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Gospel Community | Romans 12 Spiritual Gifts | Colin Provart · The Salt Company Denver

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SPEAKER_00: What's up, Salt Company?
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SPEAKER_00: It's good to be together tonight, another Tuesday, where we get to open up the Bibles together.
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SPEAKER_00: If I don't know you, my name is Colin.
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SPEAKER_00: I get to work here at Salt Company, which means I have the best job on the planet.
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SPEAKER_00: And if it's your first time at Salt Company, we are so glad that you're here.
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SPEAKER_00: We want to get to know you.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't just want you to be a face in a crowd, but we want you to be a name where we know your story.
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SPEAKER_00: And so if you would, if it's your first time, walk out those doors, and straight ahead of you, there's a little welcome area.
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SPEAKER_00: We have a gift for you.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think that it's someone's first time here at Salt Company tonight.
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SPEAKER_00: And after uh maybe hearing from me, maybe opening the Bible, uh, and then just being around this room, I think that even if it's your first time, you should commit to going with us to fall retreat in just a few days.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, it's gonna be amazing next weekend.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh we're we're excited to go up to the mountains for for uh a few days and hang out together and open up God's word together.
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SPEAKER_00: Tonight we're gonna be in Romans 12.
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SPEAKER_00: Romans 12 is where we're gonna be.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, as you turn there in your Bible, pull out your phone, otherwise, it'll be on the screen behind me.
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SPEAKER_00: I got a question for you.
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SPEAKER_00: What was the best gift you've ever received?
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SPEAKER_00: Do you guys remember the best gift you've ever received?
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SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you cute?
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Soul Company people, you know?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, best gift you've ever received.
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SPEAKER_00: Turn to the person next to you, tell them, best gift you've ever gotten.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyone want to shout out the best gift you've ever gotten?
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SPEAKER_00: Chick-fil-A.
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SPEAKER_00: From us, amen.
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SPEAKER_00: You know?
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SPEAKER_00: Uh okay, how many of you were born in 2006?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So as my as part of my 2005?
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SPEAKER_00: 2007?
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SPEAKER_00: 2008?
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SPEAKER_00: Please tell me you're not in the room.
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SPEAKER_00: 2009.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh as I was as I was getting ready for this week, thinking about gifts, I was trying to like split the difference.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I picked 2006 and I looked up most popular Christmas gifts of 2006.
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SPEAKER_00: So this is gonna make you feel old, you wouldn't have received these, but these were the most popular gifts the year you were born, or a lot of you were born, give or take a year or two.
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SPEAKER_00: Pixar's Cars had just been released.
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SPEAKER_00: An all-timer, am I right?
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SPEAKER_00: A top, a top five animated movie?
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SPEAKER_00: Right?
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SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, absolutely, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, high school, high school musical was like the thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Hannah Montana had just started.
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SPEAKER_00: Did anyone have any I guess girls or guys, but have bratz dolls?
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SPEAKER_00: A top gift of 2006?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: This is where it's gonna start to get fun.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh that year, the most popul one of the most popular tech gifts, a Nintendo Wii.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's like Wii came out with Wii Sports and everyone thought there was gonna be better games, but it was like, man, just never leave the faithful presence of Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort.
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SPEAKER_00: Am I right?
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SPEAKER_00: So good.
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SPEAKER_00: PlayStation 3?
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SPEAKER_00: Like it was so hot.
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SPEAKER_00: People were playing three times the price on eBay and secondary markets.
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SPEAKER_00: eBay was a thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyway, like it is, but not really, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Xbox 360?
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SPEAKER_00: Nintendo DS Lite?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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SPEAKER_00: The iPod, Nano, and video.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you're like, you're thinking of the iPod touch, no, I'm not.
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SPEAKER_00: Did any of you have an iPod video?
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SPEAKER_00: Nice.
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SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, the most popular phone at the time was the Motorola Razer.
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SPEAKER_00: And the most popular gift in 2006 was the TMX Elmo, or the 10th anniversary of Tickle Me Elmo, which is so weird.
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SPEAKER_00: That is so weird, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: That that was the most popular gift in a Christmas is like concerning.
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SPEAKER_00: But it was.
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SPEAKER_00: I want you to think of that.
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SPEAKER_00: Not not actually all that long ago.
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SPEAKER_00: In in like the grand scheme of history, those were the most popular gifts.
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SPEAKER_00: So many of those things, some of you probably don't even know what they are, but you probably know what they are.
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SPEAKER_00: You definitely don't use most of those things.
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SPEAKER_00: And all those things that people thought were like the pinnacle, like the best gift I've ever gotten, are now the things that fill dumpsters all over the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Like fill just trash heaps all over the world.
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SPEAKER_00: And that doesn't make it a bad gift.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just like was a gift of entertainment.
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SPEAKER_00: And then when the thing ceases to entertain you, or there's a new or better means of entertainment, you throw it away.
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SPEAKER_00: And that that's just like how uh consumerism works, but but those often, at least in my experience, aren't the things that mark the best gifts you've ever received.
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SPEAKER_00: They mark like the the best gifts you've ever received aren't things that end up in a dumpster, they're things you hold on to.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I want to tell you the story of the best gift that I've ever received.
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SPEAKER_00: And here's what I found about best gifts is they're marked by who the giver was and what the purpose of the gift is.
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SPEAKER_00: And so uh, if you go back uh 2020, COVID, uh was the simultaneously one of the best years of my life and one of the worst years of my life for obvious reasons.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, best year of my life.
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SPEAKER_00: I had spent like two months apart from this girl that I really liked, and I was like, you know what?
