Hear God and Give Freely

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Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are go for staging.

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- Hey, and welcome to Crossroads!

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I'm so excited that you are joining us today.

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We're here at our Oakley campus,

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which is in Cincinnati, Ohio, and we know

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we have people joining online

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from all over the world, though.

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So from the States to Brazil to the Philippines.

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I'm just super glad that you're joining us.

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And I'm Hannah. - Hey, I'm Andy.

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We're back for week four of the 10X Push.

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And I can't, like, I can't believe

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we're already four weeks into this thing.

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This has been a journey as a church together.

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And it's just it's just been so good.

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Hey, if you're new to Crossroads, maybe first time.

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First of all, I just want to say welcome.

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But second, this 10X Push is just an opportunity

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for us to lean in as a church and expand

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just the dream of what it would look like

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for God to 10X multiply the Kingdom of God

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in our church and in our own lives,

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and specifically, like, we're pushing all of us

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to ask the question, do we want to grow spiritually?

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Like, do we want to go deeper with God?

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Do we want to allow Him to take us to

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a new place of impact and of influence

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and power and just goodness?

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It's all really, really exciting.

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So today, our lead pastor Kyle is going to be teaching.

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But before that, we're going to start off

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our time by worshiping together,

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singing some songs about God and to God.

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- And during this time, you're also

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not just going to see our singers singing,

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but you're going to see people getting baptized,

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which is a water baptism of people who just want

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to express the outward decision that they've made,

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to put their personal trust

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and faith in Jesus Christ, and to choose Him

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as their Lord and Savior.

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And so this declaration is something that

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they're doing outwardly for something

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that they've expressed inwardly.

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And it is a big deal.

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Like, I don't know anyone getting baptized today,

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but I remember the last time I baptized someone,

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it was actually on a Go Trip.

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And I know that was because of faithful believers

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who invested for us to have reach out, to have Go.

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And so it's going to be exciting to see people

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who get baptized during this 10X Push

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who ten years from now Go

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because of someone's faithfulness.

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You know, it's exciting.

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- Yeah. And what we're going to see today

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is like a reflection of what God's been doing

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in people's lives, maybe for years

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or decades before this.

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So it's something huge

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and totally, totally worth celebrating.

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And if you're not near one of

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our physical locations to get baptized

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in person today, hey, that doesn't exclude you.

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If you're part of our Anywhere community

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meeting from the Philippines to anywhere across the globe,

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we will actually remove every barrier possible

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to help you get baptized, including

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we'll come to you to make it happen.

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It's one of our favorite things to do.

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We'll actually travel to you so that

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you can get baptized in your own hometown.

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You've got questions about baptism,

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Crossroads.net\baptism.

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There's tons of info there.

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Or if you want to actually connect with us

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or ask us a question, you can email us

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at anywhere@crossroads.net and we'll help make that happen.

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- And so if you have made that decision,

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it's a good time to not just sit back and relax,

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but to join into the celebration

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as people are getting baptized.

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Clap and cheer along as you're watching this,

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because this is a huge, huge deal

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for the decision they're making.

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So before, as we go into seeing some baptisms,

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let's worship together.

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- Yeah. - Woo!

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- God, I'm just reminded through the lyrics

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of that song that when I praise You

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something powerful happens that when I take

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a second to not look at the things around me,

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but to look up at Your sovereignty,

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of Your holiness and Your goodness.

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God, there's something that changes.

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So would You remind me and every single person,

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God, in this room, that You're a good God,

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that You're a big God, and You're so worthy of our praise.

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We love You and we praise You.

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In Your name. Amen. Come on.

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Can we just give it up for our God in this place?

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Well, welcome to Crossroads.

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We're so excited that you're here.

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If you're watching online, we want to say welcome to you.

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Go ahead and take a second to turn to somebody

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around you and say hello before you take a seat.

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In The Push, we've been talking about

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expanding our territory and our kingdom impact as a church.

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Now, that does not mean that we're getting rid of

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our current impact, or dialing back things

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we've been doing for decades.

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That includes Thanksgiving Food Drive,

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where we hand out tens of thousands

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of Thanksgiving meals to people who need them.

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- And it's just been such a big impact in our local communities.

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Two quick stories for you just to share what that's like.

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It says: this Thanksgiving, this meal helped feed

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me and my boys after losing my job and my brother.

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I can't thank you all enough

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for the impact that you have made on my family.

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The second one says: This Thanksgiving meal box

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is going to allow me and my kids to be able

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to gather around our table together

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for the first time in a while.

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Due to some hardships, being a single mom

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and being back in college, everything has been

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so rough and this box gives me hope.

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So it's more than just a box,

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it's giving hope out here.

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TFD, Thanksgiving Food Drive, as we call it,

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is incredible.

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- Yeah, and if you're near one of

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our physical sites, you can pick up a box there.

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And if you're part of our Anywhere community,

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you can do this too.

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Go to the link, sign up,

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and we'll actually ship you a box and a list

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and specific directions so you can make

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an impact in your local community.

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You can do that again at crossroads.net/TFD.

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Now, if you've been on this 10X journey with us,

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there's your work and your guide

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that you've been going through.

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There's specific experiences that have been created

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to help you 10X, to help you create a new vision

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and experience God's vision for your life.

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Those happen in the guidebook.

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And this week there's

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a really, really special experience

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designed called the Making Space Experience.

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It's interactive audio and video designed

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to help you take the 10X Push from something--

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- Next level.

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- Yeah, from something you know about

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to something you know about, right?

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Yeah.

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- Something that's like in your head

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to something that's deeper that

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I'll just say this I went through

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a rough draft of this just last week.

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And I think I -- I don't know, maybe I'm just a crier.

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I think I cried three times, like.

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- It's amazing. It moves you.

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- Like it spoke. It moved me. That's right.

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It's something about my identity

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and something about growing my vision for

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what God believes is possible for my life

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that I might not.

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So if any of that sounds good to you,

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head to the Crossroads Anywhere App

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and the Making Space Digital experience

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is in there for you.

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- Earlier we've been talking about

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these territories that we have.

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You know, uh, I just forgot them.

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Reach out. I got it. Camps, reach out.

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I was trying to read through the order, digital and sites.

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And today we're talking all about sites.

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So go ahead and watch this video.

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In the book of Isaiah, God's call

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to think bigger and push for more is clear.

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Enlarge the place of your tent is an exhortation

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to expand the territory God has already given us,

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the place where the favor of God

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has collided again and again with the gifts

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He's put in all of us producing supernatural results.

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Over the last 28 years, we have taken

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a lot of ground for the Kingdom of God.

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But there are four territories that God

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has clearly given us where we have seen His favor

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to go farther than we could ever have dreamed possible,

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

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to say yes to taking a 10X moonshot,

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

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Our physical sites are powerhouses for life change,

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and we want to see more, 10X more.

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Because when we begin to take new territory

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for sites and new cities and invest more resources

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in the immersive sites that God is already using,

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we're going to see more people come back to life.

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- As a young man, I was aware of the church

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and we were going to church,

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but I really had this relationship with God the judge.

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I didn't understand grace.

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I didn't understand any of those things.

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So it was really a knowledge based relationship with God,

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but not a connection

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or relational based experience with God.

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In college, they would say, "Well,

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why did you choose chemical engineering?"

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And I said, "Because they make the most money."

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I actually came to work for P&G in 1998,

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and they were the highest paying,

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highest opportunity company and that's why I came.

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It was really just motivated about financial impact.

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I was trying to do all kinds of things, side hustles.

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I did -- I sold nutritional supplements on the side

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while I was working in the day job,

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because I wanted to make more money

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so that my wife could stay home.

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It was actually with that direct marketing company.

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We went to a conference and it was called

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Designing Your Future.

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And they had me take an assessment

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and they said where are you at physically

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on a scale of 1 to 10?

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I was, like, I'm in pretty good shape,

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looking this good. It's high up there.

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Where are you at career wise or financially?

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I'm like, oh, that's doing pretty well.

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You know, I'm at a fortune 800 company,

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report to the CEO.

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Um, I mean, we're leading a large organization.

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And then they said, where are you at spiritually?

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And on the scale of 1 to 10, I put two.

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And as I went through that workshop, they said,

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"Aaron, that is going to be

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the rate limiter on your life."

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I really took it seriously.

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Like, for me, that was a moment where I said

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I have to figure this out, like,

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in a business meeting where God just came to me

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and really just felt God's presence

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for the first time in my life.

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And that's really who I met.

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I met this person who I have a relationship with.

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Clearly, He's like with me now.

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And that's just really, I just found, like, my guide.

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We came to Crossroads in 2009.

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We had just moved here from Iowa,

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and we were church shopping.

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And I was actually training for an ultramarathon,

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and I was out running on the Loveland Bike Trail.

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And I was listening to the podcast

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or basically downloads of the sermon,

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and I heard this crack

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and it was Brian Tome on stage drinking a beer.

