Kris Vallotton || 2017 Fall Leaders Advance

[Applause] thank you very much there's a lot of Russians here does Putin know you guys are here you're not part of the Trump conflict or anything like that are you making sure sorry I shouldn't have said that could have gone all night without saying that probably these guys are just amazing we just love them um before we start we have we've developed a tech school a school Bethel School of Technology we want to show you video Ryan come on up and get ready to share him give Ryan a mic here's me do you have that video okay good I really excited to talk to you about Bethel school of technology this is something we've been dreaming about for about a year and this is Ryan Collins and Ryan is actually the CEO of our new company Bethel school of technology Ryan tell them a little bit about the school yeah so what Bethel school of technology is Bethel tech is it's a first of its kind faith based software development and in-demand Technology bootcamp so we are combining what there is a demand for in the market in terms of jobs and we're also adding the Kingdom minded aspect from from Bethel what homogenized the school of ministry so that we're actually raising up like digital missionaries that we can actually send in to companies to actually bring technology bring the wisdom of God bring the power of God bring the presence of God into the work environment and really show people that when you bring the kingdom into secular environments actually the entire environment prospers and so we'll be merging those schools they'll be equipping the people who come to this technology school with some really good skills around a Kingdom values Kingdom principles Kingdom power and Kingdom wisdom we have two ways you can go to our program we have a 12-week in campus program we also have for a week online program so it really fits if you want to go and have a full immersive experience Monday through Friday 9:00 to 5:00 or if you're working and you can only do this part time online is perfect for you gonna be really cool to see believers merge into this culture and into the society and really see how they can actually help companies even perform better with with with these values that we're bringing yeah the future of work is where software development is it's where data science and data analytics is it's where cybersecurity is and so we can't find people to fill these positions that matter to us for the next 10 20 50 years I think the misconception is is that you have to already have been in the tech space to be in a software development boot camp and that really is just not the case at all because you you have people that are wanting to completely change their lives with a higher paying job maybe they've kind of dabbled with with web development and they have an aptitude for it if that's you then this is a perfect opportunity for you and what we've seen in the bootcamp space is that so many people have talked themselves out of something great because they don't think that they fit the mold you might be asking yourself if you're qualified I really want you to check out Bethel school of technology there are so many opportunities out there we would like to partner with you to actually see you change your life and change your legacy this this is Ryan in person I don't know what else to say that those two dashing young men are saying I will say that I've just been blown away by all the support and and what we're doing here at Bethel and the way that we are very much looking at this from a missionary perspective in the corporate space there is a great need for software developers and data scientist and and cybersecurity analysts we like to call them ethical hackers right how cool is that so we are building up a software development in demand technology boot camp but what's so unique about this is it's the first of its kind faith-based coding boot camp in the world so our pillars for our program are excellence presence and impact and so we are going to be excellent at what we do we're partnering with one of the best coding boot camps in the world to deliver the technology skills instructions called coder camps and of course we're excellent at what we do in terms of thinking Kingdom minded and building the kingdom through the content that we're going to integrate with with Bethel and in Bethel school of supernatural ministry so our students are graduates going to be excellent what they do they're gonna go into huge places and have a profound impact on the world and they're gonna assure in the presence of God in places like IBM and Microsoft and Amazon and Google and they're gonna completely change the landscape of corporate America and we're going to change the world with Bethel tech tell them about the some of the practical parts of how many people are getting hired in about what about level of pay and that sort of thing and how long absolutely so right now there's only one qualified candidate for every three open in-demand IT job and the Department of Labor over the next ten years projects there's going to be a million jobs shortfall for these in demand technology skills so the beauty of this is there is such a need in the in the corporate space but also that as an entry-level developer on average you're making about sixty seven thousand dollars a year the reports and the averages show that that's about a twenty six thousand dollar lift for students to graduate from the boot camps pay so it's it's literally changing lives by providing an opportunity a skill and to get a higher paying IT job about the percentage of people that the coder camps right now I have when they graduate from their program oh yeah so they so they they have an about a 91 percent graduation rate which is phenomenal and on top of that they they place on average about 80 to 83 percent of their students when the within the first 120 days now there are the best boot camp that we've seen at scaling and they do it online 80 to 83 percent is a phenomenal placement rate for an in-person boot camp and they're doing 90 percent of their enrollment and graduates through the online space so we couldn't be more excited to partner with them tell them a little bit about your background because they have New York yeah so I've been just a good part yeah okay good so when I was nine years ago no no well I've been married for almost 13 years I have three beautiful daughters so first and foremost I've been in the corporate development space for the last ten years so what I've been doing is working with Fortune level companies like IBM and Microsoft to basically help them with their employee education goals talking to high-level executives and basically asking them what keeps you up at night in terms of attracting and developing qualified talent and all of my conversations have been around these in-demand technology skills I love what the CEO for IBM Ginni Rometty calls it she doesn't say that their blue-collar skills or white-collar skills their new collar skills because this is the wave of the future and this is what companies are looking for so we are going to give them what they want we're gonna give them a little bit more than what they even expected more than they ask or think is that awesome so our our goal is to launch our online school around January Sh so be you can be checking out the website there why don't you extend your hands to Ryan and let's really pray God we thank you for Ryan and we thank you for of course his family and his wife his children and Lord we thank you that you've brought him here as a special gift Laurie thank you that you that you've raised him up as a general in this area and you've given him an excellent spirit like Daniel and Lord you've given him wisdom and understanding and the ability to articulate your values and we pray God that you would cause everything that he does to be successful and that literally tens of thousands of people would would find their their legacy and their destiny and their purpose in in in finding a place in - in the high-tech world Lord that we literally send Kingdom people in the high-tech world that the information mountain would literally be filled with brilliant