Say Yes

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- Hey, welcome back to our second week of the 10X Push.

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My name is Andy and thank you for joining us

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for church online today wherever you are.

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Now, Crossroads is one church

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and we meet in buildings like this,

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but we also meet in homes, online,

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digitally and in person all over the globe

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and made up of all sorts of people,

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including our next generation,

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which is why my buddy Joel is here.

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- Hey, what's up? I'm Joel, I lead our 0-18 team.

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As we talk about the church being pushed,

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I think it's critical to talk about the church,

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like the entirety of the church,

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which includes kids and students.

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And so I'll say it this way.

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I think everyone needs a spiritual revival,

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from diapers to diapers,

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- Diapers -- Depends.

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- Diapers, diapers. Yeah, they'll get it.

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They'll get it later. And so we're doing that.

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Every, every different ministry, kids ministry, student ministry,

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all the way through adults are experiencing this push.

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And what we want to see,

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we don't want to just go to the moon.

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We want to bring the skies down.

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We want to see heaven meet Earth.

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And so we really, truly believe that's

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what's going to take for an awakening or a revival.

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- Yeah, and we're seeing that, like,

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a revival is not a word we use a lot around here.

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But it's just this thing where God comes

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and He brings new life to us, and we're experiencing that.

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Just this past weekend, we had

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an old school tent revival

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at our land called Base Camp,

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and over 8500 people came together,

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three mile long traffic on the road.

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It was like all packed, crazy,

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tons of students there. It was amazing.

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Nonstop worship, amazing teaching.

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And I want to give you guys a glimpse

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of what happened right now.

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- You're where you are right now

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because of where you've been.

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And so the fact that we opted in to revival

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means, like, something is dead,

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or we need something refreshed,

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and that means something new has to come in

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and we've got to open ourselves up.

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The history of the Bible is very clear:

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God goes where He's wanted.

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He gives power to the tired,

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and He revives the exhausted. [cheers]

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- Andy, I had an unreal time at Revival,

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mostly because I wasn't one of

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those cars stuck really far back there.

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I got there early for setup,

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which is why you should volunteer at these things.

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But it was unreal.

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And honestly, one of my favorite parts

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was Saturday at the 1 p.m. session.

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I'm not kidding you, no rain.

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Someone out there who's smarter than me

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can explain how this happened.

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A rainbow just made itself known above the tent

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and it felt like I was there.

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- Yeah. - Like, it just, it was kind of

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just a glimpse into heaven meeting Earth.

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It was fantastic. Yeah.

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- It was beautiful. - Do you have a favorite part?

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- You know, I missed the rainbow cloud,

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which sounds amazing, but my favorite part

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was actually having my entire family there.

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Like, I'd been to the land for Man Camp.

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My wife's gone to Woman Camp,

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but all of us being there together

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at the same time was just fantastic.

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And it reminds me that, like, revival

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is something that happens for our whole church,

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for our whole nation, for us individually,

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and for our families, like, no matter what our age is.

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- Yeah, I'm glad you said that, because

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way more is caught than taught.

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And so if our church is going to be revived,

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this has to be real.

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It has to be people living it out.

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So if you want to get engaged,

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there's a couple ways to do it.

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One, you're doing it right now.

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Watch the weekend message.

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So if you're here, unless you're here on accident,

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you're crushing it. Congrats.

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And two, is to get a guidebook.

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Andy's got his in his hand.

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This is my real one because my name is on it,

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so you know it.

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If you can't get to a physical site to get this,

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if you're chilling somewhere else to grab it,

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then go ahead and go to Crossroads.net/10X

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and we got a digital one for you.

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- Yeah. Doing the work on the guide,

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it's like a custom action plan for you.

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It might be the most helpful way for you

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to be personally grown and stretched

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throughout the Journey.

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It's just like 30 minutes or so each week,

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and this week there's even a fun little --

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It's actually a really helpful personal assessment

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that will help you understand how you grow best,

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and even what might be keeping you

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from growing right now.

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- Yeah, and another way to do it is to get in a group.

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My group met last week

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and so we started ours already.

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But you were just telling me

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yours doesn't start till this week, right?

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- That's right. My group starts this week.

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You can join. It's not too late.

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You can find all the groups at Crossroads.net/10x.

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There's all kinds of great stuff there.

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Get in a group. Do the guide.

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Join in because God wants to push you to a new place.

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- Hey, revival has started. It's begun.

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And we're starting to see something big happen.

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We hope you want to be a part of it.

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- That's right. Let's go with week two of The Push right now.

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- 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. [engine boosters]

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Liftoff, we have a liftoff.

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Houston, you are a go for staging.

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[music]

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- Have you given your life to one thing,

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giving your whole life to one thing is not normal.

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It's not normal. But who wants to be normal?

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Am I right?

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I don't think you came in tonight

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or came in with us online for normal.

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I think you came wanting something more.

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And that's why I'm excited that you're here.

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When I've given my whole life to Jesus

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and said yes to all that He has for me,

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my whole life changed.

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It's not normal, but it's amazing.

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It's amazing.

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That's why I'm excited that you're here tonight.

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If you're brand new. My name is Justin.

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And you walked into this thing called the 10X Push.

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What that is, is all of us here at this church

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saying, "God, I want more of You in my heart.

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I want You to enlarge what You're

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doing in my heart and in this world."

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And so you walked into something crazy

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and super exciting.

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It's not normal, but it's amazing.

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So everything from here on out,

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the rest of the time, every song you hear,

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every story you hear is all geared towards

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getting you to understand this God more

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and what He wants to do in your heart.

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So glad you're here tonight.

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Why don't you stand up with us?

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We're going to sing some songs to Him

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and about Him. So glad you're here.

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- Put your hands together like this

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as we sing praises to the Lord,

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the One who's worthy. Come on.

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- Come on. Hands up all over the room.

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I just need you to think right now

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on all the things He's done,

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all the ways He's shown up for you,

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all the ways He's stepped in your life

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and shown you that He's faithful,

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that He's good, that He's merciful,

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that He's got your back.

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I need you to know. I need you to remember right now.

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- We give Him all the praise

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because of how He's rescued us.

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- God, so many of us in here come with gratitude.

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We come with hearts that struggle to find the words

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that can match the gift that You have given us,

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the redemption that we've experienced.

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And so many of us come into this room

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with heavy hearts, hearts in needing a touch,

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needing an encounter with the living God.

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So would you see us showing up here,

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showing up online as us saying yes to You.

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Yes, we want to encounter You.

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Would You come meet us right where we are?

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Would You meet us? Amen. Amen.

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Come on y'all.

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It's so good, so good. Mhm.

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Well, I want you to say hi to somebody.

