 Today, we are starting a brand new series and we're gonna talk about vision and not just a vision, we're gonna talk about Jesus's vision for us as his children, as his followers, as his disciples. We're gonna talk about what life of a Christian should look like, not the life of a Christian that we got used to here in American culture or whatever you are at watching from, whatever culture you're watching from, whatever country you're watching from, because oftentimes what happens is that we take the Gospels and we take the Gospel, we take the Word of God and we filter it through our experiences, we filter the Word of God through our culture, through our way of doing things and we try to fit it and mend it and sometimes by doing that, instead of trying to make it relative, we move away from the center of the Gospel, which is to preach the Gospel, share our faith and to make disciples of all nations. And so for next several weeks, we will be talking about the vision that God has for his church, the vision that God, how Jesus intended the church to be, how Jesus saw you and me as his follower, as his disciples, what is he expecting from you and I and what is he looking from us as a disciple, a true disciple of Jesus Christ. And today will be a first installment or first message and I'm gonna open it up with talking about vision, receiving the vision of Jesus and I've named it Master Key Vision and the reason why I call this this small talk a Master Key Vision is because every other vision in our life needs to revolve around this vision, every other vision in our life, whether it be for our finances, for our family, for marriage, for our business, for your career, whatever it might be, it revolves around this central vision of Jesus in our life if we are true Christians, disciples of Jesus Christ and I believe that this vision that Jesus has for us is a Master Key that will help us unlock the individual mandate that Jesus has for us, the individual calling within the vision of Jesus that he has for us. And so I want us to, I want us to just kind of look at few stories from the Bible or a story from the Bible and a few scriptures and I want us to renew our mind, refocus ourselves and get a new determination to live a life, such a life, a life in alignment with the vision that God has for a church and for those that truly follow him. Amen church. Open with me with Mark, with Mark 2 chapter 10 verse 46 to 52. It's the story of a blind Bartimaeus and it starts from verse 46 and goes like this, now they came to Jericho, Jesus and the disciples and and he went out and he went out, he went out of Jericho with his disciples in great multitude. Blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, said by the road begging and when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he was begging to beg, began to cry out and say, Jesus son of David have mercy on me. Then many warned him to be quiet and he cried out all the more, son of David have mercy on me. So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called, then he called the blind, then they called the blind man saying to him, be of good cheer, rise, he's calling you. It's interesting that if you follow a crowd, crowd is like a wave in the sea, it comes and goes. Just the verse earlier they were telling him to be quiet and shut up and not to disturb anybody and next verse they're calling him and saying, hey cheer up, why are you so sad, why are you so down, Jesus wants to see you. So we never can rely on our surroundings and what society or our culture sets for us. We always have to be attentive to the voice of Jesus. Anyways, verse 50 goes like this, and throwing aside his garment, he rose and came to Jesus. So Jesus answered and said to him, what do you want me to do for you? And the blind man said to him, Rabuni, that I may receive my sight. Then Jesus said to him, go your way, your faith has made you well. And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road. Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road. Life without vision is life without purpose. Life without vision is a life walking around the mountain. Life without vision is a life of no direction. It's limited. It's constantly revolving around the same thing. It's dull, it's gray. It has no purpose. We were created as human beings to carry a purpose in our life and to day in and day out, not just to exist, but to work through and progress into a certain direction, within the calling that Jesus has, that God has for us. But humanity, we have fallen back through the fall of Adam and Jesus came and he restored us and he gave us, he renewed our purpose and he has given us even a greater purpose and vision to live for. Life without vision, without sight is a life that is not, it's not healthy. We read from the story of Bartimaeus, Bible in verse, in verse 52 it says that go your way, your faith has made you well and his sight was restored. Life without vision, without sight is a life that is not complete. It's a life that is not well. Life that is, it has deficiency. Some, when our body has deficiencies, we don't feel well. Same thing is our spiritual and our emotional life. When we don't have a vision, when we don't have sight, when we don't have a clear purpose and clear goal, what we're living for, we will not feel well within our soul. We will not feel, will not be healthy in our spirit. We will always feel like we're missing something. We will always feel like we are aimless. We're just existing, life will be dull, life will be boring and we will struggle, we will struggle with meaning of life. Why am I living? What is the purpose for my existence? What, what do I do? What I was created for? What