July 14, 2025 • 25 mins
A study in the book of 1st Corinthians, chapters 10-11.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring the Bible teaching of
our local Southern California pastors. This week we're pleased to
bring you Mission Viejo's native son, Mike Mayolo, lead pastor
of Mission Viejo Christian Church. Mike has a passion for
leading people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. To
learn more about Mission Viejo Christian Church, you're invited to
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visit MBCC.
Home.org. Today on Pastor Spotlight, Pastor Mike Mayolo invites us
to open our Bibles to 1 Corinthians as he directs
our attention to chapter 10, verses 23 through chapter 11
verse 1. Mike feels that this passage of scripture answers
the question, what does it really mean to live a
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life that reflects the Lord in everything we do? Well,
here's Pastor Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We want to be godly people. What does that look like?
And why is it so important? All right, let's unpack
this as we just continue on. We're in 1 Corinthians 10.
If you don't have your smartphone, you can open up
your Bible. If you didn't bring a Bible, that's OK.
It's right here on the screen. We're gonna go through
it together. We're gonna start in verse 23, and we're
gonna go through chapter 11, verse 1.
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The reason we're delving into the first verse of the
chapter 11 is, these chapters and verses were written after
the inspired scripture was put together. So these were written
by the church fathers, meaning the chapters and verses that
came later, and that's why sometimes there's a little bit
of an overlap into the 11th chapter. So, you say,
I'm allowed to do anything, but not everything is good
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for you. You say, I'm allowed to do anything, but
not everything is beneficial. Remember we talked about this context of,
we have freedom in Christ. We can do what we
want to do as long as it doesn't hurt our
walk or hurt somebody else, and they were getting into
that mode of, well, we're really special, we're really cool
cause we can just do whatever we want, and they
were missing that they were hurting some other people who
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were trying to just walk with Jesus and it was
causing them to slip backwards.
So don't be concerned for your own good, but for
the good of others. That's so good, isn't it?
So you may eat any meat that is sold in
the marketplace without raising questions of conscience.
they were sacrificing meat to these idols. It was part
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of the culture. So some people were becoming so legalistic, like,
you can't eat that. There's the power of that devil
inside of that meat. There's nothing about the meat, it's
about the heart and the people doing it. So we're
not legalistic as Christians about all that stuff, right? Don't
ever go into a movie theater.
Right? That, that was kind of an older thing back
in the 70s. I wasn't, I wasn't even alive in
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the 70s, but anyway.
Don't play cards, don't dance, and don't go to the movies.
Does it say that in the Bible? Come on. All right,
for the earth is the Lord's and everything in it, right?
God owns everything. He's still in control. God is on
the throne, he's not leaving.
If someone who isn't a believer.
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Ask you home for dinner, accept the invitation if you
want to.
Eat whatever is offered to you without raising questions of conscience.
This is so important because what we're talking about today
is getting on their turf, right? The people who may
be just falling away from the Lord or don't wanna
do church or don't want anything to do with God.
And a lot of people who maybe just don't want
anything to do with God is they've been extremely hurt
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by some trauma in their life and they feel guilt
or shame, and why would I go to a place
like this where everybody's perfect and all these Christians have
it all together, and I don't.
You know, that's why some people won't go to a
place like this, right? We gotta show them, dude, my
life is messed up, but you should have seen my
life before I met Jesus. It was really messed up, right?
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But suppose someone tells you this meat was offered to
an idol. Don't eat it. Out of consideration for the
conscience of the one who told you. So if this
is a problem, don't do it. Pretty simple, right? 29.
It might not be a matter of conscience for you.
But it is for the other person.
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Why should my freedom be limited to what someone else thinks?
If I can thank God for the food and enjoy it,
why should I be condemned for eating it?
So bottom line, here's the bottom line, and this is
what I want you to just highlight it. I want
you to write this down. I want you just to
remember this. This is the key to the text. So
whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do
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it all, do it all for the glory of God.
Don't give offense to Jews or Gentiles.
Or the church of God.
I too try to please everyone and everything I do.
Paul's not saying you gotta be a people pleaser, gotta
please everybody. He's just saying his heart is he wants
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everybody to have an opportunity to hear the gospel, whatever
it takes, right? I don't just do what is best
for me. I do what is best for others.
Man, I don't know if I can even expound on
any of this. It's just so simple. Think of marriages,
think of dating relationships, think of family relationships, friendships. If
we just live by that, I'll just do what's in
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the best interests of somebody else and not myself first.
I do what is best for others, so that many
may be what?
Oh, come on, we can do a bit louder than that.
So that how many, many might be what? Saved? Yes.
And you should imitate me just as I imitate Christ.
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Paul wasn't saying, hey, follow me, there's something special about me.
He was just saying, Jesus isn't here. We gotta keep
our eyes always fixed on him, but there's good examples
of people that are following God. I wanna follow God
like he does.
I wanna follow, I wanna worship God like she does.
I wanna really get down and serve people the way
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he does. That's what Paul is saying, he's saying at
the bottom, the end of the day, the very last
part of this is simply
We want to imitate Jesus and glorify Him in everything
that we do, why, so people can know God.
And I was talking about this message with my wife
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cause sometimes I'll go over. I was like, I'm gonna
preach like the message to you and I want you
to tell me what you think. And so I I said,
I don't know how really to expound on any of
this cause it's just so simple. She said, Well, why
don't you just tell the people that just tell our family,
our church family, just, this is what Jesus told us
to do, and now let's go watch football. I can't
do that cause there's a little bit I just wanna
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give you today.
