Right, all right. Hey, it's good to be with you, Mercy Hill. I want to invite you to open up your Bibles to Matthew chapter twenty-eight, verse nineteen. We'll be there in a few minutes. But Matthew twenty-eight nineteen, and we'll have the scriptures behind me on the screen if you didn't bring a Bible.
But man, I want to. Jump in and tell you what we're talking about today, Pastor Andrew. Which, by the way, if y'all hadn't figured it out yet, I bet you probably have. But Pastor Andrew is probably my top one percent favorite young pastor in America. Y'all are blessed, man.
That guy is unbelievable.
So yeah, let's honor him. He's incredible. But when he called me to speak today, he said, "Matt, I'd love for you just to share your heart about the church and the Great Commission, what God did in Austin, because we're going to be leaning into that here at Mercy Hill for the next couple of years." And so he asked me to share that. But I want to say, I want to let you guys hear about something that I've been seeing over the last year and a half to two years around the country. As Pastor Andrew shared, I'm a teaching pastor at the Church of Eleven Twenty Two.
If you don't know about what's going on at the Church of Eleven Twenty Two in Jacksonville, Pastor Shelby Martin is pretty incredible. But what we're seeing there is not just church growth, but it's revival. And when I say revival, it's revival. And you know, I've been doing this a minute. And I have seen amazing things happen.
I've seen churches explode in a good way. I have not, in my thirty years of in his thirty years this year, I have not seen revival on a national scale break out. And I believe, with all my heart, we are beginning to see it in this country. Because everywhere I go, I'm beginning. I don't know if y'all noticed, but this place is packed, and y'all see like 200 missionaries.
That's revival. But I'm just telling you, I'm seeing it all over the place. And here's my point for telling you that, Mercy Hill, God is on the move in this country. God is on the move, and the question is not whether God is on the move. The question is whether or not you're going to be a part of it.
That's the question. And so today, I want to encourage you, hopefully inspire you, remind you about the call on every single person here that's a believer, and our responsibility and calling and privilege to engage in the Great Commission, which I believe we're beginning to see a powerful move of in this country. And so I'm just going to, it's very simple message. I'm going to give you three reasons why everybody here that's a believer needs to engage in the Great Commission. If you're here and you've never given your life to Christ, your action step is to give your life to Christ today.
It'll transform your life. But if you're a Christian here today, I want to give you three reasons why God's calling you to walk out these doors here in a few minutes and get in the fight for the glory of God. Here's the first one. First two are super simple. Number one, why all of us are called to engage in the Great Commission as Jesus commanded us.
He commanded us to do it. I want you to listen to. Kind of the final command that Jesus gave his disciples, and therefore us also, before he left this planet. Matthew twenty eight nineteen. You've heard it many times throughout your life, believer.
But he said this. He said, "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son." And the Holy Spirit. I want you to look at the word "go" for a second. That word "go" is key, right? I I have to constantly remind myself.
Even as a guy that's a preacher and works on staff at church and stuff, I have to constantly remind myself that that word right there, "go" and make disciples, is not a request by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It's a command. Constantly remind myself. And here's the thing, you know, it's it's it's a command that's not on some people's lives and not others.
Somewhere along the way in American Christianity, we decided that there were professional Christians that had the calling to make disciples, preachers, worship leaders, and missionaries. But then everybody else, it was just kind of okay for them to come to church and listen to sermons and sing some songs and go out the door and live their life until next Sunday. But we got to remember that this this calling this is a command on our lives. Our Lord and Savior did not request us to do it. Let me give you another another point that kind of seals this.
It's in Acts one nine. I noticed something. This is really recently. I've heard that verse preached on Acts one nine a hundred times, and I saw something literally this year. I'd never really paid much attention to.
But in Acts one, it's one eight. My bad, one eight. Let's read it. Jesus is about to ascend in the heaven, and I mean, he's died on a cross, he's risen from the grave, conquered sin and death, and he's about to go back to heaven to be with his father, sit at the right hand of the father. And this is the very last thing he says to his disciples.
He says, "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you." And I'm going to talk about that at the end. That as a believer, when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and all of us, we know that when we trust in Christ, our Lord and Savior, we receive the Holy Spirit of God, and the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, comes to live inside of us. Amen. He says, "When the Holy Spirit comes upon you, excuse me, you will receive power." Now, watch what he says. He said, "And you will be my witnesses." In Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria until the end of the earth.
