Saturated 2021: Night 1 - Pastor David Platt

[Music] [Music] uh [Music] oh so [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] church welcome to saturated 2021 it's finally here and we couldn't be more pumped to worship jesus with you my name is kristen and this is my friend beau and you will be your host for all of saturated we are so glad you've joined us whether that's in person at one of our physical campuses or if you're tuning in online this week during saturated we're gathering together as one church in many locations yeah that's right kristen we can't wait to see what god is going to do kristen and i will be joining you from a bunch of different places this week to specifically ask the holy spirit to move amongst our current campuses and those to come so each night we're going to be doing three things we're going to tell you about something awesome show you something awesome and experience something awesome with you so it's going to be awesome three awesomes awesome three awesome times so excited that's it saturated is all about anticipating and seeking the manifest presence of god in us and our church no matter where you're joining us the holy spirit is going to move over these next few days so let's jump into it bo tell us something awesome for sure so here's one cool thing that we're going to talk about this week it's it's one of our ministry partners who is focused on reaching one more generation an event that we all can be a part of this fall called the great futures weekend so let's take a look [Music] i'm here with my dear friend paul martinez fellow 1122 and the ceo of the boys and girls clubs of northeast florida and every single year as a church we rally together to support the mckinsey run in honor of the life and legacy of mackenzie noelle wilson and it helps support and resource children all across our community the mckenzie foundation and the boys and girls clubs have joined efforts together over the last couple of years to serve more kids and we could not be more proud of what you're doing and what our community is doing for this effort and this year the mckenzie run is growing which is good news instead of a one day event it's now going to be a whole weekend of exciting opportunities to support so paul i want you to tell us a little more about what we can look forward to this year thanks pastor mackenzie's legacy is such a huge part of helping kids grow and have opportunities to succeed this year we have an entire weekend of events for people to connect to and support we can keep helping serve children and their families this fun three-day event is november 18th to 20th all hosted at the tpc sawgrass i mean the best location day one november 18th we have a kickoff reception at the clubhouse with hors d'oeuvres live auction life-changing stories and a ton of fun day two november 19th we'll host a golf tournament at the players stadium course the course we will have 120 golfers followed by an awards ceremony and opportunities to learn more about all that's happening through the boys and girls clubs in northeast florida and then the final day day three the granddaddy the event we have all grown to love mckenzie run which will also be held on the stadium course at tpc as always there will be a community village they are featuring food live music community partnership and more to learn more visit bgcnf.org all the information is there sign up rsvp is there mackenzie wilson's life and legacy has played a huge part of our church's story and the stories god is shaping in children all over our region it's exciting to see it grow thanks to you pastor and to the church for being such a huge part of it we couldn't do this without you paul it is truly our pleasure to partner with you to reach one more generation a whole bunch of kids that a lot of folks overlook jesus doesn't overlook them our church doesn't overlook them and you don't overlook them and so thanks for all that you allow us to do with you to reach one more generation and so to our church family thank you for being involved now log on get more info sign up show up we'll see you there [Music] wow what amazing weekend this is going to be reaching one more generation is at the heart of so many things that we do here at 11 22 and this is just one more way we can pour into our kids and students now let us show you something awesome we are standing at what will soon be 1122 north jack's campus launching in 2022. it's gorgeous john 1 14 says and the word became flesh and dwelt among us one translation says and the word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood we launch campuses and places each of us can worship in our neighborhood with our neighbors that's right and we're making room for you and you're one more in this north jacksonville community so wherever you're at wherever you're sitting right now i'd love for us to take a moment and pray for this campus specifically and all those that will call it home so let's pray together father we love you we thank you that we get to be called your kids and that we get to call you our god and we thank you for the movement that is happening in your church and god we just asked that as you move into this neighborhood in the north jackson community god that you would bring many to a saving knowledge to know that jesus christ is their lord and savior and that you would just bring up so many one mores that we can have relationship with and bring them in to know the good news of the gospel so god we know that you're going to move we thank you for letting us be a part of it we pray that in jesus name amen amen i can't wait to see all the great things that god is going to do at this north jack's campus and this community now we're just a few moments away from kicking off the first night of saturated if this is your first time joining us get ready we are so glad that you are here to worship with us yeah totally saturated is one of our biggest events of the year and every single year during this season we've seen god show up in major ways like from powerful nights of worship amazing sermons from pastor friends all across the globe to people discovering jesus for the very first time and even deepening our relationship with him through baptism i mean come on people like it's truly going to be an experience that you'll never forget yes i couldn't agree more i love saturated it is my favorite event now let's get things started at saturated 2021 let's go [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] so now i do ask you my dear friends look at this cross look at the paradox he's the one through all the whole world has been made it was by him that god made the worlds gather together the things of which the world was to be made and put them in their right order not only that he is the one who upholds all things by the word of his power everything that collapsed where it looked that he kept them going as the apostle paul puts it it is by him that all things consist the one through whom all was made the one who sustains everything he can he has a helpless babe he died in helplessness on the crosswise he's a healer he's strong enough to bear the guilt of the punishment and christ i encounter it all it is for all who believe whosoever they are doesn't matter whether you're british or african japanese chinese south american all this nonsense is demolished here we're all human we're all in sin whosoever believeth it doesn't matter what you've been it doesn't matter what you've done forgot the soul of you all right everybody come on stand up stand up all right everybody sing it out good morning [Music] [Music] let the people of god [Music] people come together [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hold your head up i fear no evil fix your eyes on this one come on god is madly in love with you so take strong remember where i am [Music] rise up [Music] our salvation is [Music] oh be strong remember [Music] let the yeah of god rise [Music] all right 11 22. online all over the world here we are together saturated 20 21 who's excited to be in the house of god yes [Applause] [Music] repeat the sound all these children clean hands pure heart good grace good god his name is jesus your turn to sing it out come on [Music] good grace good god [Music] let the phrase [Music] god [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] all creations [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] yes come on praise god praise god well we are so excited to be here with you tonight together as a church family to start this season out together and we have some friends here that are with us they're familiar to you they're brothers of mine from another mother please welcome shane and shane man howdy church family so great to be here let's sing together sing god's word [Music] and he answered [Music] those who look upon him [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] he will deliver them magnify the lord with me [Music] glorify the lord with me [Music] [Applause] [Music] is oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] his name foreign [Applause] [Music] let us bless the lord every day [Music] never any [Music] let us [Music] foreign [Music] is [Applause] right [Music] his name together together [Music] [Music] lord and foreign answered i sought the lord and he answered me [Music] he answered me is that the lord is [Applause] [Music] he'll give you everything he'll kill you everything [Applause] [Music] out [Music] see [Music] [Music] love me [Music] despised for all to see the lamb of god was [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] to love as you curse love [Music] we just agree with you i'm forgiven i am [Music] is me [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how much [Music] [Music] the yes [Applause] [Music] me thank you [Music] [Music] my lord jesus [Music] oh me me [Music] [Applause] well thank you and praise jesus for how he loves us you might have to mute this guitar it's gonna start speaking in tongues up here you hear that i'm my name is shane i'm just one of many shanes and uh we're not brothers we're just shanes and uh we love this church so much we love coming here it just strengthens our heart and soul and um so thank you for having us we are far from anything professional just um just wretched men who god is saved by his grace and so that song um it it's a really great prayer for me tonight to just remember how deep the father's love is for us and so we're going to sing a song called rightly so psalm 90 because it's just an attempt to sing through psalm 90. and if you didn't know psalm 90 is uh the oldest psalm because moses wrote the psalm moses wrote a psalm did you all know that psalm 90 and so i'm going to read it and you can read along with me and then we're gonna we're gonna sing it okay so buckle up because this is there's a lot here and it's uh welcome to the first night of saturate because [Music] it's it's gonna go through you're gonna there's be a little valley and it's gonna come back up so here we go psalm 90 the word of the lord lord you have been our dwelling place in all generations before the mountains were brought forth or ever you had formed the earth and the world from everlasting to everlasting you are god you return man to dust and say return o children of man for a thousand years in your sight or but as yesterday when it is passed or is that a watch in the night you sweep them away as with a flood they're like a dream like grass that is renewed in the morning in the morning it flourishes and is renewed in the evening it fades and withers for we are brought to an end by your anger by your wrath we are dismayed you have set our iniquities before you our secret sins in the light of your presence for all our days pass away under your wrath we bring our years to an end like a sorry years of our life 70 or even by reason of strength 80 but their span is but toil and trouble they're soon gone and we all fly away who considers the power of your anger lord who considers your wrath according to the fear of you so teach us to number our days that we make it a heart of wisdom return o lord how long have pity on your servants and satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days and i have fallen in love [Music] with psalm 90 and psalm 90 minus jesus is a really horrible it's just it's it's a it's just super depressing that's it's a light way to say it i mean you might have another day you might have 80. it's all the same it's just a blade of grass blowing away in the wind and your life is coming to an end under his wrath and have you considered his wrath on sin i mean it's pretty heavy but in light of jesus did you hear he so moses he ends those 14 verses with two prayers first prayer how long will you come and save us will you have pity on us and did god answer that he had pity on us he saved sinners through his son jesus christ on the cross he answered that prayer that's an old prayer and then there's a second prayer so would you say this and then would you satisfy us today before the sun comes up because i know i'm so prone to wander and forget would you satisfy me today with your love and i love it because it talks of a savior right you know we think of saving like we got saved we're going to heaven we're good we're going to go to church and you know it's going to be a jolly old thing no he saves us forever but he also saves us today like he's he's our savior today so god save us and satisfy us because you know lots of times when we're lonely when we're bored when we're tempted like our savior looks like something we're going to be satisfied with something and moses is praying oh god satisfy me with your love like you can know jesus the love of jesus the fellowship of knowing jesus so that all else is like trash compared to knowing him so we're just going to sing this back to him and pray this back to him because you can you can pray with talking or you can pray with singing and we're just going to pray with singing together and so let me teach you the chorus and then we'll we'll get into it when the sun comes up [Music] satisfy us with your love oh you have been our dwelling place [Music] turn back to [Music] before the day has passed [Music] satisfy us with [Music] the wrath of god pour down for [Music] consider him our shelter is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] on earth and give us more wisdom in the secret heart as you display amazing grace in jesus christ for [Music] [Music] amazing grace [Music] [Music] [Applause] satisfies [Music] is [Music] [Music] before our hearts [Music] satisfied [Music] your love your love [Music] god is so good god is so good god is so good he's so good to me you're so good you're so good [Music] so good to [Music] me you're so good more than we give god [Music] good to me [Music] [Music] [Music] you're so good to me you proved it on the cross it's the measure of your law [Music] further than the east is from the west is your great love for us we can't even get our minds around it lord would you help us would you help us tonight help us comprehend this great love that you demonstrated in your son jesus and may it compel us may it control us i pray that this night for all of us would just be a night that we could we could celebrate in heaven forever we can remember what you did how you showed yourself to us god our vision is foggy we need you holy spirit we need you tonight illuminate the son of god give us a passion lord to see him and to help the whole world see him and we pray it in no ordinary name we pray in the name of our shelter our dwelling place in the name of king jesus and we say amen amen amen you guys can have a seat [Applause] well amen and amen and welcome to saturated night one amen [Applause] man we uh if you're new this is the church of 1122 a movement for all people to discover and deepen our relationship with jesus christ and i'm one of the pastors here my name is chris and uh if i've never had a chance to meet you i would love to meet you after the service and just shake your hand and hear your story and we have been really in anticipation for what god is going to do in and through us during this week and we it was a line in one of the songs that we just sang that said that god's love is a flood that covers me and i will spend all of my days telling those trying to love as he has loved me and so i want to give you the opportunity tonight to tell others that you love them on your way out there's a there's a video camera there where you can just make some statements about god's love and what it has meant to you god's love transforms us and it does that in such a way in this movement that we plant campuses all around jacksonville so one of the unique things we get to do tonight is we get to go to our saturated host and hear about our next plant one of our next plant up in north jack so let's continue in worship as we hear from bo and kristen hey church guess what we're coming to north jacks i'm kristen and this is my friend beau and we are here at what will soon be our north jack's campus coming in 2022. we're here we're here if you live in the north jacks area we are making room for you to worship in your neighborhood with your neighbors and if you don't live in the north jacks area how cool is it that we get to celebrate all that god is doing by launching more campuses through this movement who are we that god of the universe would be mindful of us sure kristen and think about this there are 1400 11 20 tours currently living in the north jacks community see god is taking an old grocery store an old building without much worth that much value near the airport and is transforming it to be a place of worship to him a place to fellowship with jesus and his people like god is giving this building new value just like he does all things see scripture tells us that he makes all things new this is a picture of the gospel it totally is we are one church in many locations and we can't wait to see all the ways god is going to use this campus to continue to bring the good news of the gospel to the ends of the earth yeah and our prayer really is that lives would be changed that souls would be saved and this would be a place where many people for many years to come call home like like we said earlier in john 1 14 it says and the word became flesh and dwelt among us one translation says the word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood see we launch campuses and plant churches so that each one of us can worship in our neighborhood with our neighbors yes amen now let's experience god's presence through the testimony of his people describing his love together [Music] god is not disappointed in you he loves you he has an abundant life for you i used to think everything would be easy and i'm learning that he loves me so much that he says come on let's look and take that hard thing that you are terrified of and let's walk right through it i know god loves me because at my lowest point abandoned and going through a divorce he sustained me and then he redeemed me with an amazing wife and five children i know jesus loves me because despite how faithless i can be he is still faithful i know god loves me because at my lowest point when i was addicted and destitute god reached into my life and rescued me i know god loves me because he always provides every single one of my needs god always comes through i know god loves me because he used the worst day of my life losing my job and then my dad to cancer in a matter of six hours to position me for the best six years of