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And his context of like, I'm going to be

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the same guy on stage as I am in my backyard.

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Like it just really hit me

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and that's who I aspire to be, is like the same.

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Like, you shouldn't see me any different

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in a boardroom or at home,

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or hanging out with my friends,

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like, it should be the same.

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And that was the moment where, like,

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Crossroads is where we need to be.

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That, coupled with the outreach.

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Having an impact in your community

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is how other people see God's love.

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We are part of the Game Change Campaign in 2010.

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It's just so happy to see what we're doing outside,

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Africa with, you know, sex slavery.

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I mean, even back then, like,

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this conversation with Citylink Center was part of that.

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And I just thought, like,

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this is what we're meant to be as a church.

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When I think about that, like,

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I knew that I needed to be part.

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And we actually left Cincinnati during

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the Game Change Campaign because I had asked

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to move to Switzerland.

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But we finished our campaign because

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we wanted to see what was going to happen,

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because we knew, like, that was just something

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that we couldn't look back 15 years later and say,

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"Hey, we missed the movement."

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And then we came back '16, so the fall of 2016

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and we've been part of Crossroads ever since.

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During COVID, my wife had found

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this amazing property in Germantown, Ohio.

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Shortly after we made that move, you know,

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we got back involved with the Dayton campus

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because Mason was just too far to drive.

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It's fun to see that grow, and I'm so excited

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about what's happening at Dayton right now.

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2022 when we, you know, learned about

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this Dayton campaign, and that was one that

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was just on my heart where God's like

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you need to be part of this in a big way.

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And as we talked with God, I'm like,

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what does that look like?

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And everything just felt kind of, like, not right.

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Until I had this conversation with my wife

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where I'm like, "Well, what if I just work an extra year?"

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Most of us always had the conversation of,

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we get to 55 and you're going to retire.

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And so you're worried about that retirement thing.

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And I'm like, if that's one of the things

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that I hold sacred, like, I can work another year,

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like, for this community.

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So to think of me laboring that last year for God,

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like, that's really cool.

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Like, literally this is a continuous process.

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I don't ever want to be out of the stream.

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When God brings an open door, I want to be there.

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And I've never not seen that return come back.

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You know, I've never not seen it.

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And I don't do it as an investment.

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I do it in faith.

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But I also know that, like,

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He's going to open up doors for us, you know,

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because we're faithful with what He's given.

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I just don't want to go bury it.

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When I think about this, The Push, right,

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or it's a 10X.

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What I love about it is that we're not settling.

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I'm always a person that wants to see what's next,

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and I don't ever want to be a person

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that's stopping growing, and with Crossroads,

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this is exactly what's happening, right?

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Like, we individually need to grow,

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but so does the organization.

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We need to continue to grow and push and evolve

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and make the changes required to have

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the biggest impact.

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And just, I mean, it's an exciting time to be part of it.

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- Yeah, that's amazing, isn't it?

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I love that story.

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So many incredible things in there.

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The thing that challenges me the most about it,

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and maybe the one that challenges you,

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he says he's giving away an entire year's salary.

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Crazy, extravagant, isn't it?

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And by the way, my name is Kyle if we've never met before.

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Welcome to week four of the 10X Push.

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This is our Journey that we're on as a church,

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where we feel like God's calling us

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to have a 10X impact on the Kingdom of God

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for the Kingdom of God over these next ten years.

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That was about one of the territories

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that we feel God's calling us to invest in

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called immersive sites.

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Now, in that category, there's so many things.

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I'm not going to get into them with you,

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but we do feel that God's calling us

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to be in ten cities in the next ten years.

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If you want to know more about that project

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or any of the other ones,

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absolutely grab the brochure on your way out

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or attend and or I should say,

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attend a mission briefing, whatever site you are,

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whatever service right after

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or tomorrow night with me online.

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Let's pray before we go any further today.

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God, thank You so much for this time.

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I'm asking that you would use every second

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to push us closer to You

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and the life You have for us. Amen.

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This is week four of The Push.

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Last week was week three, and Brian talked about

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how part of the call of God when you follow Him

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is to put everything on the table.

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He said, God's call is to do hard things,

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and the hardest thing you'll ever do is to say,

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"God, everything I have, everything I am, is Yours."

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And so Brian had a box, and he got some things out

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that represented the things that are

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most important to him and and surrendering to God.

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And I don't know if you noticed this part,

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but he put me on the table. Did you catch that?

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And his representation was a tiny Harry Potter Lego,

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not so veiled short joke.

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And in the time since then, many of you have asked me.

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You've said, "Kyle, what are you going to do

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to retaliate?" [laughter]

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Guys, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not.

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I'm not.

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The Bible says to pray for those who persecute you

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and to love your enemies.

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And also, Brian's my boss, and I'm not an idiot,

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so I'm not going to do that.

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I do want to honor him in the same way, though.

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You know, Brian is very important to me,

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and you got to put the important things on the table.

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So I was just trying to think about,

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you know, what would honor Brian?

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Not make fun of him. You know, no old jokes,

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nothing like that, want to stay away from that.

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What would really honor Brian?

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I was thinking about Brian's wisdom.

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You know what I mean? He's got such incredible wisdom,

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and we rely on it so much.

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And so I thought maybe just to represent

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Brian's wisdom, maybe like a Gandalf Lego figure,

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you know? Maybe that's what we should go with.

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But then, maybe you see the obvious problem, right?

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It's like, he might think it's an old joke

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because the gray beard

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and how Gandalf is thousands of years old.

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So I thought, that's not -- probably not the way to go.

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Maybe it's not wisdom.

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Maybe it's something that represents

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Brian's strength and his power.

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Like a -- like a dinosaur, right?

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Yeah, you see it, right? Again. Problem.

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He might mistakenly think I was saying he was ancient,

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prehistoric even. So that's not --

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That's not going to work.

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So then I thought, you know what?

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What would communicate to him

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how much we all rely on him?

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How I really depend on him in my life for advice

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and for wisdom, and I know a lot of us do.

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And so I thought maybe the thing that really

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just communicates the value is Depends.

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So anyway, it's been a real honor being your Lead Pastor.

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You're never going to see me again after this.

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So good luck on The Push.

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Really praying for you. Really rooting for you

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In all honesty, a number of years ago

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we were in a conversation, smaller group of us,

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and we were talking just about some of

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the behind the scenes things

00:32:28

and stuff going on in our lives.

00:32:30

And in this smaller group of people,

00:32:31

our CFO Season, she turned and she looked at Brian

00:32:35

and she said, "You know, you are

00:32:36

the most generous person I know."

00:32:38

It caught me off guard. I was like, wow.

00:32:40

Like, I know that about Brian, I know that.

00:32:44

But Season sees and knows everything and she says that.

00:32:49

And I say that not so that you'll go, "Whoa, wow."

00:32:54

But because you need to know that this Journey

00:32:56

that we're going on, where we're raising our hands

00:32:59

and we're saying, "God, you can push me.

00:33:01

I want the 10X life,

00:33:02

and if that means You push me financially,

00:33:04

if that means You push me sacrificially,

00:33:06

if that means You push me on generosity,

00:33:08

I'm okay with it." It's critical that you know

00:33:10

this is not a thing that we're saying,

00:33:12

"Hey, all of you should really consider that."

00:33:14

This is the thing that we're doing personally,

00:33:17

me, Brian, the leaders at Crossroads in our lives.

00:33:22

Now, today, I'm going to take the next step. Right?

00:33:25

Because step one is to say, "God,

00:33:27

everything I have is yours.

00:33:29

You can have whatever you want."

00:33:31

But then there's the next question, which is,

00:33:33

what do you want, God?

00:33:34

It starts at that point to have a conversation.

00:33:36

And my goal today is to help equip you

00:33:38

for that conversation.

00:33:40

Sometimes I think you can come into a church

00:33:41

and especially a financial campaign.

00:33:43

It's kind of a season like this where we're asking for money,

00:33:46

and you might think there's a secret, hidden agenda.

00:33:49

Well, one, I hope you haven't felt that

00:33:51

at all in this Push.

00:33:52

And two, I'm just going to tell you

00:33:54

exactly what my agenda is for you today.

00:33:56

This is it right here.

00:33:57

My agenda is to help you hear what God says

00:34:00

resoundingly through Scripture, to equip you

00:34:03

to talk to Him specifically about your own stuff,

00:34:06

in hopes that you give Him your heart entirely.

00:34:11

That's the whole point of today.

00:34:12

How do you have that conversation with Him?

00:34:15

Now I have a bet, which is that

00:34:16

that conversation is already going on in your head.

00:34:19

If you did the put your stuff on the --

00:34:21

Put all your stuff on the table exercise,

00:34:23

or if you balked at it. Same thing.

00:34:25

It's because you're having this internal conversation.

