 If you have your Bible, let's just go quickly into the word of God Esther chapter 4 and verse 14 and the verse says Following if you keep silent at this time relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place But you and the father's house will perish and who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this and And we want to speak today a topic titled for such a time as this Say this prayer out loud after me so Lord Jesus Open my heart to your word Lord Jesus open my heart to your spirit Lord Jesus open my heart to your faith Amen, we're gonna talk about today topic about reaching out Sharing our faith Living using our influence to impact other people leveraging our gifts and potential To seeing our world being changed because of Jesus Christ who lives inside of us And all of that is possible because of one person whom we Christians call the Bible calls the Holy Spirit We know that Jesus when he went to heaven He promised to his followers the 12 disciples that when I leave the Holy Spirit will come on this earth and he will take my place Means he will be to you guys what I've been to you guys except He is not gonna be have a physical body He will live in your heart and he will not be just with one of you He's going to be with all of you since he will not be limited by space and he will not be limited by physical body and Disciples exactly waited for that when Jesus went to heaven. He told them again He says make sure you guys don't do anything Exile until you receive this person the Holy Spirit and a day of Pentecost 50 days after Jesus's death Disciples were gathered together and the scripture says a great wind came and Tongues like physical tongues of fire came on their heads and they got filled with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit filled them with Power they started to preach and evangelize and the rest is history Christianity what it is today because not because Apostle Peter James and John got PhDs in theology Not because they attended a great seminary not because they were great talented. All of that is great But without the Holy Spirit, we cannot make a difference Many times we as Christians Do not fully understand the Holy Spirit is a person Many people believe Jesus is a person because when you think of Jesus you quickly think of a Jewish man blue eyes long rope a long beard So you connect with that When you think of God the father you immediately think of a man sits on a throne probably wider hair grown men big daddy Like like a grandpa We have these images and then when somebody says the Holy Spirit we quickly go into a flapping dove a little wind force fire Water and we have this imagery which Bible mentions But the Bible also says Jesus is like the Lamb of God. None of you think of Jesus as a goat Though Bible says he's the lion. You're not thinking of Jesus as a big animal predator Though Bible says he's the lion lion of the tribe of Judah The scripture compares our God to a fire, but you're not considering God as like a furnace You still know that he is a person so different examples and wording that the scripture uses to describe the Holy Spirit should never mess with our understanding that he is a Person many people are afraid to say he is a person because we immediately think if somebody is a person that means they're human And Holy Spirit is not Holy Spirit is God Because the Holy Spirit doesn't have a physical body many people we kind of sometimes feel like he is less of a person Because he doesn't have a human body But you don't have to have a body to be a person Dogs have body, but they're not persons Now some of you think dogs are persons, but you're wrong Or cats They want to be persons, but they're not persons When you're going to die and that day is gonna come and they will put you in a very beautiful casket I hope so and when people will come to your funeral and they will look at you your body is going to be there But you're not gonna be there That shows us that a body and a person are two different things a Person lives in the body, but a person is not a body otherwise animals will be people and You would be still a person when you're dead, but you're not it's just a corpse So Holy Spirit is just like you and I inside his soul and spirit emotions He has he has these capacities to relate to us. He is a person He is God, but he is a person that we can relate and communicate with if he wouldn't be a person God will never say don't resist the Holy Spirit don't grieve the Holy Spirit walk in the Holy Spirit God wouldn't say communicate with the Holy Spirit. God wouldn't say be filled with the Holy Spirit God wouldn't say that for us not to resist the Holy Spirit These words will never be used for the Holy Spirit if he wouldn't be the person So the greatest secret you and I can discover is Holy Spirit is God and this God is Not it. It's he he loves you He cares for you and as a Christian he lives inside of you Somebody say amen We just finished a reading a book in our home groups about the person of the Holy Spirit And so it's a very exciting journey that we've been on the story of Esther begins with the fact that Esther She had this man in her life. His name was Mardechai Mardechai was her uncle Mardechai was the one who took her in when Esther had no parents because her parents probably were killed in war and She was an orphan not only she was