Legendary Conference 2018 - Ryan Leak

they only love my bed I'm sorry 50 dub I even cut it out it on me 81 to bring the crushes sort of you know me go ahead have a seat high five for you in the Rose dress well so you want a high five over here suit what's going on shout out to all my legendary people legendary make some noise venue in the house what's going on venue some of our venue people tell me awesome I got some bad news I can't be here all night jumping up and down on all this stuff super super excited to be a part of the legendary conference and also having venue in the same room and I want you to understand why tonight is extremely important that we are together what you must understand about our church is we got next our generation is up next we are the future of the church and I think it's important that we we stick together because our nation our city are facing issues that our parents never got to see as the church we are facing new issues new struggles and I think that tonight is historic for a specific reason because I believe the Lord wanted us to be in the room together specifically for this message that I believe is is paramount for your life as a Christian I want us to go to Luke chapter 19 if you have a Bible or if you want to open it up on your phone whatever you got to do Luke chapter 19 I'm gonna be in the New Living Translation the Bible says this Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town there was a man there named Zacchaeus he was the chief tax collector somebody say chief tax collector in the region and he had become very rich he tried to get a look at Jesus but he was too short to see over the crowd so he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree beside the road for Jesus was going to pass that way then the Bible says this in verse 5 when Jesus came by he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name Zacchaeus he said quick come down I must be a guest in your home today Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy but the people were displeased he has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner they grumble meanwhile Zacchaeus stood before the Lord and said I will give half my wealth to the poor Lord and if I have cheated people on their taxes I will give them back four times as much Jesus responded salvation has come to this home today for this man has shown himself to be a true son of Abraham for the Son of man came to seek and save the Lost on the next few moments we have together I want to speak to you on the subject church on the move look at your neighbor on the right and say church on the move look at your other neighbor and say don't you just love pastor Craig Darby hey let's pray father I pray that tonight you would show us what it looks like to be a church that is mobile our world is desperate for hope for you and we can take you wherever we go I pray Lord God that tonight you would give us the courage to be activated wherever we live in Jesus name I pray everybody said um over the past couple of weeks I have been graced with the opportunity to have some pretty good friends um and these friends invited me to play basketball they invited me to play basketball with some guys that just so happened to be in the NBA now when you go play basketball with some people with NBA you have to play on their terms on their court you can't just go to the YMCA you can't just go to 24-hour fitness it just so happened that I was invited to the Mavs practice facility to play with said individuals now I had to act like I was super cool and like this was very normal so when I pulled up to the gym I'm an NBA player got out of his car and so I got out of my car how he got out his car okay so I'm like listen if you don't get out like a ball imma get out like a ball I grab my bag and so he walked in and he said what's up coach and I'm thinking well I got to fit the part so what's up coach I mean I just acted like it was normal okay this man is not my coach he he looked at me like who are you don't worry about Who I am you gonna Know Who I am in a minute okay I get there and I'm just I'm seeing different guys that I know and inside I'm freaking out on the outside I'm cool as a pop stick I'm acting like it's no big deal on my game I'm here all the time man ain't no thang don't worry about me okay then so now I'm shooting around and guys continue to show up more and more guys continue to show up that I recognize and once again I act cool all of a sudden I see for mediocre basketball players show up and I thought faint God Almighty I'm a guard one of them okay like this is good I'm so glad you guys are here I said y'all gonna play they said nah we're here to rebound for him I said y'all not gonna play y'all just here to rebound not one of y'all can rebound for me huh that's what we gonna do it's just me I okay no that's cool no go ahead rebound for him I get it he worth 25 million dollars good for him that's awesome I'm worried about 25 G's that's cool but that's all right hey so I'm like all right let's just be cool and my buddy gets there as like dude I'm so glad you're here I'm gonna slay a man thanks for the invite you know I appreciate the opportunity to be here and then something started to happen that happens any time sports involved they started picking teams now here's the deal it's two NBA players and they picking teams out of their NBA players so I just go ahead and walk to the sideline I said you know what there's no need for me to get embarrassed right now let me just come over here and sit right here y'all go ahead and play imma just chill real fast okay because there's no need y'all don't know me there's no reason why you would pick me on your team