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- Hey, welcome back to our second week of the 10X Push.

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My name is Andy and thank you for joining us

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for church online today wherever you are.

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Now, Crossroads is one church

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and we meet in buildings like this,

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but we also meet in homes, online,

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digitally and in person all over the globe

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and made up of all sorts of people,

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including our next generation,

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which is why my buddy Joel is here.

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- Hey, what's up? I'm Joel, I lead our 0-18 team.

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As we talk about the church being pushed,

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I think it's critical to talk about the church,

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like the entirety of the church,

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which includes kids and students.

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And so I'll say it this way.

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I think everyone needs a spiritual revival,

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from diapers to diapers,

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- Diapers -- Depends.

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- Diapers, diapers. Yeah, they'll get it.

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They'll get it later. And so we're doing that.

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Every, every different ministry, kids ministry, student ministry,

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all the way through adults are experiencing this push.

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And what we want to see,

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we don't want to just go to the moon.

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We want to bring the skies down.

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We want to see heaven meet Earth.

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And so we really, truly believe that's

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what's going to take for an awakening or a revival.

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- Yeah, and we're seeing that, like,

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a revival is not a word we use a lot around here.

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But it's just this thing where God comes

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and He brings new life to us, and we're experiencing that.

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Just this past weekend, we had

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an old school tent revival

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at our land called Base Camp,

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and over 8500 people came together,

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three mile long traffic on the road.

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It was like all packed, crazy,

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tons of students there. It was amazing.

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Nonstop worship, amazing teaching.

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And I want to give you guys a glimpse

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of what happened right now.

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- You're where you are right now

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because of where you've been.

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And so the fact that we opted in to revival

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means, like, something is dead,

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or we need something refreshed,

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and that means something new has to come in

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and we've got to open ourselves up.

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The history of the Bible is very clear:

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God goes where He's wanted.

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He gives power to the tired,

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and He revives the exhausted. [cheers]

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- Andy, I had an unreal time at Revival,

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mostly because I wasn't one of

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those cars stuck really far back there.

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I got there early for setup,

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which is why you should volunteer at these things.

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But it was unreal.

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And honestly, one of my favorite parts

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was Saturday at the 1 p.m. session.

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I'm not kidding you, no rain.

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Someone out there who's smarter than me

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can explain how this happened.

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A rainbow just made itself known above the tent

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and it felt like I was there.

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- Yeah. - Like, it just, it was kind of

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just a glimpse into heaven meeting Earth.

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It was fantastic. Yeah.

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- It was beautiful. - Do you have a favorite part?

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- You know, I missed the rainbow cloud,

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which sounds amazing, but my favorite part

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was actually having my entire family there.

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Like, I'd been to the land for Man Camp.

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My wife's gone to Woman Camp,

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but all of us being there together

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at the same time was just fantastic.

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And it reminds me that, like, revival

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is something that happens for our whole church,

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for our whole nation, for us individually,

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and for our families, like, no matter what our age is.

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- Yeah, I'm glad you said that, because

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way more is caught than taught.

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And so if our church is going to be revived,

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this has to be real.

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It has to be people living it out.

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So if you want to get engaged,

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there's a couple ways to do it.

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One, you're doing it right now.

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Watch the weekend message.

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So if you're here, unless you're here on accident,

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you're crushing it. Congrats.

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And two, is to get a guidebook.

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Andy's got his in his hand.

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This is my real one because my name is on it,

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so you know it.

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If you can't get to a physical site to get this,

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if you're chilling somewhere else to grab it,

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then go ahead and go to Crossroads.net/10X

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and we got a digital one for you.

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- Yeah. Doing the work on the guide,

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it's like a custom action plan for you.

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It might be the most helpful way for you

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to be personally grown and stretched

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throughout the Journey.

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It's just like 30 minutes or so each week,

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and this week there's even a fun little --

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It's actually a really helpful personal assessment

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that will help you understand how you grow best,

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and even what might be keeping you

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from growing right now.

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- Yeah, and another way to do it is to get in a group.

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My group met last week

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and so we started ours already.

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But you were just telling me

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yours doesn't start till this week, right?

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- That's right. My group starts this week.

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You can join. It's not too late.

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You can find all the groups at Crossroads.net/10x.

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There's all kinds of great stuff there.

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Get in a group. Do the guide.

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Join in because God wants to push you to a new place.

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- Hey, revival has started. It's begun.

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And we're starting to see something big happen.

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We hope you want to be a part of it.

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- That's right. Let's go with week two of The Push right now.

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- 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. [engine boosters]

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Liftoff, we have a liftoff.

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Houston, you are a go for staging.

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[music]

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- Have you given your life to one thing,

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giving your whole life to one thing is not normal.

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It's not normal. But who wants to be normal?

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Am I right?

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I don't think you came in tonight

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or came in with us online for normal.

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I think you came wanting something more.

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And that's why I'm excited that you're here.

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When I've given my whole life to Jesus

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and said yes to all that He has for me,

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my whole life changed.

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It's not normal, but it's amazing.

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It's amazing.

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That's why I'm excited that you're here tonight.

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If you're brand new. My name is Justin.

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And you walked into this thing called the 10X Push.

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What that is, is all of us here at this church

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saying, "God, I want more of You in my heart.

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I want You to enlarge what You're

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doing in my heart and in this world."

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And so you walked into something crazy

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and super exciting.

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It's not normal, but it's amazing.

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So everything from here on out,

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the rest of the time, every song you hear,

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every story you hear is all geared towards

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getting you to understand this God more

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and what He wants to do in your heart.

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So glad you're here tonight.

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Why don't you stand up with us?

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We're going to sing some songs to Him

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and about Him. So glad you're here.

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- Put your hands together like this

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as we sing praises to the Lord,

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the One who's worthy. Come on.

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- Come on. Hands up all over the room.

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I just need you to think right now

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on all the things He's done,

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all the ways He's shown up for you,

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all the ways He's stepped in your life

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and shown you that He's faithful,

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that He's good, that He's merciful,

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that He's got your back.

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I need you to know. I need you to remember right now.

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- We give Him all the praise

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because of how He's rescued us.

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- God, so many of us in here come with gratitude.

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We come with hearts that struggle to find the words

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that can match the gift that You have given us,

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the redemption that we've experienced.

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And so many of us come into this room

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with heavy hearts, hearts in needing a touch,

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needing an encounter with the living God.

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So would you see us showing up here,

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showing up online as us saying yes to You.

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Yes, we want to encounter You.

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Would You come meet us right where we are?

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Would You meet us? Amen. Amen.

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Come on y'all.

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It's so good, so good. Mhm.

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Well, I want you to say hi to somebody.

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If you're online, say hi to somebody

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even if you don't know them and have a seat.

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[music]

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- Hey! How big -- How big is your God?

