Caine Christine : The Impulse Of God To Me Part 2 | 2021 Is Your Year

into you know i um i don't want you to lose heart because it can be overwhelming but either this stuff i told you that this stuff that we're uh preaching and teaching is true or it's not and it is and greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world so i am going to kick right in you know i come this time of the year exactly two weeks from now um which is probably really exactly one week from now i just realized my life just i don't know what any week is it's one big life but about a week from now we're going to be in uh colorado at um in vail and because it's sort of our annual ski trip of which we didn't really start an annual ski trip to just really really recently but a few years ago when we started we were still living in australia we come to america and there were five um american families from louisiana i've always kind of like the south and they're the cajuns are like just another breed of humanity and so i um and so my husband like he's got great friends there so those five families came up to uh vale to meet with us and it was during the vancouver olympics well i could tell it was exactly four years ago because we're in the middle of the winter olympics now oh no wait i didn't even think of that when i tell you the end of the story this is really dangerous and so i was watching the vancouver olympics you know in australia we surf and i thought like how different can be surfing skiing you know i noticed there is some differences and so one involves the ocean and the other one doesn't and so i um i thought you know i'm gonna all the americans were like really competitive so i would watch the the uh olympics and then in the morning i'd get up on the chairlift and then i would get off and go i am representing australia this is it now the fact that i couldn't ski was incidental but i was going to represent my nation and so this one day the guys had all gone on this black black double you know diamond suicide like thing on those things that you go down that thing and so i um and all i could do was like my little flat green slope you know those nice little green slabs so nick decided he was going to come and be a really good husband and come with me and so here we go and we're skiing away and i was so excited because i probably went down something that was like sort of almost went downhill and um i i said to him i turn around and i go babe if you were skiing with the guys right now you wouldn't be having any more fun would you to which you know any woman that's married in this room you know that if you're ever asking your husband a loaded question like that if he was wanting any action that night he would answer you know okay so my husband being a man of integrity he looks at me and he goes um yeah if i was with the guys i'd be having more fun so i mean look at this personality type that's like putting a red rag in front of a ball so i turned around to him and i went well sweetheart eat my snow and so then i put my skis downhill and off i go now i knew less than 20 seconds later i knew that i was in serious trouble on my second somersault that was not intentional as my skis are facing the sky and i could hear in that moment the loudest pop pop pop that you've ever heard and i snapped my acl tore my mcl tore my meniscus yeah all the athletes in the room and fractured my knee i was out they had to get the you know ski patrol they put you in that little coffin you assume death posture you go down the mountain everyone's like who's that nerd that would be me and so because you're all like now my best friends i'm going to tell you part of the story that i don't really tell people on tape so um i was um okay so i come from a greek family you all know that now now greeks are fatalists you know it doesn't matter how bad things are they can always get worse and so i grew up with a lot of negativity my mother was always you know why i couldn't ski was because she was don't go skiing because you're going to have an accident and so and another thing my mother used to say to me from when i was a child i don't know if this translates in the south i hope i don't offend anyone but this is what i grew up with my mum would ask me as i'd leave the home and my home she probably would still ask me this today christina are you wearing good clean new underwear does anyone else's mother ever okay so it translates to the south to which i would always say to my mother mum why because christina if you have an accident and end up in the back of an ambulance you want to make sure you're wearing good underwear to which i would always say to my mother mum i'm not planning to have an accident and if i have the kind of accident where i end up in the back of an ambulance the last thing i will care about is the condition of my underwear to which now i've lived long enough to again say those words my mother was right but anyway so that morning at my little hotel in vale we'd gotten up and my kids and husband i'd love to tell you that the angels do my washing but they don't i do it and so we're in a hotel so we do a lot of like you know kind of like under washing at the hotel and so this morning i thought i'm going to wash every once and then i thought you know what why don't i just kind of wash all of mine because i've never done it before since so don't be wondering about this moment and so then i'm thinking well you know because like i'm wearing those long john things under your ski anyway you know and free willy and all that was out true so i thought you know just like free fall and so i will never i've never done it before or since but then i remember i'm i'm in the hospital at vail and they're about to do an mri and the doctor's like mrs came we have to take off your ski pants i've got like a leg dangling woman and i'm like