an orphan Esther was also a captive in Babylonian Kingdom means she was a slave girl She was a captive not necessarily she was a slave to some master But she was of another nation that were brought in as captives So here is an orphan and here is a captive and Mardechai Takes her in into his house and begins to watch over her and begins to take care of her and Prepare her for her true destiny, which is to be in the palace He's with her and Then comes a time when Esther goes into the palace and she no longer is an orphan She's no longer a captive, but she becomes a queen She becomes a wife of the greatest man at that time who lived on this earth, but Mardechai still doesn't leave Esther He still comes in and checks on her and sees how she's doing and he guides her He says hey make sure you tell this and that to people and don't reveal your true identity Don't reveal your past and he guides her all the way long Rest Esther gets comfortable in her court She gets comfortable in that lifestyle there and there comes a point when an enemy plans a plot against the people that Esther used to be like the people Esther used to be with and Mardechai begins to cry he begins to weep and he rips his clothes and when Esther finds out She sends a messenger with some new clothes. Hey guy. What's happening to you? Put this on don't make a fool of yourself and the Mardechai replies back. He says you don't understand Your your world is very comfortable out there and I know of your world But I also know of another world which you're coming from and that world is currently in grave danger and Esther says well, there's nothing I can do about it and he begins to challenge her I want to share with you today from this story a Three simple steps seasons in your relationship with God The Holy Spirit the first one if you're taking notes is the Holy Spirit is with us before salvation Like Mardechai who? Took Esther in when she was an orphan when she was a captive Holy Spirit does not leave people who are orphans or people Who are maybe slaves to their sin? Nobody comes to Jesus without the help of the Holy Spirit When the person is doing sin when the person is away from God when the person is set their mind undoing Whatever they want to do and God is on the last thing if he's even there The Holy Spirit does not leave those people out of his reach The first time we see Holy Spirit mentioned in the Bible is the Bible says the earth was without void The earth was full of darkness. There was no form It was a chaos, but the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters Which tells us when your life is a mess when your life is in darkness And they may seem like I want to do nothing with God. The Holy Spirit is there Using any opportunity he can find to draw you closer to Jesus Sometimes he will use the pain that you're going through to point you to the fact that you need something bigger and greater in your life than yourself Sometimes in the loneliness of the night or the no loneliness at the end of the day when everything seems fine But you are lonely inside and you're so lonely that you feel like I need to be put into the kitchen cabinet Because I am as empty as the glass is there And that's when the Holy Spirit will come and begin to tug on your heart and say remember the grandma's prayers Remember when you used to go to church And he will begin to remind you of the book that you have that you only wiped the dust once in a while And that's where the Holy Spirit is at. So he doesn't leave people even people who don't know God Even people who are completely against God. Holy Spirit is with us when we don't know Jesus If he wouldn't be with us, we will never find Jesus He is with us and when we feel dirty when we feel guilty When we feel rejected or maybe like orphans when we feel like people have done things against us when our parents Maybe have have not been there or maybe somebody we put our trust in has betrayed and violated that trust And we feel like the world crumbled against us and like Esther We feel like we are captives to something we cannot break in and we are screaming in our soul for help Holy Spirit is there It's not far his main goal is not just to make your life better But to bring you to a palace Bring you to Jesus Somebody say man If it wouldn't be the Holy Spirit We would never be able to receive Jesus as our savior That's why we become Christians not because we get debated into it We don't become Christians because we have arguments and we lose an argument so we become a Christian I mean how many people have debated and lost an argument and became a Christian zero That's why God doesn't anoint us to win debates. He anoints us to win souls We become a Christian because Holy Spirit Moves and touches our life uses the circumstances in our life Coordinates to make a meeting with the king of all kings and then we go from being an orphan to being a Queen to being a daughter and a son of the king of kings and the Lord of lords and then instead of living in a shack Living in our past we begin to live in the palace We begin to live in Christ and our identity is no longer connected to our past It begins to be connected to Jesus Christ and then Holy Spirit reminds us as don't talk about your past to nobody Why because I have redeemed you from it Can somebody say man the second stage of us knowing the Holy Spirit is when Holy