And that 1 Corinthians 10 passage is so mirror, I believe,
of where we're living today in society.
Jesus invites us to two things. Number 1, an invitation.
Vito was leading us into worship. Was that worship was
just powerful. It was just, man, I felt like, you know,
there's certain moments you can just keep worshiping for what
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seems like eternity. We're gonna do that one day, man.
I'm so looking forward to being with Jesus forever, crying holy, holy,
holy in his presence and being in the presence of
literally being in the presence of God forever. There's gonna
be nothing like it. We want everybody to be there,
and he invites us.
Into eternal place called heaven.
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And the wonderful thing about that, Ephesians 2:18 says it's
all by grace. It's all by his goodness. It's all
because of what he did. So I just wanna remind
us today as we're worshiping, as we're once again being realigned, God,
what are you speaking to me today? We have been invited,
not just to a place called heaven, but we've been
invited to follow him. And following Jesus means imitating him.
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What would Jesus do? What would he do in every
circumstance that I find my life in?
Number 2 is we see that Paul is calling them
to their identity.
Their identity is so important. If we don't know who
we are and whose we are, we can get so
discombobulated by thoughts, past experiences, what people may say about us,
what people may think about us. You are saved. If
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you've given your heart to Jesus Christ, you are saved,
you are somebody. Jesus died for you. You are a
Co-heir, you are an heir with Jesus. You are a
person of value. You are not a mistake. You have
been ordained, you have been positioned, you have been uh
uh uh uh placed in exactly where God wants you
to be, and there's a reason for that. Think about this,
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if we were all pastors, that was not gonna work.
God doesn't want all of us to be pastors. Thank
God for that. We don't need more, we need more
people who are in places of society that are just
gonna live for Jesus and just love people for free.
If you are in your neighborhood, glorify God.
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If you're on the soccer field with your kids, glorify God.
If you're at LA Fitness, getting in shape, glorify God
in that. If we're walking the dog, whatever we might
be doing, God wants us to glorify. What does it
mean to glorify Him? It simply means to highlight, to
lift up.
To put in its proper place. When people look at
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you when they're around you, we want them to say
there's something different about you.
What is, what is that?
And we just have opportunity to say, you know, if
there's anything good in my life, it's only because of God.
So when Paul says, I want you to glorify God
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in everything that you do, what is he really saying
and how do we do that?
Action point number 1.
I surrender every part of our life to God.
Romans 12:1-2 says, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,
holy and pleasing to God, which is your act of
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spiritual worship. So worship is not just, you know, 15
minutes on Sunday mor. Worship is our entire life. We
were studying in our men's Bible study, Hebrews chapter 9,
about how God did this makeshift through the hands of Israel,
this tabernacle that they would take from place to place
as they were wandering, and as
were wondering, they needed a place to worship, a place,
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a place, a place, but now, he says, we are
the temple, we are the tabernacle. Inside, he indwells us.
Think about this for a moment. God through His Holy
Spirit indwells you. He's inside of your heart.
Yes, I'm thankful that we could get to come to
a place, cause there's nothing like just worshiping and seeing
the family of God. Every Sunday morning, I'm encouraged. I
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was talking to somebody a couple of weeks ago and
they said, Well, how's Laura doing? She's doing OK. You know,
not much change, but I said, this is my safe place.
Because there I'm so hurting for her, praying for a miracle,
believing God, you can do anything and I trust you, Lord,
even when it hurts. But something about NBCC, the family
of God, friends, people who really don't say, well, how
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you doing? Fine, and then walk away, but they say,
how you really doing? We all need that. We all
need something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You're listening to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring Mike Malo, lead
pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church. For information about Mike's church,
visit MBCChome.org. And now let's continue with today's study in
1 Corinthians chapter 10. Here's Mike Mayo.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It requires us to surrender everything, everything. We all want
to worship someone or something. In other words, to put
God first in my life, I must be willing to
surrender it all.
My heart, my mind, my bank account, my car, my house,
everything that God has given me, which we all know,
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as quickly as we got it, God can take it away, right?
It's all his. He made it all, it says he
owns a cattle on 1000 hills. He owns it all.
It's all his. And we're just managers, we're simply, it's
all on loan.
One day, man, this place is gonna burn up. We're
gonna go and be with Jesus forever. I wanna manage well,
I wanna do well, but I don't wanna hold those
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things so tightly that those things become idols. And then
that's what he's trying to communicate is, people are looking
for something real. They're looking for authenticity, aren't they?
Then I'm looking for the show, then I'm looking for
big cathedrals. That was a, a thing of the past,
at least in this season of society I think people
are looking to show me the real deal, man. Just
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show me if there's a God that you believe in,
I need to know for sure how, how in the
world do you believe that he is resurrected? Tell me
about that.
And if they sense from us, well, because I have
all the points, because I know all the information because
I've never done anything wrong since I've accepted Jesus. If
they sense an air of superiority from us, they're gonna
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be turned off. People are looking for reality, they're looking.
For authenticity, aren't they?
So when we worship, I just wanna say, it all
starts with worship, glorifying God. So every time I step
into this place, I leave differently than when I walked in.
I'll walk into this very building thinking, oh my gosh,
I gotta cut the grass. I gotta make sure the
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Lord has lunch. I gotta make sure the kids, all
these things that I'm thinking about.
