I wonder how much time you have.

I don't mean to sit here and listen to me, and I don't mean how much time do you have during the week? Last time I checked, we all have that same amount of time. I wonder how much time you have remaining on the earth. Now. Don't think I'm getting dark and saying it's a short or something amount of time.

That's not what I'm trying to get at. I'm asking it as a rhetorical question. Do you have enough time to do one thing to make a disciple of Jesus Christ? I didn't ask, do you know how? I didn't ask, do you have a desire to or any of those things?

Do you have enough time to do that this year? I did some math on this. If everyone that was here would do the work that Jesus told us to do of making one disciple, give or take, by the end of the year, we'd have 100 people here. And then if we not only made a disciple of Christ, but taught them how to go and do likewise, which is what it means to be a disciple next year, well, that's 200 people. It starts getting a little tight in here.

We're putting chairs in the aisles and in the back, you know, good news, maybe looking at a second service, that kind of thing. At the end of year, 3400 people, then the next year, 800 people, 1603, thousand, 200, etcetera. At the end of a decade. And some of you are thinking, I don't know, about the decade thing, you know? But anyway, I don't know, like, Liz would be almost a world record at that point, you know?

But anyway, I'm just saying, like, you know, we're so grateful for every day we have. We don't know how many days we all have, but let's just imagine I've got a good solid decade of just being able to go out there and continue this work at the end of that decade by everyone making a disciple. And all those making a disciple, we have 51,200 disciples of Jesus Christ. Now, that's a huge number. It's bigger than the number of people that reside in Zephyr Hills.

So we've got some issues there, I'm sure. You know, give or take a few people moving to heaven or moving to another area, it might be a little less than 51,000, but nonetheless, we're searching for people at that point. We don't have that many people alive to make disciples of that live in our general vicinity. So let's just say only 50% of us engage in this active work of making disciples. So it's quite a few less.

That means in a decade all of the people in Zephyr Hills have met and known and followed Jesus Christ, roughly speaking about the population that lives here and is projected over the next few years. So after just four years of doing this, we're out of space in this church. And I don't mean just in this building. I mean we could use our gymnasium like we used to back in the day and all those things. I guess there's a solution to that.

There's no less than 35 mobile home or rv parks in Zephyr Hills. There's probably a lot more than that, but just kind of judging by the ones that are on the map, there's no less than 35 of them. And many or most of them have some type of a clubhouse. So let's just say on average we could pack 75 persons into one of those and have church services in each of those. Now we're looking at between first Church of the Nazarene and all these mobile home parks that combine seating capacity of a little over 3000 people.

So at the end of year, six of making disciples who make disciples, we're still out of space for all these people. Now that's not counting the other churches in the community. I'm just playing a little bit of a numbers game here. At the end of year six of making disciples, we're just flat out of space for everyone. Praise God for that.

Wouldn't that be quite the issue or quite the problem to have? So I guess that means some of us in that process are going to be involved in going to other places to make disciples, missionary work, if you will. So I guess going to other counties and states and countries kind of gives us the ability to reach more and more people. But I'm realistic. Let's just say only 10% of us in this congregation decide I'm going to do that.

Let's just say 90% of us are fine how it is and we're ready to coast out our years as we are and work on our relationship with God and not work on bringing anybody to Christ. Okay, fine, I'll play along with that. Let's just say for the first few years it still remains just 10% of the church keeps doing this work, but that every person that becomes a new disciple has the mentality that it's their job to then go out and make a new disciple. That means every year one person, just one person. We don't count them as a project we don't look at them as like, well, I checked that off my list.

But we look at it as these are our friends and neighbors and people around us maybe that we haven't even met yet. But we know that they need their eternity and their here and now solved by Jesus Christ. So we have a burden. Just 10% of us have that burden. But each disciple that's made disciples someone else and so on and so forth.

So it begins to snowball over time. Even just starting out with today, with 10% of this congregation, within ten years, we have 2500 people that are disciples of Jesus Christ just from the efforts of this one church. Multiply that times ten churches doing the same thing, and again, we're still at the entire population of Zephyr Hills. You're thinking, Pastor Nick, why are we talking about this? That's nowhere in scripture.

That that's God's plan for humanity? Not exactly. That is our sermon series. God's plan for humanity. As I think about that, it's like, no, that's not spelled out in scripture in that way.