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How big is your God?

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What do you think that can happen

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as people band together and are empowered

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by the Spirit of God?

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If you're first time today, man,

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welcome to Crossroads.

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We have -- You've stepped into a doozy.

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We're in the midst of the 6 most important weeks

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in our church's 28 year history.

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I'm in the six most important weeks

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of my personal life.

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We are looking and working towards

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bringing an awakening, something to our land

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that rattles our cages, gets us off our phones,

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gets us out of our doldrums,

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shakes us out of depression,

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helps us see the way of hope

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instead of the way of anxiety,

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and connects people to

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a life giving relationship with God

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and has all the trickle down effect that comes with it.

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I'm going to talk about that right now.

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Let's pray before I go any further. All right.

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God, You are really -- You are big. You're very big.

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And You are empowering

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and You're also patient and You're kind.

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Be patient with people like us that sometimes

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are just two heads down and too thick.

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Be helpful to me as I try to communicate

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to Your people and be helpful.

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And may all of us, God, have

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our hearts inclined more towards You.

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And I pray these things according to

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the character and identity of Jesus. Amen.

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Well, we're in week two of our Push.

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By Push, the reason it's called a Push

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is because we're going to be pushing on you,

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and I'm going to push on you today.

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Are you ready to get pushed?

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I'm going to push you a little bit.

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Just like a little nudge.

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I'm just going to give you a little push.

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Just going to give you a push.

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I believe you came to Crossroads today because

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you want something more from where you could be,

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other than here.

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When you came in today or when you left yesterday,

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you got one of these guides.

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It's one of the things we're doing to give us

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a fully orbed, multi-sensory, tactile Journey

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over the next six weeks or actually from now on,

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over the next five weeks.

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I want to push you into new territory.

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We want to push each other

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to new levels of spiritual growth.

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We want to push us closer to the heart of God.

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We want to push our community closer to

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the potential that it has to be a blessing

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to the world and actually bring God's Kingdom,

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God's preferred way of living,

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not just in heaven, but bring it into earth.

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Jesus talks about this Kingdom

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again and again and again and again,

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and He does all He can to talk to His people,

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to help them understand God's plan for our life

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and how we should and can be living differently.

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To do this, He would use stories

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and He would use parables.

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He didn't have screens and hazers and that stuff.

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He used what He could in the countryside,

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which was stories, also known as parables,

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stories He made up, but they're meant to have a point.

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I'm going to read one for you today.

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It's one that's repeated multiple times in the Bible,

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which means the biblical authors

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and consolidators saw it as really important.

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I'm going to read the version of

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the book of Matthew 13:3, and here we go.

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She who has ears to hear, let her hear.

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Jesus is sort of a master of tension and drama.

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He tells these stories, and most of the time

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He doesn't explain them.

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Like, one of the classic ones of the Prodigal Son

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we've told here a number of times.

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Two sons, one son is rebellious,

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another one is an older son is not rebellious.

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And the father runs to the rebellious son,

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I'm not gonna tell you the whole thing.

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But Jesus doesn't explain it to us.

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The meaning is pretty similar,

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but that's part of why every time you read it,

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you can see something different because

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He allows our imagination to go with it.

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This is one of the very few parables

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where Jesus actually tells us the meaning.

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He tells us what the point is.

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There are four types of people according to Jesus,

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four types of people in this world:

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those who can count and those who can't.

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Four types of people in this world.

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He refers to them, He refers to us rather

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as the four soils.

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And there's a sower who represents God,

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and God has seed, and the seed represents

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the Word of God, the truth of God.

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And God is going around.

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And I know some of you ladies are going to hate it,

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but get over it. God goes around.

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God goes -- You want that?

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You want that right there, James? Bam. Right for you.

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God goes around and He just puts out His truth.

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Hey, I'm the Way, the Truth and the Life.

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Hey I am a God of compassion.

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I am a God of forgiveness.

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This is the way that life works.

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He goes out sowing his seed all over the place

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and how it lands, the kind of person that lands on

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will have four different reactions.

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And our reaction is based on

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the heart that we have,

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the heart that has been cultivated.

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You can throw out truth all you want,

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but if it doesn't land on a heart

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that wants to receive it and is ready to receive it,

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then it doesn't mean anything at all.

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Let's hear from Jesus who these soils are,

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what they represent.

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I have them represented over here right now.

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Let's just read what He says.

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Let's have Him dummy proof it.

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Here's what He says here.

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Here is the parable of the sower.

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When anyone hears the Word of the Kingdom

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and does not understand it,

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the evil one comes down and snatches away

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what has been sown in his heart.

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This is what is sown on the path.

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So here we have the path, and it's really hard.

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It's batted down, because people are walking on it

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all the time, it's it's smushed down.

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It's, you know, all the traffic, it's hard.

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And the seed falls on there,

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but it can't go anywhere.

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Nothing takes place.

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Why does nothing takes place?

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It's because there is an evil one

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who's very hungry.

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The evil one is known as Satan, the devil,

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the adversary, the deceiver.

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All different kinds of names for him

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that are in the Bible.

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And what he does is when we hear something

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that's truth, hear something that's God,

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before it sinks into our heart and transforms us.

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He comes down and takes it away.

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He snatches it away

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before it gets down inside of our heart.

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This is sort of what cynicism does.

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Cynicism is a condition where

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it doesn't matter what hits you, you're like,

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"Oh, I don't know if that's true.

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Really? I don't know."

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I mean, cynics, cynics are really, really bothered

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by this, this Push right now because

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cynics think that the moon shot was a hoax.

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Cynics are always looking for a conspiracy.

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Cynics are always feeling like

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someone isn't being truthful.

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Someone isn't saying what needs to be said.

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It's really, really weird.

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I know people.

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I know people who have been big UFO people

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for a long, long, long, long time.

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Until when? You know, until when?

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Until the government came out about a year

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or so ago and said, "Yeah, there's some stuff

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we're discovering we don't understand.

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Probably there's UFOs."

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And then these same people went, "Oh,

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there's no UFOs. Can't be UFOs."

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No, they always got to be contrarians.

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If no one believes it, I believe it.

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If someone believes it, if the authority says it,

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Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't believe it.

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This is this is the way of cynicism.

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It's the way of our world.

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Always believe there's a hidden agenda.

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Always believe you're not being told the truth.

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Always believe something is odd

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and therefore it's virtually impossible

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to have a communal experience in a church

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because you have cynics who always believe

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there's some agenda that the church has

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that they're not telling you,

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and there's always some super secret thing

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that you don't know.

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Friends, it's not true. It's just not true.

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It is exhausting to live in this world of cynicism.

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In fact, the cynicism is what's in our country.

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People are cynical about anything on the right

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anything on the left says.

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People are cynical about science,

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or maybe that person isn't doing true science.