Spirit comes to live in us at salvation So Holy Spirit is with us to bring us to salvation and Holy Spirit comes to live in us during salvation During salvation Salvation is when you begin to put your trust in Jesus Christ for your salvation Means when you die and not only when you die, but even now you begin to build your relationship with God Now not based on what you do the prayers you pray the fast things you do the charity you give but based on what Jesus has Done on the cross and you realize that you pray the prayer of inviting Jesus into your heart at that moment a Miracle happens God promises that Holy Spirit Begins to come into your heart and take possession of your heart if he begins to live there Some people feel peace some people feel this easeness some people feel undescribable joy some even physically Experience a tingling going through their body And this is not because of music or loudness or because it's hot the lights and or the pressure But they will experience the Holy Spirit in a way that they will tell you something happened to me and That miracle is called the miracle of God the Holy Spirit Coming into your little titty-bitty heart and Fills it with this presence The Holy Spirit comes to live in us to produce a godly character To produce within us a character that resemblance the character of Jesus Christ we see an Esther story when Esther is in the palace and It's interesting that Mardukai the Bible says would come around the palace every day To find out about her welfare He was so interested in how she was doing He would sneak out every single day just to find out. Hey, how's Esther doing? Is she doing okay? Is everything good is she being fed well is everything well with the clothes is everything fine And when I read that I see the Holy Spirit Living in me living in you and he does exactly the same thing on daily Basis he checks on you How many of you have experienced that? Presence when you begin to walk with the Lord you begin to experience that check and Conduct of the Holy Spirit where you begin to walk and you begin to take things and it's just though You have an inside little Siri that speaks with you that guides you like a little navigation It guides you now. There's a dangerous Here as there's a danger here as well when people begin to follow a teaching in our culture. It says follow your heart I mean whatever your heart tells you to do do it The danger with that is this When people say that follow your God see if your God is not submitted to God Then your God will lead you into a rut It will lead you into danger So when we're talking about being sensitive to the Holy Spirit you will be able to hear his voice only to that degree That you are in his word Because if you are not in his word and you begin to hear voices Very soon you will find yourself in very big trouble The reason why occultic movements like even Islam Jehovah Witnesses and begun it all started with the man who heard a voice But that voice wasn't connected with the Bible Any voice the Bible says that tells you the Bible is wrong and that voice is right that voice is wrong And the Bible is right and we have to reject that Therefore when we talk about being under the check and the conduct of the Holy Spirit It only happens to the degree that you and I are in the word of God because the voice of the Holy Spirit will never Contradict the book he wrote The Bible wasn't written by men the Bible says the men were moved by the Holy Spirit So Holy Spirit doesn't contradict himself what he speaks to you today will not contradict what he spoke to someone two thousand years ago So Mardechai begins to guide Esther as she is there he begins to Check on her it begins to tell her what to say what not to say and you will experience the same thing with the Holy Spirit One of the biggest areas the Spirit of God will cover in your life when you begin to get closer to him is your mouth It's your mouth. No wonder why the first thing that was affected when the Spirit of God came was people's poking tongues Because if Holy Spirit can get control of your mouth, he can get control of your life And if your mouth is without his control, probably your whole life is gonna be without his control can somebody say yes And we see the Mardechai not only he helps her what to say what not to say he checks on her But we see that Mardechai also comes and the Bible says that he heard of a secret about the king That there was a plot against the king and he doesn't run to the king he runs to Esther He says I have a secret to tell you About your man and he reveals her a secret about the king and this is another thing the Holy Spirit does Jesus said He will teach you of things to come. That means the Holy Spirit reveals to us the secrets about God Now not some secrets that something out of this world some deep mysteries. No, he just makes the Bible that we read stand out That's what people say. How can you read that boring book? I don't understand it Maybe you're reading it alone Some people like to read the Bible in Greek others in Hebrew. We like to read it in the Holy Ghost When you read it in the Holy Spirit things stand out Then the Bible starts to talk to you He's like, how does that happen invite the Holy Spirit into your Bible reading? And you will find the Bible as the greatest treasure anyone can find you will find it speak to you You will find it