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SPEAKER_00: The next time I see her, I'm gonna get down on a knee and I'm gonna ask this girl to be my wife.
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SPEAKER_00: And I did that.
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SPEAKER_00: And she said yes.
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SPEAKER_00: So I proposed to Rachel, like, we're we're planning our wedding, we're we're getting ready to get married, and my grandpa, just about a month after we got engaged, passed away.
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SPEAKER_00: He's one of my heroes.
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SPEAKER_00: I love my grandpa.
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SPEAKER_00: I can tell stories about my grandpa.
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SPEAKER_00: He's one of the coolest and most interesting men I ever got to know.
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SPEAKER_00: So my grandpa passes away.
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SPEAKER_00: The next morning I go to see my grandma, and my grandma extends her hand out and she's like, Colin, I got something for you.
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SPEAKER_00: And my grandma, as I put my hand out, she put my grandpa's wedding ring into my hand.
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SPEAKER_00: And she said, if you'd want to, grandpa would be honored if you'd wear his wedding ring.
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SPEAKER_00: So I said, Yes, of course, it is the wedding ring that I wear.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh and that is the best gift that I've ever received.
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SPEAKER_00: And here's why.
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SPEAKER_00: Because about a few months after that, Rachel and I would get married, and a couple months after Rachel and I got married, my grandma would actually pass away.
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SPEAKER_00: And within like a six-month stretch, I proposed to Rachel.
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SPEAKER_00: My grandpa passes away, I marry Rachel, and my grandma passes away.
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SPEAKER_00: It was like, whoa, this is the best year of my life and the worst year of my life.
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SPEAKER_00: This is crazy, but it but it's the best gift that I've ever received because of who gave it to me.
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SPEAKER_00: I is it's how I remember my grandma and my grandpa, but it's also the purpose with which it was given.
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SPEAKER_00: It was given to me, but then it was ultimately given to Rachel, who would then give it back to me.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm reminded that the purpose of my wedding ring is to be reminded that I am actually not my own, but I belong to Rachel.
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SPEAKER_00: And if I forget that, sometimes I like fidget with my wedding ring, and so I'll take off my wedding ring and I'll look on the inside and I'll see Rachel and I's initials that I don't belong to myself as of December 4th, 2020.
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SPEAKER_00: But I can turn it just a little bit and I can see my grandparents' initials, 60 years of faithful love that they had for one another.
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SPEAKER_00: That not only do I represent my wife, but I represent a legacy of faithful marriages that I'm standing in.
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SPEAKER_00: Which I'm really thankful for.
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SPEAKER_00: But my wedding ring, the best gift I've ever received, and here's why.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's what marked it being the best gift.
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SPEAKER_00: Like honestly, in some ways, the gold isn't worth all that much.
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SPEAKER_00: Like if it was melted down, an Xbox would be worth more.
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SPEAKER_00: But why is it the best gift?
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SPEAKER_00: It's not because of its monetary value, it's because of who gave it and the purpose it had.
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SPEAKER_00: And here's the big idea I want you to see tonight is that God has extended to you an incredibly valuable gift.
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SPEAKER_00: God has extended to you an incredibly valuable gift, and here's how I know it's valuable because of who gave it and because of the purpose he has given it to you for.
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SPEAKER_00: So here's what we're gonna do.
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SPEAKER_00: We're gonna open up Romans 12, but before we get to Romans 12, I need to give you some context.
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SPEAKER_00: So before Romans 12 comes Romans 1 through 11, and 1 through 11 is like there's nothing you can do to save yourself, but God in his grace saved you.
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SPEAKER_00: If I could summarize Romans 1 through 11 in one verse, it'd probably be Romans 6.23, which says, For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's what that's like the overwhelming sentiment of Romans 1 through 11.
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SPEAKER_00: And then the news gets better because we're invited to participate in God's mission.
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SPEAKER_00: God's mission isn't something we watch happen, it's something we participate in happening.
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SPEAKER_00: And so Romans 12 is where we enter in the picture.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna start in verse 3.
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SPEAKER_00: This is what it says it says, For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should.
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SPEAKER_00: Or he's trying to say, like, think soberly about yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: Instead, think sensibly.
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SPEAKER_00: Like have a real lens with which you view your life, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function, in the same way, we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
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SPEAKER_00: Verse 6 according to the grace given to us, we have different gifts.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, stop for just a second.
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SPEAKER_00: So here's what God does, God says He says, I have saved you, I've pulled you from darkness, I've set you on this new path of life and flourishing, not because you earned it, but because I gave it to you.
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SPEAKER_00: But now the news actually gets better that you now aren't just a recipient of God's grace, but a participant in God's grace, where you now by the Spirit have been given a unique gift where together we are God's mission to reach the world as the local church.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's what he says.
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SPEAKER_00: And then he's gonna go on to say this.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so according to the grace given to us, we have different gifts.
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SPEAKER_00: So God's given you a gift.
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SPEAKER_00: Explain some of these gifts.
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SPEAKER_00: If prophecy, use it according to the portion of one's faith.
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SPEAKER_00: If service, use it in service, if teaching in teaching, if exhorting in exhortation, giving with generosity, leading with diligence, showing mercy with cheerfulness.
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SPEAKER_00: Guys, I I want to just like stop here and say no more and then be done and and until you really understand this, that God, when we like place our faith in Jesus, when we realize Jesus has died for our sins, there's nothing I could do to earn eternal life with him, but in his grace and kindness and generosity, he's given me the life that I could have never earned for myself.