should I be doing? Because life without sight, without vision, without purpose is life that's meaningless and life that is deficient and sick. And so we see one, when Bartimaeus, he received his sight, Bible says he became well. I believe truly down in my spirit, and I experienced it many times myself, where I would get caught up in different things, where I would get caught up in different issues of life and get busy and stray away from the purpose and true purpose of meaning that Jesus and calling that Jesus has for me. I would find myself later questioning why I exist. What am I doing? What is this all for? And you feel deficient in your life and in your spirit. But when you have purpose, the purpose of Jesus, that the true, that you have a true meaning in life and you feel good, you feel like you're living on purpose and you feel like you have a, you're looking forward to the next day to live. And so we need to embrace the vision, to embrace the purpose, and to embrace the, the goal that God, that Jesus has for us. Vision of Jesus for me is very simple. Vision of Jesus for you is, is very simple. It's recorded in all Gospels of, in all, in all four Gospels of New Testament, and it's the last verses of, of every chapter of the Gospels. And it summarizes down to really a few things. It's sharing your faith after you believe in Jesus and be, be intentional about it. It's being a disciple of Jesus and becoming a disciple maker. That's all that it comes down to. It's sharing your faith. It's being a disciple of Jesus, being a follower of Jesus Christ. And it's becoming a disciple maker. Jesus said to his disciples, follow me and I will make you a catcher of men. I will make you a disciple maker. I believe, according to the scripture, that every Christian, that every believer at some point in his life has to come to the point where he is a disciple maker. What does that mean? That means that you have an ability to help somebody, you develop an ability to help somebody to coach them through life, to take them to the steps that you've gone through, through the growth process that you've gone through with Jesus, to help them get closer to Jesus as you have done. To become a person, like a coach, almost like a life coach, that you can, alongside with you, bring them and grow to help them to grow in Jesus. This becoming a disciple maker. Jesus said that go into all the world, preach the gospel, heal the sick, cast out the demons. And he said, and make disciples of all nations. I want to underline that this is not a great suggestion. This is a great commandment to you and I. If you want to take your Christian life seriously, if you are, if you're taking your walk with Jesus seriously, if you believe the words that Jesus spoke, then I don't see this as an optional, and I don't think you should see it as an optional to make, to set a goal, to work towards being a disciple maker. That means first and foremost that you have to start by being intentional of sharing your faith. Right now, it's simple. While we're still in quarantine, some places are beginning to be, some restrictions being easier now than in other places, but it's maybe sharing a broadcast right now. This is now the form of evangelism. Texting somebody or tagging somebody on this broadcast, hey, turn in, watch and come to the church. As we go back to normal way of life, this is going to be your, this should become your daily goal is who can I share the gospel? The gospel is simply, it's a good news. Who I can share good news today with? Who I can encourage today? Who can I, who can I uplift their spirit today? Who I can pray for healing today? Who I can just let them know, just being a witness, what is a witness? Sharing what you saw, what you heard, what Jesus did for you or what you heard, Jesus did for others and others and be a person that intentionally shares their faith. But not just stopping there. I think for, in our church, because we, in the Hangry Jin Church, we talk a lot about it. We, we, we encourage a lot of people. It became a culture. I think a lot of people in church right now, they, they understand that this is a kind of way of life. This is a way of Christian life is to become evangelical on purpose, meaning sharing the faith. Every place you go, whether it's a gym, whether it's your workplace, whatever, whatever place. And I think for most part, at least specifically in our church and just speaking for Hangry Jin Church, we have kind of have this idea and forefront of our mind and to the best of our abilities. We try to take opportunities to do it. And for those of us that are watching outside and, and elsewhere, this should be our, our purpose and our goal. But oftentimes I see that even in our church that people just stop at that point, stop at that level and they're not willing to go further to be a disciple of Jesus. What does that mean? What does that look like practically in our church, in your church, to be a disciple of Jesus? That's simply to, to take his word and apply into your life. That also means to get in plugged in into the home group. It's getting plugged in. It's coming around other believers and, and growing in the character of Jesus. It's becoming a person that knows the word, that reads the word, that studies the word, that has a person that, that develops a Christian discipline of prayer, of giving, of fasting. That's becoming a disciple of Jesus. Disciple of Jesus meaning doing what Jesus did. And Jesus prayed. He fasted. He, he read the scripture. He visited the temple and read the scripture. He went to church. If I can put it this way. And being disciple of Jesus means surrounding yourself in, being in a home group. Surround yourself