose you. You didn't choose me. God's Spirit was swaying. He was moving. He was looking for Aiden. Somehow, someway put Gabe in the path of Aiden to invite him to Unashamed Club. But if there's no pizza, who knows? I mean, he was addicted to drugs. He wants the munchies. And so pizza was the munchies. It's the fight for the future. Pharaoh was fighting for his future. Today, we're fighting for our future. That's why we have Unashamed Clubs. That's why we have Unashamed Conference. Yeah, it's expensive, but it's worth it. The success of the devil's future will come at the cost of the future of our youth. There's an agenda out there today. A demonic, evil-driven agenda that is after our kids, that is after your kids. But I believe there's a church rising up like Hungry Jen. That is also after our kids. We will not let them slip into suicide. We will not let them fall into failure. We will not let them die out of taking their lives. We will fight. We will invest. We will fast. We will pray. And we will see teenagers lay their lives down for the gospel. Can I get any man this morning? We don't fight back by hiding them from the world. I want you to see point number one I want to bring to you. I got to go into my points. You know me. I'm going to preach. I can preach on this all day long, but we got two services, so I got to bring it to an end. Point number one is speak into their purpose. Moses's mom saw he was special. You know, when I see a baby, it's like two months, I'm like, can you make me any money? I'm like, you just take my sleep? No, not my sleep. I sleep good. The dads and the moms, they take the sleep. They take this, but it takes a maturity. It takes wisdom to be able to look past the sight and begin to see with vision that this baby, there's something about the baby that's special. Something about Aiden. I know he's messed up. I know he's broken busted and disgusted. I know he's in a gang and you know, gangs don't get, we don't want that in our youth. Yeah, we do. We want to see them here. You know, about 75% of our teenagers in our youth ministry, actually, if you know, we see about 300 teenagers Sunday night, weekly in our youth services, about 75%, 70, 75% of them do not come from a Christian home. Their parents actually not Christian. We're fighting not just for their future. We're fighting against generational curses. I believe we are stepping into a time. It used to be back in the day when the parents had to drag kids to church. I believe in us and we're coming to a time where our kids will bring our parents to church. Our students will be the reason that our parents come to know Jesus. Our students will be the reason our family trees turned upside down. They will be like, my kid was a drug dealer. What do you mean he's praising Jesus? What do you mean he's an unashamed club leader? He's homeschooled. How can he be an unashamed club leader? Do you know about our Jesus? Mom, dad, come with me. Come to me. Come with me Sunday morning. It's a little quieter than Sunday night. Sunday night, you don't want to go there. It's chaotic. I mean, look at that big old mountain hill on the grass and we're probably going to get in trouble for having there. But Sunday morning, come, come, dad. We're seeing students bring their families, their parents to Jesus. Such a beautiful sight because their parents are looking saying something happened. My kid was not like this. God is on the move. Amen. Amen. So she looks at the three month old baby and says, you are special. Vision, sight is to see them where they are. Vision is to see where they're going. Light is to see who they are right now. Vision is to look at them, who they are right now and say, this is not who you are. This is who you're going to be. You know, I don't know about you, but when I see Tesla stock, when I see Bitcoin, when I see all these stocks rising up like crazy, I always, I don't know about you if you ever have this like, just you sit back in the shower and you're like, why did I spend all that money as a kid on stupid stuff? Why didn't I just save it because I am just investing to a Tesla stock or like Bitcoin stock at $2? I'm like, why did I want to go to Silverwood? Why didn't I want to do that? Why didn't I just invest into the housing market when I was seven years old? You know what I mean? You guys ever have that or is that just me? I'm looking at, no, Bitcoin every $68,000 and I'm like, why didn't I, I had a thousand bucks. If I put a thousand bucks at $2 in Bitcoin, I would have been very wealthy right now. You know what I mean? I was like, and I always come to this point, I wish I invested when it was small. I wish I put into the stock when it was small because now when it's up there, ah, there's a risk of it, you know, economy. It's going to fall. This, this, this, this, this. I do not want to be on the side of history where I look at teenagers now worshiping the devil up there high in the sky on platforms, no, serving, not serving Christ in crisis eternity and look at them and say, he was in our youth ministry. He was around me. Why didn't I invest into that? Why didn't I invest? This kid went to this Pasco high school. Why didn't I invest into unashamed clubs? They might have reached him before he got to this platform of worshipping the devil and making secular music, making secular movies, this, this, this. And I do not want to be on the side of history of saying I regret not investing when it was small, invest in hungry Jen stock at two dollars. I'm joking. We don't have a stock, but we do got a youth ministry. Come on, somebody. This would be perfect time. Put a QR code for giving. Oh, that would be beautiful. That strategic moves right there. Maybe for next service. Invest, invest, guys, give. Maybe you can't serve here, but your finances can be your, your serving to the youth ministry. Maybe, you know, a business owner that knows somebody that knows somebody. You know, we have someone on staff for unashamed clubs that's not paid by the