THIS IS URGENT | ERIKA BOZHKO | ZOE CHURCH

we are starting a brand new series we kicked it off last sunday it's called not in my house now here's the thing if we're gonna say it we gotta say it we gotta we have a lot of attitude like not not in my house not or not in my house not in my house that's what we started with last week all about the values and the culture of sowet church what are our values why do we do what we do what does the blueprint look like um of our church that's what values are they're just they're not rules they are just the blueprint of why we do what we do they're the blueprint of who we are and the thing about values is they they create the culture in which we operate and they determine how we act so values aren't what we do values are who we are and that turns into what we do out of our values i don't know if you've had a strict mom or dad growing up um i had lived in a mexican household so hey come on and uh we had you know the kitchen had to be cleaned before mom got home that was a value another value was do not shove all your clothes in the closet and close it and tell me that your room is clean i'll come after you not in my house um i'm married to a ukrainian so i don't know if you guys uh maybe on the chat hauler if you're ukrainian russian i don't know uh it's a cultural thing it's also a value uh that your floors are so clean that you could probably eat off of them uh therefore you don't even think about stepping foot into ukrainian house without taking your shoes off that is a value of the house that i learned uh quickly the hard way um so you know hopefully you have socks on when you come to my mother-in-law's house so it's gonna be really awkward you have to take your shoes off uh but that is a value they keep things in place values remind you of who you are of why you do what you do even when you don't feel like being who you are and doing what you're supposed to do my daughter she's three and she's a sour patch kid she's uh first she's sour then she's sweet uh or just sour i don't know just depends on where you catch her and uh but i was dropping her off for preschool one day and she's like mom she was like weird all of a sudden she got this weird voice and she was like mom just really nervous and i'm like okay you're gonna be a great actress when you grow up um and i'm like well why are you nervous she's like mom there's just like big kids and i can see her processing through like i'm not really sure what i do in this situation so i looked at her eye to eye and i said okay well well just who are you so we kind of we kind of give her this phrase to say we say who are you she says i'm mila boshko i said well well who are you she said well i'm brave kind and strong i'm a good listener i'm a leader and leaders don't give up and at that moment when she said that i almost chest bumped her but she's three so i just went for a high five i just went for a high five i said that's right and sometimes she's like well mom like i just the other kids i don't know if they want to play with me i don't know if they want to be my friend i'm like would you want to be your own friend she's like yeah i'm like well that's all you need you're mila bosco you're brave kind and strong you're a good listener you're a leader and leaders don't give up and we have we have a zst motto here it's my favorite thing of pre-service that we do you guys you know i'm gonna say it and our motto it just it's a i mean i guess you could say it's like uh it's a chant is that weird a phrase um and all it does it just lists our values line by line and how we're going to act those out to be who we're supposed to be and do what we're called to do if you know the model just say it with me i'm a child of god called by name i am loved chosen and graced by god today i decide to humble myself and serve i stir up my faith to say so anything is possible today i declare people are my passion his house is my priority excellence is my standard and generosity is my privilege all of this is for him this is his day his house his hour and it all starts now this is the part where you go crazy in the chats it all starts now this is what we do every sunday um if you're an extra spiritual zst member um maybe you're new you just say it every day you wake up and say people are my passion every day but that's what we're talking about today last week ryan cross preached the most beautiful message about jesus jesus is our message and today we get to talk about people people are our passion and i don't know about you um but i am mexican my husband's ukrainian there's a lot of fiery personalities there's a lot of passion there's a lot of drama people are our passion so i love what we're talking about today i love this value and we're passionate about people because god's passion about people these values were not our ideas we actually just copy and pasted it from what god said and we were like we love this for us yes this is what we're talking about people are our passion and even jesus when they said jesus what's the greatest of the commandments like what's the best one what's the one that like when you come around like i should you know this is what he says love the lord your god with all your heart soul mind and strength and the second is this love your neighbor neighbor as yourself there is no commandment greater than these there's no commandment greater than to love god and love people