 God is good, amen. Come on, tell your neighbor, God is good to me. Amen. And truly God is good to you, man. That you're able to be in this place this morning. Be a part of this vision to see God's kingdom come in every area of your life, amen. So every single person that is here that came into this event, if you are from here, or if you're maybe from a different state, or if you're maybe watching us online, we want to let you know that this is not just a three-day event that we want to make you feel better, or we want to make you cry or experience something. We want to make a movement to see God's kingdom come, not just in tri-cities, but in your state, in your city, in your generation, in your schools, wherever that you are, that God's kingdom will come to your place in Jesus' name. Amen. If you believe it, put your hands together for Jesus Christ. And that is our vision. That is why this conference is called Kingdom Come. We want to see God's will being done in every area of your life. And we believe that God has already started something last night. We know that and we've been hearing testimonies where people are sharing how they feel some chains are being lifted off their lives, how there's some addiction that they were struggling, they're being broken. And we believe that today also God will continue to move in people's lives. Amen, church. So let's this morning, let's just go straight into the word that's going to be spoken. I'm just going to take a few minutes of your time to talk to you about a topic called the power of the gospel. We're still going into the same conference of Kingdom Come. And this morning we're just going to take a few moments of your time to talk about the power of the gospel. So if you have your Bibles with you open to 2 Corinthians 2 versus chapter 5 verse 20, it says, Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. As though God were pleading through us, we implore you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God. We are Christ's ambassadors. You have to understand every single person in this place, we are Christ's ambassadors. We are not representing a culture. We're not representing a race. We're not representing color, ethnicity or whatever that you're coming from. We are representing God's Kingdom. We are Christ's ambassadors. We have to understand many times we as people think that, oh, just because I'm coming from an American culture, I need to represent that culture or Hispanic culture or Russian culture. It's not about culture, race or age. It's about the Kingdom of God. We are Christ's ambassadors. So whatever the Kingdom of God represents, that's what we represent. We are now representing saying, oh, this is the right thing to do. We represent what God's word says, and that is alone because God's word is our standard. We have to understand, number one point, if you have your notes, I want you to write down that we are Christ's ambassadors. We are not representing any other thing about what the Kingdom of God stands for. And I just want to go a few points and to address a few things. What is an ambassador and what did they represent? Number one thing is he's appointed by a king and he's not voted into position. He's appointed to represent a state or a kingdom. Number two. Number three, he's committed only to the kingdom's interest. And I want to stop on that one for a few moments. Remember when our pastor that spoke in English just a few moments ago, when our pastor first came to America, his heart's cry was, God, let your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. And you have to understand, when we first came to America, our pastor did not speak English. We did not have any money. We did not have any resources. We had no connections. And we had a couple of churches that were saying, hey, come join us. You know, we're going to come join the culture. Come join us Russians, Ukrainians, whatever that we were back then. Come join us and let's just, you know, do our thing, you know. Don't be too radical. Don't go all crazy. I know you're coming out from this, from Russia, whatever you were doing, but just come join us. But our pastor was always saying, we want to see revival of God happen in this city. I know we're coming from a culture. I know we're coming from a background. I know maybe we were taught something, but we want to bring God's kingdom on this earth and try cities in whatever city that we want to see the kingdom of God happen there. And we know as our pastor was rejected by many churches, our pastor was saying to other people, we're just saying that, you know, it's not going to happen. You don't have any people, you just have a bunch of teenagers, you have a bunch of kids. Nothing's going to work out. What are you just talking about? Just sit down, relax, and let just things happen. But our pastor was an ambassador. He said, I'm here to represent the kingdom of God. I'm not here to just sit and just do two hours of church. I want to see God's revival happen in tri-cities. And remember that we as a family, and I'm pastor's son. I remember our pastor, my dad, just going through that time of rejection where people did not understand the vision. They were saying, you know, you're just, you're insane. Nothing's going to work out. You're going to open a church. It's going to be shut down. You don't have any money. At that time, we just had only few families, and all those families were working construction just to make ends meet. So we didn't, we were talking about getting our own building. We're talking about having our own TV show. We're talking about reaching, you know, tri-cities for Jesus Christ. Yet we were small. But an ambassador knows that it's not about what you have. You are representing the kingdom of God. You're not coming from a place and to be able to bring that place to here. You're coming from the king of kings and the Lord of lords. And when you