But Jesus took for himself twelve disciples, eleven of them pretty successful. One of them kind of had an abrupt ending after he betrayed Jesus. And they replaced him with another guy, though. So it's all good. And these twelve men, and not only them, but the women that were disciples of Christ as well, they all went out into the world by the power of the Holy Spirit.

And they made more disciples, millions of them. And those disciples made more disciples. The problem is somewhere along the way, the church, especially in north America and probably in most of Europe, lost the idea that it was our job to go make disciples. I can tell you there's entire books and conferences and video series that are created to try to help a church come up with a discipleship program. Did jesus have a program?

Oh, man, we had such a, such a powerful service last week. I feel like I've killed it this morning, right? Oh, you guys are all right. Do we have to stand up again? I got to get down on the floor.

Come on. Think through your minds. You know the scriptures, right? If you've been in church for very long, you've been a Christian for a while, I hope you know the scriptures. If you don't know the scriptures, I pray that you would dig into them.

Jesus never said, I'll send my spirit and you'll go from there into Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth creating discipleship programs. He didn't say that. What did he say? Go actually, accurately, he said, as you are going. In other words, wherever you're going, whatever you're doing is your job.

A pastor, a missionary. Great. Do that is your job. Snapping parts together on an assembly line somewhere. Are you retired?

Oh, wait, he wouldn't have said that. They didn't have the concept of retirement. They worked until they expired. That was retirement for Jesus, you know, like heaven. That was what retirement was for them.

So you might be retired from your career. You're not retired. Amen. Right, Joyce? Still working.

Praise God. All right, so Jesus said, as you are going, in other words, whatever it is that you're doing, it doesn't matter. Your vocation, your retirement from a vocation, your hobbies, your interest, it doesn't matter as you are going be about the work of making disciples. Wow. He didn't lay down a list of, like, here's how you do it in each field of discipline that somebody might live their life in.

He didn't say, well, here's three bullet points and a methodology. Now, I'll admit it's difficult for us to conceive how to do that as Jesus did, because they walked everywhere. People were outside. I just met one of my neighbors that's lived in their house since 2016. I wave at them as they drive past in their car.

I see evidence that they've worked in their yard, but I haven't seen them, like, to where I could go out and talk with them since, like, 2016 when they moved in. It's just. It's never been that way. And I suppose, yes, I could go knock on their door. I do remember a sign on their door that said, please don't knock on our door.

You know, like, I don't care if you're sales or religious or anything. I guess maybe that was the people that lived there before them. And I had it wrong in my mind. I forgot that. And I told talked to them you about that yesterday, but they were out in their yard planting some trees or moving a tree, and so I went to talk with them.

We had a good conversation. But, you know, it's difficult when we just go from our nice air conditioned home to our nice air conditioned car. And it's even better if you have the remote start where it can already be cool by the time you walk to it, you know? And so we get into our cars and we go somewhere. I talked to my neighbor across the street quite a bit, and she's outside.

A lot of we both water our flowers, sometimes at the same time of day or sometimes I'll see her. I'm like, oh, yeah, I need to water mine. It's not going to rain for the next few days. It's April, which means in Florida it's dry. Where I grew up, we had April showers bring may flowers.

That's not true. Here. April means brown grass. And you better put a hose on your flowers or you're going to lose them, too, you know? And so while they're watering flowers, so I at least wave and talk to her from time to time.

But we don't really just spend a lot of time talking, even to our neighbors. Some of you, I believe, have the opportunity where you live in a community, like an rv park, a mobile home park, a townhouse community, something like that, where there's a lot of people outside, whether they stop and talk or not, they're at least out on golf carts or going to the shuffleboard courts or things like that. And so you have some of those opportunities to meet with people much more like it was in the time of Jesus. So I'm not using that as a cop out for me. I'm just saying sometimes it's easier, and sometimes we have to dig in and say, what are some ways that I can get about this work of making a disciple?

And I'm not saying you need to look at everybody and say, that person there, I could make them my project, my disciple for the year. I'm not saying that at all. Don't do that. In fact, don't just look for people and paint a target on them and say, that's the one. Unless the spirit of God says, you stick with them and you stay with them until they're on the path.

Amen. And if God puts somebody on your heart, you better do it. It might involve Elaine going flying up to Ohio at personal cost to you and going to visit your brother because you know that he needs Christ. It might involve a relative or a family member that doesn't know Christ. It might involve a stranger.