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SPEAKER_00: We realize that, and it's like, okay, now he gives me his Holy Spirit, and and with his holy spirit, he gives me a gift so I get to participate in the greatest mission on planet earth, which is making Jesus known.
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SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: And not only does he say that generally, but he says, you.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, you.
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SPEAKER_00: And you and you and you are all recipients of a gift for a specific purpose, which is God's mission to the world.
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SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: Like God has known you, knows your name, knows your story, and knows the gift he's given you, and knows the role that you're to play in helping Jesus be known to the ends of the earth.
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SPEAKER_00: And once we realize that, that's when we start to realize that the presence of God's gifting, his spiritual gifts to us, his gifting by the Spirit, is like the presence of a wedding ring.
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SPEAKER_00: That our great and generous God has said, I'm I'm actually gonna mark your life with something that's from me and for me, so you know you belong to me.
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SPEAKER_00: Have you ever thought about spiritual gifts like that?
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SPEAKER_00: Like your life is marked by the God of the universe, that it's for him and from him, so you remember that you belong to him.
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SPEAKER_00: God has gifted you.
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SPEAKER_00: God has gifted you, and he's gonna go on to explain some of these gifts.
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SPEAKER_00: So he says we have different gifts.
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SPEAKER_00: If prophecy, so prophecy is words from God.
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SPEAKER_00: It can be spontaneous, it can be prepared, it can be insight, it can be scripture, but it but they're words from God that like when someone speaks to you, like, man, that was from God for me.
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SPEAKER_00: That might be considered a prophetic word, but let me just stop and say, like all these, and I'll continue to talk about this in a little bit, that that there's no spiritual gift.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we get into some weird spiritual gift things, like people can say weird things about spiritual gifts.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like I got a word from God for you, and then the word that that's said has nothing to do with the story of the Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not a word from God.
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SPEAKER_00: Because God has spoken to us in his word, Genesis to Revelation.
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SPEAKER_00: And nothing else, like nothing he says to us is gonna contradict what he's already spoken to us definitively in his word.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so that's the gift of prophecy.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna I'll go faster.
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SPEAKER_00: So he says, if prophecy, use it according to the portion of one's faith, if service, use it in service.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's the meeting the needs of the church and the people in it.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a unique delight and devotion to say, man, I see a need, and I'm just gonna do what it takes to meet that need.
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SPEAKER_00: And then he says, if teaching in teaching, it's explaining God's word, it's making God's word clear, but it's ultimately making the person and work of Jesus Christ so uh, man, magnificent and awesome and beautiful that people are just captivated by it.
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SPEAKER_00: If exhorting and exhortation, that's coming alongside others in God's truth to urge towards godliness, to urge towards the the living that God wants us to in faithful living, to say, like, man, I see what you're doing.
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SPEAKER_00: I just want to exhort you, I want to encourage you, I want to tell you to keep going, I want to tell you to not give up.
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SPEAKER_00: That's exhorting.
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SPEAKER_00: If giving with generosity, that's sharing, that's moving God's mission forward through our resources.
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SPEAKER_00: If leading, do it with diligence, that's organizational vision and service of others for the sake of moving God's mission forward, if mercy with cheerfulness, that's coming alongside others and caring for sick, suffering, and vulnerable people.
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SPEAKER_00: Say, my man, I'm I got the gift of mercy, I'm I'm tender towards some of those things.
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SPEAKER_00: But what you need to understand is that God wants you, you, you, each one of you, who have placed their faith in Christ to play a unique role in bringing his kingdom to the world and his kingdom into other people's lives.
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SPEAKER_00: And what we need is we need all the gifts.
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SPEAKER_00: We need everyone to be in on this together.
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SPEAKER_00: This isn't a one-man show.
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SPEAKER_00: This is that we all would look to our left and to our right, ahead of us and behind us, and say, I need you and you need me.
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SPEAKER_00: I got some gifting I'm bringing to the table, but I got I'm I'm sure on some gifting.
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SPEAKER_00: And together, God maybe didn't mess up when he said the church is his mission to reach the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you, there are other gifts in scripture.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me just rattle them off for you.
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SPEAKER_00: 1 Corinthians 12 tells us about helping, tells us about administration, tells us about evangelism.
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SPEAKER_00: You're like, I didn't know that evangelism was a gift.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't have to evangelize because I don't have the gift of evangelism.
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SPEAKER_00: Not how it works.
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SPEAKER_00: Everyone should be an evangelist, but some people have just like this knack for helping people who are far from God come near to him.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, evangelism, words of wisdom, words of knowledge, faith, being an apostle or starting a new movement of God.
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SPEAKER_00: The thing I need you to see, God wants, I feel like I'm just insisting on the same thing.
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SPEAKER_00: God wants to use your gifts to change someone's story.
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SPEAKER_00: God wants to use you to change someone's story.
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SPEAKER_00: He's invited you in.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think some of you feel insecure, like, I don't know, like that my gift isn't that prominent.
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SPEAKER_00: And I just want to say to you that like there aren't JV and varsity gifts, there aren't lesser and greater gifts.
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SPEAKER_00: There are used gifts and dormant gifts, but there aren't greater and lesser gifts.
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SPEAKER_00: So the question is, how has God, by his spirit, sovereignly wired you to change someone's story?
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's teaching to help them see the truths of God more clearly.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's comforting someone on the hardest day of their life.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's inviting someone in who feels far off.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a financial gift that leads to a leader starting a new work of God in a new place where people are saved, where these people begin to discover their gifts and start using their gifts, and a whole community is changed.
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SPEAKER_00: Like your gift could change someone's story, and changing someone's story might just change the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Your gift could change someone's story, and changing someone's story might just change the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you the story of a guy by the name of Mordecai Ham.