00:34:28

The conversation sounds something like,

00:34:29

"Man, I can't give away that,

00:34:32

or it'd be foolish to sacrifice this,

00:34:36

or God, please, please don't ask me for that."

00:34:40

That's the conversation that we're having.

00:34:41

How do I know that?

00:34:42

Because that's the one I've been having

00:34:44

inside of my own heart, doing some real wrestling

00:34:47

over the course of this Push.

00:34:50

You know, when I got promoted to lead pastor last year,

00:34:52

Brian gave me a raise.

00:34:53

That's probably not a surprise to any of you.

00:34:55

When you get a promotion at work,

00:34:56

you get a raise. I got a raise.

00:34:58

And he set me up with a financial planner

00:34:59

and he said, "Hey, I really want you to go

00:35:02

and just listen to this guy.

00:35:03

And whatever he says to do,

00:35:04

you should probably just do it."

00:35:06

And so I did, and I went and I listened.

00:35:07

And the guy basically said, "Well, you know,

00:35:09

you need to up your retirement savings

00:35:12

if you want to be able to retire at all someday.

00:35:14

If you want to send your kids to college

00:35:16

and help with any of that, you really got

00:35:17

to get aggressive on college savings."

00:35:19

And so I did that, took every cent of my raise,

00:35:21

plus some all went there.

00:35:24

And, um, you know, I think about this, right?

00:35:26

I go, "God, what do you want?

00:35:28

Do you want that stuff I just invested in?

00:35:30

My oldest is 14 years old.

00:35:32

God, wouldn't it be stupid to put

00:35:35

the college savings on the on the table?"

00:35:39

I think about some of our house improvements.

00:35:41

You guys have heard me talk about my house before.

00:35:43

We bought this fixer upper 6, 7 years ago.

00:35:45

I've been working on it.

00:35:46

Inside the first six months, I thought

00:35:48

the first thing I would do is convert the garage

00:35:50

into a master bedroom for Sarah and I.

00:35:52

And 6, 7 years later, it still hasn't happened.

00:35:55

Which means that we share one upstairs bathroom

00:35:58

with all three of our kids,

00:35:59

two of which are middle school boys.

00:36:02

If you've ever been in a bathroom

00:36:04

used by two middle school boys, oh my gosh.

00:36:08

It'd be cleaner if I just drove to Base Camp

00:36:10

and just bathed in the cow pond, right?

00:36:12

Like it's disgusting. Like, God, surely

00:36:15

You wouldn't ask me for that, would You?

00:36:17

And then I'm going through

00:36:18

the put everything on the table exercise.

00:36:20

And the last thing on the list,

00:36:21

I think is supposed to be a joke.

00:36:23

It says my actual table, except for me,

00:36:26

two weekends ago, I went shopping for wood

00:36:28

to build a new table and I was like, "Really?

00:36:31

Put that on the table, all of it?"

00:36:34

This is where I've been.

00:36:35

And the question I keep coming back

00:36:37

to the thought in my head is,

00:36:38

"God, isn't what I've already done,

00:36:41

isn't what I'm already doing, isn't it good enough?"

00:36:44

And I wanted today to tell you

00:36:46

exactly what I have been doing.

00:36:47

I want to be very transparent, very vulnerable with you.

00:36:49

That's our goal every day at Crossroads.

00:36:51

But with giving, it's not something that we're used to.

00:36:54

I'm actually going to share with you

00:36:55

what I've been giving over the course of my adult life.

00:36:59

And it's important to hear this really clearly.

00:37:01

The Bible says in Matthew 6,

00:37:03

which is what we're going to examine today.

00:37:04

That's going to be our core Scripture.

00:37:06

Jesus says very clearly in there:

00:37:08

don't tell people what you're giving.

00:37:11

Let it be done in secret so that

00:37:13

you're not doing it to get praise from people.

00:37:16

It's very clear instruction in there.

00:37:18

I want to be very, very clear, that's about motivation.

00:37:21

And my motivation, as far as I can see,

00:37:23

is not to get your praise.

00:37:25

That is not what I'm after.

00:37:26

I would rather not tell you about my giving.

00:37:29

Super would rather not do that.

00:37:30

That's not my motivation.

00:37:31

See, on the other side of that though,

00:37:33

the Bible also gives many, many, many examples

00:37:36

of very specific giving, usually from leaders.

00:37:40

Five times in his writing, Paul actually says,

00:37:42

"Follow me as I follow Christ."

00:37:44

There's something for me, I go, you know,

00:37:46

I think it'd be a pretty crappy lead pastor

00:37:48

if I was talking to you about giving,

00:37:49

and I wasn't willing to talk to you

00:37:51

about where I've been, where I am, and where I'm going.

00:37:53

Because it relates to this feeling that I have

00:37:55

that I'm willing to bet you have too of,

00:37:57

God, isn't what I've already done,

00:37:59

isn't what I'm doing good enough?

00:38:03

Sarah and I got married about 19 years, 18 years ago.

00:38:06

And when we got married, Sarah came with two things:

00:38:09

a cat and a campaign commitment. Crazy campaign.

00:38:13

Now, praise God I got rid of the cat

00:38:15

without spending any money.

00:38:16

Praise Him. Man it's beautiful.

00:38:18

Second thing, though, we had to pay off

00:38:21

thousands of dollars, that campaign commitment.

00:38:24

We also started tithing together,

00:38:25

giving away 10% of our gross income

00:38:27

every single month at the very beginning of our marriage.

00:38:30

About four years into our marriage,

00:38:32

Crossroads did the Game Change Campaign.

00:38:34

At that point, my salary was $48,000

00:38:37

and God called us to give away $12,000.

00:38:40

That felt crazy. Insane.

00:38:43

It was like, how are we going to eat food?

00:38:45

How is this going to work?

00:38:46

In the midst of paying that off,

00:38:47

we actually had to sell our house,

00:38:49

downsize by $100,000 our mortgage to be able

00:38:52

to continue to give our tithe

00:38:55

and to give above and beyond our tithe.

00:38:58

Just for five years after that, 2015,

00:39:00

the I'm In Campaign came up and we felt

00:39:02

God called us to give $50,000 to that.

00:39:05

That was half of our complete

00:39:07

total household income at the time.

00:39:10

Since then, we've continued to give

00:39:12

above and beyond the tithe.

00:39:13

We've done that for about the last 15 years

00:39:15

as a regular thing.

00:39:16

We give more than 10% of our income away.

00:39:18

Two years ago, we gave a chunk of money

00:39:20

to the Dayton Building campaign.

00:39:22

Last year, we gave five figures to a campaign

00:39:24

at a church that a friend of mine leads.

00:39:27

I just say all this to go, like,

00:39:28

this feeling that I have is, God, isn't that enough?

00:39:33

And as you hear that, I don't know what you think.

00:39:35

I don't know what you think about that.

00:39:37

Maybe you give more, maybe you give less.

00:39:39

Maybe you give. It doesn't matter.

00:39:40

The point is, no matter what you do right now,

00:39:43

there is a voice that's telling you the same thing:

00:39:45

Isn't it good enough? Isn't it good enough?

00:39:49

Step back from my life and I go, you know

00:39:51

the reason that I'm behind on college savings,

00:39:52

I gave all that money away.

00:39:55

You're sitting on my kids college savings.

00:39:58

Literally.

00:39:59

In 2015, the average price of a seat at a new site

00:40:03

was $10,000 per seat. We bought five of them.

00:40:06

You're sitting on it. God, isn't it? Isn't it good enough?

00:40:10

Isn't it good enough?

00:40:11

Now we're all hearing that same voice for a reason.

00:40:15

It's because when we start looking at our money,

00:40:18

when we invite God to have a conversation with us,

00:40:21

another voice butts in and wants to talk too.

00:40:24

See, there are two voices who want to talk to you

00:40:27

about your money. Two voices.

00:40:30

They're in direct opposition

00:40:31

and there can be one winner. No ties.

00:40:35

Well, winner of what? Not a winner of your money,

00:40:38

but of your heart.

00:40:41

So which one wins it?

00:40:43

Well, according to Jesus,

00:40:45

it's the one that has your treasure.

00:40:47

This is what He says in Matthew 6.

00:40:49

Now, I mentioned this verse very quickly

00:40:51

in week one of The Push, but we're going to

00:40:52

dig into it today. Matthew 6.

00:40:55

This is where Jesus does the Lord's Prayer.

00:40:56

This is one of the central verses we're looking at.

00:40:58

This idea of of heaven coming on earth,

00:41:01

that there could be 10X better than what we thought.

00:41:03

It's baked inside of the Lord's Prayer.

00:41:05

But if you look at the context of

00:41:07

the Lord's Prayer, it's actually giving in money.

00:41:09

Here's a chart, just a color coded chart of Matthew 6.

00:41:13

It's basically got three different sections

00:41:15

and two subjects.

