May 19, 2025 • 55 mins
What does it mean to truly love God with everything you have? Dr. Scott Martin tackles this fundamental question as he shares his remarkable life journey from an orphaned boy in inner-city Phoenix to a missionary spanning four decades across the world.
Scott's story begins in adversity – losing his mother at age eight, never knowing his biological father, and living with his grandmother in challenging circumstances. Yet through the love of a church family who eventually adopted him, Scott discovered his purpose in Christ. This transformation set him on a path that would lead him to minister on university campuses, plant churches in Central Asia, lead national campus ministries, and now embark on a new mission to Iceland in what he calls the "fourth quarter" of his ministry life.
At the heart of Scott's message are what he terms "the two greats" – the Great Commandment to love God completely and love others sacrificially, and the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations. He emphasizes that the primary verb in the Great Commission isn't "go" but "make disciples" – a crucial distinction that shapes how we understand our mission as believers. Through powerful stories from his work in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, Scott demonstrates how God orchestrates divine appointments when we follow His leading.
Perhaps most compelling is Scott's account of his calling to Iceland – a nation that has never experienced a Christian awakening in its 1100+ year history, where 99.8% of college-age citizens don't believe in God. Through multiple prophetic confirmations, including discovering that a key Icelandic couple they're meant to disciple were former students in their ministry, Scott and his wife Crystal have witnessed God's supernatural preparation for this new chapter.
Are you living as a person of purpose, destiny, and vision? Scott challenges us to evaluate how completely we love God and how willing we are to follow wherever He leads – because our obedience today could be the divine appointment someone else needs to find their eternal destiny.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You say amen to that church.
Amen, exactly.
What we believe is that we arepeople of God and that we have a
mission that he set us upon.
Today we have a greatopportunity in that we get to
hear from a guest speaker inScott Martin.
Scott and Crystal are apostolicleaders.
They've gone and church planted, both on the university campus
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as well in Kyrgyzstan andKazakhstan, and done missions,
endeavors across the world,leading Chi Alpha as national
and international leaders, andthat is a ministry on the
university campus focused atuniversity students, because we
know, as goes university goesthe country, and so we're after
the hearts and minds of thepeople that are the future
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leaders of the world, and that'swhat they've been about is
being those who are shining andminds of the people that are the
future leaders of the world,and that's what they've been
about is being those who areshining the light of the gospel
in those places.
We are very privileged to havethem with us.
We've been partnered with themfor all these many years.
Please give a warm Cornerstonewelcome to Dr Scott Markin as he
comes today.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, good morning, mighty men and women of God.
Okay, all 50 of you, let's tryit again.
Good morning, mighty men andwomen of God.
Oh, there we go.
Hey, it's so good to be with youthis morning and I would be
remiss if I didn't start bysaying thank you to this church
who has partnered with us inmission for 35 years, and I mean
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thanks to you.
I want to salute you today andI especially just want to say
thank you so much to Pastor Richand Cindy who, when I was just
man I get choked up I mean whenI I was a young man starting a
ministry and this man reallytook me under his wings and he
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took time for me, he took timewith me, he invested into my
life, spoke life, envisionedkingdom, purpose.
And then, not just to me but tomy wife and to my sons, I can
tell you right now, we would notbe who we are today, we would
not be where we are today, hadit not been for Rich and Cindy,
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and we have spent Lord knows howmany hours together.
I just want to say, I just wanta little caveat when we were
living in Kazakhstan, plantingcampus ministry there, I asked
Rich and Cindy, if they wouldcome out and do our retreat for
our leaders, our missionaries inKazakhstan, and ended up a
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whole field retreat.
It ended up all the AssambegaWorld missionaries in Kazakhstan
came by asking to focus just onHoly Spirit and really baptism
of Holy Spirit over our people.
And it was awesome.
I mean, when we got down thatfinal time of prayer, it was
100%.
I mean, there was 100%.
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So I can never say thanksenough to you two for your
investment into our lives and,like I said, we wouldn't be who
we are today, we wouldn't bewhere we're going today, if it
weren't for you and I honor youtoday.
We love you very, very much.
I mean the Martins love you andhonor you, would do anything
for you and for your kids toonow.
So we're really grateful.
We're so, so grateful.
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And I just want to start bysaying too this morning that you
know, every single one of youhere are people of purpose and
destiny and vision.
From the moment you wereconceived in your womb, god
began to set some things onpurpose for your life.
You know what I'm saying.
I mean, god began to set adestiny in your life the minute
that you were conceived, and soevery one of us are people of
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purpose.
We're people of destiny, shouldbe people of vision, that God
has a vision for your life.
You were created with a visionfrom God for your life, for who
you would be and what you wouldbecome, and so these are
powerful kingdom principles tounderstand Now.
I'm talking about purpose.
I'm talking about that now.
Reason.
So you are here this morning onpurpose.
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It's not like some random thingI don't believe in, like
randomness.
Okay, I believe everything ison purpose.
Okay, sometimes we makemistakes, and even those are on
purpose of the enemy.
You hear what I'm saying, butthere are things.
Everything is purpose.
So we are people of purpose.
Purpose is now.
It's what we do now with ourlife.
It's our now reason.
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It's why we're at high schooltoday, why we're on university
today, why we're at work today.
It's what we do every singleday when you get out of bed,
it's Lord, help me understandand fulfill my purpose today,
which is always in alignmentwith you.
The second thing is destiny.
Destiny is that long-term, thatlong-term part of our life
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that's from birth to death.
That is destiny and that Godsets things in motion for your
destiny to be fulfilled.
And every day when you fulfillyour purpose, your destiny
becomes more and more solidlyconfirmed as you move forward.
We're people of destiny andalso we should be people of
vision, because God has a visionfor your life.
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God created you with a visionand I just say this vision is
imagining what God can do.
That's what vision is.
It's imagining what God can do.
I say imagine what God could dowith 500 people irrevocably
committed to him out here in theWest Valley.
Imagine what God could do.
Imagine what God could do whichis one life in here who says I
am all in God, anytime, anywhere, any place, I am all in.
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That is vision, and vision isimagining what God can do.
Now, I want to suggest to saythat there's no circumstance
that can circumvent God'spurposes, his destiny and vision
.
Now, I didn't say this in thefirst one, but when I think
about it, there is one thing,there's one thing that can
circumvent your purpose beingfulfilled in God, your destiny.
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There's one thing that cancircumvent that and that's you.
It's not the devil, it's you.
And see, by not saying I'm allin Lord, there's one thing but
man, when we're wholly committed, god can do great things to
your life.
Matter of fact, every one ofyou were ordained for greatness
in the kingdom of God.
Every single one of you in herewere ordained for that.
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You got to get that.
You got to understand that.
Well, scott, you don't know mycircumstances, dude, but you
don't know my relationships.
You don't know what I've done.
You don't know where I've been.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, I may not, but God does.
I can tell you this God's notdictated by circumstances.
God's not dictated by anycircumstance at all whatsoever.
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I was born a single parent.
Really, if it was, I shouldn'tbe standing before you today
because I was born a singleparent.
I've never seen my naturalfather.
The only male figure in myfamily was my grandfather.
He committed suicide in thehouse.
When I was five.
I was left to live with mygrandmother in inner city
Phoenix.
I can tell you, at the age ofeight, things were not looking
really good for me.
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My mom died when I was eightyears old.
I was left with my grandmotherand things were not looking good
.
Matter of fact, if you wouldhave looked at circumstances, no
one would have ever said I willbe standing before you today.
Most people would have saidhe's been doing good to stay out
of jail.
But God's got a purpose.
God has a destiny for everylife.
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God has a vision for our lives.
At the age of eight I began tointersect with the Martin family
.
Now I'm not Scott Martin bybirth, I'm Scott Mercer by birth
.
But the Martin family tooknotice of me.
They started inviting me tohang out with them.
So I hung out with them.
When I was nine years old theyinvited me to church.
I'd never been in anevangelical church up to this
point in my life.
I'd only been in very liberalchurch, liberal Judaism, a
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little bit of Mormonism, kind ofmixed in with all that stuff.
