Take Up Your Cross by Anthony Mangun

[Music] why don't we just all take a moment close our eyes shut out all of the worries in the cares of the day and recognize just for a moment where we really are in the presence of the Almighty God Lord we ask you tonight to come and be with us we invite you Lord to be seated on your throne in our lives and in this place tonight I have touched the hem of your garment and I have felt the leading of your head but right now today my eyes are looking much higher to see the face of the grain I have here movie I have failed the leading hug we've all known you Benefield's Lord but today eyes I we wanna see a face the face of the rain it's more more of your friend your friends [Music] just for a moment we all come and we ask of the Lord and he blesses we asked for healing and he blesses we asked for so many things and he blesses but the song says tonight Lord I'm not after the stuff I'm not after the things you do for me I'm not after the tangible evidence of you but I just want you my eyes are lifted higher and says to the face of the great I am I just want to commune with you for a moment tonight I think it'd be great if everyone here before pastor comes in just a moment if we would just open ourselves up and say Lord what I want is just you I just want you I want to have an open heart before you tonight God so that whatever you want to speak has a direct line into me and I can hear you and I can feel what you have for me why don't everybody just take a moment and open that prayer up to the Lord Jesus we want you we want you Lord Jesus [Music] [Music] your face let's do one time just every voice in the house lifted I think he's pleased with that [Music] [Music] we love you we lift our hearts to you [Music] Alleluia [Music] what brings in a while tonight would you do that [Music] [Applause] such a great privilege to be here with you tonight as well as the presence of the Lord and to see such a hundreds of people here tonight would you just look over this congregation I've got hundreds of people here tonight isn't it great to be in church together a win tonight [Music] [Applause] [Music] we're gonna let you be seeding them and we'll get right back up to read a text so you may be seated for just a moment but I know you've been working I don't want to keep you standing in the whole time and a few pastors are watching me right now you need to notice what I just did especially on Wednesday night let them sit down if you're going to talk for a while before you preach I want to thank our street team and just do a little bit for our start thank you music people for taking us to the president [Music] [Applause] our street team is so faithful and I want to thank y'all this past weekend they baptized five they fed them hamburgers and hot dogs I thank God for that Friday night what a dinner that honored our section leaders would you stay in section leaders if your section leader in this church would you stand across here would you stand just a moment would you give these people a great hand they're tremendous blessing capacitor and I thank you for it so many people so many people here during the weekend I walked Sunday morning I told our our staff Tuesday morning winning the balcony at the end of service and there was just people up there that I didn't even know that worship with us on Sunday morning you'd be good if we'd all become aware of who's around us wouldn't it and make them feel a part of this church amen I want to say I'm very excited about worship on the river also because not only are we going to see we're going to eat the food trucks that we do in October here when we do our we're gonna have them down there and so when we get through singing about 6:30 we're just gonna be able to stay there as long as we're gonna want to stay there and eat that's gonna be a great time I'm excited about worship on the river that's one week from Sunday night and I saved the last announcement for this because this is something I don't know what I've been so excited about something in a long long time and that is our life classes that's beginning May the ninth in fact chain just gave me a number and our classes if they're not full yet but they're very close to being full so that's why I'm making the announcement tonight we have some of the best lessons I don't know I shouldn't start naming names but I know a timming Gail is doing one on marriage I know Heath and then we're doing and Nick are doing one on finances I know that Shane is doing one on the book of Joshua that ought to be very good I know that bonnie is doing one on spiritual warfare I know that Deb doing one I think on women of influence and I should have never started naming them it is some of the greatest life classes that this church has ever had how many's already signed up for a life class would you raise your hand how many would like to sign up for life class would you raise your hand good that's a that's a few more people there will fill up if all of you go if you can't do it online you can do it out in the for you at the Information Center after church so please make sure teryn and Ryan have done a great job or put that together I'm very excited about it aren't you glad to be a part of a great church amen let's stand together Matthew chapter 28 I'm going to be using a lot of this message of what I use the first week of January if you will pardon me of repeating some things I think we learn by repetition amen and if you will pardon me for using some things I would appreciate that I want to thank our assistant general superintendent for the stand gleason because of the material that I even came across a lot of that he gave to me to which I'm thankful for he told me this afternoon he said I got a whole bunch more material I can send you I would like to thank God for our assistant general superintendent having a passion for [Applause] and Jesus came and spake in them saying all power was given unto me in heaven and in earth go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and then as we get to verse 20 a part of that commissioning teaching them to observe all things that whatsoever I have commanded you and lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world a man acts 11:26 and when he that's Barnabas there had found that saul of tarsus there him he brought him unto Antioch and it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church and they taught much people and the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch I will repeat this while I'm teaching tonight but I want you to know something the disciples were called Christians it wasn't Christians that were called disciples they were already disciples before they were called Christians that's a little amazing point right there that I don't want you to forget if you would say this with me every one a disciple would you say that with me every one a disciple now put your Bibles down and help me just give a great big praise to the Lord for the things that he's done would you do that he'll be praising tonight [Music] [Applause] hallelujah speak to us o holy God think so holy ghost god bless you may be seated I believe that from the first week of January you know that I've been trying to lead this church into changing our mentality our spiritual mentality on what it is to be a disciple maker and a soul winner because we realize if we can change our theology and if I can get you to shift your theology then we can change our vocabulary in the way we talk and the way we think about things and if we can change our vocabulary then we can change our behavior and if we can change our behavior then we can change the world I'm preaching tonight for another radical change as I did at the beginning of the year for contained within the Great Commission is everything that we need to reach this world it is the Great Commission and Jesus gave us the mission the method and the means for us to propagate this gospel around the world when Jesus said go make disciples of all nations the founders of the church prescribed the mission in the method of how that they wanted us to impact a lost and dying world we are not embarked on a self-appointed mission what I am teaching tonight is not a bylaw of the PIO a what I am teaching tonight is not Mangan itis what I am teaching tonight is not something pastor want you to do what I am appointed to do tonight is we have not sent ourselves this is not our idea what I'm going to teach about tonight's not my idea I didn't plan this what I'm going to teach about tonight was not my deal so don't blame me blame Jesus this is not my idea therefore I exercise no prerogative I don't have a choice in it this was his idea it's not an option matter so you can never dismiss it with just a wave of the hand you can't walk out of here tonight and say boy pastor taught a good lesson I'm convicted think I'll do something about it no the business of discipleship is his business and it's serious business we do not engage in de cycling people in evangelism because I want to I do not disciple people because I choose to I do not disciple people because I like to although these are all comfortable reason and although I do all the top three because I want to I engage in disciple and evangelism because I've been ordered to do so it's not something that he suggested to me it's not something he patted me on the back and said out of boy if you do it there this is a casual thing because we have been ordered to do it by the one who walks on the brow of nothing with the gesture of his hand worlds were formed the same one who dug out the deep gorges and piled up heels and scooped out to sea with the palm of his hand and told the moon and the stars to go where they are and they did who two thousand years ago now this great mighty God was manifest in the flesh and quit living with holy angels and came by way of a stable through the backdoor of this world and he became Emmanuel God with us he dined with publicans and sinners this man received the sinners and eat us with him he called them one by one announcing to his critics the son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost the Great Commission you great people that I have the privilege the pastor the Great Commission is not the great suggestion it's not a great idea it's not a great concept it's not a great option the Great Commission is actually the Great Commandment the Great Commission and not simply to be respected or reviewed or occasionally revisited or annually rehearsed or to have an outreach day once a month we revere we should salute we should take up notice when we see the Great Commission the Great Commission must not only be read weird and respected but it must be obeyed we must respond to as a church the Great Commission the purpose of this church I refocused it the end of last year and the beginning the 1st of this year I reposted and I said I want us to do one thing and that is make disciples that is what we're called to do would you say that with me make disciples that's what God called me here to do he called me to pass to you but first and foremost before he he called me to Pastor you he called me to make disciples so we identified for you our team got together what does the disciple look like so we can all say the same thing and when somebody says what is the disciple like it POA what do they look like then we can describe what a disciple is and a disciple is someone who is passionately following serving and growing in Jesus Christ a disciple on this campus is someone who is following serving and growing in Jesus Christ a disciple of Jesus of the person who's becoming spiritually mature a disciple is a person who cares for the loss a disciple is a person who's doing life with others a disciple is a person who loves the poor and the maligned in Jesus name a disciple is a person who has come to understand what righteousness is and being sanctified so that he lives differently in the world a mature disciple worship God with his and her resources and a mature disciple is a witness for Christ everywhere he goes the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch when we make a comparison to Christianity today the disciples of the first century I think you will discover that there is a remarkable difference if we would choose to get out of our traditional thinking and we would go to the thinking of what a book of Acts Christian our disciple really is if I could take your mind right now those of you that's even been hearing and pin diapers on me those of you that's been here with us for 68 years if if I could take your mind and shred it for just a moment and put it in the surrender and start putting it back together what do you think a Christian and a disciple would look like when Jesus commanded us to go make disciples he knew what he was talking about he didn't mess up he didn't slip he didn't say oh what didn't mean disciples I meant to some Chris Christian I meant to say we will make Christians he didn't say go make Christians he said go make disciples and I think that you will agree with me that there is a vast difference in this day and time in being a Christian and being a disciple being a disciple by Jesus standard we're familiar and we're comfortable with the language of being a Christian but we're not real concur with the language of being a disciple in fact the language of Christianity and discipleship have difficulty sometimes communicating with one another because the word Christian is used only three times in the New Testament when you say three times and disciple is used two hundred and forty times that's pretty staggering Christian is used three times a disciple is used two hundred and forty times Jesus started out with disciples then they were called Christians so I come tonight as I did the first week of January to tear down everything in your mind and I think you'll agree with me that I don't want to be branded at just Christianity this is not the kind of Christianity that's going on that I want to be a part of I want to be part of the book of Acts discipleship program I want to see