so i hope you're ready we're going to talk about being passionate about people today we're gonna look to the scripture we're gonna look to the word of god and we're gonna go to mark chapter two and um maybe you have a real bible at home i think you know i'm a paper gal i love the real bible uh shout out to the bible app too that's fine but get a get a real bible and while you're turning there um i just think you ought to put it in the chats what you're grateful for i know we did it earlier but i love our pastors i love pastor chad and julia i love our church and can i just tell you you don't you don't find communities like zoe without pastors like pastor chad and julia and you won't find anyone more passionate about people um and food and a good time than pastor chad and julia and we just we get to build a house with them that honors god because they honor god and um in i've known them for a long time uh long enough for them to see uh my husband asked me out on our first date as a long time ago and um now we have two kids so we're married so uh we've known them for a long long time and my favorite thing about them is they are the same people every single time you know exactly what you're going to get from them encouragement faith hope and they're going to push you into what your calling is and so come on put in the chats if you love your church [Music] i'm going to read this scripture and then we're going to pray and then we're going to get into it mark chapter 2. uh this is um jesus he's in capernaum you know what it is there's a lot going on and um i love this story it's about some four crazy friends and um they just they just kind of you know they get some faith they get some passion and some crazy things happen so let's read it we'll pick it up in uh verse number two they gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left not even outside the door and he jesus preached the word to them some men came bringing to him a paralyzed man these are the four crazy friends remember them bringing a paralyzed man carried by four of them since they could not get him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on when jesus saw their faith he said to the paralyzed man son your sins are forgiven it doesn't end there drama now some of the teachers of the law were sitting there thinking themselves why does this fellow talk like that he's blaspheming who can forgive sins but god alone and immediately jesus knew in his spirit that this is what they were thinking in their hearts and he said to them why are you thinking these things which is easier to say that this paralyzed man to this paralyzed man your sins are forgiven or to say get up take your mat and walk but i want you to know that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins so he said to the man i tell you get up take your mat and go home he got up he took his mat and he walked out in full view of them all this amazed everyone and they praised god saying we have never seen anything like this come on let's pray and then we'll get into it god we love you so much we're thankful lord that you're passionate about people that you're passionate about us god and lord we just give you all the honor and all the praise and we thank you for your word in jesus name everyone said amen and amen the title i messaged today is called this is urgent this is urgent i don't know about you but when i hear the word urgent i'm like oh snap all hands on deck this is urgent if you get an email that says urgent and then whatever it is it doesn't matter what is behind it you better open that email you better pull over on the side of the road your laptop probably just like lit on fire it is urgent uh if you're uh if you're married here and you ask your spouse to take out the trash to me that's urgent um with the tone that i said hey can you take out the trash it's urgent uh if you have a if you have a kid maybe you're potty training and they're like mom i have to pee right now and you're like wow i'm in the middle of the grocery store this is now an urgent matter i have to scan the grocery store i need to know where the exits are um and also like why is there a seven digit code to get into the bathroom like i can't remember like i mix i have two kids only two mix up their names i can't remember six seven eight nine ten star pound like i just don't know i'm just gonna bust open this door and get my kid into the bathroom this is urgent because she needs something this is what i love about the men in the story they have urgency their faith in god and what he can do gave them such an urgency for their friend on a mat gave them such an urgency saying like i just i just know if i can get to jesus i know that he can do what only he can do and um i don't know uh how how you guys spend your leisurely time listen i'm just gonna say it like i love binge watching tv shows okay i feel like i feel kind of like embarrassed to say that but also i feel like i'm relatable because i bet um that you guys love binge watching too and and this is like um maybe i don't know this is just what i do if you don't do that judge yourself it's fine um i i get like really invested like i'm talking like i am all of a sudden like i am possibly a main character um maybe i'm a friend but i inevitably by like episode five i've been every character inside my head and then i like go to sleep and i'm like i think about these shows like they're my friends