my life serving him at the church of 1122 psalm 37 4 says delight yourself in the lord and he will give you the desires of your heart i know god loves me because he has never given me one of the desires i have named he has given me the heart my desires because he knows me better than i know myself i know that god loves me because he graciously shows me over and over again that he is faithful to his promises for god so loved the world that he sent his only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life [Music] amen and amen and amen how we doing 11 22 doing okay praise god yeah a lot of times folks like me will stand on stages like this and thank you for being here but where else would you be on a wednesday night in jacksonville all right you should be thanking me for opening up this place so that we can worship the lord together here tonight amen amen and i got really good news we're not just in and around all of our campuses in jacksonville we're also hosting our very first worship service in jessup and there's hundred and thirty three people worshiping together in jessup right now 133 pastor math that's like 250 people do you understand what that means and you came on a great night on a great great night i also want to thank our student ministry for allowing us to take over your nights and we give a big thanks to our student ministry thank you thank you well as i've told you before at saturated we don't have speakers we do have speakers but they're hanging from the ceilings and they make things louder we have preachers we only invite people that proclaim the good news of the gospel of jesus christ amen and i am so excited to be able to introduce to you this preacher connie moon can you believe he's finally here y'all don't even know who i'm talking to but she used to be a member of this of his old church and now she's here now he's here i've been asking this dude for five years and finally he has found himself in the center of the will of god because he's here at the walmart at the church of 1122. in all seriousness a whole bunch of influence in the sermons that you hear from me have come from this man he's the lead pastor at mclean bible church in washington d.c he's the founder and president of radical incorporated he's taken the good news of the gospel to the very ends of the earth he's written all kind of books the one that impacted me the most was radical i read it in a deer blind in one day messed me all up that's why we sponsored 13 000 compassion kids that has a lot to do with it i will say it's more than he ever sponsored but i'm just saying and all this church is put together he writes stuff all over the place he's got more degrees in fahrenheit he's got a phd from new orleans baptist theological seminary he's married to his wife heather he has four children he lives currently in washington dc and good lord those people need jesus amen so church of 11 22 would you rise to your feet and give a good warm 11 22 welcome to dr david platt [Music] oh all right yes sit down praise the lord praise the lord from the heavens praise him in the heights above praise him all his angels praise them all you heavenly hosts praise them sun and moon praise them all you shining stars praise them you highest heavens and you waters above the sky let them praise the name of the lord for he commanded and they were created he commanded they were created he set them in place forever and ever he gave a decree that will never pass away so praise the lord from the earth you great sea creatures and all ocean depths lightning and hail snow and clouds stormy winds that do his bidding new mountains and all hills fruit trees and all cedars wild animals and all cattle small creatures and flying birds kings of the earth and all nations you princes and all rulers on the earth young men and maidens old men and children let them all praise the name of the lord for his name alone is exalted his splendor his splendor is above the earth and the heavens and he is raised up for a people a in the praise of all his saints of israel the people close to his heart praise the lord praise the lord sing the lord a new song his praise and the assembly of the saints let israel rejoice in their maker let the people of zion be glad in their king let them praise his name with dancing make music to him with a tambourine and heart for listen to this the bible says the lord takes delight in his people he crowns the humble with salvation let the saints rejoice in this honor sing for joy on their beds may the praise of god be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples to bind their kings with fetters their nobles with shackles of iron to carry out the sentence written against them this is the glory of all the saints praise the lord so why stop there one more chapter praise the lord praise god in his sanctuary praise him in his mighty heavens praise him for his acts of power praise him for his surpassing greatness praise him with the sounding of the trumpet praise him with the harp and a liar praise him with tambourine and flute praise him with the clash of symbols praise him with resounding symbols let everything that has breath praise the lord praise the lord you have breath tonight ever thought about what that last phrase what would it be like that last phrase in the book of psalms was switched around what instead of saying it let everything that has breath praise the lord what if it said let everything that praises the lord have breath i mean you would be alive right now your every breath was dependent on it being lifted in praise to god i submit to the god who we've gathered together to worship in this room tonight is worthy of nothing less than every single breath and it's on his glory and living for his praise that i want to set your sights in his word tonight let me give you a picture before we open the word let me give you a picture maybe kind of stick with you as we walk through his word tonight when i uh when i was in high school i was on a senior in high school i was on the high school baseball team which might make you think i was a good baseball player but that's not true i was not a good baseball player you say well how are you on the team our team was very bad and that's that's how i got to be on the team and so we were a very bad baseball team all season long we we lost every game until near the end of the season we were playing another bad team and i uh i thought we got a chance on this one and so i think this mic is it out a little bit or do you want me to just hold one i see a a screen scrat as saying my mic is scratching my face and i appreciate the information i'm not sure what to do about that because i'm kind of stuck with my face [Applause] [Applause] so all right we'll go with this um where were we baseball bad baseball team thank you uh so we're playing another bad baseball team near the end of the season and it was close game two bad baseball teams playing each other it got down to the last inning and it was all tied up and we kept them from scoring in the top of the last inning which meant going into the bottom of the last inning we were running off the field to go to bat and we actually had a chance to win a game and i remember coach met us out in front of the dugout and he said he said he can gather around guys he said we actually have a chance to win again and he said and we need to do it right now because if we go into extra innings what's going to happen we're all like we'll lose he said yes we'll lose like if it's going to happen it needs to happen right now and so uh so he looks at me points his finger in my face he says david you're up first he said we need you to get to first base once you get to first we're going to steal you over to second once you get to second all we need is one hit your round third come home we'll win the game i'm thinking yeah right like well win the game that doesn't happen and it's dependent on me getting to first also does not happen so but all the guys were like come on david just get the first base and i was like okay so i go in i put my helmet on i grab a bat i walk out there and i'm just praying my god i know you love everybody on this field but would you just grant me an extra measure of grace in this moment like use this for their sanctification like just just help me get to first base please god so i step into the paddocks box and by the grace of almighty god i draw a walk so uh it was too much for a little power to hit so uh just make sure he didn't throw me a strike so i i walk down to first base once i get down to first base i look over the third base coach and he's giving me the steel sign so i'm like i like the walking thing better now i gotta run and so i take my lead off first pitcher whines and throws i turn i i break towards second base run as hard as i can i get about five feet away and i start this head first slide the guy catches attacks me what do you think save her out it was like right in here that first like first person to yell out just out like got no confidence i got wheels all right i was safe so all right so so i'm in i'm i'm in second base now next guy up to bat uh strikes out big loser didn't walk like i did so what that means is now there's one out in the game and if you know much about baseball you know if it's gonna happen it needs to happen right here because if they get a second out they don't have to worry about me as much as a runner like this is the moment when it needs to happen so pitcher whines throws the guy up to bat hits the ball in between the third baseman and the shortstop and i turn and i watch it go in front of me into left field and i start hauling toward third base and i look up and i see my third base coach anybody know what he's doing oh he's doing this all the way down the line like