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If you're online, say hi to somebody

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even if you don't know them and have a seat.

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[music]

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- For Apollo 11, it took a great deal of math

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and smarts to be able to intersect the moon.

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The moon is traveling at 2288 miles an hour at all times.

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At liftoff, Apollo 11 on the way to the moon

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was going 60 feet per second.

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If you've seen the video, slow and starts up,

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starts up, starts up.

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Here's the illustration.

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God is moving right now very quickly, very, very quickly.

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He's doing his thing.

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He's going where He wants to do.

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He's doing what he needs to do.

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And the Kingdom of God, His preferred reality

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that He wants us to live in.

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And our privilege, our responsibility,

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the offer that He gives to us is

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will we catch up to Him?

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Will we be in step with where God is moving

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and push into Him?

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We're right now in what's known as a push.

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I'm going to push you today.

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Are you ready to be pushed? Ready to be pushed?

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I'm going to push you today.

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For six weeks we're pushing each other, like,

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where are you with God right now?

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Where are you with sensing His presence?

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Are you pushing into the things

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that He wants you to push into?

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Is our church being pushed into the things

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that He wants us to go to?

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And the answer for us as achurch is yes,

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yes, yes, we are.

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And today we're going to talk about

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what it means to say yes to God, whatever it is,

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however, wherever we are on this journey.

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We're on right now, we're headed to the moon.

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We're headed to be in alignment with

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the purposes of God for this thing called Crossroads.

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If you're here today, you're a part of it.

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Let's pray before we go any further.

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God, I am thankful for being able

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to talk about transcendent things.

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And I'm not talking about getting to the moon

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and the amazing thing that was.

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I'm talking about getting to Your heart.

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I'm talking about getting in alignment

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with what You want in our lives.

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Help me today to help your people.

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Help us to see You and understand You

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and understand what You want from us.

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Ahead of time, I and others, we just say, yes.

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God, whatever You want. Yes, yes.

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Help me to be clear and helpful.

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And I pray these things according to

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the character and identity of Jesus. Amen.

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Today we're going to look at

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one of the parables that Jesus gave.

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He would give these stories that were made up,

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stories that were made up, but they actually

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had a point and they were for real.

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And here is what it says in

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the book of Matthew 13:4-9. Let's read it.

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She who has ears to hear, let her hear.

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There are four types of people,

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four types of people in this parable.

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And there's four types of people

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in all of our rooms right now,

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or wherever you're experiencing Crossroads,

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whatever coffee shop you're in,

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there's four types of people:

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those who can count and those who can't.

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There's four types of people, and they're all in here.

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And God is likened to the sower.

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He is throwing seed. He is throwing truth.

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And there's four different responses to that truth.

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Today I'm going to be throwing some truth at you.

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God's going to be throwing some truth at you.

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He's going to be throwing some truth at you.

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And I don't know what your response is going to be,

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but I do know this.

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It's going to be one of four things.

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One of four ways you're --

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I know some of you ladies hate

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when anything gets in your hair.

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That's exactly why I'm doing it. Exactly.

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Because my love language is annoying.

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That's what my love language is. It's annoying.

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Now, this is really interesting because

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this is one of the very few parables

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where Jesus tells us the meaning of the parable.

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Most of the times He gives us the parable

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and we've got to connect the dots.

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This one and this time He actually tells us

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what actually is happening.

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So let's read who the four different types of people are.

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And all of us are one of these four.

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There's not a fifth. It's four.

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All of us are one of them. Here's what He said.

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And by the way, there's a little in-between part

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where He says here that some people

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are never going to understand this

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because God's not moving in them,

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or they've shut Him off a long, long time ago.

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Some people just don't.

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But these parables are a way for us

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to unlock spiritual truth, and for Him

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to get into our lives to a greater degree.

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He's pushing.

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He's pushing all people in His audience.

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Here's what He says:

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Hear then the parable of the sower.

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When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom

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and does not understand it, the evil one comes

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and snatches away what has been sown in his heart.

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This is what was sown along the path.

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So all of the seed, all of the truth

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that God brings is coming upon us and all of us,

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all of us are one of these types of soil.

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And so the first one, the first one falls on the path.

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It's a hard, beaten down path.

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Gosh, it's a hard beat down path

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because people are walking on it.

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They're heading there -- it's all --

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And what happens is, because it's so hard,

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God's truth comes to us.

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And because our heart is so hard,

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birds come, the evil one, the evil one,

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Satan, the deceiver, Lucifer comes

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and plucks it off of the path before it has

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a chance to be worked into the ground.

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This is the condition of many of us.

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You're here today. It's good. Glad you're here today.

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But what I say today isn't going to make much of a difference

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because you've got a hard heart

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and you just don't receive things.

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This is like cynicism. You're just cynical.

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You're going, "Okay, what's this guy's angle?

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What's this guy?

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How much does this Crossroads place

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putting into screens around here?

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What is going on there?

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This is just some money grab.

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This is just some strange --"

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No, no, I'm pushing you.

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There is a financial component to this for sure,

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but I'm just pushing on you today.

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Cynicism.

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When you do your your work this week.

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This thing is fantastic. Isn't it fantastic?

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We should just give a little shout out

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and gratitude to all the creative types

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who made this.

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When you do this today, this week,

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you're going to have a self-discovery item

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where you're going to discover

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which of these soils you are.

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Now, I want to tell you, it's kind of rigged

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because all of us understand tests enough to say,

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"No, I'm definitely good soil.

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That's the last soil. I'm definitely good soil."

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Um, maybe you are, but you're going to find

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which of these first three

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is your at least Achilles heel.

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If you're not one of these three,

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you're going to find out which is your Achilles,

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Achilles heel.

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For me, this is my Achilles heel: cynicism.

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I'm not cynical enough to say

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that we actually didn't get to the moon

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and the Earth is flat. I'm not that cynical.

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Some people are. I'm not that cynical.

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But I'm always looking for the, like, hidden meaning.

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Maybe that's why I can never be really excited

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about any political candidate.

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Never can. I've never been able to.

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Maybe it's wisdom. Maybe that's cynicism.

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I'm always thinking there's a new thing,

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there's there's something underneath happening.

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This is what happens with us.

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We think that we're always --

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It's our role to discover the real truth.

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Like, that's a gift I have.

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No, it's not a gift. It's a curse.

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It's a curse. It's a curse to be jaded.

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It's a curse to always think someone has an agenda.

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It's a curse to not be open to what God has

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and allow the evil one to come and snatch it out.

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It's a curse.

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It's not a gift, it's cynicism.

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And your life never gets anywhere because

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nothing new of God ever springs up.

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You're the same person you've always been

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because nothing really takes root.