full on i grab him so don't you touch me i'm not wearing any anyway so that was like [Applause] we're all family now right that's it i don't even want to read my twitter feed when this all finishes that's all i'm saying so but i i came you know when i flew back to australia for my surgery my mother actually said who's dinner i'm so glad you had the accident because i told you if you went skiing you would have an accident that's the logic of what i've grown up in i've grown up in a greek culture that was you were never encouraged to take any risks you were never encouraged to step out of the boat everything was to be safe to be predictable and in fact australia the nation i grew up in was very much the same we have this thing in australia called the tall poppy syndrome you don't want anyone to step out of the boat no one to take any risks no one to do anything better than anyone else you've got to pull everyone down to size and let's find the lowest common denominator and let's keep everyone there so i grew up in both a nation and a home where sayings like this were were very very normal things like um i'll start and if you know you can finish it you can't have your cake and if it's too good to be true if it can go wrong everything that goes up keep both feet don't count your chickens so you all had a negative greek mother as well obviously obviously so essentially you and i have been brought up very much in a world where we are programmed to stay safe avoid risk comfort convenience and security are supposed to be what we all aspire to but the thing is that uh we are not encouraged not not as women not culturally to kind of step out of the boat and fulfill everything that god has for us because you know it's almost like we just have to be nice and safe but the truth is that you and i there's nothing safe about living because we serve an infinite god and you and i are finite beings so woven into the very fabric of our finiteness is the whole concept of risk there is everything risky about being alive every single day we take risks every day ultimately you and i cannot control the weather we cannot control tsunamis we can't control cyclones we can't control natural disasters we can no more control anything than what we think although we try to control everything we actually have no control over anything living just breathing is quite risky um you know i was flying from ra from chicago to raleigh north carolina and um nick and i were on the plane and the plane got up there above the uh clouds which is where you want the plane to be and so after about five minutes the captain comes over the loudspeaker literally and he goes ladies and gentlemen there is no need to panic to which i'm thinking i wasn't panicking until you just said that and then this is honestly what he said he said we're having problems getting the landing gear up we don't know what's still attached so we're not going to make it to raleigh we're going to turn around and try to land in chicago now ladies there are certain words you don't want in the same sentence at 35 000 feet the terms try to land is that sequence of events you're like okay so i'm not joking at that second the spirit of atheism left the airplane i mean from the front to the back you you heard that spirit leave with lots of four letter words none of them were love and so it was amazing i mean people were crying out to everything muhammad buddha jesus mary the donkey i mean it was all happening i'm laughing with nick and i'm going well everyone hopes there's somebody up there right now and we're coming into chicago i mean it was all the fire engines everything was that you know what i discovered that day i fly 380 000 miles a year and um there is traveling ministries and then there's the keynes where another planet stratosphere of traveling i discovered then that flying is risky four years ago next week i went to vail on a ski trip for a vacation you know what i found out about vacations four years ago the vacations are risky when i was nine years old i fell in love for the first time with this beautiful mauritian boy in my class in sydney and we had never spoken we were in third grade together but i loved him for six months and then and then one day at our recess break i went up to him and i went he was sitting on the stairs i'll never forget i went patrick you love me don't you now patrick didn't know what to do he just nodded his head he's still in therapy today but anyway he just not he said so then i said to him patrick will you go with me and what that means in australia when you're nine years old and you go with someone when you say we're going together it means you are going nowhere together but you're exclusively going nowhere with this person and so patrick and i were exclusively going nowhere with each other for two whole weeks i don't know that we spoke in those two weeks but we were going together for two weeks but then patrick dumped me to go nowhere with my best friend kathy do you know what my little nine-year-old heart discovered about love that love is risky you know um about a month ago i returned from jakarta and the trip before this one the second last trip i went to to jakarta in indonesia um you might remember there was a the terrorists tried to bomb the australian embassy and next door to the australian embassy there was a nine foot a nine story sorry building right next door and that building got bombed to the ground and it was all over the news well that building was bombed at 1 38 a.m at 11 pm so just 2 hours and 38 minutes before that building was bombed um i was the last person that ever spoke in that building and did a big women's meeting and um and then i went to the airport and was watching the building that i was in just bombed to the ground and you know with what we're doing with a21 in some of the countries that we're