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Greetings from South Africa. We are on week number three of our mission trip was about halfway done last week with current holiday lawn chairs.

Some of the ministry was held last week working with Zulu people out was incredible about your squad breached the church last Sunday we are now allowed to date working with Somalis here in downtown Johannesburg with another one of our summer guys arrogant enjoyment with some ecology. It's been absent and so blessed us to be able see what God is doing some of the ballroom, understand the visual of fantastic back of the church.

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The Bible today very special privilege of some church preaching for us is a good friend of mine David Nasser Dave is currently VP one Vice Presidents at Liberty University received the sum of immigrated from Iran and then became a believer from Islam to Satan result and ever since then God is around college students-students beyond just claiming the glories of the gospel.

So we begin with us today so at all the locations of the church together was welcome to our pulpit. David Nasser Hankey said thank you for the opportunity that you have afforded us to be in this room together God in all our different locations. Just the gift of getting to gather and to sit under your word. I pray that we would be more than just hearers of this truth that Holy Spirit we would be doers of its thank you that we don't have to obey your word to earn your favor. We get to obey it because we have already prayed that in the next few minutes that Lord you would hide my brothers and my sisters from what would be my opinion and this and that you would give us your truth and that's up I got there would be action out of this huddle that would change the lives of people in years and years to come.

We love you Lord we we expect great things because your great we pray this in your name.

Amen. It is so good to be back at Summit my Pastor JD said I was here a few years ago and that's been a while, as I've got to come back, but I wanted to before we get going to say a few things just the glorify God by honoring JD and Veronica and and really you as an entire church. JD is just incredible ran easy as always been kind and giving and he and Veronica have always had the mentality of hey let's help other pastors.

Let's serve other people have the same calling on our lives and what you know that that your pastor just doesn't love this city and this church. He loves the church the C and your church as well. Know that I sleep pastor in Birmingham Alabama before I went to liberty University in Lynchburg and back when we were there so much of our governance just was a almost copy and paste from your governance and so much of our membership class process came from the way that you do membership classes and so your church is always been a giver of those kind of things to little tender shoot church plants that, and not even maybe a part of the of the summit family are is not necessarily at Summit church plant and soap. I wanted to tell you know a lot of people reap the benefits of it but never again the both it. Thank you in person that you guys are making a difference, not just here in the city through the world and that you're blessed to have the leader to God is placed in JD and up hopefully you know that I just thanks again for all that you do for the kingdom. If you had a Bible. If you would go heading go John 685 with me if you would look at that in Scripture together today.

John 635 is one of the eight I am statements in the book of John were Christ claims a reality about himself guy named RC Sproul was an author and a speaker in a pastor calls them expressions of divinity and I know that's a fancy way of saying expressions of divinity. No descriptions on Christ but I'm a Southerner and honestly what we call the whereabouts or read is in the South is fighting words you all on the bottom.

By the way you're looking at me, you're like, you look like a guy from the Southwest Southeast talking about upward Lynchburg Virginia is still the South isolate in Alabama. Still, the South, and even when I was born in Iran, was born in South Iran's, I've always been a bit of a redneck. So I just want to say that to you. So, I'm of will Southerner even when I was in Iran. I had like the mullet in the turbine going there was I didn't. I was nine. Just whatever anyway so we call in the South, certain things, fighting words you anywhere they fight words like you and in the South like you mess with me. I kill your mother unless you're Christian that is like listening to your mother and I go to church and ask God for forgiveness.

I work since and just things in the South where we call fight words and and end this right here happens to be one of those. Another way to say this, Charles Spurgeon was a pastor in London used to call Laura back to look at blood. He words used to call them blood.

He words because he believed in these other kind of statements that Christ made that eventually cost him his blood upon the cross. These are the very things that Jesus said that that made the crowd that hard him said gas may the crowd go we gotta shut down the message that we just heard, even if that means we gotta murder the messenger who said these are fighting words are not just fighting words.

2000 years ago when Christ made them just as much fighting words today hundred and 43,000 people this year estimated will be healed martyred.

