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2020 2.0: Week 8 | June 12, 2020
2020 3.0 | Pastor David Hughes
Welcome and thank you for joining us for the Church by the Glades podcast. If you would like more information about church by the Glades, including service, times and directions, visit CB glades dot com Way. Hope you enjoyed today's message. Oh, a few days later, when Jesus again entered cop Ernie, Um, the people heard that he had come home. They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd. They made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man. Son, your sins are forgiven. Now some teachers of the law, we're sitting there thinking to themselves, Why does this fellow talk like that? He's blaspheming who can forgive sins but God alone immediately. Jesus knew in his spirit that this is what th ey were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, Why are you thinking these things? Which is easier to say? This paralyzed man, your sins are forgiven or to say, Get up, take your mat and walk. But I want you to know that the son of man has authority on Earth to forgive sins. So he said to the man, I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home. He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them. All this amazed everyone. And they praised God saying, We have never seen anything like this. Mark 21 through 12. What's up, Church by the Glades Oh, thank you so much for logging on today. My name is David. I'm one of the pastors here at C B. G. I got about a dozen or so rowdy people in a room that holds 2000. And what a passage. What a great passage. Our team just read. I love that story. I love a great Jesus story. I love the story When Jesus invade someone's reality and changes everything for the better. Jesus touched that man healed. That man changed him spiritually and physically. I want to get ri ght into that. But first a couple of things. Little Little Church by the Glades Housekeeping. When I'm around town, in the limited moments I'm around town, people will see me. They recognize me. Even my mask going, I think, is my voice and they'll say hi P D and how's the family? And the next question is always this. When are we gonna open the buildings, the church, by the Glades? If you guys got that, I don't know if they're just being polite or actually gonna show up when we do it, but they ask that quest ion quite a bit, and, uh, we'll simply Here's where we are. A little update for the church family. I know some guys just logging on watching online. Thank you for doing that. But as far as we're gonna open our physical campuses, we have five campuses all i n South Florida, and I'll give you a word. The thought process has been prayerfully and carefully. We thought about this. What campus we open first. We opened all at the same time. Uh, you know, we have campuses in three different counties were different s ervice schedules of these campus, and the thought was here it sawgrass. It's the largest campus the first campus made since maybe Sawgrass would go first. And but even here, six services. So we start with all six. Probably too much. 123 We have most. Satur day night, Sunday night, Sunday morning, of course, Sunday afternoon and we came with the idea is, um you know this This is live right now. They're people responding You on the chat right now. Hosts in real time. Uh, the pre show is all all real time, but portions of the service we pre record. So we had the idea. Why not invite people to the Thursday nights recording session and the worship would be live on? Of course, the message would be live. And we thought it might be kind of fun that way. You ever want to come? Could come and we have lots of seats here. We would practice. Ah, safety protocols, of course. But still lots of room here for people to come on that Thursday night and be part of the worship experience live. And then the message. And by
the way, we keep it the way it is we keep the capture is ah high value because so many folks are watching online. So? So if you came, it be like one part congregation, one part live studio audience on. We plan on doing that in one of the Thursday's coming up. But here in Broward County, this campuses in Broward County, Florida We've had a spike in cove in 19, uh, more people testing positive, hospital beds disappearing. So we're gonna push back a little bit our minds all that to say this So probably plan will be Th ursday night. First, which one? Pay attention? Best way to find out, Probably to follow me or the church on Instagram or Facebook. And there won't be a lot of heads up. I'm not gonna give you a month's notice. It might be three days notice. So thank you fo r staying connected. So prayerfully carefully, please. Pray that God gives us wisdom. So many unknowns right