in and particularly in greece because of the economic disaster and the riots and right now in the ukraine if you're watching what's happening all the time we've got staff and teams right there so right outside our offices bomb squads and terrorists allies in squads to stop terrorist attacks when we put the last trafficker in jail uh several traffickers came into our office headquarters in greece to the team um and held guns to their heads and said if you don't stop doing this um then we're going to kill you and kill your families you know what i've discovered about that being an evangelist and being a missionary in the 21st century that it's risky so do you not do what god's called you to do because it's risky when i was 13 years old i came home this was front page of our papers in my state because it became a kidnapping charge it was my father's sister my auntie she had come home from work to find that her house had been totally emptied and their five-year-old daughter was gone she'd been married to my then uncle for 25 years he had taken my uh cousin his daughter and he had moved all the contents of their home taken the daughter the other children were grown up to another state in australia and he had moved there with her best my auntie's best friend with whom he'd been having an affair for 18 of the 25 years that they were married and at 13 years old i discovered in a very real way that life that marriage is risky you can't avoid risk if you try when i was 19 years old i was working and my next door neighbors came into the office where i was to tell me that my father had just died in my mother's arms and i jumped in my car i didn't believe it drove 10 minutes to my mum's house and the ambulance was in the front yard my brothers were there the neighbors were there and i walked in at 19 and i saw the first dead body that i've ever seen in my life and it was the body of my father now it was profound because i could still smell i knelt down next to my dad and i could still smell his aftershave i could still feel him he felt so warm i could still taste the the sweat when i when i kissed him i could see two eyes two ears two arms two legs a nose a mouth i could see taste touch smell feel but at 19 i found out in a real tangible way that even if you can see it taste it touch it smell it feel it hear it something was missing and i knew then that life is terminal and life is risky george bernard shaw put it the best way he said death is the ultimate statistic one out of one will die i bet you are so encouraged you came out tonight and feel so uplifted don't you but somehow we act like we can avoid the inevitable like i'm not sure what we think we're trying to avoid like oh my gosh i might die let me put you out of your misery we all are going to and so can i have that i forgot about this let me tell you what the scripture says in james chapter four scripture tells us this it says james remind us now listen you who say today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city spend a year there carry on business and make money why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow what is your life you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes life is but a vapor would be a version so many of us the scripture says james says what is your life you better missed you come and it vanishes you know all that stress about how you look vapor you know that stress about whether your kids are going to be 4.0 vapor that stress about what college should they get vapor that stress about the extra cellulite should i eat the chocolate eat the [Applause] chocolate we get so hung up on upgrading for some more square footage vapor do i need to upgrade i need the best i need vapor i'm going to choke and my vapor is going to be up really soon if i keep doing this i'm just doing one more for al gore vapor anyway sorry only in the south could i do that and get away with it and you'd all clap me in california i can't say things like that so life is but a vapor life is better vapor so we all freak out and we all think i can't take any risks i've got to be nice and i've got to be sweet and i've just got to be lovely and it's all about getting the nice house and the 2.2 and the mortgage and make sure i can cook and make sure i get clean and make sure everything looks perfect and everything's nice and then i'm going to live just very safe and i'm going to protect myself because bad things might happen so that when i come to die i can fall into the coffin safely most of us live our lives as if the purpose of life was to arrive at death safely sounds nonsensical doesn't it because that's how ridiculous it is you and i are about a vapor god says i'm giving you one shot at this thing called life you are not a product of time you're a product of eternity you're coming back so i'm just gonna drop you down there because there's a lot of darkness and i need some light in those dark places and if my church is so busy freaking out about the darkness and running away what hope do they have but you're also not going to fulfill the thing that i sent you down there to nick and i were in uh south africa and we went on a safari and we watched the lions and the tigers and the the wild animals they were like breathtaking breathtaking in their natural habitat i mean they were untamed they were undomesticated they were just wild and going for it and then it was only two weeks later we were back in sydney and we had some friends over from overseas and we took them to the zoo and we went to the zoo and we went to that section where they've got all the lions in cages and the tigers and cages and there were these lions that i just seen in africa wild and going for it now caged in the zoo in australia and they were domesticated and they were tame and they were docile and they were just lying there and i said to nick