What hit me is that's a fascinating way to say that. Here's what, if you just looked at American Christianity, you would. Here's what you would think Jesus said right there. You would think that Jesus said, "Hey, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you," and here's what you really ought to consider doing. If you have some free time, you know between Sunday services and work and and club club baseball for your kids and volleyball and and your time with your friends and and all the stuff that you got going on, here is what you really ought to consider doing because it's really really important: is that you should be my witness in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
Church, that is not what he said. He said, "When you receive the Holy Spirit, you're going to receive power, and the inevitable result is that you will be my witness." And the spheres of influence that that God has you. I want to give you a quote by Pastor Charles Spurgeon. If you don't know who Pastor Charles Spurgeon is, he probably is the greatest preacher outside of Jesus. They called him the Prince of Preachers.
He was a a pastor in England, in London, England, back in the 1850s and 60s, and the bro could absolutely sling it. And I want to give you. I'm a big Spurgeon fan, and I want to give you what I believe is probably one of his top five most Victing sermon quotes that he ever gave. He was preaching on that text Acts one eight. He said, "You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria." And then Spurgeon paused and he said this.
He said, "This is a quote." He said, "As a Christian, you're either a missionary or you're an impostor. As a Christian, you're either a missionary or you're an impostor." And his point is correct. That, biblically speaking, that when you just look at the Bible, t here is no such thing as a Christian filled with the Holy Spirit that does not actively engage in the fulfillment of the Great Commission. Again, somewhere along the way between that moment. In Acts, when the Holy Spirit did come upon them, and and they were filled with the Spirit, and and um and then the Church of Christ was born, and they took the message of the gospel and spread it all over the world.
You're sitting in a chair today because those people right there took that command seriously.
Somewhere along the way between that moment and this moment, we Cultural Christianity became a thing where you could just come and listen to sermons go in with your life. The first thing Jesus commanded you and me. Here is the second reason why all of us ought to engage in the Great Commission: is the gospel compels us.
So Jesus commanded us, but the other thing is, for crying out loud, the gospel ought to compel us to want to engage in the Great Commission. And here is what I mean by that. Here's the gospel, and gospel means good news in the Greek, and it's really good news. Here's good news. Y'all ready for it?
The good news of the gospel is that when we were dead in our trespasses and in our sins, that word "dead" in the Greek, which is the original language New Testament was written in, that word "dead," you know what it means? It means you were dead. Doesn't mean you're mostly dead, partly dead, three fourths dead. You were dead. You and I were dead before Jesus.
We were dead. In our trespasses and in our sins, but thanks be to God, He made us alive through Jesus Christ. And so the good news of the gospel: we were dead in our trespass and our sins. God came to this planet. He put on our flesh.
He died on a Roman cross to pay the full penalty of your sin, and He takes your sin if you trust in Him, and He casts it away from you as far as the east is from the west. And when you die, because If you put your faith in Christ, you will be absent with the body and present with the Lord, and you will be with Him in glory forever. I don't know about y'all, but that's good news to me. And if that's true, which I am utterly convinced to the core of my being that it is, then how could that good news not compel us to want to tell other? People about it.
One more Spurgeon quote, last one I promise. But he said this. Listen carefully. He said, "If I never won souls, I would sigh in frustration until I did." He said, "Though I can understand the possibility of an earnest sower never reaping a harvest of souls," he said, "I simply." Cannot fathom the possibility of a sower being content not to reap. Here's what that means.
He's like, I can imagine a Christian sharing their faith with people, and people saying no. He said, "What I cannot understand or cannot fathom is Christians being content never to tell other people about about Jesus." Number one. Why everybody here should engage in the Great Commission, because our Lord and Savior commanded us. The second one is, my goodness, the gospel ought to compel us. And here's here's the last one.
Here's the last one. God's power is within us. This is a big one. This is so important. If you've been a Christian for a while, I think you probably understand pretty deeply that we're commanded to engage in the Great Commission.
I would imagine that you get that the gospel is pretty awesome, and that ought to compel us. But the thing that I found that I forget all the time, and that Christians do, is the access to the power of God that you and I have right now. To engage in the Great Commission and lean into this, because there are a lot of us here that, when you hear that, you're like, "Okay, yeah, we're commanded to do it. Yeah, the gospel is pretty awesome. I ought to be compelled to do it." But then you're like, "But I'm not great at sharing my faith.
I'm not a missionary. I'm not a preacher. I don't really know how to do it. I'm not a great theologian. I just want to start right here." And I want to remind you of the power you have access to.