When I was eight years old Icrossed the threshold of Central
Assembly of God on 9th and OakStreet down in downtown Phoenix,
arizona and for the first timein life I experienced the love
of the church.
Now, how many guys know there'sa difference between
experiencing the love of thechurch and the love of God?
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You know there's a difference.
You guys know there's adifference.
Yeah, do you know what it is?
God loves everybody.
I still laugh every time I saythat.
But I walked in and Iexperienced the love of the
church.
Those people loved a littleeight year old boy and took me A
matter of fact, my Sundayschool teacher that morning.
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Her name was Kathy Jew, she'sfrom Casa Grande, arizona, and
she was in her first year ofteaching high school that year
and yes, celeste knows her and Iwas in her Sunday school class
and from that day on she tookthis little kid with no mom or
dad, really no hope, took meunder her wing and I stayed with
her last night before I camedown.
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After all those years, that'scalled the love of the church.
Okay, people who love andcommit by experiencing the love
of the church.
So I got involved.
I did Royal Rangers, I didSunday school, but when I was
nine years old, the Martinfamily invited me to move in
with them, and so the neat thingwas that I got a new mom and
dad.
The challenging thing is that Ialso got three sisters with
that package, and so they movedfrom Phoenix to Florence.
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Okay, everybody say Florence.
Okay, that wasn't everybody,we'll say it again.
Everybody say Florence,florence.
There's a reason why we'resaying that.
Okay, I want everyone to kindof get that in your head.
So they moved from Phoenix toFlorence out of Farmer Ranch.
Out there, my new dad becamethe junior high principal.
My mom became a school teachereventually and administrator
there as well, and there was noSpirit-filled church in the
community.
Now we all know what Florenceis renowned for okay, the state
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prison there Tough place growingup.
So there was no Spirit-filledchurch in the community.
So the Martin family kind oftook it upon themselves as lay
people said you know what, wewant to see a Spirit-filled
church here.
So they only knew about theAssemblies of God and we don't
get the Assemblies of God in thekingdom of God confused.
But they got a hold of them andsaid, hey, we want to see a
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church.
So I watched this family as laypeople really give and give
sacrificially to make sure thatthe church there would exist
today Florence First Assembly ofGod.
And so I was raised in thechurch from the time I was eight
and I did everything he did asa good church kid.
I mean, when the doors wereopen I was there.
I mean I went to Sunday school.
I was a Royal Ranger.
Some of you may know what thatis, but I was a Royal Ranger.
I went to youth camp, I went tokids camp.
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I did all the things he did asa good church kid.
But being raised in Florence wasa challenge.
264 students in my high school,62 students in my graduating
class, and there were only thismany believers in that entire
high school.
Now I'm only holding up fourand a half fingers here, okay.
So I was like half a finger atthat point.
Man, I was barely hanging on.
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I was basically when I hit highschool, I was just kind of
nominal.
There's no real fire of God inmy life.
I was just kind of nominal,just barely hanging on.
I said I was more like aChristian narcissist.
I wanted just enough Jesus tokeep me out of hell but make all
my dreams come true.
It was all about me.
And so I'm there at Florence,two people in my youth group,
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just kind of give you a thought,two people in my youth group
and I didn't even like the otherperson, and that was my sister,
by the way, it's my sister,debbie.
So it was just kind of small.
I was in a real small on a goodSunday morning there were 40
people in the church.
So it was a tough existence.
And so when I graduated, mywhole goal was to get my medical
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doctor degree and to just livehappily ever after make a bunch
of money.
And God was there to help makeall my dreams come true.
Make sure that my dreams werefulfilled.
It was all about that.
So I get on campus Thursday,august 25th 1980-something.
My undergraduate is in biology,my master's from the U of A is
in soil and water science and mydoctorate is from Selma Gaudi
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Theological Seminary.
And it was my first day.
It was so bio 103, and I had aGod encounter in that class that
would forever form me.
In my very first class theprofessor kind of put out a
challenge and it shook me andall of a sudden, for the first
time I realized I didn't havewhat it took to be the man of
God that God had called me to beon the university.
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I just didn't have what it took.
And that night I ended up in aninter-varsity Christian
fellowship meeting.
I saw some posters up that saidChristian fellowship.
I went to that night.
I brought my unsaved Romanian,but I walked through the
threshold of the door there were80 students with one acoustic
guitar.
They were going for God withthat sense of passion and
authenticity that I neverexperienced in my own age group,
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without some form ofmanipulation.
And I mean they were going forGod and I sensed the tangible
presence of the Lord when Iwalked into that room and I said
, whatever it is they have, Ineed that and I want that.
Can I suggest to you today thatthere's something powerful
about the authentic presence andanointing of the Lord over
people, something powerful aboutthat.
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Well, that night we're in themeeting, just completely student
run.
I'm walking out the back doorand one of the upper class
students catches me before I getout the door.
He goes.
You first day on campus.
Yeah, he goes.
I'm Paul.
I said I'm Scott.
He said well, scott, how'd youlike to do breakfast with me in
the morning?
He was a senior and I said,really.
He said yeah, so that nextmorning I'm sitting down with
Paul in one of the cafeterias inthe student union at the
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University of Arizona and Pauljust begins to query me.
Now, scott, tell me a littleabout your family.
Oh, okay, that's interesting.
Why'd you pick the U of A?
All right, what are youstudying here?
Okay, how long have you been aChristian?
Yeah, all right.
Now how's your quiet time?
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I said my what.
He said your quiet time.
I said well, I'm pretty good.
I'm getting about six hourssleep a night.
You know I'm doing all right.
I had no idea.
When he said quiet time, he wastalking about my daily time and
the word and prayer.
Now I was 18 years old.
I'd been raised in the churchbut I had never read the Bible
for myself.
Now I heard every message thatcould ever be preached.
I knew all the stories.
I'd been to Sunday school.
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I could quote a few scriptures.
I'd been a Royal Ranger, but Ihad never read the Bible for
myself.
And so Paul didn't just saywell, scott, you need to start
reading your Bible.
Paul taught me how to read myBible.
I mean, he set me on a course,that first semester to, where I
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read the entire Bible, my firstsemester on the U of A, and it
transformed my life.
Let me tell you something.
There's something powerful whenyou assume personal
responsibility for the words ofJesus.
It's no longer just well,that's Pastor Jay and Pastor
Celeste, that's their job,that's somebody else's job.
No, when we all assume personalresponsibility, it's a powerful
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thing, and it was there, on thesecular university, that I
bowed my knee and said okay,jesus, I'm giving you every
minute of the day, every breathI breathe, every dollar I make.
I surrender it to you and Ireally have not ever wavered
from that mandate that I madethere at the U of A as an
18-year-old student.
Sometimes we get afraid thatthe big, bad university is going
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to destroy our kids.
It was the greatest thing thatever happened in my life.
The secular university was thegreatest thing that ever
happened because it was thereI'd meet the fullness of Jesus
Christ and see the power ofChrist manifested on the campus.
Well, I need to go quick, but westarted Chi Alpha at the
University of Arizona.
Chi Alpha is a collegeministries of the Assemblies of
God on the secular university.
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So basically, I am now Crystaland I are going into what we
call our fourth quarter ofministry.
So quarter number one.
When you guys first partneredwith us ministry, so quarter
number one.
When you guys first partneredwith us.
Okay, I have been.
I'm now in my 39th year as anAssemblies of God missionary.
Okay, in my 39th year.
But as I started at theuniversity, this church, under
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Pastor Rich and Cindy, picked usup as missionaries.
They've been with us all thattime.
First quarter was 15 years atthe University of Arizona.
Second quarter Chris Lawpioneered the student missions
arm of Chi Alpha.
That would send us toKyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan where
he began to challenge hundredsof thousands of university
students that they had aresponsibility to go, to give,
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to pray and to welcome.
And we began to challenge themto give a year of missions and
pray about a lifetime.
We said this the Mormons havebeen giving two years and we've
been giving excuses.
Yeah, I'll let that sit withyou for a minute.
That was quarter two, thirdquarter.