then they started arguing on the sidelines as to who was gonna be on whose team so I went to my buddy I said a man full disclosure I'm just happy to be here okay I don't even need to play listen you could have said we was gonna play 21 I still would have showed up okay like like like I don't need to play okay I'm all the way good man thank you for the invite I'll just watch I'm not gonna take no pictures I'm not gonna ask him the autograph I'm just happy to be in the bill that he said I invited you you plan I said but for real I really don't have to you be an extra okay you're being real extra so then what they did is they had they created this court all right so let's say this is one NBA size court and they call this the winners quarter then they had a second court that they call the losers court I said I'm gonna come over here okay how about I'll be the captain of all the losers all losers why don't y'all come over here and play with me the only problem with the losers Court is we lost and so did a team from the winners court so then they had to come over to our court and then all of a sudden um I see a dude that's about seven foot two walking near me I was like now for those of you that aren't in the basketball community there is a phrase that we use whenever there is a small man guarding a big man okay so I'm six-three if I got somebody that's like five eight five seven guarding me what I'm a yield of my team as soon as I see that he's guarding me I may yell this phrase Mouse in the house okay that's what you did all right say that let me say Mouse in the house now there was tension on the court and I was like feeling uncomfortable so I thought let me break the ice so the seven foot two guys says I got this guy and he pointed at me I thought it would be a good idea to yell out to my team when I saw that he was guarding me I say Mouse in the house crickets nope no one said they looked at me like you have lost your mind I looked at my friend eye disease it was the very few times in my life where I have felt small where I have felt a little bit too short I believe each and every one of us has a moment in our life where we just don't feel enough where we have fallen short of the expectations of other people and somehow that that shortness that fallen short that not enough this somehow makes us feel like it is a disadvantage for our friends of Kias his height and his stature was his disadvantage for some of us it's the same when we look at ourselves in the mirror there's something that screams out at us back from the mirror that we are just not enough and we're just another person in the crowd for some of you the thing that makes you feel like you are at a disadvantage is your age you've got a dream and you feel like your age doesn't match it and you have been told so many times in your life that you are too young to and people fill in the blank all day long and you see your age as a disadvantage for some of you the biggest disadvantage that you have is your gender sometimes it can feel like a man's world and you as a woman of God are going Lord I know there's some things that you want to do in my life why is it that I feel like I'm constantly fighting an uphill battle for some of you the biggest disadvantage that you have is your zip code you live in a neighborhood where it just isn't good for you the stacks the odds are stacked against you there's not a whole lot there's like um when they talked about Jesus I said what good can come from Galilee you might live in a zip code you might live in an apartment complex where people would go what kind of good could come from and they fill in the blank with the name of your suburb the name of your apartment complex for some of you the thing that keeps you at a disadvantage is your parents marital status you think to yourself if only I didn't have to grow up in a single-parent home that maybe I would have a shot at life but I often feel like I'm down 30 in the fourth quarter and time is running out for some of you you feel like you have a disadvantage because of the color of your skin and you wake up every day fighting an uphill battle nobody knows what it's like to be in your shoes nobody knows what it's like to endure jokes at school and endure jokes at work and endure jokes at the gym no many times in my life I have heard the words well Ryan mean he's black on the outside but on the inside he's way and I just go haha I wonder if there's anybody in the building that's ever had to laugh at a joke that wasn't funny to survive sometimes the color of your skin has puts you at a disadvantage that has made you feel a little bit too short in a crowd there is nobody under the sound of my voice that has not experienced does the kiyose moment in their lifetime every single one of us has had a moment where we just felt like you know what I I got to do something and anybody that's ever failed the test has looked at an F on that on that paper and thought why is does this not just feel like it's just a test why does it feel like it's perhaps the theme of my life failure I wonder how many people in this building have lost a job and you can't help but question your own abilities I wonder how many of us have been on a date and had a romantic interest in somebody that did not have a romantic interest back and we struggled with this thought what is wrong with me why am I not good enough I got a friend trying to get in law school he scored excellent on his LSAT which is the test you have to take to get into law school and he received rejection letters what do you do when you feel like your life has been handed a rejection letter from society where you constantly are faced with rejection when you just want to