faster than i ever could i'm like why don't you do this coach so he's going down give me the ghost sign so it's like all right here we go so i touched our base and i look up and 90 feet in front of me there is a dude who's much bigger than i am he's got all this equipment on he's got his mask off and he is standing over the plate just waiting for me and i decided this is my moment i start running as hard as i can just movie like all the guys are out there dug out jumping up and down screaming all the fans are going out so there's only like two people there but they're going nuts i'm telling you not even our parents would come to watch this play we were so bad but everybody who's there is going crazy again i get about five feet away and i start this slide and it was it was like a movie my hand brushes past the plate right as this catcher catches the ball puts it down on my shoulder and we look up in the dust of the umpire to see what he will say i'm not going to ask you what you think umpire yells safe safe all the guys come running out of the dugout they jump on top of me you think we'd won the world series we'd won ah game and it was one of the greatest the only great moment of my entire sports career and it's like pure joy reliving it with you right now so but let me ask you a question let me ask you a question what would you think of me as a baseball player if when i was rounding third base i i touched third base and i thought you know i'm kind of hungry right now i just run over to the concession stand and to order a hot dog or what would you think of me if when i was rounding third base i would look over to the stands and for some reason a cute teenage girl has come to watch us play i think well she looks better than he does so i just go running over to the fence to talk to her about my awesome walk or whatever or what would you think of me as a baseball player when i was rounding third base i look up i see the coach passionately going down the line and i think you know i've not really spent a lot of time with coach recently and i just go over to him and put my arm around him and be like coach calm down bro i how are you and you say well if of course you can't win a baseball game why because you missed the whole point you got distracted like point wasn't get to first or second or third the point was to score a run the point was to win the game you missed the big picture you missed the whole point so that was a game it didn't really matter but i want to put that picture in your mind because i want to talk about your life my life our lives because there is an adversary in this world who wants you to miss the point to miss the whole point and not just in the world but for those in the church to miss the point and i want to walk us through some things in the word in the world that may uncover some ways we're missing the point and i just want to ask you to open yourself up to the spirit of god right now just to let you know where all this is headed after we've walked through god's word and heard from him we're going to have time to respond to him and i'm going to invite people to come all across the front of this room and to kneel down from all ages from the youngest in this room to the oldest in this room to say god i i don't want to get to the end and have missed the point and i'm assuming that god will lead us into prayers of confession in different ways in our lives to i hope i pray prayers of salvation some tonight realizing the point of your life for the first time and others just a deeper prayer of surrender in your life to living for the point so what's the point if you have a bible and i hope you or somebody around you does you can look on with let me invite you to turn me to revelation chapter 7. revelation chapter 7. and i'll have some of these things up on the screen at a couple of different points but revelation chapter 7 verse 9 and the reason i'm going here and we'll turn to a couple of other places along the way the reason i'm going here to revelation to the end of the bible is to show us where all of history is headed so picture or rounding the bases and looking toward home here's what's at home plate revelation chapter 7 verse 9. after this i looked and behold a great multitude that no one can count from every nation from all tribes and peoples and languages standing before the throne and before the lamb clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands are crying out with a loud voice salvation belongs to our god who sits on the throne and to the lamb oh god we pray that you would help us to fix our eyes on where all of history is headed according to these two verses god i pray that because of what you do in this room tonight that there would be some people for the first time experiencing your salvation and knowing they were going to be around the throne on that day god i pray that not one person in this room and other places where we're gathered would not be around the throne on that day and god if i could be so bold i pray that you would move in the next few minutes through your word by your spirit in such a way that those in this room and other locations would play a pivotal part in seeing more nations and more tribes and more peoples and more languages gathered around your throne on that day i pray that there would be ripple effects among nations and tribes and peoples and languages because of what you do in the next few minutes god i pray that in jesus name amen okay so what i want to do with this picture in mind of where all of history is headed toward a day when every nation tribe people and language stand before the throne of god for the lamb a reference to jesus singing salvation belongs to our god it sits on the throne and to the lamb with that picture in mind i want to walk us through five truths based on revelation chapter seven and a variety of other places in the bible that i hope will help us to get the point so here's truth number one and i'm going to put them on the screen they're kind of wordy but i don't know how to make them shorter so here they are number one the purpose of god is to bring people from all the nations to enjoy and exalt him forever this is the purpose of god this is the point toward which god is driving all history and we see this from cover to cover in the bible so here in revelation chapter 7 this is just fulfillment of what started in the book of genesis all the way back in the beginning when god created man and woman in his image for the display of his glory to i mean picture genesis 1 and 2 adam and eve created to enjoy him and exalt him as image bearers and you get to a place like genesis chapter 12 and god says abraham i'm going to bless you and through you all the peoples of the earth will be blessed all the nations and this is the fulfillment of that promise in revelation chapter 7. in between is the story of god bringing people from all the nations to enjoy him and exalt him forever so let's let's kind of go from the back here to exalt him so the bible is teaching here that the purpose of god is to exalt god so god lives to exalt god god exalts himself and you might be thinking wait wait are you saying that god is self-centered and i want to be really clear like i'm not saying god is self-centered the bible is saying god is self-centered you say well i would just if that rubs you wrong anyway i was just asked a follow-up question who else would you rather him exalt you this that i mean if if at any point he were to exalt someone or something else he would no longer be the god who's worthy of all exaltation it's what it means to be god there's no one else worthy of centering around [Applause] he is god and the beauty is he exalts himself by inviting people to enjoy him forever this is the gospel how has god most glorified himself by sending his son to live the life we couldn't live to die the death we deserve to die and then to conquer the enemy we could not conquer sin and death itself god glorifies himself by sending his son to die on a cross for our sins so that we could be forgiven of our sins and reconciled to enjoy god forever and ever there's no greater news in the world than this enjoying god and exalting god go together in heaven have we experienced this even in this room tonight like when we sing to god it is joy it's delight it's not duty this does not have to this is delightful like i think about the psalms like i was just so we were just walking through psalm 148 4 and 49 150 like the psalms i i was they were in my bible reading was walking through the psalms not long ago what an interesting book god has given us a whole book in the bible that revolves around songs to himself like i think about my marriage say a couple months from now when i have anniversary and i'm trying to think of a gift for my wife let me tell you what i'm not going to give her babe i have taken time to put together 150 poems about how great i am in all of my attributes and i just want to give them to you as a gift and you can read them back to me put them to music even and they will bring such joy to your heart but this is true of god it's not true of me it is true of god our souls are designed to be satisfied in god not in the stuff of this world we were created to enjoy and exalt this is the purpose of god he wants you this is awesome news right where you're sitting god though you have sinned against him and you deserve his eternal judgment god wills that you might enjoy him he desires you to enjoy him as you exalt him for all of eternity all right this is great news and it's not just for us it's for if i could emphasize this all the nations every nation tribe and tongue and people and language all of them and we know when we see nations in the bible just remember like it's not talking about countries like we