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One of Those People (Part 11): "Overcoming Disappointment" | December 11, 2023 · First Love Revolution

• 0:04
  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.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Here's Pastor Shane with today's message.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: It's good to be with you guys.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: Happy anniversary, church.
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  Speaker 2: You're aging well, you're looking good and looking forward to today's time in the world as we jump into it.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about impossible things today.
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: Whenever I was a kid, my family had me in sports year around and, of course, I had my favorite sport and I also had my least favorite sport.
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: The problem with me was that my least favorite sport was the one I was the best at.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: Anybody ever had that happen, okay, so my least favorite sport was wrestling.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: Are there any wrestlers in the room?
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: All right, we got some tough ombrés over here.
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, I mean and you know, I just didn't like wrestling.
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: I mean you might be surprised to hear this if you've known me for a long time but I actually hate conflict.
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: I don't like conflict.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: I don't like to back down from conflict Sometimes a problem but I do not like conflict.
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: I don't like having interpersonal tension with people and just like standing in front of a guy just you and him there's I know that there's girls wrestling too, but there's only one definition of winning and that's to humiliate the guy in the leotard by pinning his shoulder blades to the mat for multiple seconds in public shame and like I don't know, it's like I just I didn't really like it that much, not to mention the cutting of weight and stuff like that.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: But there were a lot of times as a kid because I was pretty good at it and my parents would double enter me into wrestling tournaments.
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: So they would enter me into my own weight class but also the weight class above me so I could, you know, get more challenge, more matches, you know all that kind of stuff, and so you know that's like improbable to win in that sort of a situation.
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: But one time they put me in an impossible situation.
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  Speaker 2: They accidentally I don't know how you do this, but they accidentally triple entered me into this wrestling tournament.
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  Speaker 2: So now, not only am I going to work my way through my own weight class, but the weight class above me and two weight classes above me.
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: And you know, when you're a kid, like two weight classes is it's kind of a big deal.
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: That's like 50% of your weight.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm kind of freaking out, you know.
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh no.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: And then on top of that I find out that the legendary God that everybody knows about and everyone's heard about nobody wants to wrestle.
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: Wheeler was in that weight class that they accidentally put me in as well.
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, wheeler was crazy, okay, he was mean, he was huge and he had this one thing that he did and everybody knew about it and everybody talked about it in his matches.
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: And I don't know, I'm pretty sure if you've ever played sports before, you know Wheeler maybe not this Wheeler, some relative of Wheeler you know he's the one when you look over at that bench and you're like, oh God, please, no, not that one.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's the one.
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  Speaker 2: So he's on the opposite side of the bracket as I am, and so I'm just watching and I'm just pleading that somebody knocks him into the losers bracket.
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know, when I was preparing this I thought I doubt people call it the losers bracket anymore.
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: Things were a little less PC back in the 90s, okay, but it didn't happen.
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: He didn't get knocked into the losers bracket and so finals come and after wrestling and other you know finals, matches and all this kind of stuff.
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: Now it's just me and Wheeler and you know that thing that we all know about that he did in every match.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, he did that to me.
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: He ripped out my freaking hair.
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, there were wads of hairballs all over the wrestling mat by the time this thing was done.
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: Like you wonder how this happened.
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: Now you know it was Wheeler.
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: All right, you want to talk about impossible situations?
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: It was an impossible situation and of course, you're probably kind of wondering yes, he did get my hair, but I got the win.
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: So we're talking about impossible situations this weekend because we need a lot of impossible things taking place in our world, don't you think?
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: Whenever you look around the world and you see what's going on and where we live and all this like, do you think?
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I'm pretty sure this is how God intended it to be.
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: I bet this is what he had in mind.
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  Speaker 2: Is this all that God would have it to be?
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  Speaker 2: John 3, 8 says that the Son of God appeared for this purpose to destroy the works of the devil.
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  Speaker 2: Now, obviously, nobody's in Jesus' weight class, but you get the idea.
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  Speaker 2: God has an agenda.
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  Speaker 2: Everything that the enemy is up to, god is out to undo, so kind of picture it like this we live in this land.
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  Speaker 2: It's a land called status quo and I know that nobody needs to tell you this, but it is a land with a lot of sorrow.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of joy, there's a lot of good, but there's a lot of sorrow and there's a lot of hard and there's a lot of suffering.
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  Speaker 2: It's a land that speaks the language of possibility.
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  Speaker 2: That's its native tongue.
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  Speaker 2: It's a land that trains us to walk by what our eyes can see.