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I know people who believed in UFOs,

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and part of that belief made them believe in UFOs

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wasn't an appreciation of the cosmos.

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It was a cynical sense that

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the government is hiding something.

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"The government is hiding something.

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I know what's going on in Roswell, New Mexico.

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The government is hiding something."

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Cynical, always looking for conspiracies.

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Cynics are always looking for conspiracies.

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By the way, there's never been a time

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when we were more conspiracy laden than today.

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We don't even believe science.

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Or if someone tells us something who's a scientist,

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we wonder what their hidden agenda is

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because we're cynical.

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When we are this way it's a problem for us.

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We can't get going anywhere with God.

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And so someone will be, like, "Well yeah, for sure.

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There's UFOs. Government is hiding them."

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And then then last year the government comes out

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and says, "Yeah, we're seeing stuff that

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we haven't seen before,

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and we have Air Force pilots.

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We don't understand this."

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Then they say, I know some of these,

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the same people that are going, "Oh no, no, no, no,

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the government is trying to distract us.

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There's no UFOs." The same people.

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The same people who are pro UFO now are anti

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because they think the government is,

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like, trying to manipulate them.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Can you see how exhausting it is

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to always look for some hidden agenda,

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some hidden meaning, thinking some fix is in?

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How can we possibly hear from God

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when this is the state of our heart?

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We can't hear from Him because we hear from Him

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we think something weird is happening now.

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The reason I can talk a lot about this one

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is because when I did my test,

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this is my Achilles heel.

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This is a screenshot of what I saw.

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And you'll get your own screenshot when you go through.

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This is this is my thing.

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And I don't like that about myself.

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And maybe it makes me all that much more

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upset about it because I understand this one a lot.

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I was out camping with some friends of mine recently.

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We were at The Revival.

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How great was the revival, those of us who were there?

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Sheesh. [applause]

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So I went out a night early.

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So I camped Thursday night,

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and I camped Friday night.

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And we were sitting around the campfire

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with some of my closest friends, and they said,

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you know, one of the things that we hear regularly,

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people get to know me and they go,

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"You know Brian Tome?"

00:46:21

"Yeah, He's a very close friend of mine."

00:46:23

"Is he? You're a close friend?" "Yes."

00:46:25

And they always say this, what they said,

00:46:27

they always say, "What's he like, like, really?

00:46:31

Like, like, what's he like, like, really?"

00:46:35

And they go, "Honestly? You ever see him on stage?"

00:46:39

They said yeah. "He's exactly like that.

00:46:41

Exactly. Exactly, like that.

00:46:43

Tells Amish jokes. He's exactly, exactly like that."

00:46:46

That's a little Easter egg

00:46:47

for everybody at The Revival there.

00:46:49

That's a joke that's not going to see

00:46:51

the light of a Sunday morning worship service,

00:46:53

but on camp, I'm Base Camp land, all bets are off.

00:46:57

And the reason this came up is because

00:46:59

I have this thing that sponsor my podcast,

00:47:02

this mineral drink thing, this all green.

00:47:05

And so and they go --

00:47:07

And when they thought about it because

00:47:08

they said, "Like the AG1, does he actually drink that?"

00:47:12

By the way, cynics, I'm not getting paid

00:47:15

to say this right now. Just so you know, I'm not.

00:47:17

And there, like, there it was every morning.

00:47:19

Yeah I shake it up every, every morning I have it.

00:47:22

But like their mind is blown, like,

00:47:25

"Wow, he really drinks that stuff. Wow."

00:47:28

Like, I'm just driven to be an advertiser

00:47:32

or something like this.

00:47:33

These are just some of the ministrations that we do,

00:47:37

machinations that we do.

00:47:38

Administration, that's probably a good word too.

00:47:40

Machinations that we do.

00:47:43

We're going to be looking in the midst of our Push

00:47:47

at four areas that God has called us

00:47:50

to catch up with Him on. Four areas.

00:47:52

These are territories. Territories that we own.

00:47:55

Territories that He's said to us,

00:47:57

"I want you to have a unique role

00:47:59

in the Kingdom of God in these four areas."

00:48:02

And the first one we're going to look at today,

00:48:05

we're going to look at them throughout the whole Push.

00:48:07

The first one we're going to look at today

00:48:10

is what is it that happens out on our Base Camp property?

00:48:13

What happens at camps?

00:48:17

- In the book of Isaiah, God's call

00:48:19

to think bigger and push for more is clear.

00:48:23

Enlarge the place of your tent is an exhortation

00:48:26

to expand the territory God has already given us,

00:48:30

the place where the favor of God

00:48:32

has collided again and again

00:48:34

with the gifts He's put in all of us

00:48:36

producing supernatural results.

00:48:39

Over the last 28 years, we have taken

00:48:41

a lot of ground for the Kingdom of God,

00:48:43

but there are four territories

00:48:45

that God has clearly given us

00:48:46

where we have seen His favor to go farther

00:48:48

than we could ever have dreamed possible,

00:48:50

and where He is now calling us to not hold back,

00:48:54

to say yes to taking a 10X moonshot,

00:48:56

to seeing His Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.

00:49:00

Through inspiring camps, we're seeing

00:49:02

spiritual, emotional, and relational breakthroughs.

00:49:05

Crossroads camps are only in class,

00:49:07

and we believe God wants us to take things even further.

00:49:11

Our focus is adding new features

00:49:12

and better experience to reach more people,

00:49:15

with plans to add a 20 acre lake,

00:49:17

signature experiences like a music festival

00:49:19

for 18 to 24 year olds,

00:49:20

capacity for tens of thousands of people per event,

00:49:24

and spaces to minister to the core group

00:49:26

of volunteer leaders within Crossroads

00:49:28

that fuels this ministry.

00:49:30

With 770 acres of land, we believe Base Camp

00:49:34

could be ground zero for a spiritual awakening.

00:49:48

- So at 18, I enlisted in the Army.

00:49:52

About halfway through basic training,

00:49:54

I got what's called a Red Cross message,

00:49:55

which is a family emergency.

00:49:58

I immediately called my mom

00:50:00

and she informed me that my uncle was murdered.

00:50:03

I remember feeling alone.

00:50:06

Basic training is not the the place to show your emotions.

00:50:09

It's not the place to feel those things.

00:50:12

So, I just kind of bottled it down inside.

00:50:15

I was very angry, confused, hurt.

00:50:21

I came home after basic training,

00:50:23

started drinking very heavily.

00:50:26

I knew something was was happening with PTSD

00:50:29

when I started experiencing

00:50:31

some pretty bad nightmares.

00:50:33

Rock bottom was I didn't think

00:50:35

there was anything else for me,

00:50:37

so I attempted to take my life.