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Cynical about the news, whatever it is.

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And then we hear the Word of God,

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and we're immediately cynical again.

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Well, I don't know. Is that really Jesus's words?

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I don't care that Christ followers

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have believed it for 2000 years,

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and we have older documents, original --

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Not original documents, but few decades after His death

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and than any other ancient antiquity.

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I don't, I don't care. I don't care that

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it's proven a book that has transformed lives

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and skeptics have come to embrace.

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I don't know. I, I don't even know.

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How do we know it's true? I don't know."

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And it's just, friends, it gets exhausting

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and it doesn't get us anywhere if we don't --

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If we don't trust something at some time,

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we have nothing to stand on

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and we'll never go forward in our life,

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let alone with our faith.

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Now, as I talk about this, I'm talking a bit about myself.

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You're going to have when you go through this,

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I hope you've been going through it.

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How many have been going through our guide

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so far this last week?

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It's pretty awesome, huh?

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A little show of hands, a little applause.

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Come on. It's really good.

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What you're going to do this week,

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in addition to the really good discussion

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things that are in there

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and the self reflection things

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is there's a test for you.

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There's a test for you to understand

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which of these soils do you trend to.

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And the good soil, which is in the end,

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I'm just going to tell you now,

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you're not going to be able to test that one.

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Sorry. Everyone thinks they're good soil.

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It's a rigged test. You're not going to --

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All of us have one of these three things,

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even if we're a good soil that I'll get to in a minute.

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All of us have one of these three things

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that's our Achilles heel, that speaks to us,

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that nags at us.

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And my Achilles heel of these three,

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I think I think I have a screenshot

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of my results is cynicism.

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It is this. It's cynicism.

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You know, I just I have a hard time sometimes

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believing that everything that I'm being told

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is what's right.

00:45:48

I have a hard time believing that people are sincere.

00:45:52

I understand it, and maybe that's why

00:45:54

you reap what you sow

00:45:56

and I get punished with my own issues.

00:45:59

This last week, I was at the Revival.

00:46:02

Any Revival folks in here at any of our sites?

00:46:05

Yeah, a bunch of you. Come on. Jeez.

00:46:07

So, I went out and I camped out

00:46:09

the night before the Revival on Friday,

00:46:10

and I camped out on Friday.

00:46:11

I had some friends with me because

00:46:13

we were preparing things, getting stuff ready, all that.

00:46:15

And as we're sitting around the campfire

00:46:16

having some beers, we're talking

00:46:18

and my friend said, they said, "You know,

00:46:21

people find out that I'm your friend,

00:46:23

and I always get the same question.

00:46:25

They all say this." "Like, what's the question?"

00:46:27

They said, people always go, "What's BT really like?

00:46:33

What's he really like?"

00:46:36

And they go, do you ever, that's what they said.

00:46:38

They say, "You ever you ever see him on stage?"

00:46:40

They go, "Yeah." "He's exactly like that.

00:46:43

Exactly, exactly like that."

00:46:46

And that came up because I had --

00:46:48

I do this multivitamin drink called AG1.

00:46:51

And I was, you know, I was drinking.

00:46:52

I have it even when I'm even I'm away I'm doing it.

00:46:55

I it's on, they sponsor the podcast that I do.

00:46:57

And people are going like,

00:47:00

"He doesn't actually drink AG1."

00:47:01

And they see me on a camping trip

00:47:03

in the middle of nowhere pulling out my thing,

00:47:04

it's what reminded them like, "No, no, no.

00:47:06

If he says he does it, he actually does it."

00:47:09

Maybe it's because we see very few people

00:47:11

have their words match their life.

00:47:15

Maybe if that's what our problem.

00:47:16

Maybe our problem is we have shame

00:47:19

because my words don't match my life,

00:47:21

so certainly nobody else's words can match their life.

00:47:26

Whatever the reason is, it's still the same root cause,

00:47:29

there's an evil one who wants

00:47:31

to pluck away the truth of God.

00:47:38

We want to see the truth of God get into

00:47:41

ten times as many lives as is getting into

00:47:44

right now through our church, ten times as many.

00:47:46

That's what we want to see.

00:47:47

We feel led there by God.

00:47:50

And to do that, we've seen that

00:47:52

there's four territories, if you will,

00:47:54

four areas that we have a disproportionate impact on,

00:47:58

four of them, and they're not the ones you might think.

00:48:01

One of these territories is not preaching.

00:48:04

I'm a capable preacher. Kyle is as well.

00:48:06

Others are, Chuck. Others are as well.

00:48:08

But like, no one's inviting us to conferences to speak.

00:48:11

I love our music. It's great music.

00:48:13

It's awesome. It's awesome.

00:48:14

And we can't get a -- we can't buy a hit

00:48:17

on Spotify or YouTube.

00:48:19

Other churches can. We can't.

00:48:20

I like the music, I don't want to say,

00:48:22

it's really, really good,

00:48:24

maybe great, but we're not having a real impact

00:48:26

in terms of our music and our messages

00:48:29

in ways that we are in four other areas,

00:48:32

four territories, if you will.

00:48:34

That's sort of our ground,

00:48:36

ground that God has given us,

00:48:38

ground that we can have a unique contribution in.

00:48:41

And we're going to look at

00:48:42

just one of that territory tonight

00:48:44

because it actually relates to our soils.

00:48:46

Let's look at the territory of camps.

00:48:51

- In the book of Isaiah, God's call

00:48:53

to think bigger and push for more is clear.

00:48:57

Enlarge the place of your tent is an exhortation

00:49:00

to expand the territory God has already given us,

00:49:03

the place where the favor of God

00:49:05

has collided again and again

00:49:07

with the gifts He's put in all of us

00:49:09

producing supernatural results.

00:49:13

Over the last 28 years, we have taken

00:49:15

a lot of ground for the Kingdom of God,

00:49:17

but there are four territories

00:49:18

that God has clearly given us

00:49:20

where we have seen His favor to go farther

00:49:22

than we could ever have dreamed possible,

00:49:24

and where He is now calling us to not hold back,

00:49:27

to say yes to taking a 10X moonshot,

00:49:30

to seeing His Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.

00:49:34

Through inspiring camps, we're seeing

00:49:36

spiritual, emotional, and relational breakthroughs.

00:49:38

Crossroads camps are only in class,

00:49:41

and we believe God wants us to take things even further.

00:49:44

Our focus is adding new features

00:49:46

and better experience to reach more people,

00:49:48

with plans to add a 20 acre lake,

00:49:50

signature experiences like a music festival

00:49:52

for 18 to 24 year olds,

00:49:54

capacity for tens of thousands of people per event,

00:49:57

and spaces to minister to the core group

00:49:59

of volunteer leaders within Crossroads

00:50:02

that fuels this ministry.