00:41:16

At the top the very first section is about giving

00:41:19

and money right out of the gate,

00:41:20

then how to have a conversation with God,

00:41:22

and then more stuff about giving and money.

00:41:25

And today I want to focus in on the first part

00:41:28

of that second section where Jesus talks about

00:41:31

giving and talks about money.

00:41:34

He starts this way. Matthew 6:19, He says:

00:41:56

He says, will be, not might be, not could be,

00:41:58

not probably is. He says will be.

00:42:00

And He says there's only two choices

00:42:02

of where to put your treasure: It's on earth or it's in heaven.

00:42:05

Two choices of where to place it.

00:42:07

See where you place your treasure

00:42:09

determines who has your heart.

00:42:12

And then, right after these two choices,

00:42:14

He starts talking about two visions.

00:42:15

Very next verse He says:

00:42:21

-- what you see, what your vision is --

00:42:28

Talks about two visions. Why?

00:42:30

Because whoever has your heart sets your vision.

00:42:34

Those two visions, good and bad,

00:42:35

if you go to the original language,

00:42:37

it dials it in a little more clearly.

00:42:38

Good means singularly focused, as in on His kingdom.

00:42:43

He says a little bit later,

00:42:44

Seek first the kingdom of God,

00:42:46

and everything else will be added to you.

00:42:48

It's that kind of vision.

00:42:49

And bad means a bunch of chaos, full of labors

00:42:53

and hardships and annoyances,

00:42:55

in other words, focused on the worries of today.

00:42:57

The things that say, you know,

00:42:59

I could never give that away because

00:43:00

I've got to deal with all of these things.

00:43:02

That's what bad means.

00:43:04

And He concludes it this way:

00:43:21

He says whoever sets your vision,

00:43:23

that's your true master.

00:43:24

Two choices: God and mammon,

00:43:27

which means you can actually shorten all of this

00:43:29

to just one sentence.

00:43:31

This one right here, right here, right here.

00:43:37

Wait. No. Okay, whatever didn't work.

00:43:41

There it is. Okay, good.

00:43:44

Whoever you listen to about your treasure

00:43:47

is your true God.

00:43:48

That's basically what He's saying.

00:43:50

And that might sound extreme to you.

00:43:52

That might sound kind of crazy.

00:43:53

You're like, "Really? I thought --

00:43:55

I thought mammon meant money,

00:43:57

because a lot of Bible translations

00:43:58

this is how it's translated.

00:44:00

It doesn't say mammon, it says money or wealth,

00:44:03

but that's not the word. Why do I think that?

00:44:05

Because Jesus spoke the common language

00:44:08

and the common language of the day, Aramaic,

00:44:10

there was lots of words for money,

00:44:12

just like we have dollars, bucks, cash, coin, whatever.

00:44:15

They have the same exact thing.

00:44:16

Jesus could have chosen any of those words,

00:44:18

but He didn't. Instead, He chose this word mammon.

00:44:22

Second reason I think that is because money is neutral.

00:44:25

20 bucks in your pocket, it doesn't have an agenda.

00:44:28

It's just 20 bucks.

00:44:29

You can do something with it or not.

00:44:31

But when Jesus talks about mammon,

00:44:33

very clearly He says this thing wants to be your master.

00:44:37

That means it has an agenda for your life.

00:44:39

It wants to direct you and it wants to steer you.

00:44:41

In fact, the word mammon, it means

00:44:44

that in which one trusts.

00:44:47

Mammon says, "You can trust me. I'll take care of you.

00:44:50

I'll tell you what to do with your money.

00:44:51

If you trust me, I'll give you all the things

00:44:53

that God says He can give you. He really can't.

00:44:56

He's too dangerous, but but I can.

00:44:58

You can trust me."

00:44:59

That's why I say mammon is a false god.

00:45:02

In fact, if you Google mammon,

00:45:04

this is the image search that will come up.

00:45:06

This is exactly what you'll see.

00:45:08

It's a false god. It's an idol.

00:45:12

False gods just whatever promises things

00:45:14

that only God can deliver. That's what it does.

00:45:16

It promises you security.

00:45:18

Have you ever heard this spoken in your mind,

00:45:21

"Man, if I just had X dollars set aside, then I'd be safe.

00:45:26

Then I'd be set, then I'd be secure"?

00:45:29

Promises to you, identity.

00:45:30

Man, if I just had a house in that neighborhood,

00:45:32

if I could just afford that car.

00:45:33

Just make a little bit more money,

00:45:35

just save a little bit more money,

00:45:36

then I'd be something. I'd be a success.

00:45:40

Promises you happiness.

00:45:42

Man, our marriage right now,

00:45:43

a lot of our fights are about money.

00:45:44

If we just had a little bit more money,

00:45:46

then we would be happy.

00:45:48

If that's what you've heard or believed,

00:45:52

I just want to gently suggest to you

00:45:54

maybe you haven't heard the voice of God,

00:45:57

maybe you've heard the voice of the false god,

00:46:00

mammon is after your trust.

00:46:02

This, by the way, this is, like me and Brian

00:46:05

will never tell you what to give.

00:46:07

You're not going to hear us do that.

00:46:08

We're not going to give you a number.

00:46:10

That does happen in some churches.

00:46:11

That's not what we're doing because

00:46:13

you're not needing to hear from us.

00:46:14

You're needing to hear from God.

00:46:16

We're not your God. I don't know your heart.

00:46:18

I don't know what's in there. God does.

00:46:22

Goal today is to help you have a conversation with Him,

00:46:24

to hear from Him.

00:46:26

Now, the number one way to listen to God

00:46:28

is to examine what He has already resoundingly

00:46:31

and clearly said in Scripture.

00:46:33

If, when it comes to giving, you're waiting on God

00:46:36

to tell you something other than what He's said

00:46:38

or to tell you you're the exception,

00:46:40

it's not going to happen. It's not.

00:46:43

Read a verse later on where God says,

00:46:45

"I do not change."

00:46:47

Whatever is written is what's still in place.

00:46:50

And so what does God say about giving?

00:46:53

Well, I think there's actually some levels

00:46:54

of giving that He outlines,

00:46:56

a biblical chart of giving, so to speak.

00:46:58

The first level I'll call common giving.

00:47:00

It's not the word that the Bible uses exactly,

00:47:03

but it's my kind of summation of

00:47:05

what the Bible describes as common giving.

00:47:07

Stuff that's normal,

00:47:08

stuff that most every single person does.

00:47:10

You know, 20 bucks here, a percent or two

00:47:12

of your income there, a generous tip or whatever.

00:47:15

It's common giving.

00:47:17

But what does God say about it?

00:47:18

He says this, Hebrews 13:16, God says:

00:47:21

Do not forget to do good and to share with others,

00:47:24

for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

00:47:27

So if you practice common giving, good news,

00:47:31

God says, great, that's awesome.

00:47:33

But He also would say clearly to you,

00:47:34

that's awesome. While I like it,

00:47:36

I just want you to know it has nothing to do

00:47:38

with God having your heart. Why?

00:47:41

Well, because that kind of giving is giving

00:47:43

when you do it, when you feel like it,

00:47:44

it's usually emotionally driven,

00:47:46

sometimes by guilt, sometimes by happiness,

00:47:47

whatever it is. But when you feel like it.

00:47:49

It doesn't require any level of faith because

00:47:51

it doesn't actually impact your bottom line.

00:47:53

It's because you're giving out of your excess

00:47:55

or another way of saying, your last.

00:47:58

The beginning of giving God your heart

00:48:00

is when you give Him your first.

00:48:02

You know, God actually says in the Bible

00:48:03

that the first of everything is His.

00:48:07

Here's one example in Exodus 13:

00:48:16

And mine is emphatic.

00:48:18

In the original language it is absolute soul ownership.

00:48:22

In fact, God says His claim on the first

00:48:25

is so strong that you could accurately say

00:48:27

God cannot be second.

00:48:29

You might go, "What? He can't be second?

00:48:32

Can't God do anything?" No, He can't.

00:48:36

Another example God says He is love in the Bible,

00:48:40

which means God cannot be unloving.

00:48:42

Same thing, God says He is first,

00:48:44

therefore He cannot be second,

00:48:46

and He can't be tied for first

00:48:48

because that's not sole ownership.

00:48:51

God and Ricky Bobby agree,

00:48:53

if you ain't first, you're last. Same thing.

00:48:56

That's basically what Jesus is saying

00:48:58

when He says you can't serve God and mammon.

00:49:01

God wants your first.

00:49:03

Well, how much is your first?

00:49:05

This is an answer that becomes

00:49:07

resoundingly clear in Scripture.

00:49:08

The first time we see it is Genesis 14,

00:49:10

where the father of faith, Abraham,

00:49:12

goes to the priest Melchizedek,

00:49:14

and he gives him 10% off the top of everything.