Better make sure that I pay the light bill and
all all these things that I'm thinking about squeeze tennis
in there and I gotta think about it. And then
I got work on Monday. I gotta make sure that
we're ready for Monday because we wanna hit the ground
running on Monday because pastors don't take Mondays off. We
work Monday and we just, all these things to get ready,
all these things start swirling my mind.
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But then as soon as the music starts.
As soon as somebody starts praying, and as soon as
that word is given, it sets me in a whole
different atmosphere, right? Worship is so important. What I mean
by that is just even these 1 hour and 10
minutes are so important. It's our opportunity to say, Satan,
you can't touch this. You can't have my kids, you
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can't have my home, you can't have my life, you
can't have the things that were in the, you can't
have any of that. Satan, the blood is against you. Satan,
you're not.
You gonna have my life. You're not gonna have my school,
not gonna have my family, you're not gonna have my fiance.
You're not gonna have my kids. Israel fell away in
this chapter early 400 years, the people of God fell backwards.
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They were not moving forward. And therefore, God allowed them
to be taken captive by the Egyptian army.
And because of that, they cried out to the Lord
and say, OK, God, we really need you now. God
did not say, I'm done with you. You used up
your line of credit. It was too long. You should
have come to me in the past. I'm not coming.
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God never says that. He always gives 2nd, 3rd, 4th.
If there's anyone here today that thinks, man, I'm too
far away from God, I haven't even worshiped God in
20 years. I don't even think about God. God is
ready and waiting.
Right now he's patient. He wants us to come and
surrender everything back to him. Surrendering every part of my
heart means that we are now ready to glorify God
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and everything. We're just ready to lift up God in
everything that we do. And it doesn't mean that when
we're with people, you gotta talk about Jesus all the time.
And if you don't wanna accept Jesus, you're gonna go
to hell and all those things that we hear these
weirdo Christian people that make it harder for us. Just
be a normal person.
You love and serve somebody, and then when there's opportunity,
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cause you're praying, cause you know the power of prayer,
and you're praying for somebody's soul, and you're praying for
them to come to meet the Lord, and you want
God opens doors, even if it's just a crack open
a small opening, there's an opening for you.
To just talk about how what God has done for you.
I found this surrendering everything means remembering my story. Every
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single one of you here has a story. You have
a story in your life of what you were before Christ,
how you accepted the Lord, and then what is your
life since then. So it's not like I can remember
15,000 things and 8000 verses. Lord, I just help me
to tell my story from my heart.
I just think, man, there are so many people that
are waiting and Paul says, so that we might win many,
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many people.
Your husband, your wife.
Your brother, your sister, your friend, someone you work with.
People down the street, I know that you're laboring. I
know that your heart is there. So I love this
place so much. I know that we are together in this,
and I know it's not easy, but the first rule
is we gotta surrender everything. We gotta surrender everything to Jesus.
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The devil does not want you and I to get
on your knees. He doesn't want us to get on
our knees because you know there's power, power, when we
humble ourselves and just surrender it all.
And we're not talking about just coming to a place.
We're talking about a living, breathing God who's active in worship.
He's active in our life all the time, all the time.
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So when we're playing these young guys on the tennis court,
I'm walking up here all the pickleball players never go
on the pickle ball court. Tennis players don't play pickleball.
We play tennis. So I'm going up to the higher ground,
literally there's like 20 steps and all the tennis courts
at where I play are up on the higher ground,
and I'm thinking, Lord Jesus, these guys, they got it
all together, they're in college, they got their whole life
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before them.
They're playing the game. I see it. I remember doing that.
I remember exactly where they were, but I'm praying even
as we're hitting the ball in the name of Jesus,
as I hit this ball, you're gonna come to the Lord, Brett.
I know you're gonna come to the Lord. And I'm
just watching for opportunities cause everybody's false idol will prove false. Everybody.
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We just gotta be patient, gotta love them, and wait
for opportunities. Don't jam it down their throat. I didn't like,
I don't, I think I mentioned, you're probably tired of
me saying this. I don't even like going into the
Verizon store.
I, I will try to avoid going to buy a
car on a car lot, cause I just don't wanna
hear it. They got all these deals, they tell me
the whole spiel, and I just feel like, man, all
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you want is money in your pocket. I don't want
to feel like a Jesus salesperson. I just want to
be a normal person that's telling them, look, God loves you, man.
He loves you. He changed my life, he can change
your life.
This whole thing about worship, it starts in worship. It
starts in giving my heart. That's why I think God
said he commanded us to praise the Lord, sing to
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me a new song. Use the instruments, he says, I
want you to give me praise and worship. Why did
he say that?
Sometimes it doesn't feel very manly to praise God, but
it's the most manly thing that we can do is
sing to God from our heart. It's in our head, God,
this has been a horrible week. I can't believe the
stuff I'm dealing with. But Lord, I give it to you.
This song helps me to bring everything back to you, God.
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It's not, please, let's, let's move away from the OCC.
You know what the OC stair is? I talked to
pastors in our city. We gather every two weeks and talk,
and we laugh about it, but in the heart, our
heart is crying. The OC stair is when the music starts.
And I know that we express ourselves. I'm not saying
that we all have to be, you know, I'm not
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saying that everybody has to do this. I know that
we're different, but for the most part, man, let's get
out of our comfort zone a little bit. I've seen
you at angel games, well, not angel games because they
are losing, but I've seen you at Dodger games. Whoa,
high fiving strangers. We get excited about stuff. Why not God?