belong my favorite author is brené Brown and she says that there is a massive difference between fitting in and belonging fitting in means you will make as many adjustments as you need to for people to love you and like you and therefore your family your friends and romantic interests get to be the governor of your personality belonging actually means you get to be your authentic self and people love you just the way you are and here's what I know about every single person here every single one of us has a deep desire living on the inside of us that desires to blow desires to just be loved and my my fear is that there's so many people in this room that have gone to great lengths to be loved except you try and fit in so much that you actually reach your goal that everybody likes you except you all of a sudden you wake up looking in the mirror and you're popular and everybody's clapping for you except you're going I don't even know who I am anymore what did I have to do to get here so what's a young man to do when he doesn't feel like he's enough what's a young woman to do when she doesn't feel like she is enough they do exactly what Zacchaeus did they look for a tree they look for something to prop them elves up to make themselves look better one climb at a time and they spend their life climbing trees trying to get a leg up trying to find an advantage for their disadvantage and they find themselves up a tree trying to impress people they don't even like anymore we all got trees where all the Kia's we've all found ourselves trying to make ourselves look better whether it be online or offline we've all had a moment where we thought okay this will make me look better we've all had a moment where we have fallen prey to to being a person of status that a car or clothing or something will make us look better than we really are I've rarely met a person whose clothes represented their soul but yet we will scrape claw and spend money we don't have to impress people we don't even like that much then we find ourselves looking like we're swimming in money when we're actually drowning in debt all for the appearance of looking like we're more than we actually are for some of us the tree that we climb the most is the love tree if I could just get him if he just have she just if if I and if I just make these adjustments then maybe it may be a marriage you'll make me look a little bit I wish I was a little bit taller I wish it was a ball I wish I had a girl I got a girl she look good too I'm a caller soon as the service is over my mom young person young adult what would you do if I told you you didn't have to spend your life climbing trees you want to know what the biggest tree we climb up often when we we see some other people succeeding bullying and sometimes people think bullying is a high school middle school thing pastor Craig I see more bullying with adults than I do students and the reason is is sometimes we think I see somebody else higher up in the tree than me so why don't I just pull them down because somehow that makes me feel better about myself but when you've got sup so much about somebody else that's poison for your soul not for who you talking about then all of a sudden once again you start looking in the mirror and you find yourself up a tree and going how did I get here how many people did I have to tear down to get to my position how what why do I got to do you why don't what would you do if I told you you didn't have to spend your life climbing trees shout-out to my homies that I felt the pressure of society so much that it ended up in retail theft that you started to steal stuff to look the part when you actually weren't the part and all of a sudden you came home with the bag of goodies going how did I get here how much pressure had to be applied to me to get here shout-out to my homegirl who all she wanted was to be loved and what you did is you began to calculate how much attention you get when you wear lots of makeup versus when you don't wear any makeup at all and then you concluded that you would have to spend the rest of your life spending two to three hours to get ready to go in public and you think that that's life to borrow a line from Alex Ely from earlier that's a lie said I don't want any young woman to believe but you've been taught to just climb the tree you've been taught so when you're not enough you just see if I can just get a little bit higher see if I could just get a little bit more attention shout-out to my homegirl that all of a sudden you got his attention but he didn't just want your attention he wanted your body and then when you gave him your body you thought okay maybe he will love me and now he won't even call you back and you found yourself sitting in a tree now and now what was a one-time event now has become a regular occurrence for you and now you start thinking thoughts like it's just sex when you know it's not just sex you know and it's the can your soul and you found yourself up a tree the message tonight is very very simple Jesus has something to say to this generation to this we got next shirt and it starts with the fact that God knows your name when Jesus saw this man in a tree first thing he says is Zacchaeus here's the deal he's not supposed to know the kisses me in fact people would have been like hey hi he knows the kids Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector we're not just talking somebody that works for the IRS tax collectors were recruited by the Roman government to cheat their own people sheathe tax collectors were some of the most hated outcasts and individuals in the Bible okay nobody liked tax collectors the only friends tax collectors had were other tax collectors