church is fully by a businessman solely one businessman is underwriting a staff member to go into our schools. One more business person all the way from Australia is going to underwrite one more part time job for unashamed clubs. People are seeing the vision. They're saying I want to invest when it's small because I don't want to see a generation rise without God. I want to see them go to high places and to the political arena, knowing Jesus and to the medical arena, knowing Jesus and to the sport arena, knowing Jesus, becoming our president that worships God, becoming a president, a governor, a lawyer that leads our nation to Jesus. Can I get an amen in this place? I don't want to regret it. And I love our church. It costs us a lot of money. Trust me. They give me a budget. We blow it every single time. And I'm regretting Monday morning, tomorrow morning, honestly. So I'm going to be sick tomorrow. Invest. Maybe you're like, hey, I'm too old and not old. Maybe I'm too seasoned for youth ministry. But you do know teenagers around you. You do know parents that have teenagers. Your Sunday nights are free. Take your Sunday nights, get into your car, rent a van, pick up students all around tri-cities, drop them off for church. Be evangelist. Maybe you can't be in youth ministry, but you do know youth and you can bring them to the ministry. Take a car, go. If you go to football games, tell parents, hey, here's a touch card. My kid goes to this youth, your kids should go to. My kids' lives have never been the same. You know a business person, hey, they need food and a lot of it. Come on. Can you give? We have spud nuts, donates to us, stores around us, donate to us. Different businesses. Why? Because even if we have stores, not even Christian that are investing into this. Why? Because they want to see teenagers. They want to see a future that's not corrupt, a future that's not evil, a future that's not led by an evil agenda, a wicked agenda, but a future that's secure and rooted in Christ. Can I get an amen? Point number two is invest into their future. We can get piano up. Invest into their future. I want you to see that. Pharaoh was coming after the babies. Pharaoh was coming after the Hebrew boys. And Moses' mother kept Moses hidden. She hid him because what? This is my baby. Perfectly fine. I totally get it. I get no, you want to have the baby to yourself, but then she understood. There is a pharaoh out there and the pharaoh, if I keep it hidden, if I keep it in my hands, this pharaoh eventually will find my baby and take the baby. Eventually kill what's special about this baby, eventually kill the anointing, the destiny, the dream of this baby. And she understood, I have to sacrifice my baby, I have to release, I have to pay a price in order to secure the future of Moses. Invest into the youth ministry, invest into this church. Why? Because we are both fighting for our schools. We are both fighting the enemy. We, that's why we have to pray because while we're praying for our schools, while we're praying for our students, there is a devil that is praying over our students. The Bible says, Bible says in 1 Peter 5.8, be alert, be on watch, your enemy, the devil roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. The Bible says pharaoh sent out to kill the male baby. There is a pharaoh of drugs, there is a pharaoh of culture, there is a pharaoh of sexual immorality, there is a pharaoh of vaping, of drugs, of alcohol, of gambling that is searching for the anointing in your students, in your kids' lives. It is looking, it is searching through info where I can find a teenager that is not getting invested into, that's not getting import into, and they do have a gift. But I'm going to use that gift for the world. How many of the people in the Hollywood, Hollywood arena, entertainment, this, this and the other, they got a gift. It's a God-given gift, but the world got to them before the church did. The world got to their talent before the church did. The pharaoh of culture got to them because they were hidden. No, don't go there. It's too crazy. No, no, no, I can't take you to use. Why? Ah, two Sunday mornings and I have to drive you to Sunday night again. And then you have Tuesday connect group and it's too much time. It's too consuming. Well, if you don't, there was a pharaoh that is still looking for someone is looking for them and he's going to be the church. It's going to be the devil, the devil. Oh, they're too busy. The devil doesn't care. He will find he's searching. Where is the young people? Where can I take him? Where is young people that don't have spiritual mothers and fathers that cover them, that invest in them because Moses had three months old. He was defenseless. He needed the care of elders. He needed the care of the older church to begin to come over the youth and say, No, I got you. The devil is not going to get you. I'm going to invest into you. I'm going to give into you. I'm going to pray for you. I will drive around for you. I will do this. Why? Because I'm not going to let the devil, the pharaoh, get to you before I do. Before God does. I want to read some statistics. Twenty three point six percent of 12th graders use illicit drugs. Four point two people between the age of 12 and 20 have admitted to binge drinking. Eighty percent. No, 90 percent of substance use disorders begins in teenage years. One in sixteenths have used prescription drugs to get high or improve their mood. About six percent of parents confirm this while 10 percent of teens admitted. Many say due to the Gen Z's problem with loneliness in their obsession with social media, suicide, suicide at Gen Z's second leading cause of death in the US between 2009, 2017 depression rates have increased more than forty seven percent among adolescents, 12 to 13, 60 percent among teens, 14 to 17, 46 percent among young adults, 18 to 21. The suicide rate for people aged 10 to 24 has increased to 56 percent between 2007 and 2017, according to new