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One of Those People series (Part 1): "Living with Passion and Purpose" | October 1, 2023 · First Love Revolution

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Revolution Church Message Series, one of those people.
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  Speaker 1: You can find the entire series in video and podcast format, as well as other messages, at FirstLoveRevolutioncom.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Here's Pastor Rebecca with today's message.
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  Speaker 1: Well, welcome, church of the Front Range, and happy October.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: It is so good to worship with you, hey.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Before we dive into God's Word, just a couple quick announcements.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: As many of you know, one of our external ministry partners is A21, founded by Christine and Nick Kane, and it's a ministry that exists to abolish slavery everywhere.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: You know, around the world today, there are 40.3 million people in slavery that's more people enslaved today than at any point in history, and the human trafficking generates an average of $150 billion of revenue a year.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: So, as we shared last week, this is not just a problem somewhere out there.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: It's actually a problem here, right where we live.
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  Speaker 1: Denver itself consistently ranks among the top 10 of America's most trafficked cities, and so Church of the Front Range has stepped forward to host a Walk for Freedom in Lone Tree, where we will be bringing awareness to this tragedy.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: A Walk for Freedom, it's a global awareness event rallying tens of thousands of people who are taking millions of steps in hundreds of cities all over the world, and so our Walk for Freedom will take place on the same day.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: It takes place everywhere, october 15th, from 10 am to 12 pm.
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  Speaker 1: We would love, as a church, to have you participate in the event.
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  Speaker 1: If you'd like to participate, you can go online to our website, churchofthefrontrangecom, slash A21, you can register there, you can give and if you're here and you're like I just want to find out more about the event and what the whole purpose is and what we're going to be doing.
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  Speaker 1: There are people in the lobby on your way out.
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  Speaker 1: We'd love to have you swing by and get some more information.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: Also, I do want to thank you for your ongoing patience with us as we've been making our way through construction.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: As some great news the children's and the youth restrooms.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: They are just about complete.
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  Speaker 1: They're the ones that we're starting to use.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that you are enjoying them.
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  Speaker 1: The future adult ones they are going to be right beyond this curtain.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be a brand new hallway cut out.
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  Speaker 1: Those should be ready in the next couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: We are just weeks away from the children's lobby and the children's faces being done.
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  Speaker 1: What I really want to do is to stop and take a moment and praise God and say thank you, god, for your provision and church.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: I want to say thank you so much for sewing so faithfully and generously in.
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  Speaker 1: You are a huge part of that testimony.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And last, before we dive in, if you came ready to sew into the ministry of church of the front range, just want you to know you can do that in one of two ways Either you can go online or there are offering buckets on your way out.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, would you join me in praying?
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  Speaker 1: And then let's dive into what God wants to say this morning.
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  Speaker 1: God, we are coming as your people and, god, we want to hear from you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And, god, we recognize that when we open your word, you are speaking.
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  Speaker 1: And so, god, we pray that our hearts would be soft soil for you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: God, we pray that we would leave a changed people because we have been in your presence and we've been responsive to what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: And so, god, I pray for every single person who is gathered here this morning, for every single person who is online.
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  Speaker 1: God, our ears would be wide open, that our eyes would be fixed on you, that our hearts would be soft soil.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: God, we come against every distraction in this place.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, without any relational tension, any financial struggles.
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  Speaker 1: God, we come and we lay them down before you and, god, we pray that you would give us a steadfast spirit to hear from you, to be with you, to be changed by you.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen, amen, well, church, welcome to our brand new series called One of those People.
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  Speaker 1: One of those People.
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  Speaker 1: As we get started, I want to tell you a testimony of one of those people.
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  Speaker 1: Back during COVID, a man in our church.
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  Speaker 1: He was listening to a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It was when everything was crazy and he heard a preacher say something that just gripped his soul.
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  Speaker 1: He heard a preacher say you will never really know God until you have read the Bible cover to cover as many times as you are old.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: He was like well dang, you know, he was like 36 years old, and it's not that he doesn't read the Bible, he reads the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: But up to that point, he had never actually read the Bible cover to cover all the way through once, and so he was a bit behind.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: And you know, I have to imagine if most of us put ourselves in his shoes, we'd be like bummer.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: Wish I had heard that like 30 years ago, right, or like that's so awesome, but there's no way I'm ever going to catch up, so I'm just going to let it be what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But not this man.
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  Speaker 1: So something gripped him and it caught in his soul and he's like I want to do this, I want to pursue God.
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  Speaker 1: Like that he got in his heart that he wanted to catch up and he really felt like God gave him a strategy for how to do that.
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  Speaker 1: See, he has these long car drives every single day and he really felt like God was highlighting hey, maximizing that time is how you're going to catch up, how you're going to be able to do this.
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  Speaker 1: And so he started right away.
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  Speaker 1: So for the last two years get ahold of this the last two years, every single day, he listens to at least one chapter of the Bible 38 times a day.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: Let me just make sure we all got that.
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  Speaker 1: Every single day, while he is driving, he listens to at least one chapter 38 times a day.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: And then the next morning he wakes up, he opens the Bible, he reads the chapter that he just listened to 38 times, he journals what God has impressed upon him and then he gets in his car and he does it all over again.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: Now there's so much that I could tell you about this one.
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  Speaker 1: It is going to take him a couple of years to catch up, I'll admit that.
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  Speaker 1: But can I tell you, god's already been showing up.