00:49:18

It's a principle that comes to be known as tithing,

00:49:20

returning the first 10% of all of your income,

00:49:24

all of your increase to God.

00:49:25

Tithing is giving Him your first.

00:49:27

And I know there are people who will say,

00:49:29

you know, that's part of the Old Testament law.

00:49:31

And so, good news, no longer applies.

00:49:33

We don't have to do that because Jesus came

00:49:34

and He fulfilled the law.

00:49:36

It's like eating bacon or getting tattoos,

00:49:39

you know, we can do that stuff now. It's awesome.

00:49:41

You can eat tattooed bacon if you want to. Great.

00:49:45

It's a wonderful sentiment and I wish it were true,

00:49:48

but it's very clearly not. Why?

00:49:52

Because tithing is in the law,

00:49:54

but it's not only in the law.

00:49:56

It supersedes it. It's before and it's after.

00:50:00

It's one of God's ordinances.

00:50:02

An ordinance is a principle of ordinary behavior

00:50:06

for people who follow God.

00:50:07

Not murdering is another one.

00:50:09

Yes, it's in the law,

00:50:10

right smack dab in the Ten Commandments:

00:50:12

Do not murder.

00:50:13

But way before the law, principle of ordinary behavior,

00:50:16

Cain and Abel, God says really clearly,

00:50:19

"I don't want you to kill other people."

00:50:21

And it's reinforced.

00:50:23

This is tithing, way before the law.

00:50:26

That scene where Abraham gives 10% to Melchizedek,

00:50:28

that happens 430 years before the law.

00:50:33

And way after Jesus affirms the tithe.

00:50:35

Matthew 23:23 He says:

00:50:41

In other words, you're going like, "Yeah,

00:50:43

you give all your money.

00:50:44

But even every time someone gives you

00:50:45

a little bit of a spice which has value in their day,

00:50:47

you take 10% of that, weigh it out and give it to God.

00:50:50

You've done that."

00:51:01

In other words, he goes,

00:51:02

"You should have been doing all of it."

00:51:03

This is where I'd say if you want to take

00:51:05

the attitude and the approach

00:51:07

that you're a New Testament person.

00:51:09

Awesome, I am too.

00:51:11

You should just read the words of Jesus

00:51:12

in the New Testament, because again and again

00:51:14

and again, He does what He does here.

00:51:16

He doesn't lower the bar, He raises the bar.

00:51:19

He goes, "You've heard it said, love your neighbor.

00:51:22

Well, I say, love your enemy.

00:51:23

You've heard it said, do not murder.

00:51:25

Well, I say, don't even get angry

00:51:26

with somebody inside of your heart."

00:51:29

That's what Jesus does. He raises the bar.

00:51:32

Okay, but why would you give 10% to your church?

00:51:35

This is a great question that we need to examine,

00:51:37

need to ask and see what Scripture says.

00:51:39

Why give 10% to your church?

00:51:41

Why not give 10% to whatever select nonprofits

00:51:44

that you want to do? It's a great question.

00:51:47

The answer would be, first,

00:51:48

God's clear instructions over and over again

00:51:50

in Scripture are to communally,

00:51:52

for His people to communally pool our resources

00:51:55

and entrust them to spiritual leaders

00:51:58

who are held to account again and again and again.

00:52:02

Exodus 23 God says:

00:52:09

We see this in the Old Testament.

00:52:10

Tithes were brought in to the temple

00:52:12

and given to the Levites, entrusted to them.

00:52:14

In the New Testament we see this.

00:52:16

All the offerings, all the tithes,

00:52:18

are brought to the apostles and laid at their feet,

00:52:20

entrusted to them who are held to account.

00:52:22

And then secondly, I'll just say this,

00:52:23

even if that weren't true.

00:52:24

On a really practical level,

00:52:26

when you give to a healthy church,

00:52:29

it's like giving to a very carefully managed mutual fund.

00:52:33

See, we take wise stewardship incredibly seriously,

00:52:36

incredibly seriously.

00:52:37

And I would just gently propose to you that

00:52:39

you have a really hard time matching our rigor

00:52:42

and therefore our return.

00:52:44

And yes, we do pay attention to our return.

00:52:46

Jesus again and again in the Bible,

00:52:48

a lot of His parables about money

00:52:50

are about a return that He wants from our lives.

00:52:53

And so we look at this stuff.

00:52:55

One example is baptisms.

00:52:56

By the way, if you got baptized today,

00:52:58

congratulations!

00:52:59

We had baptisms at all of our sites.

00:53:02

Absolutely amazing.

00:53:04

The number I saw was 197 people

00:53:07

are going to be baptized just this weekend.

00:53:10

197, crazy!

00:53:13

Now what's even more mind blowing to me

00:53:16

is that for the year, if you add those 197

00:53:18

to what have been baptized since January 1st,

00:53:20

we're at 2002 baptisms for the year, in ten months.

00:53:25

That's that's more in ten months

00:53:28

than we've ever had in 12 months.

00:53:30

But that's not return. That's not return.

00:53:34

What do we spend on that?

00:53:36

Well, let me tell you before I tell you that,

00:53:38

let me say that the average cost per baptism

00:53:39

according to the Center of Christianity,

00:53:42

global study is $1.5 million.

00:53:45

That's the average return.

00:53:47

In other words, all the money a church spends

00:53:49

divided by the number of people they see baptized,

00:53:51

it's $1.5 million. Well, what's our return?

00:53:55

We've got to start with what we spent. Right?

00:53:57

January 1st to October 30th we've spent

00:54:00

$65,383,401.78.

00:54:05

If you divide that by 2002,

00:54:07

that's $32,659.04 per baptism,

00:54:11

which is a 45.9x better return than the average.

00:54:17

See, Jesus said aim for 30, aim for 60, aim for 100x.

00:54:22

Well good news, I hope,

00:54:24

your church currently sits right between 30 and 60

00:54:27

and we'd like to take that number higher.

00:54:30

We measure this stuff. We're transparent.

00:54:34

And listen, please, please hear -- Hear me.

00:54:37

Hear my heart on this.

00:54:38

If you hear all that and you're sitting

00:54:41

and you're going, "Man, I just --

00:54:43

I just don't trust you. I just don't believe it."

00:54:47

Okay. That bums me out personally,

00:54:50

but can I give you some advice?

00:54:51

I want God's best for you.

00:54:53

If you don't trust us. Okay.

00:54:56

Go find a church you do trust.

00:54:58

And wherever it is, bring your tithe there.

00:55:01

I want you to have God's best.

00:55:03

If that means leaving, that's okay.

00:55:05

Get His best for you, and that means

00:55:07

giving Him your first.

00:55:09

He hasn't changed on it.

00:55:11

He said this really specifically, by the way,

00:55:13

right before He talked about tithing.

00:55:14

Malachi 3:6h, one of the classic places

00:55:17

where He really zeroes in on tithing. He says:

00:55:40

God's response.

00:55:55

And then the mind blowing part is

00:55:57

this is God's next line.

00:56:09

This is the part in the Bible I read,

00:56:10

I'm like, "God, you're such a better parent than me."

00:56:13

When I find out my kids are doing stuff I don't want,

00:56:16

I don't walk up to them and go, "Honey,

00:56:19

test me in this.

00:56:21

See if I will not throw open the floodgates

00:56:23

of the Ranson bank accounts and --" No.

00:56:26

I'm like, "Get in line or you've lost

00:56:28

TV for the rest of your life." You know?

00:56:31

That's not God. God's a positive reward parent.

00:56:34

I want you to hear that clearly.

00:56:36

I'm not after condemnation for you.

00:56:38

Wherever you are in your journey,

00:56:40

I'm not after condemnation for you.

00:56:41

I don't think God is either.

00:56:42

It's not condemnation, it's an invitation.

00:56:44

God says, "Would you step in?

00:56:45

Because if you will, if you'll give Me your first,

00:56:47

you're going to get My best."

00:56:50

It's giving Him your first,

00:56:51

putting Him first in your heart.

00:56:53

I started tithing 20 years ago.

00:56:55

I was 23 years old. I was living with my parents.

00:56:57

Not excited about that, by the way.

00:56:59

And tithing meant that I had to continue

00:57:01

to live with my parents.

00:57:02

It was not an easy decision, but it was very simple.

00:57:06

I just decided I wanted God to be first in my heart.

00:57:11

But that tithing stuff, that first,

00:57:12

that's just a starting spot for biblical giving.

00:57:15

There's actually layers and levels beyond tithes.

00:57:18

In Malachi we got a clue to that.

00:57:20

Malachi talked about tithes, plural.

00:57:21

Because every single time you get paid,

00:57:24

you give the first 10% of that back to God.

00:57:27

He said tithes, plural,

00:57:28

but he also talked about offerings, plural.

00:57:31

And there's two levels to offering.

00:57:32

The first level is what I do with what's my own.