00:50:04

With 770 acres of land, we believe Base Camp

00:50:07

could be ground zero for a spiritual awakening.

00:50:22

- So at 18, I enlisted in the Army.

00:50:25

About halfway through basic training,

00:50:27

I got what's called a Red Cross message,

00:50:29

which is a family emergency.

00:50:31

I immediately called my mom

00:50:33

and she informed me that my uncle was murdered.

00:50:37

I remember feeling alone.

00:50:39

Basic training is not the the place to show your emotions.

00:50:42

It's not the place to feel those things.

00:50:45

So, I just kind of bottled it down inside.

00:50:48

I was very angry, confused, hurt.

00:50:54

I came home after basic training,

00:50:57

started drinking very heavily.

00:51:00

I knew something was was happening with PTSD

00:51:03

when I started experiencing

00:51:04

some pretty bad nightmares.

00:51:06

Rock bottom was I didn't think

00:51:09

there was anything else for me,

00:51:10

so I attempted to take my life.

00:51:14

My roommate found me and said, "Hey,

00:51:17

you're going to go to church with me.

00:51:20

We're going to get you connected

00:51:22

to some form of community."

00:51:24

It was Crossroads Uptown, went there,

00:51:27

got plugged into an awesome small group,

00:51:30

ended up signing up for College Camp,

00:51:33

had a great experience there,

00:51:34

but I was still dealing with a lot of things

00:51:37

that I was not at the time willing to bring to light.

00:51:42

That came up in nightmares.

00:51:43

It came up in the shadow in the corner of the room.

00:51:46

In every single crowd I walked into,

00:51:49

there'd be a threat.

00:51:50

I took the PTSD screening, 30 being the low end,

00:51:54

80 being the high end, and I scored a 78.

00:51:58

The predominant thing that it stemmed from

00:52:00

was the death of my uncle.

00:52:02

But I really felt like God was going to meet me

00:52:06

at Man Camp, camping around a fire,

00:52:09

talking about what's actually going on in our lives.

00:52:11

That was like the first time that

00:52:13

I had really opened up to someone

00:52:15

other than my therapist about what was going on.

00:52:19

I felt seen, I felt heard, so I decided

00:52:23

to go to the prayer tent because

00:52:25

I was just going to model it for my group.

00:52:28

I had no expectations for myself

00:52:29

and I spilled my guts.

00:52:31

I told him everything about my PTSD diagnosis,

00:52:35

the suicide attempt. I told him everything.

00:52:37

But then he asked to pray for me.

00:52:41

I tried to do this without crying.

00:52:43

He asked to put his hands on my head,

00:52:45

and he started praying this prayer to heal

00:52:49

the neurons and the neurological pathways

00:52:52

in my brain that were hyperactive

00:52:55

because of the PTSD.

00:52:56

He said, "Lord, just allow Brandon's brain

00:53:01

to work the way that You intended it to work,

00:53:04

to go back to its original purpose."

00:53:06

And I remember looking up while he was praying

00:53:10

and his hands weren't there.

00:53:12

I asked him, "When did you take your hands away?"

00:53:16

He said, "Soon after I started."

00:53:18

I said, "Well, I still feel hands under my hat,

00:53:22

moving through my hair.

00:53:23

I still feel these warm, comforting hands on my head."

00:53:28

And I just looked up and I felt the breeze

00:53:31

for the first time, it felt like in forever.

00:53:35

I just felt lighter, I felt comfort, I felt loved.

00:53:42

And then he asked me if there was anybody

00:53:44

I wanted to forgive.

00:53:48

And I said, "I think I need to forgive

00:53:51

the man that murdered my uncle."

00:53:55

And I did, and I didn't realize how much hate

00:54:01

I had been holding in my heart for a man I'd never met.

00:54:05

And I just felt light.

00:54:09

Well, a week later, after Man Camp,

00:54:11

I went to my therapist and, "I would like

00:54:14

to take the PTSD screening again."

00:54:16

I took the test and I no longer qualified.

00:54:20

I think the score was ten.

00:54:24

It felt incredible to feel God's presence

00:54:29

and just know that He is,

00:54:31

one, been with me the whole time,

00:54:33

and He wanted to heal me.

00:54:36

I just had to ask for it.

00:54:39

It makes me feel grateful that a lot of people

00:54:41

have gone before me to give their time,

00:54:44

money, energy into the camps so that

00:54:49

I could come to a place to experience

00:54:52

a miracle, experience a new life.

00:54:57

I see hope for a future.

00:54:59

My tithe and my finances, I want to keep

00:55:02

pouring those things into camps

00:55:04

so that somebody like me

00:55:06

can experience what I experienced.

00:55:10

- Man. Oh, my gosh, that's so good. Wow. Wow.

00:55:16

There's something magical that happens

00:55:18

when you get on our land and get out of buildings.

00:55:20

At our camps, we don't have any Crossroads logos.

00:55:23

It's not Crossroads branded.

00:55:25

We just want to touch people

00:55:26

and not put anything else in their way.

00:55:29

And there are some crazy healings

00:55:31

that have been happening.

00:55:32

Now, healings are known as miracles

00:55:34

because they don't happen a lot.

00:55:35

Don't think that if you do the right hocus pocus prayer,

00:55:38

then you're going to have one.

00:55:39

Don't get bitter if you don't have one

00:55:42

because they're called miracles,

00:55:43

because they don't happen that often.

00:55:44

But I'll tell you what, some of us in here,

00:55:46

we listen to that story and we go like,

00:55:48

"Oh, come on. Really? Really? I don't know.

00:55:52

I think he just probably had a good day

00:55:55

when he retook the test.

00:55:57

I think it's just his emotions. Really?

00:55:59

Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.

00:56:01

If that's your thinking,

00:56:02

that's exactly why you don't pray.

00:56:05

That's exactly why you don't have answers to your prayers.

00:56:09

Because you don't believe.

00:56:12

You have a hard heart.

00:56:13

You got just soft enough of a heart

00:56:16

to actually call yourself a Christian, barely.

00:56:20

But when's the last thing you asked God for?

00:56:23

You probably don't ask Him for anything

00:56:25

because you're cynical He would do anything.

00:56:27

Billy Graham said, "Heaven is full of answers

00:56:31

to prayers to which no one bothered to ask."

00:56:36

The first night at the Revival,

00:56:38

I had everybody take 30 seconds to just ask God something.

00:56:41

It was a simultaneous thing went on.

00:56:43

A mother told us that her 15 year old son,

00:56:46

for the first time, asked God for something

00:56:48

he hasn't been able to smell or taste for,

00:56:50

I think it was four years since he had COVID.

00:56:53

And he just asked in that tent and boom,

00:56:56

nostrils open up. He could smell everything in the tent.

00:56:58

It was amazing.

00:56:59

At any point you can applaud for this

00:57:01

because this stuff is real.