feed you you will find it encourage you and comfort you you will find it to be a bread a Water a sword a hammer a seed and a life-giving source Because the Holy Spirit is a revealer of the Word of God Christianity is not a religion. It's a revelation Don't be mistaken. It's not something super deep. It's something super simple that becomes alive Amen the third season the third stage of relationship with the Holy Spirit is the one that we seldomly like to talk about and we seldomly Like to embrace as the Holy Spirit upon us for evangelism acts one eight says You will receive the power as the Spirit of God will come upon you and You will be my witnesses to the ends of the earth So we see that Marta guy takes Esther when she's an orphan. He takes her when she is a captive watches over her This leads her to meeting the king. She becomes a princess. She becomes a queen We also see that he checks on her reveals her secrets about the king and he also tells her what to say what not to say But this is not where the story ends Actually, the whole book of Esther and the whole story of Esther is about this It's not about a peasant Becoming a queen. It's not about an orphan Becoming a wife of a king. It's about her leveraging her influence for the cause of God's purposes and we see that Holy Spirit also does the same thing Marta guy He was in both worlds He was in the world that Esther was in and he was in the world where Esther was from Marta guy was in the both worlds. He was in the world that Esther was in He was in the palace. He was also fully acquainted with the world Esther was from and In the world Esther was from There was a hidden agenda That world was already suffering. They were already captives. They were already not in their own country But now against this world. There was a verdict. There was a law. There was an enemy Who was not only seeking to make them slaves and make their life miserable by seeking actually physically brutally to remove them out of the earth and Marta guy knew that It's interesting that Esther wasn't aware of it Esther lived very beautifully, but she was not aware of the future of the people she used to be like Until Marta guy brought some enlightenment and he says listen girl I know your life is very comfortable. Your life is very great But there are people who you used to be like and these people right now not only their life is bad That's bad enough, but not only that but there's something else happening that you need to be aware of They are going to die the Holy Spirit Comes upon us for ministry. Why? Because the people around us today who do not know Jesus Christ are not going to go to heaven Not because they're bad But because their sins were not paid for by Jesus Christ and we're not going to heaven because we're good We're going to heaven because Jesus Christ paid for our sin and nobody is righteous Not one The Holy Spirit it knows the future the Holy Spirit sees eternity because he was there and he is there The Holy Spirit knows about hell and the Holy Spirit knows about heaven And so you can see the Holy Spirit lives in me right now And he sees the joy and the things that God is doing through the Holy Spirit in me And he also sees the people whom God loves as much as he loves me and he loves you and he sees the future And he grieves about it So he then he comes to us. He says Let's go up a little bit higher Let's do something about it when Jesus was on this earth. He mentioned about hell quite few times Bible has few words about hell one is Hades, which is the abode of the dead means that's where happens when people die But the word that Jesus used to describe hell was Gehena or Gehena and It was actually a word they used for a cosmic garbage dump outside of Jerusalem What they would do is when criminals will die or you have a dog that died or cat that died or you had garbage What you would do is you will bring and throw it under dump Dogs would go at night and and growl there and literally you could hear those like almost like cries and Gnash their teeth looking for some meat. There will be worms because of so much Just garbage there. They'll be worms there. It was one of the nastiest Smelliest place in the whole Jerusalem because it was outside So when Jesus who was in heaven and came on this earth and if anybody knew what hell is like It's not the guy in Hollywood who writes songs about it They'll play poker there have orgies have sex beer and and have all the fun those guys have never been there Jesus was there when it was made and he says if I am gonna use an analogy To describe what this place is like It's kind of like this cosmic garbage dump that we have in Jerusalem where all the things that are bad are going there People will gnash their teeth that they will be warm. They won't die And he says it will smell so bad because it will be sulfur They will be fired there and Jesus says it will be like a bottomless pit when it's like the further The time goes that means you're falling further and further and you're never really touching the bottom You're going further and further from God and then Jesus says that there will be actually physical fire So anytime Jesus describes this place, I'm gonna pay attention because he's talking about something he has seen I'm not gonna listen to something about someone who wants hell to be like that Jesus describes that and he says it's so