what the book of Acts has to say I'm not concerned with being a Christian I'm concerned with being a disciple so what is the Holy Ghost saying I think we have some more going back to do for an acts 11:26 the disciples were called Christian first of all in Antioch but don't miss the fact that the Christians were first called disciples and as I did in January if we would go through the checklist I think we would do very good if I gave this church a test tonight and I said how many gods are there I think you would do very good I think that we know there is one God Almighty God who wrote himself in flesh and came to this earth and lived among us I think we would check that I think we would know what it takes for a man to be born again and that's repentance water baptism in Jesus name the infilling of the Holy Ghost evidence was speaking with other tongues I think we could check that box I think we could check the box of separation to which I in the separation is you give most of the honor to the ladies of our church thank you for the way you live thank you for your uninterrupted hair thank you for the dresses thank you for the modesty and we're moving into summertime we sure need to remember modesty I think this church has a vision a desire to be separated from this world and I thank God for that very much I thank God for our worship I'm glad I'm in a worship in church I'm glad I'm in a church where people can clap their hands I like to take people home on Sunday night drunk on the Holy Ghost I like to hear people get the holy laugh in this church I'm glad I'm in an Apostolic Church when it comes to worship I love worship I'm glad I'm in a giving Church I appreciate to be a church that gives their ties I'm glad you're a tithe payer if you not read Malachi a three and eight for it said will a man Rob God yet give robbed me but ye say wherein have you robbed me and I say in your tithes and offering so I give up my tithes and offerings because I don't want to rob God you're not robbing the POA you're robbing God but I think we can check that box this church is a giving Church I thank God for your giving I thank God for miracles we can check that I thank God for the ones that Gentry called out tonight that got miracle reports this week Dwayne petty was a miracle especially after having cancer they found spots but come back they were all benign I thank God for that that's a shout having a move of God we can check that but this lifestyle this lifestyle of making disciples that's where we get a little slow with our pian when it comes to checking things Christians today declare what Jesus did for them on the cross but disciple a christ-follower takes up his cross and follow him the language of Christianity defines the word Minister as a tiler position but the language of a disciple Divine's a minister as an action word Christianity says come sit singing soak but a disciple says go teach baptize and make we have 260 million professed Christians in America and only 52 million of them are in church on Sunday Christianity is good if 20 percent show up but that's not good enough for discipleship discipleship or 100 percent people even on Sunday night Christians in America give 2.5 of their income but a disciple gives their 10% Christianity says here's what Jesus says a disciple says have you obeyed what Jesus said Christianity says here are programs you've got lots of options disciple says you don't have any options but to take up your cross and follow me Christianity says come as you are disciple says get started where you are but you've got to keep going in a long walk with him Christianity is inclusive y'all come discipleship is exclusive Luke 14 he said if any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and his wife and his children his brother his sister yet and even his own life he cannot be my disciple and whosoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple perhaps you are under the false impression that we here at poa have captured all the Apostolic things and we're on our Road there but one of the main Apostolic things that we are missing is that of making disciples can I tell you tonight that the gospel came to you don't forget this statement it's something if you write in your Bible you ought to write if you don't you ought to put it in the on your phone as one of your most important statements can I tell you that the gospel came to you on its way to somebody else and don't let it end with you the gospel came to me going to somebody else and I don't want to stop the gospel I want to be part of helping propagate the gospel some Christians never make another Christian but all disciples make other disciples when Jesus said go make disciples they heard go live your life intentionally go turn sinners into friend don't be isolated don't be separate from sinners don't condemn sinners turn friends into disciples go live in relationship with sinners tonight I am preaching and I am pleading for this church to make friends with sinners make friends with people that's not like you they did not miss the message but we missed the message when we here go make disciples of all nations we think that's just go invite people to church and don't miss what I'm about to say we still have to do all of this and we will continue to do all of this we still have to invite people to church I'm gonna make sure I try to always have somebody at church with me or we say just come to our church or here we'll give you something good go spend a lot of money go do block parties and we do that and we're going to keep doing that or do what we do we feed the hungry down there under the bridge go do that it and those are all things that help bring about discipleship but tonight I am preaching past inviting people to church I am preaching past just having good Church I am preaching past just feeding the hungry I am preaching past just having outreach in this church I am preaching to this great church I am telling you that every one of us has to get a disciple and we have to disciple that person of Jesus Christ for discipleship is not a calendar on our program it is not a calendar on our church program it's not something that we say next Saturday we're going to go make disciples every day is a day of making disciples every day is a day of making disciples it's got to become a lifestyle I plead with this great church tonight I plead with rush I plead with journey I plead with a young adult class I plead with Kingdom life even with mothers class a senior citizen can we understand that God has called us to go love lost people can pastor help you figure out if you're a Christian or disciple are you ready to do this anybody ready to take this test let's figure out if I'm a Christian or if I'm a disciple let me help you figure that out Christians may never make another Christian but a disciple will always make another disciple and if you're a disciple and you want to know if your disciple just yourself this question timeout bring me your mind give me your brain just a moment who are you disciple at