Why are we worshiping God the way that we love
him so much and so thank God. And don't think
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for a moment that you gotta have it all together
to lift your hands to God or to clap to
him or get on your knees or whatever the posture
that God is calling you to. This is not for
perfect people. The church is a hospital for everybody that's hurting.
Everybody's welcome into the place of God because
We believe the gospel can penetrate anything. He can overcome anything.
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He can break through any sin, any failure, any wrongdoing.
God has the power through the resurrection of Jesus to
do anything in somebody's life. That's why partly, just get
him here. I know if you just get him here,
the Holy Spirit will work in the heart more than
any man or any woman can ever do.
It's the power of the gospel. We recently went up,
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we have, I'm, I'm so thankful that God has given
us a Christian school. We have a preschool here, we
have an after-school daycare with a total of about 250
children every Monday through Friday. God gave us a second campus,
just a stone's throw away over at O'Neill Elementary School.
We rent that from the Saddleback Valley School District because
the school was growing. We gotta move and God opened
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a door.
He said, OK, Lord, you're gonna provide. Kindergarten all the
way through 8th grade. There are now 514 children that
attend our Christian school. We love Christian education. Why? Because
little kids need that foundation. They need to know that
there's a God that loves them. Teachers who pray with them,
teachers who have Bible, they have chapel, they have all
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this surroundings of those formative years, so that they'll know God.
So they take these. I love what our school does.
We take them up to the mountains for about 3
days up at Forest Home. If you've ever been to
Forest Home, it's where Billy Graham knelt before the tree,
and he said, God, oh God, I surrender my whole life.
It's just an incredible place. You get away from everything
and about 100 junior highers are up there. I went
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up there on a Thursday night. Our youth our youth pastors,
youth leaders ran the whole camp for these kids.
And there was one night, it was the last night
they call it decision night because they want students. Junior
high kids, they know what they're doing, right? They can
accept Jesus, they can commit their life to Jesus Christ.
So the last night is decision night. I'm gonna just
say this. Our junior high school students, and there was
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like 100 of them in the room, auditorium, about half
the size. So as the song started, these junior hires.
Junior highers. Just wanna make sure we're, we're on the
same page. Pre people, right? These junior high kids are
worshiping God, singing to God over the worship team that
was up front. There, I mean, these kids are singing
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from their heart. I, I took video of it, just
so you, I'm not lying to you, these kids.
Of these shoulder to shoulder, arm to arm, these kids,
and at the very end of the message, uh, Zach and,
and Jonathan got up and just gave the word to
these students, and we just believed that the power of
the word just moves into the heart of someone. These
students came up to the microphone. I did not realize
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what our kids, our students these days are dealing with suicide, thoughts.
Trauma, anxiety from divorce, from parents, and, and, and, and, and,
and anxiety and on medication. These kids are like 7th
and 6th, 7th and 8th grade. When I was in 6th, 7th,
8th grade, I was riding my skateboard just doing dumb stuff.
These kids are dealing with heavy stuff. I walked away
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from that driving down through the mountains, said, God, we've
got to reach this generation. We have got to know,
remind them that there is a God who loves them,
has a plan for them. And our kids here at
the school are, they're getting it. They're getting it every year,
that once a year there's a big baptism Thursday that students,
junior highers get to give their life to Jesus Christ.
And what I wanna say is worship. There's something about
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when I surrender it all to Jesus, it helps us
then to get in a posture to say, OK, God,
when I'm in a place that I don't wanna be
in life, when I'm at the work that I can't stand,
can't stand the person I work for, and whatever situation,
can't believe that I'm in this family situation, every time
they come over for Christmas and Thanksgiving, it drives me nuts.
Whatever we might be dealing with, God desires for us
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to lift him up in everything that we do.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
That's Pastor Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo Christian
Church here on Kwave's Pastor Spotlight. Pastor Mike will be
back tomorrow at the same time with a message called
Discovering and Using what's Mine as he teaches from 1
Corinthians chapter 12. Mike Maillo serves as the lead pastor
of Mission Viejo Christian Church, where he's been pastoring for
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the last 23 years, 3 years as a youth pastor
and lead pastor for the last 20. MVCC is.
A vibrant church in Michiejo where real discipleship happens. Love
is on display, and lives are released on mission for Christ.
Their vision is to reach people with the good news
of Jesus Christ to make disciples who make disciples. Again,
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Mission Viejo Christian Church is located at 27192 Geronimo Road
in Mission Viejo. Sunday worship times are at 9 a.m.
and 11 a.m. MVCC is best known in the community
for assisting the city with service to.
Children and their families through preschool to junior high education.
They also provide after school outreaches for public school children
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and service projects throughout the city of Mission Viejo. Their
purpose in providing these is to bring the good news
of Jesus Christ to their city in hopes that God
will transform their community through prayer, wanting everyone to have
a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Some upcoming events that
you and your family are invited to include their Christmas
Eve services at 12:30.
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And 4 p.m. and their worship night with circuit riders
on January 13th at 6 p.m. For more information about
Mission Viejo Christian Church, visit MBCC Home.org. Be here again
tomorrow at the same time on Kwave's Pastor Spotlight for
another message from Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo
Christian Church. We hope you'll join us. Pastor Spotlight is
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a production of Kwave Radio, sharing life, delivering truth, giving hope.