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  Speaker 2: But then on the other side of this land are the things of the kingdom of God, the things of the kingdom of heaven, and there's a gate between this land and that land.
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  Speaker 2: And those gates are pretty menacing.
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  Speaker 2: They're Goliath-sized gates and these are called the gates of impossible.
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  Speaker 2: That's what stands between the land of status quo and this land of the kingdom of heaven and kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 2: The message that these gates send to everybody that pass by is that going from here to there it's impossible, that's impossible.
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  Speaker 2: And so the vast majority of humanity kind of bows before these gates, kind of cower before these gates, they surrender to these gates, not realizing these gates are actually a weapon of the enemy to preserve his territory.
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  Speaker 2: So people go about their business, you know, heads down, just kind of walking by, not really even looking at the gates.
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  Speaker 2: They're not even considering that something could change that heaven could actually come crashing into the here and into the now, doing away with the status quo that we know.
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: Can I ask a church do you know about these gates?
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever come across these gates?
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen them Come face to face with them?
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  Speaker 2: I know that you have.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever heard them say to you nothing's going to change about whatever impossible circumstance that you are in?
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  Speaker 2: If you have, you know how intimidating they can be.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever the impossible, is I mean that impossible for you?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it could be a reconciliation of a relationship, maybe freedom from some kind of a stronghold or addiction, maybe it's healing of some incurable thing, maybe a salvation of the most godless person, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's the changing of the spiritual temperature of my school, of my city, of our region, of our nation, of the world.
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  Speaker 2: And what do you hear?
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  Speaker 2: Impossible, impossible, impossible.
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  Speaker 2: When you face these giants which you will what are you going to do?
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  Speaker 2: Will you surrender to them or will you storm them?
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  Speaker 2: And then, collectively, what will we do as a church?
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  Speaker 2: Because you know we have some impossible goals as a church body, truly impossible.
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: A few examples Currently, 59% of our regular attenders at Church of the Front Range, read their Bible daily or almost daily, and, of course, the number do you know multiple times a week and all that.
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  Speaker 2: But just to put it in perspective, the national average is 32% of regular attending Protestants read their Bibles daily, and so I've, uniquely, had some access to a lot of data on churches who have been studied, and I've never heard of a church body having an engagement this high 59%.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's off the charts.
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  Speaker 2: It is unique what God is doing, so let's give him a hand.
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: You know God's doing a unique thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome, but but the Bible, of course, calls all of us as Christians to meditate on His Word every day, and so you know, our goal isn't, then, 59%, our goal is 90%, because that'd be an A.
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  Speaker 2: You know, 90% Right now we are bar setting with an F+, so we can't settle here, right, that's not the biblical standard.
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  Speaker 2: So now, 90%, that's impossible, but people would have said that 59% was impossible as well.
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  Speaker 2: So do we not even try?
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  Speaker 2: Do we not even pray for such a thing?
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  Speaker 2: Should we just surrender to this gate, or should we storm the gate?
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  Speaker 2: That's a good answer.
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  Speaker 2: Or when God commissioned us, he commissioned us to raise up a Joshua and Caleb generation, titans of the faith who would persevere in faith despite setbacks and delays and obstacles and opposition, and they would possess the promises of God, not just hear about them, step into them.
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you know the spiritual landscape of the day, but when people look around and they kind of gauge it by what their eyes can see, everybody is talking about a decline of the faith, a decline of Christianity.
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: No one is predicting some generational reversal.
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: In fact, all the data guys are declaring that this next generation is supposedly the enemy's checkmate on any claim to Christianity being prevalent or powerful in America.
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  Speaker 2: So a Joshua and Caleb generation?
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  Speaker 2: That's impossible.
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  Speaker 2: And when we started Church of the Front Range, god started to reveal that a promise he had spoken to me and that we had adopted as a team long ago, a promise to plant a thousand churches around the world.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: He started to reveal it was going to be even more impossible than we previously thought it would be.
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: As if that wasn't hard enough, he kind of ups the standard that he was going to plant a thousand, all, all churches, not just any churches, but all worship churches and all prayer churches, all word churches and all spirit churches.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: I can just tell you from our history of planting over a hundred churches prior, we know that none of them is that.
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  Speaker 2: So we're like what, god?
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: Not only are we like starting the count over it sounds like you're saying but we began to recognize that many of these would come in the form of Church of the Front Range campuses carrying the mission and the DNA that he's called us to.