It might involve a neighborhood. It might be a restaurant or a store you frequent. And God just puts one of the people that works there on your heart, and you find ways of being an encouragement to them to the point where they finally want to get to know you better and find out what makes you tick, hopefully in a good way, not a bad way. Amen. Some people is like, what is wrong with them?

Some people say, what? Ed sent me a text earlier this week, and it was like, may people just, may you be so full of the spirit of God that people see you and say, wow, what's going on with that guy? You sent that, right? He's thinking like, did I sent. Yeah, it was a good thing.

He's like, may people see the spirit of God in you and just say, wow, what is going on with that guy? And I said, what a great prayer. And that was a reminder at least two times during the day where I was tempted to just kind of have a scowl on my face. I was like, wait a minute. No, you know what?

I've been prayed over that people would see the spirit of God in me and not a spirit of frustration or anger or contempt or anything like that. And so those are the types of things that we can do as we go about our day and say, God, how can I make a difference in someone's life? Who is it that you want me to invest into? One of the biggest things about that is hospitality. And so we're going to look at that in Genesis chapter 18, a little story of a guy named Abraham.

If you want to turn to your scriptures there. In Genesis chapter 18, it's going to be verses 16 through 19. This is an interesting passage in the verses before that of what Abraham had a special, I don't know, encounter that probably most of us will never have in the way that he had it. But Abraham has this encounter where he's sitting under a tree, which was typical of guys back in the day, older guys that were paid, patriarchal type person. You know, they just kind of sat under the tree and other people did the work.

It's not a bad gig. And he's sitting there and he sees some visitors. Now it's his job as a man of means or financial standing living in an ancient eastern kind of near eastern culture. And as he's living there, if you saw travelers approaching, it was just automatically your responsibility, according to their rules of society, to care for their needs, whether that was lodging for the evening or a meal, food and water for their camels or animals that they might have been traveling with, and especially for security and protection for them, against other people that might wish them harm. So Abraham has this moment where it's actually the Lord shows up in human flesh for this time, and he shows up, and he's got two angels with him, and they have a mission to do.

There's two parts of it. One is to go check out Sodom and Gomorrah and see what's going on there, because the Lord has received word of just how wicked that those two cities are. That community was. The other thing was they wanted to meet with Abraham and Sarah and tell them about their son that was going to be born and what would happen from his lineage. Sarah finds it hard to believe, and Abraham did as well.

Then she does something really terrible. She lies to God about it. She's like, I didn't laugh. He's like, I mean, you did, though, you know, I get it. But you laughed.

You did. You thought that God couldn't do this. You thought that it was impossible for God. I heard you sharing about your brother, Elaine, about how he had all these objections to faith as you're trying to share with him. And he has all these objections that there's no way.

You can't believe all this stuff. You can't believe in a virgin birth. And it's like, is anything too difficult for God? It's a really small thing in the realm of what God can do. That one is easy for me to believe.

It's really simple when we think about it. For humans, it's hard. We can't. Well, they're trying to make stuff like that happen, but we can't really make that happen the way God did. But God can is no big deal for him.

So Sarah has an issue with this. Abraham buys into it a little more quickly than she does, maybe, but it's still hard to have faith when you're their age and haven't had any kids. And God's saying, you're going to have not only one kid, but a whole bunch of descendants that spring from him. And so God has been sharing that with Abraham because Abraham, he not only showed them great hospitality as far as approaching them as they walked up and going to, going, going out of his way to serve a meal to them. The amount of bread that he had Sarah make for them was like 75 pounds of flour that he had her mix up into bread and serve to them.

It's almost insanity how much food he dumped on them. I'm sure part of it was to send them on their way with bread as well. It was to restock them and supply them on the journey that he believed they were on, but he went to an extreme, just an extreme end or amount of showing hospitality to them. That was simply how he operated. Yes, it was cultural, but we can learn something from it that says when we have visitors or when we have people that come to us, that we don't hesitate to show them hospitality.

As it says in the New Testament, we don't know if it's an angel that visits us because that has happened before. Show hospitality to all those you come into contact with. So without more delay. We're at Genesis 18, 1619, after Abraham has served them. It says this.

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way. Then the Lord said, should I hide from Abraham what I'm about to do? After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings to one another using his name. I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right.