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  Speaker 1: He's already been drawing this man closer.
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: God has already been showing more of himself to this man.
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  Speaker 1: He is leading this guy to catch a raging fire in his soul.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, I am just sharing the cliff notes of this guy's testimony.
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  Speaker 1: But when this man was listening to Exodus, see, something happens.
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  Speaker 1: When the Word of God gets in you, you start to actually believe it.
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  Speaker 1: The Word of God gets in you.
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  Speaker 1: You start to dare and hope for more the stuff that we're reading.
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  Speaker 1: You're like well, god, if you did it, then surely you can do it today.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's listening in the book of Exodus.
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  Speaker 1: He gets caught up with reading about the glory of God and he's like God, I want to encounter your glory, I want to experience what I'm reading about.
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: And he starts praying for more of God and more of his glory.
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: And a few months later he had a profound encounter with God that changed him, that marked him, and we're actually going to record that in more detail and share it more at a future date.
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  Speaker 1: But the point of this right now is to say he's one of those people.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of those people, one of those people who is on fire, one of those people who is filled with fire for God and for the things of God.
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  Speaker 1: One of those people.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever encountered them, if you've ever hung out with them, let me just tell you you know them.
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  Speaker 1: You leave saying, hey, I want what they have.
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  Speaker 1: I want to love God.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, I want to pursue God.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, I want to know God.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, I want to hear from God.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, I want to be filled with the spirit of God.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, I want to be used by God, like that.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: And as we've prayerfully planned out our next four series for the year, they're all in this category pursuing spiritual goals for personal spiritual growth.
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: And if you've ever looked at those who are just so passionate about God and thought man, I want to be one of those people.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: This year is for you.
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  Speaker 1: And if you've ever looked at someone who's just so sensitive to the presence of God, always aware when he's like blowing through the room and able to stay and step with the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be one of those people this year.
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  Speaker 1: It's for you.
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  Speaker 1: And if you ever looked at someone who's walking in authority, walking in the power of God, being used by God for miracles and being used by God to cast off and cast out evil, and you thought I want to be one of those people, this year is for you.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: If you ever looked at someone who is free I mean free, free from the lies of the enemy, free from insecurity, free from addictions and sin patterns and the ache of anxiety if you've ever sat in your soul, I want to be like that.
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: I want to be one of those people.
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  Speaker 1: This year is for you.
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  Speaker 1: Church.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we encounter one of those people and it just seems so far out of reach.
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  Speaker 1: It's like we look at them and we think that they were born with something different or they were just made that way.
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: Listen, if you've ever heard of the four minute mile, a once seemingly impossible threshold that now is consistently achieved by runners, think about that, as this year we're going to break this year up into four quarter laps and the first part the first quarter lap to becoming one of those people.
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: It's going to be about passion and as we get started, I just want to ask you, church, what if this was the year?
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  Speaker 1: What if this was the year where we became one of those people, one of the ones who are just burning and consumed with a love for God?
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  Speaker 1: And as we start out this journey together, a little encouragement for you.
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  Speaker 1: Passion for God is not a personality.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: Passion for God is not a personality.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I think if we're introverts, we're like, oh, it's for the extroverts, and sometimes, if we're extroverts, we're like, oh, it's for the introverts.
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  Speaker 1: Passion for God is not a personality.
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  Speaker 1: And passion for God is not a gene.
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  Speaker 1: It's not something that you're born with, that some people get and some people don't.
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  Speaker 1: See there's an actual passion recipe and when all the ingredients come together and they're brought together, they can turn every single one of us into one of those people.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: So I want that in your mind as we're setting out this year.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I want you to imagine that six months from now, your son, your daughter, your friend is talking about you and they're like man.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: God has just gotten a hold of my mom.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: She's a different woman.
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  Speaker 1: She's on fire for the things of God.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to imagine that your friend, who's known you for a long time and yeah, yeah, yeah, they know that you're in the church thing, but all of a sudden they're like whoa, god has gotten a hold of my friend.
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  Speaker 1: He's so different, he's filled up with fire and passion and purpose unlike anything I've ever seen.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: And then your son, your daughter, your friend they catch fire for God and the things of God.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: That's what it's like to be one of those people.
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  Speaker 1: Or I want you to imagine that, six months from now, our lead pastor, shane, is up here and he's telling a testimony about you, about how a flicker in your soul got turned into a raging flame, how your heart is filled with passion for the things of God and all of the things that God is doing through you.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is church to be one of those people.
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  Speaker 1: And so our question is do you want to be one of those people?
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  Speaker 1: Do you church?
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: I want to be one of those people, and here's the deal is we get rolling through this series.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: What we're going to see is all the weeks stack on top of each other, and so I'd encourage you to take notes.
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  Speaker 1: If you have your journal.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and pull it out.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: There's a place for you to take notes there.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't, no problem.
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: Pull out your phone, maybe, put it on.
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  Speaker 1: Do not disturb so you don't get distracted.
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  Speaker 1: But let's actually take notes and press in.
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: How do we be one of those people?
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  Speaker 1: So, as we turn to God's word, I think it's worth acknowledging that what we see in the scripture, it's not really all that different than what we see every day around us.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: What do we see in the scripture?
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  Speaker 1: We tend to see one of two things Either we see people who care a little about the things of God for a lot of their life, or people who care a lot about the things of God for a little part of their life.