I was asked to serve asnational director of Chi Alpha.
I did that for nine and a halfyears and at the conclusion of
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that, the Lord began to speak toChris and I about we had
another prophetic apostolicplant in us overseas, chris and
I about we had another propheticapostolic plant in us overseas.
And so I'm not going to go intoa whole lot of details right now
, but I will in a little whileabout our new calling and
mission to the nation of Icelandand just your partnership with
all this is so, so grateful.
So this is our fourth quarter.
We're going into our fourthquarter and games are won and
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lost.
In what quarter?
The fourth quarter.
So we're all in.
It's in the hand of God, it'sin the miraculous and the
prophetic begin to set up.
As a matter of fact, we feellike we're literally living
oracles of the prophetic goinginto Iceland, and I'll share a
couple of those things with you.
But I want to just share just acouple thoughts with you this
morning.
I call it the two greats God'spriority, our possessions and
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God's priorities.
Okay, the two greats, ourpossessions, in other words, the
stuff that you have, control of, our possessions and God's
priorities, and how ourpossessions and God's priorities
line up.
So I want to share a passage ofscripture, but before I do, I
want to give you the backgroundof this passage.
Okay, so the religious leadersof the day when Jesus was in
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ministry, they were all tryingto trap him, they were jealous
of him, they were trying to traphim, and they wanted to trap
him literally so they coulddestroy him, so they could
literally take him out of thepicture, they could kill him.
So they're trying to catch himin something that he was going
to say that would try to putallege some kind of crime and
destroy him.
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That's what they were doing.
So the first time this happened, one of the time, they came up
the Pharisees, and they began toask him a question on whether
they should pay taxes to Caesar.
All right, so now they'retrying to get him in trouble
with the Romans.
Hey, you know, should we paytaxes?
And Jesus said, well, let mesee some money.
So they brought him a coin andhe looked at it and he goes
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whose picture's on this coin andwhose name?
Caesar?
Well, if it's Caesar's, give itto him.
I mean, so he just fries himright there, just publicly
humiliates him.
That question was all donepublicly.
Well then, the next time, thatwas the Pharisees, the next one
was the Sadducees, another sectof the Jewish leaders, and this
time they query him publicly.
They said hey, we had a personwho, a woman, who was married to
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seven brothers.
They all had her At the end.
Whose wife will she be?
Well, again, he just publiclyexcoriates them, just humiliates
them all publicly.
This passage we're about to readis the final time Jesus is
questioned publicly.
He's never questioned againpublicly after this question.
That's about ready to come tohim.
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So after the Pharisees and theSadducees just got torched by
Jesus, they came together andthey got this doctor of the law,
this person who is the experton the law of Moses, basically
what we know as the OldTestament.
He was the expert and so heknew it all they come, and now
this man has Jesus in public andhe asks him this question here
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it is Teacher, which is thegreat commandment of the law.
Now, let me just stop rightthere.
Do you understand what this guyasked Jesus?
Do you understand what he askedhim?
He said Jesus, what is thegreatest thing in all of this,
what is the most important thingin all the scripture?
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So I want to suggest somethingto every single one of us.
We're people of purpose, peopleof destiny, people of vision.
Let me suggest something to you.
You cannot get this wrong, youcannot miss this answer, because
Jesus is going to answer him onwhat is the most important
thing in all of scripture.
If there's one thing, this isthe thing you cannot get wrong
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Teacher, which is a greatcommandment in the law.
And Jesus said to him get wrongTeacher, which is a great
commandment in the law.
And Jesus said to him you shalllove the Lord, your God, with
all your heart, with all yoursoul and with all your mind.
This is the first and the greatcommandment.
In other words, this is themost important commandment of
all that you are to love theLord, your God, with all your
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heart, which is all of youremotions, with all of your soul,
with all your volition, withall your mind, all your
cognition, all of your intellect.
You're to love him basicallywith every single bit of your
being.
That's how you're to love him.
Now, when we look in scripture,there are basically four words
that we find for the word love.
So when you read scripture youmay not always get them, but
there's four words for love.
One of them is the word storge,and that's kind of familial
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love.
That's like how mom and dadlove their child, how grandma
and grandpa love grandchildren.
That's just that natural lovethat you have for people who are
your DNA and family.
The other one is eros, and erosis that physical attraction
type love.
Okay, that you know boyfriendand girlfriend, you know husband
and wife and it better stay inthose realms.
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Okay, that's eros, all right.
The next is phileo, and phileois brotherly type love.
That's normally the type oflove that the church kind of
camps at.
We like to think that we get tothis other one I'm going to
share, but most of the time thechurch is camped in phileo.
Okay, but Jesus, the word thathe used is the word agape.
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Now, how many of you guys haveheard the word agape?
Okay, we heard it.
You know we drive down.
You see agape, christianfellows, agape church.
Well, agape is basically thesame type of love.
When said God, so loved theworld, that's agape.
And agape is the all-in love.
Agape is the love that says I,I will do absolutely anything
for you, I am totally committedto you, even to the laying down
of my life.
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All right, when Jesus said a newcommandment, and that was I
don't have time for three, butthat is the new commandment.
We have the great commandment,the great commission and then
the new commandment.
But the new commandment.
Jesus said I give you a newcommandment you love one another
.
That is agape, that is all in.
It says I will even die for you, okay.
And so Jesus says this you areto love the Lord, your God, you
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are to agape him with all yourheart, with all your soul, with
all your mind.
This is the first and greatcommandment.
In other words, you're to beall in Everything he has, every
single bit of you, single bit ofyou.
So I want to ask you a questionthis morning what does it look
like to love the Lord, your God,with all your heart, with all
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your soul and with all your mindhere in the West Valley.
What does it look like to lovethe Lord, your God, with all
your heart, with all your soul,with all your mind, here at
Cornerstone?
What does that look like?
And what should that look like?
I'm going to ask you one otherquestion how much do you really
love God?
Do we really love God in theway that Jesus said?
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This is the greatestcommandment of all.
This is the first and greatcommandment and the second is
like it.
You shall love or you shallagape your neighbor as yourself
On these two commandments, andit's all along.
The prophets he said on thosetwo things, every all the law
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and the prophets he said onthose two things.
Every other thing in scriptureis predicated on those two
things.
Everything else is predicatedon loving God with our heart,
mind, soul and strength, andloving your neighbor.
Well, who is your neighbor?
I want to suggest to you.
When Jesus said who's yourneighbor, he told the whole
story, the parable of the GoodSamaritan.
I want to suggest to you theneighbor isn't just somebody
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who's in proximity to you.
Our neighbor are those who arethe Buddhists in Thailand, the
Hindus in India, the Muslims inIran.
That's who our neighbors are.
Our neighbor is the world, ashe was saying, and our neighbor
is in the people who we alwayslike.
If you're a Republican, yourneighbor's a Democrat, if you're
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a Democrat, your neighbor's aRepublican, and if you're
neither one of those, yourneighbor's an independent, a
libertarian or whoever else.
But Jesus was saying you lovethem like you love yourself.
So what compels us?
Can I tell you really honest Ididn't want to go to Kyrgyzstan
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and Kazakhstan.
I mean, why would I want to gothere, man, especially
Kyrgyzstan man?
That was tough.
I mean, those people didn'twant us there.
I spent 24 hours with KGB.
I mean there was extortionthere.
I spent 24 hours with KGB.
I mean there was extortion, itwas dirty.
I mean it was tough.
Why would I want to go there?
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Because I love God and I lovethe world.
I love my neighbor.
That's why we did that.
We were compelled.
Why do we give?
Why do you do kingdom buildershere?
Because you love God and youlove your neighbor.
This is the why.
This is what compels us inmission.
This is what compels us inministry.
I've been in university studentministry for 42 years.
For 42 years.
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I see people in this for thelove of students.
No, I don't do this for thelove of students, I haven't done
it.
Some of those students, they'repunks, man, they're mean,
you've been on them.
Some of those students areterrible.
They're absolutely horriblepeople.
I don't do it for the love ofstudents, I do it for the love
of God.