bad That the father thought it will be worth it to have me take on this human flesh become like you guys Walk with you on this dirty streets and have you people Put me on your cross mock me Make fun of me pull my beard Beat me with rods until the thorns go into my skull and have my heart Explode out of the amount of pain and I will die So that as many people as possible Can avoid Going to that place The Holy Spirit knows about this We don't We are in a palace our life is comfortable as Christians But Holy Spirit knows not only how miserable people are without God He knows what they're headed without God and What he does is he comes and he begins to challenge you and me like he challenged Esther. He said Esther He gives us few challenges the first challenge the Holy Spirit gives us is that your palace has a purpose Means you were not saved by good works, but you were saved for good works Holy Spirit is challenging us that the reason why God one of the reasons why God saves you It's not just so that you will have a better life on earth, but so you will reach out to others Holy Spirit challenges us that your influence You're an amazing singer You're an amazing wrestler. You're an amazing runner. You're an amazing swimmer. You're an amazing communicator People know you in the community because you're an amazing businessman and the Holy Spirit saying I want you to leverage Your influence for your purpose. I Don't want you to see your fame your finances I don't want you to see your success and your physical appearance as an end to itself Esther you're beautiful But that's not the point use your beauty as a leverage to touch other people's lives And that's what Holy Spirit will challenge you. He's not gonna challenge you to resign and says hey king. I quit I'm gonna go and suffer with my people. He's gonna say use what you have for the leverage of my kingdom But the second thing the Holy Spirit will challenge us with is to pay a price To reach that purpose. I think one of the reasons why we do very little about reaching out to people Everyone loves the idea of winning souls as long as it doesn't cost me anything As long as I don't have to stand come out of my comfort zone and as long as everybody will like me and accept me And if somebody might not like me My popularity and my acceptance is more important than their damn what would happen if Jesus would say I Would love to save the humans as long as they would treat me right But if it's gonna smell like these guys are not gonna like me Forget about it them their earth and everything we can burn their galaxy and make a lot new ones Jesus never had that He knew that there's gonna be a cost in bringing salvation to me There might be a cost of you reaching out your faith For the people because somebody say man. I remember a story that really touched me It's a story of an Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Carapetian If he's watching listening, I'm sorry if I mispronounce your name He's a retired Soviet Armenian champion swimmer. He's an 11-time world record holder 17-time world champion and a 13-time European champion and seven-time USSR champion on September 16 1976 He when his brother were running his brother came up or his brother's name is Como they were running together 12 miles. It was their typical workout exercise time and as they were running It was very cold outside and they saw in front of them a bus that had 92 people slid off of a bridge and fell into a water and It was about 70 feet away from them. So it was not too close it was extremely cold and this swimmer he was really good at swimming and he was really good at swimming and He had records and Championships and here he has a chance to jump into a dirty cold water or to keep running He stops jumps into a water. He goes about 33 feet deep Into a dark because it was already dark water freezing polluted water With his hands and with his feet He breaks the window of the glass and one by one begins to pull people out He made about 30 something dives in there. It took him from four to five seconds for each person He brought up more than 20 people on the surface, but only 20 people survived At the end when they asked him What do you think about what just happened? This is what he said. This is him He said I knew that I could only save so many lives. I was afraid to make a mistake It was so dark down there that I could barely see anything one of my dives I accidentally grabbed a seed instead of a passenger I could have saved the life instead and that seed still haunts me in my nightmares Because of this feat he became unconscious for 46 days He lost his ability to compete because his lungs got so polluted with cold and also freezing water He was never able to compete again Because this happened during a time of Soviet Union this story actually wasn't published until two years after this incident on the big newspaper and former Soviet Union they posted a story and People started to literally call him a hero in one because of one newspaper He received 60,000 letters of people saying thank you for leveraging your championship for souls But it didn't end there for this man. He was addicted to these things and 1985 he was also walking by a building that was on fire and there were people trapped inside and Not being experienced because he wasn't a firefighter He got into the building and he saved people