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's impossible, so impossible, that's uber-impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, we've got to learn to recognize that when Jesus said, I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it, that this is one of the gates of hell.
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  Speaker 2: It's called the gate of impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and the enemy's play is to intimidate us with impossible, to get us to stay in status quo, because the idols of the land are sustained by status quo.
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: But there is something that we can do to make sure that we don't surrender to these gates, but that we are equipped and ready to storm these gates, and we can learn that by looking in the book of Exodus, at the Israelites.
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  Speaker 2: So this is, you know, the descendants of Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: They've been enslaved by one of the great empires of the ancient world, egypt.
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  Speaker 2: They had been enslaved for many generations, for 400 years, just as God had said to Abraham prior Genesis 15, verse 13,.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: God said to Abraham Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that's not theirs.
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  Speaker 2: They will be enslaved and oppressed for 400 years, but I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.
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  Speaker 2: So here we've got Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: He's already has an impossible promise.
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  Speaker 2: Think God gives him another impossible promise.
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: Think God gives him another impossible promise.
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  Speaker 2: To me, he's old, he doesn't even have a kid, but God's gonna raise up a nation out of him.
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's impossible.
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  Speaker 2: And not only that, but this nation, although oppressed for 40 decades, that they're gonna come out and that they're gonna be free, and that they're not gonna leave an abject poverty, but they're gonna leave with profound provision and then possess this land, which is already occupied, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: So how, I mean, how's that gonna happen?
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  Speaker 2: That's impossible.
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  Speaker 2: And the nation that the Israelites were under it's not just like any nation.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: At that time in history, egypt was second to none.
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  Speaker 2: They were the world superpower of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh and his iron chariots.
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  Speaker 2: They were superior to any army.
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  Speaker 2: And Israel was not an army.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't an army.
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh and his army had the finest of weapons.
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  Speaker 2: Slaves weren't given weapons of their own.
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  Speaker 2: As slaves, they weren't taught how to do combat.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there are hard things in life.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't one of them.
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  Speaker 2: And there are improbable things in life.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't one of those either.
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  Speaker 2: This is impossible, like all caps impossible.
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  Speaker 2: That's what this is.
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  Speaker 2: That's what God says he'll do and it's what he does.
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  Speaker 2: By his hand, he delivers his people through the ten plagues, he leads them out.
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  Speaker 2: That should have set them up with confidence, of course, for whatever impossibility they would face next, but did it?
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  Speaker 2: No, as you know, they're on the edge of the red seed.
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  Speaker 2: Next, the Egyptians are.
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  Speaker 2: Now, they've had a change in mind and they're coming after them with their iron chariots and all of that.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: And what do the Israelites do?
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  Speaker 2: Exodus 14, verse 10,.
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  Speaker 2: As Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel looked and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them and they became very frightened.
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  Speaker 2: So the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord, and then they said to Moses is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us to die in the wilderness?
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  Speaker 2: Why have you dealt with us this way, bringing us out of Egypt.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: Is this not the word that we spoke to in Egypt, saying leave us alone, that we might serve the Egyptians?
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 2: Now pay close attention, because whenever they say to Moses, moses, you have taken us out to die in the wilderness, moses, why have you dealt with us in this way, bringing us out of Egypt?
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  Speaker 2: What does this show you?
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  Speaker 2: It shows you that, deep down, all the stuff that had happened, they didn't really believe God did it.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: It's what it shows they're saying Moses did that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the plagues for them.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: It's obvious.
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  Speaker 2: They just see it as all chance.
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  Speaker 2: It's like happenstance, circumstance.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: It just kind of came together.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't really believe it was God.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: The water turning to blood, you know, I mean come on like a red algae, blue Frogs.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Well, obviously the frogs got out of that water and came up on the land.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: The lice, the flogs.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Well, with all those dead frog carcasses laying around, wouldn't you expect some flies, some bugs, and now the, the very creatures that are supposed to eat the insects, are all dead.
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  Speaker 2: Of course we have an insect infestation.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Well, you know insects, they carry a lot of disease.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: So the livestock pestilence would have come from that and us getting boils.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: You know bacteria spread from the livestock, the hail, the locusts, the darkness.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Well, you don't mean that volcanic eruption.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: It impacted the atmospheric conditions, the death of all the firstborn Egyptian children.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Well, you know all those microtoxins from the algae kind of getting into the grain supply the firstborn.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: You know they got to eat first poor little things.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: I mean listen, if we can come up with naturalistic explanations for everything today they could have done so then the bottom line is God's people didn't actually believe that it was by God's hand.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Deep down they didn't.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: And how many times today do believers say man, it was a miracle, god did it, you know, he's the one that healed me, or whatever.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: And the next time they face impossibility it becomes clear deep in their hearts that's not what they really believed.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: They just thought it was circumstance, just happenstance, just chance.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first thing that separates those who surrendered to the gates versus those who stormed the gates.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Those who surrendered, they don't take in the testimony, but those who storm gates, they treasure the testimony of what God did they.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: They hide it in their heart and it builds and it emboldens faith in them for the next gate called impossible.