00:57:03

This stuff is real. [applause]

00:57:06

We need to see that being the police

00:57:09

that find something wrong with things

00:57:11

is not a spiritual gift. It's a curse.

00:57:15

It comes from the evil one. That's what he does.

00:57:18

He finds things that are wrong with you

00:57:20

and makes sure he points it out.

00:57:22

He finds things that are wrong in the world,

00:57:24

and he taints it and he hurts it.

00:57:26

And so when we are always looking

00:57:27

to find something wrong, to find

00:57:29

the hidden meaning and be --

00:57:30

Friends, we're not -- You're not helping yourself.

00:57:32

You're not. We're just hardening our hearts.

00:57:36

That's cynicism.

00:57:39

By the way, this is one of the cooler stories

00:57:42

because we had people from all different places,

00:57:44

not just part of Crossroads that came to the Revival.

00:57:47

We had about, we're guessing about 8500 people

00:57:49

over the course of two days come.

00:57:51

And one, we came in on -- [applause]

00:57:53

That's very cool.

00:57:54

We had, -- we saw -- the cynical me

00:57:59

and many of us around here thought,

00:58:01

"You know, we're going to have a Friday night thing,

00:58:03

a Saturday night thing, weekend service

00:58:04

is going to be really limping and lame.

00:58:06

It's the beginning of The Push. That's a bummer."

00:58:08

And we said, "Well, whatever, we're just going

00:58:10

to serve God any way we can."

00:58:11

Oh, stupid us.

00:58:13

We had a growth spurt last weekend

00:58:15

after people were out Friday night, Saturday night,

00:58:17

we had a 15% growth spurt on Sunday.

00:58:20

People didn't just stay away, they said,

00:58:22

"No, I want -- I want more of God."

00:58:24

Last weekend, this 70 year old Pentecostal pastor

00:58:28

came to one of our sites and he went to

00:58:30

the Welcome Center and he asked for forgiveness.

00:58:32

He said, "I'm a 70 year old Pentecostal pastor,

00:58:35

and I need to confess, I need to repent,

00:58:37

that I've had a bad attitude towards this church.

00:58:40

I've never been here.

00:58:41

I just assumed it was big

00:58:43

and just was not giving truth.

00:58:45

And what I experienced at The Revival blew me away.

00:58:47

And I just came here to say, I'm sorry.

00:58:49

I need to repent to somebody."

00:58:52

And he said, and then he said, "Would it be okay

00:58:55

if I just sat in the back rows for a few weeks

00:58:58

just to kind of sit here?"

00:59:00

And of course, of course, that's a tender hearted man.

00:59:03

You can change soil. Okay?

00:59:06

That's not the point of the parable.

00:59:07

The point of the parable is God.

00:59:08

The point of the parable is God,

00:59:10

no matter what your soil is,

00:59:12

the point is God keeps giving you more.

00:59:15

God keeps giving you another shot.

00:59:18

But at the same time, we have a responsibility

00:59:21

to cultivate our heart.

00:59:23

The next one Jesus talks about is the rocky soil.

00:59:26

Let's get the opinion from Him.

00:59:28

What does the rocky soil mean?

00:59:29

He says this: As for what was sown on rocky ground,

00:59:32

this is the one who hears the Word

00:59:34

and immediately receives it with joy,

00:59:35

yet he has no root in himself,

00:59:37

but endures for a while.

00:59:39

And when tribulation or persecution arises

00:59:41

on account of the Word, immediately he falls away.

00:59:48

So you put some seed in here

00:59:50

and you're going to get some growth.

00:59:51

But because there's no root structure,

00:59:54

as soon as the sun comes,

00:59:55

it withers up and it dies.

00:59:58

So this appears to be a person of faith,

01:00:01

but as soon as difficulty comes, it dies away.

01:00:05

You could liken this to fragility,

01:00:08

to someone who has a very fragile faith.

01:00:13

It could be, uh, it could be, uh,

01:00:15

"I had a health issue, or my loved one

01:00:17

had a health issue and God didn't heal me,

01:00:20

so forget God."

01:00:23

Really it's a fragile situation.

01:00:25

All the greats in the Bible

01:00:26

had horrible things happen to them,

01:00:27

that's why they're the greats.

01:00:29

Horrible things happen to them.

01:00:30

Many of them didn't get resolved,

01:00:31

but they persevered because they had roots.

01:00:34

When we get -- when we get upset

01:00:35

because something's in our way, we're just --

01:00:37

We're just tipping, we're telling everybody,

01:00:39

"Hey, I'm rocky soil. I have no roots.

01:00:41

I have no depth to my faith because

01:00:43

I can't handle it."

01:00:44

Or reject the Word.

01:00:46

Like the number of people who have left Crossroads

01:00:49

because we actually say something in the Bible

01:00:51

and someone doesn't like it and they don't want to be here.

01:00:54

That's what he says, the Word.

01:00:55

I love people.

01:00:57

I love people who aren't heterosexual.

01:01:00

We have people in our church

01:01:01

who aren't heterosexual and we're for all people.

01:01:05

And God has a design that He's very clear on

01:01:10

with sexuality, very clear on.

01:01:12

And the people I've met who just had

01:01:15

their faith shipwrecked over that is crazy to me.

01:01:18

In other words, you wanted to be in step

01:01:20

with what everyone else believes in culture.

01:01:22

You don't want to be in step with God.

01:01:23

And Jesus talks about this, that we've got

01:01:26

to have roots to where we get persecuted.

01:01:28

And if we get persecuted, we stand because we have roots.

01:01:32

Man, I've known some amazingly charismatic

01:01:36

Christians who fall away.

01:01:37

And by charismatic, I'm talking about

01:01:38

big personality. I'm talking about winning smile.

01:01:41

But, man, as soon as hard times come, gone. Gone.

01:01:44

Man, I've known people who've been Bible scholars

01:01:47

and could beat me in Bible trivia.

01:01:49

But something comes up, scorching wind

01:01:51

they can't have, Boom. Gone.

01:01:53

Because they look good. They've got the Word.

01:01:57

There's no roots. There's no depth.

01:02:00

Mile wide on knowledge, on personality,

01:02:02

on smiles and stories, but an inch deep

01:02:06

in terms of root structure. Not good.

01:02:10

The third soil that that Jesus talks about

01:02:14

is the thorny soil.

01:02:16

Let's read what the thorny soil is.

01:02:22

As for that which was sown among thorns,

01:02:25

this is the one who hears the Word,

01:02:27

but the cares of the world

01:02:29

and the deceitfulness of riches choke the Word,

01:02:32

and it proves unfruitful.

01:02:38

The thorny soil, there's a lot going on here, isn't it?

01:02:42

Like, this one's pretty barren.

01:02:43

This one's got nothing.