almost lost his life and end up next few months being in the hospital again And this man was addicted not to fame championship or titles But changing people's lives Nobody knows about him being a champion today Almost everybody knows him as a man who is a hero Because you have to know one more thing the Holy Spirit teaches us a reward is always greater than the risk You see when people get saved the joy that comes from that is unparalleled. I Know that about myself when in 2005 January 27th right here in the service the pews were still blue two three pews two three pews of just our cousins and we were praying for already five years for people to be saved and We didn't see people being saved. It was one young man who came to the service And I preached a message called exchange from guilt to justification And I preached it hot And at the end I gave first time an altar call because there was one new person there And I was doing an altar call as though there was 20 new people and that poor guy was looking at me And I was trying to do an altar call so pumping everybody up I asked everybody to bow his but bow their eyes and close his eyes and he didn't And I asked people who want to give their life to Jesus to lay lift their hands and before I'm looking at him He looks at me and we have our own little communication and I see he starts to cry My heart begins to bubble this side because not only we have a new person, but he's crying He lifts his hands and gives his life to Jesus. I Remember when I let him in a sinner's prayer and when that ended I hugged every person I met that night I've experienced amount of joy never done drugs, but I can tell you one thing the ecstasy the joy that you receive Seeing a person give their life to Jesus Pails in comparison with anything. I can only understand at the day when Jesus when disciples brought in sandwiches He says guys. I already have food He says I just talked to a woman and she gave her life to God and that is my food and disciples What are you talking about? And I think Peter knew what Jesus was talking about on the day of Pentecost when thousands of people got saved I think Peter at that day remembered. Oh, that's what Jesus was talking about. This is so much better than anything else You see that I see there are another people when I remember when my friend error when he invited somebody and that person gave His life to Jesus and at that day error on the slept two hours He's like I was thinking about not coming to church and he was bawling his eyes out in The service not because he got a million dollars not because he you know got a big gift or a car But just because of one thing Somebody's soul got said you may say why is that so important because the return it is gonna change And the Holy Spirit gives you a dose of that joy to get you addicted seeing people's lives Changed I will rather be addicted to seeing people's lives changed that being addicted to see my own life being ruined a Lot of people are addicted to things that will ruin their life Let's be addicted to things that would change people's eternity Let's be addicted to things that would change our city and change our generation Remember even when our leaders would testify and share their faith with somebody and we have a group text message And then they will send the text message saying we just shared our faith with this and that person and you see that joy You see that excitement. That's why when our church begins to see more people giving the lives to Jesus There's one thing that's gonna increase in our church joy Joy doesn't come when we drive nice cars Joy doesn't come when we build mentions, you know people who have mentions and fall and throw themselves from a 19-story building and Destroy themselves. Why because joy comes the Bible says when we see People come to Jesus Christ heaven throws a party not when you get a breakthrough, but when you win the soul Leverage your palace leverage your gifts Leverage your influence your life is very short You don't want to be known as a person who has a world record. You want to be known as a person who leverages it To change a person's eternity That is a difference that you have to make as somebody say amen I'm gonna tell you about one more man And that is this man is the story of John Harper most of you know this event and this is the event of that happened Long time ago with a sinking of a big ship John Harper this man on the right At the age of 14, he gave his life to Jesus Christ at the age of 18 He started to preach at the age of 25. He started a church in Scotland His church quickly grew from some 20 people to 500 people at the age of 39 He was invited to come and speak in Chicago at deal Moody's church He took his daughter and he took his niece with him on this gigantic This is actual newspaper from New York Times during the week that I telling song And so he took her on this beautiful ship. They were supposed to be called unsinkable ship of the world The best one yet and as they were on it on April 11 that they boarded the ship and on April 14th We know that toward the evening that the ship hit an iceberg and there was a big sirens everywhere And everybody was looking for a lifeboat. They didn't have enough lifeboats because they thought the ship will never sink He quickly woke up his daughter woke up his niece and they put they he put them on a lifeboat