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  Speaker 1: And about those who care a little about the things of God for a lot of their life, what do they often say?
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: They often rightly say something like you know, it's a marathon, it's not a sprint, but it's not like they're running a marathon like this.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: We had to settle for that guy because I couldn't get you a clip of the last marathon I ran.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, the truth is not everybody runs a marathon like that.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen someone running Like they're out and they're exercising and they're running and it's like they're exerting and they're flailing their body around and you're like, why are you moving like that?
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that you could walk faster than you're moving, but you're actually making it look like you're exerting all this energy.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: I have been one of those people that somebody has said that to.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Anyways, the point is this not everybody runs like that guy, but how are we called to run First, corinthians 9-24,.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Do you not know that those who run in a race, all run, but only one receives the prize, one in such a way that you may win?
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: Church, are you awake?
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  Speaker 1: The Scripture is not just written for someone out there somewhere, it's for you.
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  Speaker 1: It's speaking to your soul this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Are you running in a way that you will win, dave?
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  Speaker 1: Are you running in a way that you will win Kathy?
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Are you running in a way that you will win Sarah?
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Are you running in a way that you will win?
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  Speaker 1: Is the testimony of the Spirit of God in you saying you yes, keep going, keep stride.
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  Speaker 1: You're running in a way to win?
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  Speaker 1: Or is he saying this morning come on, let's pick up the pace, there's more, there's more.
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  Speaker 1: Run in such a way that you may win Church.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Rarely do we see people run in this way, with hearts ablaze, consuming passion for God and the things of God from beginning to end.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: But, as the Scriptures say, we are convinced of better for you, we are convinced of better for you.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: See, there are people on the pages of Scripture who are that they ran that way, and there are people on the pages of history who are that they ran that way.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: And our prayer is that God would find a people here who are that, that run that way.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, amen.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Let's be one of those people, church.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: So what does it take to be one of those people?
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  Speaker 1: In Scripture, jesus commands Matthew 22, 37,.
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  Speaker 1: Love the Lord, your God, with some of your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Love the Lord, your God, with a little of your heart.
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  Speaker 1: No, love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
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  Speaker 1: You sometimes have heard people say something totally crazy in there, like God doesn't care about passion.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I'm like, really, what does he say?
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: He says all All's a passionate thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know All your heart.
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  Speaker 1: That's what God is after All.
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  Speaker 1: Your soul, all your mind.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, god doesn't have a picture, a portrait of you going through this life like a mundane robot, all burning, consuming.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he has in mind for you.
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  Speaker 1: Think of this series as emphasizing how to obey what Jesus says, how to love God with all of your heart.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what we've got to understand.
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  Speaker 1: Just as your physical heart has four chambers, so your spiritual heart has four chambers.
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  Speaker 1: If anyone's ever driven an old car before, you would know that there's these four chambers.
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  Speaker 1: There's these cars that they sputter and they misfire and they clunk along.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever driven something like that, you know, in a four-cylinder engine, if just one of those chambers isn't firing, if just one of those spark plugs isn't sparking, if just one of them has lost compression, then that sputtering car becomes a lot like that strolling marathoner that we talked about.
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  Speaker 1: And if I'm honest, if any of us are honest, this is how our spiritual run looks.
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  Speaker 1: From time to time we lose the fire, we lose the pep in the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's like some of the chambers of our spiritual heart.
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  Speaker 1: They just aren't pumping in.
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  Speaker 1: And when we're in that place, that's true, they aren't.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: And the problem is that some of us were as bad at spiritual heart diagnostics as we are at car engine diagnostics.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Today's about improving your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Diagnostics to help you realize that a heart that beats strong for God it does have four chambers and when a heartbeat, when our heartbeat is off, we've got to learn to examine our heart to find out which of the chambers has gotten gunked up so that it can be repaired, so that our heart can be beating whole and strong again.
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  Speaker 1: So the first of four chambers of a person of passion is this one a desire for impact.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: A desire for impact.
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  Speaker 1: You'll notice this about those who have passion.
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  Speaker 1: They desire to make a difference with their one and only life.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: They want to leave a mark for his praise, for his name, for his glory, for his purposes.
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  Speaker 1: One of the first passionate people that we encounter in scripture it's Samuel.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: He's a prophet and a judge and church.
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  Speaker 1: There are some things we must understand.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: There are some things that, when you experience them, they leave you changed forever and they wreck you for lower and lesser things.
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  Speaker 1: And Samuel, hearing God call him as a young boy, it was one of those things and it resulted in Samuel having this love for God and this love for the voice of God and an ache for the absence of it, so much so that, when the whole nation of Israel has lost their mind, when the whole nation of Israel is going astray, and when the light of God's presence is growing dim among them because of their sin, what does he do?
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Does he do what Hezekiah did?
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Second Kings 2019,.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Hezekiah received a word from Isaiah that was unfavorable, but here's what he said.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: He said the word of the Lord which you have spoken is good for, he thought.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Is it not so If there will be peace and truth in my days?
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Did Samuel respond like this?
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  Speaker 1: With no concern, with a lack of concern?
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  Speaker 1: Was Samuel all good with what was going on in the world?
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  Speaker 1: Because his world was good?
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Because he was good?
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  Speaker 1: No, check out what he says for Samuel 7, 3 to 4, then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying if you return to the Lord with all your heart, remove the foreign gods and the ashtharoth from among you and direct your hearts to the Lord and serve him alone, and he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.