might think of nations today 200 or so in the united nations those nations like united states of america didn't exist at this point a variety of other nations like we might think of today instead the word that's used here for nations most commonly in the new testament is ethnic from which we get ethnic so think ethnic groups or people groups and we realize even in one nation like the united states of america there are many different ethnic groups there are many different people groups so there may be 200 or so countries in the world but anthropological biblical scholars estimate over 16 000 people groups in the world distinct ethnic groups that share common languages and cultural characteristics and the purpose of god is to bring people from every single one of them to enjoy and exalt him forever every single people group in the world not just one type of person every type of person in the world there's no king like that who deserves the praise of every single people group in the world so this is truth number one we gotta move a little faster if we're gonna get through this so that's truth number one so keep going then truth number two the purpose of our lives is to enjoy and exalt god forever we've already talked about that i want to bring this into your lap though the purpose of our lives is to enjoy exalt god forever and to lead people from all the nations to enjoy and exalt god forever so yes you were created to enjoy god and exalt god forever and i might even rephrase this but it'd be a lot longer the way you enjoy and exalt god is by spreading the enjoyment and exaltation of god among more and more people so joy is contagious like that when you love something it flows out of you that you love that thing and you love god it flows out of you you want others to know the goodness that you've experienced in god so the purpose of our lives that's a big sentence right there the purpose of our lives your life my life is to enjoy and exalt god forever and to lead people from all the nations to enjoy and exalt god forever so maybe i'll just pause here and let's let's take an ex a look at our lives would you say coming into tonight yep that's the purpose of my life that's what i'm living for every day that's what i wake up for every morning to enjoy and exalt god and i want to lead people from all the nations to enjoy and exalt god because revelation 7 makes clear this is where all of history is headed it's the purpose of god and so if we are worshipers of god then wouldn't it make sense that we would have the same purpose as god does like if god's goal is all nations worshiping him and our goal is something different then whose goal needs to change and this is the purpose of our lives to see god enjoyed and exalted among all the nations now i remember when this really hit home in my life so i had finished uh undergraduate degree and gone to seminary and i was learning more and more about places in the world and people in the world where they have never heard the gospel we'll talk more about that in just a second and i'm reading in the bible it says god has purpose for his glory to be known as gospel to spread to all the nations we'll talk about the great commission in a minute and i started thinking well if that's the case then i need to move to another nation to make the gospel and the glory of god known in places where they don't know the gospel and so i remember there was a particular day when uh the president of an international missions organization was coming to our school to preach and i was asked to take him to breakfast and i thought immediately i thought this is my chance i told heather the night before i said heather i'm going to take this leader of this missions organization tomorrow and we of course have been talking praying through this in god's word and i said i'm going to tell them we're ready to move to another nation go as missionaries i said is that all right with you and she's like yeah that's right with me so we prayed that night the next morning i go off to take him to breakfast we sit down and i just start pouring out my heart like i see this in the word i see the need in the world my wife and i are ready to go what do we do and he looked back at me for about 60 seconds encouraged me what i just said to him and then he spent the rest of breakfast talking to me about the need for pastors to shepherd churches where the gospel has gone for the spread of the gospel where it hasn't gone that's what he talked about the whole breakfast and i was so confused [Music] and i remember leaving breakfast and i went home and heath was like how'd it go and i'm like i think the president of this mission organization just talked me out of becoming a missionary and heather's face like dropped and it looked like she was disappointed in me like i had done something wrong i was like i don't think i did anything wrong but as i process that here's what i'm so thankful that god did in my mind in my heart that day he showed me that there's a type of person who is passionate about the spread of god's grace and god's glory to all the nations but doesn't become a missionary doesn't move to another nation there's a type of person who is zealous to see the glory of god among all the nations all the peoples but but doesn't move to another nation i don't think that category was in my mind but the more i thought about it i thought well of course there's a category for that it's called a christian right do you have the spirit of jesus christ in you because the spirit of christ wants the world of christ world for christ he wants the nations for christ and if the spirit of christ is in you then you are zealous for the spread of god's glory among all the nations it's what drives you because it's what drives the spirit who lives inside of you god help us we've taken global mission and turn it into a compartmentalized program in the church over here for a select few people who are called to that you've got global mission you've got worship you've got children you've got students like we've taken the purpose of god in history and turn it into a program in the church it's not a program in the church it's the purpose for which we have breath to see the nations know the glory of our god all the peoples of the world to praise his name that's the purpose of our lives to enjoy and exalt god forever and to lead more and more people from more and more people groups from all the nations to enjoy and exalt god forever that's truth number two so keep going truth number three then god's purpose is accomplished through god's people obeying god's commission to make disciples and multiply churches among all the nations so you can turn there if you want or maybe you some of you might know it but matthew chapter 28 verse 18 through 20 is known as great commission jesus says to his disciples all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me go therefore and make disciples of all the nations baptizing them in the name of the father the son of the holy spirit teaching them to observe all that i've commanded you and surely i'm with you always to the end of the age jesus tells his disciples go make disciples and i'm adding multiple churches here i'll show you why in a second but primarily because as disciples are made they gather together in churches that then make more disciples and gather together into churches them and make more disciples and gather them together into more and more churches so god's purpose is accomplished through god's people obeying god's commission to make disciples and multiply churches among all the nations so think about it this way i'm going to put a map up here on the screen acts chapter 13. if you read that chapter in the bible you'll see the very beginning the church at antioch and here's antioch right here is worshiping and fasting and praying they're having their saturated week and the spirit of god says set apart for me saul and barnabas for the work to which i've called them now here's a place where disciples have been made and a church has been planted but all these other places there's no disciples and no churches and so these pink arrows illustrate where they went out of antioch and they came down to cyprus right here and you know what they did they proclaimed the gospel they led people to jesus and they gathered them together in a church then they moved on they went north all the way up into pacific and antioch then down to iconium and lystra and derby and in all of those places they were proclaiming the gospel making disciples gather them together into churches and then what happens is they finish in derby and then they go back and they strengthen and encourage all these different churches and as you look at this picture realize what's happening the purpose of god is playing out on the picture of this map because in all of these places where there was nobody who knew who knew and enjoyed and exalted god they're coming to know jesus they're hearing the gospel they're entering into relationship with god and his church is being planted for the display of his glory and this place and this place and this place and all these different places the glory of god is spreading more and more people knowing and exalting god as more and more disciples are made and churches are multiplied and this is the story of the new testament this happening and we'll dive into this even more in depth in just a minute in many many different places and this is how god's purpose is accomplished in our lives god's glory spreads in metro jacksonville through brothers and sisters from the church of 1122 and other churches going out in the power of the holy spirit leading people to jesus leading people to know enjoy and exalt god and whether it's planting campuses planting churches the gospel and the