Number one I do it for the loveof God.
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Then I do it for the love of myneighbor, which are those
really mean students at times.
But it's the love of God thatcompels us, that's what compels
us to give, that's what compelsus to go, that's what compels us
in all these things.
Let me share the last littlepoint here on scripture.
That was a great commandment.
Now let me give you thebackground of this next one.
So Jesus pulls his disciplestogether.
He's about ready to ascend upto heaven, where he would stay
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until the resurrection, thefinal resurrection, the
redemption, our hope, ourrapture.
He's going to be up there untilthen.
And so he pulls his disciplestogether.
Now there could have been asmany as hundreds of people
around at this point.
When he shares this.
Most theologians don't believeit was just the 12 who were at
that point, just the 11 who werethere, but he shares this with
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them.
Now you got to think about this.
If you're about ready to leaveand you're going to speak into
those people who you're leaving,everything with, the last
things you say are going to bepretty real important, don't you
think so?
Here's what Jesus says.
This is called the greatcommission, and Jesus came and
spoke to them saying allauthority has been given to me
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on heaven and on earth.
All authority has been given tome on heaven and on earth.
Let me just say this I broughtmy favorite book from my new
favorite author and it's on thetable out back Now.
The first session just aboutcleared them out, but there's a
few of them back there.
It's called Kingdom Authority.
It's an exegesis of thispassage and I want to tell you
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something.
I really believe it issomething that will bless every
person in here.
You will learn from that.
It's practical stories in it.
Pragmatics, good biblicalexegesis, I think will be a
blessing to you.
Also, in the back is our prayercard.
If you grab that.
Jesus said all through, heavenhas been given me.
Therefore, go, therefore, andmake disciples of all nations,
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baptizing them in the name ofthe Father and of the Son, of
the Holy Spirit, teaching themto observe all things I've
commanded you and lo.
In other words, and check thisout, I am with you always, even
to the end of the age, amen.
Now I'm going to read this onemore time.
I want you guys to think aboutthis.
You guys are in the firstservice.
You can't answer this, okay.
Jesus says all authority hasbeen given me in heaven and on
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earth.
Go, therefore, and makedisciples of all nations,
baptize them in the name of theFather and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit, teaching them toobserve all things I've
commanded you, lord, I'm withyou always, even to the end of
the age.
I want some of our Englishteachers, english majors, people
who know English, what is theprimary verb in that sentence
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that says go, therefore, makedisciples of all nations,
baptized in the name of theFather, son and Holy Spirit.
Teach it.
What's the primary verb?
Say it loud I set you up.
I set you up.
It's not go, it's makedisciples.
We always think it's go, butthe primary verb is make
disciples.
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It is not go, it is makedisciples.
And how do we make disciples?
We make disciples by going tomake disciples by baptizing, to
make disciples by teaching.
That's a process, but theprimary verb is make disciples.
All those other verbs aresubsidiary to the primary verb.
Okay, and you know, I didn'tknow this until I got in here
this morning and actually when Iwas speaking I looked and I
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said I'm looking at your corevalues on the back of your wall,
back here.
Number one love God.
What was the first thing wetalked about?
Love the Lord, your God.
Number two make disciples.
Okay, so I'm just sharing yourcore values.
And who?
But to the whole world, to thewhole world, man, that's your
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neighbor, the whole world we go.
It's called the GreatCommission.
Now, the Great Commission is tomake disciples and really, when
you read it the way it was, itkind of says as you're going,
you make disciples, baptizingthem and teaching them, and I
will be with you always, even tothe end of the age, right, but
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we have a responsibility to makedisciples, to be a disciple.
You have to be a disciple tomake a disciple.
Hear what I said You've got tobe a disciple to make a disciple
.
A disciple is a person wholoves the Lord, their God, with
all heart, mind, soul and spirit.
A disciple is somebody who isall in.
They've sold out everything,not just quote a Christian.
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You go around the world.
A lot of people put the phraseChristian on them, but they're
far from a disciple of Christ.
We're called to be disciplesand to make disciples.
Four things Assuming personalresponsibility.
Like I said, man, I was 18.
We go.
We have a responsibility to goto the nations, to go to the
people, to make disciples.
We give.
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That's why we do kingdombuilders.
We do kingdom builders so wecan send people to go, so we can
go ourselves.
We do kingdom builders tosupport the church, to make
things, that things can happen,the vision, that big picture
vision.
And then we pray.
We strategically pray and wewelcome.
When I say welcome, we welcomethe nations to us.
You know the nations are comingto us from all over and they're
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coming in Arizona as well.
The opportunity is for us towelcome them and to be able to
bring them and begin to showthem Christ.
Those are four things that wedo when we assume personal
responsibility.
Crystal and I, when we were inour kids we were in the nation
of Kyrgyzstan.
We'll go to the photo of thetwo girls.
Now we're in the nation ofKyrgyzstan.
We're walking through.
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On day one we're plantinguniversity student ministry in
Kyrgyzstan.
Day one we're walking throughthe little student union
cafeteria in the university andwe heard some people speaking
English, looked over and sawthese two girls.
I've shared this story multipletimes at this church before, but
I think it's worth sharingagain.
We saw these two girls sittingat the table, heard them speak
in English, said girls, yourEnglish is incredible.
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Where did you learn?
They said well, we learned inAmerica.
We studied in America for oneyear as internationalists.
I said oh, phenomenal.
I said what country are you guysfrom?
They said we're from the nationof Turkmenistan.
Now how do you know whereTurkmenistan is?
Again, it's only about 1% ofany congregation knows where
Turkmenistan is.
Turkmenistan is one of theCentral Asian nations, that is
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literally.
It was part of the formerSoviet Union.
It is a closed Islamic radicaldictator who runs a nation, so
it's a strong Muslim nation.
Turkmenistan is.
So the first time in my life I'mmeeting somebody from
Turkmenistan.
I'd never met anybody fromTurkmenistan until we're sitting
there with these two girls.
I said oh, wow, well, it's apleasure to meet you.
Well, thank you.
I said so what's your names?
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So the girl to our left, hername is Lita.
The girl to the right, her nameis Iyadah, and so they told us
their names.
Well, where'd you study?
So the girl to the left, nita,said well, I studied in
Wisconsin.
So she told us her story alittle bit.
Then the girl to the right, hername was Yedda.
She shares her story and shesays well, I studied in one of
those far western states.
I said which one she goes?
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Well, I don't know if you'veever been there.
I said I love that.
So what town were you in?
Well, she called it a village.
She said well, I was in thevillage of Catalina.
I said oh yeah, why Catalina?
I said.
And I had a U of A t-shirtunderneath my shirt and I
flashed the red and blue man.
I pulled it up, I'm flashingred and U of A.
And so she's talking to me.
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And back in this part of theworld, there's no ice, there's
no fountain drinks, there's noneof those kind of luxuries,
there's no convenience storeslike QT there.
It doesn't exist.
And she started talking aboutthe Circle K and the 32-ounce
thirst buster and her eyesmisted with tears as she was
talking about that.
And then she said well, while Iwas there, I moved to even a
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smaller, smaller village.
You may not know where it is.
I said I know every village inArizona.
She said, well, it was avillage of Florence.
I said, yeah, I'm from Florence, arizona.
No, no way, no way.
And let me tell you somethingEverybody there had goosebumps.
I mean these two Muslim girlshad goosebumps because Holy
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Spirit showed up right there andthey began to realize this
isn't just some coincidentalmeeting.
They started understanding thatthere was a destiny set in
motion and I mean, they gotspooked.
I'm from Florence.
I mean, I said I graduated fromFlorence High School.
I graduated from Florence HighSchool.
I'm a Florence gopher, so am I?
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I mean, they couldn't believeit.
Well, let me just go quickly.
Our very first one more friend,kai Alpha, meaning the history
of Central Asia.
The first one to come to Christwas Lita, to the left, first
one that very first week, 18months later, ieta, to the right
, the girl from Florence.
She came to Christ, baptizedthem both in water, baptized in
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the Holy Spirit.