wise powerful and loving people yes that know the king and his kingdom and Lord may you turn the tide in the information Mountain with this school in Jesus name Amen Thank You Ryan god bless you he's amazing huh we found him by accident he's on the road homeless person that's not true at all now we're super excited and we've been working on this for just actually about 2 2 months and we're gonna launch in January so it's pretty big deal let me give away a few things this is called spirit wars I wrote this book a while back unfortunately from my own experience so if you're a demon if you're demon possessed [Laughter] I'd love to give this book to you or maybe you want it for your senior pastor who's demon-possessed and you're the associate I already gave one of these to bill yes is there anybody your demon-possessed alright Dan you want to give that to her please right there and upstairs so many times but how many know that you know that you're not in a war with your old man let me say it one more time you're not in a war with your old man and if you believe you're in a war with your old man you can't even win the war cuz you don't have weapons of warfare for your old man you only have weapons of warfare for demonic spirits and so I think that that the book begins with the fact that a lot of people are in a war that they can't win because they haven't even engaged the right enemy and so I think that's good this is called heavy rain how to flood God with your with God's not trying to flood God yeah I had a flood god you need to flood God that's the problem how to flood your world with God's transforming power this is actually a book about transformation we rewrote it about a year ago and revised it has anyone never you've never been here before and you're a senior pastor okay like way in the back there yeah come on you can come and get this and and last but not least we just released a curriculum for the supernatural ways of royalty which I actually wrote twelve years ago the book and we just finished the curriculum it's really done well there you go I think there's eight sessions in the curriculum with the workbook and a in a teacher's guide and a book and a DVD yeah eight sessions on DVD so we've been doing bill and I and Danny and some of the team been doing these curriculum kits really cool like if you have a homegroup whatever maybe you're don't know much about the subject I think we have these in school of prophets we have the spirit wars we have the woman's book fashion to reign all on curriculum and so if you maybe don't know a ton about the subject you just put it on the DVD goes for about 24 minutes it has a teacher's guide and a workbook in it and a book in it and so it's just a real easy way to take your homegroup through a Bible study on whatever subject this one happens to be on super down to a royalty in fact we just got him here they were here yesterday day before two days ago so they just got released who would who would like is it anyone's anyone's birthday today or does anyone have a birthday today yeah yeah I think thank you for that that's really good at least we know you weren't born in January yeah okay yeah come on get it thank you awesome beautiful all right thank you god bless you um let's pray make grab a handhold spirit thank you for what you're doing in our lives right now and and we just thank you for all that you've accomplished already with these leaders and we we pray God for you to move powerfully and we know that we just share words we pray God that you would just release impartation as we as we as we as we teach tonight in Jesus name Amen uh how many of you got to hear the afternoon two sessions huh that were amazing did you guys think they're amazing I thought that that our team did so good Leslie and Chris I thought they were just amazing I want to talk about becoming an apostolic people and I've shared pieces of this quite a while ago but I have a dream you know if you go to Harvard or Yale or Princeton or Cambridge or Stanford and just name your favorite University and you graduate from that University there's this that there is an anticipation that you're supposed to do something amazing like there's just like like they only take a certain very low percentage of the students who apply and then there's that and this and we all know the schools are very you know very tough school to graduate from and so on so forth so if you have a degree from Princeton or Harvard or Yale or any of those Ivy League universities there's an anticipation you're going to be a better employee or you're going to be a judge or a a mayor or a governor or a president I mean you're going to do something amazing and and I I just I had this passion for a long time that what would happen if the church had a reputation not to just people you know that great people come to church but that great people come from the church like what would happen if the church became the most empowering training equipping institution family in the world and people came in broken Isaiah 60:1 they came in depressed broken they came in captive they came in with fatigue and exhaustion demonized and all of the things that Isaiah 60:1 says you know the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me for the Lord's anointed me to preach the good news he inflicted bind up the brokenhearted you know the whole that and one verses one through three and then verse four and then they shall return who the broken the sick the lame the demonized the captives all of those folks who were in trouble that they shall return and they shall rebuild the ancient rooms they shall raise up the former devastations and rebuild burn cities what if we were actually the kind of family / organization that people came in broken and they literally left City changing world changing ready to change the world like what of Isaiah 60:1 one through three was our the nature of the way we trained and Isaiah Isaiah 60:1 4 was the outcome of the people we trained that literally the broken people the drug addict the heroin addict a drug pusher actually became the restorer of great cities you know if your last name is bush or Clinton or or Gates or you know Kennedy you get the idea just name some in your country if you have a last name like that there's an anticipation that something's supposed to happened through your lineage you know president john f kennedy died many many years ago and his great grandkids are still like they how many know that media is still after them like thee they can't go anywhere like there's an anticipation because your dad and your grandfather and your uncle and your other uncle we're all amazing there's something that's supposed to happen through and there's an anticipation that you're supposed to do something great because you are a Kennedy and I wonder what happens what kind of anticipation happens when you're a Christian like I'm just trying to say like something needs to shift in my mind then instead of them going oh you go that church down there those guys they reduce people like what kind of box did they put you in what if what if the most prominent powerful wise innovative and inventive people on the entire planted planet were following out of your church and they weren't just preaching Jesus on the streets but they were turning institutions upside down for the betterment of the King in his kingdom one of my very favorite stories I I love Joseph in the Bible I hope you do too I mean I mean he had his issues and and he wasn't perfect and maybe that's part of the reason I like the guy I mean you know he God gives him a dream that his brothers are gonna serve him he knows his brothers are just and he's not very wise in his early days comes out and tells his brothers huh had another dream guys like to hear oh you wouldn't let me tell you anyway you know really not the wisest man on the planet in the beginning but gained some wisdom through the pit and the prison would you agree now so I like Joseph because I can relate to Joseph you know we we have our early days we have our flaws and we still we still have our challenges hopefully we're getting a little wiser but one of the most powerful and profound relationships