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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode of All In with Pastor Jordan Easley has
been made possible by the generous support of viewers like you.
Welcome to All In with Pastor Jordan Eastley. Today's message
is about to begin and re invite you to prepare
your heart and mind to hear an inspiring message from
God's Word. We hope and pray for God to speak
to you today as you seek to live your life

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all in for Jesus Christ. And now from First Baptist
Church in Cleveland, Tennessee, here's Pastor Jordan Easley.

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You know, it's always been fascinating to me three D glasses,
three D movies.

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I don't know why. It's just been a fascinating thing
my whole life.

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When I was a kid, I can distinctly remember going
to Disney World for the very first time. I can
remember pulling up to Epcot that very first day and
seeing that big silver ball, which in nineteen eighty six
was probably the.

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Craziest thing I had ever seen.

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But it was there at Epcot where I had my
first fully immersive three D experience. And some of you
may remember this film experience called Captain EO.

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Do you guys remember Captain EO.

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One person you remember Captain EO with the late great
none other than Michael Jackson.

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Anybody else see that? You remember it? Now? Anybody raise
your hand? You saw Captain EO. Okay, it's okay, you're
missing out.

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But anyways, it was incredible. Let me just explain to
you what it was about. There were lasers involved, there
was smoke. There, these synchronized dancing sequences where they were
fighting monsters.

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I mean, come on, guys, it was awesome.

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But the most incredible part of the whole experience for
me were the three D glasses. I'd never seen these before,
and it was fascinating because without the glasses, everything was blurry,
everything was fuzzy. I couldn't even tell what I was
looking at half the time. I saw some of you
doing that a second ago. You're like, right, and you're like,
I can't see anything, And then I can see everything,

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which is why it would blew my mind in the
first place, because in one season it's a blur. In
the next season, you're like, Michael Jackson is dancing and
he's singing and he's fighting monsters, and.

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It was awesome.

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I couldn't see what I was supposed to see without
the glasses.

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But when I put the glasses on and I look through.

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The colorful lenses, literally everything in front of me changed. Hey,
today we're kicking off a three week series that I
want to call Beyond Imagination. And throughout this series, I
want you to see when you look through god goggles,
and when you look through and see the world as
God sees the world, You're gonna see things that you

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can never see on your own. There's something about it
when you start looking through His lenses instead of your lenses.

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It's amazing how everything changes.

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Would you agree that there's a big difference between our
vision and God's vision. There's a big difference between what
we want to do and what God wants us to do.
But I'm gonna promise you this, every single time, God's
vision is greater than our vision. Hey, no matter what
you're talking about, if you've got your perspective in God's perspective,
your vision, God's vision, his is going to be better

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than yours one hundred percent of the time. How many
of you would love to know God's complete, clear vision
for your life?

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Would you just raise your hand? That's about eighty percent
some of you are like, no, thanks, I'm good.

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How many of you would love to know God's vision
for your family, God's vision for your kids, God's vision
for your church. You just want to see what God sees.
I'll say you, that's most of us here today. But
I think the real question we should be asking isn't
just what's God's vision for us?

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A better question, a question that I think we should.

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Be asking, is this, When God does reveal his vision,
will I be faithful and fulfilling my mission? Because it's
one thing to see it, it's another thing to move
towards it.

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If you have your Bible, I'd like to invite you
to join me in the Book of Nehemiah.

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Nehemiah chapter one is where we're going to camp out today.
You know, when I think about a person of great vision,
I think of Nehemiah. And when it comes to sensing
God's vision and then acting on that vision, I think
we can learn a lot through Nehemiah's story. So turn
with me to Nihemiah chapter one. As you're turning there,
let me give you.

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A little background, a little context.

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You can you can know what it is we're jumping
into today. You know, the book of Niemiah begins in
the year five hundred and eighty six b C.

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Five eighty six b C.

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That was the year where Jerusalem was conquered by the Babylonians.
And when that happened, the First Temple was destroyed, the
walls of the city were completely demolished, and the majority
of israelized that.

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We're living in Jerusalem.

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In that day, we're taken into captivity in Babylon.

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Well, fast forward forty seven years.

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Forty seven years later, the year now is five hundred
and thirty nine BC. King Cyrus of Persia conquers Babylon,
and when that happened, it marked the beginning of Persian
rule over the former Babylonian territories, which also included Judah.

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So now the Persian king.

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Is in charge, and he decides he's going to allow
all the Israelites to return to their homeland.

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Well, here's why you need to know all that stuff
to begin with.