But let me tell you somethingthat's your fruit as well,
because we would have nevergotten there had you not helped
us get there.
You guys invested extravagantlyto make sure that we got on
that field.
And I could tell you anotherhundred stories like this.
But let me just say this In thetapestry of heaven, every human
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being that was ever born issupposed to be in that tapestry.
Not every human being born willbe in that tapestry, but that
is what they were supposed to be.
Those two people will be inthat tapestry.
But what would have happened ifI would have said, ah, I don't
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want to go to Kyrgyzstan, Idon't feel like it?
What would have happened if Iwould have said you know what?
I would have missed my nowpurpose.
You see, that day that we metthem in that cafeteria, that was
purpose, that was big purpose,that was now purpose.
But guess what?
It played into destiny.
That purpose played into thosetwo girls' long-term, eternal
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destiny.
And can I tell you, every day,if we're not on purpose for God,
somebody can miss their destiny.
We can miss our destiny whenwe're not on purpose for God.
We're people of purpose, we'repeople of destiny and we're
people of vision.
Man, big things God is doingand saying.
So let me wrap things up here.
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So we're in the fourth quarter,first quarter U of A Second
quarter.
Student missions movement Thirdquarter.
National director of Chi Alpha,fourth quarter.
So when Chris and I, before we,stepped away from national
director of Chi Alpha, the Lordbegan to stir on us and said you
have another propheticapostolic plant in you.
You've got another propheticapostolic plant, overseas man.
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As we began to seek the Lord God, I mean, where would you want
us to go?
We'll go anywhere.
Where would you want us to go?
We all thought we'd go back tothe Middle East, north Africa,
central Asia.
I think everybody else thoughtwe'd probably go back there.
But I was speaking six years agoat a conference for Ravi
Zacharias, before he had, beforethe fall, ravi Zacharias.
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And so I'm speaking for RaviZacharias and one of the other
speakers' name is Rice Brooks,and Rice Brooks is the guy who
wrote the book God's Not Dead,produced the movie God's Not
Dead.
That's Rice Brooks.
So we're sitting at the tableeating lunch.
Rice said man, scott, I'm kindof jet lagged.
He said I just flew here fromIceland.
And he said I just flew herefrom Iceland.
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And he said yeah, man, I wasdoing apologetics on a
university.
And he said 99.8% of Icelanders, 18 to 25, do not believe in
God, believe Jesus is just ahistorical figure and the
Bible's a myth.
But they all believe in fairies, elves and demons.
Now, when he said that, some onmy mind I just kind of chuckled
and said, oh, I could work withthose guys.
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You know, never, ever thinkingI would.
So Chris and I are processingGod.
Where would you have us go?
And I'm telling you, at night Iwould keep hearing Rice Brooks'
sentence 99.8% collegiatedemographic don't believe in God
.
9.8% Collegiate demographicDon't believe in God.
And it would just keep playingover and over.
Then one day I said Crystal, doyou think maybe the Lord would
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have us go to Iceland?
She goes Iceland.
But the more we began to dig,the more we began to discover
Iceland is totally Viking.
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The Vikings founded in 874 AD.
Every single Icelander is aViking descent, 100% of them,
all their livestock are ofViking descent.
It's all the remnants of theViking.
It's all the remnants of theViking.
But in the history since 874,there has never been a Christian
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awakening in the history of thenation.
They've never had an awakening.
Now there's been otherawakenings, there's been pagan
awakenings, but it has neverseen a Holy Spirit, spiritual
kingdom, awakening in all of thehistory of this nation.
Now there are 10 Pentecostalchurches in Iceland, in nation.
Now there are 10 Pentecostalchurches in Iceland, in the
whole nation there are 10Pentecostal churches.
They have seven pastors andonly three of those are
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full-time.
Are you getting the picture?
There is no Assembly of Godmissionaries on there.
There's no quote Assemblies ofGod period in the nation.
These churches are all looselyaffiliated, these 10.
There's no Baptist missionariesin the nation.
There are no Methodists.
I mean, basically there'snothing.
There's no Campus Crusade forChrist, there's no Navigators,
there's no InterVarsity, there'sno Chi Alpha, there's no
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Students for Christ.
There's nothing.
And in the history there'snever been a campus ministry
other than the state-runLutheran.
That isn't even really a campusministry.
It is considered the mostliberal, tolerant, lgbtq nation
on earth.
There's strongholds, paganstrongholds and sexual
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strongholds there that are justsick and profound Things where
the enemy has just fought,fought an entire nation on.
They've never had any form ofawakening.
There's no.
Basically there's hardlyanything going on there.
So God begins to show us.
We say yes, yes, we need to sayyes to Iceland, and so we make
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the commitment to go.
Well, assemblies of God WorldMissions sends a letter to.
I call him the bishop.
He jokes and calls himself theCEO, but he's kind of the
facilitator of these 10 churches.
He tries to keep them connectedrelationally.
Okay, that's what he does.
And they sent him a letter andthey said if we could send you a
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missionary couple to Iceland todo anything, what's your
priority, what's the one thingyou'd want them to do?
He sends back and says we'vebeen praying for movement on our
universities for eight years.
If you could send us anybody towork with university students,
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that would be our number onepreference.
Not even knowing that God hadalready spoken to us, you guys
never knowing this, we believeour universities are ripe right
now for a mighty move of God.
When they heard that they weregetting national directors of
Chi Alpha, they couldn't believeit.
The nation I'm going to tellthis a little bit more here, jay
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, than I did in this first one.
It's interesting they could notbelieve it.
We said yes.
So in March we'd been there fourtimes since then and so in
March we were in nation and thiswas kind of their council, to
where all the churches and thechurch leaders get together and
they get together in one placeand they begin to just pray and
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show what's going on and beginto strategize and have some
teaching.
So all these 10 churches cometogether and anybody who's a
leader is in this church and aleader is.
If you fold the bulletin,you're a leader.
Okay, it doesn't matter whatyou do.
Oh, you picked.
Okay, you're a bulletin.
Yeah, you're in.
So that's a leader.
So there were 80 people.
So you got to understand.
In the entire Pentecostalchurch, anybody did anything.
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There were 80 people at thiscouncil.
Well, they had crystalline comeup and let me just say this
missionaries, especially inEurope, aren't always welcome,
you got to understand're notalways welcome.
At times they're seen asculture destroyers, you know.
So they're not always welcome.
And so they have us come up andthey interviewed us for an hour
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and 15 minutes, publicly, andGod just began to open up doors
to begin to talk about awakeningon the campus, been talking
about what God was speaking,doing the prophetic words, and
I'm telling you, crystal and Ifeel like we are living oracles
of prophecy because the Lord hadspoken to them that he was
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going to send two people to thenation who are experts in
university and student ministryand to help make this and to
help this things be fulfilled.
They're sharing all this here.
So we're all going like god,you're doing something.
It's purpose now, this is ourpurpose now.
There's big term destiny as we,in a way, faces in the tapestry
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of the kingdom, and there'svision to believe god for great
things.
Man, man, I said at the end.
I said look, we're Americans,we're two Americans, we're
always going to be American, Isaid.
But we want to be as Icelandicas two Americans have ever been.
I said so what I'm asking?
From now on, when you use theword we, that Crystal and I are
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part of your we and anytime yousay us, the word part of your us
.
Man, they had us come downright.
Then All 80 of them got aroundus, got down on their hands and
knees, began to pray over us,began to pray blessing and at
the end the elder said you areus and from that moment they
took us in and they only treatus as them.
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It's not like all the Americans.
It's Scott and Crystal who wereus.
I'm telling you, god is doingthe supernatural.
Let me share the last littlepicture Now.
I'm not here, by the way.
I'm not here to try to getmonthly pledge.
You guys have supported us for35 years.
I'm here to tell you how wehave partnered in ministry and
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how God is beginning to do somethings to our neighbors, to our
neighbors who felt like God hadforgotten them.
So in December, the first weekof December, holy Spirit speaks
to me and says Scott, when youand Crystal get to Iceland,
there's a young couple inIceland who are looking forward
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to connecting with you andyou're going to disciple them
and they are influential inpolitics, influential in
education, influential ineconomics, in the military that
hasn't started yet.