And just then the Lord will give to Abraham what he had promised them. Promised him. We have a word of prayer this morning, God, we've got so much to learn.

We have so many things, Lord, that we think we know, maybe things that we've been taught for a long time, and a lot of them might be good, but mixed in with those, God, so many times are these traditions or habits that we have or perhaps these complacencies that we get where we just kind of become okay with things, how they are? Then we find a guy like Abraham who went above and beyond in his efforts of hospitality and someone that God, it seems like you actually respected him in such a way that you said, I want to share with Abraham a little bit of what I'm about to do. And then you actually listened to him as he pled and made a case for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah to be saved. God, may we be so bold as to come before you today, asking you for the souls and salvation of those around us in the communities in which we live. Lord, speak to us today.

We pray. Minister to our hearts in Christ's name. Amen. The short version of what God's plan for humanity, at least for the part we're looking at today. The short version of that is that God wants to bless you through Jesus Christ, and that in doing so, he wants you to turn around and be a blessing to others.

That was 100% the story of Abraham. God blessed him to be a blessing.

God had spoken to Abraham, as I already shared, about the descendants. He would have a son that would later be named Isaac and the children that would be born to him on down the lines as it multiplied. And as God spoke to that, he spoke specifically of one descendant on down the line, and that would be Jesus Christ. And as he spoke of Jesus Christ and what Christ's role would be, of course, he didn't spell out the whole thing for Abraham, he didn't need to understand that. He didn't need to know about everything that would happen with the children of Israel, everything that would happen with Egypt, with Moses leading them out, crossing through the Red Sea, wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, eventually moving into the very land that Abraham was living in right now and clearing it out of all the canaanite pagan inhabitants that would move in over the next couple centuries.

He didn't need to know all that. What Abraham needed to know was that not only had God been faithful, but he would continue to be faithful. And that as God continued to be faithful, that God was going to not only give Abraham this blessing of children, but that he was going to, through his many, numerous offspring, one day, a long time later, he would make everything right with humanity through one of Abraham's offspring, that through Jesus Christ, Abraham's. Abraham's eventual son, grandson, great great great all the way on down, his great great grandson that would be born, would make everything right that had been destroyed. See, back in the garden, we looked at this last week a little bit with Adam and Eve.

And when they sinned, one of the biggest things that was lost was not our innocence. It wasn't our. It wasn't just the way that they lived. The thing that was lost was our close, intimate fellowship with God. And the thing that God is working to bring us back to is fellowship with him.

Jesus talked about it. He said, he said, I'm going to prepare a place for you. I'm preparing a place for you in my father's house that I can bring you to be there with me. Now he's using marriage language that they understood very well, but we have lost because of our customs and cultures, because. But he's very much talking about the process that they had for being betrothed to a spouse, and that groom would go build on to his father's home, that he could later come back, get his bride, have their wedding celebration, and then they would move into that home that was on his father's house.

They kind of extended it. They just kept building onto it. And so Jesus is saying that we, his bride, the church, not just this individual church, not just the churches in Zephyr Hills or East Pasco, Florida, but the church in general, the Church of Jesus Christ, with all the different flares and flavors that we have between all of our denominations and groups, that Jesus Christ considers the church his bride. The scriptures say, without spot or wrinkle. We've sung that in a hymn.

And perhaps sometimes we think we've got a few spots and wrinkles. I don't mean on like us as our physical body. I mean on the church. Church has a few wrinkles, doesn't it? We've got some blemishes.

We've got some things that should never exist inside of a group called followers of Jesus Christ. And yet you and I have the opportunities to make those things right in our time. We have the opportunity to go and dig into the word of God, dig into the scriptures and say, God, I don't care about dogma. I don't care about tradition. I don't care about documents that come from church headquarters or whatever it is.

What I care about is that we are following what it says here in your word. And as we do that, we find out how Jesus Christ wants us to live. I know that's easier said than done for some of us. We've lived a long time being indoctrinated by things, by well meaning people and things that they all thought were right. And I'm not here to tell you which things were right and wrong.

I don't know all of that. I don't know all of your experiences, some of the things that some of you that are a little bit more advanced have told me that you went through growing up in different church settings. It blows my mind because so many times it seems so far from the truth of the word of God. And yet I see the things that the churches in my generation's day are doing throughout our country and the ways that they're compromising the word of God or the ways that they're shying away from the truth. And I look at that and I think, we're so far from the word of God, and yet I see hope in it.