We call them the martyr's right of the persecuted church our family or brothers or sisters or sons and daughters of the same God that that this year will be beaten this year will be right tortured this year. Many of them even kill because they believe what I'm about to reach and Jesus makes these claims about himself and those of us who believe them to be true that that take him at his word are looked at as narrowminded close minded pigeonholed but we just happened to be the people who believe Jesus what he says what he says. What is a sale of the book of John obviously says is the light of the world.

I fear living in darkness is the only light right to like the path he's the gate he's the good Shepherd is the resurrection is the way to choose the life he is the true vine, and his were about to read today.

The bread the bread for the soul is always a longing and hungry and always keeps itself looking for the one person that can satisfy right hunger missile go through that together right. John 635 Jesus declares I am. I am the not the that's the exclusive part – the part where people think sometimes we're close minded because what were saying there is hey it's not like hope and salvation is like Panera bread company where you walk up and is all kinds of bagels and hey you know what you want the asiago cheese that's good. If you want the cinnamon rests good all you want to get a half-and-half and that's fine. Like it's not that is there's one bread that satisfies the hunger of the soul.

His name is Jesus. Jesus, as I am the not the bread of life.

Whoever comes to me. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry. And whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. Know what is he saying he saying that everything else will leave you wanting all the money in the world will leave you wanting all the fame of the world leave you wanting even good things can be good and they can they can taste good but they there and I were going to satisfy you forever, the best marriage in the world might be good and your wife might be an awesome wife, but shall make a horrible God is not the awesome kids were doubly horrible God. Your job might be awesome. That's a good thing and at the end of the day's not a bad thing but he won't satisfy your every need. Something's by the way aren't even good things, the false bread or stone that looks like bread. You're going for satisfaction, which are actually poisoning yourself killing yourself and Jesus is saying everything else will leave you wanting but me once you get me.

You don't need me, plus other things to find satisfaction. I am enough.

Everything else is nothing compared to me. I am the bread of life. If you come to me if you believe in me.

If you take of me right, you're never gonna need anything else is not to be expect. That's a good supplemental that's a good start nominee Jesus plus a really good job to feel satisfied underneath Jesus plus really good kids to feel satisfied when it comes to the hunger of my soul. I trust him. I partake of Jesus as my everything, everything that I'm John Piper was a pastor author says you know how you glorify a fountain. Now you glorify fountain or a stream night glorify stream you kneel down you drink from it. He trusted enough right to take from it and that's exactly the mindset here Jesus is saying you glorify me when you trust me when when I say I'm the bread you been longing for the Messiah. You been waiting for the Savior who can come and rescue you. Every disease in your life has one can hear his name is now that's the gospel in a nutshell right. Billy Graham calls this right here.

The gospel in a nutshell, he says that's it. Jesus is everything. He's the bread but what's interesting about this particular one is that Jesus literally gives us a bat word in the context of the feeding of the masses. The text that we just read is really in the context of the feeding of the masses. Now I say that in all of our different locations.

Maybe you know what I'm talking about when I say this is on the back in the day after he fed a bunch of people a little bit of fish in a little bit of red if you know that story wherever you are you a wave at me just real quick just wave at me if you if you don't know that story I tell you the story RI but they let me just say I didn't even know that story until I was 18 and two months old. I had no idea what the feeding of the masses was until I got saved I was 18 and in my youth pastor said Christians read their Bibles and so that's what I did I wake up and read my Bible and then I would always have questions.

I would call in. One time I called upon as a hate. I just got done reading the story and that Jesus and the story has like this all-you-can-eat buffet where he starts with a little bit of fish in a little bit of bread and not only does he feed like thousands of people, but is like actually more left over 12 baskets of food left over on the end of the story that even begun with and I said that's not true right SI allegorical or something like just didn't really think he was muscular together. I remember being on the phone and go to my Bible and opening it, and I saw the header so I sent them to Hatteras.

Hey headers actually says the feeding of the 5000.