with other believers and growing in character and allowing the fruit of the spirit to be developed within us. That's what it means being a disciple. And I think for a good portion of our church, good portion of people that are watching, those people that are, that are watching right now, to some degree and one degree you are plugged in in, in a home group and you're trying to, you're trying to be and be a disciple of Jesus. And I congratulate you. You, you've gone a step further than majority of people, the most people. Those of you that are not involved in a home group. I encourage you as, as a Christian, as a true follower of Jesus because you either believe the full gospel, everything that Jesus said, or you don't believe at all. So if Jesus said that you got to follow me and be my disciple, that means you got to take those words seriously. I don't, that means that you shouldn't look at the home groups or visiting life groups, being a part of church community, being a part of church body as an optional for you. This is part of what it is to follow Jesus and be Jesus. It's growing, it's growing in, in, in knowledge of Him. Here as, here at Hungry Jen, as we going to exit when the government allows us, as we're going to exit out of the shutdown and we'll be able to start meeting together, we're going to start having a, a, a classes called destiny training where you will be equipped, where you will be trained, where you will be taught how to be a true disciple of Jesus, where you will be equipped as a disciple of Jesus, where you will grow in your identity. You will grow in the wallet, in the knowledge of the word of God. I strongly encourage you and this will roll out that you sign up and you truly commit to be true follower of Jesus. I don't care if you're a businessman and have employees underneath of you. I don't care if you have successful Korean or if maybe you stay home mom or you're a person that, that's running a business or if you are in construction, you are having a side hustle or, or if you have a, a career going, whatever it is, first and foremost, we are disciples of Jesus Christ and we have to be intentional about it. But what I want to challenge myself and you included to go even further, to go in deeper, we're talking about vision, to set a vision for your life, to become more like Jesus. What does that look like? Being more like Jesus, meaning being a disciple maker, being a disciple maker. Jesus, He walked on His life, He had a purpose, He had a calling, His calling, His purpose was to die for the mankind, is to redeem the mankind, is to break the curse of sin over our lives, is to reconcile us with the Father. But along this life as He was going to fulfill His purpose, Jesus, He found the group of men that He brought alongside and He lived that life with them. He brought them alongside everywhere He went. He walked with them, He ate with them, He went to different places with them, He went to the weddings with them, He did all these things with them together and while He was doing life with them, He was coaching them, teaching them, teaching them how to pray, being an example of how to fast, how to hear the voice of God, how to heal, how to cast out demons, how to preach the gospel, then He empowered them and sent them out and He coached them all the way up through His last moments. He prayed for them, He committed them into the hands of the Father and so that's how Jesus demonstrated the life that we should live and the vision that we should embrace is to share our faith, is to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, to grow an identity and a knowledge of God and a goal to, we should set the goal to be a disciple maker. What would that look like is eventually starting a home group, starting a group where you be able to coach men, young men, young women, men, women, where you can kind of live a life alongside of them, build meaningful relationship with them, surround themselves and to share your life as somebody else shared it with you, share your life with them, pray for them and encourage them and build their life. In this, I believe you will find meaning and purpose in your life. In this, I believe that when you embrace this vision, this master key vision for your life, being a disciple maker, being a disciple of Jesus, being a person that shares the faith, will unlock true destiny calling and gifting that God has placed in you. It will set you on path to great life. Jesus, with His disciples, at one moment His disciples come to Him and said, Jesus, we have given all to your vision. We have given all to follow you. We have given all to be your disciples. We left our families, our houses, our homes. We abandoned everything to follow you. What will we have in return? What gain do we have from sacrifice in our entire life? What gain do we have from embracing this master vision for your life? And Jesus responded and He said that in this life you will have more family, you will have more homes, more land, more of everything, but much more in the life to come. I want you to understand that embracing as a Christian, as a true believer, embracing this master vision, this master key vision that Jesus had has for you and me will unlock other areas in your life, will help you to discover your true calling and potential, how you will fulfill that vision, will unlock the satisfaction in your life that when you come back home and you lay your head on a pillow at the end of the long day, you will fall asleep with a smile on your face and peace in your heart and satisfaction that no money, no business, no fame, nothing can give you in this life. And Jesus said when you embrace this, all the other things will be