in my mind in the entire Bible you know sometimes you read the Bible so many times it loses the impact but you know I'm saying like you heard the story sometimes like yeah Joseph and like Joseph in prison the King has a dream Joseph is has it gets gets a reputation for in interpreting dreams in prison I mean this is all predicated on God gave him a dream many years earlier that he was going to be a ruler in the world he's in prison it looks like you know Bill shares this whole thing about how many times how many of you received the prophetic word and the and then your circumstances immediately are opposite I mean that's Joseph he gets a prophetic word we're a word you're gonna be a ruler in the world and the next thing he knows he's in prison first he's a slave then he's in prison and it looks like this does not feel like you know Cambridge this doesn't feel like this doesn't feel like an Ivy League college just feels like I'm heading the wrong direction God you told me this was gonna happen me and everything that you said is the Everett my circumstances are polar opposite of every in fact the word actually caused them to be worse it says the word of the Lord tested Joseph until his word came to pass and the point Bill was making is oftentimes the word of the Lord often attracts like it actually attracts the enemy there's a thought there around prophesying over children and making sure that we use wisdom there dis decide no but my point is Joseph's in prison and he interprets dreams for the King and he ends up the right hand to King and this is a great story also personify something Joseph you know one of the sons of Israel he's the Israelite Egypt represents oftentimes we think of Egypt as the enemy like we say well you came you know the children Israel came out of Egypt representing their old life or the bondage of the devil or you know we always use Egypt as something bad something evil and they went through the wilderness and then they finally came in the Promised Land and here's Joseph and he's making friends with the Egyptian pharaoh and he's serving the Egyptian pharaoh and he teaches the you know gives the Pharaoh the interpretation of a dream then he gives him a word of wisdom and the short story as he shaved saves Egypt and his own semi-to family 72 members of his family he saves them from the famine they don't die in the famine it's it's all great story I know you know the story the part of the story I love why I actually love the whole part the whole story but the part of the story that impacts me the most is chapter 49 and 50 chapter 49 is where Jacob tells Joseph don't bury me in Egypt please don't bury me in Egypt now this is a pretty huge request you know bury me in Canaan please I have one request I want to be buried in Canaan so Joseph got out a dilemma and he the first thing it says in chapter 50 is that when Joseph died it says that the Israelites mourned for 40 days but the Egyptians mourn for 70 I don't know why it's just something just I can't hardly read that chapter without weeping I love this part too when Joseph reveals you know you remember Joseph in Egypt his brothers finally come in to get food because the famines all over the land and his father comes in last Jacob his old he comes in last and when when Jacob meets Pharaoh it says and Jacob blessed barrel and Pharaoh sent to Jacob you can have any of the land fact you should take the land of Goshen this is the best land Joseph tell all the people in that city to move out and your family to move in and the Bible says and I am sorry and Pharaoh gave Jacob the best land in Egypt I don't know why but I feel like this is such a prophetic declaration that Egypt the world God so loved the world how many know God doesn't love worldliness but he didn't die for the church he died for the world he died for the world and I've shared this so many times but how many know that Joseph had a dream and Pharaoh had a dream if Joseph didn't dream how many no Pharaoh would have died in a famine but if Ferelden dream Joseph would have died in prison I'm saying they didn't realize it but Joseph and Pharaoh were partners in destiny and they didn't even know it do you know that we're the light of the world we are not the light of the church I heard people teach now in the last days the darkness is going to get darker and the lights gonna get lighter okay well almost islands really good it's not a problem except for the light is supposed to be positioned in the world and Jesus said no one takes the light and puts it under a basket a lamp and puts it in her basket but sets it on a lamp stand next verse you're the light of the world was this a city set on a hill in other words Jesus saying listen the only way it can get brighter in the church and darker in the world is if the church becomes a basket then we're like the dirt the church is going to get brighter and brighter and the world is going to get darker and darker well that's what's happening that's because we mispositioned the light and then we create eschatology x' to make it okay well brother you know in the last days it's going to get darker and darker and the church is gonna get brighter and brighter let me propose you that darkness is the condition to church rises in not to condition the world stays in when the church rises and uh again I've shared all of this so many times but we worked when we wrote the book heavy rain I had my PA do a statistical study on America this is just on American cities and here's what we learned the cities in America that had the greatest Christian Church going population had the worst social statistics in our city in our nation let me just tell you what I just said the more Christians that go to more people to go to a Christian Church in America the worse off the social statistics and ours are in that city I called the huddle effect I think I think light gets together so much we have so many meetings we don't have the time to be light anywhere we're like isn't our church awesome and then we'd like this little light oh my hum you know you don't have a little light such a ridiculous song I mean I sang that song as a kid I taught it to my youth group this little lot of mine I'm gonna let it shine nice where did you get that you don't have a little light you're insulting Jesus the light of the world is not you it's Jesus in you he's not a little torch he's the Sun of righteousness I'm just saying we make powerless statements then wondering why we feel little and I'm simply saying like what if Joseph is dreaming again what if Ferrell is dreaming again you know another amazing thing is well ok so Pharaoh has dream you know about that we'll come back to it Nebuchadnezzar has a dream Nebuchadnezzar has a dream when he's totally and completely narcissistic demonised freak building statues to himself and killing people who won't bow down this is when he has a dream and listen to this he the dream is initiated when and this is what daniel says to him to nebuchadnezzar when he's interpreting dream he goes you were laying on your bed and you asked yourself about the future and when you asked yourself about the future you had a dream isn't it crazy I proposed I know this is this is this is my opinion this may not be true but it's very probable oh I guess that Nebuchadnezzar dreamt the law dreams probably in that most of us dream allow dreams and dreamers tend to dream I proposed that Nebuchadnezzar jumped a lot of Dreams probably not the first dream he's ever dreamt but this is strange to me Nebuchadnezzar has a dream he completely doesn't understand but he has the deepest conviction in his heart that his head doesn't understand but he knows that whatever the dreams interpretation is it has something to do with the way the the end of the world and or the way of the world and it has something to do with him and his kingdom and he is so convinced that the dream is profoundly prophetic even though he doesn't know the god of heaven that he's willing to kill all the wise men we're not talking about killing Christians here we're talking about killing your staff this isn't a persecution of Christians Daniel and in the Shadrach Meshach and Abednego the only Christians in