data from CDC. For children aged to 10 to 14, the suicide rate has tripled between 2000, between 2007, 2017. Average age, a child first sees pornography is 11 years old. That's before that's before high middle school. This is what I love about our church. Not only we're building a strong student ministry, but we just hired on for kids zone, even before middle school, the devil's trying to get them. So all the way from the baby to the Sunday church, we're going to begin to invest. They're restructuring, they're redoing things to invest even before middle school because the devil's not waiting for them to get into student ministry and then go there. So we got our bases covered as a church all around from zero till. You're with your hero. Come on, somebody. We're investing. Ninety three percent of boys and 62 percent of girls see porn before the age of 18, the devil is looking for your teenager. We need to invest into them before the devil invades their school, their social media, their friend group, their platforms. And she understood I need to pay a price. Moses, a mother, I can't keep the baby to myself. Whatever I need to do, whatever I need to sacrifice to make sure my young baby sees a future, my young baby's future is intact. As us as a church, we need to invest. We need to give however you see can. If you can't make it, you invest this way, connections, this, this and the other. If you know people in the school, in the school district that can be of help. You know, we are having fights and we're having pushback against Kennewick schools. Principles, there's posters everywhere and principles saying your poster can't make it. Why? No, pass out flyers. You can't pass out flyers. Yeah, you get into the school straight to the school, you can't walk around. The devil's coming after us. The devil wants to stop the move of God in our schools. We have to captivate them with Jesus before the devil captures them with sin. It's simple. We are fighting for our future. We are fighting for our future. Bible says in Proverbs 2626, train up a child in the way he should go. And when he is old, he will not depart from it. I want you to see this. It's super practical. You're young, you're a baby. Bible says train them up when they're young, when they're babies. So that when they get old, they won't depart. What does depart look like? The force going away from church and to homosexuality and going to this and to this and to this. That's departing from the faith, departing from a life, a Christian life. So that's the verse. Let's reverse it. How much less darkness would we have in our world at this stage if we invested more in this stage? Maybe the 50 percent divorce rate would be a little less if we invested a little more here. Bible says train them up here. So when they're there, they won't derail. We are a church that believes we will not see our generation. The dropout rate after high school in church is 70 percent. 70 percent of teenagers leave church after high school. Why? Because youth ministry is more on loving youth ministry than loving Jesus. So when they leave youth ministry, they don't want Jesus anymore. Our church won't be part of that 70 percent. We will see our students if they go to college, we won't lose them to the world. We're going to release them to the world. We're going to release them into college campuses. We're going to release them into the college arena, into the political arena, into the medical arena. They will be presidents that serve the Lord. They will be governors that serve Jesus. They will be lawyers that defend our country with biblical, godly principles and values in Jesus' name. Shout, amen. Shout, amen. If you believe that, amen. The fight for our future. I love our church. I know I said that like about a billion times. I love like when people come, why is it you doing this, this, this, this? And our pastor comes and says, would you rather have them a mess here in church or a mess in the world? And I'm like, yeah, like he said, you know, with the chest, yeah, we're right behind Vlad. Pastor Vlad, I'm like, yeah, yeah. Yeah, listen to him. Matt, if that's more, OK. Like he said, I'm like, Vlad, don't leave me. They're going to eat me up, eat me alive. I look at some kids come out of our bathroom. I smell smoke straight from them. I look at them like, sorry, Zach, I'm like, you're a preacher. I'm like, you're anointed. I'm like, you're going to change the world. Zach, you don't know, I know. There's guys in my in my connect group. I hasn't came to church in the last like couple of weeks and praying that he comes tonight. And I told him, you're going to have to tell me, Zach, I hate you. Leave me alone. Don't ever contact me. Block me in order for you for me to leave you alone because you're annoying to your preacher. I'm going to see you out of your drugs. I'm going to pray you out of your misery. I'm going to pray you out of generational curses. I'm going to fast. I'm going to fight for you. Why? Because I'm not going to let the Pharaoh get to you before I get to you. I will invest into you more than the devil will invade into your life. I will invest into you. I will pray after you, our church, our pastors, our elders, our leaders, our connect group leaders, they will fly for our future. God, come on, let's stand on our feet, everybody, in the first and second sanctuary, if you're online, stand up to come on, somebody. Come on, the devil is fighting against the youth because he knows a few wins. He secures our future. Let me tell you something. We are on the winning side. We will see the youth prevail. We will see our school campuses in revival. We will see a campus revival in every single middle school, high school and college campus in Jesus, my chain. For watching this sermon, if this was a blessing to you, would you let me know in the comments below what stood out to you from this message? What are you taking home with you from this message? 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