added to you, will be given to you much more in this life, but most importantly, how much more in the eternal life. But by embracing this master key vision, not only we're building this life and we're helping to unlock our individual vision for our business, for our career, for our calling, for our family here in this life, but the life where we'll spend eternity, the life that matters more than this life will be secured because we will be transferring our wealth, we will be transferring our rewards into heaven where Bible says Roth and Moth cannot destroy it and thieves cannot steal it where we will spend eternity with God and where we will enjoy those benefits much more than we hear on earth. Bartimaeus, he was blind, he was without vision. I like the story of Bartimaeus if you guys can come up to the stage. What I like a story about Bartimaeus is that he could have asked for alms, he could have asked for some donations, he would have asked for money, he could have asked for many different things from Jesus, because he knew about Jesus, he knew his reputation that I believe that he believed that he was a Messiah, that he was God, he could have done anything. And instead of just asking for some for alms or giving, he chose to ask for sight and vision. He chose to ask for the main thing because he understood that if I get my sight, if I get my vision, everything else in life will fall into place. If I embrace what Jesus has for me, because I want you to notice that after he received his sight he followed Jesus, he became a disciple of Jesus. That's what Bible says. That everything in his life I believe came into place, then he could have a job, he could have a successful family, he could provide for his family, he could pursue his goal, his vision, his career, but it first started at receiving vision, receiving sight. And I believe that Jesus is offering you sight today. Jesus is passing by. He wants to give you purpose and meaning. He wants to help you to become his disciple, and he wants to help you to be a disciple maker. I remember one time this guy that came to church, he got saved. It was some years back, maybe six, seven years ago. His name was Dominic, and God touched his life, set him free from some addictions, and as I was meeting with him, he was in my home group, meeting with him, talking with him, teaching him from the Bible, teaching him how to read the Bible, teaching him how to pray, encouraging him to get closer to Jesus. And one time, as we were talking, he was explaining the difficulty that he has, because he came here on a student visa, and because he was on a student visa, he couldn't work, so he had to take jobs that were very difficult and far away from the city, so he could pay his rent and survive, and it was very difficult. And he mentioned that he applied to get his paper so he could work, get a permit for work, and a few days before our meeting, he called into the agency to ask on the process and where his paperwork was at. They confirmed that they received his paperwork, but it was going to take a couple of years before he goes through the entire process that he can get a green card, and he would be able to work legally and provide for himself. And so as he was sharing this, I asked him, do you believe that God can do a miracle in your life? He said, I don't know what you mean. I said, let's pray that God will bring papers into your life much sooner than you expect, so that you can have an ability to actually work legally and pursue the job and the career that you want. And so we prayed for him. It was a short sweep to the point prayer, nothing major. I dropped him off, and then two days later, after his service, it was about 12.30 at night. I was already asleep. I get a phone call, and so I see that Dominic is calling me. So I knew that he worked outside of the city, and sometimes he wouldn't have a ride. And so I picked up the phone, thinking maybe he needs a ride, be picked up to be brought home. And I hear him screaming hysterically on the phone, and I'm thinking maybe he's in trouble, maybe something happened. I don't understand what he's trying to say. So finally, he came down and I say, bro, what's happening? What's going on in your life? Tell me, are you in trouble? Do you need help? He said, no, no. He's like, you don't understand. I just came home. After his service, I opened the mail that I had. I opened the envelope, and I have my green card. I got my papers. I legally can work now. I said, why? Are you serious? You just mean that two days ago or three days ago, you told me that it will take a few years. He's like, yeah, that's what I thought. But I believe the prayer that we prayed, it worked. I have my green card. I'm looking at it. I can legally work now. And so it was such an amazing, amazing encouragement to me. It's such a, such an amazing miracle that I saw. I was literally supernatural. It was supernatural. I believe it was supernatural. And I, I, you know, it boosted my faith. His faith was strengthened. But that's what happens when we answer the call of Jesus to make disciples, to answer the call to his master key plan, master key vision. We will see supernatural in our life. We'll see God move in the ways that we never thought he could move. And not only that, we will have faith to believe for our own things, for our own miracles, for our own life, for our own vision, that has to do with what our business, with our finances, getting out of debt, getting married, getting married restored, family restored and all the other things. And so I believe that when we answer the call of Jesus, we will see great things in our life. It takes faith to receive the vision. Bible said, Jesus said