You may notice on the don't talk about like a semi final grafted for you and BBS when you're a kid. He was new to me. And so, in his so he goes he was all yeah yeah he is will before we go any further.

Know Jesus did not feed 5000 like good. I'm so glad you clarified because I'm coming. That's crazy. Comes with a believe this kind of stuff is a new Christian and go tell people this kind of stuff happen. I just doesn't sound right. Like 5000 people with and everybody was full. He does not address what I meant. He said what I mean is your 5000 man plus with those men came women plus were those men and women came children and this is before birth control. So basically think Catholic numbers in Oksana's out so like he told me he said David most theologians believe that like 15 or 20,000 people that are there and you know that right if you don't know them today was happening everywhere. Jesus is going at that moment the crowds are getting bigger and bigger and bigger and no plan intended at this moment where the summits of his popularity are at that moment the crowd got bigger and bigger because Jesus is going.

Tim Keller calls it the call Tim Keller.

He called it the Galilean tour at that moment Jesus is going around that is making the dead rise and he's making that the blind see.

He's turning little bit of food into a feast and in miracles are having signs and wonders are happening. Signs. Signs on about assigned a point to something. Give direction to someone signs and wonders, miracles that make people wonder right where happening because Jesus was saying God size things about himself and then he would he would have the asset test he would make a claim that only God could make and he would say something that was true because of lack of an Alabama fan sec. they were the greatest because we won 16 national championship game.

So it's not like I'm all grown and I say that no one believes me. We had the claim and we back it just that for free but you are saying right so that's what Jesus was doing just was making God size claims and of the evidence was he was doing God size things.

Can you imagine by the way, I know many of you maybe grew up in that culture that we you you are familiar. Maybe too much with this that that was happening like you go to work right and for three weeks you're going to the go fund me campaign and you give into Jonathan's you know family because Jonathan had cancer and you prayed for Jonathan and Jonathan passed away, and you went to his funeral and he was heartbreaking and he saw his kids in the front row of the memorial service and so you and your family said to give money to Jonathan's go fund me to help his family and then you show up at work and and you go so crazy that you guy they hired to replace Jonathan.

He looks like Jonathan and your friends like no that's Jonathan. He's back at work were you talking about Jonathan's back at work. Apparently some man named Jesus said, and he got up and Jonathan's back wouldn't be big news in the office that would not be big news in Raleigh-Durham that would be national that was happening you go, you go to Sunday lunch right you show up at Sunday lunch and grandma we been in a wheelchair for two years right. Perhaps a better her hips and work it grandma's running around today at lunch or like was going on with grandma apparently met a man named Jesus, and now grandma just running around fairly. She took way too many Geritol something happening right here he imagine you know we say we believe these things, but what if they actually happen in real time in front of us. Unexplainable things were happening and so crowd wanted to see it for themselves everywhere. They were going there saying this is happening in this is happening in this moment.

15,000 people by the Sea of Galilee because they want to see this Jewish carpenter with their own eyes. Jesus runs into that if you take the Bible literally in this story you you know right that that in that moment, if you take the story for what it is 14,999 out of the 15,000 have forgotten to pack a picnic and might look around going to bring a lunch and I thought you bring the lunch I love you brother. Let's not know was bought anything to eat except one responsible teenager, probably a homeschooler and he's brought plenty for himself right pray for himself. Planning for himself. Nowhere near enough for everybody else, but he decides not to hoard and hide it, but the share by the way is a little beautiful moment right where he doesn't have what it takes to feed everybody but he decides he decides to share so the setting for free. You don't have. I don't care how rich you are. You don't have the money to save this world, but if you decide to share. He's the one who does the multiplying. You bring the water to him. He turns it to one you bring a little bit you got and he turns it for the multitudes. Does that make sense and by the way, Jesus didn't need the little boys fish and bread to do one the most beautiful places in that story is is is that little moment in the in the story where it says and Jesus took the fish from the little he didn't need it but he let the boy be involved in the miracle little tithing sermon for free. I would come back to the story. It's what you got is you got this little boy any shares in Jesus takes it from him and you know the story right.