Number 11 and after that he quickly started to run around telling people about Jesus He had a life jacket which he give away and He removed himself from any chance of getting out of that ocean He knew he probably never see his daughter again And he will never see his niece and he won't preach that message But he has few minutes left to bring as many people to God as he possibly can some survivors said they saw him running around decks kneeling with people and leading them into salvation while others were panicking Some said that he would literally go and beg people. Please get on the lifeboats women children and the unsaved and When the boat sunk it was about two in the morning when the boat sunk And there was more than a thousand people still in the water He would swim to people and ask them are you saved? One of the people four years later Stood in Canada and gave this testimony. I Am a survivor of the Titanic I was one of only six people out of a thousand five hundred seventeen to be pulled out from the icy waters Under dreadful night Like hundreds around me. I found myself struggling in the cold dark water of North Atlantic The whale of Paris she was ringing in my ears when they're floated by me a man who called to me Is your sale is your soul saved? And I heard him call out to others as he and everyone around me sunk beneath the waters there Alone in the night with two miles of water under me. I cried to Christ to save me I am John Harper's lost Convert, you know, most of you will never be in these situations to save people But you're still gonna have to risk a little bit of comfort and fear To see people saved It doesn't start with getting a poster and standing on the highway the or the end is near It starts we're getting up a little bit early getting on your knees and praying for people It starts when Friday night comes in and there was a movie playing and you can push that movie to another day But you come and pray for people you think we are here praying for new houses new cars We're praying here for people you may say what a waste when Jesus died on a cross it wasn't a waste And when you see eternity, you'll know it's not a waste It's a waste. Whatever we're doing, but whatever we are when we're praying for people. It's not a waste It starts with prayer, but it goes further than that It goes on to you begin to think and you begin to ask the Holy Spirit to guide you and lead you sometimes It's as simple as inviting somebody to church Sometimes it's as simple as somebody asking. Hey, what do you go on Wednesday night and you share your story You don't try to convince them whether Darwinism is wrong or this thing is wrong You just tell them simple this is what happened to me and this is what I heard happened to other people You know, do you know Jesus and just inviting them? This is not about selling anything This is about being a light and being sold Christianity was never meant to be preserved. It was always meant to be shared. I Know that we're facing opposition because the darkness is against us, but the light is for us I know we're facing challenges because we are multicultural church and people in our generation today 60% of Pasco is Hispanic and I'm not Hispanic and people will say well in your church Hispanics will not be saved They're a little bit late to the party Jesus wasn't Hispanic. He wasn't Russian yet. We all serve him Our gospel is not Jewish. It's not Russian. It's not Asian and it's not Hispanic It's the gospel for all nations all tribes for everyone And we have the same red blood running through our veins and that's what connects us So I want to tell you something today We will overcome every challenge will pay any price it takes so that we can see Many we're not talking about two three four five. We're talking about hundreds of people giving their lives to Jesus Christ We're not selling junk. We're not selling some vacuum that nobody needs or nobody uses We're not selling some lotion that nobody can afford. We are offering a living water to a dying in a dry world We're not like the founder of Coca-Cola who had a vision to put Coca-Cola in the hands of every person in the world And when I was in Tanzania, I saw in literally jungles of Tanzania where people had no internet no running water had nothing yet They had coke Coke kills you Coke is not healthy Yet he put it into hands of every person Jesus is healthy. It's as healthy as it gets He's the living water living bread. He's the light of the world. He's the great I am and we are gonna offer Jesus Jesus who does miracles Jesus who heals the sick Jesus who saves the lost Jesus who removes depression Jesus who restores marriages Jesus who removes nightmares Jesus who restores eating disorders and Jesus Who's the rain's who will defeat every demon and every power of hell in the lives of people in Jesus name Somebody say amen And somebody say amen Are we gonna obey the prompting of the Holy Spirit? Are we gonna take that challenge to let the Holy Spirit be upon us so we can serve people and change our generation for the cause of Christ? That's why you have to make a goal. I will have a home group I will bring other people to Jesus so that the gospel will be preached Holy Spirit will be happy and Jesus will receive the reward of his suffering if your answer is yes Put your hands together rise to your feet, and I want you to come to the front