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It's because Niemiyah worked for the king of Persia, but
he was a Jew.

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So he was a Jewish.

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Official serving as the cup bearer for the Persian king
art Exerxes. So, now as we open our bibles up
to the Book of Niemaiyah. I want you to see
the scene here. It is you ready. You've got a
Jewish guy working closely with the Persian king, and all
of a sudden, he hears firsthand about the dire conditions
of his hometown, Jerusalem. He's hearing about his friends, and

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he's hearing about his family members back in Jerusalem. These
would have been people that he loved, people that, according
to verse three, were people in great trouble and disgrace.

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The Bible says so for Niemiyah, the news about his
city broke his heart. And I want us to see three.

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Things from this story today that we need to know
from God's word. I hope you're taking notes if you
are get this. First, we're gonna look at the burden
of vision. The burden of vision. In fact, big vision
typically begins with a big burden. If you look at
big vision throughout the world, most of the time there
was a burden that.

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Initiated that vision that took place.

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Big vision typically begins with a burden, and at the
beginning of this chapter, that's what we see. Namiah's heart
was heavy. He had a burden for his people, he
had a burden for the city In fact, when you
get to Niamiah one, verse three, it says Jerusalem's wall
has been broken down and its gates have been burned.

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When Niemiah realized that his city walls were in ruin
and his people were left vulnerable and without security.

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Or protection, that bothered him. It bothered him that he
was bothered by that.

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And so you know what Neamiah decided to do. He
decided to pray about it. When he was bothered by it,
he decided to pray about it. In fact, look at
verse four, he said, when I heard these words, I
sat down and wept. I mourned for a number of days,
fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.

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So right away you.

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See the burden of vision, but very quickly you see
the role of prayer as well. The role of prayer.
You know, there are twelve different prayers in the Book
of Nehemiah. This book is basically a twenty five year old,
twenty five hundred year old prayer journal that we have
the privilege.

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Of reading today.

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And I'm glad we do, because in this book the
Lord shows us when God puts a burden on our heart,
he expects us to put a prayer on our lips.
Do you see that this ought to be a response.
When God puts a burden on our heart, the first
thing we ought to do is have a prayer on
our lips.

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Neemiah had a burden for his city, and so what
does he do? He prays. But notice as soon as his.

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Heart was moved in his voice and he voiced his burden,
he was quick to pray and seek wisdom from the Lord.
The Bible says he wept. He was the last time
he wept in prayer. He was weeping because of his burden.
He mourned for days. The Bible says he fasted, He
got on his knees, he sought the Lord. This is

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a man that had a burden, but he had a prayer.
See it didn't stop there. A lot of times we
stopped there. We're burdened for something, and we're like, I'm
gonna pray for that. And that's not what Nemiah. He
didn't just pray for that and then stop. No, he
continued on and what started as a burden was solidified
through prayer. And his prayer was number three the catalyst

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for action. His prayer was a catalyst for action.

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Don't miss this today.

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Neemiah had a burden on his heart, he had a
prayer on his lips, but he had a vision for
his life, a vision for his life. He didn't just
pray for his friends and pray for his and then
stop and do nothing. No, after he was moved to pray,
he was quickly moved to action.

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In fact, you look at chapter two. You turn the page,
and now Neamiah's approaching the king.

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He's going to his boss, and he says in verse four,
if it pleases the king, and if your servant has
found favor with you, send me to Judah and to
the city where my ancestors are buried, so that what
I may rebuild it. He's saying, put me in, coach.
I don't want to just pray about it. I don't
want to just talk about it. Put me in Let
me do what God is calling me to do. That's

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what you read in Namiah's story. It's a pattern that
I believe we ought to apply to our life. It
starts with God putting a burden on his heart, and
then you see a prayer on his lips, and then
you see he is looking through his god goggles and
he's seeing God's vision for his life, but he doesn't
just see the vision. Number four, Namiah moved forward by faith,

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and he chose to make a difference with his life.
I want my life to make a difference for you.
But not only did it affect his life. Keep reading,
and what you're gonna see is this. He brought people
with him. He brought people with him on the journey.
Verse seventeen says, So I said to them, you see
the trouble we are in Jerusalem lies in ruins and
its gates have been burned. He say, come, let's rebuild

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Jerusalem's wall.

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He's waving them on so that we will no longer
be a disgrace.