Look at Ephesians 3:20. What Paul's doing here is he's, and let's go ahead and bring that up, guys. On three, three twenty, let's bring it up on the screen. Paul is talking to the church in Ephesus, and what he's going to do is he's going to explain to the church and to you and me how powerful God is.
Okay, and then he's going to do it by saying, "Here's what our God is able to do." All right, so let's jump in. Let's unpack this. I'll and then I'll give some application, and we'll be done this morning. Paul said, "Now to him who is able to do, right." So he's talking about God, and he's going to tell us what God is able to do. And he says, "Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we can ask or think." I want to slow down for a second, and I want to I want to unpack what he just said because it's incredible.
He says, "Now to him who is able," and then he says something. He's able to do far more abundantly than all we could ask or think. And it's interesting, but that he could have easily said, "Our God is able to do more than we could ask or think," but he doesn't. He could have easily said, "Now to him who is able to do far more than we could ask or think." And he'd be right, but that's not what he said. He said, "Now to him, who is able to do far more abundantly than anything we can ask or think." How many of y'all have used the phrase "far more abundantly" in a sentence in the last couple weeks?
Nobody, right? You know why? Because nobody says that. Neither did anybody else back in the day. You study it and you realize when you learn the Greek, there is no phrase in Greek "far more abundantly." My man made it up.
He was trying to come up with a way to convey to the church just how powerful God is and what He's able to do, and so He strung three words together that had never been put together to show you that our God is able to do far more abundantly than anything you could ever imagine. Which is exactly what He says.
Now, to Him, He was able to do far more abundantly than anything you and I could ask. Let's do an exercise real quick. If you could ask God to use your life to engage in the Great Commission and to see souls won, as Pastor Spurgeon said, and the kingdom advance through your life, and you could ask Him anything, and the answer was guaranteed to be yes, what would you ask Him to do through your life? Um. Maybe you're a mother, and and the ask is be I would love you to use my life to see my children fall in love with Jesus, and be walking with Christ, and in love with the Church of God after I'm gone.
Maybe you're a business guy, and you would ask him, I'd love to see revival break out in my business, or your businesswoman, or maybe you're a student. You're like I'd love to see God use my life to see people get saved and revival to break out in my school or my neighborhood or my place of work. God, would you use my life as as a doctor, as a lawyer, for your glory every single day? What would you ask Him to do? What the Scripture says is now to Him who is able.
He says to do far more abundantly than anything you would ask. Why is that important? What Paul just told us is that God's so powerful that whatever you're asking, your ask is too small, because He's able to do far more abundantly than what you would ask. But then He takes it another level. I want you to imagine for a second, because He says, "Now to Him who's able to do far more abundantly than anything we'd ask or even think." Y'all, yesterday might have been the most perfect weather day in the history of my life.
I live forever in Austin, Texas, and so I we got little green shrubs in Austin and some mesquite trees that are really ugly. I didn't know that trees like change colors. It's amazing. I was driving around. I was taking.
I took like a hundred pictures, sent them my wife. I'm like, "This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life." There's no humidity. It's 68 degrees. It was unbelievable. We get three days like that all year in Texas.
So thank you for inviting me on the most perfect weekend. But anyway, what's my point? Imagine yesterday, your Saturday. You're sitting on your back porch, perfect day, and you're just imagining. Having a daydream session about what God might use your life for, in light of this message and the Great Commission.
Like if you would come to me when I was seventeen, God called me to Himself at nineteen, called me into ministry at twenty, very radically. I'm one of those guys. I like to have a tendency to run from God, and I've just kind of found God won't let me go. But that's another sermon for another day. But anyway.
If you'd have come to me at 17 and said, "Matt, when you're 21, you're going to become a student pastor, and then from there, you're going to start a church in Austin, Texas, that's going to like blow up, and it's going to send missionaries all over the world, and you're going to preach all over the world," and I would have looked at you and told you you were an absolute stone cold crazy person, moron. Why? Because at that time I had no capacity to even what. If you'd made me give a top one thousand list, preacher, pastor would never have made the list. What could you even, in your wildest imagination?
And I'm not saying God's calling you to be a pastor. I'm just saying, in your wildest imagination, what could you even fathom that God might use you for? To see people come to Christ, here's what the Holy Spirit inspired Word of Almighty God is saying: Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than anything you could ask or think. And so, whatever you could imagine in your mind that God might use you for, it is too small. That's convicting enough, but then Paul drops the theological nuclear bomb on us, and he says the one thing, believer, that if you hear anything of my sermon today, I want you to hear and receive and remember this.