I see hope because I also know that there's an awakening of preachers and pastors and lay people that are standing on the word of God and saying, no, we're going to stand true to what this says. And I see a healing that's taking place within the church throughout our country. But we still have a long way to go.

These verses. I noticed one big thing God says about Abraham. He's having this little side conversation. I imagine Abraham's following a little bit behind the Lord and the angels and God's saying, should I show Abraham what I'm about to do? Should I tell him about it?

Because you see Abraham, I'm going to bless him. And there's no doubt God wants to bless you. But the ways that God blessed Abraham as far and above, perhaps any other man. And the ways that God blessed Abraham were abundant and numerous. And the way that God spoke to him and said, I'm going to do something special in you.

God said, I want to tell Abraham what I'm going to do, because, did you catch it? He said, I've chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord. Abraham's job wasn't to have a son or to have kids. His job was to know God, to learn the ways of the Lord and to teach that to his whole household, to his offspring, and to pass that down from generation to generation. He wants him to do what is right and just.

He didn't give him a whole bunch of laws on Wednesdays. We're trying to speed through the rest of our list that we haven't gotten through. We're going through these laws in the Old Testament that were given to Moses and the children of Israel. We're trying to blast through them by the end of May. Just, that's kind of the deadline that I imposed on me.

You know, like we, we kind of dwindle on some of them for a long time or dawdled on some of them for a long time, but we're, we're trying to just kind of blast through and get them finished up. It's taken a while because there's 613 laws, and we're trying to get an understanding of them. God didn't give Abraham 613 laws. He didn't even give him ten commandments. You know what the one thing that he told him was when he called him out of his father's household, where he lived in a pagan area that worshiped idols, he said, abraham, walk before me and be devout, devout, devoted.

Be solely focused on following God. That's it. That's all he had to tell Abraham. And as Abraham walked with God, he got to know him more and more, and God showed him more and more things. Abraham had an intimacy with God that most of us probably don't hope to see.

And yet Jesus told us something. He told us about the greater day coming than when he walked this earth. His disciples thought that because they were with Jesus, this was the best that it could ever be. And Jesus said, no, I'm actually going away. And that made them sad.

But then he said, you're going to be glad that I go away because something better happens when I leave you. Jesus said, when I leave, I won't leave you orphaned. I'm going to send the comforter, the Holy Spirit the advocate. I'm going to send you another one like me, is actually what he said. In other words, the Holy Spirit is like Jesus.

But whereas Jesus just had a body and he was limited by that body to be in one place at a time, the Holy Spirit isn't. And so Jesus said, those who live in the era of the Holy Spirit are more blessed than those who had Christ. So many of us think, I would love to have lived when Jesus was on the earth. Yes, I would have loved to have walked with Christ. But Jesus himself said, you're missing the point.

Those who live with the Holy Spirit have more power, more presence, more of God with them. They have the opportunity to dwell in a level of intimacy with God that no one else had, except for a very small few that were walking with Jesus Christ. But in the era of the Holy Spirit, we have this ability to walk closely with God.

God set Abraham up to be the father of many descendants, and he wanted him to do that so that his descendants would be a light and a witness to the world. If you were to turn almost exactly to the book of Exodus, it's actually chapter 19. If you were to turn over to there, you would see the plan that God had for Israel. Just before he gives them any commandments, he says, if you follow what I'm telling you, you will be my people and I will be your God. You'll be my treasured possession.

A holy nation and a kingdom of priests. God's plan for humanity was going to be affected by the faithfulness of the children of Israel. Their job was not only were they treasured by God, but they were supposed to maintain holiness, the same holiness that God said Abraham was to teach his offspring. They were to maintain that righteousness and that justice and to be the people who took the presence of God and spread that throughout the entire world. That was to be their job.

Unfortunately, by the time of Jesus Christ, all they had learned to do was to kind of keep all of it inside and keep outsiders out. They began thinking that they were holy and righteous because they followed a law. And that as such, that anybody else who didn't follow the law needed to stay away lest they should be poisoned by it or somehow harmed by it. The children of Israel, by the time of Christ, had developed an entire religion around this law observance. It was called Judaism.