that's that's what happens to christians god has created us to be undomesticated to be untamed to be a force to be reckoned with on this earth and we get religion and we get in a box and we think somehow the purpose is just to be nice and to crucify our personality oh i'm a christian i'm a socially dysfunctional i've had a personality bypass i wear foreign and i have got no no opinion about anything and i'm just dowdy and i'm uh just boring and you too can get saved and be a like me amen what is that we have the life of christ on the inside of us i'm born again i'm not just born once i got born again which means i'm going to live forever what can the devil do i'm scared wow i'm scared of going to heaven gee that's a bad trip isn't it and so worst case scenario i'm not quite sure what it is that we're scared of why we act like we don't have jesus on the inside of us and as if somehow he just came to tame us to domesticate us to make us nice oh sure god sent his only begotten son from heaven to earth to dine across just so i could be nice and just so i could be sweet be sweet be nice but gag me with a spoon if that's what he died and rose again for jesus christ did not rise again from the dead to make me nice he rose again if he died on a cross and rose again from the dead to make us dangerous to the kingdom of darkness so that we could establish the light the life the hope the mercy the justice the truth of jesus christ on this earth christians ought to be the wildest people on the planet there ought to be a spring in our step a glint in our eye we ought to be like naughty no not heretical not illegal not immoral not unethical just naughty there ought to be something about us that people go what are you smoking what have you been on i don't want to be a normal 48 year old chick i want my kids to go mum take a chill pill mum just settle down i want to be a radical revolutionary for the cause of jesus christ i don't care i don't care about being nice you know what dr livingston the father of modern missions to africa and um yeah i love missions i love it and um and you know when he was sent to africa he went like before bono when it was not cool there was not like no infrastructure he went to africa and um the missionary society that sent him wrote this after two years when he was in africa they said dr livingston has a road been paved to where you are if you have paved a road to where you are we have young men that we want to send to you as to assist you dr livingston wrote this back and pretty much this is how i run our missions too if you have young men who will only come if a road has been paved i don't want them i want young men who will only come where there is no road at all you see what god is waiting to do for us in the 21st century girls he wants to take us to places that we've not even imagined by paths we don't even know exist god has not called us to live a nice normal temporal life this is not a dress rehearsal for the real thing in case you're wondering we get one shot at this thing and god says i'm sending you down there as my secret agents i'm sending you into the midst of darkness in john 17 jesus said that we are to be in the world not of the world he says father in john 17 verse 15 i think it's been taken out of most christian bibles because this is what jesus said father i do not pray that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one they are not of the world just as i am not of the world sanctify them by thy word for your word is truth check this out in verse 18. as you sent me i send them you know but what we did we went oh jesus said i'm supposed to be in the world but not off but i'm not of the world so i'm going to come out from amongst them as to be east separatist in old king james englishist of course because that's the only language just jesus focused and so i'm going to come out from amongst them to be ye separate those big bad booger evil people okay now i but i'm not going to be worldly now i don't know what the bible is says is worldly because i don't read it but but this is what i think worldly is tattoos and drinking and smoking and cussing and depending which tradition you're from makeup or no makeup hair or no hair pantyhose or no panties we just put all our things on artificial social construct just like we said this is worldliness some behavioral modification as if christianity is a behavioral modification program because you know you can't get that from a psychotherapist that's why jesus came and so what happens is i have all this and i don't and this is what i be i don't oh i'm a christian i don't drink and i don't smoke i don't go to bars and sip pineapple juice i don't i don't do this and i don't do that i have no clue what i should be doing but i don't do this and you do kept me miserable and we go oh my gosh i'm just hanging on until the rapture it's just us for and no more and i'm trying not to sin i because that's all my life is what i don't do so i'm trying not to do porn i'm trying not to jump into bed with that person i'm trying not to lie i'm trying not to gossip i'm trying not to i'm not and it's all like all about me me me me me me me me self self self self self self self i'm trying to self actualize and i'm trying and i'm not trying to hurry up jesus because i just i've been single for two weeks and it's killing me so far out there i don't know where i am so we've come over here and what we've done is we've built an artificial social construct some of us call it the church and we just come out here because we go i'm going to be so separate from those people and i'm just not whatever whoever they are that worldly world i don't want to be that part of that so i'm over here and i'm building this defense fortress and you can't come in here unless you sing like me talk like me dance like me act like me and i'm just coming