01:02:45

There's a lot going on here because

01:02:47

there's a lot of distractions, a lot of things

01:02:50

that are popping up all over the place.

01:02:52

And what happens with this is when

01:02:55

something starts to seed, something starts to pop up,

01:02:58

it gets choked out because there's too much going on.

01:03:00

This actually, in many ways, is a picture of America.

01:03:03

Everyone has a different agenda

01:03:04

for what America is supposed to be.

01:03:05

Everyone's going a different direction

01:03:07

and we're all choking out one another.

01:03:09

We've never been more polarized than this,

01:03:11

and it affects our faith.

01:03:13

It affects our relationship with God.

01:03:16

One of the great things about the Space program

01:03:18

was even though there was some dissenters

01:03:21

who said, "Hey, we're spending a lot of money.

01:03:23

It's a good conversation to have.

01:03:25

We're spending a lot of money.

01:03:26

There's probably some things we can do here

01:03:28

in our own country, rather than

01:03:30

try to get some rocks in the moon."

01:03:32

It was a really good voice.

01:03:33

It's a really good debate to have.

01:03:35

You can be a voice that wants to have

01:03:38

some discussion and not be a bad person,

01:03:40

not be a cynic. No, no problem with that at all.

01:03:43

But the great thing is you look back

01:03:44

in that history, which, by the way,

01:03:46

I was there, I was there, I'm old enough to be there.

01:03:49

I had it in preschool.

01:03:51

We all came into preschool,

01:03:53

Mrs. Waugaman, we all came in.

01:03:55

She's the person who taught me to read.

01:03:56

I can remember clear as day, sitting on her lap

01:03:59

and seeing "see Spot run,"

01:04:00

like the words were coming off the page.

01:04:02

It was blowing me away, right?

01:04:04

So we're there and and they roll,

01:04:08

roll out this little 19 inch black and white TV

01:04:11

about the size of Kyle Ranson.

01:04:13

They roll it out to him.

01:04:17

Yeah, I heard Kyle cracking on my age.

01:04:19

Yes, yes, I am older than you

01:04:22

and I actually was there when we walked on the moon.

01:04:24

I remember all of us in the class.

01:04:26

We all came around and stared at this grainy TV.

01:04:29

This, by the way, was before the days of cable.

01:04:31

You had these long things called rabbit ears.

01:04:34

You would take it and you would extend it up.

01:04:37

And then you'd have people go like this on them,

01:04:39

and they put tin foil on them,

01:04:40

and someone's always coming and hitting the TV.

01:04:42

That was back when America was America.

01:04:44

It was crazy back then.

01:04:45

It was the wild, wild West.

01:04:49

And we all sat there in awe

01:04:50

as we could barely tell what was happening

01:04:52

on the screen.

01:04:54

But all of America did that.

01:04:56

JFK's vision of going to the moon

01:04:59

brought us together.

01:05:01

We were focused on one thing.

01:05:03

We were unified on one thing,

01:05:06

Kind of what happened if you're old enough

01:05:08

to remember Desert Storm, the first good thing

01:05:11

our military did after Vietnam.

01:05:13

It focused our country. We brought --

01:05:15

We came together.

01:05:16

We were a bit less fragmented or a moment.

01:05:19

With 9/11, it focused us.

01:05:22

This thorny, all these thorns, it just distracts.

01:05:30

There are so many distractions today.

01:05:32

I know, just people talk about this all the time.

01:05:34

This is not, nothing here is new for you.

01:05:37

It's just highlighting how Jesus's truth

01:05:40

is still true, it's just different tools.

01:05:43

Our social media feeds, I mean, shoot, man,

01:05:46

I don't -- I refuse to look at

01:05:48

how much screen time I have every week on my iPhone.

01:05:50

Nope, not going to look at it. Nope.

01:05:52

Not gonna do it. Not gonna do it.

01:05:54

Too depressing.

01:05:56

The amount of things on our news feed,

01:05:58

our social media, the jibber jabber

01:06:01

that we have on things, the paranoia

01:06:03

and fixation we have on politics

01:06:05

that we can't change it at all.

01:06:06

You know who you're going to vote for,

01:06:08

so does the next person.

01:06:09

Yeah, we're fixated on it. Stop. Relax.

01:06:11

If we read the Bible a little more

01:06:13

and watched our news feed a little bit less,

01:06:15

you might have some more cool stuff

01:06:16

popping out of your life.

01:06:19

Distraction, getting into the cares of the world.

01:06:25

We see it everywhere.

01:06:27

So last week, heading into the Revival,

01:06:28

I was really on a high.

01:06:31

I was getting in the zone.

01:06:33

I was a bit more bold than normal.

01:06:35

I fasted a couple days last week just to get clear.

01:06:39

And in the middle of that fast I went to work out,

01:06:41

which is always difficult to go work out

01:06:43

when you have nothing in your stomach.

01:06:44

But I said, why not? Let's just do it.

01:06:46

Just two days. Jesus went 40. I can do two.

01:06:48

So I went in there.

01:06:49

I went in and as I was, I was working out

01:06:52

a guy I know came up.

01:06:54

He used to be a professional athlete.

01:06:56

Comes up and he said hey.

01:06:57

He's sweating, I'm sweating. How are you doing?

01:06:59

And I just had a level of boldness in me

01:07:01

that I don't normally have because

01:07:02

I was almost on a spiritual high.

01:07:04

And I said, "Hey, man, I haven't seen you

01:07:06

at church for a while. Where have you been?"

01:07:09

And he goes, "Oh, well, I go to different churches.

01:07:12

I go." He's started naming all these churches.

01:07:14

Little did he know, I know all of them

01:07:15

and know their pastors.

01:07:16

Oh, so-and-so, you see so-and-so.

01:07:19

And as he was talking, I just said,

01:07:21

let's keep pushing. I'm into pushing these days.

01:07:23

I said, "Are you as committed to your faith

01:07:30

as you were to your football training?

01:07:33

Do you put as much energy into growing your faith

01:07:37

as you put into football?"

01:07:39

He said, "Definitely not."

01:07:42

I said, "That's a problem. It's a problem."

01:07:44

I didn't say this, but I'm saying now,

01:07:46

football comes and goes.

01:07:47

Any anything you put time in is going to come and go.

01:07:50

Your career is going to go.

01:07:52

It's going to go away.

01:07:53

Your spouse, they may die before you. They go away.

01:07:56

Anything you put time into,

01:07:57

anything you put energy is valuable

01:07:59

and as good as it is, it's going to go away.

01:08:00

The one thing it's not going to go away

01:08:02

is your relationship with God.

01:08:03

And yet we use it, look at it so lackadaisically,

01:08:08

like, "Okay, if I got nothing else going on,

01:08:10

I'll go there."