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  Speaker 1: So, the sons of Israel, remove the Ba'als and the ashtharoth and serve the Lord alone.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Listen, if Samuel had swallowed these words, the words which were meant to move a nation toward change, he would have had a piston seize in his soul that day and church.
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  Speaker 1: I want to pause here to make sure that we understand this.
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  Speaker 1: Those who are filled with passion, those who have a desire for impact, they have an outward outlook.
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  Speaker 1: They're not consumed with me and my.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Those who have this desire for impact, they're not consumed and concerned with my own pleasure and my own peace and my own comfort and my own whatever Passion is innately outward.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: It's innately connected to making a difference and it's only sustained by us being willing to say and to do things, to move things to the reality that God wants.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And this is what it means.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: If you or I are willing to accept status quo or we are unwilling to be the change agent, we cannot and will not have the four cylinders of our soul firing.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Listen, so many of us we are content to accept status quo because we know something implicitly If I push against status quo, it's going to cost me.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: But consider this the cost of not stepping into what God has, the cost of not letting that fire of God fuel us to action.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, that cost is so much greater than anything we'll ever face when we come up against status quo, church, if we are not willing to be the change agent and if we are willing to accept status quo, our soul is never going to be firing the way that God intended it to be.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: We must want to make a difference and we must be willing to allow our lives to put pressure on status quo if we want to live with passion.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: The desire is the fire, it's the spark.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: The outward effort to move things is compression, and you have to have both for combustion.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Think of David oh, man with deep desire.
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  Speaker 1: Deep desire, he had a passion for God's glory and he could not stomach the mockery of God's glory.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Right when he hears Goliath taunting the people of God and the living God, he is consumed Desire.
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  Speaker 1: He is unwilling to accept status quo.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Everybody else is listening to this man talk down to God and about the people of God, day after day after day, and they're just fine.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: But David shows up and he says I can't stomach it and I can't stand it.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: And then what does he do?
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  Speaker 1: Does he go call together a bunch of guys and have coffee in their tent and talk about how upset he is?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: No, not only does he have this desire inside of him, but he has outward effort.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: He doesn't just smolder.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: If he did, his soul cylinder would have frozen.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: He doesn't just smolder.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: He marches out there with a sling and a stone and he sinks it into the forehead of the mokker.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Listen desire for impact and willingness to be the instrument of change.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: They go together.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: See, the desire to impact, to have that desire to impact.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Something that we have to understand is we actually have to see the problem.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: We actually have to see the need and listen.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: If we are so inundated with the world and not his word, we won't even see.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: We won't see what's broken, we won't see what's wrong, we won't see what isn't that is in God's heart to be.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: We won't see what God's intentions are, and so we won't be driven to see the kingdom of heaven crash into earth because we don't see.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: For some of us today, it's about our sight.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: We're so blinded by, so consumed by the things of this world and our everyday, trivial things.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: We can't see what God wants to do.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: We can't see the need in front of us.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: For some of us, it's just saying God opened my eyes again, and so one of the questions for us to ask yourself is is God, do I have your burden?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Do I have a burden that is given by you, god.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Do I look around?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Do I have an ache in my soul for what is not but should be?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: God?
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Do I have an ache in my soul for what is and what should not be in this world, in my family?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: God, do I have your burden firing and fueling me?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Church, I'm just going to tell you heaven is not here.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: All here is not as it should be.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And if we're lacking the burden, it's not because God doesn't have a burden, it's because we need to get back to the place with Him, where our hearts are aligned with Him and our eyes are seeing what he's seeing.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Am I carrying God's burden?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: See, passion sees as God sees, and passion is purposed on His praise.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And those who have passion, they live with purpose.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: They know God.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: You have put me on this planet.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: God, you have filled my lungs with breath.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Today, to make a difference, to see your kingdom come for your name and for your praise.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Is that who you are?
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Am I describing you?
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Let me assure you, I am describing who God has made you to be and I'm describing who God has made me to be, one of those people, a people of passion, whose heart chambers are fully functioning.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: First chamber desire for impact.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Second purpose for his mission.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Listen, we can become passionate about so many things, but a sustained passion comes from being passionate about the right things, because only the Spirit of God can sustain a lifetime of passion to seek first God and His kingdom and His righteousness.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: The Spirit is given to fuel the mission.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: The Spirit is given to fuel the mission.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: We're all made for purpose, but in Christ we all share the same purpose.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Church, if just, oh, if we could get this in our souls.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: We are all made for purpose, but we all share the same purpose.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: In Christ.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: We're called to the same mission.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: And what is that mission?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: What is that high calling?
