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Not Without Sacrifice · Bayside Davis Podcast

• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the B-side Davies Podcast.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: You are now listening to our current teaching series, Dr.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: Romans 12, 1.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice holy and pleasing to God.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: This is your true and proper worship.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is: His good, pleasing, and perfect will.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: Henry Leiden once said, nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: Everything is lost by a failure to obey God's call.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot have a revival.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot have a move of God in this world, in a city, in a region, in a country, without sacrifice.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: And that is one of the elements of a move of God or revival that not many people feel naturally inclined to.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: We don't wake up in the morning in our human nature and say, I want to live a life of sacrifice.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: It's not a normal proclivity, a normal human desire, but it is a supernatural desire born in the hearts of God's people in moments of history.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: You and I cannot be in a relationship with God, let alone experience a move of God in our time, apart from Jesus' sacrifice on the cross.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: The ultimate sacrifice is not what we do for God or us obeying the call of God, it's the sacrifice of the Son of God on our behalf.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: And this is why sacrifice is one of the key motifs that runs through the biblical story.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: I was reading a story about sacrifice this week.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: Dandaba was Brahmin of India who came to Christ and was baptized in the early 1800s.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: As a result, he lost his houses, his fields, his wells, his wife, and his children with that decision to come to Christ.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: When he was asked how he bore his sorrows, the pain of all the loss, he replied, I am often asked that, but I'm never asked how I bear my joys.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: For I have joys within with which a stranger knows not.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord Jesus sought me and found me, a poor strayed sheep in the jungles.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's how he portrayed his life, and he brought me to his fold, and he will never leave me.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: We look at the sacrifices of life, the losses, the sacrifices that we give to the Lord, and we look at those sometimes as losses, but the kingdom way, the way to reframe this according to the Bible is they're not losses, they're gains.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: We've been looking at the core elements of a move of God, week one, vision, week two, faith, week three, prayer, week four, sacrifice.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot have a move of God without sacrifice.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: Three things that Romans 12, 1 and 2 teaches us about sacrifice.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: Number one, sacrifice is our response to the gospel.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Sacrifice, verse 1, is our response to the gospel.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: Notice what he says here.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, let's pause there.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's an inferential conjunction for you grammar students.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's a summary, it's a conclusion.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_01: This is the summary based on everything Paul says from Romans chapter 1 through Romans chapter 11.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, based on everything that I've said in 11 chapters, here's what he's calling us to do.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: I urge you.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: Think of urging paracoleo is like an exhortation.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's stronger than ask, but weaker than command.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's somewhere in between a request and a command.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: And he's saying, I urge you, like a parent that sees their kid straying on the wrong path, urging and pleading their kid to follow the right path.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's like a coach who sees their team veering away from the game plan, saying, No, get back on track.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: He says, I urge you, brothers and sisters, we are in the family of God.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: In view of God's mercy, notice what he says, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_01: In view of God's mercy, you're like, what is God's mercy?