00:57:36

See, it's actually most biblically accurate

00:57:38

to say that true generosity starts above the tithe.

00:57:43

Why? Well, because God said the tithe,

00:57:45

the 10% is His and you can't give what's not yours,

00:57:49

you can return it.

00:57:50

Actually, the Bible never, ever says give your tithe.

00:57:53

Always it says return the tithe to God.

00:57:57

See, generosity starts with what I do with my 90%,

00:58:00

what I do with my own.

00:58:02

We see so many examples of this throughout the Bible.

00:58:04

One of the ones that I think is most powerful

00:58:06

has to do with the ministry of Jesus.

00:58:08

I don't know if you think about this,

00:58:09

but He had a cost of business,

00:58:12

going around, going to towns.

00:58:14

There was lodging, there was food.

00:58:15

I'm sure somebody's sandals broke.

00:58:16

Peter's probably broke all the time,

00:58:18

had to buy him new sandals.

00:58:19

There was a cost to it.

00:58:21

And so somebody had to fund it.

00:58:23

We hear who and how in Luke 8. It says:

00:58:46

These are good Jewish women.

00:58:48

Their tithe had been entrusted

00:58:50

to the Levites in the temple.

00:58:52

That was already gone.

00:58:53

Out of their own means, meaning out of their 90%.

00:58:56

Sarah and I have been doing this

00:58:58

for about the last 15 years or so,

00:58:59

and I'll tell you, to be honest,

00:59:01

we've never heard God say, "You know,

00:59:03

I'd like a couple more percent." Never heard that.

00:59:05

It's just out of a heart of gratitude for God

00:59:08

we said, "God, we want to be generous.

00:59:10

You've been so generous to us.

00:59:11

And so we don't want to stop at the tithe.

00:59:13

We want to reflect on a continual,

00:59:15

constant day in, day out, week in, week out,

00:59:18

month in, month out basis

00:59:19

Your heart of generosity back to You."

00:59:22

That's an offering.

00:59:23

But there's actually a level above offerings

00:59:26

called extravagant offerings.

00:59:28

This is not just when you give God your first

00:59:31

or give God out of your own.

00:59:33

This is when you give God your all.

00:59:35

And I think this is the point where that voice

00:59:37

for many of us starts to speak.

00:59:39

Isn't what you've already done,

00:59:41

isn't what you're doing, isn't it good enough?

00:59:44

And in response, I'd say, you know,

00:59:45

there are some things in life

00:59:47

where good enough is good enough.

00:59:49

One putts inside of five feet.

00:59:51

Can we just make it a rule in golf,

00:59:54

"Good enough, man. Pick up your ball.

00:59:56

It's not the Masters.

00:59:57

I want you to keep moving,

00:59:58

especially if you're in front of me.

00:59:59

Just it's good. I'll call it from the tee box.

01:00:01

Pick it up. You're fine."

01:00:03

Putts in five inside of five feet, that's good enough.

01:00:05

Middle names. If you're a young parent

01:00:07

and you're stressing out over picking

01:00:09

a middle name for your kid, do not.

01:00:10

You'll never use it.

01:00:11

Just pick one, you know, randomly

01:00:14

and just go move on with your life, good enough.

01:00:17

There's also some spots in life

01:00:18

where good enough is not good enough.

01:00:21

Skydiving, for instance.

01:00:24

Not really good enough is good enough place.

01:00:27

Vasectomies. Okay, not --

01:00:29

Not really looking for a good enough vasectomy, right?

01:00:32

And giving God all of your heart.

01:00:36

There's not a good enough is good enough here.

01:00:37

It's either all or it's not all.

01:00:40

That's why the herd thins at this level.

01:00:43

Many people never make it.

01:00:45

I'm actually becoming convinced that

01:00:46

the god of mammon, He has a religion,

01:00:48

and it's called the Cult of Good Enough.

01:00:50

And there's a temple he's built on this line

01:00:53

trying to distract you and pull you away

01:00:55

and pull you in and get you to stop listening

01:00:57

to God, go no farther and to start listening to him.

01:01:00

But the question you got to answer at this line is,

01:01:03

do you want to give God your good enough?

01:01:05

Or do you want to give God all of your heart?

01:01:09

Which is to say, an extravagant offering.

01:01:11

Now I find, kind of bizarrely,

01:01:13

since we serve a God of extravagance

01:01:15

that many Christians, we have a problem with extravagance.

01:01:17

We don't like extravagance.

01:01:18

We hear this all the time at Crossroads.

01:01:20

People complain about stuff.

01:01:21

Some of the projects you might respond to

01:01:23

and you go, "Isn't that extravagant?

01:01:25

Isn't what we already have,

01:01:27

isn't what we're already doing good enough?"

01:01:30

We don't like extravagance.

01:01:31

There was a story reminds me of this.

01:01:33

One of the most interesting stories,

01:01:35

I think, in the entire Bible.

01:01:36

It takes place exactly seven days

01:01:38

before Jesus was crucified.

01:01:40

A woman comes up to Jesus with a jar of ointment

01:01:44

or perfume worth a year's wages.

01:01:46

And she does the weirdest thing.

01:01:48

She opens the top and she dumps it all over his feet.

01:01:52

Super odd. Here's a story, John 12. It says:

01:02:07

That's the jar.

01:02:17

Right after that happens, Judas.

01:02:18

Yes, that Judas, he just lashes out.

01:02:21

He goes, "Oh, what a waste. What an extravagance!

01:02:25

This could have been sold and given to the poor."

01:02:29

Then the writer John, he goes.

01:02:30

By the way, Judas didn't say that because

01:02:32

he was like, really concerned about the poor.

01:02:34

He actually held the offering box,

01:02:35

and he used to take out of the money

01:02:37

that was put in there.

01:02:38

He used to steal from the offering box.

01:02:40

That's why he wanted the money in there.

01:02:42

But that quote we hear all the time

01:02:43

around Crossroads, heard that quote so many times.

01:02:46

Why the extravagance? Why the waste?

01:02:48

It's the first thing I ever said when I walked into Crossroads.

01:02:50

I walked in and there was $10,000 plasma TVs.

01:02:53

This is back in the day where TVs

01:02:54

were still like nine feet deep. You know what I mean?

01:02:57

It was these massive TVs.

01:02:58

And it was flat screens had just come out

01:03:00

and they had these plasma TVs, $10,000 a pop.

01:03:02

There were six of them. I counted.

01:03:03

And I walked in and I looked and I said,

01:03:05

"What a waste."

01:03:07

I didn't know I was quoting Judas.

01:03:11

Then I walked in the room and there was equipment

01:03:13

far more expensive than that,

01:03:16

but all of it wove together

01:03:17

to capture my attention, to grab my heart

01:03:20

and to communicate the message of Jesus

01:03:21

in a language I could finally,

01:03:23

for the first time, understand.

01:03:25

Yes. It's extravagant. There's a reason.

01:03:29

What was Mary's reason for the extravagance?

01:03:31

Why would Mary give such an extravagant offering?

01:03:34

Well, it's because exactly two months before this,

01:03:37

her brother Lazarus had died.

01:03:40

Jesus was away. He was out of town.

01:03:41

They were really good friends with Jesus.

01:03:43

But He was gone. Lazarus dies.

01:03:44

And Jesus starts walking back into town,

01:03:47

and Mary sees Him, and she runs to Jesus,

01:03:49

and she falls down at His feet

01:03:51

and she just starts to weep.

01:03:52

Scripture says she just sheds tears of joy,

01:03:54

like, all over His feet.

01:03:57

And then Jesus does the craziest thing.

01:03:59

He walks to the tomb where Lazarus is,

01:04:01

and He says, "Lazarus, come out."

01:04:04

And Lazarus comes back to life.

01:04:07

He raised her brother from the dead.

01:04:09

And so two months later, I think she does

01:04:11

the most natural, understandable thing.

01:04:13

Next time she sees Jesus,

01:04:14

she takes that jar of oil, which I think,

01:04:17

by the way, she bought to embalm her brother with.

01:04:20

It would have been an embalming type of fluid.

01:04:22

She cracks the lid off, and she's in

01:04:24

the same posture that she shed the tears on His feet.

01:04:26

She pours it all over and she wipes it with her hair.

01:04:28

She says, "God, I want you to know

01:04:31

you have all of my heart."

01:04:33

And I'm telling you, in that moment

01:04:34

Jesus knew with absolute certainty

01:04:37

that's exactly what He had, her all.

01:04:41

See is it extravagant? Yes.

01:04:44

But it's not difficult to understand.

01:04:47

What would you do if someone raised

01:04:50

one of your loved ones from the dead?

01:04:52

What would you give a God who raised you from the dead?

01:04:58

Let me just remind you, Ephesians 2:1 says:

01:05:06

He made you alive. How?

01:05:08

By giving His first His own and His all.

01:05:12

He gave His firstborn son over all creation.