All the way up to the presidentand the prime minister.
I shared that with Crystal.
I said man, I feel like theLord's telling us that we're
going to be discipling a couplewho's influential all the way up
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.
So we talked about this word.
One week later we're speaking atour little assembly got church
in Mayer I shouldn't say littleassembly got church.
Our healthy assembly got churchin Mayer Mission Church.
And at the end the pastor saidScott and Crystal, can I chat
with you guys for a minute?
Sure, hey, when you walked inthe foyer the Lord gave me a
prophetic word.
And the Lord said that when youand Crystal get to Iceland,
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you're going to meet a youngcouple who are very influential.
They're influential ineconomics, in education, in
politics, in the military.
That has been formed all theway up to the president and
prime minister.
We're going.
Gosh man.
The Lord just spoke this to usone week ago, exactly, word for
word.
One month later we're in anothermeeting.
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A woman comes up to Crystal andsaid Crystal, when I came in
here I felt like the Lord had aword for you.
And here's what the Lord sayswhen you and Scott get to
Iceland, you are going to meet ayoung couple who are very
influential in politics, ineducation, economics, even up to
the president and primeminister.
We're sitting there going.
God, we can't wait.
You get us there quick.
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You know we're ready to go.
So in March we just came backlast month, it was a few weeks
ago, but in March, after thisbig meeting I'm sitting with the
CEO facilitator of thePentecostal Church and his wife.
We're in their home Shared ameal with the kids.
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It's just talking about whatGod is saying, what God is doing
, and I'm telling you the faithlevel, the expectation level
Rich, cindy, jay, celeste I'venever seen this in my life
anywhere, anywhere have I everseen an expectation level.
These people are expecting God,jesus, to show up on that
island here real soon.
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I mean it's powerful, theexpectation level.
We're sitting there talking andthey said, oh, by the way,
scott and Crystal, there's ayoung couple here in Iceland who
they can't wait to meet you.
They want you to disciple them,said they're the most
influential Christians on thiswhole nation.
They're influential ineconomics, in education, in
politics and the military.
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I just started, and all the wayup to the president and prime
minister, well, I mean, we'rehearing this right here in
Iceland.
We're just totally when.
We said, well, who are they?
I mean, who are these people?
Oh, they know you.
I said they know us.
Yes, they know who you guys are.
Well, how could they know us?
They were a part of Chi Alphaand this couple listen, this
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couple had been a part of one ofour Chi Alpha groups.
And when I was national, I saidwhat year were they?
2014 to 2016.
So when I first became nationaldirector, they became a part of
Chi Alpha.
Two Icelandic internationalstudents I'm going to go.
Oh, yeah, they know who you areand they are so excited about
you coming.
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They can't wait to connect withyou.
I said, well, what, what campusare they from?
I said I know every campus, Iknow all 300 of them in the
States.
He goes well, let me find out.
He texts him within one minute.
The guy takes back Embry-RiddleUniversity, prescott, Arizona.
You can't script this stuff out.
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You cannot script this stuffout.
And here's what they said wewould never be serving Jesus
today and doing what we're doinghad it not been for Chi Alpha
and Embry-Rill and had it notbeen for what the Lord had done
and how they poured into us andhow all the different stuff in
Chi Alpha.
And they said we just cannotwait to connect with them.
I'm telling you, god's aboutready to do something great on
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that island and I want to saythank you so much for your
partnership, for your giving.
We're in this together and youknow, celeste, I know you guys
are committed to coming out inApril for the Inspire Conference
.
That's going to be a powerful,powerful time, chris, I mean,
and Jay, I just give theinvitation that someday we get
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some guys out there too, or guysand gals.
God's about ready to dosomething great on ice and some
things that have never been donebefore.
We thank you for yourpartnership.
Why am I going to Iceland.
I'm in the fourth quarter.
I'd be more comfortable stayinghere.
I would be Be much morecomfortable.
I could sell everything we have, buy a place up in
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Springerville and just fishevery day and hunt during the
hunting season.
Buy a place up in Springervilleand just fish every day and
hunt during the hunting season.
My sons are both accomplished.
One of them's an attorney forLions Defending Freedom in North
Scottsdale.
The other one's wrapping up aPhD.
I don't need to go to Iceland.
I don't need to go.
I've had all the adventure Ineed for my life.
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I don't need any more.
All the adventure I need for mylife.
I don't need anymore.
But I go because I love God.
I go because of the love of Godand the love of my neighbors.
I go because Jesus asked me tomake disciples of all nations.
I go because I love God makedisciples, reach the world.
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That's why we do what we do.
So as we wrap up here, Iapologize.
I'm over and I apologize.
How much of God do you have?
How much of God do you reallyhave?
How much do you love the Lord,your God?
How much do we love others?
Would you stand up with me ifyou would please, jesus.
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I thank you, lord, for my dearfriends here at Cornerstone and,
lord, I apologize publicly toJay and Celeste for going over,
to Jay and Celeste for goingover.
But, lord, I pray that today wewould all evaluate just how much
we really love you, lord, god.
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I pray we would evaluate, lord,what it means to love the Lord,
our God, with all our heart,mind, soul and strength here in
the West Valley, here atCornerstone.
Lord, I pray that we would takeserious evaluation today and I
pray, lord, god, god, that youwould speak to us personally,
not just corporately.
You'd speak to us about ourresponsibilities to you and to
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your kingdom and to your will.
Lord, god, I pray that today,when people leave, they are
reminded they are people ofpurpose right now.
There's a reason why they'rehere today.
There's a reason why they'll bedoing what they're doing
tomorrow.
May they fulfill their purpose,god.
May they be people of destiny,remembering God.
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They're weaving some things inthe tapestry of the kingdom, god
, may they be full of vision,vision for the personalized
vision for their church orvision for you.
Father, ask in Jesus' name.
I'm going to ask every one ofus who would just come forward.
I'm going to ask if you justcome forward up to the altar and
just take a minute and justbegin to ask the Lord Jesus, how
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do you say I love you?
I don't want you to say this,lord, I love you, but allow
Jesus to speak to us.
Jesus, how do you say I loveyou?
And I want to ask you one otherquestion how far are you
willing to go for Christ, howfar are each of us willing to go
?
And Jesus, how do you say welove you?
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Amen.
I'm asking everybody, come onon up, come on up to the front
and as an active response.
Today you've heard thischallenge from Scott about what
God wants to do in and throughyou see, sometimes it's not just
about you, it's about what hewants to do through you to other
people.
And you've heard that storyabout taking a little kid out of
Florence and taking him acrossthe world and then intersecting
that story with another girlfrom across the world.
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From that was spent time inFlorence, or these couples that
are here, influential in thefuture.
What God is going to do, andthat's the same story he has for
your life that he wants to doin and through you.
And so, as we go into thismoment of this worship moment,
we we have a song here torespond.
I want to encourage you to dothis that you just open up your
hands, like this, to the Lordand say, lord, what my agenda?
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I give it over to you.
And, lord, I ask for animpartation of your spirit, of
your guidance, of your wisdom,of who you are for me.
And as we go into the song thatyou would just pour yourself out
upon me, lord, we just praythat right now, in this moment.
Holy Spirit, have your way inus, lord, pour yourself out upon
us.
Lord, that you would have, lord, you would guide and direct us.
Lord, we ask you for more ofwho you are.
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Lord, we do ask you for thattouch in our body.
We ask you for that healingtouch, lord, we ask you for in
our spirit and in who we are.
Lord, in every part of us.
Lord, that you would have yourway in us.
But, lord, it's because we wantto be used by you for the
destiny that you have for us,lord, that we would say yes,
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with the vision that you'vegiven to us, for our family and
for our friends and for ourneighbors and for our sphere of
influence, lord, that we couldsay yes to you, that you would
use us, lord, for your glory.
Lord, that we wouldn't just staycomfortable but, lord, we would
have that mission that we wantto live for you, lord, as we do.
It's always our challenge, lord, we would have that mission
that we want to live for you,lord, as we do.