over here the only problem is not in the american church just the australian church when we came out from amongst them to be ye separatists we brought us with us so although you know we might not have tattoos or piercings the things that the gospel says are worldly which is always a novelty if you go to the bible um you know the bible says things like gossip and slander and envy and greed and chauvinism and sexism and racism and misogyny and and um lust and immorality and abuse and iniquity those sorts of things internal conditions of the heart so jesus says i want you to be in this thing but not of it and so i want you to be in it and don't lie don't cheat don't steal even if it's someone else's reputation and love unconditionally and be forgiving and and have a real upside down view to power and authority and just serve and don't come to be served and i want you to be in it but not of it but what we've done is we've come over here and so of course we don't have tattoos and we don't drink but um gossip slander not here the other churches just the other ones here we don't gossip we just call each other and talk about everyone's prayer needs and so we've got um gossip and slander and envy and guile and bless the lord i haven't got tattoos and you know and so and and i don't go there and so we come here so instead of being here and being in the world but not of it we're over here so we're of the world but not in it now it's very hard to change a world that you the same substance as and it's very hard to change a world that you're not in you know that world that god didn't just love but he so loved so loved so we then go oh my gosh and then every once a year the evangelist comes to town and you know it says open your bible to matthew 28 you're like oh my gosh the great suggestion god is suggesting if i've got nothing else to do and i'm having a bad hair day that i have to go into that world and tell those heathens that jesus sleeps but that's not my gift that's not where i fit on the disc pro this profile that's not my strength finder that's not my love language i love it we write christian books to excuse christians from being christians it's awesome there is only one love language it's called die and so what happens is that we go oh okay so you know i can't do that's for the navy seals of the christian church that's for the elite troops that's for the chris keynes that's for the billy grahams even in his 90s and so that's what that's for those elite troops that's for the weird ones you know those really weird ones because i'm called to be nice and sweet and build my little stash here on earth and you know and and and the temporal things that's not for me i'm just not that personality chris is wired up that way didn't you know she was abused you know that's like kind of what happens it gets to your head a bit then you sort of like really believe the gospel so you know there's like there's like these weird people so then we think okay those weird people we're going to give them a four spiritual laws track and they're going to be ready here and then we've got this and we're going to let that defense fortress bridge down on friday night and we're going to go into the middle of nashville and they're going to go out and they're ready they've had their deep little prayer the bridge goes down and they're out and they're armed and dangerous and we've got some poor guy we've got zero relationship with him but you know what he just wants to take his girlfriend out to dinner tonight but no this is my evangelism now so i shoved this track down as straight did you know just crosstalk if you've seen if you don't repent right now again i get over lasting he'll say this incantational prayer after me oh my gosh it's 10 o'clock i'm a christian i turned into a pumpkin if you want to look at me talk let me dance let me sing like me next sunday 10 o'clock see you then and we've run back in here and we put our little drawbridge up and we go praise god hallelujah i've just done my evangelism for the week and so what we've done is reduce it to someone else that does that that isn't me because that's not my gift mix or my personality profile as if somehow being a witness is optional in the scripture but anyway we make stuff up and so then we go that's just for them and we stay totally disconnected from the very world that jesus said um actually you're an agent of change you're a catalytic agent matthew six your salt and your light there's no purpose for salt if it's not on the steak but then what you're doing is getting one whole piece of steak and opening the entire salt shaker and you're pouring it all onto the steak and then you're wondering when someone takes a bite of us while they spit us out and we're unpalatable to them because it was never meant to be like that if all of you would just salt a little bit of your world actually be in it but not of it this is hard because you have to really be a christian see over here you don't have to be a christian you just have to act like one and so you don't even have to really be one but over here you have to be one because non-christians really know what christians ought to be doing and they'll tell you christians will let you sin it's fine and so over here you've got to really really live the deal that challenges us because it's a christianity that's got to be lived from the inside out to transform the world around us one where we are dependent on the holy spirit for our substance because we're of another world we're not we're crazy like if you think i'm crazy that's really good because i'm just an alien i'm a pilgrim on a journey i'm just passing through if you look like you fit in here too much there's something wrong with you because we are exiles in captivity this is babylon we weren't called to live in babylon we got a king and he's coming back and this