now. So we're looking forward to reopening at the right time at our physical campuses. Pray for that and pay attention. Instagram and Facebook, rig ht? Connect and share, connect and share. Stay with it. All right. This passage is gonna be fun if you're new to us. Thank you for logging on. Thanks for your patience as we take care of some family business. Uh, the series is called 2022.0, we launched it like a month and a half ago thinking, Wow! If any year needed a reboot. Is this one? This'd year has been so crazy. So we thought, How about a do over for 2022 point? Oh, but since we did that a month and a half ago, it's gotten weirder, hasn't it? Is got ten So Can we do 2023 point? Oh, is that even a thing can wait. Can you reboot? Reboot? I'm not sure that's even possible, but anyway, so let's get to the text was so much going on right now with with, you know, people getting sick and you know, hospitaliz ations and and social unrest. I mean, what do we talk about? Let's talk about Jesus. Let's talk about Jesus. My favorite topic. He's my hero. He is the centerpiece of this narrative. And mark, Chapter two, we're gonna study together, find your Bible. And b y the way, when you find your Bible, let me welcome our amen corner. What's up? Amen corner. Great to see you guys. You are looking so good. I love it. Look at Rob Right there. Darrell In. Good to see you guys. I see Marie Oscar. You good? Sheila. Good to see you. Ah, wonderful job. They are all over there. I say, See? Lauri and Lauri. Where's Lori? Lori Lori Right there in Josh Arizona. I saw Marguerite from Ohio. How are things now? Not even cold anymore. Gosh, thinking, Where's Brandy? Brandy is with us from Nashville, Tennessee. So people watching right now all over the country, all over the world People last week in the chat Gosh, I saw people from Peru, Brazil. I think we had Japan, Spain. Thank you for watching connect and share. Let's jump into this great story about these friends thes friends who do the thing that Jesus wants us to do. So we'll talk to you about Jesus. And this thing that Jesus calls all of us to do he requires us as Jesus followers to do this One thing it's not a suggestion is not i f we have time. What is it? Well, he says the same thing in many different places. In Matthew, Chapter four. He says it this way. Let's go fish for men, uh, it acts. Chapter one, Verse eight says, Go and be my witnesses. Another place, he says. Go look for the one lost sheep. He's not talking about barnyard animals, by the way. He means one person who spiritually lost, lead the 99 to find those one. But those famous time, he says. It's probably the famous last two verses, and Matthew's Gospel is called The Great Commission. So on the big screen right now, the speaker here is the king. The chronology of this past he just vital This is, uh, after the Crucifixion. Uh, this is after his glorious resurrection after he's shown himself be very much alive. Over 500. Eyewitness is Jesus before he sends to the father before he goes back to heaven, promising, someday he'll return says, Hey, my disciples do this busy yourself with this vital activity until I return. Here's what Jesus said. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them and named the Father and
the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach them to observe, obey all that. I have commanded you and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age except during a global pandemic. Social unrest, economi c uncertainty, political polarization or during social distancing. Oh, anybody anybody in your amplified translation, even to anybody and some modern embellished paraphrase have anything remotely like that. It's funny there. There's no disclaimer on the gr eat commission. The great commission has no exception. Clauses. Now he gonna do this stuff, go make disciples and be witnesses and rescue lawsuit. Except when there's a bunch of issues out there because I think Jesus assumed there'd always be issues and we have a lot of issues right now. I get it. It's a very unusual season globally. But guess what the great commission always applies is always relevant for all of us so that we have issues and struggles and challenge and trouble. Shucks. Jesus promised that, he said. In this world, you will have trouble make disciples anyways make disciples anyways, And in this story we have an example of these people. These individuals, they get their friend of Jesus. They overcome incredible hardship, all kinds of difficult y, all kinds of chaos to get their friends to Jesus. A wonderful example because we are all we're all when I say three shout the word all. 123 We are called to do this. Every single follower of Jesus Christ rescued people rescue people. So anyways, great s tory when I jump right into it