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  Speaker 2: What was the message that God's people were supposed to take away, as they treasured the testimony?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: It's that God makes a way.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: He makes a way.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: And if they had taken it in, well, what we read next, when they encounter impossibility again, may have looked a little different, but it didn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: 15, verse 22.
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  Speaker 2: Then Moses, that Israel, from the Red Sea they went out into the wilderness of sure.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
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  Speaker 2: And when they came to Mara, they couldn't drink the waters of Mara for they were bitter and therefore it was named Mara.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: So the people grumbled at Moses what shall we drink?
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  Speaker 2: And then he cried out to the Lord.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: The Lord showed him a tree.
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  Speaker 2: He threw it into the waters.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: The waters became sweet and God said if you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord, your God, and do what's right in his sight and give ear to his commandments and keep all of his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I put on the Egyptians, for I, the Lord and your healer.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, the Israelite say just seeing God part waters right.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: And so if he can make a way through the sea.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Surely he can make a way for us to have some water to drink.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: But no, instead of looking at the impossibility and coming to the conclusion that nothing's impossible for God, that he makes a way, they say, well, we've never seen him make a way this way, and they grumbled.
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  Speaker 2: So the second differentiator between those who surrendered to the gates of impossibility and those that storm the gates of impossibility is this those who surrendered to the gates believe that what they have seen before is possible.
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  Speaker 2: Those who storm the gates believe that all things are possible for God, even things I've never seen before, even things I've never heard of God doing before.
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  Speaker 2: Because God is not the God of what I have seen.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: God is the God of all things, everything.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: That's a differentiator.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: So will they pick up at this point and kind of get it, because now he's healed bitter waters, he reveals himself as Jehovah Rafa, as as their healer to them.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: He's showing his nature, his character, his care and concern and love for them.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Surely things are going to be different now?
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: But well, what's the next thing?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: They say?
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  Speaker 2: Exodus 16, verse 1 on the 15th day of the second month after the departure from the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: The sons of Israel said to them would that we had died by the Lord's hand in the land of Egypt, back, when we sat by pots of meat and ate bread to the full.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: You have brought us into the wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger".
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Now, on the positive, they're giving God a little bit more credit for all the events that took place before, like he actually had some part in it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: But they don't have any confidence still in his character.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: There's no confidence that if he said it he'll do it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: There's no confidence that he's going to bring them in, that he cares for them.
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  Speaker 2: They just they can't see him for who he is.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: They cannot see what he has done.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: All they can see is impossibility.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: So they write their own headline of the story of their lives death and doom and disaster because of what their eyes see, because their eyes they're not looking to him, they're just looking at their condition, saying it's impossible to live in these conditions.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: That's the third differentiator between those who surrender to these gates of impossibility and those that storm the gates of impossibility.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: It's this those who surrender waver in confidence in God's character, in his word, but those who storm the gates know if he said it, he'll do it.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Now you're probably aware of this, the generation that we're reading about.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: They never get to see the good that God had for them.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: They never change, they just refuse to believe God, refuse to trust God and follow him.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: We don't have time to go into the fullness of it, but they forgo the inheritance, they pass on the promise.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: They vehemently rejected what God had invited them into.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And then the very thing that they actually believed, that it wouldn't happen.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Well, it didn't happen, at least not for them, except for two of them, two of them.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: There were two who saw impossibility and they said something different.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: That's Numbers 14, verse 6 to 9.
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  Speaker 2: Joshua, the son of Nine, and Caleb, the son of Japhuna.
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  Speaker 2: They spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying the land which we pass through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: It's the Lord's pleased with us.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: He'll bring us into this land, he'll give it to us, a land which does flow with milk and honey.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Only, do not rebel against the Lord and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Their protection has been removed from them and the Lord is with us.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Don't fear them.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: So, finally, out of this whole generation, god found someone who would see the gates of impossibility and storm them.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: And what was their courage found in?