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I told them how the gracious hand of my God
had been on me and what the king had said
to me. And they said, let's start rebuilding. And their
hands were strengthened to do this good work. It wasn't
just Nehemiah by himself. Now the people of God went
with him. Hey, get this today. God's vision will always

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move God's people. If you agree with that, say amen,
God's vision will always move God's people. If you're not
a people of God, if you're not a person of God.

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You may not be moved the vision of.

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God, but if you are God's people, you will be
moved by God's vision. Has Guy ever called you to
do something you just didn't want to do? Shake your head.
If you've been there before, you're like, yeah, you know,
there's a lot of times where God calls us to
do something that just wasn't part of our plan, something
that we just don't want to do.

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In fact, I'm doing it right now.

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Did you know when I was growing up, the only
thing I ever told the Lord I will not.

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Do this is this right here. I'm dead serious my
whole childhood, because I was a preacher's kid.

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People one day you're gonna be just like your dad
and you're gonna preach and.

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You're gonna I was like, no, I'm not. I'm just
telling you straight up, I'm not gonna do that. And
there were times in my prayer clause and I'm.

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Looking at the Lord saying, I don't care what you call.

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Me to do. I ain't doing that, Amen. And if
you've ever done this, you understand why. Amen.

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But that's the only thing in my life I've ever
said I will not do that. And the reason that
is because I had my own plan for my life.
You know, sometimes your plans they get in the way.
And I had a plan when I went to college.
I had it all. I had the path figured out.
I was going to college. I was going on the
pre law track. I wanted to become a lawyer. I
wanted to I wanted to find myself in the courtroom,

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and ultimately I was hoping that a law career would
lead me into politics. My goal was to go to
d C and to be with all the crazy people
in d C. That's what I wanted for my life.
And praise God, he had another plan, but that's what
I wanted.

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That was my goal.

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And the whole time I'm wrestling with these goals, I'm
also wrestling with this call to ministry because in the
back of my mind, in the back of my heart,
I always sensed that God was he was calling me
into ministry.

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But to be honest, I didn't want to do what
God was calling me to do.

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I know that's not super spiritual to say that, but
some of you understand where I was at. I didn't
want to do what God was calling me to do.
You know why, It's because I knew God's vision was
going to move me. It was going to move my priorities.
God's vision was going to change my plans. It was
going to require sacrifices on my part. And to be

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quite frank, I didn't want to sacrifice. You ever been
there before? That's where I was. But you know what
I did. I prayed about it and it was through
prayer that God confirmed my call.

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Don't miss this today.

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When it comes to fulfilling God's vision, prayer should always
precede action. Prayer should always precede action. If God's calling
you to do something. He loves to confirm his call
through prayer. He loves it when you seek his face
and seek his wisdom. He loves it when you come
to the Lord in prayer.

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But let me just say this.

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Once God confirms his call, and once God tells you
this is what you should do, or this is where
you should go, or this is what you should give,
he expects you.

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To move no matter the call.

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And a lot of times that's where we get tied
up because we don't want to do what God's.

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Calling us to do.

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See, God put a burden on Neamiah's heart, but he
also had a plan to move Neamiah's feet.

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He was taking him from a steady job working.

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With this king, and he was mobilizing him for leadership,
mobilizing him on a mission that he may not have
come up with on his own, but God was calling
him to do something great. Listen, Pursuing God's vision will
always require action, and we need to know this today.
Pursuing God's vision will always require action.

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You say, well, Jordan, I'm not in an action mode.
I'm in a weight mode, you know.

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I read Isaiah chapter forty, and it says those who
wait on the Lord he will renew their strengths. I'm
just gonna sit here on a park bench and do nothing,
and I'm gonna wait for the Lord to strike somebody
with a lightning bolt or move me or whisper in
my ear.

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And let me just tell you something. That's not what
it means to wait on the Lord.

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When you look up that word wait in the Hebrew
and Isaiah chapter forty, it's the Hebrew word quava, and
it literally means to be bound to something. It means
to attach yourself to something. To wait on the Lord
is like signing up for a three legged race where
it's you and God connected to one another, and to

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wait on him means you are connecting yourself to God.
And now, because you're connected, you're bound to God. When
he goes, you're going. When he says stop, you're stopping.
When he says it's time to roll, then it's time
to roll. Because ultimately, when you bound yourself to God,
when you tether yourself to God, you're tethering yourself to
a God that is in control.

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So you're submitting to that control.

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And you're saying, God, as I wait on you, I'm
gonna follow your leadership. And when you say go, I'm
not gonna argue, I'm not gonna hesitate.

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I am going to submit to your leadership. I'm gonna go.
You know, when I think.