glory of god is spreading through god's people obeying god's commission and every single follower of jesus is called to be a part of that mission there are no spectators in the great commission god has not saved any one of you to sideline you he has invited you into the greatest mission in the world the spread of his grace and glory among all the nations through disciples made and churches multiplied i would encourage you like for some and maybe the surrender tonight is god i i want to i want to get engaged in making disciples i want to lead somebody to jesus god to help me have confidence to proclaim the gospel share the gospel with my neighbor co-worker i'm trusting god's going to put some people on your hearts tonight to come back with you tomorrow night and the next night to hear the gospel from your lips tomorrow god's going to draw people to himself through you because of the work he's doing in your heart right now as you join in this mission making disciples multiplying churches among all the nations that leads to truth number four and this is so critical and i think for the most part okay i'm following but this is this is the truth i i think we're missing big time in the church number four god has not generally commanded us to make disciples and multiply churches among as many people as possible god has specifically commanded us to make disciples and multiply churches among all the nations i know that's a lot to write down and to soak in but i want i want us to think about what this is saying and it's based on what we just quoted from in matthew chapter 28 go and make disciples of all the nations it's what we read in revelation chapter 7 verse 9 and 10 every nation tribe tongue and people is going to be gathered around that throne god has not just said make disciples and multiply churches in jacksonville or washington dc god has said make disciples and multiply churches everywhere on the planet among all the nations among all the people groups turn turn one other place with me go with me to romans 15. you've got to see this romans chapter 15. and again if you don't have a bible i think i'll have it up here on the screen but i want you to see this romans chapter 15 verse 18 paul writes a letter to the church of rome talking about the need to take the gospel to more places to new places where it hasn't gone and he's asking for their help listen to what he says romans chapter 15 verse 18. paul says for i will not venture to speak of anything except what christ has accomplished through me to bring the gentiles to obedience by word and deed by the power of signs and wonders by the power of the spirit of god so that from jerusalem and all the way around to a lyricum i have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of christ verse 20. listen to this language thus i make it my ambition to preach the gospel not where christ has already been named lest i build on someone else's foundation but as it is written those who have never been told of him will see and those who've never heard will understand those who've never been told of him will see those who've never heard will understand that's the reason why i've so often been hindered from coming to you but now since i no longer have any room for work in these regions and since i have long for many years to come to you i hope to see you in passing as i go to spain and to be helped on my journey there by you once i have enjoyed your company for a while no this is a fascinating passage of scripture so let me set the context now that we've read it for what paul just said remember this map antioch and they go out this is known as the first missionary journey of paul they go out in all these places plant churches and then the kind of purple arrows are them coming back and they come back to the church at antioch encourage the church there and then paul gets sent out on a second missionary journey again he starts in antioch he goes north you'll see into many of the places he's already been but then acts chapter 16 god speaks to him a vision from man from macedonia saying come over here and help us they conclude god is calling them to preach the gospel in new places where the gospel had not gone and so they go further northwest up into philippi thessalonika down to corinth you recognize these places from the new testament down to ephesus then all the way down to jerusalem and then back up to antioch see the plan of god purpose of god playing out disciples being made churches being multiplied in more and more places among more and more nations that leads to a third missionary journey paul again goes out leaves antioch but you'll notice as you look at this journey he doesn't cover any new ground does he he's going back to all the same places and when he gets to corinth right here he sits down and he writes a book or letter called the letter to the church at rome romans in your bible and he says there did you hear what his language was he said there is no more work for me to do in these regions are you serious like corinth have you ever read first or second corinthians there's work to be done there place is messed up there's work to be done in all i mean did that mean like all of these pla everybody was a christian here no of course not there was still all kinds of work to be done there but disciples had been made church has been multiplied churches that were doing that work paul said we've got to keep going to where the gospel hasn't gone this is the impulse of the spirit of god in the people of god we don't stop with just going to places where the gospel is gone we keep pressing on to where the gospel hasn't gone so paul writes this letter so one more map that'll kind of illustrate a broader picture here's antioch again over here here's corinth right here and here's rome so paul has left antioch come to corinth he's on his way down to jerusalem to take an offering to the church there in jerusalem in the middle of famine and then he says from corinth i once i go to jerusalem i want to come to you in rome why because i want you to help me get where to spain why because they haven't heard the gospel in spain and we must as the people of god with this purpose of god for all nations to know and enjoy and exalt him forever we've got to keep pressing on where the gospel hasn't gone we can't stay and just focus on places where the gospel has gone and that's the great commission jesus has said make disciples not just among certain types of people but among all types of people everywhere a specific command make disciples of all the nations they say well thanks for the new testament history lesson but like what is this does this matter for the purpose of my life here's here's how it matters here's a map of the world today and on this map of the world you'll see three main colors green yellow and red the green areas of this map represent areas in the world that are classified as reached by the gospel meaning there's disciples who've been made and churches have been planted in those places again obviously that doesn't mean everybody in these places is a follower of jesus it doesn't mean there's not need we know you know there's need in jacksonville there's need in washington dc without question and by god's grace there are churches in jacksonville washington d.c that are spreading the gospel and these places that are green and the places that are yellow there's uh still a church presence but a more either nominal church or a weaker church so there are churches but maybe the gospel's not being proclaimed in them or christianity has been on the decline but there's still gospel access in those places when you get to the red those are places in the world that are classified as unreached by the gospel now let's clarify what what we mean when we say unreached unreached doesn't just mean lost people are just as lost in sin apart from god they're in jacksonville or they're in saudi arabia so people are just as lost what it means to be unreached is it means you're lost and you don't have access to the good news of god's grace in jesus nobody's told you and you don't have christians and churches around you that can tell you that if you're unreached the likelihood is you'll be born you live and you will likely die without ever even hearing the gospel meeting a christian encountering a church so don't say i don't know why we talk about unreached people around the world i mean there's unreached people in my office or there's unreached people in my neighborhood it's not true those people are not unreached so how do you know because they're in your office they're in your neighborhood they have access to the gospel you're it speak but they they have access we're talking about people in the world who don't have access you don't know a christian who can share the gospel with them don't have a church that's gathered together on wednesday night to sing and celebrate the gospel and spread it they're unreached you say well how many people are in that category approximately 3 billion approximately out of 16 000 people groups approximately 7 000 people groups in the red now with that picture in your mind people have never heard the gospel and i should this would be like a whole another sermon but uh when you hear somebody's born and live and die without ever hearing the gospel there's a prevailing thought i think in many christians eyes that well surely they can they'll be able to go to heaven even if they've never heard the gospel but if if that's where your mind goes which i feel the emotional pull there i mean they're talking about three billion people but if they go to heaven without ever hearing the gospel how they get to heaven apparently jesus was not necessary like you've just gone a place that you you don't want to go biblically theologically jesus is