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Making Disciples Pt. 4 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Every weekday morning at this time we stop
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  Speaker 1: to take some time with God.
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  Speaker 1: I love spending time with God because I'm building a
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  Speaker 1: relationship with Him and I hope you are too. If
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  Speaker 1: God is not a part of your life, if you
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  Speaker 1: keep distant from God.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to encourage you to begin building a
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  Speaker 1: relationship with God. All this week we're talking about disciple making.
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  Speaker 1: That seems like an odd term. We don't use that
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  Speaker 1: word every day, do we? But Jesus said, as he
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  Speaker 1: finished his time with his followers, Make disciples of all
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  Speaker 1: the nations.
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  Speaker 1: And so we have to ask ourselves, well, what does
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  Speaker 1: this mean and how can I get involved in disciple making?
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  Speaker 1: It's not just something for pastors or ministers to do.
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  Speaker 1: Disciple making is something that we are called to.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you get involved? Well, we saw on
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  Speaker 1: Monday the first step is to become a disciple. That
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  Speaker 1: means become a follower of Jesus. And if Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: not a part of your life, all it takes to
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  Speaker 1: begin that relationship with Him that really changes your life
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  Speaker 1: in such a beautiful way. My own life was saved
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  Speaker 1: from darkness by my relationship with Jesus, and all it
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  Speaker 1: takes is to come to God and say, God.
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  Speaker 1: I keep messing up. I know I'm offending you in
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  Speaker 1: so many ways in my life, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: have a good relationship with you. I know I don't
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  Speaker 1: have the right to that, but thank you that you
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  Speaker 1: have done what I couldn't do in making a good
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  Speaker 1: relationship with you when Jesus came into our world and
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  Speaker 1: died on the cross in my place to open the
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  Speaker 1: door for me to have a relationship with you.
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  Speaker 1: I receive your forgiveness, and I want to start that
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  Speaker 1: new way of life. I desperately need you. That's how
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  Speaker 1: you start a relationship with God. That's how you become
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  Speaker 1: a follower of Jesus. The next step we saw on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday is to develop the practises of a disciple, because
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  Speaker 1: being a follower of Jesus doesn't just mean slapping the
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  Speaker 1: name Christian onto your life and
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  Speaker 1: Uh, to start sitting in church on Sundays, it means
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  Speaker 1: you develop the practises of a follower of Jesus. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: one of those practises is gathering with other Christians, and
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  Speaker 1: you will most likely do that in church on a Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: but
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  Speaker 1: That is just a little part of developing the lifestyle
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  Speaker 1: of a follower of Jesus. Learn to pray a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Praying is just talking to God. Learn to open your
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  Speaker 1: Bible every day. Learn to build intentional relationships with the
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  Speaker 1: people around you to help them journey towards God as well.
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  Speaker 1: And as we saw yesterday, the next step is to
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  Speaker 1: learn how to help other people in your life find Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Become a disciple maker. A disciple is just a follower
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. A disciple maker is someone who helps other
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  Speaker 1: people become followers of Jesus as well. And this is
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus worked with His disciples. He said, Follow me,
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  Speaker 1: and I will make you fishers of men.
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  Speaker 1: I'll help you help other people find me.
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  Speaker 1: And today we want to see the next step in
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  Speaker 1: disciple making, and that is this when you help other
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  Speaker 1: people start following Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Then you want to take them on the same journey
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  Speaker 1: you've been on. You want to help them develop the
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  Speaker 1: practises of a disciple in their own lives. You want
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  Speaker 1: to help them learn to pray. You want to help
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  Speaker 1: them learn to spend time with God in the Bible
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  Speaker 1: every day, listening to Him, responding to Him. You want
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  Speaker 1: to help them lead others to Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Just as you learned to help other people find Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: when we see Jesus dies and returns to be with
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  Speaker 1: the Father in heaven and His followers start putting into
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  Speaker 1: practise this disciple making, we see the next generation of
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  Speaker 1: disciple makers, and the apostle Paul starts travelling around the world,
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  Speaker 1: introducing many people to Jesus, and he starts teaching those
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  Speaker 1: people to do the same with others.
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  Speaker 1: He writes to one of his disciples, the guys he's
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  Speaker 1: mentored in following Jesus, and he says to them in
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  Speaker 1: 2 Timothy chapter 2, he says, What you have heard
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  Speaker 1: from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to
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  Speaker 1: faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
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  Speaker 1: So Paul received from Jesus. He passed it on to Timothy,
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  Speaker 1: who passed it on to faithful men, who passed it
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  Speaker 1: on to others also. You see, the generations that are
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  Speaker 1: happening here. This is Jesus' plan for you also with
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  Speaker 1: the people in your life. I'm John North.
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