this point if I had you to stand if we had if we had about four hours here and I would start on this row and I'd say who is your disciple give me the name give me the name give me the name give me the name give me the name give me the name who are you disciple at this moment if we ever get to that point in this church where every one of us if Pastor Andrew comes up to someone in student ministry and he says who is your disciple you can pop up the name does that I'm not talking about a list of name I'm not talking about ten people I'm gonna ask you to name your whole people on your workforce are you in everybody in your college class or in your high school class I'm gonna ask you to name all that name one I'm just asking you to give us one name I'm asking for one name one name who is that one person who is your disciple in that a challenging talk tonight does that really challenge you as you sit here tonight save sanctified and on your way to heaven does that challenge you at all do you have a disciple do you have someone that you're focused in home on leading to Jesus Christ do you have someone that you are teaching someone that you're concerned about someone that you want them to know the knowledge of Christ but more than that someone that you want them to miss a hell that's gonna burn forever and ever my question is tonight it will ring in your ear I hope a stern voice wakes you up at 3:00 in the morning I hope you hear who is your disciple who is your disciple who is your disciple who is your disciple who is your disciple I've come tonight to try to shift this church again my message in January first wins and I don't ever forget it I preached on disciple shift I don't know how many people are in this house tonight but what would happen if next year at this time if everyone got a disciple if every one of us would have a heart to make a disciple I'm not talking about reaching three I'm talking about reaching what if everyone in this room tonight would have a disciple here next year somebody that you brought someone that you're teaching what shape would this church being next year at this time how did it work out in Chapter six if they just all the time had had fish and chips Sunday if that was all the way though people didn't stay with Jesus the people that he just sit around in miracles for and they came just were broke it down every Sunday morning man we had church whoa we had good Church passage and man that was a great message oh good preaching pastor man wasn't the worship team I just feel like man I'm floating leaving church this morning that if we build our life on that you will have those that will walk with Him no more right after he got through giving them fishes and loaves of bread many turned and walked with him no more he hadn't even turned to his disciples and say are you gonna go to he looked at him and that that's when and in I don't know Spencer's here but Spencer you did such a great job that night every night during above all you had such passion when you stood right about here and you looked at Jesus and there were four or five nights where Spencer was so emotional about it he said four thou like the Christ the Son of the Living God we have no other place to go but yet many turn and walk with him no more that's why I doesn't surprise me in this day an hour when people quit coming to church it quit wanting to serve God and quit wanting to make a commitment Jesus had that same kind of people because you're gonna find people that will find a committed life to be a disciple and to be a disciple maker and to give something they got it gets up and he starts proclaiming and they start saying you are the Christ you're the Son of the Living God it starts talking as soon as they say Lord what do we do he starts talking about blood and sacrifice that's Jesus you know that's just Jesus he starts saying except you eat my bread drink then then then he gives us John you're talking about a 666 everybody say John six six six six six six it is the that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him John six six six man's religion got ahold of them they walked with him no more I want to say something here you will never make disciples until you start with a commitment you gotta have a commitment to God gotta have a commitment to serve God you can't make a disciple another disciple without a commitment that's why in evidence when he deals with those seven churches and I haven't preached this but when he deals with those seven churches there in Revelation the first one he deals with his Ephesus and he starts off tell him how dr. Lee strong you are you're so powerful all them checks they checked all the Inbox --is but then he gets down to say but you've left your first love you you've left your passion you've left your compassion you've left that driving force of their tonight I even make appeal if you'll allow me to jump off of something this is this is my heartbeat because this is my father and I'm gonna preach my father's passion and burden to this church right now if you're not taking a 24 hour prayer shift I make an appeal to you I beg you in the name of Jesus I beg you to take one we didn't take one hour you can take two hours you can do three hours but tonight I'll make a commitment to 24-hour prayer I told Viney the other day when we were talking about 24-hour prayer I said I will pray whatever I have to do but that prayer chain will never be broken God give us people committed to the power of prayer I know we're having great prayer meeting Jennifer's got one going every day in her in her house and and vani s prayer meeting going mother's had prayer meeting going we've got prayer meeting going everywhere the young people at prayer we can go and I thank God for that but this church is gonna be built on one prayer meeting for sure and that's our 24-hour prayer we got to keep that going in this church where you go and he said Lord to whom can we go now afterwards jesus earned the right to say go make disciples because for three and a half years he said follow me follow me follow me doesn't mean hang out with me doesn't mean touch me it doesn't mean love me it doesn't mean sing with me it doesn't mean here teaching about me it said come follow me if it means sent me the campfire with me it means come follow me follow me was an invitation become like me think like me act like me talk like me do what I do say what I would say be what I am the call to follow Jesus Christ was a call to imitate him a disciple of Jesus Christ is to imitate Jesus I've come to ask you another question tonight did Jesus model of making disciples did he intend that to be an unsustainable model one-and-done or was he giving us a model of how to reach the world he said follow me powerful Scripture john 14 and 12 I have taken that and I've used it and I will still use it but also could sometimes take that out of contact if I don't revert back to this for the works that I do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do because I go unto my father in other words he said