01:08:11

One of the coolest stories I got from the --

01:08:14

There's so many of them because they keep

01:08:16

coming in and flooding in from the Revival

01:08:17

is a young family said it was my son's first time

01:08:20

to have an indoor lacrosse game.

01:08:22

And they said, "No, you're not going

01:08:24

to go play indoor lacrosse.

01:08:26

We're not going to have sports rule this family.

01:08:28

We're going to The Revival as a family."

01:08:30

And God showed up and brought their family together.

01:08:33

And then the kid's like, "Dad,

01:08:35

I don't want to go to practice tomorrow.

01:08:36

Can I -- can I come back here on Saturday?"

01:08:39

When's the when's the last time you chose God

01:08:42

over anything else that you always choose?

01:08:45

What's the last time you said, "No,

01:08:48

that's a distraction. That's a distraction.

01:08:50

God's my priority"?

01:08:51

Can you identify a time when you chose God

01:08:54

over something else that was a good option?

01:08:57

If you have a hard time doing that,

01:08:58

this might be your Achilles heel. This.

01:09:03

See, it's not -- It's not what we say.

01:09:07

It's not what we intend.

01:09:09

It's not what we believe. It's what we do.

01:09:14

It's what we do.

01:09:15

This is part of the story of a couple of women

01:09:19

whose hearts I find really impressive.

01:09:31

- We were both incarcerated

01:09:33

together at Dayton Correctional.

01:09:36

We became each other's support system.

01:09:40

We used to go to Crossroads Church

01:09:43

inside of the prison,

01:09:46

and I remember watching Brian,

01:09:48

the one on sermon where

01:09:51

they're training the horse.

01:09:53

I'm like, "Man, this is the coolest church ever."

01:09:56

Somebody that I work with was like,

01:09:58

"Oh, well, I go to Crossroads."

01:09:59

I say, "Yeah, I'll go with you."

01:10:02

So then I dragged Music along with me.

01:10:04

- It started out one Thursday.

01:10:06

I go one Thursday

01:10:07

and it ended up every Thursday.

01:10:09

We've been going for a couple of months now.

01:10:12

- Four-seven has a plan to try to put Crossroads

01:10:14

in every single prison across America.

01:10:17

Do you think that that's worthwhile?

01:10:18

- Yes. - Yes.

01:10:20

The way that the word is brought about,

01:10:22

it's more relatable.

01:10:24

It's like I'm just talking to you

01:10:25

or I'm just talking to you. - Yeah.

01:10:27

But you're getting filled up with God.

01:10:29

And like, I used to go to

01:10:32

different denominational churches and stuff,

01:10:34

but they were like, "You can't dye your hair,

01:10:36

and you can't."

01:10:38

And then here comes Crossroads like,

01:10:40

"We love you just the way you are.

01:10:41

Like, God doesn't make mistakes.

01:10:43

You're perfect just the way you are."

01:10:44

Yeah, and in DCI though, like,

01:10:48

not a lot of people like the main church in DCI.

01:10:52

So Crossroads is their church.

01:10:55

And prison people, they always say

01:10:59

they got you coming home.

01:11:00

They'll give you paperwork after paperwork

01:11:02

after paperwork saying, "Hey,

01:11:04

this is out there for you," and it's not.

01:11:08

Crossroads Four-Seven is the only program

01:11:14

that has been real, and I've been in

01:11:18

and out of prison my whole life.

01:11:21

God's really showed up for me, like,

01:11:23

I never make right choices in life.

01:11:26

And I feel like He has, like,

01:11:28

paved a path for me to follow.

01:11:30

He literally, like, gave us a loaner car,

01:11:33

let us go to work every day,

01:11:35

put me on the Wheels program.

01:11:37

It's just amazing.

01:11:39

Like, there's things that God has done for me

01:11:42

in literally three months

01:11:44

that I could have never done for myself.

01:11:47

- I remember being in prison and, like,

01:11:50

really diving deep with my relationship with God.

01:11:52

And one of the scriptures

01:11:53

that I've always held on to is,

01:11:55

I will never leave you nor forsake you.

01:11:58

He's got me this far.

01:11:59

He's not gonna drop off now.

01:12:08

I did get to experience it.

01:12:12

I cried and cried and cried.

01:12:14

It was so beautiful.

01:12:15

It was just like we wasn't in prison for a minute.

01:12:19

That's one of the first times that

01:12:21

I really felt, like, genuine love

01:12:26

from the Christian community.

01:12:28

It's a life changing experience.

01:12:30

- Now that we're out here, she's like,

01:12:32

Oh, FYI, they're doing Women's Camp and we're going."

01:12:36

I said, "Okay."

01:12:39

As soon as we're walking in, I'm like,

01:12:40

this, this isn't -- this isn't for me.

01:12:43

Like, these people are different than me."

01:12:46

But Sarah Lynn's, like, "No, no, no,

01:12:49

we're all the same. We got this."

01:12:51

So she's been a great support.

01:12:54

But yesterday really opened my eyes

01:12:56

to what love and non-judgmental is,

01:13:00

like, people are very kind.

01:13:02

- Well, let me ask you this.

01:13:04

So we're going to take Woman Camp back again to DCI.

01:13:06

Would you want to come with us?

01:13:08

- If they would let us in?

01:13:10

- They might not let me in.

01:13:12

I've been there too many times.

01:13:15

- If they let me in, I'm going.

01:13:16

- I would go for sure.

01:13:18

- And what message would you take to the women there?

01:13:21

- There's hope on the outside.

01:13:23

- Prison does not define who you are.

01:13:26

No matter how many times you've been there,

01:13:28

no matter how much comfortable it is,

01:13:31

it's not your identity.

01:13:40

- The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. [cheering]

01:13:55

- My -- Oh, my gosh.

01:14:00

Music said something that was very damning

01:14:03

to those of us who are Christians.

01:14:06

She said people come in and they say it all the time,

01:14:09

"We're going to be there for you."

01:14:10

We hand out the brochures, she said.

01:14:12

"But they never are."

01:14:13

And fortunately, she found out that

01:14:15

one little corner of the Kingdom is,

01:14:17

and that's this place called Crossroads,

01:14:18

just using her words.

01:14:20

And you know, the good soil here, the good soil,

01:14:23

the good soil isn't about having the right ideas,

01:14:27

having the right -- the right beliefs,

01:14:29

having the right intentions,

01:14:31

having the right emotions.

01:14:33

I mean, we have rooms full of people

01:14:35

who have good beliefs, good emotions, look good,

01:14:37

all that stuff, doesn't mean you have good soil.

01:14:39

It's not about what you think, what you do,

01:14:41

what you feel, what you believe,

01:14:43

though those things are good

01:14:44

inasmuch as they lead us to do something.

01:14:48

That's what Jesus is saying to do something.

01:14:51

More stuff popping up.