These people are hungry and the greatest preacher ever has the has a captive audience of 15,000 people that are there, all staring at him going. Was he going to do next, and the greatest preacher ever decides not to preach yet but to feed how hard it is for preacher do not preach to not preach the 15,000 people are looking at him.

You know how hard it is for preacher AA asked Pastor JD Pisani around them are mailed you get 50,000 people would be like man about we get somebody with skinny jeans to sing to Hill song Psalms 11 like Matt pop song and I get up and preach. That's what I guess what I would do is what I would do while so we don't get 50,000 people together around my don't preach right but like I do say this is it's interesting we can talk about Jesus being the greatest preacher ever because you actually have one of the greatest preachers in the world right now, as your pastor. Not everybody gets to say that right so if you get this right like you get that job is not just the nine campuses of Summit that listen to their like soccer Malvern Lululemon right now liking it in the East Coast of the West Coast on a treadmill listening to pastor JD's podcast and you that's happening. I listen sometimes I actually don't listen. I watched JD because I like I like the fact that he always holds his notes and I like the packet when he gets going is head bobble head so I like this sock. I love that I slowed but but what I love in all Sears is what I love about pastor JD's teaching nothing. That's why a lot of people gravitate to it is content. I just love that it's always just feels robust with content. You know it's not water – content that is passionate buddies and he also like the fact that he is honest.

That is self-deprecating and Eve, he's funny and you never know it and he just got what part was actually in the notebook part that he just got a throw in an encounter study as much as I love is content. Casualty lists so much better content and pastor JD Jesus, the person who made all content I looked on. One was is in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God fancy way of saying in the beginning before there was ever any content into beginning before there was a beginning as a beginner who began to beginning Jesus and so he was the one before any content right as he was never made. He was the one who always was, who actually brought about content so you will is better content than JD Greer. Jesus, I love Louis Giglio is preaching is a pastor in Atlanta and up and one of the things I really love.

I love a lot of things about his preaching more things I really love his timing.

Louis has good timing. He'll just say a sentence. And I think in the back of his mind is like one Mississippi to Mississippi before he finishes it just he gives you time to process something annually got better timing than even Louis Giglio.

Jesus is not contained by time make make the statement here that Jesus knows everything you're thinking everything you ever thought everything you ever going to think for everybody in the room. Yes content has Revelation.

He has ability to deliver. He has timing all of that. But isn't it interesting that the greatest preacher ever finds 15,000 people that are staring at him and he goes the other hungry we are feeding and then after he meets their immediate need. The next day they get up there hungry again they come around the Sea of Galilee. And that's when he says to them this. That's when we run into his words the words of Jesus, a friend of mine says at this with the words of Jesus in this little moment are delivered in a fish sandwich. Jesus delivers the gospel right in a sandwich. He delivers the gospel to the bridge of service. That's why were calling the sermon today worship service switch service and IS the way that Christ delivers the gospel the way that he gives us his words through his way and his weight is such a beautiful simple strategy. Jesus finds people that sure sure need the bread of life right that is the eternal need for their immediate need is the just hungry authorities is that he says hey if the disciples is that hate to find out who really believes in God and if they believe in God feed him if they don't know grace for the somebody does not the grace Nazi Jesus feeds all most of the people that were there that they didn't believe he was the bread of life.

They just thought he was the bread giver not the bread but they still got Jesus feeds right.

The temporary because he knows that he's the only one that can satisfy the eternal you see it such a simple little strategy that way. We love the words of Jesus too much to let the way of Jesus be neglected. We love theology too much right to not be social or not just going to be social is not enough to be theological and soap business pension right away.

We, the social gospel are we just a bunch of our molar memorizing, you know like like a Bible and we just where we in the back is how it works out like you love the gospel too much to not let it slid out of your pores.