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SPEAKER_00: Any of you heard of Mordecai Ham?
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SPEAKER_00: I've told the story to a handful of people, and so I know that you've maybe heard of Mordecai Ham, but Mordecai Ham was a revival preacher in the 1900s.
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SPEAKER_00: So he'd get just like open field, big groups together under a tent, and tell people about the wonderful love of God for them.
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SPEAKER_00: And so Mordecai Ham was preaching in one of these tent revival settings.
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SPEAKER_00: And these two 14-year-old boys hear a man shouting about the love of a father.
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SPEAKER_00: These two 14-year-old boys walk up and they realize that Mordecai Ham has packed this place out.
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SPEAKER_00: There are no open seats, or at least there aren't two open seats together.
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SPEAKER_00: So these 14-year-old boys begin to hear a great sermon preached, realize there aren't seats, and turn to walk away.
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SPEAKER_00: And as they turn to walk away, a man grabs them by the arm.
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SPEAKER_00: Says, hey, I don't want you to leave.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna find two open seats.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll make people move, I'll make myself uncomfortable, but I'm gonna make sure you two boys have two seats to hear about the love of God for you.
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SPEAKER_00: That was 1920 or 34.
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SPEAKER_00: 1934.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you about these two 14-year-old boys that heard the gospel.
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SPEAKER_00: They hear the gospel, they give their lives to Jesus, they say, Jesus, I'll go wherever you tell me to go and do whatever you ask me to do.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna do whatever I can to make you known to the ends of the earth.
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SPEAKER_00: These two boys have the names Billy Graham and Grady Wilson.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you about Billy Graham.
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SPEAKER_00: Billy Graham has the largest evangelistic reach in history.
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SPEAKER_00: 215 million people have heard Billy Graham preached.
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SPEAKER_00: 2.2 billion with a B have been affected by his ministry worldwide.
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SPEAKER_00: It's said that about 3.2 million people accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior because of the direct preaching of Billy Graham.
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SPEAKER_00: Grady Wilson.
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SPEAKER_00: Grady Wilson would be behind the scenes for all of Billy Graham's ministry for his entire life, helping him make sure that he was in the right place at the right time with the right people to do the thing that God had gifted him to do.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to tell you about world changers.
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SPEAKER_00: Billy Graham, sure.
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SPEAKER_00: Grady Wilson, probably.
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SPEAKER_00: Mordecai Ham.
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SPEAKER_00: But I want to tell you the story of a guy who started the whole domino.
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SPEAKER_00: An usher who no one knows the name of, but said, I will refuse to let two 14-year-old boys walk away from hearing a gospel that can change everything about their life.
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SPEAKER_00: Friends, your gift of hospitality, of service, it might change someone's story, and changing someone's story might just change the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Your gift can change someone's story, and changing someone's story might just change the world.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I hear that story and I'm like, God, make me an usher.
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SPEAKER_00: Make me a Mordecai Ham.
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SPEAKER_00: Make me a Grady Wilson.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't care what you make me.
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SPEAKER_00: I you can make me known and you can make me forgotten.
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SPEAKER_00: But I what I'm asking you to do is to change someone's story, and through changing someone's story, that you might just change the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, why would I not just pray, God, wherever, whenever, however, I want to be a world changer.
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SPEAKER_00: And the invitation into being a world changer is often the invitation to doing a really ordinary thing.
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SPEAKER_00: For a long period of time, because that's how God changes the world.
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SPEAKER_00: And so the question is how do I become an ordinary person that does an ordinary thing that might just change the world?
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SPEAKER_00: What I'm going to do in just a second is I'm going to tell you five ways that I think you can help discern where you're gifted and how God might use you to change the world.
22:20
SPEAKER_00: But, but it can be easy to be like, I'm going to be introspective.
22:25
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to go into a closet, kind of figure out by myself how I'm gifted, and then I'll come out and be like a miraculous worker of God's mercies.
22:33
SPEAKER_00: And it's just not how it works.
22:35
SPEAKER_00: And so I'm going to hopefully help you and help bring you to some discernment.
22:38
SPEAKER_00: But I want you to know is this doesn't happen by you going and examining.
22:42
SPEAKER_00: This happens by you getting in the game and like getting after it.
22:46
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
22:48
SPEAKER_00: Five ways to determine how God might just use you to change the world.
22:52
SPEAKER_00: Number one, the Bible.
22:55
SPEAKER_00: The Bible.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: This might seem obvious, but we need to know what the Bible says.
22:58
SPEAKER_00: If God's going to use us to change the world, we need to know what the Bible says.
23:01
SPEAKER_00: And we need to know what the Bible says about gifts.
23:03
SPEAKER_00: It's Romans 12, it's 1 Corinthians 12, it's Ephesians 4, it's 1 Peter 4.
23:06
SPEAKER_00: Like those are all passages that talk about gifts.
23:08
SPEAKER_00: But it's not about reading a handful of passages that tell us about spiritual gifts.
23:14
SPEAKER_00: Because ultimately, what spiritual gifts do is it's participating in God's story, right?
23:22
SPEAKER_00: Like I get to be the hands and feet of Jesus participating in the story that he's writing cosmically over the course of all the unit, like over the course of all history.
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SPEAKER_00: This cosmic story of redemption that I'm going to participate in.
23:35
SPEAKER_00: So my question is, how can you participate in a story that you don't actually know?
23:40
SPEAKER_00: Like if you want to be a participant in the story of God, then I'd encourage you to know the story of God.