I'm leaving so you've got to catch this this isn't just about the miracle signs and wonders this isn't just about what I'm getting ready to say that you can ask anything in my name and it shall be done it's not just about that wait I'm getting ready to leave here and you have to be what I am and you have to get what I'm getting I'm only here for three and a half years I've got to get me in you you've got to imitate me you've got to mock me you've got to be like me follow me from here because I'm going to be gone on the way I've heard that preaches when we're going to see him we will have miracle signs and wonders big but that's not what he meant totally he was saying I'm getting ready to leave here and that is a game-changer he said I'm getting ready to leave and what I'm doing with you I'm expecting you to reproduce yourself in someone else that language of imitation is all through the Bible first Corinthians 11 in 1 be ye followers of me as I also am of Christ there it is imitation imitation follow me remember back at first week of January I said Simon Says remember didn't you hate that or or when you were in grammar school somebody would start mocking you and you'd almost want to pop them cause they'd mark mark everything you do and everything you did that's what Jesus is saying imitate watch what I do if I do this you do this if I do this you do this he said be followers of me I love that imitate me as I imitate Christ and what I try to do is your pastor I try to imitate human and I hope I'm worth following in this church I hope and if I'm not following him you quit following me because the only way you're supposed to follow me is if I'm following him and if I'm not preaching like him if I'm not preaching his doctrine if I'm not preaching you need to go some other Church where they follow him because you've got to follow somebody that follows Jesus Paul wrote in second Timothy these things I've committed to you among many witnesses you turn around and commit to faithful men who will teach others I mentioned that in one verse you will find three generations right there he said Paul Paul said Timothy I'm teaching you you go teach and witness two people you go find safe for men and you tell those men to find other words you will find three generations Paul to Timothy Timothy to men men to others all in that one scripture there are three generations of discipleship taking place in 2nd Timothy 2 and 2 X 4 and 13 now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant me and they Marvel and they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus they thought they had everything done when they crucified Him but what he had done was reproduced himself in other people and they had a bunch of little Jesus's on their hand they took note that they had been with Jesus Oh God when people see me in this city when people see me in government let them say that man has been with Jesus let them know that I have walked with the King of Kings let them know that I have been with the Lord those distractors of the disciples realize they were in trouble because Jesus had created a bunch of imitators and tonight what I am trying to create is a bunch of imitators here and I want to ask you another question imitators imitators he thought our life was worth redeeming let me ask you the first question I hope wakes you up what I hope wakes you up tonight remember what I tell you see if you remember my message I said I hope at 3 o'clock in the morning it wakes you up you remember what that was who's your disciple well I'm some of your listening that's good here's the second thing ready hope this wakes you up is my life worth imitating I mean if somebody looks at me and am i worth imitating is this is this Jesus I mean when they look at me do they say wow that's that that's a little Jesus here is my he redeemed me we redeemed your names written you're going to heaven we got that down you can check that box when I told my salvation here we're talking about it's your life worth imitating can you reproduce your life in someone how many of you have a friend would you raise your hand how did you make that friend have you ever thought the process no you just went out and made a friend you just was kind and you bought dinner you took care of them without a need you were there you just you just made a friend and my point is if we can make a friend we can turn that friend into a disciple the easiest part is making the disciple hardest part be making a friend if you can make a friend when will we turn our friends into disciples powerful question when will we turn our friends into disciples there is no difference in the skills and the commitment and the cost of making a friend then there is in making disciple where did I get that Matthew 11 19 sin a man came eating and drinking in they say behold a man gluttonous and a wine-bibber of friend of publicans and sinners a friend of Republicans independents Democrats whatever they talked about him look at him who he's running with look at he's a friend look who he's friends with shout friends shout disciples he turned sinners into friends and friends into disciples when a soul one or so above all what were you doing you were the process of making disciples but those of you and above all those of you Sunday School teachers those of us that are teachers here when are we going to take somebody from Ground Zero and make a disciple out of them Larry is so embarrassed when I ask him this question he said you sure wouldn't tell the church that this was this afternoon and I text him back I said yes Larry I'm telling the church so Larry you can just get embarrassed Larry is teaching 35 people a week a Bible study right now that's almost a shout so many are disciple I know this row I know darling Diane that they had rows saved a people that they have discipled and many of you disciples it was his message Hebrews 5 and 12 for when the time he ought to be teachers you have need one teach you again which be the first principles of the or now I'm going to go through this slow for when the time you ought to be teachers you have need that one teach you again when you ought to be teaching you still want to be taught is that what it says is everybody reading that like I'm reading which are the first principles of the Oracles of God and we're become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat in other words when you come to church you want to hear pastor Gentry and Gentry that was a powerful message you preached last Sunday for message Andrew this past Sunday powerful message Ryan powerful message Shane you're teaching Shane you're a godsend to this church I mean you're just your message on this is the fact this is the next yes right here I'll watch that message this is the next yes it may be for you this is the next yes this is our next yes and then really really really teach me teach me so we'll have to bring shame back my dream we will because that's what a church is maybe we're supposed to but reason why we can't go into deeper things is because we're not