not necessary or hearing the gospel is not necessary let's just follow that out for a second like if that were true well then what's the worst thing we could do for those people take them the gospel right like if not hearing the gospel classifies you for heaven then the last thing we need to do is go tell them the gospel be like thanks a lot we were 100 percent going to heaven now we might i might go to hell like certainly that that misses the whole point of the new testament this is why romans was written how will they believe if they don't hear and how will they hear if somebody doesn't go to them faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of christ they need to hear the word of christ in order to be saved jesus is necessary for salvation the proclamation of the gospel is necessary but feel feel what that means though we're talking about three billion people who are on a road that leads to an eternal hell and nobody's even told him how they can go to heaven like all who have the spirit of christ and you hear that but don't just hear it like feel that and then let me take one step deeper so we in our churches i'm talking broadly in churches either 1122 nbc where i pastor wherever it might be we give hundreds of billions of dollars in churches to all kinds of things to building staff programs all kinds of things and then a small portion of that in collective churches goes toward missions this compartmentalized program we have over here missions but you do the research we've done the research and what you'll find is that out of the money churches give to missions 99 approximately 99 of those resources do you know where they go they go to green areas on this map we think missions we think latin america we think these parts of africa these parts of asia maybe even some parts of europe approximately 99 of our resources are going to places where the gospel has already gone and i want to be clear it's not it's not that that we don't want to come alongside our brothers and sisters in those places not there's good work to be done in those places sure there is but we're fooling ourselves if we think we're obeying the great commission when we're ignoring the nations that most need jesus we're not obeying the great commission we are disobeying the great commission if that command is just make disciples among as many people as possible well then sure we are i mean you go to these places you can get a lot more numbers people save and church is planted you go to afghanistan you go to saudi go to morocco go to pakistan you're not going to have a lot of great numbers to report back you might even have declining numbers just got a report this week from work we're doing in afghanistan house churches this dad and his nine-year-old daughter came to faith in christ became a part of the church and the dad's wife so the mom the daughter went got her father and her brothers and came back and they killed her infidel husband and her nine-year-old daughter these these places in the world are unreached for a reason they're hard to reach they're difficult to reach they're dangerous to reach like all the easy ones are taken and if if we as the church and we in our lives don't focus on getting the gospel to them then we will be found in our day to be missing the whole point we'll get to the end we're we missed the point it's not that there's not a lot of good things we're doing by any means there's so many good things about god's grace we're doing but if we're not living for the purpose of god to see all the nations all of them all of all the peoples of afghanistan the pashtun afghanistan and the somalis berbers of morocco the way of east asia yemeni arabs if we're not living to see the gospel go to them if that's not what we're doing with our lives and our churches we're missing the point which leads to truth number five if you are not living and dying to enjoy god and exalt god among all the nations then you are missing the purpose of your life if you are not living and dying to enjoy god and exalt god so just like we started like you're made to be satisfied in god not the stuff of this world it'll all fade away it's all going to burn up in the end you're made to enjoy god exalt god among all the nations this is where all of history is headed the train of history is headed toward there if you don't jump on that train you miss the point all together you're missing the purpose of your life or maybe if i were to switch that around and make it a little more positive if you are living and dying to enjoy god and exalt god among all the nations you are experiencing the purpose of your life and that's the purpose god in his word is calling all of us to you say wait a second like i thought my purpose was to i love my spouse i love my kids and do do this and that and be a faithful member of the church yes yes yes a million times yes to all these things because this is what it means to enjoy god it means to walk with god in obedience to his commands all of his commands yes enjoy god but it's not just about you you have the greatest news in the world and three billion people in the world don't even have access to it so so what do you do this this should change the way you pray you start thinking wait a minute are you saying we all need to move overseas no that's the whole point that was a little story from the beginning you have the spirit of christ in you just say that's what some need to just come and fall on your face tonight and say here i am spin me for this purpose however you want whatever that means that means i stay here that means i go there but but just think i mean this could start you can be a part of fulfilling this purpose before you get out of bed in the morning like alarm goes off hit it and pray for the spread of the gospel in north korea you say i mean just pray yes just pray a god has ordained our prayers to be the means by which his purposes are accomplished in the world you look in exodus 32 oh that'd be a great text to dive into we don't have time to but in exodus 32 moses is interceding on behalf of a people who who are under god's wrath moses says please don't show your wrath you know what god does he relents and he doesn't show his wrath in response to moses prayer you pray god acts that's the way it's designed you say well i prayed for a lot of things that god didn't act on well oh man i've dove in way too deep here uh that's true but god's working in all kinds of ways we can trust his wisdom his power but the whole point is whole point like matthew 9 37-38 the harvest is plentiful workers are few what do you do ask the lord of the harvest to send out more workers into his harvest field you and i can be a part of what god's doing in somalia from our knees every day what god's doing in north korea from our knees every single day the question is is that what we're doing every single day are we so focused on our lives right here that we forgot to pray for the purpose of god in the nations our father in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come your kingdom come in pakistan your kingdom come in afghanistan your kingdom come here and all these different places your glory your name be hallowed this is what we pray for god cause your name to be known as holy cause the name of jesus to be exalted i think i was in south korea not long ago like that that that country went from being less than one percent christian around 1900 to having 10 million followers of jesus in 2000. that's just imagine that imagine a country right now that's less than one percent christian like afghanistan 100 years from now having 10 million followers of jesus how's that possible the story of the church in south korea is the story of a church that prayed they fast and pray they pray all night together they rise at four in the morning to pray together every single day and they've seen god move in power don't underestimate what you can do as a individual as a family gather around your kids plead for the spread of god's glory among the nations tell your kids they can be a part of what god's doing in afghanistan from their knees do that as a church and then so praying and giving i mean that god has put us in one of the wealthiest places ever to exist on planet earth why has he done that he's not done it so we can have more stuff he's done it for the spread of his glory among all the nations that's his purpose so god help us to use our resources toward that end for his purpose and then the opportunities we have to go like paul he's writing this and corinth he's about to get on a boat to go down to jerusalem he's got to get on another boat eventually and change to get to rome and we can fly anywhere in the world in 24 hours we can be a part of what god's doing in the world in so many different ways so yes starting right here yes like one god has brought the nations to our front door there are all kinds of people groups represented in a city like jacksonville don't just reach out with the gospel of people who look like you talk like you think like you reach out to all the peoples around you make disciples who make disciples lead people to jesus here who follow in jesus for the spread of his glory among the nations and then be open to wherever god might lead you i heard students mentioned earlier tonight my students i'll give you a picture of mormon high school seniors almost all of them when they graduate are planning to spend a year of their life somewhere else in the world spreading a false gospel if they're that committed to spreading a false gospel then what are we doing in the church of jesus christ with the true gospel why are we not raising up our kids to spend years of their lives not pursuing this or that but pursuing the spread of the gospel among the nations and where are the parents who