there and that's doesn't even know they're Christians at this point so he's like I'm gonna kill all all my counselors if you don't tell me the dream and the interpretation now how many know you have to be pretty convinced that this dream is important enough to kill your entire staff and what I'm getting at is the man doesn't just have a dream he has a conviction from the God he doesn't yet know that what he's dreamt is profoundly important for his kingdom but God intentionally will not tell him what it is without Daniel and that dream creates a relationship with him and Daniel are you with me it's not just a dream it's a profound strategy from heaven I'm gonna give you a dream and I'm gonna make you so convinced that this dream will change your life and then I'm not gonna tell you what it is and I'm gonna put it another guy if you need a relationship with and the only way you're gonna figure out what that profound conviction is in your heart is to make build a relationship with a guy you wouldn't even know and Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar build a relationship and you know I love the story because Daniel is working now for a king that is still in sayed he's totally insane he's totally a narcissist he totally believes he's God and Daniel when he went when he has the second dream which is against him and the Nebuchadnezzar has a dream against himself Daniel says I wish this was about your enemies and not about you and Daniel has fallen in love with the crazy King and it's more than just the power of God moving through Daniel it's the profound love of God for an enemy king who hates Daniel's people who destroyed all of his people and now the people he destroyed are loving him and he's changed it's Chris Cruz's message you can't if you can't offend me my response to your offense not offense its forgiveness and my forgiveness is a weapon against your offense and Daniel as you know Jeremiah prophesied before Nebuchadnezzar that there that did that Cyrus would really if they were tapped on the setnet I'm sorry that Israel would be in bondage for 70 years and on the seventeenth year a man named Cyrus would release them and let them rebuild the temple this is before Cyrus was born I think it was after Nebuchadnezzar was born though Daniel comes into into into Babylon in year one of 70 he lives all the way to the 70th year praying three times a day towards it Jerusalem right he serves Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar finds God during Daniels reign never cares son Darius who throws him in the lion's den are you with me when Daniels 92 probably why the Lions didn't eat him Lions probably go ahead no man on on do beef jerky I love the store u2 and Darius you know gets tricked into throwing him into the lion's den and it says this is a Darius King Darius fast all night that's what I do to kingly Fath hey if Darius gets credit for fasting all night why shouldn't you I'm like Lord I've been fasting and praying fasting a night and praying in the morning and Darius it says the Darius comes to the tomb and while he's still to the lion's den and while he's still a long ways away he yells out Daniel was your God whom you serve day and night able to save you and out of the lion's den he hears this o King may he live forever dude could we change the nation's if we could learn to look like that okay would you live forever he's working for Cyrus as you know in the seventh year in fact Darius and Cyrus were from the Persian King Kingdom and not from the Babylonian Kingdom and and that all had to happen because of the prophecy of Jeremiah it's is so amazing to me because Jeremiah prophesied that Cyrus would let him go so the Babylonians couldn't let him go because Cyrus was the king of Persia so the Persians come overcome the you know take over the Babylonians and they leave Daniel in power and Daniel serves Cyrus and in the 70th year Daniels opened up the doors he's praying over the prophecy of Jeremiah reminding the Lord that it's the 70th year and he's remembering that Jeremiah prophesied that a man named Cyrus would let them go and Daniels working for a king named Cyrus in the seventh year what are the chances and Daniel says the Cyrus you're supposed to let us go dude your names in the book you're supposed to let us go does it just let him go the word was and and a kingdom Cyrus will release you and let you go back and rebuild a temple Cyrus gets so overcome with his relationship with Daniel and with the prophetic word from Jeremiah that he funds the entire rebuilding of the temple which was not prophesied from his own Treasury in essence of 40 billion dollars the most expensive building in the history of the world and Cyrus funds the whole thing himself through the Persian Treasury but here's probably the most important thing Daniel did do you know that the Bill of Rights that has used in the United Nations was written by Cyrus who was mentored by Daniel you didn't get the Bill of Rights that is currently used in the UN the Bill of Rights giving everybody rights was written by King Cyrus who was mentored by Daniel Daniel is still speaking through Cyrus who wrote the Bill of Rights that we currently 21st century use to tell nations how to treat their people it was written by a king who was mentored by a prophet who was a believer back to the story of Joseph in the 50th chapter the Egyptians mourned for 70 days Joseph goes to Pharaoh and says hey I got this problem love Egypt thank you for everything give us the best land my dad made me promise it bury him in the land that was promised doir please let me go and bury my dad and Pharaoh says not only can you go but we're all going with you and all of Farrell's officials and all of his commanders in chief all go with Joseph all the way to Canaan get this weeping all the way to Canaan so that when they pass through the enemy territory the enemy of the Egyptians the Egyptian enemies called them the name the place where they passed the city they pass through the place were the Egyptians wept not the Israelites the place were the Egyptians wept for Jacob the world wept for the church because of the benefit that Joseph brought to the world if you will please let me finish this thought for you make opinion about what I'm saying and if you will Joseph was Christ to farrell he was the savior he was of the world in the day of Egypt and Pharaoh blessed Joseph but Joseph also blessed barrel I just have this passion like what would happen if worldliness was our enemy but the world was not what would happen if we went into Apple and Microsoft in all these companies but we didn't go like let's go in there and take over no let's go and serve the Kings and let's serve in a way they've never seen before let's serve the way that Michelangelo chipped stone and freed angels let's serve in a way do your good works in such a way that they see your good works and they go you there must be a god every year we we send thousands 2,000 students to work in our si si per week everybody does si projects they all have to do city projects and one of the things we do is clean streets and we have a glass bridge we're we're responsible for we have a contract to clean glass bridge it's all free we have contract to clean glass bridge clean parks build parks we log the most volunteer labor hours last year in the history of the United States we loved so many hours that our city received a match grant 1.3 million dollars as a match grant because of the volunteer hours that we wanted and every year keith el borde I don't know if he's in here he is my hero he used to work for me in Weaverville it's one of the most noble and Integris men I've ever met in my life I literally would give my life for him he leads our City teams and every year he says hey why don't you come out like and the first City team and and and inspire them so I do it every year I've probably done it seven or eight years so not from the beginning but every every year since then and I get on a flatbed truck it's kind of the stage I jump up on the flatbed truck and and there's no no no there's maybe 200 our students here and I share with them a message to inspire them about what they're actually