so like but but this was a hated individual he's not just a tax collector he is the chief tax collector he ain't just dealing drugs he is the drug okay he ain't just in the Mafia he is the Godfather okay like he is the guy and the worst guy in the city Jesus know his name Jesus he didn't say a you get out the tree man he said some kids do you know what this meant for the kids do you know what it means for us when Jesus said Zacchaeus he was saying hey you don't need the tree I saw you before you climb a tree and I knew your name before you climb the tree you don't need the tree I see you just as you were it's a message tonight is so simple come down come down for wherever you find yourself on the trees just Jesus's message to you whoever you are tonight is simple come down sweetie you don't need the tree you you don't have to buy fake Yeezys and fake Jordans to fit the park I've been there these real by the way oh my mama [Applause] I think somebody signed up to come to a conference I think there's a first time visitor at vineyard I think there is a volunteer here tonight that just simply needed to know that they don't need the tree they don't have so much emotional time and energy and money trying to upkeep their appearance for who for a potential well we don't know who's you'll be there tonight better come lit what if I just told you what we said at the beginning when you first became a Christian come just as you are that's what Jesus's message was she's the key is a man I already know who you are I already know you're the worst guy in the world and that's why I came I came to come to your house but Jesus do you know how this is gonna make you look if you come to my house I don't care how it makes me look in fact the gospel is a story about Jesus trading places with Zacchaeus I'm perfect you're the worst let's trade places I don't care if they mock me I came for you you might be senior thinking tonight man nah nah man listen dude if you knew the things that I did that's okay you're not worse than the Kia's I guarantee you and here's what's interesting an interesting lesson that Zacchaeus teaches every single person in this room the chief tax collector specifically would have been the richest man in town and what that teaches us is this is that all of the money in the world can't give you the thing that money can't buy even with all the money in the world he's still going something in my life is not right where's Jesus something isn't sitting right and some of us are falling for the notion that if we're Fame someday that that was somehow solve our problems that if we had a lot of money then that somehow will help us escape life's problems are you kidding me it won't you will find yourself just like Zacchaeus climb the tree with little man syndrome it's a message is simple tonight she find herself up a tree come down here's why let me tell you why Jesus wants us to come down from our tree he was the chief tax collector Jesus whether you realize it or not had a strategy for his kids just like he has a strategy for you he's going I need the worst man in the city so I could reach the worst people in the city for all of the people that are just feel like they're just numbers in the crowd like Zacchaeus if I could get the kids I could get everybody that's connected to the kids whether you realize it or not we are in the business of delivering hope every time you walk through the building but that hope ain't just for you that hope is for every place that you go what you need to understand is I love our church I think it's the best Church on the planet I invite everybody I know hey man come to our church man come to our church come to our church come to our church come to our church but what you need to know is its plan B plan a is us going to them because we live in a pretty dark world on I don't know if you have been paying attention but students have been walking into their high schools and shooting up the place I don't know if you're paying attention but the suicide rate is not going down there were three thousand three hundred and forty five people in Texas alone last year that decided to take their own life and pardon me but I don't think our best plan is hey will you come to our church and be a part of our sermon series I think our best plan is sending you to where they already are the invitation isn't a bad plan it's just not the best one you know what absolutely changed my life when I'm in 1999 there was a high school called Columbine High School and two guys named Eric and Dylan walked in the place and started shooting up everybody and there was a girl in there named Rachel Scott and she had told Eric and Dylan about Jesus they found her pulled her up by her hair and said do you believe in your God now she said yes they pulled the trigger and killed her and that was the first time in my life where I said you know what there is somebody else there's another teenager on the planet that is living the gospel out for real and I don't know what I've been doing my whole life but I don't want to be average anymore on the back and in her in her book back she had a journal on the back of it he said I will not be labeled as average for the rest of my high school career I wrote I will not be labeled as average on my hand every single day to remind myself you gotta be alive man you're not just a Christian for no reason Mandy there's somebody that you you have been designed with skillsets to reach a certain people group you don't like what you like just because you like what you like God gave you that desire God gave you that passion because there are people that have that same common interest that he wants to use you to reach them I just had