00:50:40

My roommate found me and said, "Hey,

00:50:44

you're going to go to church with me.

00:50:47

We're going to get you connected

00:50:49

to some form of community."

00:50:51

It was Crossroads Uptown, went there,

00:50:53

got plugged into an awesome small group,

00:50:56

ended up signing up for College Camp,

00:50:59

had a great experience there,

00:51:01

but I was still dealing with a lot of things

00:51:04

that I was not at the time willing to bring to light.

00:51:08

That came up in nightmares.

00:51:09

It came up in the shadow in the corner of the room.

00:51:13

In every single crowd I walked into,

00:51:15

there'd be a threat.

00:51:16

I took the PTSD screening, 30 being the low end,

00:51:21

80 being the high end, and I scored a 78.

00:51:24

The predominant thing that it stemmed from

00:51:27

was the death of my uncle.

00:51:29

But I really felt like God was going to meet me

00:51:33

at Man Camp, camping around a fire,

00:51:35

talking about what's actually going on in our lives.

00:51:38

That was like the first time that

00:51:39

I had really opened up to someone

00:51:41

other than my therapist about what was going on.

00:51:46

I felt seen, I felt heard, so I decided

00:51:50

to go to the prayer tent because

00:51:51

I was just going to model it for my group.

00:51:54

I had no expectations for myself

00:51:56

and I spilled my guts.

00:51:57

I told him everything about my PTSD diagnosis,

00:52:02

the suicide attempt. I told him everything.

00:52:04

But then he asked to pray for me.

00:52:07

I tried to do this without crying.

00:52:10

He asked to put his hands on my head,

00:52:12

and he started praying this prayer to heal

00:52:16

the neurons and the neurological pathways

00:52:18

in my brain that were hyperactive

00:52:21

because of the PTSD.

00:52:23

He said, "Lord, just allow Brandon's brain

00:52:27

to work the way that You intended it to work,

00:52:30

to go back to its original purpose."

00:52:33

And I remember looking up while he was praying

00:52:37

and his hands weren't there.

00:52:39

I asked him, "When did you take your hands away?"

00:52:42

He said, "Soon after I started."

00:52:44

I said, "Well, I still feel hands under my hat,

00:52:48

moving through my hair.

00:52:50

I still feel these warm, comforting hands on my head."

00:52:55

And I just looked up and I felt the breeze

00:52:58

for the first time, it felt like in forever.

00:53:02

I just felt lighter, I felt comfort, I felt loved.

00:53:08

And then he asked me if there was anybody

00:53:10

I wanted to forgive.

00:53:14

And I said, "I think I need to forgive

00:53:18

the man that murdered my uncle."

00:53:22

And I did, and I didn't realize how much hate

00:53:27

I had been holding in my heart for a man I'd never met.

00:53:31

And I just felt light.

00:53:35

Well, a week later, after Man Camp,

00:53:37

I went to my therapist and, "I would like

00:53:41

to take the PTSD screening again."

00:53:43

I took the test and I no longer qualified.

00:53:46

I think the score was ten.

00:53:50

It felt incredible to feel God's presence

00:53:55

and just know that He is,

00:53:57

one, been with me the whole time,

00:53:59

and He wanted to heal me.

00:54:03

I just had to ask for it.

00:54:05

It makes me feel grateful that a lot of people

00:54:07

have gone before me to give their time,

00:54:11

money, energy into the camps so that

00:54:16

I could come to a place to experience

00:54:19

a miracle, experience a new life.

00:54:23

I see hope for a future.

00:54:26

My tithe and my finances, I want to keep

00:54:28

pouring those things into camps

00:54:30

so that somebody like me

00:54:32

can experience what I experienced.

00:54:37

- Isn't that encouraging? That's so good.

00:54:40

We had a bunch of physical healings at The Revival.

00:54:46

A number of them. One of my favorite ones

00:54:48

was we had a time just to pray in the tent,

00:54:51

30 seconds people could pray anything they wanted

00:54:53

and ask God for anything that they wanted.

00:54:56

And one guy is 15 years old.

00:54:58

His mom told us his story.

00:54:59

Said he has not had any sense of smell or taste.

00:55:02

He got COVID pretty bad a few years ago,

00:55:04

hasn't been able to smell or taste anything since.

00:55:06

And he never asked God.

00:55:08

He asked God in the tent, and boom,

00:55:11

immediately his nostrils open up and he can smell.

00:55:14

Immediately. That's so good.

00:55:17

Now those things are miracles

00:55:19

because they don't happen all the time.

00:55:20

You don't have a right to be healed.

00:55:23

You hear somebody else's healing,

00:55:24

it's awesome that God did that.

00:55:25

But it doesn't mean it's going to happen for you.

00:55:28

Pray for it. Ask for it. Be faithful in it.

00:55:31

But some of us, the way we deal with God

00:55:34

not doing something in my life is

00:55:36

we just get cynical towards hearing those stories.

00:55:38

"Oh, that didn't happen.

00:55:39

Oh, oh, that guy, he must have, like,

00:55:43

flunked the test the first time. Just a bad day. The test was --"

00:55:45

No. Can we just be open hearted enough

00:55:48

to see what someone says God did in their life>

00:55:52

Which was immediately and instantaneously take away

00:55:55

from what no counselor could take away from him?

00:55:57

What no medication could take away from him?

00:55:59

Friends, we miss out on so much of

00:56:02

the blessings of God and the personality of God

00:56:04

when we refuse to be open to what God says

00:56:09

and we don't turn our back on this cynicism.

00:56:12

Let's take a look at the next one. Next one.

00:56:15

Oh, by the way, one other really cool story here.

00:56:17

There was a guy who is an older Pentecostal pastor,

00:56:22

came to one of our sites last week after The Revival.

00:56:25

He came in and he went to the information center

00:56:28

and he said, "Hey, I just wanted to --

00:56:29

I just needed to come in here today

00:56:31

and find somebody to repent to."

00:56:33

And the volunteer said, "What are you talking about?"

00:56:35

He said, "Well, I've never liked Crossroads.

00:56:37

I've always thought it was a show.

00:56:39

I never thought you all were about truth.

00:56:41

And I found myself at The Revival.

00:56:42

I decided to go to The Revival."

00:56:44

And he just said, "My gosh, truth is there.

00:56:46

And God touched me very deeply.

00:56:48

And I'm sorry. I've judged you all. I don't --

00:56:50

I'm sorry. "And he said, " Would it be okay

00:56:54

if I just sat in the back anonymously

00:56:56

for a few weeks and just received?"

00:56:58

That is a man who had some heart

00:57:00

that God chose to break up,

00:57:02

and he chose to go a different direction.

00:57:04

The next one, the next one.