doing just to be a catalyst to you because I don't know if they think their chip and Rock but I think they're free and angels so last year I'm on the back of the truck I'm doing what I do every time it's about 15 minutes 20 at the most and I'm sharing with the students that we do our good works in such a way that people see our good works and they glorify our Father in Heaven and I start talking to them about Solomon and I say Solomon the Queen of Sheba comes six months journey with an entourage and millions of dollars to see a man and when she gets there to see a man that she's been taught has great wisdom and she gets there and she sees the way the waiters waiters are dressed the way the table is set the way the stairway goes from his house to and it's like these natural like very like how do you set a table where people go there must be a god I mean I've eaten food like that before like taste and see that there is a God how do you dress waiters like how do would you dress like I often imagine late how would you dress a waiter that the Queen of Sheba who has had a six-month journey and she's brought millions of dollars in this big entourage and she says you are twice as wise as what I heard in my land because she saw the way your waiters were dressed and I said I say to our students what if you were sweeping streets the way the waiters were waiting on tables in the days of the Queen what if you swept like Michelangelo ship stone and you're not just sweeping streets you're freeing angels what if you're just not building parks what if you're a part of the first twentieth twenty-first century city in which it is a city on a hill that people come from all over the world to see what it looks like when the kingdom actually infiltrates every realm of society and I'm teaching and I'm Chinese students of story about chipping stone and you can you know the difference between chipping rock and free and angels is what you see in the rock I said I don't know what you see in this city but I see a city of God and I was talking to him about to see you God and they get off the stage after 15 minutes off the back of the truck and of course they all clapping it's it's all good and I get down and there's four City officials there whom one is saved we've been working in our city for 15 years I didn't see them when I was when I was shearing I probably would have been still never separate us all down right would have been secularized this message a little bit more you know I get down off the back of the truck and and they're kind of over here and they're like hey Chris Wow and three of them the three that aren't believers have tears running down their face and the one city official and they say and that one guy goes that was it man that was a powerful message and the guy says hey I never heard anything like that and that one main city official says to me with tears now I know why when I look out my window your students are sweeping and raking and cutting lawns with passion and I never understood it till this day in tears you said that till this day I never understood it till this day when he said to me and he gave me a hug which is okay they always extend their hand always hug him and I guess you got tired of that so he just hugged me gave me a hug and you said thank you for what you guys are doing for the city I'm like oh you're welcome and I got my car and I thought Farrell and Joseph our partners in destiny this is what I'm alive for it wakes me up in the middle night I'm not joking my friends all know I'm a little crazy I'm always like hey maybe we can do this they're like oh gosh please don't bring Chris in here again we haven't paid for the last thing he had an idea about know everyone's pregnant everyone's tickling hey we could do yeah we could do that I'm gonna change the world so the other night I was thinking we should help the crime rate I'm like yeah we got to get people saved but but before they're saved we got to get them in prison can't let them loose on our streets no we got it you gotta have a plan you know and we have a real crime problem and I lay awake at night like Jesus we need help you know and and we have these people all costaud on on our River Trails now and and women don't want to run in the morning and I'm like just this is our city this is not supposed to happen in our city I'm gonna pause from and I'll tell you some more that surrogate I read I read I wrote this book of destined to win you have a copulate and and part of the deaths in the wind there's a chapter there's three chapters actually but there's one chapter on you can't find your destiny till you find your people because your destiny is in your people and this whole thing about destiny and your people and and then there's like well how do I find my people and what do I do want to find them so there's three chapters about that you think it's pretty good I got the book all done sent it through the publisher it's all out it's all ready and the Lord said you missed one of the most important parts of Destiny I say well it would have been a nice if you would have told me well I was writing he said your destiny is not just in your people it's in your land Isaiah 62 says and to your land depending on what translation and to your land will you be married how many you know when children Israel came out of Egypt what was the promise the promise was that God would give them land not just land their land second Chronicles 7:14 you know it if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways and I will forgive their sins hear from heaven in heel they're not the land their land I'm saying your destiny isn't just in your people it's in your land like you actually have a place that God calls yours it's part of why you changed the world because you're like this is my land this isn't just a land this isn't a place I'm visiting this is Milan I'm not a renter I mean I may be renting but I'm not a renter I'm an owner what happens in this land is my responsibility listen guys this is not a new thing we send thousands of men and women out to war to give their life for not a land for our land are you with me and so high stone your story oh so I I was thinking the other night this is it maybe weeks three weeks ago I was like break up with millon I'm thinking about the crime crime rate oh we gotta do somethin bout crime God give us an idea and so we've been talking and sharing ideas and and and I and I read the newspaper on my phone and the police chief is talking about putting civilians in the streets well three months before we had a men's meeting there was three four hundred men in here and I started sharing a vision like what would have and if we took ownership of our land and we and I said to the men if we said your crime doesn't happen on my watch what would happen if we put 300 men in the streets with like safes ready you know safe city ready and we and we've just walked the worst neighborhoods and not like not to arrest people but just to arrest the darkness we prayed in the streets we broke up fights we in what if we went on the river trails and it became the safest trails in the world and and the men jumped up there like a man 300 out of the 400 men said count me in I'm in so I see the sheriff is like he's like he wants civilians so I meet with the sheriff I say hey uh-uh I give you 300 men he's like I was thinking 20 I go yeah and how about if we bought your segways and we put like six segways on trails and people were in twos and they weren't on segways and how about if we bought you drones that could fly over the bad areas of our city and what if we just like said don't do crime in our city he goes that would be amazing I said I bet my leadership team would buy you that stuff I came shared the leadership team they go that's fine so we're buying $60,000 with the drones and and segways and pretty minute streets and sheriff checks me this morning hey Chris let's meet come on I was excited about what you do I'm like what this is our city what if we started dreaming outside of our little church box like you know how many people came to church say I don't know I don't know but the crime rates down I'm saying what we started thinking bigger