teaching anybody put that scripture up there don't don't leave me yet that's okay if you did but I just want to make sure that they get I want to make sure that I'm not taking that for when the time ye ought to be teachers you have need that one teach you again I mean how many times are we gonna have to hear the next year so how many times this pastor comes teach them discipleship how many times are finally when somebody's gonna say you know what pastor has got my attention after these two messages and I'm thinking I'm going to find me a disciple I'm not gonna find ten I'm gonna find me one disciple and when you find that one disciple you're gonna feel your maturity level go up in Christ and you'll be able to quit drinking the milk and you don't even start eating the meat of the Word of God when you start teaching you can't be taught how long do we have to come to church how many message do we have to you become before we become a disciple can I tell you it was not an apostle that laid hands on Saul of Tarsus I want to tell you this it was not an apostle it was Ananias does everybody have that Ananias was not an apostle Ananias was a man and a street cost rate that God said Saul of Tarsus - and he reached yet one record of reaching one man and it was Saul of Tarsus who became the future right if you believe he wrote he builds up 13 books to open church on three continents Ananias had one disciple but his name was Paul he knows that your one disciple maybe the next Apostle Paul that will turn the world upside to hell who'd ask you a question acts 8:1 there was a persecution eight and one and Saul was consenting in the deaths and at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria except the apostles they didn't go the preachers didn't go pastor didn't go the pastoral team didn't go you went and they baptized three thousand in one day twelve million couldn't have done that three thousand people were baptized in one day they went and found their disciples making disciples is what we are if you're in this church tonight you walked under a sign because it got finished today and the only two doors that was left was my door where I go in my office and the reception door that comes in the office area and now they're there so no one got in this house tonight without walking under a sign that says every one a disciple and when you leave it's gonna hit you right in the face go make disciple because the theme the background the foundation the screaming the singing the preaching everything in this church has to be about discipleship we have to go make disciples of all men highlights in you I turn you loose I turn you loose I release you go make a disciple somebody said you're losing your mind no I'm getting the book of Acts go make disciples you know what Megan I hope you baptize somebody this year I didn't say I hope you get somebody ready to get baptized I didn't say I hope you bring somebody to Pastor gentry I said you baptize somebody this year look why don't you baptize with Kisa you can baptize somebody this year you can baptize somebody this year don't bring them to the preacher get your disciple get them in a bathtub baptize you in the name of Jesus I lost my mind I'm just getting book of Acts I'm getting book of Acts you can baptize somebody I know he does but you can baptize somebody you can do that you can baptize well you can baptize somebody Chloe you can baptize somebody you can baptize maketing baptize somebody hope you've been bringing you've been winning so many selves this girl is on fire she had six here Sunday you don't have to bring him to Larry get him up there and baptize them get him in a swimming pool baptize them get them in Beulah Lake and baptize I'm taking the Cane River and baptize them boy it's quite in here are you gonna baptize this year who you gonna baptize this year you gonna baptize this year who you gonna baptize how you gonna baptize who you gonna baptize this year I'm going crazy because this is what I believe that God wants to do the last day church I don't believe it's gonna be built on a man I don't believe this gonna be built on a pastoral team I don't believe it's just gonna build on a staff at the PLA I believe it's gonna be built on every one of us become a disciple Jamie baptized let great good know you baptized Jamie let's baptize people in the name of Jesus get that time map time go baptize go baptized go baptize go baptize go [Applause] till we have New Testament behavior we will not have New Testaments so I'm absent other question acts two and one then they that glad to receive the word were baptized and 3,000 were added who baptized those people Rocky buddy you I'm tell you what you're something else this guy caught what I was teaching in January on that night it consumed this man he'd been he's been driving people up here from Lafayette for this man to baptize and he's been getting them baptized right up there those days are over you put him in a swimming pool and Lafayette and you baptize them in Jesus name I thank God for Marshall I thank God for pastor he's been driving them 80 miles to bring him up here they leave him down there you baptize them they're baptized on there baptize them everywhere we're going to make disciples we're going to make disciples this church has to go I'm waking you up I'm screaming at you it's not just above all that's what puts us on the map but making disciples is what grows a church he never said go make Christians he said go make disciples and when we baptized on Sunday who's gonna take care of them Marshall I want you to do your best I know I don't put too much on you because you're an unbelievable soul winner but if somebody comes and just comes into our church and they get baptized a me wherever you are tonight want to make sure we have a disciple maker with everyone that gets baptized in fact Marshall I became do it tomorrow cause we got too much going on our plate right now we can't be redoing all of our printing but the next time we redo our baptistry fill out forms I want to own their who's their disciple yes and I want to name put right there sitting up there I've been when I was sitting up at our condo in Colorado listen to great men teaching this great man here preaching place I said God what are you saying he kept saying you got to go back to what she has preaching the first week of January you got to get those people back to what the purpose is but God we just got through with above all those people just kill the self that put you on the map but making disciples is a day-to-day thing making disciple is something you do every day say making disciples is something that comes as a natural go make disciples go change their life he said take up your cross and follow me I did this last time you bring to that cross please just a moment he said take up your cross and follow me and so if you'll remember I took this cross last time and this was his cross in it had my name on it and it had your name on it and he died for me it represented pain it represented sacrifice oh god I just