00:57:06

Jesus tells us again, this is His words, not mine.

00:57:09

As for what was sown in rocky ground,

00:57:11

this is the one who hears the Word,

00:57:12

immediately receives it with joy,

00:57:14

yet has no root in himself, but endures for a while

00:57:17

and when tribulation or persecution arises

00:57:19

on account of the Word, immediately he falls away.

00:57:23

So these folks, the seeds get in here,

00:57:26

something starts coming up,

00:57:28

but as soon as it gets too hot,

00:57:30

there's no root system and they die.

00:57:34

We've had a lot of people across like this

00:57:35

because we've grown a lot of things.

00:57:37

There are a lot of people, but man,

00:57:39

for some reason, a lot of people

00:57:41

don't have roots that go deep.

00:57:43

There's no rootedness to their faith.

00:57:46

Their faith is all emotion.

00:57:48

Their faith is all, "Oh, I can be part of a cool church

00:57:51

that people think really well of,"

00:57:53

until the church says something

00:57:54

that doesn't sound good in culture.

00:57:56

And then I'm upset and I got to drop away from,

00:57:58

I got to drop away. I got to drop away.

00:58:00

A lot of us, we have an amazingly fragile faith.

00:58:05

Like, everything has to be going right.

00:58:08

We have to be one of the cool kids

00:58:10

believing what everybody says.

00:58:11

And this is, again, this is Jesus says

00:58:13

we fall away because we don't want the truth of God,

00:58:16

we want to fit into popular culture.

00:58:20

I can't handle the new tension that comes my way.

00:58:22

I've had a health issue and I don't have a miracle.

00:58:24

So since my health issue isn't solved,

00:58:27

God must not be real or He doesn't love me.

00:58:30

No, you're falling away because you don't have deep roots.

00:58:32

You came to God maybe thinking

00:58:34

He was going to make your life nice and happy.

00:58:36

And God never promises to make our life nice and happy.

00:58:40

He promises to be faithful to us in the long scheme.

00:58:43

He promises to give us

00:58:44

a peace that passes understanding.

00:58:47

He promises to love us, but He does not promise

00:58:50

to give us a life that's easy.

00:58:51

But people think that faith is a life to have

00:58:54

and we drop away.

00:58:55

We have a friend who is not a heterosexual.

00:58:59

And we hear the very clear teaching

00:59:01

of the Bible about how sex operates.

00:59:02

And immediately, we can't have a deep enough faith

00:59:05

to love somebody, to love somebody

00:59:08

who is practicing sex outside of

00:59:11

the very clear direction of the Word of God.

00:59:14

We haven't figured -- We can't figure out

00:59:15

how to love that person and also love the Word of God,

00:59:19

of the truth at the same time.

00:59:21

That takes deep roots.

00:59:22

Very, very few people have those deep roots.

00:59:24

And so we wither and die as soon as something is said

00:59:26

or I read something in the Bible that I don't like

00:59:29

that's out of step with the world.

00:59:31

I have a plan in my life, my plan,

00:59:34

including the kind of job I was supposed to have,

00:59:36

the family I was supposed to have.

00:59:38

And I don't have it. I don't have it.

00:59:41

We wither and die because our life

00:59:43

doesn't look the way we wanted our life to work,

00:59:46

and we die not because God isn't good,

00:59:48

we die because we had no rootedness.

00:59:51

We die because we never developed a prayer life.

00:59:55

Can't remember the last time we actually

00:59:57

asked God to do something for us.

00:59:58

We die because we don't regularly read

01:00:01

the Word of God, and we go to church, like,

01:00:03

only if I have no better option

01:00:05

then I actually go to church.

01:00:08

This is a problem. Fragility is a problem.

01:00:13

Many of us are this way,

01:00:15

and we're going to push on you to get some roots

01:00:17

in the midst of our Push.

01:00:20

The third kind of person Jesus talks about

01:00:23

is the person who, when the seeds fall in them,

01:00:28

when they grow in them,

01:00:29

there's some there's some soil in there.

01:00:31

It starts to grow, but then then something else happens.

01:00:35

Let's read it.

01:00:37

As for what was sown among the thorns,

01:00:40

this is the one who hears the Word,

01:00:41

but the cares of the world

01:00:43

and the deceitfulness of riches

01:00:45

choke the Word, and it proves unfruitful.

01:00:51

The cares of this world,

01:00:52

all the things that are happening in this world,

01:00:55

the number of followers I have on Instagram.

01:00:58

Am I getting anything to go viral?

01:01:00

Am I going to have enough for retirement?

01:01:04

Am I going to have enough for the second home?

01:01:07

Am I going to have enough to be able

01:01:09

to go out as often as I want to?

01:01:10

Am I going to have enough for my auto insurance?

01:01:13

All those, auto insurance, fine.

01:01:15

You should have enough for auto insurance.

01:01:17

That's called basic budgeting. That's fine.

01:01:18

But there's a line between knowing I have to be responsible

01:01:23

and just distracted

01:01:24

by everything that's going everywhere.

01:01:27

The power about this space metaphor for me,

01:01:31

is a number of things.

01:01:32

Uh, no, it's not just the technological,

01:01:35

mathematical, greatest adventure that's ever been taken.

01:01:39

It's not just that, but it's also harkens back

01:01:42

to a time when our country was more focused.

01:01:46

JFK put out a goal and said,

01:01:49

hey, let's get to the moon.

01:01:51

And there was some appropriate pushback.

01:01:52

Are we sure?

01:01:53

That's going to take a lot of resources?

01:01:55

Can we put in some resources from some other places?

01:01:57

All an appropriate conversation to have.

01:02:00

But the country mobilized and came around it.

01:02:03

When I was in preschool, Mrs. Waugaman

01:02:09

brought in the little black and white TV.

01:02:13

We never watched live TV before as a part of school,

01:02:16

and we all gathered around

01:02:18

this old 19 inch black and white TV

01:02:20

about the size of Kyle Ranson.

01:02:22

And we came in-- [laughter]

01:02:24

Yeah, he's going to crack on my age,

01:02:27

I'll crack on his height.

01:02:28

We came in and we all sat around watching this thing.

01:02:34

It was these things back in the day

01:02:36

you didn't have cable.

01:02:38

You had these things called rabbit ears

01:02:40

and you would unsheath them and they'd,

01:02:43

bip bip bip bip bip bip bip. They go taller.

01:02:45

And you'd get up there and you move them around.

01:02:47

You put some tin foil on top of it,

01:02:48

you whack the side of the set

01:02:49

and every once in a while boom, oh, come into focus.

01:02:52

Our whole country was was focused on that

01:02:56

and we were harmonious.