Let me read to you the last part of the verse. Paul says, "Now to him who is able to do." Far more abundantly than all we ask or think, according to or by by according to the power that is at work in Pastor Andrew. That's not what it says. What does it say?
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all we could ask or think, according to the power that's at work in all the missionary overseas. Oh wait, doesn't say that. What does it say?
It says now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all we could ask or think, according to the power at work in. Wow, y'all. Here's what that just said, believer. The Bible just told you and me that you and I have inside of us the power that raised Jesus Christ from the grave. It's not some power that we hope we might receive one day.
Jesus said, "When the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will receive power. What kind of power, Jesus? Scripture says the far more abundant power than anything you could ask or think. It's in you right now. When's the last time your feet hit the floor?
When you woke up in the morning and you remembered that inside of you, as you're breathing and living." And you begin your day. Then, inside of you right now is the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And then ask Him, Lord, would You use me today and the power You gave me and my salvation? Unleash it through my life to see the kingdom of God expanded through my life, and Your name exalted. When's the last time you did it?
I don't do it near enough, man. You want to see? You want to talk about real revival in America? Every single Christian starts praying every day. Lord, use the power You've already given me for Your glory.
To love my family, to walk in holiness, and to be used for Your glory with my life—that's when everything changes.
So I'll I'll start landing the plane here with a little application. But I want to remind you, and I'm going to change the word "us" with "you." Here are the three reasons why all of us should engage in the Great Commission. Number one, Jesus commanded you. Number two, the gospel ought to compel you. And the last one is the power of God is within you.
Now you may be like me. You'd be like, but that's a little intimidating, Matt. I believe I have the power. I believe I am commanded. I believe the gospel is amazing, but it's still kind of intimidating.
I am not great at sharing my faith. Must less being a missionary, or you know what, you know, seeing revival come through my life. Can I just tell y'all? And some of y'all might think I am making this up, but I am not. Can I just tell you that when it comes to personal evangelism, I actually stink at it.
What you see here, and I've had tons of people get saved through my preaching, but that's a spiritual gift. That's the that's the far more abundant power of God through me. I do not have the spiritual gift of evangelism. That is a spiritual gift. It's also a command.
I don't have the gift, and so more people over the years I've shared my faith with them have looked at me after I said, "Would you like to give your life to Christ?" They look at me and go, "No." This is a true story. Talking about Pastor Joby Martin, who's the lead pastor in Jacksonville. He's got the spiritual gift of evangelism. We hunt deer a lot. It was a couple of years ago.
We were in South Texas on this deer hunt. Just true story. And the owner of the ranch, which is a Christian, came and said, "Hey, look, all my guides are not believers, and y'all are going to be spending all day in a deer stand with them.
So share your faith with them." I'm like, "Sweet." And so I'm with this kid. He's probably nineteen, twenty years old. And man, I'm sharing my faith with him. I'm telling about how Jesus changed my life, and I'm throwing down theology, and I'm answering all his questions. And man, I just like he's like listening and nodding, and and we're Talking the whole time, so no deer show up, and then and then you know since the deer hunt's messed up, I finally like, man, would you like to give your life to Christ?
Like, no.
Okay. That night, we're sitting around the the campfire, and and we're all just kind of talking, and and Joby Joby looks at the guys like, hey man, Matt was telling me y'all were talking about Jesus Day. He's like, yeah. He goes, are you sure? Wouldn't would you like give your life to Christ?
And he goes. Yeah, I think I do. Like that? What? What?
And then, like, get on the ground there, and and the kid gives his life to Jesus. And so, I want you to know, if you think you stink at it, so do I. But here's the thing, and and and something happened two years ago that changed my life. It literally changed my life, and it freed me up. And I had a pastor friend of mine.
That I was telling him what I just told you. It was like, "Hey, I stink at this." People always tell me, "No," like, "What? What am I doing wrong?" And he said something that, my goodness, it literally changed my life. He said, "Matt, you remember Acts one eight where Jesus said that you will be my witnesses?" And I was like, "Yeah." And he said, "I guarantee you, you are not being a witness. You are trying to be a defense attorney." And I went.