like i am in i'm in the show um nate just said wow that's how i feel um i'm in the show okay but so that's how my brain works so when i read the bible i'm all up in the story like i'm all up in it like i'm like okay what's going on what did this house look like um who are these four guys like i have so many questions um going on so i just like so i'm gonna dive in so i'm gonna take on a deep dive um and this is how i see it so i'm just gonna i'm just gonna tell you the story about how i see it we're gonna break it down um and then i just have three ways to apply this message because wisdom is knowledge applied uh so we're not only just going to be hearers of the word we're gonna be doers of the word we're gonna apply what we hear we're not just gonna say we're passionate about people we're gonna actually like learn take some nuggets from the word of god it's our it's our lamp it's actually our road map for how we do life so i just think if the bible says it and we can learn from it then we ought to do it okay so here's what here's here's i'm gonna get to the characters character number one is the paralyzed man on the mat so let's just obviously he's paralyzed now and this time in this culture uh it was a huge stigma to have a disability or uh to be paralyzed on your map because that would allude to uh you were in sin there was something wrong uh you were often uh you weren't cast away from uh society like a leopard would be but you were like just distanced enough to be like i don't know like you know arm's distance i don't know i don't know if i want to be associated with you there's like a lot going on here um and also what's interesting is this man is lying on a mat he's not lying in a bed um which which just tells us um that he's probably poor and he's probably been a little bit isolated from people and then you have character two three four five the four guys that right yeah uh the four men four men now this okay this is like this is like a group project that has the potential to go very wrong like if one guy just like didn't pick up his mat like all the way like he's just tipping or like you know there's all honestly like this so i saw it one guy's on the roof like not digging he's like i'm just gonna watch him you guys dig um but that's besides point um that's just how i see it so there's these four guys and here's what they decided to do they decided i'm gonna take a corner and you're gonna take a corner and you're gonna take a corner and you're gonna take a corner and we can't get into the front door so we're gonna go around we're gonna get on top of a roof while jesus is preaching i mean like the audacity and uh we're gonna just dig and the roof isn't like something they could just like break open it's like mud and grass like it's not like rooster like they're they're having to physically dig the size a hole the size of a man to then lower him down in the middle of preaching i mean there's like there's confidence there's there's an urgency to these guys there there's a there's something in them that's saying like you're our guy we got you we will literally make ourselves look like fools interrupting jesus because we have to show him we have enough faith for you to get healed we're just going to lower you down right inside of this hole their faith in god fueled their purpose so i just have to ask you as we're talking about people who's carrying a corner of your mat and where are they taking you who's carrying a corner of your mat and where are they taking you point number one write this down god will use people to bless you we're talking about community now community all right community is like um a christian word for friends and i i'm just i've never heard community more in my life since getting saved like the phrase you need to get in community i've never heard that phrase more in my life since i said yes to jesus but i've never experienced the power of community more in my life than saying yes to jesus you need friends and to have a friend you gotta be a friend you gotta step out you gotta be vulnerable you gotta be willing to get into people's spaces why because community is our remedy to isolation insecurity shame distraction all the things that hold you back from what you're supposed to be doing i love this like i said this is why i love the bible there's illustration for everything that you could possibly think of and it's the truth it's the word of god acts 2 42. i love the acts church acts 2 42 they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and fellowship to the breaking of bread and then later on it says they added to their numbers daily they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and fellowship connect groups small groups it's we over complicate community we think i have to know all the answers i'm a christian now so uh if i go to my connect group or i go to my friend's house i can't really tell them what's going on because i'm a christian now you know um but it's obvious when you're laying on a mat and you can't get up your friends need to know here don't worry about it i'll just pick up a corner of your mat i'm not gonna shame you i'm not gonna make you feel guilty i'm just gonna show you the same love that god showed me i'm going to pick up your mat i'm going to take you i'm going to rip a roof off for you community speaks we're not meant to journey towards jesus alone and by the way community needs no recognition