the privilege of speaking in Denver Colorado actually in Littleton where Columbine High School is there was a young lady there helping and serving at the church and she said I was in eighth grade when Eric and Dylan came through the librarian was shooting everywhere she said I was hiding under the library table and I watched them shoot my friend I remember in 1999 when it felt like the nation was shocked by the shooting did you know that within the first 21 weeks of 2018 there were 23 school shootings what used to be like oh my goodness is now Oh again Oh as a Christian I just hope that we never get used to the news I hope that we never get used to cops killing people I pray that we never get used to earthquakes in hurricanes and I pray that we never got Oporto Rico lights out okay I pray that we never get used to police brutality I pray that we never get used to racism I pray that we never get used to bad news as if we could not do something about it here's what I know about the kiss here's what I know about Jesus Jesus refused to sit in the synagogue and go what L got a good word for you today and I really hope the kid shows up boys the key has come Boyd's gonna change all that Jericho will never be the same if the kids would just show up to the synagogue why in the world was the key to show up to a synagogue he doesn't have any friends that are Christians he's just a man in a tree Jesus decided well if Zacchaeus ain't gonna come to the synagogue I guess I better go to Sookie's our world is desperate for a church on the move singer/songwriter Avicii took his life a couple of months ago Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain took their lives this past week Kate Spade world-renowned designer Anthony Bourdain world traveler that understood culture everywhere and all of a sudden ended up in a place where he just went lost hope how many of our loved ones lost hope and it was just it was just too late pardon me if I'm not satisfied with just a church invitation pardon me if I just kind of go boy wake me up everywhere I go here's a dangerous prayer I want everybody to pray I believe if everybody in this room prayed this prayer Dallas would never be the same Lord if there's anybody thinking about hurting themselves or hurting other people make sure their path crosses mine hey Jesus I'm just a student I'm in school in summer time listen here's the deal we got a pool party listen if there's somebody at this pool party that is thinking about hurting themselves or hurting somebody else make sure their floaty floats by me Lord if there is somebody that's it so much pain they don't know what to do make sure they're dribbling next to me make sure you sit them next to me at the restaurant may I wait on them at the table make sure I bump into them at the mall make sure that their cubicle is next to me and drop me a bread crumb and Lord would you just activate me in that moment because I might be the only Church they got they may not have another option and to be honest I don't think about your schools I think about your jobs and I think about the people there and her losing hope when I think about what's the best plan for them I think what's the best sermon I could come up with it's not enough but they want to talk to God about he's like I already got a secret agent at his job I already got a secret agent after school I already got a secret agent on their team I just need them to be available in the moment when I need them young person young adult I just want to encourage you to increase your availability this summer just say Lord use me Lord send me man if you're on the brink of something crazy tonight I want you to know there's hope for you but can I speak frankly it ain't just for you it's for everybody you know I hope you take it home I hope your parents I hope your brother hope your sister I hope your family I hope the people that you love the most leaked something to you that something is desperately wrong in their life and I know that scares the mess out of most people feel like dude please Lord do not send me these crazy people okay like I can't I can't not deal with it okay I don't know what I'm gonna say I'm not going my words I don't know Scripture okay like I just started going to charge like what in the world would I say to a person that's on the brink of taking the moment what am I gonna do here's what I believe I believe if you say Lord orchestrate our steps number one I think the Lord will give you what to say I think the spirit of the Almighty God will rise up on the inside of you on that moment to say things you go where did that come from and if you're really clueless give them the thing that's the kiyose wanna give them the thing that you want look foul you sit with them and remind them of why they are so important look for amazing things about them and do whatever you can to get them out of their tree do you know how many people are desperately searching for somebody to love them just as they are do you know how many people exist in our world that are dying for somebody to love them not for what they do but who they are your Dallas is best chance and we go to one of the greatest churches in the world it's still not enough we don't have enough surfaces just three every weekend it's not enough max what can we get in this room four times three what's six seven thousand Brian is that there's a few million in Dallas it's not enough perhaps you've got a job tonight you got can't stand my job no no no sweetie there's somebody at your job please you stay in the fight you keep going man why can't I quit this job man what Scott no no stay right where you are and turn the light on the worship team can come back up in 