All right, what do you mean? He said, "Well, he said so many people feel like they have to be a defense attorney." He said, "Jesus didn't call us to be a defense attorney; he calls us be a witness." He said, "A defense attorney gets up and makes a case for to move people to where he believes, and that's what I was doing. I felt like I had to persuade people and convince people and make this case." He said something so powerfully. He goes, "I promise you, Jesus does not need defending." He said, "Jesus called you to be a witness, not a defense attorney." And what does what does a witness do? He said, "All a witness does is simply share what they've seen and heard and experienced." That's all you do.
And as a guy with that had been in seminary for a minute, that blew my mind. He goes, "That's the call." Jesus is not asking you to become some phenomenal theologian, and I believe theology is really important. I believe apologetics is important, but the call is for you to be a witness. When you encounter somebody that doesn't know the Lord, you pray, and then you simply share with them what you've seen and heard and experienced through your relationship with Jesus. And the results are completely up to Him.
That's it. And I'm going to land the plane today by giving you an illustration of how simple that is. I'm going to land the plane today by telling you about. I'm going to take my glasses off for this. I'm going to tell you about the greatest burrito you've never eaten in your entire life.
So, when I started this home back in the day, there was a guy that was going to our church for a while. There, his name was John. And he decided that he felt like after eating a Chipotle burrito one day that somebody could do this better than Chipotle. And so he started a company called Cabo Bob's Burritos. And how many of y'all have ever eaten Cabo Bob's burritos?
One person. He's from Austin. He knows what I'm talking. Is it will it change your life? Incredible, right?
So I'm going to tell you why Cabo Bob's burritos. I'm going to explain to you systematically why Cabo Bob's burrito is the best burrito you've never had. And this guy went on a journey to to make a better burrito, and he started with his with meat. He's like, "There's got to be a better way to do the meat." And so, if you go to Chipotle after today after church, you'll be sorely disappointed after this explanation. But anyway, they take the steak and the chicken and stuff, and they just put it like on a metal skillet and kind of seared it, get a little sear on it.
He's like, "What can we do different?" So that man went and bought three. Huge, big green eggs. Gentlemen, can I get a name in? All right. If you don't know what a big green egg is, look it up.
It's like a looks like an egg, and it's big and it's green, and and you put mesquite wood in that thing. And it gets up to about eight hundred, nine hundred degrees, and smoke is coming out of it like a big fin of hood. And it gets super hot, and they get the you know the the beef or whatever. And and I got a picture of their beef, by the way. That's it; that's actually off the website, and that's the big green egg thing.
And like it's smoky and and mesquite flavored, and whatever reason the way it works, it makes it super. Tender. I ate Chipotle yesterday, and it was chewy. You don't get chewy steak at Cabo Boss. It's smoky and and amazing and tender.
But then he thought, all right, I also need to figure out how to do queso better because if you've ever had queso from Chipotle, it it's it's not queso, y'all. I'm from Texas. I know, I know. And so let's show the picture of the queso.
So the queso, and that's not like a great picture of it. But here's the thing you need to know: it's rich and it's flavorful and it's really creamy and it just adds like to everything you eat. And when you eat it, the first thing that goes through your mind is like, "My goodness, this tastes like like my adopted grandmother from Mexico made this for my birthday." I mean, it's incredible, so good. You just make yourself sick eating the chips before you get into the burrito. Right, but here's the thing: as good as the steak and the chicken is, and all that stuff, and as amazing as the queso is, I could drink it from the cup.
What really goes next level with Cabo Bobs, and what puts it over the top of anything you've ever had in regards to another lesser burrito, is their flour tortillas. My man down here was like, "Yeah, he knows what I'm talking about." So when you go to Chipotle, they're going to open up a plastic bag and pull out a tortilla that was made somewhere probably in China like a month ago. Not at Cabo Bob's. Let's go ahead. There, there it is, right there.
I'm going to tell you what you do. You walk up to the line, and standing there, right there at the beginning of the line is a bunch of racks of balls of dough, different flavors. That's smoky cheddar. Do you get a smoky cheddar option at Chipotle? No.
If somebody here owns a Chipotle, I'm really sorry. I love you. That's a that's a smoky cheddar tortilla that was made from scratch in front of your face. You point at the ball of dough you want. They're like okay, and they take it and they put on this thing and they press it and it makes it big, and then they take it off of the little pressure thing and they stick it on this hot rock thing and it makes the flower tortilla in front of your face.
See the little black things on there? That's a former bubble that bubbled up. And listen, what what makes that next level is it's it's it's it's warm and it's chewy and it's flavorful and it's just on another level. And so you make the burrito; they make put whatever all the other stuff you want on it. They've got all kinds of different rises and stuff, and you put it all together.