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Was it found in their own smarts and their own strategy and their own skills and their own strength?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Is that what they found their courage in?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: No, their courage was found in him.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: That's where it came from.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: They knew what God had said and they knew that God is the God over impossible.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: He knew.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: They knew there's no enemy God can't conquer, there is no obstacle he can't overcome, there's no giant that he cannot crush.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Church, do you know what happens when we genuinely believe what they did?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: That in the face of the impossible, in the midst of the impossible, we stop peddling the enemy's headlines and we start proclaiming God's headlines.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: You know, church, so many things that we declare dead.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: When we have eyes to see that God is over the gates of impossible, we begin to see what's dead is just dormant.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: It's just dormant.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: It's not dead, it's dormant.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Have you ever noticed what Jesus said about Lazarus?
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, you got Martha, mary, his sisters, you got the disciples, everybody's just like.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: It's dead, it's done, it's over.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: And that, by the way, is why I think that Jesus wept in that story about Lazarus.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's because Jesus was just being fully present in the moment before he raised Lazarus from the dead.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I think it saddened his heart.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: It saddens the heart of the Lord when the people of faith and hope have none.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: That's why Jesus wept.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: But when Lazarus was dead, what did Jesus say?
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: He's asleep.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: You see, when you have eyes to see the God of the impossible over the gates of impossibility, you begin to see what's dead is just dormant.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: It's not dead, church.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: God has not called us to be people who read and who believe the enemy's headlines.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: God has not called us to be people walking in front of those gates of impossibility without consideration that they could collapse.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Who God has called us to be is those who storm the gates of hell, who storm the gates of impossibility in Jesus' name and see him write a testimony for his glory.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Church, I just want to remind you who God has made you to be.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: You are a people born out of conditions of adversity, but you're not marked by adversity.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: You are marked with a testimony of God being the same God that we have read about in the Scriptures, of God being alive and God being active and at work today as much as he was yesterday.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: That's what you've been marked by.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: You are a people that are filled with hope and filled with confidence for tomorrow, based on what we have already seen him do yesterday.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: That's who you are.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: It's who he's made you to be.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: That's who he's making you to be.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: God has formed this church from the beginning, storming the gates of impossibility.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I mean planting a church in 2020, in COVID, at a high watermark of gathering restrictions.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: That's both dumb and impossible.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: But God said it and he did it.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: That's where he started.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: You.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Do you think it was a coincidence that the starting line he gave you was one of impossibility, or did he want us to get a message that he is able?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: God is able.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: God makes a way.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Did he want us to treasure the testimony?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: But he didn't stop there.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Find a building to launch in in five weeks.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Renovate the building, provide and raise the money for the stuff needed in the building.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Get the permits and get going with services in five weeks.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: That's impossible.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: He did it.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: He did it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: The donation of all the construction materials literally all the wood and the sheet rocking.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I mean all that for free, I mean what?
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: But God did it.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Volunteers coming together building the stage, the sound booth, the sound baffles, the walls, getting the facility cleaned, electricity ran I mean all this impossible stuff in such a short time frame, but God did it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: And then providing just strength for all the volunteers and all the team to do 9 to 11 services a week for the first six months of our church's existence, all due to COVID gathering limits, and then still doing five services a week once COVID limits were loosened due to building capacity.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I mean that's impossible.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Who could sustain in that?
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: And yet God made a way, then finding a home base to get planted in for his purposes.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, initially, everywhere we found we thought, well, that could maybe work.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: It's like, no, we don't want a church.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: You know you're a parking problem or you're too new and you're too high risk, or you know zoning wouldn't permit that.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: You couldn't even think about getting a loan until you have 24 months of financials.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I mean it was just no, no, no.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I mean I bet we got told no two dozen times.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: However, only six months after launching, god provided a place and he made a way, and not just to rent but to buy something that had not even crossed our minds before, with the debt service on buying the place less than what we were renting, the sweet tomatoes which was one fifth the size, I mean that's impossible.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: But God made a way.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: God made a way.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: I mean one of the busiest commercial brokers just came alongside of us, took us under his wing to help us.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: It's like why?