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About our church's history, and as I look back on
the vision moments that make up our timeline, I see
a lot of that in our story. I see a
church that's been tethered to God throughout history, and I
see the same sequence of events that Nehemiah experienced twenty
five hundred years ago. It looks very similar to what

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we've experienced as a church family throughout our history. In
this series, I want to show you some things about
our church. I want to show you where we've been
and where we currently are, but I also want to
talk about where I believe God is taking us in
the days to come. And as I think about our
history and where we've been, I think about pastors like

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Marvin Gibson. I didn't have the privilege of knowing Marvin Gibson.
He was here in the nineteen seventies, and I believe
he was a great visionary of the Lord.

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In fact, I think about Marvin in.

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Nineteen seventy seven, he said God gave him a vision
that we as a church should purchase a camp, a
camp called Camp Cherokee. And he brought this vision to
the church and he's like, I believe the Lord's telling
us that we should do this.

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And that had to seem like the.

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Craziest idea back in those days for a church to
buy a camp, Like what is this guy thinking? But
you know what, he was confident in bringing that to
the church because he said God's vision was clear.

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In fact, it was just in January we opened the
Kids Building. So if you look at the last year,
we've actually got five services.

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Now if you count the loft at ten fifteen, But
who's counting when we.

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Made that move.

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Our church, as a result, is now experiencing what I
believe is the greatest season.

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We've ever had.

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Because if you track it back and look at just
a year ago today and then look at where our
church is today, did you realize that our church has
grown by roughly one thousand people in Cleveland, Tennessee. Is
that not incredible? A thousand people that's happened in a year.
When you look at the last year, four hundred people
have been baptized since January the first. That's what God

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is doing, y'all. And to God be the glory. I mean,
just think about how God is blessed our church. People
are being lives are being changed, relationships are being restored.

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You're like, how did that happen?

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Let me tell you how God gave this church a
burden for this city, a burden that led to people praying,
and through their prayers, God revealed his vision for our church.
And your response, repeatedly has been to tell God yes
and to move forward by faith. And you know what,
God has blessed our yes every single step of the way.

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So thank you for being a church that continues to
say yes and thank you for believing God for great things.
A while back, I was having lunch with some men
in our church and we were talking about ideas for
future expansion, and I brought up this idea of the
possibility of purchasing some additional land next to our church,

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and one of the guys in that meeting just said,
you know, that's gonna be pretty tough. I don't know
if that's even possible because of this or because of that, Like,
we've tried this before and for whatever reason, it's just
never worked out. And in that conversation I heard what
her saying, but I also believe that God was prompting
us to have faith in this moment. I felt like
God was challenging us to trust Him in this thing

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that we consider to be improbable, if not even impossible.

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So you know what we did. We prayed about it,
and after we prayed together, I.

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Got back to I got back to the church, and
I grabbed my duck boots out of my truck, and
I put my duck boots on, and I walked from
the church next to that field next to us, and
I just started walking around that field.

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And I wasn't just walking around the field.

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I was praying in that field, and I'm sure people
looked at me out in that field and thought I
had lost my mind.

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They probably thought I was crazy that day out there
talking to the cows.

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But I wasn't talking to cows that day, I promise you,
I was talking to the Lord and I was telling him, Lord,
if this is your plan, open this door. If this
is your plan, do what we are incapable of doing.
And I told him, we have a burden for this city.
We believe that you've given us a vision for expansion.
We want to move forward by faith. But if we're

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going to grow, you, as the god who owns the
cattle on a thousand hills, are going to have to
expand our territory and provide for us that which only
you can provide. And you know what, it wasn't just
me that was praying, that our staff was praying. I
asked our deacons to pray. And it was about two
weeks after all of us had been rallied in praying.

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About two weeks later, you know what happened.

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The phone rang out of the blue, and you know
who was on the other line, a.

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Local realtor, and he said this.

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He said, I represent the family next door, and they
would like to know if you just happen to be
in a position where you have any interest at all
in purchasing some additional property.

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Isn't that how God works?

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It is some fulfilling God's vision is never impossible. Let
me tell you something else that's interesting about that that story.

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We bought the land next door.

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And when I say bought the land, I really mean
fine ants to land. If I'm being completely honest. See,
when God opened that door for us, we didn't have
the money to pay for for the land, and so
we agreed to pay for the land by faith over
the next couple of years. And the arrangement was for
us to pay for this land with three equal installments.
Each payment was going to be about two hundred and

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fifty thousand dollars. And I just want to be honest
with you, guys, that's a lot of money. That's a
lot of money, and that's a big deal for us
around here. People assume we've got all this money, but
the truth is we don't sit on cash, a whole
lot of cash.