are an ambassador, you have heavenly, heavenly's backing you up. You have God's word standing behind your back that says, whatever that you need, we got you back. And our pastor knew that. He knew that, look, I know I might be small. I know I might be Russian. I do not know how to speak English. I know I might not have resources, but God has sent me to this place to represent the kingdom of God. So this morning, I want to encourage you, wherever that you're coming from, maybe you're watching online. And that is your heart's cry. You're saying that God, I want to represent your kingdom. We want to let you know this morning that God is standing behind you and he says that whatever is for you and if I am for you, nothing can be against you. Amen. Come on, put your hand together for Jesus Christ. Our pastor knew that I'm representing God's kingdom. I'm not coming just by myself, but I have God backing me up. And that is, I was a pastor's vision, just committed only to see the kingdom's interest. And the next thing is that if you are ambassador for the kingdom of God, you are totally covered by the kingdom. This is, for some, it might be hard to believe, but for us as a church, we lived it. When we first started our church and our pastor said, you know, we're going to have to get our own building. And many churches around us, they existed for over 20 years until then, until now, they still don't have their building. And our pastor says, we need to get our own building. We only had three families who were just working in construction. So everybody was like, you don't know what you're talking about. What do you mean? Just go, just lay low. Don't make so much noise. You're embarrassing everybody. Just come down, you know. But our pastor's like, I want to see revival happen in tri-cities. I want to see the will of God come to tri-cities. And we had an opportunity to purchase this building, the very building that you're sitting on today. And they said for us to come out with an insane amount of money for a down payment. And we did not even have church registry. Our pastor was not even licensed. We didn't have a church bank account. I mean, can you imagine? We had nothing. But when you know that you're an ambassador for Christ Jesus, God says that whatever that you need, I will provide. God says that, look, heaven and earth is mine. The kingdoms, gold and silver, that is mine. If you want to represent me, I got your back. And the very building that you're sitting in right now, it was the miracle the way we got it. Because in just a short amount of time, we're able to gather the finances until this day on. We're not paying a penny for this building. Somebody else is renting out this facility and they're covering all the utilities bill, all the payments, all the mortgages. And today we're basically sitting in our own building at no cost. Come on, put your hands together for Jesus Christ. This is just to show you one thing. If you are going to be an ambassador for Jesus Christ, if you are going to represent the kingdom of God, God says, I got your back. I will be able to support whatever that you need. If it is finances, I'll be able to provide it. If it is to learn how to speak a different language, I will give you the grace to do that. And if you've even seen this morning, a pastor is preaching in English. I mean, it's only been a couple of years that our pastor had to relearn English. And I remember even when our pastor was starting, and many people that live here for 30 years till this day, they still speak their own language. But our pastor had a vision, I want to see the kingdom come. And God has given us our pastor the grace to be able to learn the language. And even some of the words our pastor says, we're like, Google this. You have to learn the words that our pastor is saying because when you are representing God's kingdom, God says, all the resources that I have, you can tap into it. You can have it. If it is that you are seeing you're in a city where there's so many drug addicts and you say, God, I want to see the kingdom of God come to that city. God says, you know what? I'll be able to help you provide the rehab center. I'll be able to give you the resources for the drug addicts to be set free. If you're in a city or if you're in a place where you see people who are sick, God says there is grace enough to see healing happen because you are representing my kingdom. You are no longer by yourself. You're no longer representing a culture, but you represented the king of kings and the Lord of lords. Amen, church? Come on, put your hands together for Jesus. A few more points is that you are totally protected by his kingdom. Next point is that you never become a citizen of a state or a kingdom which he's assigned. Also, has access to all the nation's wealth for the assignment. And like we talked about this building, it's just a miracle that you're sitting in a building that is which is being completely, completely paid for somebody else. This to show you that you represent God, God has your back. When you take care of what matters to God the most, God will begin to take care of the things that matter to you the most. This is just a proven fact and this wants to be, we want to be an encouragement to you this morning that wherever that you're coming from, whatever state that you're from, whatever city or church that you are in, if you represent the kingdom of God and what kingdom of God stands for, you'll be able to have God behind your back and say, I got you every step of the way and we will see revival happen in your city in Jesus' name, amen. Also, Ambassador is the one who never speaks his personal position on any issue, only his kings. Also, his goal is to influence the territory for his kingdom. The will of God is to see revival happen in our city. The will of God is to be able to see revival happen wherever that you're coming from. Maybe