And Judaism was just this method of maintaining ritual purity and cleanliness, of abstaining from anything that even smacked of idol worship or anything like that. And they kept all that away and then that in itself became an idol. They idolized their purity rather than worshiping the God who called them to a life of purity. And so when Jesus began suggesting that others should be welcomed in, they took offense at that and tried to kill him. You know what's funny is a few weeks ago, I said something similar to this.

And then taking a video clip from it, we've got this nice little program that does all this work for us and makes these little short video clips, and then we can choose to post them at different places on the Internet. And some random person that I've never met and have no idea who she is commented on that when I said something very similar, that Jesus had begun to preach that salvation was for everyone and not just the jewish people. And she said, lies, lies. Read your bibles, people. I thought, okay, cool, I'll engage that.

And so I just. I was pretty calm. I wasn't upset at all. I said, I agree we should read our Bible. Tell me which part was a lie.

Was it this part? And then I quoted scripture, you know, backed it up and then this part, and she never responded. So I guess maybe she doesn't read her Bible or something. I'm not sure. But the truth is, people tried to kill Jesus for suggesting that God had a heart of love for more than just the jewish people.

They didn't like that, and they wanted to kill him because their Judaism, their jewish religion at that point, had driven them to the point where they thought that anyone on the outside belonged there and that they were just going to sail on into the kingdom of God, just themselves and no one else. Jesus began preaching his whole ministry. He was preaching that there was more to it than that and that God had a heart for the entire world. But then I wonder about us today. Is that wrap up part right where I kind of get to a point and then you can all go home unless something hits you in this and you say, wait a minute, this is our soul searching part.

We can look at this in a couple ways. At least three. One, individually, right? You're responsible for your own self. Two, as a local congregation, we have to answer to God.

I have to answer to God for what we do. Please be fair to me because some of you guys do it, and I can't control that. So, like, don't make me answer to God on your behalf, because I was like, I couldn't fix that. In other words, we all need to be on our best behavior. That's what I'm trying to say.

And then we can look at it as let's say Christianity in America, we have to answer on these three levels. Is the church today? Are Christians today the same as the Israelites at the time of Jesus, where we think those on the inside are clean and those on the outside need to stay out and never the twain shall meet? Or are we convinced that perhaps if each of us would just make one disciple, and I know some of you are thinking, I can't do that. Maybe not.

I don't mean it's impossible. I mean, maybe with that mentality you can't. But if you start to say, well, lord, I don't know. I don't know what it takes. I haven't had any formal training or anything.

I'll tell you what. The disciples of Jesus didn't have any either. They just walked with Jesus. And then he said, now go and do the same. Go and do likewise.

Yes, we contextualize it into where we live. We fit that into our context of where we live. And we look at where we live and we say, okay, maybe people don't walk wearing sandals and getting all dusty and dirty, having these tunics and cloaks and all that. No, life isn't like it was when Jesus did it. And yet look at where you live and say, how can I have an impact on someone's life?

Pray, because the spirit of God is with us and he wants this to happen. And say, lord, holy spirit, show me how I can do this in someone's life. It might be somebody that you're related to, and it might be somebody that you're a neighbor with, and it might be somebody that you don't even know yet. But if you can say, you know what, I'm willing to sit down, open the word of God and have conversations with somebody. And if they ask a question that you don't know, there's nothing wrong with saying, I don't know that.

But I know where to find the answers in the word of God. And if you don't even know that, don't hesitate to google it. You'll find so many people that have been pouring over the word of God that just feel the need, and I'm glad they do, to write about it and post these articles online. And you can learn and grow from that. All it takes is one person who will make one disciple, just one disciple a year spending time with them.

I'm not saying then you look at, well, it's December 31, I'm moving on from you. But maybe the intensity of your time with them wanes a little bit as they need to fly out of the nest and go make a disciple of their own. And then before we know it, we're out of space. Before we know it, we're having to go other places to make disciples because there's just no one left here that doesn't know Jesus Christ. I think it can happen.

And I don't see a reason why not. Unless we decide not to. If we decide not to, it won't happen. At least not here and not through us. For the spirit of God, perhaps he's a little restless sometimes.

And if we tell him we don't want him here, he won't stay. He'll go somewhere where he's wanted. I pray that you would seek intimacy with the spirit of God. That you would spend time in the word of God. And the spirit of God agrees with the scriptures, with the word of God and he will lead you and guide you through there.

God's plan is salvation for humanity and takes all of us as part of that work. Pastor Kendall, would you lead us tonight?