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Matthew 28, 18 to 20,.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all that I commanded you.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And though I am with you always, to the very end of the age, that right there.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: That's God's game plan to change the earth, to change the world, one person at a time, waking up and looking up to Jesus for all he is, to see him as he is.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Listen, we think that change starts with presidents and policies and politicians.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Change starts with eternity and life change brought about by the Spirit of God.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: That's what God is passionate about, that's what the Holy Spirit is passionate about.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And a believer who doesn't fall in love with this mission, this purpose, but keeps running around saying what is my purpose?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I think it's a tragedy.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Church, the most called, the most fueled people in the whole wide world, are in this room and gathered around God's world word all around the world.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: How can it be that the God of heaven can give us this purpose, this mission, and we can be wondering around saying what's my purpose?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: He already gave it to you.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Allow it to ignite and fuel and fill your soul.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Listen, if we keep running around saying what is my purpose, as if God has not already given it to us, we will have a missing cylinder in our hearts always.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: See, a lot of Christians have never embraced this purpose and so the way that God is driving and the way that they are driving, there's just a little bit of rub, there's a little bit of friction between them and it wears this chamber of the heart down.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Believer, you need to nurture passion and love for the purpose, because the purpose is your purpose.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Don't ever listen to the lie of the enemy that you're out there looking for purpose.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: You have been given purpose by the God of all eternity.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: You already have it.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Nurture passion and love for the purpose, because the purpose is your purpose.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: So if you ever met one of those people who lived with this kind of purpose, you know Paul.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: He was one of those people.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Philippians 1, 21 to 25, from 4.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: To me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me and I do not know which to choose.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: But I am hard pressed from both directions.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all for your progress and enjoying the faith.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Listen, paul was motivated to stay, even when he was in a cold dungeon, even when his wrists were in shackles.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Because he knew it would mean fruitful labor.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Church, do you know God actually wants us to go through our day that way.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I am convinced that today, where God leaves me, he is going to use me for fruitful labor.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Listen, god doesn't waste anything.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: He is not going to waste your life.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: You are his creation, you are his design, filled with his spirit to accomplish his purpose.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I believe you were made for more you.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: You were made for more.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Paul knew that their progress in faith would be that fruitful labor.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Clearly, he loved the mission and he believed that the mission would produce lasting fruit.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Listen, when we could spend a long, long time on this.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: But briefly, what are some reasons that we should love, love, love the mission that God has given us For one.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: If we love God, we want others to love God as well.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: And how do we love God, god has told us?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Jesus said if you love me, you will obey my commands.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Out of love for him, let us be driven to teach others to obey him.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Second, if we care, if we care about God's glory, if we care about God's name and if we care about God's fame and if we care about God's honor, then we know that every person who submits themselves to him declares his kingship and his worth.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: A life that worships him, a life that submits to him, a life that obeys him, testifies to his greatness and glory and holiness Three.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: It's the only purpose.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: It is the only purpose that lasts for eternity.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: It's the only purpose that's eternal meaning.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It matters for all of eternity.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: It lasts for all of eternity, it counts for all of eternity.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: See, what happens to so many of us is we get the drive for impact and then we build a lot of stuff that will burn up in an instant, none of which is transferable unto eternity.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: But when we make a difference by leading someone to Christ or by growing others up as disciples of Christ, that is an eternal harvest that we get to lay at Jesus's feet forever.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: And when we see it like that, we want to raise up those who persevere until the end and receive the crown of life.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Listen, we're not trying to plant little seedlings that crows come and snatch the seed out of the soil.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: We're trying to nurture oaks of righteousness that cannot be uprooted.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: We're after people in eternity, to the praise of his glory forever.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: So many think that they have a great purpose, but there is no purpose, no purpose that compares to this purpose.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I just want to speak to us as a church for a moment.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Don't ever allow the enemy to confuse your position with your purpose.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: If you are a teacher, that is your position.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: That is not your purpose.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: If you are a truck driver, that is your position.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: That is not your purpose.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: If you're a stay-at-home dad, a stay-at-home mom, that is your position.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: That is not your purpose.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: If you are a pastor, that is your position.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: That is not your purpose.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: If you are a doctor, if you are a lawyer, if, if you are an engineer, that is your position.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: That is not your purpose.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: God has put you in that place as a position to open doors for His purpose, to open doors for the purpose.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: But don't ever mistake your position for your purpose, because you'll end up clinging to the position as though it is your purpose.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Your purpose is the purpose.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Your purpose is His purpose.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: You know, we lose perspective too often.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: So many of us were aware of the Pompeii of the past, when a world was consumed in an instant, but few of us remember that there is a Pompeii of the future.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: We, as believers, need to remember.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: A day is coming when all creation will be one giant Pompeii, when all the elements will melt and it's a sudden, cataclysmic ending to all that we know and see, but each life turned from sin and turned towards faith in Him, that will endure forever.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: That will endure forever.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: The harvest of their lives will endure forever.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: It's a great mission and if you're someone who gets demotivated by the single, life-at-a-time, organic growth approach of the Kingdom of God, I just want to remind you of this.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Systems change when people change.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Systems change when people change.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: It's a collection of individuals transformed that bring about a cultural revolution.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: So, when it comes to the Chambers of the Heart beating for God and the things of God Chamber 1, desire for impact.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Chamber 2, purpose for His mission.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: What's the third?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: It's become much lesser known in Western Christianity, but it's a critical part of passion.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Three is dependence on Him, dependence on Him.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Listen, you can only walk around at night for so long and keep the oil of that lamp burning bright.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: You need extra oil and God does not give any of us all the oil that we need at once.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: We have to keep going to Him every day to be renewed, to be filled afresh for what he wants to do.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: That day.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Church, so many of us, we start the race with God and the place of dependence, and then we think that we can walk it out in our own strength, but God's told us otherwise.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: As they have 40, 31,.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: They will mount up with wings like eagles.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: They will run and not get tired.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: They will walk and not become weary.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: John 15, 5,.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I am the vine, you are the branches.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: He who abides in me and I in Him, he bears much fruit.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: For apart from me, you can do nothing.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Church, let's just settle in our souls.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: We do not know better than Jesus.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: He doesn't say apart from me, you can do some things.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Apart from me, you can do a lot of things.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: He says apart from me, you can do nothing.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: We need Him.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: We need to come back to Him again and again.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: See, it's like this.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: God didn't make any of us as human beings to have two 20-gallon gas tanks in our soul.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: No one is given what they need to traverse a nation without a pit stop.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: He designed us for a tank.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: A day.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Independence keeps the third chamber firing.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Think of David.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Again, he's on the short list of those that we see in Scripture that increasingly loved God over a lifetime.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: What kept him going over the years, through the hardship, through the setback, through the disappointment, through the betrayal.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: What kept him going?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: He is the one who said Psalm 84-10, for a day in your courts is better than a thousand outside.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: And he's the one who worshiped God.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: How many times?