Welcome to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring the Bible teaching of
our local Southern California pastors. This week we're pleased to
bring you Mission Viejo's native son, Mike Mayolo, lead pastor
of Mission Viejo Christian Church. Mike has a passion for
leading people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. To
learn more about Mission Viejo Christian Church, you're invited to
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visit MBCC.
Home.org. Today on Pastor Spotlight, Pastor Mike Mayolo invites us
to open our Bibles to 1 Corinthians as he directs
our attention to chapter 10, verses 23 through chapter 11
verse 1. Mike feels that this passage of scripture answers
the question, what does it really mean to live a
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life that reflects the Lord in everything we do? Well,
here's Pastor Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We want to be godly people. What does that look like?
And why is it so important? All right, let's unpack
this as we just continue on. We're in 1 Corinthians 10.
If you don't have your smartphone, you can open up
your Bible. If you didn't bring a Bible, that's OK.
It's right here on the screen. We're gonna go through
it together. We're gonna start in verse 23, and we're
gonna go through chapter 11, verse 1.
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The reason we're delving into the first verse of the
chapter 11 is, these chapters and verses were written after
the inspired scripture was put together. So these were written
by the church fathers, meaning the chapters and verses that
came later, and that's why sometimes there's a little bit
of an overlap into the 11th chapter. So, you say,
I'm allowed to do anything, but not everything is good
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for you. You say, I'm allowed to do anything, but
not everything is beneficial. Remember we talked about this context of,
we have freedom in Christ. We can do what we
want to do as long as it doesn't hurt our
walk or hurt somebody else, and they were getting into
that mode of, well, we're really special, we're really cool
cause we can just do whatever we want, and they
were missing that they were hurting some other people who
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were trying to just walk with Jesus and it was
causing them to slip backwards.
So don't be concerned for your own good, but for
the good of others. That's so good, isn't it?
So you may eat any meat that is sold in
the marketplace without raising questions of conscience.
they were sacrificing meat to these idols. It was part
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of the culture. So some people were becoming so legalistic, like,
you can't eat that. There's the power of that devil
inside of that meat. There's nothing about the meat, it's
about the heart and the people doing it. So we're
not legalistic as Christians about all that stuff, right? Don't
ever go into a movie theater.
Right? That, that was kind of an older thing back
in the 70s. I wasn't, I wasn't even alive in
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the 70s, but anyway.
Don't play cards, don't dance, and don't go to the movies.
Does it say that in the Bible? Come on. All right,
for the earth is the Lord's and everything in it, right?
God owns everything. He's still in control. God is on
the throne, he's not leaving.
If someone who isn't a believer.
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Ask you home for dinner, accept the invitation if you
want to.
Eat whatever is offered to you without raising questions of conscience.
This is so important because what we're talking about today
is getting on their turf, right? The people who may
be just falling away from the Lord or don't wanna
do church or don't want anything to do with God.
And a lot of people who maybe just don't want
anything to do with God is they've been extremely hurt
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by some trauma in their life and they feel guilt
or shame, and why would I go to a place
like this where everybody's perfect and all these Christians have
it all together, and I don't.
You know, that's why some people won't go to a
place like this, right? We gotta show them, dude, my
life is messed up, but you should have seen my
life before I met Jesus. It was really messed up, right?
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But suppose someone tells you this meat was offered to
an idol. Don't eat it. Out of consideration for the
conscience of the one who told you. So if this
is a problem, don't do it. Pretty simple, right? 29.
It might not be a matter of conscience for you.
But it is for the other person.
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Why should my freedom be limited to what someone else thinks?
If I can thank God for the food and enjoy it,
why should I be condemned for eating it?
So bottom line, here's the bottom line, and this is
what I want you to just highlight it. I want
you to write this down. I want you just to
remember this. This is the key to the text. So
whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do
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it all, do it all for the glory of God.
Don't give offense to Jews or Gentiles.
Or the church of God.
I too try to please everyone and everything I do.
Paul's not saying you gotta be a people pleaser, gotta
please everybody. He's just saying his heart is he wants
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everybody to have an opportunity to hear the gospel, whatever
it takes, right? I don't just do what is best
for me. I do what is best for others.
Man, I don't know if I can even expound on
any of this. It's just so simple. Think of marriages,
think of dating relationships, think of family relationships, friendships. If
we just live by that, I'll just do what's in
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the best interests of somebody else and not myself first.
I do what is best for others, so that many
may be what?
Oh, come on, we can do a bit louder than that.
So that how many, many might be what? Saved? Yes.
And you should imitate me just as I imitate Christ.
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Paul wasn't saying, hey, follow me, there's something special about me.
He was just saying, Jesus isn't here. We gotta keep
our eyes always fixed on him, but there's good examples
of people that are following God. I wanna follow God
like he does.
I wanna follow, I wanna worship God like she does.
I wanna really get down and serve people the way
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he does. That's what Paul is saying, he's saying at
the bottom, the end of the day, the very last
part of this is simply
We want to imitate Jesus and glorify Him in everything
that we do, why, so people can know God.
And I was talking about this message with my wife
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cause sometimes I'll go over. I was like, I'm gonna
preach like the message to you and I want you
to tell me what you think. And so I I said,
I don't know how really to expound on any of
this cause it's just so simple. She said, Well, why
don't you just tell the people that just tell our family,
our church family, just, this is what Jesus told us
to do, and now let's go watch football. I can't
do that cause there's a little bit I just wanna
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give you today.