do you ever get tired of being around Christians I was like my goodness like please have a thought besides your 12 people how do I get Margaret to not sing I mean there's got to be a bigger world than that you know it's like she hasn't sang well for 25 years you know it's like how do we get her off the mic you know we turned her off and she still sings so loud kitty we get her no do you know what I'm saying how do we get how do we get Henry to actually scrub the toilet I mean you know he's my brother-in-law but he doesn't Strub the crap out of the toilet you know these big problems that come to us you know it's like we spend hours thinking about how we're gonna tell you no Henry can you please scrub the toilet you know don't just flush it like rub the toilet you know these deep problems that come to us people ask me all the time I've been asked probably 200 times in the last two days I bet you have too how are you doing and I'm feeling super authentic person good bad and ugly per hour I mean you could be doing great as long as you just it's just you and your three but if you're gonna take on ownership of a city or a nation then you gotta more when they're morning and you got to rejoice when they're rejoicing and that's like an hourly thing I mean like God's got to be like to try polar it's like people say what God's unhappy what was the unhappy because people got saved today and then someone got murdered today I mean like what I always say to God like what mode are you in right now then I just like stick with Bill Bill's like God's in a good mood I'm like God's in a good mood he just chooses a good mood and just like I'm in a good mood you know sorry I'm just being silly and funny but I'm simply saying like you can be doing perfect as long as you don't have anyone in your world but if you're gonna have a big world you are not gonna have perfect days that's the side effect of great leaders I mean it's Donald Trump having a great day is is what you know did George Bush have ever have a great day I'm talking about as a president president Obama ever have a great day it's not a political save I'm saying if you're president United States you probably never have a perfect day or if you do it's a couple in all the time you're in there because you were responsible for so much when we pray our Father who is in heaven how big you thinking no I'm it's not a rhetorical I'm like how big are you thinking because you don't really I mean the model prayer isn't permission granted to be selfish the model prayer is be praying corporately I actually think it helps to pray corporately even when you are in trouble because then you remind yourself that not everybody is and other people are too and those are both good when you're in trouble right I need to know that not everybody's in trouble you know when I'm broke I think everybody's broke but it's not true some people anyway I'm never mind we're not gonna do that but anyway the point is is that if my world is big enough I can always find people that could pull me up and can always help people that need to be pulled up because my world is big enough right and I actually need these people who can pull me up I need to stay connected to them because I'm connected to a whole bunch of other people who need to be pulled up I'm just trying to say what would happen if we started to be in like great leaders not just good leaders what if we stopped coming to a conference I see if I can build a bigger Church how about if we left the conference thinking I was born to change the world mom at a little church you ever heard of Nazareth I don't think it was like a New York I was watching a TED talk you guys like TED talks and there's some really good TED talk I was watching TED Talks and I was watching Elon Musk it's a 42 minute interview with Elon Musk and III I don't didn't know much about even I mean I know someone he's a car guy so I'm a car guy so I like that stuff Tesla he's the founder of Tesla and and SpaceX and and Solar City and and so yet they're interviewing him you know and and he's a little quirky well he's a genius so you know I've known a few geniuses in the world in my life so I'm like I know I i'd never saw an interview with him but i he's like exactly how i did anticipate him a little quirky and so they say to elin you know like so you know tell us about tell us about Hyperloop and he's like yeah well I was in traffic in LA a couple years ago and I sitting in traffic and was bumper but you know one of those LA traffic jams where it just wasn't moving and the guys like uh-huh he's I can I thought to myself we should build a Hyperloop tombow tunnel on or Neath the freeway and put cars on a skate going 120 miles an hour and suck them through a Hyperloop so you can go from one side of the city to the other side in seven minutes then I thought well why not build 17 different levels of it so you could have them going all overlays I'm thinking you know when I've been stuck in traffic before I've never thought we should build a Hyperloop system I mean I think brick what's on the radio I don't like that song you know I doesn't even like occur to me like you know and the guys like so you know what do you mean he doesn't just dream like he's already engineered the Hyperloop system he calls it his hobby and he drilled underneath his own parking lot yeah to build the prototype they go you know well you know when you're gonna do are drilled under my I don't even know if he got a permit for it he's drilled underneath his parking lot and he put any developed a skate and you had a whole you know a PowerPoint but kinda like Danny's you know people have to prop up their message [Applause] hey if you're not anointed you gotta use props bill doesn't even use notes so what does that mean so yeah and he's at this video of this of this car drops down on the skate and it goes 120 mile an hour through a Hyperloop system that's sucked through in a vacuum chamber and he's towel off and I'm like wow and then he goes and they go well why did you start Solar City I actually bought Solar City in Sudan stuff he goes well I wanted to solve the climate control problem climate change problem huh tell us about SpaceX well I have this vision that that we would colonize Mars in the year 25 year 2040 oh well tell us about that yeah well we built the rocket and it's the most powerful rocket in the world and it's reusable so when it comes back down we can like you know reuse it like you can tell them the government doesn't pay for something right anyway oh oh we need another one [Applause] there's a difference between a private company and a government company is oh we need another one I'm listening to this guy he's like he just just just thinking about oh I'd like to go to Mars you know I've met people that are on Mars you know we had a home group when Charlie was saying yeah when Charlie was teaching the Sermon on Mars Hill we had two guys in the home group and one guy goes I've been to Mars God's my witness right Charles and the other guy crossed the huggers like 40 people are hungry but the other guy goes off into Jupiter and there you start interacting I'm serious huh people were in my home group that was years before I even got the idea people I discipled had already been there cuz this guy he's not just dreaming about going to Mars he builds a rocket to go to one the most powerful reusable rocket in the world he's already built it and the guy goes Elin you know what what inspires you like like why you do all this stuff like why do you like why do you build a rock why do you want to go to Mars he does well I just want to wake up every day and have hope and you know the earth is just going through so much and I just think you know humans should be interplanetary oh he thinks oh the planet's having a hard time so like we ought to colonize other planets I'm having out of our days I never thought like probably just go to Mars and just forget these people I mean how many of you are pastors in here how many of you wish you could go to Mars more importantly how many of you would volunteer a few of your how many of you would recommend a few of your congregation to take the first ride providing they didn't