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Psalm 119, 164, seven times a day.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I praise you.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: He stayed in the place of dependence, coming again and again and again.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: And what's the fourth chamber of the heart?
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: It's the way that you define success.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Listen, if you are motivated to make an impact and God calls you to do something and you do it, and you look and you can't see how it is making a difference, how it's making an impact, what happens?
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: You tend to move squarely into discouragement.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Zip code Anyone been there I have?
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Listen, when you want to make an impact and you step out in faith, not going by what you see, but going by what he says, and then the new thing seems to be small and insignificant.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: What happens If, if, if, if, if you define success the wrong way, which?
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: What is the wrong way?
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: The wrong way is usually the way that the world typically defines success.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: What might happen?
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: What might happen?
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Well, what God says happen in Zechariah 410,.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: No-transcript.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: See, when we step out, we see the seed or the sapling and we despise it.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: But God sees the force that is to come if the work continues to be done.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Believer, believe him, believe him.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: So often he calls us to step out and then we start sprinting and right at the very start we look and we're expecting oak trees and forests and we see a seed and a sapling and we get discouraged.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: God's not up there, discouraged.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: He's looking at you saying keep believing me, keep going.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: You see the seed, you see the sampling.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I see the force that is to come if you'll just continue with the work that is to be done.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Press on, do what he has called you to do, knowing that he has great good in mind, great things to accomplish, and we don't estimate those things by our eyes.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Think about the church in Philadelphia.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: They were persecuted and they were pushed down and they had no leverage to escape what was happening to them.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: And yet, what does Jesus say to what many would look at this church and say is a small, insignificant thing?
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Does he look at them and does he say you're small and you're insignificant?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: No, revelation 3, 10 to 11, because you have kept the word of my perseverance, I will also keep you from the hour of testing, the hour which is about to come upon the whole world to test those who dwell on the earth.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I'm coming quickly.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Hold fast what you have so that no one will take your crown.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Jesus doesn't come and say it's insignificant.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: He comes and he commends them.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Take note to have all four chambers of our soul firing and functioning the way that they are intended to, we need to define success as faithfulness.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: We need to define success as faithfulness.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Church, we have to be those who define success this one way.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Did I do what you said to do?
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: God?
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: That's success.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Did I do what you said to do, god?
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: No matter the cost, no matter the loss, did I do what you said to do?
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: And you know, so often I'm talking to people who are about to head into a hard conversation or a hard situation or a hard challenge.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: And if that's you, when that's you, I just want to pass this along as a piece of encouragement before you enter into that conversation, that situation, that circumstance, get with God and say God tonight, should you sustain my life through today when I return to this place and I put my head on the pillow and I go.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: God, there's one thing I want I want to feel the smile on your face because I know that you've done.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I've done what you've said to do.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: God, what are you calling me to do?
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: And when you know what God is calling you to do, in the face of whatever that person is doing, in the face of that hard circumstance, in the face of that hard situation, let me just tell you, when you have heard from God, this is what I want you to do.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: You can endure whatever is coming at you, knowing On the other side of that is the smile of God.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Church.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Faithfulness is success.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Goodness is doing what he said.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I just want to remind us of this.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: If we define success any other way, we're in grave danger.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Think about Moses.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: God told them to speak to the rock and he struck it twice.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: By the way, did you notice?
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: He got results?
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: The water actually did come out of the rock, but by striking the rock, moses slipped out of the stream of the Spirit and also cost him the promise.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Success is faithfulness in the kingdom of God, and when it seems like it's not working, keep your eyes set on this, looking for the smile of God.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: God, am I doing what you said, no matter the cost, no matter the consequence?
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, god, then my heart can rest, knowing that you're proud, you're pleased, you're smiling.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: God, your joy, your joy is my prize.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Church, who has God made us to be?
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Who has he made you to be?
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Who has he made me to be?