01:02:58

This is part of the reason why we have

01:03:00

such a unharmonious, cantankerous country.

01:03:04

Everybody's distracted.

01:03:06

There's no agenda that we can all get behind.

01:03:09

That's part of why you might find Crossroads

01:03:12

is a bit of a respite from the world,

01:03:14

because we're focused here.

01:03:16

We're focused on what God wants to do

01:03:18

and how He's going to have more and more of my life.

01:03:22

The problem with the thorns is it's distracting.

01:03:29

I was working out last week,

01:03:33

and a guy came up to me and I hadn't seen him for a while.

01:03:35

And he was sweating and I was sweating.

01:03:37

He said, "Hey, how you doing? How you doing?"

01:03:38

I was just feeling a bit bold that day.

01:03:40

And so I said to him, "Hey man, where are you going to church?"

01:03:43

He goes, "Oh, well, I go to four different churches."

01:03:49

I go, "Oh, where?"

01:03:51

He starts telling me names and, like,

01:03:53

I knew the pastors' names

01:03:55

and he didn't know the pastors' names.

01:03:57

And he's a former NFL player.

01:04:00

And I just said, you know what?

01:04:02

I'm just going to go a little hard on this guy.

01:04:04

I'm gonna push him, push him a bit.

01:04:06

I said, "Hey man, are you as disciplined

01:04:11

in your training for Christ as you were

01:04:13

as disciplined for your training in the NFL?"

01:04:17

And he said, "No, I'm not."

01:04:19

I said, I say, "Man, I love you, I do.

01:04:22

I'm not pushing on you to be a jerk.

01:04:24

I'm pushing on you because I love you.

01:04:26

I want you to get to a new place."

01:04:28

And we talked about that a bit.

01:04:30

If you looked at our lives,

01:04:32

if you looked at our calendar,

01:04:33

if you looked at our --

01:04:34

If you looked at our our financial situation,

01:04:37

if you looked at who we spend time with,

01:04:40

would it bear out that you're focused on Jesus,

01:04:43

or is it everything else?

01:04:47

And only if it's comfortable

01:04:48

do I actually align with Jesus?

01:04:50

Only if I got no other options do I align with Him.

01:04:54

And that's why we fall by the wayside,

01:04:57

all of these cares of the world,

01:04:59

they just choke us out.

01:05:02

Are you getting yeses to your prayers?

01:05:05

Do you have a peace that passes all understanding?

01:05:08

Is there a quiet confidence that God has you?

01:05:11

Because He does.

01:05:12

But do you have the blessing of knowing

01:05:14

that He has you because you're not distracted,

01:05:17

your eyes are on the prize, as the Apostle Paul said.

01:05:21

Do you know the race you have?

01:05:22

Do you have your eyes set on your finish line

01:05:24

in your lane, not mine, not the person next to you,

01:05:28

but your lane?

01:05:30

Jesus also said, it's Jesus's story.

01:05:33

It's Jesus's story, so let's just listen to Jesus's story.

01:05:36

He says one of the problems here

01:05:38

and it just using Him is the distraction of riches,

01:05:42

the deceitfulness of riches.

01:05:46

The money keeps deceiving us

01:05:49

and taking us away from Jesus.

01:05:51

Most of us have a number we think we need to have.

01:05:54

Most of us think of this number I have to have.

01:05:56

And if you just look back at your past

01:05:59

for however long it's been, five years,

01:06:01

ten years, 20 years, 40 years.

01:06:03

Do you not notice that number keeps rising?

01:06:05

Like, "All we need is this.

01:06:08

Well, no. No, I just need this.

01:06:10

All I need is this.

01:06:12

No, it's just -- It's just this. It's just this."

01:06:14

That's what rich does, it deceives us.

01:06:17

It deceives us thinking that

01:06:19

we need more than we actually do.

01:06:23

There's not a financial planner that is in --

01:06:27

I have one, actually.

01:06:28

There's very few financial planners

01:06:30

who can understand the Kingdom of God

01:06:32

simultaneously to the deceitfulness of riches.

01:06:35

Money is a stress point that

01:06:37

takes people off their game all the time.

01:06:40

That's why Jesus talks about it here.

01:06:42

One of the most common things

01:06:43

that chokes people out is not being able

01:06:47

to give their money to God

01:06:48

and see that their money is God's money.

01:06:50

We think that money is the thing that saves me.

01:06:52

No, God's the thing that saves me.

01:06:54

Money is my security. No, God is my security.

01:06:57

Money is my safety net. No, God is my safety net.

01:07:00

Money is my nest egg.

01:07:02

No, the riches of Christ is my nest egg.

01:07:05

Money is the thing that gives me meaning.

01:07:07

No, Jesus is the thing that gives us meaning.

01:07:11

But when we're on this path,

01:07:13

we're never going to see it.

01:07:15

We're just going to be too fragile.

01:07:18

When I meet a a person who is hardy, it inspires me.

01:07:26

And we got a couple people, a bunch of people

01:07:28

in our community actually are very, very hardy

01:07:30

and very, very rooted.

01:07:31

And I want to introduce you to a couple of people

01:07:33

who are in the process of developing

01:07:36

some really deep roots.

01:07:47

- We were both incarcerated

01:07:49

together at Dayton Correctional.

01:07:51

We became each other's support system.

01:07:55

We used to go to Crossroads Church

01:07:58

inside of the prison,

01:08:01

and I remember watching Brian,

01:08:04

the one on sermon where

01:08:07

they're training the horse.

01:08:09

I'm like, "Man, this is the coolest church ever."

01:08:11

Somebody that I work with was like,

01:08:13

"Oh, well, I go to Crossroads."

01:08:15

I say, "Yeah, I'll go with you."

01:08:17

So then I dragged Music along with me.

01:08:20

- It started out one Thursday.

01:08:21

I go one Thursday

01:08:23

and it ended up every Thursday.

01:08:25

We've been going for a couple of months now.

01:08:27

- Four-seven has a plan to try to put Crossroads

01:08:30

in every single prison across America.

01:08:32

Do you think that that's worthwhile?

01:08:34

- Yes. - Yes.

01:08:35

The way that the word is brought about,

01:08:38

it's more relatable.

01:08:39

It's like I'm just talking to you

01:08:41

or I'm just talking to you. - Yeah.

01:08:42

But you're getting filled up with God.

01:08:45

And like, I used to go to

01:08:48

different denominational churches and stuff,

01:08:50

but they were like, "You can't dye your hair,

01:08:52

and you can't."

01:08:53

And then here comes Crossroads like,

01:08:55

"We love you just the way you are.

01:08:57

Like, God doesn't make mistakes.

01:08:58

You're perfect just the way you are."