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We don't see that as our job. Our job is
to take dollars that.

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Are given for ministry and mobilize those for the Kingdom
of God around the world. And so we're not your bank,
all right. We're not here to just hoard a bunch
of cash.

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And because of that, we had to.

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Work out this deal with the bank. But here's the
crazy part. Our second payment for that land is due
next month.

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And very few people know this story.

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Our finance people certainly know it because they're crunching numbers
and they're praying and trying to prepare for this upcoming pain.

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But here's the part I wanted to share with you today.

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Only a couple people know this. But a couple of
weeks ago, a lady called the church to schedule the
meeting with our executive team, and she said, I've been
coming here for years. I'm very active, but I'm really
not even officially a member of this church.

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But this is home for me. This is where i'm fed,
this is where.

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I belong, and I believe the Lord has brought me here.
And then she went on to say this, I believe
God wants me to do my part. Get this, I
believe God wants me to do.

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My part to help pay for that land next door.

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She said, I feel a burden and I feel a
responsibility to eliminate that debt as a part of this family.

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And then she ended with this question.

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She said, would a check for two hundred thousand dollars
help our church accomplish the mission?

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Isn't that good? Is God works? Though? Listen?

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Fulfilling God's vision is never impossible. It's only impossible if
we say we are unwilling to do our part. That's
when God's vision becomes impossible. When God's people say.

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Let's hope somebody else does it, but I'm not going
to do it myself. Let me tell you how that happens.

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It's going to happen when we rely on the Lord,
but we're also faithful to the Lord.

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How do we fulfill our mission? It's when we all.

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Agree to do our part. It's going to take every
single one of us doing our part.

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In fact, get this. God has given our church a
burden for this city.

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So before we even move forward, I want you to
ask the question, do I have a burden for this city?

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Do I even care?

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Do I have a burden for the kids and the
grandkids who are being raised in this community, who will
one day.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Learn about the Lord, Do I care about the.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Lost people who are moving to the city looking for community.
Do I care what happens in a hundred years? Do
I care if people go to heaven or hell? Because
at the end of the day, if we don't care,
then we're not going to move forward. And if you're
not burdened for the city, you need to know your
pastor is praying that God would wreck your life and
give you.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
A burden for the people that live in.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
This community, wreck you in a good way that sees
the world through God lenses, not through your worldly eyes,
but through God lenses, saying, Man, I want to care
about the things God cares about.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
And let me tell you why I'm praying that prayer.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
It's because I know when your burden increases, so will
your buy in.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
And when your.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Buy in increases, so will your blessings. You buy into
the things of God.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
What is God bless He blesses obedience, and I believe
he'll bless your buy in.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Let me tell you what the Lord has been showing
me through Nehemiah's story.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
You're ready. We will never build the wall.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
That God is telling us to build until all of
God's people are completely bought in. That's talking about all
of us, and over the course of the next couple
of weeks, I'm going to challenge you to pray this
prayer with me as we look forward.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Lord, am I doing my part as your child?

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Am I doing my part to accomplish your vision and
to complete our mission?

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Because when we.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Can all answer that prayer and say yes, I'm doing
my part, I'm doing what God put me here to do, then.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
The wall's going to be built. The Wall's gonna be built,
and God will be glorified.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
If you agree with that, say amen, Hey, would you
just praise God with me today and thank you for
being a part of a church.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
That He's blessing.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
I have a deep passion for exploring the Holy Land.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
No matter how.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Many times I've been, I never get tired of immersing
myself and the sights, the sounds, and the sacredness of
each location in Israel. In this series, my aim is
to take you on a virtual journey through the Holy Land,
recognizing that not everyone can physically travel there, especially.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
During times of conflict. If you've enjoyed this sermon.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
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(26:27):
Thank you for tuning in today. I'm keeping you in
my prayers and I cannot wait for our next time
together right here at all in.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Hey, we never want to.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
End our broadcast without giving you the opportunity to know
Jesus as your personal Lord and savior. If you'd like
to make the decision to trust Jesus and want to
know more about what it looks like to follow Jesus,
get into with me right now. Follow the instructions at
the bottom of the screen so that we can pray
for you and also put information in your hands right away.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Today we celebrate your decision.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
And look forward to being a part of your personal
journey of going all in with Jesus Christ.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
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We hope today's message encourages you as you strive to
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