it is just you have a home group. God's will is for you to have the kingdom of God come. How do we do the job of the ambassador and the greatest example that we can see is Jesus Christ. When Jesus Christ comes on this earth, he begins to represent the kingdom of God. And what was the kingdom of God? What did Jesus begin to do? Jesus became and stepped on this earth. He did not try to blend in. He did not come to Pharisees and say, hey guys, fill me in. What was happening for the 2,000 years? What's the latest tricks? How do we win people? How do we talk to people? How do we pray? How do we sprinkle the blood? How do we cut the calf? He sees the captive and he begins to set them free. He sees the sick. He begins to lay hands on them and see them being recovered. He sees those who are being afflicted and he prays for them and he sees their bondages begin to come up. Jesus Christ is the greatest example of the kingdom of God. It's to see those who are broken being healed. Those who are sick with the curable diseases being healed. Those who are bondage being set free. Those who are in prison doors released. And that is the kingdom of God. Jesus Christ is the greatest example to set the standard of the kingdom of God. You cannot change the world if you're a bondage to the world. You cannot change the world if you're in the bondage to the world. And in John 17, 16, it talks about Jesus says, there are not of the world even as I am not of it. Jesus clearly says that look, you cannot change this world if you are trying to blend in. You cannot. Simply, it's like two blind men trying to lead each other. You cannot change a blind person if you yourself is blind. And how do we change the world? How do we begin to change the world? We begin to accompany their needs. We begin to do things that if people are in bondage we begin to serve those people who are in the bondage to see them set free. To see people who are sick we need to begin to pray for them. We can't be a people who when they come to church just begin to entertain people oh please do this. We cannot concentrate on not to offend people so they don't leave the church. We need to preach the gospel. We need to preach the kingdom of God because that's what people need. Jesus did not come and didn't try to blend in with the Pharisees and Sadducees. He came. He knew that he's going to offend people. He knew people were going to reject him. He knew people were going to call him names. He knew people were going to say oh you're casting out demons with the demon or whatever. He knew that he was going to get criticized but he knew one thing. The kingdom of God needs to come because there is a world that is suffering. There's people who are in bondage. There's people who are crying out. There's people who are cutting themselves. There's people who are committing sin. I need to bring the kingdom of God to this earth and we see that Jesus Christ changed the world and since that day it has never been the same. Amen church. Come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ. We tried it all. I'm telling you our church we tried it all. I mean the things that we have done to try to blend in you guys don't even imagine. We had fear factors. You guys know fear factors yeah. We made people eat worms. No joke I'm not even joking. You can look at our archive you can see. We had fear factor we said like we try to bring people in. We do like okay you eat this worm and if you win we'll give you an ipod and after that they went to the hospital hopefully the ipod covers your bill I mean remember we had this construction board that was just like this long construction board that if you try to walk on it it becomes very wobbly and to be able to pass it. So we had this one girl who was like I'll do it and go for it and she got up down you know. So we did so many things that you try to to just try to become to appealing to people but it did not work it did not work because you cannot change the world that is blind if you yourself are blind you cannot begin to entertain people those who are hurting what can you say to a person that is in cancer what can you say to a marriage that is falling apart what joke can you tell them what encouragement speech can you tell to change the life you simply need to bring him the power of God to be able to change the situation and that's how you change people come on put your hands together for Jesus that that is the power of the gospel it's not entertainment it is not make you feel good it is somewhat offensive it is somewhat radical it's somewhat on the crazy side but when you are suffering and when you are in need and when you're crying out for help you do not need a joke you do not need to power of service you need an answer and that answer is Jesus Christ and he is the only one who is the solution to all fundamental issues of life and his name is Jesus Christ who is the king of king and the lord of lords and man church put your hands together for Jesus Christ I remember one instance when we were here and we were here just the beginning of our ministry we were getting to know the demonic world of people being possessed and people being set free and I remember one girl that came here and she was doing worship she was just like being she was being like shaking like crazy she was like falling on the floor and she was kind of shaking and some pastors like that's the power of God let her just shake and our pastor saw that he's like no this girl is demon possessed she needs to be delivered this girl needs deliverance and a lot of them are like let her Jesus wants to set her free so you need to help her and you know a lot of pastors are like well this shouldn't happen in church shouldn't be praying for demons in church let's just there's this hype everybody's jumping everybody's clapping if you're gonna start praying for this girl who's demon possessed you're gonna ruin the