had a flashback of sitting here almost every night of practice and every night of above all and seeing Troy who was just absolutely phenomenal particularly in the procession and particularly in living pictures all the way through the end when he comes down that aisle his faces all beat up and Jennifer and those make contact with him [Music] all for me he died oh my sins he took care of my name was on that cross he was carrying that cross for me then the Holy Ghost says they compelled one simon of cyrene the father of Rufus Alexandria to carry his cross who praised Simon as you wasn't it brother Reuben come up here would you do that for the room and prayed Simon you know why they chose a black man to play Simon because that's what Simon was and again I would tell you for any of you that's got any racism left in you which I hope there's none in this church I hope I preached it out if I haven't you're not gonna be comfortable because I'm going to do my best to preach it out why why because I want you to go to heaven you know go to heaven with racism in your heart done but if it bothers you remember that it was a black man was the first human being that touched the blood of the cross wasn't a white man it was Simon of Cyrene was the first one to touch the blood of the cross and they got Simon of Cyrene and the reason why he got Simon of Cyrene he fulfilled 29 prophecies in those last 24 hours can you believe that so Simon just being there was not by happenstance Jesus planned it down to the exact moment and he had everything planned because he wanted the whole world to see that he wanted disciple someone who didn't look like him [Applause] [Music] if I cross your theology Gentry's probably young enough you can have him but you won't have me if this church ever closes its door to anybody anybody I'm through being pastor of this church [Applause] welcome you may be seated I don't care who they are I don't care if they're perverted if their homosexual we're gonna ask for a lifestyle change homosexuals are welcome here everybody is welcome in this church please don't everybody hails too hot I don't want anybody to go to hell I want everybody to be saved I know you're gonna reach for somebody pass that person been on drugs they've come here we cheered with them they've been here 25 times they go back and they go back when you gonna quit reaching I'm gonna quit reaching when either I'm dead or they did if I read the scripture right the Lord never crossed out anyone in sat in fact he said a bruised Reed and the smoke and flax I'll keep reaching for if it's just a smoking I'm gonna keep on Fanning it hoping there's a catch on fire I'm hoping to catch on fire I'm gonna keep doing everything I don't care who they are I don't care what they've done I don't care if their name was on the front page of the town top I don't care how bad they be let him call me charismatic I'm coming one day with a camera we're gonna read four people we're gonna reach four people you reach for people you know reach for people everybody everybody deserves a chance you step up here brother Ruben you're getting to hurry you're not comfortable being up here with the pastor are you just stay stay right there when everybody look at you real good I need your Simon I need your Simon because we need to send a message of this church I need to let them know that God reaches people don't look like us and they don't act like us I don't care what culture they are I don't care what race they are I don't care what political party they are I don't care what they believe what they don't believe everyone is welcome at the POA because he every person you see when you look under that bridge and you go with them on what's the next Saturday y'all go make what May whenever they go again and you look at that homeless man a woman you remember that's a masterpiece of gods they made bad choices and a messed up but everybody you look at you remember that's a masterpiece by God God created that person he suffered and died for every man every human being mattered he never mistreated one or belittled a single one this is stuff I just had for this message so I'm gonna read it if you don't mind I had then I don't leave nothing out because I got this on the inspiration they were investments precious in His sight he touched and cleanse unless / he crossed the sium for one person bound with a demon just one he did go there for a whole demonic Church he went there for one demon-possessed person got in his boat and went back home here is public censure to defend a woman that was taken in the act of adultery he said say what you want to she was calling after a doctor what are you doing with her I love him he never despised he never lost patient he never slighted anyone who wished to see him he worked overtime to keep his appointments he took time for babies hard pressed parents he was never rude he was always a gentleman and Curtis except when he cleanse the temple he worked with a galaxy of timpleman he took Peter with his volatile personality he took Thomas who was a doubter he took Philip who's a matter-of-fact guy he took Judas who slam the door in his face and he never ruled none of them out he made all of him a disciple until Judas betrayed him and another set of underprivileged he demanded from the same he never had foreclosure on anybody I've heard of churches that sin maiden list just a certain zip codes this church has no zip codes let me make that clear we have no zip codes the people in the corners are just as important as the people in the gated community I don't want you to take it now I'll carry my own cross right now thank you I got a quitter they can all be leaving us he was touched by human misery and shame he reached for the Pharisee and the Sadducees he reached for the harlot he reach from the outcast he reached for the beggars he breeds for the hog the blind the lame the physically handicapped every human being mattered to him he loved them to the end he never allowed any life to go and touch the defaced or distorted he reached for them he restored them he never kicked nobody when they were down he wept over their ill-fated city of Jerusalem which had not known things belong to her peace he took the worst derelict since sin could produce and he made beautiful saints out of them I decided to set a night I wouldn't go to tell this and I'll lose my blow I decided to send a night I would anyone do a meal of that I decided to just go on and fast and there was Jamie was worried about me and and Billie and they went got juice and brought it by the house this afternoon fresh squeezed from somewhere and about what mother squeezed it tastes terrible but I guess it's good for you but when Jamie drove out of that and she and Billy drove out of that driveway I said thank you for us girl that was bound by drugs running around carrying on life she came in this church and surrendered totally to God and Greg found her and God put them together that's my in Kabul Jesus I know this I want to be like him I want my attitude to be like