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: He has made us to be one of those people that's his calling on us one of those people, one of those who are brimming with passion to the very end.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: And you know, as I was working on this message, God brought to mind a friend that I made when I was in treatment, a little over a year and a half ago.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: So this was towards the end of my own treatment regimen and I was walking into the radiation room and, as you can imagine, radiation treatment centers are not exactly like the bastion of joy and just brimming with light and happiness.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: So I walk into this center and you can imagine like there's a lot of heaviness, there's a lot of oppression, there's a lot of fear.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: It's a very stifling environment.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: And as I walk into the treatment center, as I'm walking to go check in, I see a lot of people and I just happen to lock eyes with this one older gentleman and when I caught his eyes, I am telling you in this bleak gray room, I saw eyes of fire and I knew, I knew, I knew before he ever said a word, before I knew anything else about him, this man, he's one of those people I knew to my court.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: I knew he has been with Jesus because it's shown on his face, it's shown on his presence, and so I check in and I go and I sit down next to him and he introduced himself.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: His name was Reed, he told me briefly about his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and, as everybody knows, that it's a particularly painful, painful diagnosis, painful thing to endure.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think he said more than two sentences about it and all of a sudden he was just talking about Jesus, jesus, jesus, jesus, talking about the hope that he had in Christ.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: All I remember is saying Amen, amen.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: And he shared how he knows that Jesus is using him, even in this journey, to help others know his love.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: And as he shared, he reached in his sweatshirt pocket and he asked if he could give me something and he pulled out this cross and there was a Ziploc bag full of them.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it had 50, maybe it had 100.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: And he handed it to me and he said Can I give this to you?
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Every single day I pray and I say, god, would you lead me to people to give this to, so that they know that the hope that I have in you they can have too?
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: And, jesus, the way that I know that you love me, I want them to know that you love them too.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: And he said Could I give this to you?
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: And of course, you know I'm like in tears already.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I was so moved.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: This was a man on mission, a man who, despite profound pain, eyes ablaze, full of passion, living on mission and throughout treatment after treatment.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: We got to be really great friends and he shared many times.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I can remember them.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: He shared many, many times.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Rebecca, more than anything in this life, the one thing I want, I want to arrive at the end, running into heaven, hearing Jesus say Well done, good and faithful servant.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: He's like that's what I want more than anything.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: And I remember many times saying Read, keep running, you are well on your way.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: You're this man who was so frail and so weak and his body was breaking, his spirit wasn't and I would come into radiation treatment and he would get there like 45 minutes early.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Just because he dared to believe that God actually had people he wanted him to meet that day to share his love.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: So to give you a taste of how filled this man was with passion, how driven with passion, I want to share a few of our texts and I'm actually going to read to you more than what appears on here, but you're going to see a highlight of some of our text interchanges.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: March 11th he said I always say hi and goodbye to the nice young man in the office right as you walk out of the treatment waiting room After sharing two crosses with him, one for him and one for his mother.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I asked his name.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: He said angel and I said of course.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: And then he said I look forward to our new journey that God has brought us together and someday would love to be able to attend one of your church services, meaning here at church, at the front range.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: March 12th, 2021.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: He said I still need to have two more chemo treatments after a day.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Listen, this was devastating news.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: He didn't know that radiation and chemo, in his case, had to go hand in hand, and so he actually had to do two additional chemo's.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: And he said I did not realize the chemo and radiation worked hand in hand.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: All that being said, listen to this it gives me two extra weeks to pass out crosses.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Today I've shared nine crosses and the day is not over.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: March 12th 2021.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Later that day, he said I came here with 12 crosses today and I have one left.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: His will be done.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: So then I wrote to him and just to say I am so sorry to hear about these two extra chemo treatments.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: And he said it's another blessing to be able to meet more people to share his glory.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: He knows what he wants me to do.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: March 19th 2021.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: As of today, I've been blessed to share 79 crosses.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: March 26th 2021.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: As of today, I've been blessed to share 95 of Glenn's beautiful crosses, and I have more memories of the heartfelt stories that were shared with me.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: God is so loving and caring.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: His will be done.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: April 1st 2021.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: He said, looking forward to crossing the finish line.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: My heart is still strong, thanks to God.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: My body is still trying as well, but my faith is stronger than ever.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: April 2nd 2021.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Shared seven more crosses today 113, thus far.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: His will be done.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: April 6th 2021.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: As of yesterday, I've been blessed to share 119 crosses thus far.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: He says this journey has far outweighed the daily pain and discomfort.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I'm truly blessed, one day at a time.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: His will be done.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: April 7th 2021.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: For blood this morning and shared seven more crosses 126, thus far.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: April 30th 2021.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Thus far, I've shared 158 crosses with others.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: I feel truly blessed to be one of his many messengers.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: May 12th 2021.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: As of yesterday, I've been blessed to share 172 crosses.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: August 30th 2021.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: June 13th 2021.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: I've been blessed to share 236 crosses thus far and I will continue to do so when I go to doctor visits.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: July 20th 2021.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: As of yesterday, I've been blessed to share 286 crosses thus far.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: God has been so good to me.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: August 30th 2021.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: I've been blessed to share 334 crosses thus far.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: September 9th 2021.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: He crossed the finish line and stood before the Savior, who saved him and loved him and gave himself for him, and I am so sure in my soul he heard those words that he longed to hear all along.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Well done and an unfaithful servant.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Reed was one of those people and church.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: That is who God has made you to be.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: That's who he has made me to be those who sprint to the end, full of passion, used by God.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: And I just wonder where you are as you go through your day, teaching or being an engineer, or being a doctor, whatever you're doing, are you counting up those moments in your soul?
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Are your eyes open, students in the room?
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Are you looking for him when you get to the end of your day?
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Are you like, yeah, god used me to share his love with another one.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: God used me to reach another one.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: He gave you those moments for the mission and he wants you to run with passion.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Church, this isn't a someday when we get old.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Eventually, it's now.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: He's made you for now.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: He's filled you with passion, for now.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: He has set you on mission.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Now he has called you to be one of those people.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: That's the calling over your life.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: That's the calling by the God who saved you, redeemed you.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: It's who he's calling us to be, and my prayer for us as a church is more than any time ever.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: I don't care what your greatest high has been with God, I don't care what your greatest low has been.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Maybe you're on a mountain with God right now.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: You're like I can't imagine it getting any better.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you it can, because he's inexhaustible.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: And some of you in this room you're like my heart is barely beating and you're up there talking about passion.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I want you to know no, vali is too low Church.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: What if this was the year?