are going to be bold enough to raise up their kids to go to those kind of places and then college students anybody in college in here is there anybody in college in here okay few of you like i don't have a direct word from god for you but i have something close to it i can't point you to a verse but sometime in this unique time in your life spend a summer semester a year a couple of years somewhere else in the world where the gospel hasn't gone like and and maybe i mean god will usually during that time maybe god will work in your heart in such a way that you decide to stay there and i'm sure this church will send your bags to you you only have to come back and or maybe you come back but you live in jacksonville or wherever else that god might lead you in a totally with a totally different perspective on life and your purpose in this world and all the way up i think about professionals around this room like the opportunities there are to work around the world among the nations for the spread of god's glory and to leverage business nursing engineering teaching why is the default work here when that many people have never heard the gospel and then retirees like what if uncle sam's paycheck is not intended just for golf what if it's intended for the spread of the gospel to people who've never heard it what do you want to be doing in your last years before you see your savior's face i read the other day about malaysia like they've got a whole one of the most unreached places in the world malays some of the most unreached people in the world they have a whole retirement plan set up to try to lure westerners to come retire over there so go live it up in malaysia for the spread of the gospel there like this should not be an abnormal kind of conversation this should be everyday conversation for the spirit of christ and people who are living for the purpose of god in the world ayah let me let me let me close with this let me close with this and then i want to i want to lead us into just time for you to respond however god is leading you to respond i'm guessing there's some of you are thinking i mean really what kind of difference can i make among nations three billion people obviously not one of us is called to reach 3 billion people this this mission is on god's shoulders and he's invited you and i to be a part of it but if you're thinking i don't know i mean what what role can i play really i want to show you that map we looked at has uh antioch over here in corinth and rome if you'll notice and it's probably really hard to see but there's a little bit of yellow around some of these places like around rome a little bit of yellow there around antioch a little bit of yellow and around jerusalem yellow that yellow represents areas that were known to contain christians at the beginning of paul's ministry at the beginning of acts 13 when that church sent out two people now in just a second i want to show you a map that shows the area is known to contain christians at the end of paul's ministry and i want you to see if you can tell the difference you ready see all that yellow light up those places where the gospel hadn't gone now had gone disciples have made church had been multiplied but you'll notice what's not yellow on this map right spain for all we know paul died in rome without ever getting to spain so does that mean you failed paul you tried we really didn't have the impact you wanted to have well before we draw that conclusion i want to show you one more map that shows the regions known to contain christians within two short centuries after paul's death and i want you to see if you can tell a difference look at this map with me and as you look at that map i just want to encourage you don't underestimate for a second what god will do through a heart totally committed surrendered to his purpose in the world don't underestimate for a second don't underestimate for a second the impact god wants to use your life to have on that map on this person or that person in that manner so will you pray with me god i i trust we've heard from you got it pray that everything i've said has been in line with your word and your spirit so now we come to this time to respond and god we want to respond however you're calling us to respond because we want to do whatever you're calling us to do god where there is confession in our lives that needs to happen we pray that you would lead us into confession right now god i pray for people all across this room and other locations for anyone who has never put their trust in jesus that tonight would be the night when they come to know and enjoy you that they would come to the front even just fall on their face and say god i want to know you i want to join i don't want to miss the point and god for your church to say in a fresh way tonight much like acts 13 worshiping and praying fasting we would come before you in your spirit even right now god would your spirit set apart some pauls and barnabas is in this room and you bring people to a place of deeper surrender to your purpose in such a way that days months years decades from now there would be people on that map hearing the gospel for the first time because of what you did in this room tonight god we pray for that we pray that you would give us courage to respond in obedience to the leadership of your spirit in your word right now we pray this all together in jesus name amen and just stand with me as you stand this these altars are going to be open and i want to invite you just to start making your way down to the front if you need to get alone with the lord or maybe it's not just alone maybe it's you and your spouse maybe it's you and your family you and a friend and just to come before god and say god here we are we need to confess sin in this way god we need to be saved from our sins god we want to surrender our lives to you i invite you to start making your way down to the front as we sing in worship to the god who's worthy of all the praise and all the nations i want to invite you to respond to cry out to him surrender to him according to the leadership of the spirit in your life in this room right now [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] oh how awesome my always how majestic is your name in all the earth [Music] oh lord lord may we see your kingdom come father may you will be done in all the earth oh lord oh how awesome my always how majestic is your name in all the earth [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] earth in all the earth and in our lives in this church [Music] all oh and on what is men you are mine some men would care for your [Music] how majestic is your name in [Music] may we see your kingdom come father may or will be done in all the earth [Music] and all the earth you gave dominion to your children and you crowned them [Music] live our lives [Music] [Music] [Music] you will be done [Music] the glory of god will come [Music] jesus we [Music] [Music] jesus oh [Music] how majestic is your name may we see your kingdom come follow me [Music] will be [Music] how majestic is your name in all the air [Music] oh lord may we see your kingdom come fatherly all will be done in all the earth in all of you [Applause] and in our lives and in our homes [Music] as [Music] to me [Music] my [Music] make my spirits [Music] oh you're my friend and you know my brother [Music] more than we are so much more [Music] [Music] my [Music] [Music] desired [Music] [Music] my spirit [Music] desired [Music] oh [Music] so [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] my [Music] i stand [Music] [Music] still on that throne [Music] was was [Music] [Music] [Music] in glorious [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] here [Applause] [Music] this is the power [Music] jesus commands my death [Music] his head till he returns or calls me here [Applause] amen church how about give the lord a shout of praise really praise god praise god praise god [Music] may every breath that we have been given be spent to the extent of taking the glory of the name of jesus to the very ends of the earth amen amen may every single one of us wake up tomorrow differently may we wake up in the morning and the first thing we do is pray for the nations amen amen if you feel like god has called you to step in front line to go with us would you please text the word mission to 44 1122 and somebody from our staff will be in contact with you in church of 1122 can we thank our dear friends who we've known for a long time shane and shane love you guys [Music] [Applause] to god be the glory and also church of 1122 would you join me in thanking our brand new friend pastor dr david platt thank you brother [Music] the next thing you can do is you can live on mission right now tomorrow go get somebody bring them here tomorrow night 7 22 or normal time pastor josh turner will be here to sling the word praise god and then also on your way out we've got some video folks out there we want to hear from you how you experience the love of god we need you on those videos you'll see why later on church one more time who's glad they came here tonight right praise god praise god [Applause] tomorrow night 7 22 we will see you here i love you like crazy be free [Music] you're not god you're not god it's not about you it's about him that vision for god is what brings satisfaction to our soul because jesus where else am i going to go jesus what else is there but you listen to me he went to the cross for you god has forsaken me oh no he has not the fact that jesus was forsaken for you means that you know what god will never forsake you god is the god of peace where there is god there is peace where there is true peace there is god [Music] ah [Music] hmm [Music] you

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