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: That's a great question.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: This is basically a term used here for the gospel of Jesus.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_01: The good news that God's Son left heaven, came to earth, died on a cross to reconcile us to God, to forgive all of our sin, past, present, and future, and to transform our life and give us a new beginning.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_01: In view of God's mercy, the story of Romans is the story of God's mercy.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: Or you could say the story of Romans is the story of the gospel.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: Listen to this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just check out the trajectory of the storyline of the gospel and God's mercy throughout Romans.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: In chapter 1, verses 16 and 17, we learn we have been saved because of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's God's mercy.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: In Romans 5, 1 and 2, we learn we have been made right with God through Jesus.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_01: In Romans chapter 6, we learn we are in union with God through Jesus.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: In Romans 6, 7 and 8, we learn we are being transformed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our lives are being changed because of Jesus.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: In Romans 8, 18 through 28, we learn we have hope amidst our suffering because of Jesus.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: In Romans 8, 38 through 39, we learn we are eternally loved by God because of Jesus.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I could go on and on and on, but I'll spare you.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: The entire story of Romans is a story of the good news of Jesus applied to our lives through faith.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: And Paul says, God says that in view of God's mercy, in view of the good news of Jesus, that our proper response to the experience of receiving God's mercy by faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ on the cross is to offer our lives to God as a living sacrifice.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: My life is no longer my own, it's God's life.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: That he wasn't willing to do himself.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: The Son of God, the perfect one, the sinless one, the one who has eternally existed in heaven.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: God the Son came to this earth to broken people and broken places.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: And he lived in that brokenness and he lived in the midst of that suffering, and he lived watching his creation rebel against him.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: John chapter 1 calls him the creator of all things.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: The creator came to his creation and he watched and lived and did life amongst a bunch of imperfect people like us.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: And then 30 years into his life, he was crucified on a cross as a sacrifice, the Bible says, for the sin of the world.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: John the Bee, also known as John the Baptist, said, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus is the ultimate sacrifice.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: He does not ask us to do anything he was not willing to do.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: Galatians chapter 2, verse 20 says, I've been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: The life I now live in the body, all of me, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: That's us.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've been crucified with Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: And the life that I now live in my body, I live by faith in the Son of God.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: But notice this last phrase who loved me and gave himself for me.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: C.T.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: Studd, a great old theologian who's dead now, but the dead ones are the best ones.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: He said, No sacrifice can be too great to make for him who gave his life for me.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: No sacrifice is too great for Jesus who gave his life for me.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: I want you to notice a couple words here.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: Notice the word offer.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's an Old Testament word.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was used of priests placing offerings on the altar in the Old Testament.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: And it's as though God is giving us a picture of our life presented to God, all of us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bodies here refers to the whole person, every part of your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: That literally we are offering God our life as a sacrifice to Him.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: But notice three characteristics of this sacrifice that he lists here.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: Three different descriptions of this sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Number one, living.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: We are alive, we are spiritually alive in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: Number two, holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are set apart for God.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: You could say, I am spiritually alive, living, and holy.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: I am being changed by God.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's what he means here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then number three, notice the third description: pleasing.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are well pleasing to God.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: In other words, I'm living for Jesus.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: I feel spiritually alive.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm being changed by God, and I'm living my life for Jesus.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_01: Some of you are here this morning, and I just want to encourage you.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: I feel this burden on my heart.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: God is drawing your heart.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: You believe in Jesus, but God is drawing your heart to living your life to please Jesus.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: There are so many aspects of life where we're living for the satisfaction of other things that are contrary to God's flourishing and design for our life.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: But maybe this morning you came here because God is pleading with you and urging you to live your life as a living sacrifice to please Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sacrifice is our response to the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Number two, sacrifice is our act of worship, verse one.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: Listen to the last phrase in this verse.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is your true and proper worship.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is your true and proper worship.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: This is interesting that Paul writes this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because the idea here is that in the original language is that you're thinking this through.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is a university town, you guys are all really smart.
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  SPEAKER_01: You think through a lot of things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Paul is suggesting that you think through all that Jesus has done for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: You carefully meditate on that reality.
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  SPEAKER_01: You think it through.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as a response to what you have rationally, reasonably thought through based on all that Jesus has done for you, that you then say, This offering my body as a living sacrifice is my worship.
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  SPEAKER_01: The term worship there is an interesting term.
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  SPEAKER_01: La trea.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because in the Old Testament, the work of the priest in the temple was worship.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the service of the priests and Levites was a fundamental part of Old Testament worship.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's really important to understand that worship is not just singing a song and lifting your hands, it's everything you do for the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anytime you do something for the Lord, like there's a group of, by the way, there's all kinds of people who come here at 7:30 in the morning.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's pretty awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: But there's a group of like four to six that set up every chair and they pray over every chair every morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a beautiful thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is worship.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's an because people come and sit in these chairs, and their life is transformed by Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in the Old Testament, they did things sacrificially as activity in the temple, the place of worship, and everything they did was worship.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: I love what G.K.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: Chesterson said.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said, A man should not sacrifice what he does not esteem.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if we esteem Jesus, we worship him.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: And if we esteem Jesus according to Paul, we lay down all of our life as a sacrifice to him.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: But what is worship?