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: What if this was the year that, six months from now, one year from now, we could look as a body of believers together and say this was the year that I became one of those people like never before?
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: That's the prayer church, that's what we're pressing in for, that's the journey that we're going on together, and so, as we prepare to close, I'd like to invite everybody to bow your heads and close your eyes.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: God has called us to be doers of the word, not just hearers, and so we want to respond and say God, which of these areas needs attention?
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: God is my heart.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Is it firing on all cylinders?
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: God is what is missing in me a desire for impact.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Have I given up wanting to make a difference?
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: God reignited in my soul.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Lord, am I lacking motivation for the great commission?
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: If so, can you help me see why I want to be passionate about not just any purpose, but the purpose, your purpose, that you gave to me and to your people.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: God, am I lacking dependence?
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Am I lacking fresh oil?
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Is a cylinder not firing because I've been going it on my own?
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: God, would you draw me to you?
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Even in this moment, god is the chamber problem, that I'm defining success as something other than faithfulness.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: God, speak to me.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: I'm coming to you.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: I want to be changed, god, I want to be one of those people.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: As we're all praying on that, I just want to speak to another group in this room.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: You're here and maybe there's an ache in your chest.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: It's like man.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: I'm hearing that it's possible to live this life of passion with God and for God, but, if I'm honest, I don't really know God, not like that.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe you've gone to church.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe you've gone to church a lot.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe you've never been.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's your first time here.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe you just tuned in, you're listening online.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: You're not even sure how.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe you're here and there's an emptiness.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Or maybe you're here in this room and you're realizing I know a lot about God, I've got a lot of religion, but I don't know God like that.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe you lack assurance that your sins have been forgiven.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe you lack assurance that you really have peace with God.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: If any of that describes you.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: I'm speaking to you.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: I want you to know that God loves you.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: He loves you, he loves you, he loves you and he is reaching to you right now.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: He's reaching to you for a relationship in this life and all of eternity.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: But there is a problem.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: The Bible says that all of us have sinned Simply stated it's ways that we've been wrong, done wrong, gotten it wrong, and that sin separates us from him, because he is a holy God, he's a perfect God, he's without sin, and there's nothing that any of us can do to erase the sin that we've done.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: This world will try to tell you that you just have to do more good than bad.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: But the problem is this God is holy, he's perfect, he's without sin.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: So it's not about outdoing your sin.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: It's about being washed up, forgiven of, cleansed from your sin, something that only God can do for us.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: And the good news is that we have a God of love who made a way for that to be done.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Jesus being God, he came from heaven to earth, he died on the cross for my sin and he died on the cross for your sin, so that our sin could be forgiven, so that we could be washed clean and so we could be brought into a relationship with him now and for all of eternity.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: And the Bible says if we place our faith in him, if we turn to him and if we trust to him and we hold on to him, then we are forgiven and we can be assured of an eternity with him.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: And so, with all heads bowed and eyes closed, if you're in this room and that's you and you're saying, I know God's hand has reached out to me and I want to reach back to him.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: I want to say yes to his forgiveness, I want to say yes to coming back to him.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: I want to say yes to my heart being fully his and fully alive in him.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: Then, just where you are, raise your hand.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Heads are bowed, eyes are closed, no one's looking around just to say yes, that's me.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to pray in a moment.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: I just want to know who I'm praying with.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, jesus, I want to say yes to you.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: I see you over there.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you so awesome.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: Anyone else?
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, jesus, I know that I need you.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I know that I've sinned.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: I see you at the back.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: I'm coming to you, I'm taking hold of your hand, I'm saying yes to you.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: If you're online, there's a place for you to do that as well.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: And for those that just said yes, it's going to encourage you to pray right where you are in your heart.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: He hears you.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Jesus, I thank you for coming from heaven to earth to die for me, to die for my sin, and for raising again.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Jesus, I know that you are God and I know that I have sinned and that I need your forgiveness, and I pray that you would forgive me today and I pray, as I put my faith in you and only you, that you would fill me with your spirit now, god, god, that you would set me ablaze with fire and passion for you, god, that from this day forward, you would use me as one of those people on mission, full of passion, to be used for your purposes.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: Jesus, I love you and I thank you.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: I don't deserve what you've done, but I give you my life, I give you my heart and I ask that you would use it to make much of your name as I live for you all of my days.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: I love you and I thank you In Jesus' name.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Amen, amen, church, can we just give a hand, with all of heaven to those who said yes.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: I want you to know that if you are one of those who said yes to Jesus, the scripture tells us all of heaven is celebrating and we would love to help you get a strong start to your run.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: You can just meet us at the back.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: There's a number of pastors and prayer team members who would love to pray with you, celebrate with you and get you going on a strong start.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Also, if you're here and you need prayer prayer for anything, whether it's physical, emotional, spiritual provision it's a decision that you need God's direction on.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: Our post service prayer team is at the back with love to pray with you.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: Everyone else.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: I hope to see you this Wednesday or next weekend.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Take care.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Bye-bye.