01:05:15

That's the Scripture says about Jesus.

01:05:17

He's the first.

01:05:18

His own son, not somebody else's son,

01:05:20

and His only son, that means all.

01:05:22

He gave you His first, His own and His all.

01:05:26

What do you do to a God who does that?

01:05:28

How do you respond?

01:05:30

I've just been in the last week

01:05:31

I've been just stepping back

01:05:32

and just coming back to the spot and going,

01:05:34

"Oh God, man, I'm sorry.

01:05:38

I haven't been thinking straight.

01:05:40

I haven't been remembering the life You've given me.

01:05:43

You saved me. You rescued me.

01:05:46

My wife, my kids, the blessings that

01:05:49

You've given me again and again in my life."

01:05:51

And it's not that I've had a problem free life.

01:05:53

I haven't. We've experienced tragedy in our life.

01:05:55

But it's that again and again

01:05:56

in the difficulty of life I see and receive

01:05:59

the unmerited, generous, extravagant,

01:06:01

crazy blessings of God. It's crazy.

01:06:07

Last, probably two weeks ago, maybe three weeks ago,

01:06:11

I was up in Columbus at our Columbus site

01:06:13

doing a Mission Briefing, just talking

01:06:15

to some leaders up there about the projects

01:06:17

and what we hope to fund and why, and all that stuff.

01:06:19

And at the end of the night, a guy came up to me

01:06:22

and he said, "Hey, I don't like to share this

01:06:24

with people, but I'm actually a doctor

01:06:27

and I'm a stroke specialist.

01:06:29

And I know, Kyle, you talked about your dad

01:06:31

having a stroke this past summer.

01:06:32

And I just keep thinking about him.

01:06:34

And I just want you to know

01:06:35

if there's ever anything I could do to help,

01:06:38

I'd love to do it."

01:06:39

I was like, "Man, that's -- That would be --

01:06:41

That'd be awesome."

01:06:42

That's been the hardest part of my year,

01:06:44

is that that thing and dealing with the aftermath of it.

01:06:47

And I said, "You know, there's one thing.

01:06:50

My parents, they just moved

01:06:51

to Charlottesville, Virginia,

01:06:53

and my dad's actually having a really hard time

01:06:55

even just getting in to seeing any stroke specialist.

01:06:58

The earliest appointment he could get

01:06:59

with anybody isn't until February.

01:07:01

And I just -- I don't like him waiting that long.

01:07:03

They moved there in August."

01:07:05

And this guy looks at me and I said,

01:07:07

"So you don't know anybody in Charlottesville, do you?

01:07:10

Any stroke doctors?"

01:07:11

And he goes, "Yeah, I actually know

01:07:14

every single stroke doc there because

01:07:15

that's where I did my residency.

01:07:17

In fact, I'm going to text my buddy right now.

01:07:19

He's the best guy and get your dad set up."

01:07:22

[cheers and applause]

01:07:26

Better than that, my dad had that appointment

01:07:28

just a few days ago, he went and had that appointment.

01:07:31

I talked to him the other day on the phone.

01:07:32

And, at the appointment

01:07:42

the doctor said, um,

01:07:45

"You know, your your indicators for stroke

01:07:47

are extremely low. I don't know why you had this,

01:07:52

but, while we can't predict the future,

01:07:54

I can say pretty confidently,

01:07:56

it's not going to happen again in your life."

01:07:58

[applause]

01:08:03

And then he said, another six months

01:08:05

and you're going to be recovered to the point

01:08:07

where no one will ever know you ever had a stroke,

01:08:09

fully recovered.

01:08:10

And you know, I stepped back from that

01:08:16

and my life and I go, "God, would I really want

01:08:20

to give somebody else my heart?

01:08:22

Would I really want to put my trust in my stuff?

01:08:26

What can my staff do for me?

01:08:28

What can money in an account do for me?

01:08:30

Nothing. Nothing."

01:08:34

In your life, what has God done for you?

01:08:37

Has he saved you?

01:08:40

If that was it, wouldn't it be good enough

01:08:43

to give Him your all?

01:08:45

Has He blessed you?

01:08:47

Has He saved your marriage?

01:08:49

Has He given you a shot at a second chance at marriage?

01:08:51

If He has, wouldn't that be good enough?

01:08:54

Has He saved your kids? Has He rescued them?

01:08:57

Wouldn't that be good enough?

01:08:59

That's the God we serve.

01:09:02

Let's not give Him our good enough.

01:09:03

Let's give Him our all.

01:09:05

In this Push I've changed my question.

01:09:08

I've stopped asking that.

01:09:09

God, I'm not interested in asking what's good enough.

01:09:11

I'm interested in saying,

01:09:12

in this season of my life, what's all of my heart?

01:09:19

I don't know what you're still holding back in your life.

01:09:22

Maybe you're holding it back because of your own concern.

01:09:24

Or maybe you're holding it back out of

01:09:26

wanting to bless and help somebody else besides you.

01:09:30

There's another story of generosity in the Bible,

01:09:33

extravagant generosity that touches on that.

01:09:35

It's a story of David. David, King David.

01:09:37

Like David and Goliath,

01:09:38

he gave $20 billion to build the temple of God.

01:09:44

He gave that out of the national treasury

01:09:46

and his own personal finances.

01:09:49

Now, the craziest part about this is that,

01:09:51

yes, those are the accounts that came out of.

01:09:52

But I don't think David was actually

01:09:54

giving away his resources in his mind,

01:09:56

that's not what was happening.

01:09:58

Why do I think that?

01:09:59

Well, because David very clearly knew

01:10:01

this was the end of his life,

01:10:02

knew it with absolute certainty.

01:10:04

In fact, he was to die within a few weeks

01:10:06

or months after he made this extravagant offering.

01:10:09

And so, in David's mind, he wasn't

01:10:11

giving away his own resources.

01:10:13

He was giving away his son's,

01:10:16

Solomon's inheritance on two sides, nationally

01:10:20

because Solomon was going to be the next leader,

01:10:22

and as the family leader, a giving away

01:10:25

all the personal wealth and resources.

01:10:27

And so logically, logically, I would say

01:10:31

the voice of mammon would coach you.

01:10:32

Logically, he should have bankrupted his son

01:10:36

on two sides, nationally, there's no money

01:10:39

to fund wars, no money to build walls,

01:10:41

no money to plant crops,

01:10:43

no money to do infrastructure.

01:10:44

Should have bankrupted him and doomed him.

01:10:46

Personally, same thing.

01:10:48

There's no money to invest in anything for the family.

01:10:50

It's all gone.

01:10:52

But you know the craziest part?

01:10:55

Do you know that Solomon personally became

01:10:58

the wisest and richest man on the planet?

01:11:00

And do you know that nationally,

01:11:02

Israel experienced the absolute height

01:11:04

of its prosperity under his rule?

01:11:06

The exact opposite happened.

01:11:08

You might be in a place where you're thinking

01:11:10

about inheritance, you're thinking about

01:11:12

the next generation, and that's challenging to you.

01:11:14

And maybe there's a verse in your mind.

01:11:15

The Bible does say this in Proverbs 13:22,

01:11:17

I think it says, A righteous man

01:11:19

leaves an inheritance to his children's children.

01:11:22

Absolutely, that's in there. Absolutely that's true.

01:11:25

But let me just push you a little bit.

01:11:26

Inheritance doesn't just mean money.

01:11:29

And in fact, if you were to think about

01:11:30

what makes it a righteous inheritance,

01:11:32

I would say it's the non-monetary part.

01:11:35

See, if you're leaving your kids,

01:11:37

if the value of what you're leaving

01:11:39

is the amount of dollars you're leaving,

01:11:41

I'm just going to push you,

01:11:42

that's an unrighteous man's inheritance.

01:11:44

Because an unrighteous man can leave the same thing.

01:11:47

When God says, leave a righteous inheritance,

01:11:50

He means leave a legacy of giving

01:11:53

all of your heart to God.

01:11:54

That's the most valuable thing

01:11:56

you could possibly do for people who come after you.

01:12:00

Model giving all of your heart.

01:12:03

Now those are some big examples, right?

01:12:05

I mean, we've heard some numbers today

01:12:07

and there's some big numbers in there.

01:12:08

A year's salary, half a year's salary, $20 billion.

01:12:12

But an extravagant offering,

01:12:14

I want to be very, very clear,

01:12:15

it is not about the amount. It's not.

01:12:19

In fact, the most extravagant offering

01:12:21

in the entire Bible is when a widow

01:12:24

gives away her last two pennies.

01:12:27

It says this in Luke 21:

01:12:29

That's Jesus.

01:12:50

It's not about the amount. It's not.

01:12:54

In a number of days there's going to be

01:12:55

a lot of us making commitments above and beyond, right?

01:12:58

And some of them will be $1,000 and that'll be all.