you don't know these four men's names we'll actually never know where they came from but what i want to know is what on earth did god bring you out of that you have such a passion to say everyone else has kept you at arm's distance but i'm going to pick up the thing that you're laying on to take you somewhere where you can't get in the front we're going to go on the roof nobody's listening to you i'll open it up for you this is community who is holding the corner of your mat i have to ask you this because so often we take our problem we take our insecurity and we leave it in our head we play this whole scenario in our head this is wrong i feel this way i did this i said that i feel creased by this person but i can't tell anybody and then you're all stuck and you've put yourself on your own map but you can't get real with anybody and no one knows your story and you're sitting here like god where are you and god's like hey i'm trying to bring people to bless you this man couldn't get off of the mat on his own he needed friends he needed community and i don't know what your experience is like with community someone has stabbed you in the back maybe someone gossiped behind your back maybe there was you know somebody in the group who just left your mat on the corner i'm believing today that god's gonna restore your faith in community he's to restore your faith in people come on we've been through the ringer we're going to reference 2020 until we're like 100 years old because it was the craziest thing ever 2020 was the opposite of what we're made for we were made for community we were made for people we were made to see each other face to face not isolation you were made for community today number two write this down authenticity is our secret sauce sauce i know i had to say i'm trying to be cool it's fine whatever everyone is looking for a cheat code it doesn't matter where you are in your life everyone's like uh i i just want to be better at what i'm doing uh i'm now a mom of two i have a three-year-old three major and i have a three-month-old and i'm constantly uh reading blogs texting moms and honestly all i figured out is like no parent knows what they're doing they're all just texting each other and like collectively agreeing that they don't know what they're doing and then they're like oh my god i read this article let's try this that's parenting okay it's like a group project again um and no one actually knows what they're doing but i'm always looking for cheat codes on how to be the best and the thing about authenticity is that it's the only thing that makes loving people effective look at first corinthians 13 verse 1 it says if i speak in tongues of man or of angels but i do not have love i am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol people don't care what you know until they know that you care have you ever hit a symbol over and over and over and try to talk it's kind of like when you're trying to talk to your spouse and your kid just keeps interrupting and interrupting and interrupting it just makes what you say so distracting i would hope that we would be people that are authentic that our performative love wouldn't be distracting that we wouldn't be a resounding gong that in us would be authenticity to love people where does authenticity come from it comes from a love of god that we know god you love me so much i can't help but help other people have you ever offered something to someone but you like kind of didn't mean it don't lie don't lie it's like uh you know maybe you're like feeling extra uh good that day and you um agree to take your friend to lax yeah i know if you're an la local i just want you to know lax or if you're not in l.a local you're watching online i don't know where you're from um lax is like a jungle um with airplanes cars uh the occasional like cop pulling someone over like not sure why because like a million things going on and um that's what it is all the time doesn't matter three in the morning jungle two in the afternoon insanity um so why you would ever offer to take someone to lax i don't know maybe you were feeling generous that day you didn't really mean it and then the day comes and you remember and you're like well now i can't get out of it should i pay for their uber like that's so rude that's so rude like i already said i would take it like i'm just gonna do it like could you imagine if these four guys like they just talked about hey man we're gonna this is what we're gonna do we're gonna pick up your mat okay it's gonna be crazy we're gonna pick up your mat we're gonna you know what i uh we already saw there's no room in there to get to the front door um so we're gonna take you to the roof what if they just said that they were gonna do that what if they just kept looking at this man and saying one day one day we'll take you one day we're gonna pick up your mat one day we're gonna do that what if they just said that no they were real talk is cheap and we don't have time in our culture to be fake we don't have time we only have this much time on earth authenticity is our secret sauce we don't even know what their conversation looked like but we know what they did i love this about our church our circumstances changed completely in 2020 but our value did not we actually got to put into practice people are our passion okay we can't meet we can't meet for church fine we'll feed people we can't have