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: The man who had the first ride of refusal on this building, foregoing it, approving the change of use on this building, so many impossible things, but God just kept making a way.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: And then the bank said well, I mean, if you had we don't want to be rude, but I mean I guess if you had somebody to co-sign with you and you had a million more dollars in the bank, then we could help you.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh thanks, it's very helpful.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: That very week I'm not making this up that very week a couple approached me and the husband said you know, I've been working in this business deal and actually I had this time with the Lord.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Right after, you know, church of the front range launched and God told me that he was going to make this deal happen, that I was going to write a million dollar check to the church.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: He even pointed to where he was in his living room.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: He's like it felt like God gave me a download of even how to structure the deal and it's an impossible deal.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: He goes.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: If people knew my world they would know that doesn't happen, but it happened.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Here's a million dollars to sew in to the foundation of what God wants to do.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: That happened that week.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: That same week, another couple, the same week, another couple, reached out saying we just feel led by the Lord to put all of our business assets up as collateral and cosign with you guys so that you could get some help.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Neither had known what the bank had said, neither knew about the million dollar requirement or the cosigner requirement.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: But God knew Impossible, impossible, impossible.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: But God makes a way where there's no way.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: And listen, it's one thing to have a place to gather, but a church kind of needs some pastors too.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Maybe somebody could have said hey, if they possibly could have conceived of it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe someone could have said if you had a staff that would be willing to sacrifice their salary for a year or so, come, leave their jobs, their comfort, their security, their status, well, maybe then this would be possible.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Nobody could have even conceived to have said such a thing.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: That's not just insane, that's impossible.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, but God did that.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: If you're new with us, you've got to know.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Nearly two dozen staff stepped out from our former place of ministry and came, most of which worked for free for a full year Not just any staff, literally like the ministry directors of almost every single area of ministry we had.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: They left their profile, their pay, all of it to start from scratch in the sweet tomatoes.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: I may not have even heard of such a thing before, but he is the God who can do more than we think or imagine.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: He is the God of the impossible.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: He makes a way.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Then, no sooner had we moved into this building, and God is like really pressing on us that we are called to be like the widow in the Old Testament, who was told to go and borrow empty vessels and gather them up in preparation for an outpouring, in preparation for a miracle of God.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Every vessel that she gathered by faith was filled and there was excess in all of that.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: He said I'm calling you to do the same thing, that we have a promise of an outpouring of his spirit and that he's calling us to put out these empty vessels by faith in the form of campuses, with the promise that they're going to become these pouring out places who also will be filled and will overflow and multiply to even more churches from there.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: We're like the monist but the God, which is never a good way to respond to God confession.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: But God, we're just moving into this building.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: We're only a year old, we've got so much stuff to do.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: We don't have a pastor for that, we don't have people for that, we don't have a place for that, we don't have the provision for that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: God.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: The God said I do.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: And then he just starts making a way again Purchase price below asking price, after being under contract twice for above asking price, then the provision to purchase it, the campus pastor that God gave shows up to church the week we get under contract on the building.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: It's just like impossible, impossible, impossible.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: But God did it.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Even the people you know.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: I just love that.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Even as we went door to door meeting the neighbors around the place, three people came to Christ during that time.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Last week was the first ever pre-launch meeting, over 50 persons present.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Three people came to Christ the very first pre-launch meeting and we have some people from Colorado Springs here today, which is so awesome.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: That's impossible, but God makes a way.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Church, who is our God?
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: He is the God of the impossible.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: He is the God who makes a way.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: He is the God who is able.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: He is the God that when he says it, he will do it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Treasure it in your heart.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Believe him, know who he is.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Now is the reason that God did all that?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Because so we'd have a cool testimony in the history books of church of the front range.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: What do you have a sense?
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: That what he has done yesterday is for what he wants to do tomorrow?
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: We've heard him say there's more.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: He's just getting started.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: And when you look at the goals that God has given us for those that attend our church, for our church, for the front range, for the frontier, every one of them is impossible in the natural.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: It's not possible for us, but it's certainly possible for the God of the impossible church.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: You've got to understand God isn't praised for making a way when it's possible.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: You ever notice that he's just not really glorified by storming through open gates of possibility.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Listen, I'm a human being, just like you, and you know what we all want Open doors of possibility and ease and oh yeah, that's the way I like that.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Well, god doesn't get that much glory from that.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, god gets glory when Titans of the faith see that impossible gate and their eye kind of twinkles like God.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Are we going to do that today?