come back totally I mean listen I never think about sending people nomar's I think like I write people's name on a board and I sent it through the planer in my woodshop or I put it on I write on the board I cut it in little pieces so they are beautiful mama the bathroom cats like you need to go to your shop and rice and stuff on a board but clear the planer and I'm listening to this guy and I'm like he want this we said I want to live with hope I want to live with hope and I see all the problems in the world and I think you know we probably should be interplanetary human being we should like colonize the other planets so we have a future guys an atheist a guy asked him like does God have anything to do with this he said no no believe in God he has more faith than wolves the believers I hang out with I started thinking like is it an indictment against the church that the Atheist is dreaming about colonizing Mars fixing the ecosystem of the planet solving you know what I'm trying to say solving LA traffic solutions and the Christians are like how do we get Martha to not sing I'm like let's go to a conference and ask the question to Chris and Bill what do you do when you got someone who can't sing and she's your grandmother but just really like this is the kind of problems we have seriously a great general was talking to his private and he said to him little people have little problems and big people have big problems and I fear that we have little problems part of the reason we have little problems because we're so distracted by stuff instead of like why don't we go to Mars I don't know what's there maybe we should be the first Christians there get there before the Russians but the Chinese [Applause] definitely before the North Koreans only god knows what they'll bill if they get there make a note of things not to say you next time you don't part of the challenges is that we hang around with little people when we think it's our destiny like we should let you know how many you know we should help everybody so please most of you know me I help the poor we do that all time help the poor we give thousands and thousands probably more than a million dollars a year to poor I'm all-in but like who you let me influence you sometimes you hang out with the poor and you end up with the same mindset they have yeah you know what I'm saying and I'm just saying like part of the challenges that we're not hanging around with people who are thinking oh maybe we should go to Mars or hanging around with people or trying to figure out how to get Martha off the mic Paul said to Timothy in Chapter four first Timothy he said you receive gifts when the press be laid hands on you what are you doing them I want you to give yourself totally to your gift I want you to take pains I want you to labor until it's painful and I want you to labor until everyone can see you're progressing yes you know we're always like building a plan for everyone else I think we kind of need a plan for ourselves like how do I grow my congregation well the best way is for you to get bigger I mean the best way to grow your congregation is for you the leader to get bigger and I started thinking you know the challenge when you're in leadership is sometimes you are the biggest fish in the business in the small pond you're in and you're like you know you look around and like I don't mean this arrogantly for any of us but it's like your lip products like I don't know how I got to be the biggest fish in a pond but if like if I'm the hope of the world I'm in trouble and about two years ago proactively I've started saying god I need other leaders in my life who think bigger like much bigger and I made some friends actually I didn't actually seek them out the truth is I actually prayed and I ended up with his friend who's been a billionaire two times and lost at both times but now he's on his track to be a billionaire again and he read my book spirit wars and he loved he loved the book and four years ago he befriended me and I didn't we didn't really make that I mean he came to see me and this is some good stuff happened he was really nice guy and and and so on and on and on nothing really happened for a couple years and then as time went on I just you know how you kind of grow in love with someone I'm like I actually really like this guy like the more I talk like we would talk like once a month and I and then I started looking forward to talking to him which to be honest I don't even like talking on the phone something like I get off phone cap is like huh I go that was very interesting conversation and and that that just like kept happening and happening and pretty soon we're talking once a week and pretty soon we're talking every other day and I'm like yeah Cathy calls him my girlfriend your girlfriend called I'm like um you know I love him my whole family loves him and so I started and so he started talking to to me about changing the world it was his idea to do the tech company he found Ryan yeah I wish I could tell you about several other things that were working on right now but they're all his ideas they're all his ideas so I'm like I gotta get you know so I'm telling my team about this guy and they're like like yeah we had a guy like that in the whole group you know went to Mars so I bring him in one day to our media company so I'll never forget you know I had the big like the media team to calmly please come like oh we're all busy up you're gonna like this guy oh please please come listen I'm your boss I command you to come in Jesus name coming sitting at the table it's just it's not because just everyone's busy is the truth everyone's busy so the like I'm gonna give an hour to something it's got to be strategic I'm like you're gonna love this guy well what's he gonna do you're gonna love this guy but what's he gonna do for me and gonna love this guy just come so he calmly surround the table and and you know 15 minutes ago everybody makes introductions and then and then he starts telling him like you know I have this dream and I can't mention what but he goes I think that you guys should buy and he names the largest media company in the world he goes I think we could put together a deal when we buy that company for Bethel and you guys run it it's like 20 minutes into the meeting my guys are all he goes y'all I have some people who would put up the money and he starts talking about this guy puts up 300 million for him last year this guy did this thing and he goes we could put the deal together and you know we can make 5% on it but 5% of that much money but you know that would fund the whole building anyway my guys ended up three hours in there with him talking to you he's like he's taken him to the moon they were talking about you know care of all universes and I mean it was it was I mean not one person left that meeting that wasn't like well I don't know what just happened to me but I am never talked to anyone like that I said I know I've been talking to for three years there's something about hanging around with people who are thinking let's go to the moon let's change the solar system like can we change the rotation of the planet I mean I don't know you know I just I'm almost done I just think we're believers like we're the ones who's supposed to believe in the impossible on the Atheist is doing it and I'm like I'm like we're supposed to be having those ideas the creators inside of us where wiser then Daniel who was 10 times wider than all the wise men in Babylon and we had the Creator inside of us and Daniel only on him on him I'm like we should be thinking like this listen we were fully capable to think bigger than that the problem is we hang around with chickens and we wonder why we're not flying with the Eagles I was thinking about chicken feed all the time and little chickens and why they're having chickens and why they're not I don't want to think like that anymore I don't want to think like that I want I want to think I don't want to think like let's villager I want to think like build the city of God like who was that guy that wrote the book City of God yeah Augustin this I'm not gonna read it's too thick but when it comes out in audio