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: I think worship is often convoluted, and so I would like to suggest that worship is five things.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to go fast this morning because you know we had a lot of things happening this morning, which are all beautiful and amazing, but I don't want to keep you here all day because some of you are coming back tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is worship?
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: I do want to answer this question.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you want me to answer this question?
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  SPEAKER_01: Say amen.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: What is worship?
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  SPEAKER_01: There is a thought about worship that is very narrow.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: And worship, even just if you look at these first two verses, there's a broad, uh, deep, embedded reality that is taught about worship that surfaces from this text and really all of the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_01: Number one, worship is directed towards God.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: That we got to start there.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't worship humans.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: We don't worship worship leaders, we don't worship pastors, we don't worship our friends.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: We only worship God because He's the only one worthy of our worship.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: We don't worship trees and plants and animals, we worship God.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: Now we steward trees, plants, and animals, right?
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I love about the city of David?
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: This has nothing to do with the sermon.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: I love the recycle cans.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: I love the compost cans.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: I go to other cities.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like I go to my mom's house once a year, and I'm like, mom, why aren't you recycling?
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: Why aren't you composting?
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: You're throwing this in the garbage.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's bad for the earth.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: We've got to steward the earth.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: But that is not what we worship.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes people might think I do because I'm so hardcore about it, but no, I don't.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just think it's good stewardship.
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  SPEAKER_01: Number two, worship is a life presented to God.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: Worship is a life presented to God.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is what Paul is saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like, Jesus, you've been so good to me.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: You've done so much for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: You've changed my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: You've saved my heart and my life.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: And now, God, I want to present my life to you.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: There's this old thought that Christianity is just your decision for Christ.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's like get saved, and that's it.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: God didn't just save you to get saved, God saved you so that all of your life could be presented to Him in worship.
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  SPEAKER_01: Number three, worship is a lifestyle.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is, it does include singing songs on Sunday and meeting with your community or your rooted group.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: But worship is not just that, it's how I follow Jesus every day of the week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Number four, worship is a whole person reality.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: The idea of body here, notice in your Bible.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: I can't wait till I have like a screen that I can like circle Bible verses and words.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: That will be amazing someday soon, Lord willing.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: I just love the Bible.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: Don't you guys love the Bible?
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_01: I geek out on it.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: I want to geek out on it even more on Sunday mornings.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: See this word bodies here?
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: It is a word that represents all of life, whole person reality, every part of being a human being.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: That you would worship God with your mind, with your emotions, with your choices, with your habits, with your relationships, with your vocation, with your finances, with your family, with your relationships, that every part of your life is given to God in worship.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: And then number five, worship, actually, let's let's switch.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna change this on a dime.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sacrifice is an act of worship that leads to true joy.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: Sacrifice is an act of worship that leads to true joy.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Now I want to connect some dots here because Paul is saying that sacrifice is an act of worship, but sometimes we don't look at it as a path to joy.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you and I say to God, every part of my life is yours, every part of my whole person reality is yours to worship you and to live God's way.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would suggest that this is the path to true joy.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: The great writer on prayer, Andrew Murray, who's also not alive, most of my books are not living authors.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: This is a he said this, this is a secret feeling that all this brings more sacrifice, difficulty, and danger than we are ready for.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: This is the feeling.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: We're like, oh God, if we sacrifice, if we really are obedient to your call, that that we're not quite ready for all of that.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: He said this.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: This is only true as long as we have not seen how absolute God's claim is, how unutterly blessed it is to yield to it, and how certain that God Himself will work it in us.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: And you're like, what does all that mean?