his attitude I want to be a good Samaritan I want to talk about the talents of the rich man the lost coin the lost son the lost sheep and remember this he said go reach the nanny and that he said it when you leave the ninety-nine go recent one and when you get that one put that sheep on your shoulder and start rejoicing that you found them the David said is a man not worth more than a sheep so if a shepherd will go get a sheep won't we go get a disciple so I need to carry him across Simon went home and one his wife and two sons of the Lord in Romans chapter 16 he said greet Rufus and his mother and mine in other words Simon when Jesus discipled you you went back to serene and you won your wife and you won your two boys and Paul said that your wife became his mother in the Lord because you carried his cross so everybody has a cross would you bring would you bring Simon his cross would you bring Simon his cross he's been walking mind I'm not let him have mine Marcel you're some kind of great guy in seven they call him a sponsor when there is anybody that stumbles or false I can call Marcel at 2:00 or at 3:00 or at 5:00 in the morning and Marcel will go to them you're unbelievable that's what a disciple is that's what a disciple maker is their friend when they need you I want to show Jesus I want to talk about Jesus I want to be like Jesus I want to act like Jesus I want to buy him lunch don't go out there and wait for them to pick up the check reach down pick up the check and pay for their dinner your disciple maker I'm not cheap I'm a disciple maker I can't do it alone watching tonight is my friend Jim and Heather Blackshear she wrote me Kenai last week and she said thank you for investing in me and she called him Jimmy and I think the text she is now running Buster out she said I went home from B OTT and I just decided I was gonna start winning souls and she said I think they I think she's talking about hundreds that they now have come to their church unbelievable well the Bullards here tonight but the Buller would used to end up three years ago I walked in Walker dealership and he was selling cars and Gary was buying a used Jeep can you believe we got the first Bishop's wife driving a Jeep that's cool 92 years old driving a Jeep amen and I went over and I said can we start a Bible study and three years ago me and Larry started Bible study that's my disciple right there my name's on it Mays on the youth staff and I thank God for he and Tony nikki has been working on a couple ladies up in Colorado and she had me meet them told me about them and we wouldn't taught him a Bible study I taught him on baptism in Jesus name and explained it to him and last Thursday night tomorrow night a week ago last Thursday night we baptized Anna and Tina in the name of Jesus you know where we baptize them in their apartment bathtub because I'm a disciple and if I'm a disciple thank you I'm going to producer disciple I hope I'm not by myself tonight I hope you're getting what I'm preaching because it is what the church yes Marcin would you come here just a minute would you come up here with mr. man this is a great guy Cicely I don't know if Sicilies here or Sicily her where Sicily get up here Sicily where are you oh man I've been looking all over the world for you okay Sidda she's been a Marine would you just stand right over there that's just wonderful you stand right there this is marshland or Indian nice-lookin gentleman he's an engineer I looked up one Sunday night and he was standing right up there and this was on me so bad I went up and I said hey bud pastor man yeah yeah where you I'm agent here to announce I'm Pastor I said can we do a Bible study and I've got his name on my cross and he's done two Bible studies and we're starting our third one Friday at 3:00 in that fantastic you told me you'd be here I thought you'd I thought you wouldn't show up and you did it she's a marine she I mean she's he fights for America and went to see my pastor the other day I went to see my pastor the other day in the nursing home and she's working there as a nurse there in the nursing home okay dietary whatever you okay good okay that's good but she was there that's the main thing and I started telling her about being Jesus and baptize her and she said I wanted so I brought her to the church about four or five days later me and Mickey met her here and I baptized in the name of Jesus I told you when I ended this message Olivia she's leaving for Virginia next week she's got to go for training when she comes back we start our whole Bible study with her why because I'm a disciple maker and because I believe in hell and because I believe in acts 2:38 debaters debaters because I believe in acts 2:38 it's more line you may want to write down acts 2:38 is more than just to be defined it's to be distributed we got to distribute the gospel of Christ come up here Dwayne would you come up here just a minute I'm closing with this is Kyle here there's Kyle Dillingham here tonight okay sit Callie would you wave your hand back there for him he started teaching Ethan that is Jada's Ethan would you raise your hand back there there he is right there he started teaching them a Bible study at Jason Salinas home and if I heard him right Kyle told me that Ethan way to go bud way to go way to make disciples he had 12th in their Bible study [Applause] this guy here you can have mine for a while this guy's consumed with feeding the hungry and clothing the naked he's concerned with it I'm telling he spends hundreds of dollars of his own money people they don't pay that when you hear he's out there that's his money or he's got it donated and I've been cheering him on I've been Marshall Thank You senator haven't you but today boy you really impressed me because they sent me a picture and he got Tony I believe was his name is that isn't answering Anthony's his name yes there he is right there that happened this afternoon he owns a new Kate in the why he just got to witness it Dewey you're telling about Jesus and the saving power of the blood he didn't wait for a pastor he didn't wait for church to take place Branham over here this afternoon and baptize them in the name of Jesus because he is a disciple maker he is a design firm here in this room I have to know before I die I have to know that I'm January the third the fourth whatever that Wednesday night was in April the 18th I have to know that I can stand before my god that he put me as his under Shepard as pastor this church and told you what he wanted you to do I have to make sure that this is more about how you dress and how you look it's more than that it's about being a disciple of Jesus Christ and making disciples [Applause] yes yes I preached arrogant if I preach cocky forgive me of anything I said but outside of the way I said it I don't apologize for nothing I said because it's the gospel of the Lord Jesus [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Id: 65w0652yGz4

Length: 74min 12sec (4452 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 20 2018