them inside of the building okay zoe cares had a drive through and we'll just feed people and we'll pray for them and we'll be the church without opening the doors of the church because people are our passion that's a value of ours and we stayed real when it mattered we'll turn our little office into a broadcasting room we'll shoot out the message all over the world why because when push comes to shove we're gonna rip the roof off whatever we need to do because people are our passion if you're watching this today can i just tell you you are our passion because you're god's passion god designed you god made you god gave you a purpose and i don't know where you're watching from maybe you're saying i don't even have people to rip the roof off you're not alone you're not alone and maybe you're someone that's like man i i think i need to like get more real maybe you do that's okay start where you need to start but don't quit start wherever where are you in the story i'm always watching where and wh what what part am i in the story maybe you're on the mat maybe you're on the mat and you're like everything is against me no one no one no one's reached out to me no one has even called me i'm just here all by my lonesome i can't get up i wa i i keep thinking about the man on the mat he wasn't mute he could speak he was not blind he could see which tells me that he was able to look someone in the eye and get real with his situation there's two sides of authenticity you want to be real with people you show up you want people to show up for you you got to be real with yourself authenticity is our secret sauce because if you can't even get real with yourself you can't get real with god and you can't you definitely can't get real with people so just ask yourself what's holding you back what's making you feel like you can't be real with yourself identify today what's on your mat what's on your mat you gotta find four friends to pick that thing up and help you get through the roof to jesus today because that is how we find true freedom and i love this number three god's plan is people including you i put a little dot dot dot god's plan is people dot dot dot including you your god's plan you can't love if you can't receive but once you receive you have to share you can't love if you can't receive but once you receive you have to share people are walking around broken they're like walking band-aids i don't know how else to put it they're walking around broken and i would hate for us to put together a church service and we ourselves are pieced together with things that don't fit have you ever had a band-aid that didn't like cover a wound and you're like this is such a weird spot like the middle of my finger like i don't what what kind of what size baby do i need i don't know but we keep trying to patch ourselves up with things that aren't god we keep trying to patch ourselves up and then go love people and make them our passion and say authenticity is my secret sauce and god's using people to bless us and i'm gonna open up this root for someone like you don't even have the endurance to open up the roof because you don't even know the love of god that's inside of you people are god's plan you are god's plan and i just want to encourage you receive the love of god over and over and over and over because we don't have time we don't have time to sit here in our fakeness and sit here and say i'm okay i'll bandage myself up i'll act like everything's okay and i'll go help my neighbor over there and then i'll burn out in a year we don't have time what's it gonna take for us to eliminate distraction what is it going to take for us to say god i receive all that you have for me and not just for me when you know something is good you can't stop talking about it you're sending your friend links you're an influencer on the gram you're like no one asked me for this but let me just tell you this is what i got because you love it when you get a revelation a true revelation of god's love for you you have to get it out what happens at the end is so beautiful in this story jesus power healed this man he healed him he had the power to heal him but his love and his compassion set him free [Music] he put that foot first he set him free and then like just for fun because people were chatting healed him boom and then he walked away in full sight of everyone in the room and i don't know if you've seen someone that's paralyzed but they can't move then all of a sudden this guy gets up off of his mat all this drama already happened they caused a big old scene there's a hole in the roof gee they interrupted jesus they brought them all the way down jesus is like all right now i gotta pay attention to you put a hole in the roof it's awkward what if i didn't i don't know your faith is so big here we go they heal this man first he says your sins are forgiven compassion passion and love then the power of god come on you can't see this and not get excited and not get worked up and not say like i'm not gonna stand i'm not gonna be first of all i'm not gonna be the person that was in that house who didn't move out of the front door they didn't even move sometimes we're so obsessed with receiving that we forget that it's about serving a passion for people is serving people it's getting out of the way for what god wants to do if god did something in your life just put it in the chat right now if god's done something