it was beautifully just a moment ago by our team. Uh, this story, by the way, is so vital, shows up in three places in your Bible. So if something shows in the Bible once it's biblical, it's a very important shows up twice. T wice. Well, it's vital, but three times press in and with no takers, it shows up the same story in Matthew, Chapter nine now Matthew, Chapter nine. A briefer version. Uh, it's kind of like the spark notes on the story. Luke. Chapter five. You get a lot of detail. And also here in Mark, Chapter two, Let's start reading together Verse one mark chapter to highlight a few words ready when Thank you. We had to Jesus story when Jesus entered cop Ernie, Um, again, after some days, it was reported that he was home. Now just stop was with Jesus home cop Ernie. Um he is born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth. But the base of his ministry, especially the first couple years, was this Galilean city called Cop Ernie, um, continues verse to get ready. So many people gathere d together that there was no room, not even in the doorway. And he was speaking the word to them. I gotta break this down for a moment, right? So what's going on? A couple things. Same formula. We see time and time again in the Bible. We see the centerpiec e of this event is Jesus. The central personality is Jesus. If you're doing your research on Jesus. Brilliant. So smart. He's a centerpiece of history. I don't mean just spiritually History, history, sociology, social sociology. No one has impacted the wor ld in a bigger way than a 33 year old Jewish rabbi. So you're doing your homework. Well done. So anyways, the center of the story is Jesus. And Jesus is doing what he's teaching the word. So the stories about what? Yeah, they've heard that before. Jesus an d his word Jesus and his word. If you're new to church by the Glades, I I'd say that a lot that the things we esteem and value the most Jesus and his word. In fact, if you come when you come to a physical campus. You're going to see the production values a re amazing. The hospitality is sensational. Our kids ministry will blow you away. Our ministry to students, young adults, senior at all of our campuses, everything you could. Wow, you think? What do they value the most? Is it dynamic worship? Is it hospita lity? We're very creative is a production. We value all those things, but the two things we esteem the most. Jesus and his word. Jesus and his were radically Christ centric Bible teaching church. And the reason why is it's not just a biblical thing. It's a practical thing to do, because when I see this happen in the New Testament, when there's an event centers on Jesus
In his word, crowds crowd show up Now. No people feel funny about crowds right now. Copa 19 were kind of phobic about crowded environments, But guess what? Crowds our biblical, you know, even when there's not a pandemic. I know some people like, say, David. I'm not sure about that church by the Glades because it is crowded. It's a big church. I prefer a small church. Nothing wrong with the sma ll church. But crowds are biblical. Multitudes showed up to hear Jesus speak. People are crowding in their people in the doorway. They're they're hanging in the windows. People are pressed against each other. No social distancing in the story crowds. Crowd s are biblical. So if you're a Christian person, you need to like crowds, crowds, air biblical. If you don't like crowds, you will hate heaven because we'll be multitudes in heaven. And so now I get it. Crowds are impractical. Crowds can be chaotic and pro blematic. I mean, in this story, all kinds of people. They're all kinds of camels parked in the parking lot. Galleon P. D. On the on the traffic signals, a large lines at the Calpurnia campus of of kids stuff back. I get it, I get it, I get it. But crowds or a good thing? A beautifully. So listen when we open up again, my guess is we won't have crowds. Not crazy crowds, maybe the first time in 10 years. No parking issues at the Sawgrass campus. But I hope that doesn't last for long and in some month in the future, when things were back to normal, whatever that looks like. And there's a crowd of church by the glades at your campus and you're stuck in traffic for just a couple minutes. Would you stop and offer Got a prayer of praise saying thank you. The peopl e are crowding thin this very broken and messy world So much pain, so much discord People are crowding because it's about Jesus and his word And this passage good. It's so good. I'm just inverse to this passage is so rich. So firstly, Verse three is good. Diverse three now Verse three. We got these friends. We got these friends who want to get there, buddy to Jesus. They're doing the thing that Jesus says there time and time again. So these these guys want to