And that 1 Corinthians 10 passage is so mirror, I believe,
of where we're living today in society.
Jesus invites us to two things. Number 1, an invitation.
Vito was leading us into worship. Was that worship was
just powerful. It was just, man, I felt like, you know,
there's certain moments you can just keep worshiping for what
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seems like eternity. We're gonna do that one day, man.
I'm so looking forward to being with Jesus forever, crying holy, holy,
holy in his presence and being in the presence of
literally being in the presence of God forever. There's gonna
be nothing like it. We want everybody to be there,
and he invites us.
Into eternal place called heaven.
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And the wonderful thing about that, Ephesians 2:18 says it's
all by grace. It's all by his goodness. It's all
because of what he did. So I just wanna remind
us today as we're worshiping, as we're once again being realigned, God,
what are you speaking to me today? We have been invited,
not just to a place called heaven, but we've been
invited to follow him. And following Jesus means imitating him.
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What would Jesus do? What would he do in every
circumstance that I find my life in?
Number 2 is we see that Paul is calling them
to their identity.
Their identity is so important. If we don't know who
we are and whose we are, we can get so
discombobulated by thoughts, past experiences, what people may say about us,
what people may think about us. You are saved. If
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you've given your heart to Jesus Christ, you are saved,
you are somebody. Jesus died for you. You are a
Co-heir, you are an heir with Jesus. You are a
person of value. You are not a mistake. You have
been ordained, you have been positioned, you have been uh
uh uh uh placed in exactly where God wants you
to be, and there's a reason for that. Think about this,
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if we were all pastors, that was not gonna work.
God doesn't want all of us to be pastors. Thank
God for that. We don't need more, we need more
people who are in places of society that are just
gonna live for Jesus and just love people for free.
If you are in your neighborhood, glorify God.
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If you're on the soccer field with your kids, glorify God.
If you're at LA Fitness, getting in shape, glorify God
in that. If we're walking the dog, whatever we might
be doing, God wants us to glorify. What does it
mean to glorify Him? It simply means to highlight, to
lift up.
To put in its proper place. When people look at
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you when they're around you, we want them to say
there's something different about you.
What is, what is that?
And we just have opportunity to say, you know, if
there's anything good in my life, it's only because of God.
So when Paul says, I want you to glorify God
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in everything that you do, what is he really saying
and how do we do that?
Action point number 1.
I surrender every part of our life to God.
Romans 12:1-2 says, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,
holy and pleasing to God, which is your act of
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spiritual worship. So worship is not just, you know, 15
minutes on Sunday mor. Worship is our entire life. We
were studying in our men's Bible study, Hebrews chapter 9,
about how God did this makeshift through the hands of Israel,
this tabernacle that they would take from place to place
as they were wandering, and as
were wondering, they needed a place to worship, a place,
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a place, a place, but now, he says, we are
the temple, we are the tabernacle. Inside, he indwells us.
Think about this for a moment. God through His Holy
Spirit indwells you. He's inside of your heart.
Yes, I'm thankful that we could get to come to
a place, cause there's nothing like just worshiping and seeing
the family of God. Every Sunday morning, I'm encouraged. I
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was talking to somebody a couple of weeks ago and
they said, Well, how's Laura doing? She's doing OK. You know,
not much change, but I said, this is my safe place.
Because there I'm so hurting for her, praying for a miracle,
believing God, you can do anything and I trust you, Lord,
even when it hurts. But something about NBCC, the family
of God, friends, people who really don't say, well, how
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you doing? Fine, and then walk away, but they say,
how you really doing? We all need that. We all
need something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You're listening to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring Mike Malo, lead
pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church. For information about Mike's church,
visit MBCChome.org. And now let's continue with today's study in
1 Corinthians chapter 10. Here's Mike Mayo.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It requires us to surrender everything, everything. We all want
to worship someone or something. In other words, to put
God first in my life, I must be willing to
surrender it all.
My heart, my mind, my bank account, my car, my house,
everything that God has given me, which we all know,
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as quickly as we got it, God can take it away, right?
It's all his. He made it all, it says he
owns a cattle on 1000 hills. He owns it all.
It's all his. And we're just managers, we're simply, it's
all on loan.
One day, man, this place is gonna burn up. We're
gonna go and be with Jesus forever. I wanna manage well,
I wanna do well, but I don't wanna hold those
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things so tightly that those things become idols. And then
that's what he's trying to communicate is, people are looking
for something real. They're looking for authenticity, aren't they?
Then I'm looking for the show, then I'm looking for
big cathedrals. That was a, a thing of the past,
at least in this season of society I think people
are looking to show me the real deal, man. Just
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show me if there's a God that you believe in,
I need to know for sure how, how in the
world do you believe that he is resurrected? Tell me
about that.
And if they sense from us, well, because I have
all the points, because I know all the information because
I've never done anything wrong since I've accepted Jesus. If
they sense an air of superiority from us, they're gonna
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be turned off. People are looking for reality, they're looking.
For authenticity, aren't they?
So when we worship, I just wanna say, it all
starts with worship, glorifying God. So every time I step
into this place, I leave differently than when I walked in.
I'll walk into this very building thinking, oh my gosh,
I gotta cut the grass. I gotta make sure the
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Lord has lunch. I gotta make sure the kids, all
these things that I'm thinking about.