It's always our challenge, lord, that we want to be more like
Jesus.
So, lord, as we sing thosewords today, we do with
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intentionality.
In the name of Jesus Christ.
Let's worship the Lord together.
I want to say thanks for yourgrace and going a little bit
longer this today, but I thinkit was worth it.
How many people areappreciative of Scott's ministry
to us today?
So very thankful for that.
Hey, come back next week.
I know the guy.
He has a long nose, but thesermon will be shorter.
Speaker 3 (54:06):
I want to let you know too.
If any of you have anybodygraduating in your family,
please let us know.
We want to honor them in acouple of weeks.
You can go on the app.
If they're graduating highschool, college or trade
anything, we want to celebratewith them, and so make sure that
the church is aware of that.
Also, we're having babydedications next week, and so we
want to pray over as a churchand bless your children.
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So if you would like to haveyour kids dedicated, you can
also call the office if you haveany questions, but you can sign
up through the app.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
Before we go, I want to pray this blessing over us.
Before we go, I want to praythis blessing over us the Lord
bless you and keep you.
Lord, make his face to shineupon you and be gracious to you.
Lord, lift up his countenanceupon you and give you peace.
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Lord, I pray a blessing uponyour church, your people, lord,
that you empower us by yourspirit to live your love out to
those around us.
We pray all this in thepowerful name that is Jesus
Christ.
Amen, amen.
Know this.
We love you very much here atCornerstone.
God bless you and have a greatweek.
You say amen to that church.
Amen, exactly.
What we believe is that we arepeople of God and that we have a
mission that he set us upon.
Today we have a greatopportunity in that we get to
hear from a guest speaker inScott Martin.
Scott and Crystal are apostolicleaders.
They've gone and church planted, both on the university campus
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as well in Kyrgyzstan andKazakhstan, and done missions,
endeavors across the world,leading Chi Alpha as national
and international leaders, andthat is a ministry on the
university campus focused atuniversity students, because we
know, as goes university goesthe country, and so we're after
the hearts and minds of thepeople that are the future
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leaders of the world, and that'swhat they've been about is
being those who are shining andminds of the people that are the
future leaders of the world,and that's what they've been
about is being those who areshining the light of the gospel
in those places.
We are very privileged to havethem with us.
We've been partnered with themfor all these many years.
Please give a warm Cornerstonewelcome to Dr Scott Markin as he
comes today.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, good morning, mighty men and women of God.
Okay, all 50 of you, let's tryit again.
Good morning, mighty men andwomen of God.
Oh, there we go.
Hey, it's so good to be with youthis morning and I would be
remiss if I didn't start bysaying thank you to this church
who has partnered with us inmission for 35 years, and I mean
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thanks to you.
I want to salute you today andI especially just want to say
thank you so much to Pastor Richand Cindy who, when I was just
man I get choked up I mean whenI I was a young man starting a
ministry and this man reallytook me under his wings and he
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took time for me, he took timewith me, he invested into my
life, spoke life, envisionedkingdom, purpose.
And then, not just to me but tomy wife and to my sons, I can
tell you right now, we would notbe who we are today, we would
not be where we are today, hadit not been for Rich and Cindy,
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and we have spent Lord knows howmany hours together.
I just want to say, I just wanta little caveat when we were
living in Kazakhstan, plantingcampus ministry there, I asked
Rich and Cindy, if they wouldcome out and do our retreat for
our leaders, our missionaries inKazakhstan, and ended up a
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whole field retreat.
It ended up all the AssambegaWorld missionaries in Kazakhstan
came by asking to focus just onHoly Spirit and really baptism
of Holy Spirit over our people.
And it was awesome.
I mean, when we got down thatfinal time of prayer, it was
100%.
I mean, there was 100%.
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So I can never say thanksenough to you two for your
investment into our lives and,like I said, we wouldn't be who
we are today, we wouldn't bewhere we're going today, if it
weren't for you and I honor youtoday.
We love you very, very much.
I mean the Martins love you andhonor you, would do anything
for you and for your kids toonow.
So we're really grateful.
We're so, so grateful.
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And I just want to start bysaying too this morning that you
know, every single one of youhere are people of purpose and
destiny and vision.
From the moment you wereconceived in your womb, god
began to set some things onpurpose for your life.
You know what I'm saying.
I mean, god began to set adestiny in your life the minute
that you were conceived, and soevery one of us are people of
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purpose.
We're people of destiny, shouldbe people of vision, that God
has a vision for your life.
You were created with a visionfrom God for your life, for who
you would be and what you wouldbecome, and so these are
powerful kingdom principles tounderstand Now.
I'm talking about purpose.
I'm talking about that now.
Reason.
So you are here this morning onpurpose.
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It's not like some random thingI don't believe in, like
randomness.
Okay, I believe everything ison purpose.
Okay, sometimes we makemistakes, and even those are on
purpose of the enemy.
You hear what I'm saying, butthere are things.
Everything is purpose.
So we are people of purpose.
Purpose is now.
It's what we do now with ourlife.
It's our now reason.
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It's why we're at high schooltoday, why we're on university
today, why we're at work today.
It's what we do every singleday when you get out of bed,
it's Lord, help me understandand fulfill my purpose today,
which is always in alignmentwith you.
The second thing is destiny.
Destiny is that long-term, thatlong-term part of our life
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that's from birth to death.
That is destiny and that Godsets things in motion for your
destiny to be fulfilled.
And every day when you fulfillyour purpose, your destiny
becomes more and more solidlyconfirmed as you move forward.
We're people of destiny andalso we should be people of
vision, because God has a visionfor your life.
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God created you with a visionand I just say this vision is
imagining what God can do.
That's what vision is.
It's imagining what God can do.
I say imagine what God could dowith 500 people irrevocably
committed to him out here in theWest Valley.
Imagine what God could do.
Imagine what God could do whichis one life in here who says I
am all in God, anytime, anywhere, any place, I am all in.
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That is vision, and vision isimagining what God can do.
Now, I want to suggest to saythat there's no circumstance
that can circumvent God'spurposes, his destiny and vision
.
Now, I didn't say this in thefirst one, but when I think
about it, there is one thing,there's one thing that can
circumvent your purpose beingfulfilled in God, your destiny.
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There's one thing that cancircumvent that and that's you.
It's not the devil, it's you.
And see, by not saying I'm allin Lord, there's one thing but
man, when we're wholly committed, god can do great things to
your life.
Matter of fact, every one ofyou were ordained for greatness
in the kingdom of God.
Every single one of you in herewere ordained for that.
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You got to get that.
You got to understand that.
Well, scott, you don't know mycircumstances, dude, but you
don't know my relationships.
You don't know what I've done.
You don't know where I've been.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, I may not, but God does.
I can tell you this God's notdictated by circumstances.
God's not dictated by anycircumstance at all whatsoever.
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I was born a single parent.
Really, if it was, I shouldn'tbe standing before you today
because I was born a singleparent.
I've never seen my naturalfather.
The only male figure in myfamily was my grandfather.
He committed suicide in thehouse.
When I was five.
I was left to live with mygrandmother in inner city
Phoenix.
I can tell you, at the age ofeight, things were not looking
really good for me.
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My mom died when I was eightyears old.
I was left with my grandmotherand things were not looking good
.
Matter of fact, if you wouldhave looked at circumstances, no
one would have ever said I willbe standing before you today.
Most people would have saidhe's been doing good to stay out
of jail.
But God's got a purpose.
God has a destiny for everylife.
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God has a vision for our lives.
At the age of eight I began tointersect with the Martin family
.
Now I'm not Scott Martin bybirth, I'm Scott Mercer by birth
.
But the Martin family tooknotice of me.
They started inviting me tohang out with them.
So I hung out with them.
When I was nine years old theyinvited me to church.
I'd never been in anevangelical church up to this
point in my life.
I'd only been in very liberalchurch, liberal Judaism, a
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little bit of Mormonism, kind ofmixed in with all that stuff.
When I was eight years old Icrossed the threshold of Central
Assembly of God on 9th and OakStreet down in downtown Phoenix,
arizona and for the first timein life I experienced the love
of the church.