01:09:00

Yeah, and in DCI though, like,

01:09:04

not a lot of people like the main church in DCI.

01:09:08

So Crossroads is their church.

01:09:11

And prison people, they always say

01:09:14

they got you coming home.

01:09:16

They'll give you paperwork after paperwork

01:09:18

after paperwork saying, "Hey,

01:09:20

this is out there for you," and it's not.

01:09:24

Crossroads Four-Seven is the only program

01:09:30

that has been real, and I've been in

01:09:34

and out of prison my whole life.

01:09:36

God's really showed up for me, like,

01:09:38

I never make right choices in life.

01:09:42

And I feel like He has, like,

01:09:43

paved a path for me to follow.

01:09:45

He literally, like, gave us a loaner car,

01:09:48

let us go to work every day,

01:09:51

put me on the Wheels program.

01:09:53

It's just amazing.

01:09:54

Like, there's things that God has done for me

01:09:57

in literally three months

01:10:00

that I could have never done for myself.

01:10:03

- I remember being in prison and, like,

01:10:05

really diving deep with my relationship with God.

01:10:08

And one of the scriptures

01:10:09

that I've always held on to is,

01:10:11

I will never leave you nor forsake you.

01:10:13

He's got me this far.

01:10:14

He's not gonna drop off now.

01:10:24

I did get to experience it.

01:10:28

I cried and cried and cried.

01:10:30

It was so beautiful.

01:10:31

It was just like we wasn't in prison for a minute.

01:10:34

That's one of the first times that

01:10:37

I really felt, like, genuine love

01:10:41

from the Christian community.

01:10:43

It's a life changing experience.

01:10:45

- Now that we're out here, she's like,

01:10:47

Oh, FYI, they're doing Women's Camp and we're going."

01:10:51

I said, "Okay."

01:10:54

As soon as we're walking in, I'm like,

01:10:56

this, this isn't -- this isn't for me.

01:10:59

Like, these people are different than me."

01:11:02

But Sarah Lynn's, like, "No, no, no,

01:11:04

we're all the same. We got this."

01:11:07

So she's been a great support.

01:11:10

But yesterday really opened my eyes

01:11:12

to what love and non-judgmental is,

01:11:15

like, people are very kind.

01:11:17

- Well, let me ask you this.

01:11:20

So we're going to take Woman Camp back again to DCI.

01:11:22

Would you want to come with us?

01:11:24

- If they would let us in?

01:11:25

- They might not let me in.

01:11:28

I've been there too many times.

01:11:30

- If they let me in, I'm going.

01:11:32

- I would go for sure.

01:11:33

- And what message would you take to the women there?

01:11:36

- There's hope on the outside.

01:11:38

- Prison does not define who you are.

01:11:42

No matter how many times you've been there,

01:11:43

no matter how much comfortable it is,

01:11:46

it's not your identity.

01:11:56

- The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. [cheering]

01:12:13

- Is there anything richer than seeing somebody

01:12:16

come into a loving, forgiving,

01:12:17

grace filled relationship with their Heavenly Father?

01:12:19

I don't think there is.

01:12:20

I don't think there's anything richer than that.

01:12:23

One of the things that breaks my heart

01:12:25

about Music's story is, she said

01:12:28

people come into prison, different nonprofits,

01:12:31

all different churches, whatever.

01:12:32

They come in all the time, and they give

01:12:34

a piece of paper and say,

01:12:35

"Hey, we'll be there when you come out."

01:12:36

And just using her words, she said,

01:12:38

"They never are. They never are."

01:12:41

Because I don't know, is it we're too fragile

01:12:43

to actually follow through?

01:12:45

Is it that we're too distracted?

01:12:46

I don't know what it is, but I love it,

01:12:48

she said except for Crossroads, except for Crossroads.

01:12:51

And we have so we have so many people

01:12:52

as a part of our church who were

01:12:54

previously in prison and are not anymore,

01:12:55

but they're still part of their church here.

01:12:57

By the way, you'll find over the next few weeks,

01:12:59

we have a plan to reach every single person

01:13:01

in every single prison in the entire country.

01:13:06

But that's not what we're talking about today.

01:13:07

That's coming, that's coming later.

01:13:10

That's coming later. That's a moonshot, friends.

01:13:12

We're doing a push here. It's a push.

01:13:15

We're not we're not playing games here.

01:13:17

This has meaning to it.

01:13:20

And we all are getting invited into this,

01:13:23

if we will allow God to push us,

01:13:26

if we allow ourselves to become good soil.

01:13:30

Now, all of this soil is what it is,

01:13:33

like, soil is inanimate.

01:13:35

The only thing that's animate in this story

01:13:38

is God who's throwing the seed.

01:13:40

But there is the hint-hint when Jesus asks us

01:13:44

which are we defines who we are.

01:13:47

He's doing this so we can start to wonder,

01:13:50

"Hey, what have I got to do to break up my ground?

01:13:54

What am I going to do to de-rock myself?

01:13:56

What am I going to do to choke out the thorns

01:13:59

before it chokes out my faith?"

01:14:01

Jesus then says this:

01:14:03

As for what was sown on good soil,

01:14:05

this is the one who hears the Word

01:14:07

and understands it.

01:14:09

He indeed bears fruit and yields

01:14:11

in one case a hundredfold, and another sixty,

01:14:14

and in another thirty.

01:14:17

100, 60, 30.

01:14:22

I love, I love our church.

01:14:24

We've got such good soil in this church,

01:14:26

such good soil, the kind of soil

01:14:28

that would go to a revival

01:14:30

and wait for two hours to get in.

01:14:34

The kind of good soil that would weather

01:14:37

all the difficult things we've dealt with here

01:14:39

in our church over the last 28 years.

01:14:41

The kind of good soil that would rally

01:14:44

and pray for miracles.

01:14:45

The kind of good soil that would fund

01:14:48

all the ongoing ministry that we have here

01:14:51

and the dreams that God calls us to.

01:14:53

The kind of good soil that helps,

01:14:56

that believes in, that nurtures other people.

01:15:00

It's really, it's really a blessing

01:15:03

to serve with the people who are in our ministry.

01:15:06

You and our church.

01:15:07

We've got a lot of amazing soil here.

01:15:10

Did you notice, though, that Jesus says 100, 60, 30?

01:15:16

When this sunk into me recently,

01:15:19

I had to have maybe a little repentance with God

01:15:23

because I felt that He was calling us to 10X our church.

01:15:26

So, Crossroads right now,

01:15:27

whoever's going to be part of us on a normal month,

01:15:30

it's about 50 000 people.

01:15:31

So if we could get to 500,000, 500,000,

01:15:37

we could make a much bigger dent in the country,

01:15:40

you know? And, of course, the cynics

01:15:45

could never believe that could happen.