23:48
SPEAKER_00: And that's what the Bible does, is it it reveals God's story?
23:54
SPEAKER_00: We talked about movies earlier, so let's just stay on the theme.
23:58
SPEAKER_00: How many of you would consider Inception a top 10 movie of all time?
24:05
SPEAKER_00: How many of you would consider Inception a great film?
24:08
SPEAKER_00: How many of you have not seen Inception?
24:11
SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
24:14
SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's like genuinely I'm that is genuinely shocking.
24:20
SPEAKER_00: Is anyone else shocked by that?
24:22
SPEAKER_00: That's like a really high percentage of the room.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: This whole illustration literally was found on most people having seen the movie Inception.
24:34
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm going to utterly ruin the ending of one of the greatest films of all time.
24:41
SPEAKER_00: Can I actually not?
24:43
SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
24:45
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
24:46
SPEAKER_00: No, the story will land without me ruining the ending.
24:51
SPEAKER_00: This is a this is a total pivot, guys.
24:53
SPEAKER_00: This is an utter pivot, okay?
24:56
SPEAKER_00: One, if you haven't seen Inception, I'm rebuking you publicly.
25:06
SPEAKER_00: Two, the last scene of Inception is like mind-bending.
25:12
SPEAKER_00: It like makes you think.
25:14
SPEAKER_00: If I showed you the last scene, you wouldn't get it at all, but if I kind of explained it, you kind of would get it.
25:19
SPEAKER_00: If you've seen the movie, you know exactly what I'm talking about, okay?
25:23
SPEAKER_00: But here's the point.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: It's actually not that mind-bending.
25:25
SPEAKER_00: If you've seen the movie, you can come talk to me after, because I'm totally gonna leave this mysterious, because a lot of you haven't seen the movie, because you're the worst.
25:35
SPEAKER_00: But like you can't debate the ending of Inception if you haven't seen the movie of Inception, because the story of Inception tells you how it ends.
25:45
SPEAKER_00: If you've seen, if you've watched the movie, you know exactly how it ends and it's not mysterious.
25:51
SPEAKER_00: But you need to have watched it closely.
25:54
SPEAKER_00: Here's the point.
25:56
SPEAKER_00: It's totally ruined because you haven't seen the movie.
26:01
SPEAKER_00: You can't participate.
26:03
SPEAKER_00: You can't like debate the ending of a movie that you haven't seen the whole film of.
26:09
SPEAKER_00: You can't participate in the story God's writing if you don't know the story God's already written.
26:18
SPEAKER_00: So we need to know our Bible.
26:20
SPEAKER_00: Second thing I'm gonna say about the Bible, how many of you want to have like power in your gifts?
26:25
SPEAKER_00: Like have a Mordecai Ham, a Billy Graham, and no named Usher type story.
26:30
SPEAKER_00: I won't make you raise your hand.
26:32
SPEAKER_00: I would guess all of you.
26:33
SPEAKER_00: And if you don't, that's silly.
26:37
SPEAKER_00: Because if you're gonna change the world, you might as well change the world for an eternity that matters.
26:42
SPEAKER_00: And so let's like get in the game on something that matters for all of eternity.
26:45
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, that's beside the point.
26:46
SPEAKER_00: Not in my notes.
26:47
SPEAKER_00: I'm just like not even gonna look at my notes because you guys are the worst, okay?
26:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh if you want power in your gifts, power in your gifts often comes on the backside of obedience.
26:57
SPEAKER_00: And if you want to be obedient, you have to know what the Bible says.
27:01
SPEAKER_00: So if you want to have power in how God's gonna use you, then open up God's word and get to know it.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: And so here's my encouragement.
27:07
SPEAKER_00: I say this a lot, but if you want to be an educated person in the Western world, if you want to be an educated and influential person in the Western world, you need to read and understand the book that has shaped the Western world more than any other book in history of the Western world, which is the Bible.
27:23
SPEAKER_00: And so over your four years in college, I would encourage you to get a study Bible.
27:28
SPEAKER_00: ESV, CSV, those are my two favorites, but if you're NIV, great, whatever.
27:32
SPEAKER_00: Get a study Bible and read every word cover to cover.
27:36
SPEAKER_00: CSB study Bible, buy it on Amazon, read every word cover to cover.
27:42
SPEAKER_00: You're like, Colin, that would take me ages.
27:44
SPEAKER_00: It's like, no, I did the math.
27:45
SPEAKER_00: There are like 1,200, just shy of 1,200 chapters in the Bible.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: If you were to read two chapters a day, five days a week, you'd finish in two years.
27:56
SPEAKER_00: And I'm giving you two cheap days.
28:00
SPEAKER_00: So there you go.
28:01
SPEAKER_00: Commit over your four years to reading the Bible cover to cover to knowing God's story so you can begin to participate in God's story.
28:07
SPEAKER_00: I gotta keep going.
28:07
SPEAKER_00: You guys are the worst still.
28:09
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
28:10
SPEAKER_00: Number two, prayer.
28:11
SPEAKER_00: James like a directive and definitive voice of God, but when I do pray, I become a more godly person who sees the world through a more godly lens, who's more burdened by godly things.
28:23
SPEAKER_00: So if I want to be a world changer, I need to pray.
28:28
SPEAKER_00: And all of a sudden I'm gonna have eyes to see where God maybe wants me to step in.
28:32
SPEAKER_00: Like if you start praying and all of a sudden you see hurting people everywhere, perhaps God's gifted you mercy because you see hurting people who need you to extend your hand to help them.