You let people's hearts getting white and clean, two mice and I get your fingernails dirty. They literally initiate the conversation with him about the gospel is crazy they come looking for him the next time he's got their attention. I was in them Gatlinburg Tennessee one time and I went to speak at her at a retreat at discomfort in where a church out of Memphis Tennessee had brought hundreds and hundreds of people to dislike getaway for the retreat to Gatlinburg so that basically hijacked discomfort and in the last day of the event. My wife and I are leaving so were on the very top floor of the hotel and we get in the elevator got my little roller bag she got hers, and the two of us are the only ones in the elevator and the elevator goes from the top floor one level down and the cleaning lady comes on the cleaning lady could get the cart and she had the apron with her.

You know like logo on it in and she comes in and elevator closes and she's not looking at us.

She's looking at the door were like behind her and up see their shoulders are just going like this and I can hear her.

She's going she's crying so we can see her because she's facing the door, so my wife looks at me as the elders going down. She looks at me. She might want to scan a mouse to me she's like I'm out to her and she mouse to me say something I look at her like you crazy well what I say something like you here like we know our gifts.

We've done the test. All right, we know our gifts on the profit which is like code for I can be insensitive, you know, and she she is the shepherd right like I will counsel if she's not there but if she's there. We know our gifts. I'm all about Rose.

She's all about circles. You know and all that good stuff right if you come up to me a little while out by the book table. Your lights will sub you like, I'm just bad. So what will so so let's actually have anyway so I like Manwaring to get to the matter of the heart, but I you gotta get a breath mint limit before we going to anyway so so my life I don't do that is like just as honestly as I guess not honesty that's your unit they're going to send you back to Iran don't anyways as well as a soap so we know about to lose his mom would like between the second and the first floor and so we know so she's looking at Mama and so we suggest panic.

I reach around and I cool you.

How in the elevator.

You push all the buttons except that one red one. You can pull this is before September 11 when my people could get away was that I am a soap disciple and as soon as I pull she startled, she turns around like what just happened and I go man on I'm so sorry that I didn't mean to startle US and my wife and eyes. My wife Jennifer. We notice you are weeping and before we left this elevator. We just want to ask you, are you okay and as soon as I said are you okay she just discussed his taking over this hotel. The last three days and I thought a while they this group that I've been with has brought this lady to to like they have under what they did to make her so upset like they have seen that before obscene people in the service industry brought the tears of scene. No people in hotel rooms.just absolutely going. What in the world just what is the just the tornado of just mass the just came through here. I've been at restaurants where the church van pulled up and young adults were coming out and the waitresses were like at the weight. Second, I saw the church van and they start fighting there like you take up will you take him. I don't want the Christians because they don't talk. They don't tip. They don't… I thought I had a $20 bill for Tim and I opened it up it was actually a Bible to do that you know and have seen that. So I seen people avoid Christians, but I thought they made her cry so she's like are you with these people.

I don't know man I'm not with him and I'm not even with y'all. I'm just visiting anyway so she will get you was wrong with these people been around. Sorry to be emotional. I just found out there leaving you. It's crazy. She ruled out of her apron right this big old water cash because there's like $1100 year from tips from today like 400 bucks yesterday and all the other cleaning ladies are saying the same thing as the money to the forgot my name tag and he still knew my name. Nobody ever takes the time to learn my sorry to be emotional found out there leaving. I go before we go any further. Can I clarify, I am with them. By the way I'm I'm actually there humble leader under Yoda of sorts. Look at what's wrong in my wife finally speaks up. She's like Jesus.

That's what's wrong with them. Jesus is the matter with these people do what you know she doesn't get it right. She's she's not understanding what would she do what she's doing is she's a literally initiating the gospel conversation with us.

She saying Massey church groups here all the time, but I've never seen Christians that are Christlike believers that are actually believable. The people of grace be that graceful, gracious, and I want to start answering between the second and fourth floor little things on Jesus answering she's like the reason that there so giving to you all that money is because money doesn't own them. The reason that they knew your name is because God knows your name and they think God knows your name. They are to know your name reason their loving because God first loved them answers, not toward you. Your valuable to God and so your valuable to them and I would just start talking and the next thing you know we start explaining to her that she is in need of a Savior and that Christ does that say beer and admin.