get their friend of Jesus and they come late to church. Some of y'all come late to church all the time. I just can't event right now. Some of you who come to church by the guys you show up so late all the time. Even here at this campus, we have a one o'clock in the afternoon service. I can't believe peo ple come rolling in at, like a quarter or two with their coffee from the lobby. You still stop figure coffee running late try to be on time for church. But come anyway. So look, they come anyways. And because they're late, there is a crowd. The crowd creat es chaos and they can't get their friend to Jesus. Look what they do. Verse three and Verse four. This is so good. Some men came bringing to him a paralyzed man carried by So four doing the carrying Probably just four in total. But therefore, these men Ver se four says since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, like it so innovative here they made opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the math the man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the p aralyzed man, Son, your sins are forgiven. Wow. Then what happened? Well, he's gonna be healed spiritually and physically. What does that happen? What does that happen? I'm going to show you next week when you log on next week. This story is so good. I don 't want it to be a terrible disservice to try to rush through it all. It it's so rich. But you're going to see this incredibly holistic miracle because this man's needs were not just the presenting needs, the physical needs. His impairment spiritually need s profound spiritual needs. But these friends get their buddy to these four amazing friends. So guess what? Next week will be the last week of 2022.0, we'll wrap up the Siri's. Then after next week, what do we do? Start a new Siri's so new Siri's. We're go nna call business as unusual because I'm not sure about your world. But my world everything is weird. Everything is unusual, as were emerging from quarantine, kind of going
back toe work. Some of us are, so it's it's just weird. So you know, the old the ol d norm is gone. People talking about the new, normal so business as on because Christian people should be flexible, We should adapt quickly, and the Bible gives us techniques on examples. So business as unusual starts in two weeks. But don't miss the final climactic week of 2022.0, the rest of this great story of this healing of the paralyzed man and his four remarkable friends. I love this great story. Now, a question. As you're listening to the readers, all this detail given by by Luke and Matthew. And he re a mark. Did you catch the names of the four friends? Didn't catch the names. I thought the names were there. I thought the names right. Right. That was Bob and Willie and Joaquin and Biff. No, no, No names. Luke's gospel names. Matthew names. No names f or anonymous friends. I've had a little fun this passage this week. How about how about we make up their names? How about we make up their names, right? Let's make up based on their behavior based on their evident activity based on their their demonstratio n of faith because they're so catalytic in this wonderful miracles. Make up the names of the four friends. I'll give you one today and I give you three when you log on next week. All right. So best parts next week come to the sequel next week. Alright, So friend number one, this is called friend number one. Mr. Love, Mr Love, Mr. Look, she is that cheesy This kind of cheesy But I mean this. What do you see in this person's response? You see clearly his profound love for his friend, his friends condition bre aks his heart. So Mr Love loves his friend. Now, we don't have all the back story of this relationship. But it does say that, Jesus, saying his need for gave a sins. So based on that math, you know, you're you're born with a sin nature, low theology right here, but not born guilty for sin. So this man made some kind of stake in life that result into this holistic Brokenness. So it meant maybe Mr Love knew his friend before he was impaired. Stay with me. Maybe he knew him when he was healthy before his his l egs were emaciated before his his muscles deteriorated. Maybe he knew him back when he could walk and run and play. And then you saw this Brokenness occur and the Brokenness and his friend hurt his heart. And my guess is this is not the first time Mr Love and his companions had carried this guy somewhere. Probably carried him every single day in the morning to some busy street quarter. And keep Ernie, um where he could beg. So social welfare system. There's no government disability. He lived off of the gene rosity of other people. There was a lot of generosity back in that day and his condition spiritually and physically broke the heart of his friend Mr Love. He had