28:45
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you start praying and you see people who are confused by scripture, and you're like, I have to go explain this to them because when they understand who Jesus is, this changes everything.
28:54
SPEAKER_00: Like when you start to pray, God is gonna open your eyes to how he might want to use you to change someone's story, and when you change someone's story, you might just change the world.
29:05
SPEAKER_00: So, knowing God deeply, it requires time and space and intimacy.
29:09
SPEAKER_00: So here's what I do every morning I would set a timer for five minutes, I'd put your phone on the other side of the room, and I would refuse to, I would like work to think about nothing else other about the other about the grace and grandeur of God.
29:22
SPEAKER_00: You sit there for five minutes and you're like, Colin, I want a more organic relationship with God, like where we vibe a little bit more.
29:30
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, that's not how any other relationship in your life works.
29:34
SPEAKER_00: First, you think it is, it is absolutely not.
29:37
SPEAKER_00: Second, if you want like a more spontaneous relationship with God, what I've found in my own life is spontaneous prayer is multiplied by disciplined prayer.
29:47
SPEAKER_00: I pray more when I discipline myself to pray than when I think I'll just vibe with God.
29:54
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, that's a side note.
29:55
SPEAKER_00: That wasn't in my notes either.
29:56
SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
29:58
SPEAKER_00: Okay, number three, community.
30:00
SPEAKER_00: Uh this is gonna keep going with my next point.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: Gifts are like designed by God to be ways that others are benefited by God's grace.
30:11
SPEAKER_00: And so I like a gift is not for you, it's for God's people.
30:15
SPEAKER_00: And so for you to go into a room by yourself and lock yourself in the room to just try to discover your gift, you're not actually understanding what spiritual gifts are, because spiritual gifts are the way that we love God's people, and so we need God's people to know how we love them.
30:30
SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
30:31
SPEAKER_00: Amazing, thank you.
30:33
SPEAKER_00: Uh like the basis for our gifts is others, and so it's impossible to come to a healthy, accurate, and useful stance by yourself.
30:44
SPEAKER_00: I talked about this last week, but it's like the person who will tell you that you got something in your teeth, right?
30:49
SPEAKER_00: Like, we need some people in our life that's gonna look at us and be like, yo, I think this is how God's wired you, or say lovingly, yo, this is totally not how God has wired you.
30:58
SPEAKER_00: Like you should maybe uh uh tweak your plans a little bit.
31:03
SPEAKER_00: So here's what I've found to be true in different seasons of my life.
31:07
SPEAKER_00: I always try to have one peer and one leader or mentor or someone who's a few stages ahead of me that I have a regular relationship with, and I can ask them where they see God working in my life.
31:19
SPEAKER_00: So get around godly people you respect and get around godly peers.
31:23
SPEAKER_00: And here's why I say a godly older person is because we're like, I'm gonna just like hang out with my friends, and my friends are gonna tell me everything that I actually want to hear.
31:31
SPEAKER_00: And that's not godly advice, that's your friends flattering you.
31:35
SPEAKER_00: So we need to get it, we need to get around some some like godly people that'll tell us we got something in our teeth as a good thing for us.
31:42
SPEAKER_00: And so, what I want you to do, two things.
31:44
SPEAKER_00: Find one older person and spend time with them.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: Find one older person in your life and spend time with them.
31:49
SPEAKER_00: And you're like, Colin, I wish you would show me where the older people are.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: Good news, we meet here Sunday mornings, 8, 9, 30, and 11, and this room is full of godly men and women that are a couple seasons ahead of you.
31:59
SPEAKER_00: And you should just walk up boldly, extend your hand, introduce yourself, be like, hi, my name's Colin.
32:04
SPEAKER_00: And Colin, who's the salt director, told me that I need to meet someone who's older and wiser than me, and so I thought I'd introduce myself to you.
32:17
SPEAKER_00: Human interaction, guys.
32:19
SPEAKER_00: It'll change your life.
32:22
SPEAKER_00: Okay, second thing you should do is you should attend C Group regularly.
32:25
SPEAKER_00: You're like, Con, when are you gonna stop beating this drum?
32:27
SPEAKER_00: Never.
32:29
SPEAKER_00: Literally never.
32:30
SPEAKER_00: Go to your city group because our city group leaders are so godly.
32:33
SPEAKER_00: And our city group leaders, I like there are godly people in city groups that can help you determine what God's calling you to do and how God might just ask you to change someone's story so you can change the world.
32:41
SPEAKER_00: And perhaps the story that you need to change is in the C group that you need to start attending.
32:49
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
32:52
SPEAKER_00: This is uh we're just out of pocket today.
32:54
SPEAKER_00: Okay, we're just gonna keep going.
32:57
SPEAKER_00: Uh, fourth one, so Bible prayer, community, influence.
33:01
SPEAKER_00: Let me explain this.
33:02
SPEAKER_00: I'll explain it with a really quick story.
33:04
SPEAKER_00: I led Salt Company uh at a different place before I got here.
33:07
SPEAKER_00: Okay, uh, there was a guy in Salt Company, and I like got to know him, you know, the basic questions hey, what's your name?
33:14
SPEAKER_00: What are you studying?
33:15
SPEAKER_00: He's like, political science.
33:16
SPEAKER_00: I was like, amazing, do you want to be a politician?
33:18
SPEAKER_00: Because that's a natural question when someone says political science.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: He's like, no.
33:21
SPEAKER_00: I was like, okay, that's kind of weird.
33:22
SPEAKER_00: Why did you get a political science degree?
33:23
SPEAKER_00: If you like, don't want to do anything in politics, that's kind of bizarre, but okay.