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: It means sometimes we look at sacrifice and we just see the danger and the difficulty, but we don't see the blessedness that comes to our life when we live as a sacrifice to God.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: Case in point.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hebrews chapter 12, verse 2 says, Jesus, when he was anticipating the cross, it says this, who the joy set before him endured the cross.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus knew that the pathway to joy was sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_01: That if he sacrificed his life on the cross, that this was going to lead to joy.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: There are sacrifices that we make in our life.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: There are things that we do in obedience to Jesus.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: There are moments in history in our story when we obey God, it leads to joy.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: But the sacrifice often precedes the eternal joy that God gives us.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus didn't go, he knew the danger, he knew the brutal reality of his death by crucifixion.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: He knew that he was going to take upon himself as a sacrifice the sins of the world, but he saw the joy that was going to come to the resurrection and the redemption and all of our lives being changed and the love that he has for us.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: He saw all of that reality as he was going to the cross.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: We're in an interesting moment in the history of basic.
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  SPEAKER_01: 30 years, 10 different churches.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're a new one.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: And all of this great work has been done for God.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: And all of this sacrifice over 30 years across Bayside has been done.
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  SPEAKER_01: And over the last two years, all of our lead pastors have been getting together and just praying and seeking God for the future because most churches, if they've had a 30-year period of incredible opportunity to reach the world for Christ and change people's lives, tens upon tens of thousands of people, it often becomes a museum and the church loses its impact.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: And we've been seeking God, saying, God, we don't want to lose our impact.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: We want to keep reaching people for Jesus and keep being a place of hope for people in our region and keep planting churches to reach more people for Christ and to provide spiritual homes for people to be discipled and grow in Jesus.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: And now we're at this precipice, we're at this moment, and we're saying across all of our churches, let's go after the next 30 years of Christianity in our cities and region.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: And let's change the world.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_01: Let's take 83 compassion initiatives across the world, including yours, Kurt, in India.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: Kurt helps lead an organization that has 10,000.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: Is it 10,000?
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: Stand up and say that.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: As we've been praying, we dreamed up this next.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: And it's interesting because we're here in the city of Davis and we're new to the story of Baside, many of us, and it's been amazing four years into this to see what God is doing, and we're dreaming what is next, what could be.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: There could be a spiritual moment that changes the heart of our city for generations to come.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I was thinking this morning, I was thinking, can you imagine the joy it will be when all of us are in downtown Davis on the first Sunday?
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: We prophesy and believe and we pray for in a new building in the heart of our city, and we are week after week seeing tens, hundreds, maybe thousands of people coming to Christ in the city of Davis.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: The joy that we will have collectively, and we'll look back at this moment and we will say, every sacrifice we made to make this happen as an act of worship was worth it because of what God is doing.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine the joy when we hear the reports of Will and Boaz and the team and Jen as they come back and share with us year after year of all of these UC universities starting Christian clubs, Christian organizations, and hundreds upon hundreds of students being reached for Christ, and we got to be a part of that?
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: This is, you know, a lot of people they're like, oh, you know, a campaign, it's about money.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: This is not about money, friends.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: This is about Jesus.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: This is about Christianity.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: This is about what God's people are supposed to do in this world, and this is about offering collectively offering a sacrifice to God to say we want Jesus to be great in our lifetime.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_01: He's always great, but we want him to be great, and we want him to be made great in our cities, in our regions, on the campuses, uh, around the world.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: We want to invest in the future move of God in our lifetime.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to see God do something special and amazing.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so we get, as an act of worship, led by the Spirit of God, to be invested in this moment to see what God would do.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't it be amazing if every single UC campus has a DCF in Southern California?
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't it be amazing?
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't it be amazing if in five years DCF, UC Davis has 400 students that are walking with Jesus?
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't it be amazing if we have a church that is the most seen church in the heart of our city where hundreds and maybe thousands come and there's a spiritual revival in the city of Davis?
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe I'm the only one praying and believing for this, but wouldn't it be amazing to see your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven?
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_01: I have another point, but I'm just gonna stop there.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't it be amazing if we saw the joy of our lives being a living sacrifice, and we saw the joy of this moment anticipating what God could do through our collective lives in this moment to say, God, use us.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: Use what we use our lives, all of our lives, use this moment and this vision for the future, use this collective offering that that we are going to participate in to change the trajectory of Christianity in our lifetime in Jesus' name.