Better make sure that I pay the light bill and
all all these things that I'm thinking about squeeze tennis
in there and I gotta think about it. And then
I got work on Monday. I gotta make sure that
we're ready for Monday because we wanna hit the ground
running on Monday because pastors don't take Mondays off. We
work Monday and we just, all these things to get ready,
all these things start swirling my mind.
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But then as soon as the music starts.
As soon as somebody starts praying, and as soon as
that word is given, it sets me in a whole
different atmosphere, right? Worship is so important. What I mean
by that is just even these 1 hour and 10
minutes are so important. It's our opportunity to say, Satan,
you can't touch this. You can't have my kids, you
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can't have my home, you can't have my life, you
can't have the things that were in the, you can't
have any of that. Satan, the blood is against you. Satan,
you're not.
You gonna have my life. You're not gonna have my school,
not gonna have my family, you're not gonna have my fiance.
You're not gonna have my kids. Israel fell away in
this chapter early 400 years, the people of God fell backwards.
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They were not moving forward. And therefore, God allowed them
to be taken captive by the Egyptian army.
And because of that, they cried out to the Lord
and say, OK, God, we really need you now. God
did not say, I'm done with you. You used up
your line of credit. It was too long. You should
have come to me in the past. I'm not coming.
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God never says that. He always gives 2nd, 3rd, 4th.
If there's anyone here today that thinks, man, I'm too
far away from God, I haven't even worshiped God in
20 years. I don't even think about God. God is
ready and waiting.
Right now he's patient. He wants us to come and
surrender everything back to him. Surrendering every part of my
heart means that we are now ready to glorify God
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and everything. We're just ready to lift up God in
everything that we do. And it doesn't mean that when
we're with people, you gotta talk about Jesus all the time.
And if you don't wanna accept Jesus, you're gonna go
to hell and all those things that we hear these
weirdo Christian people that make it harder for us. Just
be a normal person.
You love and serve somebody, and then when there's opportunity,
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cause you're praying, cause you know the power of prayer,
and you're praying for somebody's soul, and you're praying for
them to come to meet the Lord, and you want
God opens doors, even if it's just a crack open
a small opening, there's an opening for you.
To just talk about how what God has done for you.
I found this surrendering everything means remembering my story. Every
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single one of you here has a story. You have
a story in your life of what you were before Christ,
how you accepted the Lord, and then what is your
life since then. So it's not like I can remember
15,000 things and 8000 verses. Lord, I just help me
to tell my story from my heart.
I just think, man, there are so many people that
are waiting and Paul says, so that we might win many,
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many people.
Your husband, your wife.
Your brother, your sister, your friend, someone you work with.
People down the street, I know that you're laboring. I
know that your heart is there. So I love this
place so much. I know that we are together in this,
and I know it's not easy, but the first rule
is we gotta surrender everything. We gotta surrender everything to Jesus.
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The devil does not want you and I to get
on your knees. He doesn't want us to get on
our knees because you know there's power, power, when we
humble ourselves and just surrender it all.
And we're not talking about just coming to a place.
We're talking about a living, breathing God who's active in worship.
He's active in our life all the time, all the time.
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So when we're playing these young guys on the tennis court,
I'm walking up here all the pickleball players never go
on the pickle ball court. Tennis players don't play pickleball.
We play tennis. So I'm going up to the higher ground,
literally there's like 20 steps and all the tennis courts
at where I play are up on the higher ground,
and I'm thinking, Lord Jesus, these guys, they got it
all together, they're in college, they got their whole life
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before them.
They're playing the game. I see it. I remember doing that.
I remember exactly where they were, but I'm praying even
as we're hitting the ball in the name of Jesus,
as I hit this ball, you're gonna come to the Lord, Brett.
I know you're gonna come to the Lord. And I'm
just watching for opportunities cause everybody's false idol will prove false. Everybody.
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We just gotta be patient, gotta love them, and wait
for opportunities. Don't jam it down their throat. I didn't like,
I don't, I think I mentioned, you're probably tired of
me saying this. I don't even like going into the
Verizon store.
I, I will try to avoid going to buy a
car on a car lot, cause I just don't wanna
hear it. They got all these deals, they tell me
the whole spiel, and I just feel like, man, all
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you want is money in your pocket. I don't want
to feel like a Jesus salesperson. I just want to
be a normal person that's telling them, look, God loves you, man.
He loves you. He changed my life, he can change
your life.
This whole thing about worship, it starts in worship. It
starts in giving my heart. That's why I think God
said he commanded us to praise the Lord, sing to
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me a new song. Use the instruments, he says, I
want you to give me praise and worship. Why did
he say that?
Sometimes it doesn't feel very manly to praise God, but
it's the most manly thing that we can do is
sing to God from our heart. It's in our head, God,
this has been a horrible week. I can't believe the
stuff I'm dealing with. But Lord, I give it to you.
This song helps me to bring everything back to you, God.
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It's not, please, let's, let's move away from the OCC.
You know what the OC stair is? I talked to
pastors in our city. We gather every two weeks and talk,
and we laugh about it, but in the heart, our
heart is crying. The OC stair is when the music starts.
And I know that we express ourselves. I'm not saying
that we all have to be, you know, I'm not
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saying that everybody has to do this. I know that
we're different, but for the most part, man, let's get
out of our comfort zone a little bit. I've seen
you at angel games, well, not angel games because they
are losing, but I've seen you at Dodger games. Whoa,
high fiving strangers. We get excited about stuff. Why not God?