compassion for this. Didn't judge him, by the way, didn't condemn him? I didn't say this is th e consequence of your own bad choices. Just loved him the way he waas even his broken and love love. So I say in this story Ah, huge degree of compassion and love, compassion and love. So they pushed through the chaos and the Brokenness and the mess. Why? Love, love? So here's a question. How can you gauge how much you love someone or something? How much can you a measure? How much you love something? Here's an example. How much chaos or how much pushback or how much risk? Well, you experience because you l ove something. Did I lose? You are confused. Alright? Some said wow, but they work for me. Always stay with me. Stay with right here. Um Alright, Alright. This little exercise together. Quarantine. Quarantine. All right, so we're kind of emerging out of qu arantine here in South Florida yet there's a little bit of back and forth. People are still concerned. Uh, when the quarantine was on full blown. How good of quarantine? Er, no, it's not a word, but, like, quarantine or were you mean is how careful were yo u when it came to quarantine? Rate yourself right now. Fact, if you're just wonderfully transparent, you know? Right then the chat between 1 to 10 a 10 is someone You
were almost perfect with the quarantine. You did not leave your house at all. You work fr om home. You did school from home. You got all your food by way of delivery dudes. And you still like, sprayed it with Lysol. I mean, you were a super careful quarantine. Er, where you attend on the other side of the spectrum is a one. A one would be, um y ou were a terrible quarantine. Er you didn't change your routine. You went out. You did the stuff you want to do. You pretended like it wasn't really Oh, my God. She's not washed your hands since February. You're still getting killed. Cove in 19. Right? Yo u're a terrible you're You're a \ u20AC1.1. Right? So one is really terrible. And a 10 is you're hyper hyper diligent. Careful. So what number would you give yourself? A t least and I were talking. We'd probably, you know, being honest, we thought were prob ably but what about 4.5? 4.5. Is that generous? 3344 solid. Okay. Solid for us that we were not very good. Now, listen, we we kept some protocols. We stayed at home. The vast majority the time. When did we leave home was something that we really, really wa nted to do. Anybody else, right? I'll be honest. I'll be honest. I'll be transparent. Uh uh. The gym I was so happy in my gym re opened. I was so happy when the gym re opened. I love going consistently to the gym. Lisa is a gym rat. My son Charlie Man's ge tting muscles. He works out really hard. We we loved. So the moment our gym opened, it was so awesome. We went to the gym. Now my gym has good safety protocols. They take your temperature as you walk in. You gotta wear a mask or face covering as you walk i n. They've doubled the cleaning staff, man. They're cleaning sanitize and everything. Almost every member wipes down equipment before and after. They trained me in the safety protocols are great. And some you're going like, Are you crazy? Is a gym. You got people grunting and sweating and working out hard, so they're breathing really hard. Oh, my God. Jim, I don't care how much Lysol they use your working out in a Petri dish. Are you kidding me? Why, David, would you go to the gym? That's so risky. Why woul d you go to the gym? I love it. I love it. I love to work out. I'm passionate for it. Kind of clears my head. Keeps me healthy normally. Maybe not this time anyway. So I love it. I love it. So because I love it the gym. I put myself at risk Another example . I'll be honest. Um, you may have heard that I enjoy occasionally going fishing. I like I like the fish, you know, fishing. Something I do, you know, with some some diligence, some proficiency. I love the fish. I love fishing is awesome. Uh, you know, sad ly, the quarantine kind of coincided with the tarp in season in South Florida. Same time of year. And, oh, there's some random fishing pictures behind me. Where did those even though it's my wife right there. That's that's the sexiest picture of my wife ev er. The giant harp in her first harp. And I love I love fishing. Fishing is kind of my thing. And so I spent some time, even during quarantine, on a boat fishing, and I was like, Oh, my gosh on a boat. We, at least by yourself, hardly ever, hardly ever by myself almost always had a fishing buddy or a fishing guide. I guess. Why not? Not as risky as it sounds, because their small boats I fish on, ah, flats boat. Well, the fishing guide stands way at the back way at the back. Give me the picture of Captain Ro d Rob, if you would look, he's way back there in the back of the boat, By the way, he could balance the push poll in his head. That's pretty impressive. He's way back there and then I'm on the front of the boat or the bow of the boat, right? So forget 6 ft . We were 17.5 ft apart the whole time on, by the way, as far as a face mask. Oh, for years, long before coronavirus, I wear something called a buff on my face to keep the sun and the wind off and damage. So I I look like that when I fish. I look like a me mber of the Taliban every time I fish So So? So we took some precut But when I went fishing without apology don't judge me. Stop saying those mean things in the chat. Yes, I went fishing. I know I put myself a risk. Why would I go fishing? I love it,