for you say i'm gonna go do something for someone else i'm gonna get a passion for people i'm not gonna forget the goodness of god it doesn't stop with me the goodness of god should not stop with you spurgeon says it this way i'm not like a theologian i'm not like you know fancy just it's this is a beautiful quote from a message that he preached on these four men that's what he said to let him down through the roof was a device most strange and striking when four true hearts are set upon the spiritual good of a sinner their holy hunger will break through stone walls and house roofs their holy hunger will break through stone walls and house roofs i don't know about you but i think our time in isolation is done our time worrying about what we look like when we love god and we love people is done our time hoping that somebody else is going to open up the roof is done we need to go we need to get out i love what ax says it says jerusalem all judea samaria to the ends of the earth the same spirit that raised christ from the dead lives inside of us and we cannot live another day letting people lay on their mats we have a passion for people we're gonna rip the roof off of a building we're gonna make it so that they can say yes to god why because god loves us so much what if we let them stand outside the door what happens then that's not a passion for people it's a passion for yourself we are the church the church is god's and jesus is coming back for his bride and at the end of the day in eternity when we are face to face with jesus i hope that we can say god i ripped open every single roof that stood in my way i went through and i didn't do it by myself i grabbed a few friends i said come on let's go we got to help so and so come on let's go we got to lay hands on the sick the blind we'll see come on this person can't get off of their mats [Music] so today wherever you are whatever part of the story finds you i pray that you just decide people are my passion jesus is our message and people are our passion god gave his one and only son for us that's crazy but there's passion and god created us to make disciples in jerusalem and all judea samaria to the ends of the world what does that mean you don't need a microphone to do that you start where you are maybe for you you're like honestly i need to start with step one i need to fix some things that are broken i need to fix some things that are afraid some relationships i need i need to get myself back into community i need to put my money where my mouth is i need to show up for people wherever you are today i think we ought to just commit whatever it looks like for you for people to be your passion and honor god we ought to commit today when it's easier to today it's very easy to isolate divide and wage war with our words you could say whatever you want on the internet the internet is the wild wild west why don't we be peacemakers why don't we step up call the best out of people ripping off a roof like you you need to get crazy it's just imagery of a deep love for people that mirrors the deep love that god has for you and i why don't you buy our heads and pray and if you're watching online just take a second uh maybe you're washing your dishes maybe your kids are screaming give them a bar works every time applesauce pouch i'm not mad i just want you to think upon where you're at what do you need to do to make people your passion i'm just going to pray god i thank you so much that you love us that you made us that you redeemed us that you put your holy spirit inside of us god i pray for every person who needs restoration and their relationships today god i pray for every person who has lost faith in humanity god i pray for every person that's struggling with isolation anxiety god depression lord i pray for every person who is so scared to get off their map because it's all that they know god i pray for every person who has never felt seen who's never felt loved god would you remind them first of your passion for them god i pray for every person that is just waiting for god to use them god use us today god remind us of our calling today god remind us of the value that you've placed on people god which is so significant that you would send your one and only son god we thank you today god that people are your passion so people are our passion [Music] in jesus name and maybe you're watching for the first time or maybe you you've been watching and you want to say yes to jesus today we want to help you make that decision you're saying i'm done i'm done isolating i'm done doing it on my own i need that love that only jesus can give i need what you're talking about i want to receive love today if that's you on the count of three i just want you to put yes in the chat or you could say yes and your heart one two three yes it's the best decision that you can make it's the best because now it's not all on you you're brand new eternity is going crazy for you so if you said yes to jesus why don't you just repeat this prayer after me maybe you want to write it down i don't know where you're watching from or if you're just hearing but repeat this after me say father god thank you today for your son that gives me forgiveness of my sins jesus i confess that you are lord your lord of my life amen

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Length: 39min 1sec (2341 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 25 2021