01:15:47

And of course, the people who can't focus,

01:15:49

those who are distracted will never be able

01:15:52

to put their hand to the plow and not look back.

01:15:54

And the people who are distracted

01:15:58

and fragile will never get on it.

01:15:59

But those of us who are good soil,

01:16:01

we're like, "10X? Hell yes, yes, yes, yes,

01:16:06

and hell goes down. Yes, yes, yes."

01:16:09

But I also had a moment of repentance of going,

01:16:11

"God, am I thinking too --

01:16:12

Are we thinking too small?"

01:16:14

Jesus doesn't give 10X as an option.

01:16:16

100, 60, 30. That's what God wants for your life.

01:16:21

By the way, this isn't an organizational story

01:16:25

that Jesus is telling. It's a personal story.

01:16:27

Jesus doesn't want 10X for your life.

01:16:29

Good soil isn't 10X. It's 30, 60, 100.

01:16:34

Some of us need to repent because your God's too small.

01:16:38

You've got too small of opinions

01:16:40

over how He could use you.

01:16:42

Too small of an opinion of yourself

01:16:44

and your own capabilities that God has blessed you with.

01:16:48

It doesn't matter what you believe.

01:16:50

It doesn't matter what you feel.

01:16:51

It doesn't matter what you intend.

01:16:53

It doesn't matter at all.

01:16:55

Beliefs, even if they're the right

01:16:57

Christian biblical beliefs,

01:16:59

feelings, even if they're feelings

01:17:01

that are inspired by the Holy Spirit.

01:17:02

Intentions, even if it's something

01:17:04

you feel God wants you to say,

01:17:06

all those things only mean something

01:17:08

if you do something.

01:17:10

That's what Jesus is saying here.

01:17:11

It doesn't matter what you believe,

01:17:12

doesn't matter what you received,

01:17:14

doesn't matter how many Bible verses you've memorized,

01:17:16

doesn't matter.

01:17:17

What matters is, are you producing a harvest?

01:17:21

Here in our church, that's what we choose to do.

01:17:25

We want to produce a harvest.

01:17:28

Ecclesiastes 11:4, last verse I'll give to you.

01:17:31

It says this:

01:17:46

It's not about thinking, it's not about observing,

01:17:48

it's about doing, and it starts with saying yes.

01:17:52

When you leave here today, you're going to get

01:17:54

a patch like this, if you want it.

01:17:56

This is not like free take home thing,

01:17:58

just hoard things that are given you for free.

01:18:00

This is for those who you're inspired enough

01:18:03

that you're leaving here today going,

01:18:04

"I don't know what God wants from me in this Push,

01:18:07

but I just want to say yes.

01:18:09

I don't know what even He's going to ask.

01:18:11

I don't even know what He's going to ask

01:18:13

of my business and my family.

01:18:14

I just want to decide right now I'm saying yes.

01:18:18

I'm saying yes."

01:18:20

If that's you, you're going to say yes

01:18:22

because you want to be good soil,

01:18:23

you can get these on your way out today.

01:18:25

Put it on your visor, put it on your mirror,

01:18:28

sew it to your underwear.

01:18:30

I don't know what you want to do.

01:18:32

I don't know what you do, but this is

01:18:34

the mark of good soil, someone who says yes to God

01:18:37

and the seed He gives us, the thoughts He gives us.

01:18:41

And the more people who say yes to God,

01:18:44

the more potent the move of God is in the world

01:18:47

and in the Kingdom of God.

01:18:49

God, thank you for being a God who is patient.

01:18:55

Patient with rocky, fragile, hardened people.

01:19:00

And you still give. You still pour truth on us.

01:19:04

And we want to have our hearts broken up

01:19:07

over the next few weeks.

01:19:09

And we want to say to You, and many of us do say,

01:19:11

"Yes, yes, I don't know what it is.

01:19:12

I don't even know what I'm saying yes to, God,

01:19:14

but You're God. You're God.

01:19:16

And if You speak, I move.

01:19:18

If You give me a thought that I think is You,

01:19:20

then I move. I say yes to you."

01:19:22

And God, thank You for saying yes

01:19:24

to the amazing mission of sending Jesus

01:19:26

to live for us and die for us,

01:19:29

and now empower us by His Spirit.

01:19:31

You're a good, patient, powerful God.

01:19:34

Why wouldn't we say yes to You?

01:19:35

And I pray these things according to

01:19:37

the name of Jesus. Amen.

01:19:44

- Today we were challenged to say yes.

01:19:47

You got your patch, Andy? - Got it.

01:19:48

- You got one ironed on,

01:19:49

it's ironed on your jacket already.

01:19:51

And we believe in patches so much because

01:19:55

we call these mark the moments.

01:19:57

These are critical kind of to when you're

01:19:59

past the moment you made the decision to say yes

01:20:01

and you're going, "Hey, did I really say yes?"

01:20:04

And it's something to just mark that you actually did.

01:20:07

So, I hope you were challenged and encouraged today

01:20:10

to say yes and to begin this Journey

01:20:13

or continue of The Push.

01:20:15

- Yeah. And if you are part of

01:20:17

our Anywhere Community and requested a guide,

01:20:19

you should have already gotten a patch in an envelope.

01:20:21

You can get that.

01:20:22

But if you didn't get one,

01:20:24

if you're using the PDF that's available on the website

01:20:26

and you didn't get one of these patches,

01:20:28

hey, we want you to have one.

01:20:29

Just email anywhere@crossroads.net

01:20:31

and we will get one in the mail

01:20:33

sent to you free of charge.

01:20:34

Because like Joel said, this is a reminder.

01:20:37

This is a reminder about who we want to be.

01:20:39

A patch isn't just a -- it's not decoration.

01:20:42

It's a statement about who you are

01:20:43

and what your mission is, what your objective is.

01:20:46

We want to be the kind of team that says

01:20:48

yes to anything God has put in front of us,

01:20:51

and anything God is calling us to.

01:20:53

So any way we can help you do that,

01:20:55

we'd love to help

01:20:57

push you, to help nudge you towards growth

01:21:00

and towards personal revival.

01:21:02

This isn't just about taking hills as a community.

01:21:04

This is about God doing something in us personally

01:21:08

that spills over into our families,

01:21:10

into our neighborhood, and then all over the globe.

01:21:13

That is what revival is all about.

01:21:15

That's what we're asking God to push us toward.

01:21:17

So, man, get your patch.

01:21:20

Do the work in your guide.

01:21:21

Keep watching the weekend.

01:21:22

Get in a group if you don't have one,

01:21:24

and we'll see you next week for week 3 of The Push.

01:21:26

- Same time, same place.

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