e I l ove it. I I enjoy it so much I'd be safer to stay home. But for certain things you love, you will put yourself at risk, right? Okay. Jesus told all of us. Not just pastors, Not just missionaries. Not just full time church staff, but all of us to be engaged in the activity of being witnesses, rescuing lost sheep, making disciples translation, leveraging relationships and influence and networks to bring other people to Christ At least invite them to church. Right? We're all called to do that. But to do that y ou risk something. Why should you do it? Love, love, love Because Jesus said to do it love because we love Jesus we love them and guess what? We should do it because something else Jesus said John, 14 6, is a remarkable famous verse. It kind of has two dim ensions. One is very wide open and one is a little concerning. But Jesus said this. And I believe Jesus always spoke truth and love. Look what he said about himself. Jesus said to them, I am the way, the truth and the life. Let me just stop right there and break that down. I love the first half of this verse. It is so wide open. Jesus, on the way. Doesn't matter. Your background doesn't matter if you're a saint or a center. If you made a bunch of missed aches or stolen cookie from the cookie jar one time I' m the way. Doesn't matter. Ethnicity. Education doesn't matter. Your religious background. I'm open to you. I am the way. Come to me on the way on the bridge, on the path on the way that he said, I'm the truth. I'm the truth. Jesus always speaks truth, and truth is always your friend. And by the way, we're called by Jesus to tell the truth. How in love, never judging someone else hoping for people to disagree. But so the way the truth and the life Jesus, I'm life not just life eternal but life abundant. I a m the secret of life. So the first part of the verse is amazing. It is open for everybody if you're watching right now, whether you're a theologian is the first time you've ever heard the name of Jesus. He says I'm hoping for you but look at where the vers e lands. I am the way, the truth and the life No one comes to the father. But through May, at the same time we said I'm open to everybody If you want to get to My heavenly father is through May I'm the singular pathway that seems narrow to you. Take it up with Jesus. He said I'm open to anybody no matter where you come from what you've done. But I'm the way now. Christian Church. I ask you this, Did he mean it? Is he telling the truth? Because we saw in the truth and we love our friends and we love our co w orkers. And we love our neighbors who don't know Jesus. We got to get them to Jesus, We gotta, you know, dig through the walls and break down the seal. We gotta get them Thio. We gotta carry them doing it. Get pushed to the chaos, the resist risk. And what do we risk? Right now? People are watching. Perhaps in some country where you're not allowed to share Christ, Maybe you're a Christian person, but by law you cannot evangelize or share your faith. Guess what? In America and our campuses air in the US, we have freedom of religion. So what do you really risking with this? A little bit of rejection being misunderstood, being labeled. Perhaps. Probably not even that we got to get people to Jesus way have to get people to Jesus. You will risk for what you love. I'll give you a stupid examples. Like fishing and working out. This is people people who matter so much to God. Jesus died with that person on his mind. People matter to God. You will what you love You risk for an example? An example. So we're gonna open up our campuses that sometime in the future. But there is this environment. What if I told you there's a certain environment and when this environment opens up. Oh, yeah, That's gonna be crowds, crowds, not hundreds. Probably thousands of people going to s how up. I get it. You're like, Yikes. Crowds. Uh, infection crowds can't do. But this environment, I'm telling you, this environment is so amazing. This environment is gonna be so powerful. This environment gonna make you smile. I promise. When you walk in , this environment is going to engage you.