presence Jesus Jesus not gonna be happy with you but our pastors like no this girl needs deliverance this girl needs help she's she's suffering so they begin to pray for that girl and that girl is just being finally the girl was set free and we started talking to the girl and she said that she went to a movie she watched this horror movie and since that just this fear came upon her and then since since that every time she comes to worship or to pray she just begins to be tormented she begins to be in pain she begins to be in affliction and every time she goes to church they just they just let her shake but our pastor was standing there and said let the kingdom come the kingdom come is for those who are bound to be for those who are sick for those who being pain to be we release from every prison from every door because that's what Jesus came and that's what Jesus done and since that day that girl has been set free the girls been worshiping God and that girl has been going after God and that is the kingdom of God church we're not gathering here for these three days or however many however time that you're coming here for just to entertain you we want to make a movement to show that you need to have the cry of God in your heart say God let your kingdom come in my city God let your kingdom come in my state let your kingdom come in my country let your kingdom come in my school that if those who are afflicted and I am around them the kingdom is going to come out of me because Christ is backing up every word and if I stand upon God's word God's word says that I'm watching over my word that it makes sure that it produces fruit make sure it does not come back to me void when you lay hands on a sick they shall recover when you cast out demons they will go I got your back and if I'm for you who can be against you come on church if God is on your side who can come against you God is all powerful he's all infinite he's everywhere present at one time he says that if you begin to become the ambassador for me if you represent me I'm gonna link I'm gonna partner up with you to make sure that the captives get set free those who are sick will begin to be healed those who are bound will be released and that is the kingdom of God Amen church second point I want to let you know is that the biggest miracle that we talked about is the salvation of person's soul the power of the gospel is in salvation of the soul prophet to be Joshua likes to say that you can be sick yet you can be a friend of God you can be bound yet you can be a friend of God but what's the greatest miracle is the salvation of one soul is when you know that your soul is eternally saved from the kingdom of darkness that is the biggest miracle and when Jesus came on this earth his main mission was to rescue to reconcile men to God that was his greatest mission he went around preaching the gospel to be able to see that those who are under the bondage are held to God so the biggest miracle is a salvation of one soul salvation is not an accident it is not a coincidence it is something strategic it is something that is organized it is something that is planned I want you to hear that again it is not an accident it is not a coincidence it is organized many times we hear these people saying that if a sinner wants to get saved let him come to church and just get saved it doesn't happen like that you have to plan for it you have to strategically know that you need to if your friend does not know God you need to strategically plan how do I invite him to church how do I witness to my friend if your family members do not know God you need to strategically pray for them God I want to see my family saved it is not something that you sit back relax and hope one day they come to know God it is not going to happen by itself and it is not an accident or coincidence it is organized and it is strategic in our church we do everything that we can to concentrate to bring those who do not know God so they will be able to come to church and receive Jesus Christ we even come up with videos common videos of how to just an evangelistic tool of how to invite people to church yes we tell you how not to invite but you should turn on your brains and figure out how to invite we do, we concentrate so much because we know it is not an accident our church existed for a while and we know one thing that people do not just come by accident this will only one time happen where somebody needed to use the bathroom and they went into our bathroom and only one time happened and ten years of existence only happened once the other times we had to do the job so you have to get as a church, as a people of God you have to understand salvation of people's souls is a strategy it is something organized so right now I want to give you six ways six ways practical ways of evangelism first one is confrontational and we see in Acts 2 where the gospel was being preached and there was preach that you repent and be baptized and come from your sin ways and accept Jesus Christ that is one of the ways you can invite people to church is confrontational two is intellectual in Acts 17 Paul was debating with philosophers and all that I am not a fan of that, I don't know much intellectual is not my strongest suit and confrontational that is not my strongest suit too when I start to confront somebody they say I am back to me okay fine you are right, just walk away those two are not my strongest suit but I just want to give you the six ways of practical ways how we can help somebody be reconciled back to God number three is testimonial in John 9 the blind man said that one thing I know I was blind but now I see testimonial is one of the most powerful ways to evangelize because you can share to them hey I was addicted to drugs God set me free and that is a testimony for people because people do not want to hear come to my church so you can feel good people have