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Being slammed in the face with impossibility is what sets up your life for a testimony.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Church of the front range and the second anniversary.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Let us stick with us that small, safe, secure lives that are slaves to status quo.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: It's not the goal.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Let's be those who do not surrender to the gates of impossibility, but who storm the gates of impossibility.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: I mean we've all heard people say go big or go home.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Let us say go big before you go home, go big before you go home.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I mean there is a day when all who are in Christ Jesus we're going to see Him.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: I mean we're going to see how big God is.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: We're going to go home and at that moment somebody you're going to say, oh, if I had only known how big our God is, I would have prayed differently, I would have lived differently.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: So many go small and then go home.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Let us be those who go big before we go home and I just want to dare you to do something and try to put this in your long term memory.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Just look around.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Look around, look at each other.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Look around for a moment.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: We got this ragtag group sitting here.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: No offense with our pipe and drape to make the room presentable.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: A third of this building we haven't even thought of considering of renovating yet we're still wet behind the ears.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: In the grand scheme, okay, I mean, we just met 1500 of our neighbors inviting them to Christmas.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: No one even knew you existed there, just a few blocks away.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: If you think we think highly of ourselves, no, we don't.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: But we think highly of God, us lined up against the things that God has spoken.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: It is ridiculous, it's ludicrous, it's impossible.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: We're too small, we're not resource enough, we're not smart enough, we're not strong enough.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: There's no way.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: If it's based on us, that's true.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: But don't forget God's the God of Gideon.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: He doesn't want to win with 10,000 men, he wants to make masses out of his 300.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: God doesn't always need more, he just needs more of a certain kind, more of a certain caliber.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Have you ever really contemplated how warriors are made, how they're trained?
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: You know when Spartans were raised?
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: If you tried to raise up Spartans alongside of those that are whiny and complacent and comfort and security seeking and enamored and in pursuit of worldly delights and delicacies and all that.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you something You're not going to end up with any Spartans.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: They're going to end up putting down their shield and putting down their sword, which they were meant to carry from an early age, and come to think of those as toys for their entertainment.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: But if you raise up Spartans among Spartans, they don't know any other way.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: They have been warriors since their earliest days.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: And then who they produce, who they recruit into the cause, that will be more.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: First, the God of impossibility has called you to be people who storm the gates of impossibility, those who, as you, are living in this already and not yet, where the kingdom of God is already breaking into this world and yet isn't complete.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Live and say, as we see gates of impossibility, which one, god, which one, which one do you want us to take down today?
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Which one do you want to bring down today and then charge at his word, in the faith that comes by hearing his word, in confidence in him?
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: All that God's done in the history of our church, guys, it's not meant to be history, it's meant to be preparatory, it's meant to embolden us to storm and not to surrender to gates of impossibility.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: But unless we are intentional and we're going to miss the message or we're going to forget the message, numbers 11, 6, one of the most unbelievable scriptures in all the Bible.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: The Israelites say in Numbers 11, 6, there is nothing at all to look at except this manna, wow, the city in the midst of a miracle, one that comes every single day, and they just lost sight of the miracle.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: They lost sight of the one who worked the miracle.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: All there is to look at is this manna, this miracle of God all around me.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: As we've gathered here the midst of the miracle today, let's be those that recognize the miracle and praise the one who works the miracle.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: My prayer for us as a church, not just today, not just this year, but for decades to come, is that every time we gather together, walk in the building, in the buildings, every time that we're in the midst of the miracle, that we'd be those who remember and recall what our God has done, who our God is, that he is the God of the impossible, who does the impossible, and that, emboldened by that, we'd be those that storm the gates called impossible again and again, not for our glory but for his.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: And we're going to end by praising God to a song that we wrote and we started seeing our very first service in here, just a way to mark the moment that God's made away when there was no way.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: So we're going to sing that song in closing, as you would probably predict, our second anniversary a great way to end.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: But here's a way I want to challenge us today.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: None of the impossible that God has spoken of this church, over this church or over your lives, is possible without a profound outpouring of his spirit.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: No, it can't happen.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: It's the only way that this much impossible can be done, and that's why, multiple times a year, we set aside times where we just say you know we believe God.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: He says if my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray, you know, seek my face, I'll hear, I'll forgive, I'll heal.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: We just say we believe him, we believe the God who says faith not only believes that I exist, but it believes that I become a reward to those that seek me.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: And we just start to seek God.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Seeking God, by the way, is never used in scripture of the normal religious activity, like I went to the church on the Lord's Day or whatever, like.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: That's never seeking.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Seeking is a profound searching, it's a going after and this is one of those times.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: As we approach revival weekend, january 7th and 8th, we've just set aside this 40 day period of time to seek after God.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: It's 40 days of fire is what it's called.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: We really feel led to pray for fresh fire from the Lord to fall, and the challenge of this time is for is between now and revival weekend, would you actually double your personal amount of time with the Lord, like?
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: How much?