01:13:01

Some of them will be $10,000,

01:13:02

some will be half a year's salary,

01:13:03

some will be three times a year salary,

01:13:05

some will be $1 million.

01:13:06

I'm hoping and praying some will be millions of dollars,

01:13:09

but the amount doesn't matter.

01:13:10

What matters is the hearts behind the amount.

01:13:14

Does it represent some or does it represent all?

01:13:19

This 10X and ten year vision, by the way,

01:13:21

it takes all of us.

01:13:22

I know it's easy to look around at Crossroads,

01:13:24

such a big church and be like,

01:13:26

"Man, it's so big it doesn't need me."

01:13:28

No, the opposite is true.

01:13:30

The call of God is so massive

01:13:32

it requires everyone giving our all.

01:13:37

We want to see an awakening.

01:13:39

It requires everything.

01:13:41

This whole message, like I said,

01:13:43

it's about you hearing God's voice on giving.

01:13:47

What is He asking for you to do?

01:13:50

I'll give you a push.

01:13:52

Do you know that none of those extravagant offerings,

01:13:55

Mary's oil, David and the 20 billion,

01:13:59

the widow and her mite, in none of those stories

01:14:02

do we see a scene where God speaks to them

01:14:05

and says, "I'd like 20 billion.

01:14:09

I'd like your last $0.02.

01:14:11

Mary that jar of oil, I want you to give Me."

01:14:15

We don't see that.

01:14:16

Instead, it appears that all of these people

01:14:19

in this conversation with God.

01:14:21

Yes, they've been listening.

01:14:23

Yes, they've been hearing.

01:14:24

But there's a point at which

01:14:25

they want to say something out of their own heart.

01:14:28

"God, you can have all."

01:14:31

That's the choice.

01:14:33

Which master will you serve?

01:14:35

You can't serve God and mammon.

01:14:37

They say completely different things.

01:14:39

Voice of Mammon, last verse

01:14:41

I'm going to give you for the day.

01:14:42

The voice of mammon says, put your trust in me

01:14:45

and do that by holding on.

01:14:47

It's actually a story that Jesus tells

01:14:49

about bigger barns, and a man who decided

01:14:51

this was the path to safety and security.

01:14:54

He listened to the voice of mammon.

01:14:55

It goes like this in Luke 12:

01:15:23

And then Jesus closes the story this way.

01:15:24

He says, this is how it will be.

01:15:27

There's the phrase again.

01:15:33

See, the the safest place for you to put your trust

01:15:36

is not in mammon, it's in God. Why?

01:15:41

Because He's something mammon can never be.

01:15:44

He's generous and He's rich.

01:15:49

He said in that verse, Malachi says,

01:15:50

"See if I don't throw open the floodgates of heaven."

01:15:53

Have you ever wondered what that means?

01:15:55

You know, like, how wealthy is God?

01:15:59

I was thinking about that, did a little bit of research.

01:16:01

Just ask the question,

01:16:02

how much gold is there in the universe?

01:16:06

Well, if you look at the Earth,

01:16:08

there's some gold in the earth,

01:16:10

244,000 tons in the crust, 1.6 quadrillion,

01:16:14

like, more than trillion, quadrillion tons in the core.

01:16:17

Just in the Earth.

01:16:19

By the way, gold, one ton of gold is worth $49 million.

01:16:22

Not going to do that math for you,

01:16:24

but it's a lot by itself.

01:16:26

But, you know, there are more planets

01:16:28

than just Earth in the universe.

01:16:31

How many more planets?

01:16:32

Well, for every single grain of sand on the Earth,

01:16:36

from your backyard playbox

01:16:39

to the eroded top of a mountain,

01:16:41

to the beaches that you go to,

01:16:42

to the bottom of the ocean floor.

01:16:44

For every single grain of sand on the earth,

01:16:47

there are 1 billion planets in the universe.

01:16:51

That's just the golden planets, by the way.

01:16:53

There's also golden stars.

01:16:54

The sun contains 2.5 trillion tons,

01:16:56

and there's 200 billion trillion stars in the universe.

01:16:59

God is rich.

01:17:00

Do you know that it rains diamonds on Jupiter?

01:17:04

It does. You can look that up,

01:17:05

maybe in a couple of other planets, too.

01:17:06

God is rich and He's generous.

01:17:11

He says, "You can trust Me. Will you give me your all?"

01:17:18

Before we get up, we're going to take a moment.

01:17:20

Wherever you are in your seat,

01:17:21

I want you to just close your eyes

01:17:23

and start a conversation with God.

01:17:25

Justin's going to play a song for us

01:17:27

as we have this conversation.

01:17:28

It's a song that I heard a few days ago

01:17:30

in a staff worship setting, and it just --

01:17:33

It just broke me. It just got me in a different gear.

01:17:35

Song called Take Me Deeper.

01:17:38

And it has lyrics about sacrifice

01:17:40

and leaning into God and saying,

01:17:42

"God, you can take me farther

01:17:43

than You've ever taken me before."

01:17:45

And it just hit me different that it's easy to sing.

01:17:47

But when I think about my money,

01:17:49

the thing that God says represents my heart, Oh man.

01:17:53

So I want you to start a conversation with God

01:17:55

before you get out of this room.

01:17:56

Maybe it's about something that pushed you

01:17:58

in this message today or in this service.

01:18:02

Maybe it's something that you're having

01:18:03

a hard time letting go.

01:18:05

Whatever it is, talk to Him about it.

01:18:07

Maybe you're at the point where you want

01:18:08

to just say to God, "God, you can have all of me."

01:18:11

Whatever it is, start that conversation now

01:18:13

as Justin plays a bit of the song for us.

01:20:17

- Father, that's our prayer.

01:20:20

Would You take us further than we think is possible?

01:20:24

Would You take us beyond the boundaries that we put up?

01:20:26

Would You take us beyond the norm

01:20:27

of listening to the voice of mammon?

01:20:29

Would You take us to a place

01:20:30

where we give You all of our heart?

01:20:35

Give us that courage. Amen.

01:20:46

- I just really enjoyed that message with Kyle.

01:20:49

It was so real. He had a lot to pack in there.

01:20:52

And I want to say I both learned something,

01:20:54

I was moved spiritually.

01:20:55

I enjoyed that story about his father.

01:20:58

God just does everything so great.

01:21:00

And Kyle's right, we want to respond to a God

01:21:03

who's not random, who's not doing coincidental things,

01:21:06

but who loves us so much that He would

01:21:09

go out of his way to place the right people

01:21:11

in our path at the right time,

01:21:13

to give us the exact thing that we need.

01:21:15

So, so good. Great job encouraging us

01:21:17

and challenging us as well.

01:21:19

- Love it! Yeah, the 10X Push has been so good

01:21:22

and it's full of stories.

01:21:23

Stories of ways God is moving in our churches

01:21:25

at large, and like Kyle's, like stories of ways

01:21:28

God is moving in our lives individually.

01:21:31

So the 10X Push has been so good,

01:21:32

and we're already over halfway

01:21:34

through the six week journey together.

01:21:35

I just want to remind you guys do three things with me.

01:21:37

Keep watching every weekend,

01:21:39

two, keep doing the work in your guide.

01:21:42

And third, if you want to press in even further,

01:21:45

we actually have an online mission briefing

01:21:46

that's going to be led by Kyle on November 4th,

01:21:49

7:30 p.m. eastern.

01:21:51

If you're watching this in real time on Sunday,

01:21:53

that's tomorrow night.

01:21:54

This is a chance to dive in deeper

01:21:56

to the specific territories and the work within them

01:21:59

that we believe God is calling us to:

01:22:01

camps, reach out, digital and sites.

01:22:03

There's so much incredible work,

01:22:04

so much potential impact just within those

01:22:06

you actually have to have a chance to ask Kyle

01:22:09

and myself questions.

01:22:10

You can head to crossroads.net/10X to RSVP.

01:22:13

We'll send you the zoom link so you can join.

01:22:15

- And if you can't make that tomorrow,

01:22:17

if you're watching this in real time,

01:22:19

we do have a space where you can see all about

01:22:21

what we are talking about with these territories.

01:22:23

You can receive that digitally through a PDF,

01:22:26

and so you can scan the QR code

01:22:28

that is here on your screen

01:22:29

or you can go to Crossroads.net/territories

01:22:32

to learn a lot more.

01:22:33

- That's right. Hey, one last thing.

01:22:35

If all of this has been exciting to you

01:22:37

and you're ready to be a part of

01:22:38

what God wants to do next in you, for you,

01:22:40

through you, and through our church

01:22:42

specifically with Crossroads,

01:22:43

mark your calendars for Sunday, November 17th.

01:22:47

It's going to be one of the biggest weekends

01:22:49

in the history of Crossroads.

01:22:50

You can join us in person or online that Sunday.

01:22:54

Until then, we'll see you right back here next week.

01:22:56

- Have a good one.

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