is not our home and this is not where we're living we are exiles just passing through that's all we're doing and some of us still believe this stuff so we go why on earth would i want to live a normal life christine that's what no not not this you know what you're doing is not normal for a 48 year old woman absolutely why would i want to be normal why would i want my kids to have this is what normality is normality is highly overrated i want to raise up warrior chicks that are going to change the world for god because we're only a vapor we're only here for a very short amount of time at the end of the day i want them to be the best that god's called them to be but i don't care whether they get a 4.0 or a 3.0 i don't care they're not if they're not going to be an olympic athlete i am not orientating my life around their sports schedule unless god has called them to do that i'm orientating my life around the call of god the purpose of god there's an eternal upward high call that he has called all of us to we are not called to be normal chicks and look to hollywood and look to magazines and look to culture to define to us how we should be living we have the word of god and it says that we are his workmanship he has created us in christ jesus for good works that he prepared for us in eternity before we ever got here in time so we don't need to look around us to be like everybody else to be nice sweet little girls and go whoa i've got a nice sweet little life i've got the whole little package deal i've got the house i've got the car awesome now i'm going to die and jesus i did what everyone else did jesus is going to say did you do what i called you to do i put you on earth i created you in my image i filled you with my spirit i empowered you with my power i gave you my word and now i want you to go into that darkness and i want you to plunder that darkness with the light and the life and the hope and the mercy and the justice and the truth of the lord jesus christ that's what he's called us to do not to just live a nice little life i remember my sophia um you know she she when she was three we came here for an australian when you first come to america like walmart is a great tourist attraction because we have nowhere in australia that you could go at 3am and buy like a gun and underwear and breakfast cereal it's fantastic it's like awesome and um and so i went and i i um i got her i put my notes away because i haven't used them so what's the point they were just um and so you know i um i bought her she was really into barbie and she wanted this like little barbie flashlight she was like obsessed and um you know back in those days if you said to her sophia is jesus in your heart she'd go mummy daddy said we're not allowed to have boys in our heart so barbie's in my heart and jesus is in my tummy so anyway we've had some theological issues discourses since then but i remember i went to pay and sofia was turning that light on i put the batteries in i was at the cash register about to pay and as sophia as she was turning it on if you've ever been in walmart it's got great mood lighting it's just fluorescent and so she's turning that flashlight on but you couldn't see the light because there was already so much light and i remember this she yells at me as she's there she goes mommy can we please go and find some darkness i thought if you put my kid in a basement um without a flashlight you would hear her screaming she hates the dark but when you put a tiny little flashlight in her hand that kid will go down to the deepest door she could keep going through door after door after door into the darkness because she understands it's not the power of the darkness around her but it's the magnitude of the light within her that can dispel that darkness and light is actually created to dispel darkness so we have been so busy running away from the darkness and then you wonder why the world is in the mess that it's in it's because we've taken the light out it's not that the darkness is more powerful than the light it's not that trafficking is more powerful than us or poverty or all the other injustices it's just that the light ran away you don't see the darkness from outside coming in and taking over this room the only way this room would ever get dark is if you switch the light off and what we've done is the christian church switch the light off and ran around and created our own subculture that's totally of the world but not in it rather than us being in the world but not of it and allowing god to transform us from the inside out so that we can transform the world around us i want the band to come up but let me tell you this the countdown clock is ticking we are living between the two advents of christ and the church is called to look forward and to tell our world that jesus is coming back but until he does we're to love our world we're to bring justice and righteousness and truth and mercy not just to set up camp as if we're supposed to live here to have the same aspirations the same goals the same dreams oh yes we ought to be excellent and yes we ought to excel in every area but for the sake of the kingdom to understand that we're just passing through i don't care what some psychologist said a normal 48 year old woman should be doing i'm not setting myself up for retirement i don't really care what happens at wall street and 401k where how's that going to stop my eternal reward from jesus we're christians people we're christians we march to a different drumbeat nobody that was normal ever did anything significant in the scripture no one that was ever normal left a powerful legacy i'm wondering whether i would have a group of women in long hollow baptists here in nashville they would say you know what i'm not going to sell out to this world system or the christian church culture artificial social