problems, people have sicknesses people have bondages they need to know hey if I come to church will I be able to be set free I have this addiction to cutting myself can I get rid of that I have addiction to smoking weed I am addicted to alcohol but when you share your testimony people will be able to believe hey if it's possible I want to get rid of it and we know that we listened to a testimony of Bryson yesterday he was delivered from addiction to pornography masturbation we have many people like Luis who was delivered from addiction to smoking weed my brother who was addicted to drugs for seven years and when they go to the gym when they go to school when they go to Starbucks when they share that testimony that is power that is just to show that God is alive yesterday today and forever and he's been it from me and he's not a respecter of persons he can also do it for you number four is relational go and mark five we see that people went to people's houses and they begin to relate with people they begin to tell them about God and what God has done for them number five is invitational we see in John 4 how the Samaritan woman where Jesus Christ ministered to her after that she went to the whole city and she ministered to the whole city and invited them to hear what Jesus Christ has done for her also number six is serving in acts nine we see that Dorcas she impacted her city by the act of deeds she was serving the city and that city come came to know Jesus Christ and these are the six steps we want to let you know however it works for you I do not know but live a lifestyle of bringing souls to the king of God live a lifestyle of bringing people to church when you are coming to church don't let your phone be be just passive be sending people text message through Facebook through Instagram be posting videos like we did and actually those videos are actually a strategic way to invite people to church this is I'm telling you we go to the gym you go to your gym and you ask people around have you seen the video how not to invite people to church and they'll quote you they'll quote things that you said in the video they'll tell you things oh dude this was so funny just do it you know all these things and you're like you're walking and you're like this is a perfect way to tell them hey come to church this Wednesday we got conference this Friday we have conference God's gonna do something and that already is an invitational tool to see people come to church you don't know what they're people going through this once I remember and nobody could come to my home group we were about to meet at a house and nobody could come to my house we said let's go to Starbucks nobody could meet at Starbucks and this guy just like I'm a home you know you can come to my house I'm like fine you know let's let's go to your house so we come to the house and there's some other people their friends were just hanging out cooking whatever and I we started talking about church we started talking about what God is doing people's life yet little dude we know there was a person in that room who was who was suicidal who was taking those depressing pills and as we were talking about just simply church we're talking about the things that we do this girl would start balling she ran out of the house so we didn't think anything of it so as we were leaving the place the girl ran up to us and please I'm at the end of everything I need help I need I need you guys to reach out to me I need you I need you I need you to help me I'm just I just don't know what to do so we from that we invited her to church she gave her life to Jesus Christ she got baptized and since that day she stopped taking those depressing pills come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ this is it's something that we do not know what your friends are going what they're going through many people they're not going to post on facebook oh I'm suicidal oh my mom just died oh my mom has cancer and all these things you do not know but when you begin to invite people to church when you begin to reach out to them Jesus Christ begins to touch their needs Jesus Christ begins to reach out deep begins to deal with the pains that hurt with the things that they're just somebody rejected them somebody abused them somebody hurt them and Jesus Christ begins to mend their souls and that is how winning is done that's how Jesus Christ begins to reconcile people from from from their addictions into freedom from their sickness into health and this is how we bring people to church we want to encourage every single person this morning you don't need to be a pastor to invite somebody you don't need to be a preacher you don't need to be on a worship team to invite all the things you need to do is just open your mouth say hey there's a God that heals there's a God that delivers there's a God that saves I can show you many testimony here's my testimony here's a video this this that we need to begin to offer people hope that God is the same yesterday he's the same today and he can do it for you in Jesus name come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ I want to salt right now to to rise up on our feet and and what we talked about this morning we talked about the power of the gospel what is the kingdom of God what is power of the gospel what is gospel represent and gospel represents those who are hurting being being healed those who are bound being released those who are under oppression being set free and that is the power of the gospel so this morning as as we share these practical steps as we share this vision we want to let you know that it is not just to entertain you we want to see your city being turned around for God we want to see your school being won for Jesus we want to see your family your generation those loved ones being turned to God and to be reconciled to God and that is the kingdom of God church amen