01:14:52

There's nothing coming out of this,

01:14:53

but the good soil stuff can start popping up.

01:14:56

And it's crazy that the cynics,

01:14:58

when they look at something that's growing

01:15:00

and it's big, like our community

01:15:01

they think something is wrong.

01:15:03

No, something is wrong if you're not growing

01:15:05

according to Jesus.

01:15:07

We're calling this 10X.

01:15:09

I quite frankly feel like

01:15:10

I have to tell God I'm sorry,

01:15:12

because He doesn't even give 10X as a possibility.

01:15:14

He says 30, 60, 100X, 30, 60 and 100X.

01:15:20

How big is your God? How many?

01:15:21

How many Musics do you think God can get ahold of?

01:15:24

How much do you think God can use your in your life?

01:15:28

Are you in that?

01:15:29

Can you identify the last person

01:15:30

you shared your faith with?

01:15:32

Can you identify the last person you prayed for?

01:15:35

Can you identify who it is that would look at you

01:15:37

and say, "That person's making my life better?"

01:15:40

That's what Jesus is saying.

01:15:42

That's the indication of a good heart,

01:15:46

of a heart that opens and receives the Word of God

01:15:48

because they do something instead of

01:15:50

finding what the hidden agenda is,

01:15:52

instead of flaming out as soon as things get tough

01:15:55

or just, "Oh, oh, a squirrel, a little squirrel.

01:15:57

Look over there."

01:16:01

I think that's why we're here as a church.

01:16:04

We're here, whatever it is, to just say yes to God.

01:16:08

Say yes. Yes, yes, yes.

01:16:11

And a lot of things we've said yes

01:16:12

and we've done, they failed.

01:16:14

But it's because on the front end we said yes, yes, yes.

01:16:19

That's what a follower of Jesus does.

01:16:21

That's what someone who wants to come to Christ says.

01:16:24

You say, yes. Jesus, yes, I want Your grace.

01:16:26

Yes, I want that forgiveness."

01:16:28

If Music can get forgiven,

01:16:30

she's done worse things than me.

01:16:31

Yes, I want forgiven too.

01:16:33

If she can smile, I should be able to smile.

01:16:36

Jesus, come do something in me.

01:16:40

Saying yes, that is the key discipline

01:16:43

to good soil and moving.

01:16:45

When you leave today, if you want to say yes

01:16:50

and you want a little memento

01:16:51

just for the rest of our Journey

01:16:52

to put it wherever you want to see it,

01:16:54

we're going to give you this patch.

01:16:55

And this is not your time to get a freebie.

01:16:58

This is -- if you're saying

01:17:00

I, A, I'm either going to say yes,

01:17:02

or I need to, I'm not sure I can,

01:17:05

but I want to put it near a place where I see it."

01:17:08

And I'm asked the question all the time

01:17:09

because all of us want to be that good soil, right?

01:17:12

All of us does.

01:17:14

And God has plans for you.

01:17:16

It doesn't matter.

01:17:18

Doesn't matter where you are with these other ones.

01:17:21

God still will give.

01:17:23

He will still give you opportunities.

01:17:25

He'll still give you chances.

01:17:30

But we got to want it.

01:17:31

We've got to be willing to step out from the crowd.

01:17:34

That's what Jesus is saying to us.

01:17:36

And that's what we're doing as a church

01:17:37

these next five weeks. We're stepping out, friends.

01:17:40

We're not. We're not doing same old, same old.

01:17:42

We're going, we're going further.

01:17:44

We're going different places. [cheers]

01:17:47

And, and we need you. We need you.

01:17:52

Because the truth of the matter is,

01:17:54

all the Musics that are out there,

01:17:55

all of us get to participate, all of us.

01:17:58

All of us get that win because

01:17:59

we all contributed here in some way, shape or form.

01:18:02

All of us get the wins because it's a team.

01:18:05

It's the Kingdom of God, and that's who we are,

01:18:07

and that's what we're part of. Let's go, let's go.

01:18:09

God, I thank You for --

01:18:10

Thank You for Your patience and thank You for Your grace.

01:18:14

Thanks for the seed You've thrown.

01:18:15

Keep it coming, God, we need it.

01:18:16

And we're thankful for it. Keep it coming.

01:18:19

And we look forward to seeing what You're going to say to us

01:18:23

and what we're going to do.

01:18:25

Many of us right now, we choose, we say,

01:18:27

I don't know what it is, God, just ahead of time,

01:18:29

I say yes, yes, I say yes."

01:18:32

Help us remember what we need to remember.

01:18:34

And I pray these things in the name of Jesus. Amen.

01:18:42

- Today we were challenged to say yes.

01:18:45

You got your patch, Andy? - Got it.

01:18:46

- You got one ironed on,

01:18:47

it's ironed on your jacket already.

01:18:49

And we believe in patches so much because

01:18:53

we call these mark the moments.

01:18:55

These are critical kind of to when you're

01:18:57

past the moment you made the decision to say yes

01:18:59

and you're going, "Hey, did I really say yes?"

01:19:02

And it's something to just mark that you actually did.

01:19:05

So, I hope you were challenged and encouraged today

01:19:08

to say yes and to begin this Journey

01:19:11

or continue of The Push.

01:19:13

- Yeah. And if you are part of

01:19:15

our Anywhere Community and requested a guide,

01:19:17

you should have already gotten a patch in an envelope.

01:19:19

You can get that.

01:19:20

But if you didn't get one,

01:19:22

if you're using the PDF that's available on the website

01:19:24

and you didn't get one of these patches,

01:19:26

hey, we want you to have one.

01:19:27

Just email anywhere@crossroads.net

01:19:29

and we will get one in the mail

01:19:31

sent to you free of charge.

01:19:32

Because like Joel said, this is a reminder.

01:19:35

This is a reminder about who we want to be.

01:19:37

A patch isn't just a -- it's not decoration.

01:19:40

It's a statement about who you are

01:19:41

and what your mission is, what your objective is.

01:19:44

We want to be the kind of team that says

01:19:46

yes to anything God has put in front of us,

01:19:49

and anything God is calling us to.

01:19:51

So any way we can help you do that,

01:19:53

we'd love to help

01:19:55

push you, to help nudge you towards growth

01:19:57

and towards personal revival.

01:20:00

This isn't just about taking hills as a community.

01:20:02

This is about God doing something in us personally

01:20:06

that spills over into our families,

01:20:08

into our neighborhood, and then all over the globe.

01:20:11

That is what revival is all about.

01:20:13

That's what we're asking God to push us toward.

01:20:15

So, man, get your patch.

01:20:18

Do the work in your guide.

01:20:19

Keep watching the weekend.

01:20:20

Get in a group if you don't have one,

01:20:22

and we'll see you next week for week 3 of The Push.

01:20:24

- Same time, same place.

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