33:26
SPEAKER_00: What do you want to do?
33:28
SPEAKER_00: He's like, be a comedian.
33:31
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, honestly, those two go together.
33:33
SPEAKER_00: Like, so I'm like, I'm like, this, like, I don't know where this guy's at spiritually at this time.
33:41
SPEAKER_00: I'm like trying to woo him into the family of God.
33:44
SPEAKER_00: So I was like, you do you ever have a comedy show?
33:49
SPEAKER_00: Which was a mistake.
33:51
SPEAKER_00: She's like, yes.
33:52
SPEAKER_00: I was like, okay, let me know when the comedy show is, I'll show up.
33:55
SPEAKER_00: 9 p.m.
33:56
SPEAKER_00: Super sketchy bar.
33:58
SPEAKER_00: Like, unbelievably sketchy bar.
34:00
SPEAKER_00: And we walk in, and so I'm like, one foot into this bar that is way too sketchy.
34:04
SPEAKER_00: And they're like, it's downstairs.
34:06
SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
34:09
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I'm sitting at this sketchy bar's basement, and they just like start pulling names out of a fishbowl, and everyone, everyone there was someone who was an aspiring comedian, other than me and the other student I forced to come with me.
34:26
SPEAKER_00: And so they're just like getting their names, and it's like 9 p.m.
34:29
SPEAKER_00: when it starts.
34:30
SPEAKER_00: And I've sat there for two hours and haven't heard this guy's bit.
34:36
SPEAKER_00: And then he comes up to me, he's like, Yeah, the event's over.
34:38
SPEAKER_00: I was like, what?
34:40
SPEAKER_00: What have I just done for two hours?
34:43
SPEAKER_00: He's like, you know, this is sometimes how things go, like, sometimes your name's not called, and so yeah, I mean, today's just not the day you'll hear me do comedy.
34:49
SPEAKER_00: I was like, are you kidding me?
34:51
SPEAKER_00: But here was what made the whole thing worse.
34:53
SPEAKER_00: I listened to 20 comedians that were terrible.
34:57
SPEAKER_00: No one laughed.
35:00
SPEAKER_00: Like they did that, the like, but the only reason people I'm so sorry I called you out.
35:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm so sorry.
35:08
SPEAKER_00: But the only reason you do that is because their jokes are so bad, but like they want to be funny, but they're not funny, which is hilarious.
35:19
SPEAKER_00: Okay, what's the point?
35:22
SPEAKER_00: A comedian is only as good as the laughs that they get.
35:27
SPEAKER_00: You cannot call yourself a comedian if no one laughs when you open your mouth.
35:33
SPEAKER_00: Here's the point.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: You can't be like, I'm a great teacher.
35:36
SPEAKER_00: If no one, if everyone leaves when you explain something and is like, I am more confused than when I started.
35:41
SPEAKER_00: It's like, I love you.
35:42
SPEAKER_00: You're maybe not a good teacher.
35:44
SPEAKER_00: If you're like, I have the gift of mercy, and like sick and suffering people are like, I would rather you stay at home.
35:51
SPEAKER_00: You may not have the gift of mercy, which is okay.
35:54
SPEAKER_00: Because we don't have all the gift, like we need each other, right?
35:57
SPEAKER_00: And so part of it is just like, where where do you see people change when you're around them?
36:02
SPEAKER_00: Where do others affirm you?
36:04
SPEAKER_00: Where are others changed by you?
36:06
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
36:06
SPEAKER_00: Number five, opportunity.
36:08
SPEAKER_00: What opportunities do you have?
36:10
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna keep this one super simple.
36:12
SPEAKER_00: I think that God in his providence opens doors that he wants us to walk through.
36:19
SPEAKER_00: So like you'll start getting opportunities and you'll start walking through doors, and then God will multiply that.
36:24
SPEAKER_00: And perhaps the opportunities that you have are opportunities to practice the gifts that he's given to you.
36:31
SPEAKER_00: But here's what I want you to know is I don't want you to wait until doors start flying open in your life to start seeing how God might be using you.
36:40
SPEAKER_00: So let me reread the text, because if you read it, it's actually kind of weird.
36:43
SPEAKER_00: It says, if prophecy, use it according to the portion of one's faith.
36:46
SPEAKER_00: If service, use it in service, which is like, where else would I use it?
36:50
SPEAKER_00: If teaching in teaching, okay, thank you, Paul.
36:53
SPEAKER_00: If exhorting and exhortation, duh.
36:55
SPEAKER_00: Giving with generosity, leading with diligence, showing mercy with cheerfulness.
36:59
SPEAKER_00: Like the structure's weird.
37:00
SPEAKER_00: If your gift is teaching, teach.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: If your gift is uh is giving, do it with generosity.
37:06
SPEAKER_00: But why does he say that?
37:09
SPEAKER_00: Because it's easy to sit on our hands and wait to do something until we feel like it's super clear.
37:14
SPEAKER_00: And he's saying, get after it.
37:17
SPEAKER_00: Get in the game.
37:18
SPEAKER_00: You don't need to have it all figured out.
37:19
SPEAKER_00: Like, guys, you might not know the story of the Bible, but the story of the Bible that the Bible invites us into is like a story of cosmic evil versus cosmic good.
37:28
SPEAKER_00: And he's like, oh, by the way, cosmic good is gonna win in the end, and you get to like take a sword and get in the fight, and you can't lose.
37:39
SPEAKER_00: Are you kidding me?
37:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, get me in the game.
37:45
SPEAKER_00: Like, send me, commission me.
37:48
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to war.