1980 there's this beautiful bridge it's called the Suncoast bridge it's in st. Petersburg it's it's on the Tampa Bay I believe we've believe we've got a picture of it it's it's a beautiful bridge it's very long I've driven across it a couple of times and in 1980 there was a freight ship that actually it's 420 feet high but it was just it was a freak accident and it actually knocked out part of the bridge and you can you can see this picture 35 people died when this bridge went out because the way that you're speeding across the bridge it's you can't know that the bridge is out and that was on the southbound lane on the northbound lane was a man on a motorcycle and he saw that the bridge was out and all he had on was a red shirt so what he does is he takes off his red shirt and he just starts waving [Music] hey the bridge is out and he watched a Greyhound bus go right over into the peacekeepers go ahead the bridge is out and finally a guy on an eighteen-wheeler season when it goes the world the bridge what does he say and he slams on the brake this man saved hundreds of lives can I encourage you with something Venu can I encourage you with something legendary we are called to be a church on the move that stands on the highway of life to let people know hey the bridge is out bad [Music] stop don't keep going there's hope just I can only imagine what would happen to each and every one of us if we decided to go to the places we reside the most place we hang the most place we work the most place we work out the most and we've we decided to be people that just said I'm just gonna be a person that waves my red shirt to say hey the bridge is out and I don't want you to go I don't want you that there's hope that's why Jesus wants you out of the tree Jesus knows your name he might feel like you're just another person in the crowd you're not he knows your name and he wants to connect with you he wants to spend time in your house despite the things that you've done despite the places that you've been despite your shortcomings he knows your name and he just wants you to come down from your tree in the next few moments we're about to sing who you say I am and I got a feel there's a bunch of people in this room that are desperately trying to figure out who they are their authentic selves not that not the version of them that is constantly trying to figure out how to fit in but the one that can truly belong as their authentic self and I just believe that tonight something is going to activate in each and every one of us that the Lord is going to convict us of the places that we go the most and you're just gonna you're gonna find yourselves in situations where you just get extreme bravery to go hey man are you okay if somebody's gonna say no I'm not sometimes just sitting there with them in the dark is enough to show them enough love to know that their life really matters and I just believe you're gonna save somebody's life because you're gonna walk a walk around with an awareness that says hey here's the DUI I realized that there are some people that have got some some disadvantages I realized there are some people that have found themselves coming up short I realized that there are some people that have gone through some dark stuff but I've decided that I'm going to be a person that is a part of the church on the move I'm gonna invite as many people as I can to the gathering but I'm not going to put all of the expectations on the gather I am the gathering [Music] and there's somebody the bridge is out and I don't know that we have time for them to get here for them to hear from me when you sit next to them every single day [Music] wave you're Richard I don't know Brigit father in these next few moments I pray God that you were shows that we are Lord that she would give us an insane amount of courageously an insane amount of bravery for the people in our world that have no hope god I pray that we would be a student we would be a young professional that waves our shirt unless people know that the bridge is out that we would be a church on the move that we would not settle for the status quo of church Lord we got next I pray God that we would take care of your church that we would be church that is mobile for a world that desperately need Jesus name I pray everybody's here why don't you go and stand their feet [Music] tonight if you say Ryan up I found myself up a tree I find my self consistently climbing I want you to find a place in this sanctuary where that you want to come to the front or you want to turn around and fall to your knees and make an altar on it you were seen the message to live simple come down you don't need the tree and as we sing some songs I pray that in these next few moments that perhaps tonight you would surrender whatever you will tree is whether you got to make a place down here make a place around make a place in the back for you to have a moment with the Lord you have to know that all of this was set up so that you would meet with Jesus because you would have a moment with Jesus young adult student leader volunteer employee whoever you are I pray that in these next few moments you would have a moment with Jesus and I pray that God would reveal his greater purpose for your life at the same time lord I thank you for each and every student each and every young adult each and every employee each and every volunteer each and every pastor each and every musician god I pray that you would reveal our purpose to us help us Lord to be a church on the move it Jesus said we pray everybody said you

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Length: 45min 24sec (2724 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 21 2018