Why are we worshiping God the way that we love
him so much and so thank God. And don't think
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for a moment that you gotta have it all together
to lift your hands to God or to clap to
him or get on your knees or whatever the posture
that God is calling you to. This is not for
perfect people. The church is a hospital for everybody that's hurting.
Everybody's welcome into the place of God because
We believe the gospel can penetrate anything. He can overcome anything.
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He can break through any sin, any failure, any wrongdoing.
God has the power through the resurrection of Jesus to
do anything in somebody's life. That's why partly, just get
him here. I know if you just get him here,
the Holy Spirit will work in the heart more than
any man or any woman can ever do.
It's the power of the gospel. We recently went up,
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we have, I'm, I'm so thankful that God has given
us a Christian school. We have a preschool here, we
have an after-school daycare with a total of about 250
children every Monday through Friday. God gave us a second campus,
just a stone's throw away over at O'Neill Elementary School.
We rent that from the Saddleback Valley School District because
the school was growing. We gotta move and God opened
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a door.
He said, OK, Lord, you're gonna provide. Kindergarten all the
way through 8th grade. There are now 514 children that
attend our Christian school. We love Christian education. Why? Because
little kids need that foundation. They need to know that
there's a God that loves them. Teachers who pray with them,
teachers who have Bible, they have chapel, they have all
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this surroundings of those formative years, so that they'll know God.
So they take these. I love what our school does.
We take them up to the mountains for about 3
days up at Forest Home. If you've ever been to
Forest Home, it's where Billy Graham knelt before the tree,
and he said, God, oh God, I surrender my whole life.
It's just an incredible place. You get away from everything
and about 100 junior highers are up there. I went
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up there on a Thursday night. Our youth our youth pastors,
youth leaders ran the whole camp for these kids.
And there was one night, it was the last night
they call it decision night because they want students. Junior
high kids, they know what they're doing, right? They can
accept Jesus, they can commit their life to Jesus Christ.
So the last night is decision night. I'm gonna just
say this. Our junior high school students, and there was
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like 100 of them in the room, auditorium, about half
the size. So as the song started, these junior hires.
Junior highers. Just wanna make sure we're, we're on the
same page. Pre people, right? These junior high kids are
worshiping God, singing to God over the worship team that
was up front. There, I mean, these kids are singing
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from their heart. I, I took video of it, just
so you, I'm not lying to you, these kids.
Of these shoulder to shoulder, arm to arm, these kids,
and at the very end of the message, uh, Zach and,
and Jonathan got up and just gave the word to
these students, and we just believed that the power of
the word just moves into the heart of someone. These
students came up to the microphone. I did not realize
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what our kids, our students these days are dealing with suicide, thoughts.
Trauma, anxiety from divorce, from parents, and, and, and, and, and,
and anxiety and on medication. These kids are like 7th
and 6th, 7th and 8th grade. When I was in 6th, 7th,
8th grade, I was riding my skateboard just doing dumb stuff.
These kids are dealing with heavy stuff. I walked away
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from that driving down through the mountains, said, God, we've
got to reach this generation. We have got to know,
remind them that there is a God who loves them,
has a plan for them. And our kids here at
the school are, they're getting it. They're getting it every year,
that once a year there's a big baptism Thursday that students,
junior highers get to give their life to Jesus Christ.
And what I wanna say is worship. There's something about
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when I surrender it all to Jesus, it helps us
then to get in a posture to say, OK, God,
when I'm in a place that I don't wanna be
in life, when I'm at the work that I can't stand,
can't stand the person I work for, and whatever situation,
can't believe that I'm in this family situation, every time
they come over for Christmas and Thanksgiving, it drives me nuts.
Whatever we might be dealing with, God desires for us
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to lift him up in everything that we do.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
That's Pastor Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo Christian
Church here on Kwave's Pastor Spotlight. Pastor Mike will be
back tomorrow at the same time with a message called
Discovering and Using what's Mine as he teaches from 1
Corinthians chapter 12. Mike Maillo serves as the lead pastor
of Mission Viejo Christian Church, where he's been pastoring for
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the last 23 years, 3 years as a youth pastor
and lead pastor for the last 20. MVCC is.
A vibrant church in Michiejo where real discipleship happens. Love
is on display, and lives are released on mission for Christ.
Their vision is to reach people with the good news
of Jesus Christ to make disciples who make disciples. Again,
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Mission Viejo Christian Church is located at 27192 Geronimo Road
in Mission Viejo. Sunday worship times are at 9 a.m.
and 11 a.m. MVCC is best known in the community
for assisting the city with service to.
Children and their families through preschool to junior high education.
They also provide after school outreaches for public school children
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and service projects throughout the city of Mission Viejo. Their
purpose in providing these is to bring the good news
of Jesus Christ to their city in hopes that God
will transform their community through prayer, wanting everyone to have
a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Some upcoming events that
you and your family are invited to include their Christmas
Eve services at 12:30.
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And 4 p.m. and their worship night with circuit riders
on January 13th at 6 p.m. For more information about
Mission Viejo Christian Church, visit MBCC Home.org. Be here again
tomorrow at the same time on Kwave's Pastor Spotlight for
another message from Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo
Christian Church. We hope you'll join us. Pastor Spotlight is
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a production of Kwave Radio, sharing life, delivering truth, giving hope.
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