37:49
SPEAKER_00: If the story of the Bible is cosmic bad versus cosmic good, and I know cosmic good is gonna win, and the the one who leads the cosmic good army is like, I want you on my team, how am I not like, let's freaking go?
38:04
SPEAKER_00: Is this just me?
38:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, let's get after it a little bit.
38:09
SPEAKER_00: And so here's my point is like, do you have a bow and arrow or a rifle or a sword or like a mini shank?
38:16
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
38:16
SPEAKER_00: I don't even know the weapons are.
38:18
SPEAKER_00: This isn't in my notes.
38:19
SPEAKER_00: I'm just like, I'm just like, send me.
38:22
SPEAKER_00: Put me on the battlefield.
38:23
SPEAKER_00: Like, let me just like send it for the sake of the gospel because I can't lose.
38:28
SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
38:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna like develop some gifts over time that I didn't think I had.
38:31
SPEAKER_00: I don't even know what my gifts are today.
38:33
SPEAKER_00: But here's what I've heard said before is that when I get to heaven, Jesus is absolutely gonna wipe the tears from my eyes, but I also hope he wipes the sweat from my brow.
38:41
SPEAKER_00: Because I'm just like getting after it for the kingdom of God.
38:46
SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm just like, let's go.
38:49
SPEAKER_00: So I think our tendency is like, I'm gonna go figure it out, and then maybe I'll get after it once I go and figure it out.
38:54
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, one, you'll never figure it out in that way, and two, why would you waste a day doing anything else other than fighting the greatest fight you're ever gonna fight in your entire life?
39:05
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
39:08
SPEAKER_00: Back to my notes.
39:12
SPEAKER_00: Friends, there are people to love that you need to love.
39:14
SPEAKER_00: There are words of encouragement that you alone can give.
39:18
SPEAKER_00: There are sick and suffering people that you must be the ones to care for.
39:23
SPEAKER_00: There are lost people that are close to you and far from God, and you're the person God wants to extend the invitation with.
39:30
SPEAKER_00: God might use what you feel is inconsequential, what you feel afraid of to change someone's story, and changing someone's story might just change the world.
39:40
SPEAKER_00: Uh Jesus tells this story of it's called the parable of the talents, and he gives one guy five talents, another guy two talents, and another guy one talent.
39:48
SPEAKER_00: And he's like, Hey, I want you to go.
39:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be gone.
39:51
SPEAKER_00: I want you to invest it.
39:53
SPEAKER_00: So when the master returns, the guy with five talents is like, here, master, here's ten.
39:57
SPEAKER_00: I've I invested your five and here's five more.
40:00
SPEAKER_00: And then the one with two is like, here, master, here's four.
40:02
SPEAKER_00: I've invested your two and here's two more.
40:04
SPEAKER_00: And then the guy with one was like, Master, I I was afraid, and I didn't want to screw it up.
40:10
SPEAKER_00: And so I buried the one talent, but here, here it is.
40:15
SPEAKER_00: At least I didn't screw it up.
40:18
SPEAKER_00: And how the story goes is the master's mad.
40:21
SPEAKER_00: This is the story Jesus tells.
40:22
SPEAKER_00: The master's mad because the guy with one talent had fear, and the fear kept him from the purpose the master had for him.
40:33
SPEAKER_00: So, friends, I don't know if God's given you five talents, two talents, or one talent, but the thing I don't want you to do is bury the thing he's given you in in fear that you might not be great.
40:42
SPEAKER_00: Because I promise you, the one way you won't change the world is by taking get whatever gift he's given to you and letting it stay dormant, letting it not be used, not praying the prayer he's asked you to pray, not giving the hope he's asked you to give, not giving the financial gift that you alone can bless with.
41:05
SPEAKER_00: But friends, let me caution you.
41:08
SPEAKER_00: Because I think some of you like hear me get fired up.
41:10
SPEAKER_00: You're like, let's go! Like you're gonna come up with me in the lobby, you're gonna be like, let's go, you know?
41:16
SPEAKER_00: And you're gonna begin to think, like, man, maybe God has a special purpose for me that he doesn't have for anyone else.
41:22
SPEAKER_00: That's true in a sense, but you're gonna start to think it's because you have this awesome response to the work God's doing.
41:27
SPEAKER_00: But friends, let me remind you that everything in the story of scripture is a gift from God by grace.
41:34
SPEAKER_00: Starting first with our salvation, that we go all the way to the beginning, that while we were dead in our sins, Christ Jesus made us alive by his spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: Because of the life we couldn't live, because of the death that he alone could be the substitute for, because of his victorious resurrection, because of his ascension, we're King Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Like when we say King Jesus, it's not just this abstract king, it's that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God, reigning and ruling as King.
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SPEAKER_00: And he sent us his spirit to say, I'm gonna gift you and I'm gonna empower you to change someone's story, and changing someone's story might just change the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me pray that that be true of you guys.
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SPEAKER_00: God, I pray that you'd empower by your spirit this room of young men and young women to be world changers.
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SPEAKER_00: God, I don't think you're honored by small prayers because you're a big God who can do big things, and so we just want to ask and plead and beg that you would use our lives to change the world, that you'd begin a gospel legacy that starts tonight, that changes the campus, that changes the front range, that changes the state of Colorado, that changes the western United States, that changes our country, that changes North America, and we'd be so bold as to ask, would go to the ends of the earth and change the world.
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SPEAKER_00: And so, God, use us.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we are, send us with still figuring it out gifts, with unidentified gifts, with I don't know what my gifts are, gifts.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we are, God, use us.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise in Jesus' name, amen.