This environment, you'll be inspired. You and your kids will have a blast in this environment. In this environment, they deal with some topics that might make you uncomfortable. Like like money. I thought they're gonna talk about money in this environment and you won't even care. This environment is me so powerful that there's many thousands of people there. This environment will blow your mind. Now You think I'm talking about church? I'm talking about Disney World . You thought I was talking about church by the Glades. Shares by the Glades is an amazing environment. But this weekend, Disney World in Orlando is opening to the public. Are you aware of that? So right now, I'm sure watching this. There are thousands upo n thousands of people at Disney world and guess what? Thousands upon thousands of people wanted to come, and I know they have limitations on attendance, and they have all kinds of safety protocols, but they're still gonna be thousands of people during a pa ndemic at Disney World blows my mind, in fact, that the limit who could come? I talked to a friend of mine who's one of our Disney aficionados. A church. He loves Disney, I said. What were the criteria? So well, guess what, Even to get a reservation, you h ave been existing pass holder, then you had to request a reservation. Then they made a hotel reservation on property because that up your percentage of getting the the reservation for the park and if you happen to get the reservation for the park, By the w ay, the first reservations for Thursday. A Pew view. When a preview went out early on a Thursday morning at 5 a.m. Notification, they were all going in 10 minutes. If you happen to get a reservation, the park hours are limited. There's no fireworks, there' s no parades, there's no character greeting and you can't even get a reservation. They're all gone, and the people have to get their temperatures taken and wear a mask is gonna be 102 degrees and 135% humidity. And thousands of people still are going to Di sney. They're still going to that environment. Why they love it. They're going to Disney because they love a mouse. They're not sure to laugh or cry or clap. I'm just being really I love Disney not knocking Disney. Now, you might think this illustration is gonna land like this. So someday when our church opens in a few weeks, if you love the church, you will come in and be part of the crowd. No, no, no judgment. Some of you guys, someone we open will be here. I know it. That's what you want to do. If God la ys on, your heart will have all kinds of safety precautions and you can come on that Thursday night in the future you can come. But others who love our church Justus much. You're not comfortable coming right now. You want to continue to do church online, w hich is absolutely valid. You're gonna stay connected like my mom is 89 years old. She does not need to come to a physical campus. So this is done, right? So guess what? You're gonna worship and be engaged when I say that too. It means you're not just watc hing church online while you make your coffee as you do your laundry and why you cut your grass in the pool. Right? So you guys know no focus on church. Make this your worship time. I don't mean that, but I mean this this whole talk is about there are peop le without Jesus who are not on their way to heaven. And you say you love them. Do you love them? Let's get them to Jesus. Hell. Easy. So easy. So easy. Connect and share. Connect and share. I know. We said, like, four school, um times connect and share. Y ou were singing songs. Connect and share, Connect and share. Dave, I heard it like for, like, 16 weeks. Connect and share. Are you doing it? Are you still doing it? Well, I did. I did the first couple of weeks, but I know I got What are you doing? It? The stakes have not changed. I get The more you hear something, the less you pay attention. Example When's the last time you heard a car alarm go off like outside your window? Me back when you were at work when you heard it. What's the last time you heard a ca r alarm? Go off and you grab your phone to call 911
Not even looking like 90 my gosh, there's a car alarm going off. Hello? Hello, Officer, There's a cart. Anybody you put in the chat, if you've done that recently, right now, I'm old enough. I remember in car loans first came out and at first of all, like Oh my gosh, there's a car alarm. Someone's car is being jacked right now are robbed right now and you went outside. It was always a false alarm, right? And it's just it's just kind of noise for us now. And we don't pay any attention to car alarms. Car alarms got you get annoyed. You never called 911 You get annoyed. We've said connect and share so much you might think it's a car alarm. It's a spiritual arm. The Bible says there's two places to spin forever. Heaven or hell, and God's desire is for you to spend forever with him in heaven. Church. The alarm is going off. The enemy is trying to plunder souls. He's trying to jack people's eternity. And we are the friends We gotta be like, Mr Love, and get the peo ple we love and care for in their Brokenness, with their spiritually impairment to Jesus. We got to connect and share. And if you're someone without Christ Oh, my goodness. Can I help you become a disciple? Can I help you step across the line? I'm gonna pr ay. And right after that prayer we got a couple of are nice folks. Pastor Michael B on the screen. You're gonna show you how to respond how to send a text message that can change your forever Church by the Glades We've got a mission. We have a job to go an d make disciples no exception clauses whatsoever. I know those things you can't do right now. Here in Florida, you can hop on a plane and go to New York. Right. You'll get quarantine, but you can still lead people to Jesus. I know in Dade County you can't go to a restaurant right now. Big deal. You can still lead people to Jesus I know you can't hug your grandmama right now. You miss your grandmama, but you could still lead people to Jesus were called by our king. It is not an option to go make disciples of all nations to baptize him the name of the father and the son and the Holy Spirit to teach him, observe everything, Jesus said. And if we do that, he says low, I'll show up and be with you in a special way because you always even until the end of the age in Jesus name