And you take a bite, and the first thing that hits you is the chewiness and the warmth and the flavor of the tortilla. And then you jump in, and you the tenderness and the smokiness of the meat, and then the Richness of the queso, and every single time I've done it, you pause and I listen carefully because angels are singing. How many y'all right now are ready for me to shut up and you wish you could go to Austin and and and and eat a couple Bob's Worthy, right?
Well, I got bad news and good news for you today. Bad news is there's no Cabo Bobs yet in Greensboro. By the grace of God, there will be. Here's the good news, y'all. Ready for it?
Jesus is better than Cabo Bobs, y'all. He is. He's so much better.
So much better. He's way better. He's the love of my life. He's completely transformed my life. The the longer I live and the older I get, the more he blows my mind.
The more beautiful he becomes. I'm telling you, he's way better than Cabo Boss. Turns out I'm a pretty good burrito evangelist. Amen. Jesus is better.
All you gotta do is simply share what you've seen and heard and experienced, and Jesus will take care of the rest.
So, what do we do with this? What do we do with this that Jesus commanded you? That the gospel compels you, and the power of God is within you. And all we got to do is be a witness. What's the action step?
Pastor Andrew asked me to remind you of what he's called and what we call your one more. Who's your one more? And what I mean by that is that if you bowed your head right now, and we will in a second, and Who is that one person in your life? That's where you start, right? I believe with all my heart that there are people in the room right now that God's going to call to go to some place in the name of Christ, or to start be a part of a church planning team, or or to be a pastor, or to go to some crazy place.
But the overwhelming majority of us in the room are called to be a missionary. Where we go to work tomorrow, or whatever sphere of influence God has us in tomorrow, and so, in light of that, who's your one more? Who is the person that that right now the Spirit would bring to your mind that you would love to see come to Jesus? My one more is a really good friend of mine in New York City. Thursday night when I preached this message, I came right down there to the altar and I just for the thousandth time lifted his name.
Works on Wall Street and he just needs the Lord. He doesn't listen to my sermons, that's why I can talk about him. But anyway, I just I'm praying for him. Who's your one more? Who's who's the person you can start praying for every single day for God to give you the opportunity.
To share what you've seen and heard and experienced, so that person can receive the Holy Spirit themselves and get in the fight themselves. And how cool would it be for sometime in next year, so you see that person that you prayed for come come forward and get baptized in the name of the Father and Son and the Holy Spirit, be raised from death to life, and just we in the whole church loses their mind. And you know you got to be a part of it.
Well, show one more. That's it. I want we're gonna pray in a second. I want you to start praying for you one more Monday night. We're gonna have where are we calling it?
I just went blank. Envision Monday night in this room. Envision you need to get here quick. I don't think there's gonna be a ton of seats. I want to challenge anybody in this place that wants to just hear more.
About what it looks like to put your yes on the table in any capacity, whether it's through being a person that makes a ton of money and funds ministry, whether this person that wants to go be a part of a movement of God in your workplace, or if God just might possibly, if you'd be even willing to say, God, I don't necessarily want to go to some crazy place, but you're good. And so my answer is, I put the yes on the table. Would you come Monday night? I'm going to tell the story of what God happened at the Austin Stone. You be here.
That's the action step. The question is not whether God's moving. The question is whether or not you're going to be a part of it. Let's pray. Your heads bowed and your eyes closed.
Just take a second. If God brings a name to your heart, would you just take 15 seconds and just pray for them? Pray that the Lord would open their heart to the message of the gospel. Pray that God might give you the opportunity to be a witness. Maybe tonight you'd be willing to pray something crazy.
You'd be willing to just put your yes on the table for God. That's a bold prayer, God. I don't know what you're calling me to in my life, but my answer is yes. Maybe you'd have the boldness to pray that today, Father. Thank you for your word, Jesus.
I thank you that you did not leave us alone, but that you sent the Holy Spirit to us. You are with us and in us. Thank you for the power you've given us. Forgive us, God, when we don't live like it. And Lord, I pray that you would use this amazing church, this amazing people, to be a huge part of the fulfillment of the Great Commission.
And we're all standing around your throne one day, as we're worshiping you at the top of our lungs. We can say we were we were a part of that. God, we love you and we praise you today. And it's an honor to sing to you and to respond to you. In Jesus' name, Amen.