I'm telling you right here between the second and the first floor we got to lead this lady to the to the gospel right to Christ and she gave Jesus her life so what happens there. What happens there is, we just do the easy part. The hard part was we just got to share the words of Jesus with a lady in the elevator after they were teed up with the people who showed her the way of Jesus comitatus. The biggest obstacle between the gospel and a lot of other people who won't listen to the gospel because they say you know what I hear a lot of people talk about Jesus within never live it the last thing the act like like drinking their own Kool-Aid. And God has given us the ability beloved to not just have the words of Jesus but to have the way he's showing us the very way which we would deliver the gospel through service, we find the need right. We need it right now. For example, on this planet. There are hundred and 83 million orphans living hundred and 83 million children hundred and 83 million.

That's a little boy who doesn't have a mama doesn't have a daddy doesn't have a place to call home hundred 83 numbness ultimately yes they need to be adopted into the kingdom of God. They need to go from orphans to heirs. How great is the love of the father that we would get to become children of God. They need to no longer be orphans right but I need to be sons and daughters of the God who is the most high. Amen hallelujah, thank you for the Jesus you forgot to say this to you. There hundred 83 million orphans on this planet and it's gonna be hard for them to take our words seriously about the gospel as we don't care that they don't have a mama and daddy when I adopted my son Rudy from Guatemala got to study.

This is so much bigger than that's an orphan with a homeless kid in Guatemala who needs to come here because all he would do. He just got adopted in come here, not now uses like 18-year-old kid walking around talking to me like you to get the new iPhone. Seven. Select all, I would do without the gospel I would just make him American national gospel and on the special salvation, America's best temporary America makes a great nation but a horrible God right to say this to you. The best moment wasn't we brought him home and he went from Rudy to Rudy Nasser the best moment was when I got to lead him to Christ and he is now my brother in Christ. There hundred 83 million orphans in the world and many of you in this very moment of your life you got room for one.

How about you go.

Maybe the way to present the gospel to those children still love them enough to bring them into hump. Even if you don't want to just notice when a T for free. If anything, do it out of a weird sense of patriotism because you know what somebody else want to clothe them and feed him.

People in madrasa's in people and in all kinds of terrorist groups are willing to take care of their needs. They can disciple them up to one they walk in a Starbucks and blow you up, so if anything, maybe just do it at a weird sense of protection bigger than that right gospel love for God… Comfortable place, we don't. We love God so much we love the gospel so much that these kids this matter to us in right now is 35,000 people today that will die of starvation on this plan, 5000 know that for sure. On average 36,000 people a day that starvation, Geis, a Sunday, let's have a good day. 35,000 people today will die of starvation on this planet 35,000 people will die of starvation. Yes, they need more than just up.

You know of a water well but you have to drink water disc dirty and get malaria and die. You know, dehydration. Yes, they need more than that they need living water. Yes I agree they need the bread of life. Yes I agree but it's hard for them to hear the shouts of the gospel over the grumbling of their bellies member September 11 when we lost 3300 Americans member that day. Tragically, right all of us ended up in church are about you. Kind of a church I wanted to be with brothers and sisters in Christ. Member how a fool aisles were our altars were with bended knee people weeping and crying out to God.what is happened and we should've done that. I'm glad we did that because she does on September 11. We filled our churches with people weeping and wailing and asking… What just happened. 3300 people just died today 35,000 people starve.

Where are the tears of the Saints on our watch. If we don't do it. Who will he things the job of the government. The job of the church God has gifted us with the good news of the gospel must serve it on the platter of service.

Many people in the industry. In this different gatherings that we have called Summit right many people in different locations. Right now, even as I'm speaking are thinking about an individual who probably doesn't even need a wallet extension right is a need food or adoption honestly is more better watch their people at right now you avoid because they're exhausting every time you see them going to talk another two hours about their divorce. What would let look like for you to just serve them by going to give my two ears because because God God loves them enough that they need a friend I'm just willing to sit long hours and just lists his list at the end that I go I love you I'm here for you. Sorry he left, but I'm still here could be to God. Today is brought that Pakistani family into your neighborhood and in this very moment just gets real practical you just think of a strategy by ego. How I serve them to be there today. The way you present the gospel is through a casserole the way you present the gospel is through right to shovel the grave is in the gospel is to a lawn more the way you present the gospel is by an invitation to that guy who everybody else just finds easy fodder at work to make fun of and you go you want.