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: time you spend with the Lord daily.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Would you double it during this 40 day period, fasting from whatever you need to to be able to double it?
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: You know whether it's you know TV or sleeping in a little longer, or you know food or whatever that might be.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Would you set aside some time to seek after God?
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: We're praying for fresh fire to fall.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I've been so encouraged seeing the doubling of engagement in 24, seven prayer signups the last couple of weeks as we've begun this, so I just I want to ask would you, would you join in?
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: If you haven't joined in yet, would you join in?
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Let's earnestly seek Him.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: He's the God of the impossible.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: He says.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: He will reward those that seek Him.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Let's go after Him.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: I'm going to invite us to bow our heads and close our eyes and church.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: I want to encourage you just to pray and ask God.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: God, is there a gait of impossibility that I'm walking past right now?
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: And I haven't even considered that you could crumble that gait.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Am I walking right past something that you and only you can do?
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: But I haven't asked God, is there a gait of impossibility?
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: You're calling me to seek you To seek, crumble for your glory.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: As you're praying, as you're listening on that, I also want to speak to those of you who are here and you're hearing about a relationship with the God of the impossible and you're feeling like you know, I'm not sure that I have a relationship with Him in this way.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: I'm not confident that I'm right before Him, but I want to be.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: I want to share good news with you.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: The Bible is clear with us that God, who created this world and called all things good, created us for a relationship with Him.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: He created us to find our purpose in Him, life in Him, love in Him, all the things that our hearts long for meant to be found in Him.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Yet the Bible tells us that as mankind turned away from God and chose sin instead of Him, that this separation between God and us, heaven and earth took place.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: And the Bible is clear that all have sinned, all fall short of the glory of God.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: That's not just a condition for one or two of us or some of us, it's all of us.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: And that our sin.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: It separates us from God, who is sinless, who is holy, and it threatens to separate us from Him for all of eternity if not dealt with.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I want to be so clear about the good news here.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: So many people are living as if they can just overcome their sin, overcome, you know, the bad things that they've done with good.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: That's called self-righteousness in the Bible, and that cannot earn you a relationship with God and cannot earn you an eternity.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: We don't just need our sins our way, we need them forgiven, we need them removed.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: And God, in His love for you, he's made that possible.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: It's not something you can earn, it's not something you can deserve, but it's something that you can receive by faith in His Son, jesus Christ, who is Lord and Savior, who, himself, being God, came and died on the cross for your sin, in your place, and he rose from the grave, promising life in place of death for all who would receive Him and receive the gift of salvation that he has made possible through the shedding of His blood on our behalf.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: And so if you're here and you lack that confidence, but you want to leave today, having received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, having received the gift of forgiveness and eternal life that's found in them, then I want to give you a chance to do that, with heads bowed and eyes closed.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: And nobody's looking around, no one's going to do anything weird to you, but if that's you, would you just raise your hand and hold an eye for a moment, saying yes, I want to receive His mercy, I want to receive His forgiveness?
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: I'm not too proud to admit that I need it.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Is that you?
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Today?
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: If you're listening online, there's a place for you to indicate that that's the decision you'd like to make as well, and if so, I just want to lead you in a prayer to come and, from your own heart, say God, I want to know you, god, I want to be in a relationship with you, and I admit that I've said that I need to be forgiven.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: And, jesus, I believe that you being God, that you came, that you died on the cross and that you rose from the grave, promising life, a place of death for all who would receive you.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: And I'm coming in the best way I know how, today, to do that.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Jesus, I believe and I'm asking would you forgive me of my sin?
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Would you be the Lord and the forgiver and the savior of my life?
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: If you're knocking at the door of my heart, I'm opening the door and I'm asking would you come in?
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: Thank you for forgiving, thank you for saving, and Jesus, thank you, amen, amen.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Can we stand up together and church?
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: We, as I mentioned before, we're going to close out our time today having this opportunity to worship the God who made a way.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: We're not going to be like the Israelites and members looking around saying all there is to see is this man, and we're going to keep praising him as we do.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: But I want you to be aware that right after service, if you're hearing, you need to receive prayer.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Maybe you've got something going on physically, relationally, financially, spiritually.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: We have a prayer team available right back in this corner.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: We would love to be a part of joining with you and praying for the thing that you're asking God for For those that are visiting from Colorado Springs and looking forward.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Our teams have been forward to having lunch with you guys and answering any questions that you might have about the church as well, but thank you, guys for coming out celebrating the Saniversary Weekend.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: Let's close and worship.