construct thing over here not selling out to it because i think the biggest issue for christian women is are we prepared to look foolish for the cause of christ i didn't set out to start a21 to become anyone's hero the hero came 2000 years ago we don't need another hero what we need is co-laborers with christ but co-laboring isn't sexy so people don't want to be a laborer because everyone wants to be a hero it would be awesome if we would deem it worthy enough that the creator of the universe has invited us to co-labor with him in his harvest on this earth if we actually thought that was a worthy enough thing we changed the world we changed the world we'd be 68 year old women sitting in bars in thailand with one one purpose expanding the gospel of christ and being light and somewhere that's very very dark you'd change where you are in your office i'm not saying anyone needs to move overseas but you change how you are in your household why don't you put purpose to your life and the purpose isn't to acquire to accumulate into a mass your purpose is to fulfill the purpose for which christ puts you on the earth we're a vapor it's a mist i wonder if you're willing to look foolish because that's really what it comes down to not looking cool but looking foolish everything about my life is counter-cultural but you know can you imagine how foolish noah looked when he was building an ark can you imagine all his friends noah what are you building an ark what's an ark i don't know but rain's coming what's rain haven't got a clue oh so you're building i don't know for i haven't got a clue yep that's it that's how i feel most of my life i'm building i don't know for i haven't got a clue can you imagine how foolish moses looked with a little rod and the red sea in front of him and the egyptian army behind him hey moses what are you doing uh i got a rod [Music] that red sea yep egyptian army awesome rod albanian mafia ty mafia rod well hers is a straw but you know same deal okay [Music] can you imagine how foolish sarah looked in the maternity section at target like sarah what are you doing you know abe discovered viagra anyway so let's just go i've got to work hard [Music] don't tweet that beth moore will kill me okay so the israelites could you imagine how foolish they looked doing laps around the walls of jericho toga and sandals what are you all doing oh you know we're just marching gonna blow the shofar awesome anyone got a cruise missile in your back pocket anyway so it just would have looked a bit weird can you imagine how foolish david looked with a nine-foot philistine giant in front of him in a slingshot could you imagine how foolish esther looked when the king didn't summons her to go into his court could you imagine how foolish the four lepers looked at the gate of samaria with the syrian army on the inside how foolish did caleb look at 85 when he said to joshua i'm not cashing in my 401k they're still hebron oh we fought some battles but i'm only 85 and i'm as young now as i was then can you imagine how foolish the wise men looked when there was a a star above them and everyone's like what are you looking for we're following the star we found the messiah how foolish did peter look as he took a step out and walked on water how foolish did the woman with the issue of blood look when she just grabbed the hem of his garment how foolish did paul and silas look singing worship songs in a prison cell in chains and shackles how foolish did the little boy look with his lunch and five loaves and two fish in a crowd of 15 000 people how foolish does it look to stand up in the 21st century and say 30 million slaves and i've got a couple of fish and a little bit of bread how foolish did mary look imagine going to joseph that night you know joe i an angel dropped in this morning guess what i'm pregnant like you know it's how foolish and let me just say jesus christ certainly looked foolish to so many people as they mocked and they ridiculed him as he hung their half naked on a cross surely this is your messiah this is the king of the jews this is your god oh there's no one that ever did anything significant they didn't dare to look foolish i wonder just what looks foolish we don't need fruit loops we need fools for christ there's a big difference people that are just counter-cultural that have the wisdom and the favor the accolades but know what it's for and lay it all down at the feet of the king that says i'm not selling out to this i'm just passing through i'm a pilgrim on a journey i'm not here forever i'm just passing through but you know the result of all those guys and those women that dared to look foolish in the scripture well look what happened you know and his family were actually saved from the flood moses did see the red sea part and the egyptian army drowned sarah did give birth to isaac the israelites did see the walls of jericho fall david did defeat goliath esther stopped the jewish genocide the lepers did see the syrian army flee caleb did get hebron the wise men did find the messiah peter did walk on water the woman with the issue of blood she was healed paul and silas they were released from prison did you know that mary did give birth to the messiah the little boy's lunch did feed 15 000 and jesus christ got off that cross and he defeated hell and he defeated death and he holds the keys to hell and death and my bible says that the same spirit that raised jesus christ from the dead lives on the inside of you and lives on the inside of me how dare we not take risks for god how dare we not fulfill what he has called us to fulfill we have one life one life this is not a dress rehearsal let's dare to take

Channel: Christine Caine Sermons

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Length: 43min 21sec (2601 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 25 2021