that that because of your faith, he said to Bartimaeus that you received sight. So it will take faith to act on the words of Jesus, on the call of Jesus, it will take faith for you to believe his words and, and step by step, whether you feel it or not, begin to go through the process of sharing your faith, being a disciple and becoming a disciple maker. I want to address this quick thing before we close this. For some reason, men in church struggle with this more than women. And it's supported by the scripture. We see in the gospel, there was four times that Jesus healed blind men. We don't see anywhere where it talks about blind woman. And I believe that for some, for some reason, women have an easier time obeying this command and, and talking to people, sharing their faith and, and encouraging others and being involved in a group, being involved in a community and a home group, and eventually being a disciple maker. I don't know, maybe it's because they like to talk a lot and communication and, and kind of community felt falls a little easier for them for men. You know, sometimes we, we don't talk so much, we're a little reserved about feelings. It's, sometimes it takes longer to connect with people. I don't know what's the reason, but in the gospels, I see clearly that men struggled with blindness. Men struggled with vision with sight. And so I want to talk to every man, every person, every man that's, that's listening to me right now, especially in our church. The command of Jesus, the great commission of Jesus, it's not only for women, it's not only for our wives, it's for us as men. And we need to lead the charge and we need to embrace this vision first and foremost. We need to rise up to the occasion and we need to be true Christians that God called us to be. I know you might be running a business, you might be trying to provide for your family and say, I'm busy. I don't have time for going to the home groups. I don't have time to be part of a fellowship of a group. I don't have time to, to, to go to the classes the church provides to grow as a disciple. I don't have time to, to pursue and have my own home group. But this is the lie of the enemy. The real issue is that you don't have sight. You're blind and you're sitting on a, on the side of the road. Life is passing you by and you're like a, you're like a part of the steam of this Christianity. But you're not on a field playing, you're sitting in the pit. Or if you, if you get up on a, play in a field, you're on a, you're at a home base trying to, trying to swing, but you're missing it. You're trying to pursue your own agendas, your own goals, your own vision, but you are not embracing the vision of Jesus, which is to be a disciple and to become eventually a disciple maker. And you're striking out and the goal of Satan is to strike you out and take you out of the game and put you back on a pit. Be a bench warmer. I challenge you and I encourage you, especially men, do not let life, do not let the devil to strike you out and take you out of the game, out of the game of great commission, out of the game of great vision, master vision that Jesus has for you. Embrace the vision of God for your life, which is to be a disciple of Jesus, to go through a process of discipleship, to grow in your identity and knowing Jesus more. And to become a disciple maker, meaning bringing people along with you and teaching them as you're being taught. Apostle Paul says to Timothy, clearly, that as I teach you, find other men that you can teach that are capable of teaching other men and so forth. That's the way we share the gospel. That's the way we spread the kingdom of God. That's the way we embrace the master key plan of evangelism. You know this, that the person who wins 10,000 people every month to Jesus, it will take him 60,000 years to win the whole world to Jesus at the current population. But if each and one of us commit to winning a disciple and two people a month and teach those two people to do the same, we can win the entire world in 30 months, just 30 months. Listen, people, listen church, listen men and women. If you answer the call to follow Jesus, listen to this. This life is short. It will pass by. It will, everything we work for, we will leave it six feet under. You will not take your business, you will not take your money, you will not take your influence, you will not take your children, your wife. You will stand before God alone and you will answer for your life. And you will have to answer to God about the master plan of this master plan that he had for your life, this master key vision. Did you answer the great, the call to a great commission? And today I want to challenge you, every person, be it a businessman, be a stay home mom, be somebody who is a teenager and going to school, college, whoever you are. I challenge you, I implore you, get a vision for your life. Get Jesus's vision for your life and I promise you he will help you discover yours and in the process you will be satisfied, you will be fulfilled, you will have purpose life, you will not be sitting on the roadside and watch life pass by you, watch other people move forward, watch other people hear other people succeed and you just wondering what am I created for, what am I here for? Embrace Jesus's vision for your life and in the process you will change the world. So with this being said, as we're going to go into worship right now, I want you to ask God to help you see, Jesus is here right now, his offer and vision but he has to be your faith, he has to be your desire, your commitment. Jesus, I want to see, I want to see what you have in store for me, I want to answer your call in the mighty name of Jesus.