I'm gonna listen to it in audiobook got a 600 page book anyone read that book god bless you if you'll do that in audio but I will pay you $10,000 look at that an audio but just don't screw it up when you read it I'm serious I'm like yeah will you read it for $10,000 you will okay you read it good yes I don't want to like and you know miss words and you know it can't pronounce them and stuff it's got to be done white uh a guy has a vision of the City of God they want to be amazing if we started dreaming cities nations I mean we're supposed to make disciples of nations we can't worry about who's on the mic let somebody talk to him Martha and let's like let's get up here with some other people instead of being intimidated by big people why don't we just it's okay with listen it's good we're the smallest person in the room let's find places where were the smallest person the room and just come in there like we're totally ignorant like probably you are I'll just let people that are big thinkers just like impregnate us with a vision for something huge that only God could do let's start thinking about fixing the problem with North Korea let's pray but then let's do something like let's have answers let's not just like oh I'll pray about it well pray about it then do something and if all you're supposed to do is pray then prayed I'm not saying praying as I'm doing but I'm saying let's not just like oh oh I prayed about that okay did you get an idea no well go pray again do you get one like stay in there you get an idea and he starved to death just a joke anyway I think I'm done I I just want to inspire you to think I just want to inspire you to be a great leader I want to inspire you to pour yourself into your gift not just pour yourself into your people pour yourself into your gift well it feels selfish no listen you want sure salvation for both yourself and for all those who hear you like one of the best things you can do is to take care of you I'm not just talking about you know I'm not Tom being self-centered I'm talking about giving yourself totally to the gift God's giving you thinking like God thinks getting around people who think like God thinks and some people who think like God thinks who don't yet know God I mean it's all it's like up here let's hang around them until we think big until we think impossible and then when we sit with leaders of Nations that truly when we're on the road we are the hope of the nation's because we are bringing ideas and solutions and we're bringing you probably notice we gave 100 five hundred thousand dollars to the police last year and we were raising another seven hundred thousand were we're four hundred seventy four thousand from being making our goal we're gonna make our goal we're gonna make that goal I simply saying it's not a lot of money but at least it gets out of a little like fixing our church like let's help the justice system and then let's draw businesses here let's let's turn out ten thousand digital missionaries that can move in signs and wonders and miracles but think from the heavenly place that's what I'm thinking that's what I'm thinking I'm thinking at least I'm thinking it you can criticize me but at least I'm thinking and if you want to criticize me maybe you should have a better thought than mine get involved in your city where do I start find a problem getting traffic listen to people complain what are they complaining about what well when people complain about something maybe there's there's a there's a solution I'd like to propose you that the earth doesn't have a problem that he doesn't have a solution for I'd like to propose you no matter what you can think of that's a problem he has a solution cancer he has the ultimate solution to how to eradicate cancer from the entire planet not just heal the sick I mean divine health I mean he has the answer he has an answer for it an antidote for cancer and 50 years from now they'll look back and they'll think of all the barbaric ways we took care of cancer and her like ah you just take a shot for it now you're all good I'm saying someone's gonna come up with an idea maybe many ideas okay I'm gonna stand up I'm gonna pray for you you need prayer now you're like what do I do with Martha you know why we don't dream big sometimes sometimes it's because we think we're little and that's a that's a delusion did you hear what I said sometimes we don't think big because we think we're little and I'd like to propose you that you're seated in heavenly places with Christ you're not just praying to God you're praying with God lord I just pray in Jesus name that you would just give us the mind of Christ now we would dream with God not just dream about God we would dream the dreams of God Lord that we would dream the manifestations of his imagination Lord that you would when you put us in a in a mess of a problem we would dream the answer we would be like Joseph Lord we would be like Daniels we'd be like people who dreamed the solutions of world problems but lord please let us first dream of solutions for our cities problem like Joseph drempt boy Joseph interpret dreams for his for the prisoners let us learn how to do small things in a great way so we can do great things in a great way lord give us heart for our own land Lord when someone's murdered in our city let us take it personally Lord how do we stop murder how do we stop these things what is the root cause of these things Lord give us answers and solutions law we pray from and Lord tonight we pray for Elam us I've been praying from God I pray that he would find you Lord I pray that he would find you in creation you say creation speaks for you and Laurel I just think what I have such a burden for that man I pray that Eilen would be a brilliant theologian and scientist and I bless him and his family tonight in Jesus name in God I pray for our city I pray that this city would be a city on a hill it can't be hidden I pray that it would be Augustine's City of God lord I pray that people would come from all over the world to see a city completely influenced by the king and his kingdom not Christianized Kingdom iced in Jesus name Amen thank you so very much [Applause] come on let's give it up for Chris again that was epic absolutely epic Wow just as our ministry team come during worship the Lord reminded me of when Jesus spoke these words and people spoke these words about Jesus oh that's just Jesus from Nazareth he's just from that place that's just that little boy from that place and I feel like there's leaders and there's just been a lie that's you've that's been spoken over you and you're just like ah yeah but I'm just from Weaverville or I'm just from this place and I really just want to pray for you right now so if there's any doubt in the fact that the risen Christ is inside of you and that you're bigger than the land and all or whatever the small place you may have been from I want you to lift your hand right now and we're gonna pray for God to take the cover off for God to expand you I really believe this grace in the room for people to get an upgrade right now like an upgrade has happen in Chris valid ins life an upgrade has happened in Chris chris is a walking testimony he was in Weaverville a place this big and now he's thinking about changing the world he is changing the world so father right now father everybody that's hungry for this we pray that you lift the lid on their minds God we pray that they would no longer say they are just from this town or they adjust this leader from this broken family but God we pray God ignites a firing them to change the world lift off opposition and God release favor for them to meet the Pharaohs in their cities the Pharaohs in their Nations in Jesus name Amen amen Wow Wow thank you Father all right if you need a miracle in your body we want to invite you forward we have a powerful team ready for you and yeah we're ready to see Jesus get his full reward otherwise remembered tomorrow morning 8:30 a.m. the Bethel leaders Network session so if you're interested in that come and join us it's gonna be a lot of fun bless you guys see you tomorrow [Music] [Music]

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