That's the person that eats lunch alone every day. What an idea.

Could it be that the guy who you work alongside with who who always goes to work and you get paid the same, but he's kind of fake lifting while you're overly thing like your ear you constantly frustrated because she's not doing her work and maybe tonight you see them through a different lens ego. Maybe their life back home is falling apart blessed by their work job.

The work at home you work is just not that good. Maybe today you go one step in more instead of complaining when I even given what I love more-I will not miss the opportunity to shut up and just add to the gossip but instead love is so true Romans to its kindness that leads people to repentance – a question just you value has only just for second and before we pray.

Can I just ask you a really simple question. Could it be that today this very moment, God actually put a particular person in your mind could be as we were looking at this real simple strategy by God right that strategy the gospel that you see that there's an opportunity for you maybe to reach out to a friend or family member or coworker and neighbor maybe realizing that's that's maybe why God continues to put in front of me the same waiter at the same restaurant or whatever it is.

Could it be that today God is beginning to just give you a strategy for particular person is that she just where you are what you just maybe say I'm thinking about a particular person as I think about that particular person. I just want to ask the Lord to to make make a way for me to show the way that I can speak the truth you thinking about an individual. Somebody actually came to mind, and asked you to do something matching to stand in their place right now just David, as you are speaking actually thought about an individual that I need to serve an individual that I could begin to to meet a need for that she right now, you stand up for them right now where you are actually thought about a cousin that I had thought about actually got just shifted my my attitude about somebody that I've had a really bad attitude. I'm not now realize like that's actually their laziness or their hurtful mess, or whatever is acting opportunity to serve you, I just don't want to be taken advantage of studying is no way you live a godly life and not be taken but I want to be. I want to be taken advantage of because puts me in a place where I can I can use that service to bring the gospel standing up on behalf of know it's crazy this probably a person right now being stood for probably thinks nobody cares about me nobody ever thinks about me.

Everybody's forgotten everybody's put me on the sidelines. Not even an afterthought little do they know that right now. Somebody just stood for them is taking their name to God so semi-thinking I'm not valuable or probably somebody that thinks that you don't like them and little do they know that right now you love them right now you're asking God. God make me more vulnerable for them. Let me serve them. Little do they know that tomorrow when you go back you actually see this as an opportunity. That's the gospel with others thinking. Thank you for men and women were standing in the gap.

I pray that you would supernaturally give them opportunities you would just open open up God's lanes for them to step into. I pray that he would just be an opportunity to serve her that that would result in conversations God conversations with this and why do you care why even different. Are you more patient why you beginning the process of adoption what they got through the next few acts of service that that there would be a massaging of the of the hardened heart and that God, the gospel would touch the lives of people outside of this room because of what you're saying to us in this yet hearing has about a new sitting or standing, I do want to also say that maybe the first five or 10 minutes will we talk about Jesus being the bread of life is the main reason God brought you.

Maybe you've never tasted and see that the Lord is good. Maybe you've gone all the different things find fulfillment and you realize you never really given your life over to the only one who can satisfy you. His name is Jesus is the son of God, he live the perfect life and after living the perfect life. He died of sinners. That is the great substitution on your behalf after he died on the cross to pay the penalty for your sin put his body in a tomb in three days later when they went to check on it was empty because death couldn't hold him and at resurrection power is afforded to you right now. You never given your life over and set on a dreadful center Jesus your mighty Savior say me tell you that all of our locations are our leaders are to be in the front as we saying as we dismissed her to be available towards the front and they would love to disconnect. Talk to you. My relationship with Christ the Savior more money standing in the routing of the Lord. Pray for somebody who doesn't just continue to wage war. The rest of us. We standing is where we are. The malicious worship. Just go after God,