Now, how many guys know there'sa difference between
experiencing the love of thechurch and the love of God?
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You know there's a difference.
You guys know there's adifference.
Yeah, do you know what it is?
God loves everybody.
I still laugh every time I saythat.
But I walked in and Iexperienced the love of the
church.
Those people loved a littleeight year old boy and took me A
matter of fact, my Sundayschool teacher that morning.
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Her name was Kathy Jew, she'sfrom Casa Grande, arizona, and
she was in her first year ofteaching high school that year
and yes, celeste knows her and Iwas in her Sunday school class
and from that day on she tookthis little kid with no mom or
dad, really no hope, took meunder her wing and I stayed with
her last night before I camedown.
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After all those years, that'scalled the love of the church.
Okay, people who love andcommit by experiencing the love
of the church.
So I got involved.
I did Royal Rangers, I didSunday school, but when I was
nine years old, the Martinfamily invited me to move in
with them, and so the neat thingwas that I got a new mom and
dad.
The challenging thing is that Ialso got three sisters with
that package, and so they movedfrom Phoenix to Florence.
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Okay, everybody say Florence.
Okay, that wasn't everybody,we'll say it again.
Everybody say Florence,florence.
There's a reason why we'resaying that.
Okay, I want everyone to kindof get that in your head.
So they moved from Phoenix toFlorence out of Farmer Ranch.
Out there, my new dad becamethe junior high principal.
My mom became a school teachereventually and administrator
there as well, and there was noSpirit-filled church in the
community.
Now we all know what Florenceis renowned for okay, the state
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prison there Tough place growingup.
So there was no Spirit-filledchurch in the community.
So the Martin family kind oftook it upon themselves as lay
people said you know what, wewant to see a Spirit-filled
church here.
So they only knew about theAssemblies of God and we don't
get the Assemblies of God in thekingdom of God confused.
But they got a hold of them andsaid, hey, we want to see a
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church.
So I watched this family as laypeople really give and give
sacrificially to make sure thatthe church there would exist
today Florence First Assembly ofGod.
And so I was raised in thechurch from the time I was eight
and I did everything he did asa good church kid.
I mean, when the doors wereopen I was there.
I mean I went to Sunday school.
I was a Royal Ranger.
Some of you may know what thatis, but I was a Royal Ranger.
I went to youth camp, I went tokids camp.
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I did all the things he did asa good church kid.
But being raised in Florence wasa challenge.
264 students in my high school,62 students in my graduating
class, and there were only thismany believers in that entire
high school.
Now I'm only holding up fourand a half fingers here, okay.
So I was like half a finger atthat point.
Man, I was barely hanging on.
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I was basically when I hit highschool, I was just kind of
nominal.
There's no real fire of God inmy life.
I was just kind of nominal,just barely hanging on.
I said I was more like aChristian narcissist.
I wanted just enough Jesus tokeep me out of hell but make all
my dreams come true.
It was all about me.
And so I'm there at Florence,two people in my youth group,
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just kind of give you a thought,two people in my youth group
and I didn't even like the otherperson, and that was my sister,
by the way, it's my sister,debbie.
So it was just kind of small.
I was in a real small on a goodSunday morning there were 40
people in the church.
So it was a tough existence.
And so when I graduated, mywhole goal was to get my medical
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doctor degree and to just livehappily ever after make a bunch
of money.
And God was there to help makeall my dreams come true.
Make sure that my dreams werefulfilled.
It was all about that.
So I get on campus Thursday,august 25th 1980-something.
My undergraduate is in biology,my master's from the U of A is
in soil and water science and mydoctorate is from Selma Gaudi
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Theological Seminary.
And it was my first day.
It was so bio 103, and I had aGod encounter in that class that
would forever form me.
In my very first class theprofessor kind of put out a
challenge and it shook me andall of a sudden, for the first
time I realized I didn't havewhat it took to be the man of
God that God had called me to beon the university.
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I just didn't have what it took.
And that night I ended up in aninter-varsity Christian
fellowship meeting.
I saw some posters up that saidChristian fellowship.
I went to that night.
I brought my unsaved Romanian,but I walked through the
threshold of the door there were80 students with one acoustic
guitar.
They were going for God withthat sense of passion and
authenticity that I neverexperienced in my own age group,
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without some form ofmanipulation.
And I mean they were going forGod and I sensed the tangible
presence of the Lord when Iwalked into that room and I said
, whatever it is they have, Ineed that and I want that.
Can I suggest to you today thatthere's something powerful
about the authentic presence andanointing of the Lord over
people, something powerful aboutthat.
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Well, that night we're in themeeting, just completely student
run.
I'm walking out the back doorand one of the upper class
students catches me before I getout the door.
He goes.
You first day on campus.
Yeah, he goes.
I'm Paul.
I said I'm Scott.
He said well, scott, how'd youlike to do breakfast with me in
the morning?
He was a senior and I said,really.
He said yeah, so that nextmorning I'm sitting down with
Paul in one of the cafeterias inthe student union at the
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University of Arizona and Pauljust begins to query me.
Now, scott, tell me a littleabout your family.
Oh, okay, that's interesting.
Why'd you pick the U of A?
All right, what are youstudying here?
Okay, how long have you been aChristian?
Yeah, all right.
Now how's your quiet time?
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I said my what.
He said your quiet time.
I said well, I'm pretty good.
I'm getting about six hourssleep a night.
You know I'm doing all right.
I had no idea.
When he said quiet time, he wastalking about my daily time and
the word and prayer.
Now I was 18 years old.
I'd been raised in the churchbut I had never read the Bible
for myself.
Now I heard every message thatcould ever be preached.
I knew all the stories.
I'd been to Sunday school.
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I could quote a few scriptures.
I'd been a Royal Ranger, but Ihad never read the Bible for
myself.
And so Paul didn't just saywell, scott, you need to start
reading your Bible.
Paul taught me how to read myBible.
I mean, he set me on a course,that first semester to, where I
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read the entire Bible, my firstsemester on the U of A, and it
transformed my life.
Let me tell you something.
There's something powerful whenyou assume personal
responsibility for the words ofJesus.
It's no longer just well,that's Pastor Jay and Pastor
Celeste, that's their job,that's somebody else's job.
No, when we all assume personalresponsibility, it's a powerful
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thing, and it was there, on thesecular university, that I
bowed my knee and said okay,jesus, I'm giving you every
minute of the day, every breathI breathe, every dollar I make.
I surrender it to you and Ireally have not ever wavered
from that mandate that I madethere at the U of A as an
18-year-old student.
Sometimes we get afraid thatthe big, bad university is going
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to destroy our kids.
It was the greatest thing thatever happened in my life.
The secular university was thegreatest thing that ever
happened because it was thereI'd meet the fullness of Jesus
Christ and see the power ofChrist manifested on the campus.
Well, I need to go quick, but westarted Chi Alpha at the
University of Arizona.
Chi Alpha is a collegeministries of the Assemblies of
God on the secular university.
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So basically, I am now Crystaland I are going into what we
call our fourth quarter ofministry.
So quarter number one.
When you guys first partneredwith us ministry, so quarter
number one.
When you guys first partneredwith us.
Okay, I have been.
I'm now in my 39th year as anAssemblies of God missionary.
Okay, in my 39th year.
But as I started at theuniversity, this church, under
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Pastor Rich and Cindy, picked usup as missionaries.
They've been with us all thattime.
First quarter was 15 years atthe University of Arizona.
Second quarter Chris Lawpioneered the student missions
arm of Chi Alpha.
That would send us toKyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan where
he began to challenge hundredsof thousands of university
students that they had aresponsibility to go, to give,
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to pray and to welcome.
And we began to challenge themto give a year of missions and
pray about a lifetime.
We said this the Mormons havebeen giving two years and we've
been giving excuses.
Yeah, I'll let that sit withyou for a minute.
That was quarter two, thirdquarter.
I was asked to serve asnational director of Chi Alpha.
I did that for nine and a halfyears and at the conclusion of
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that, the Lord began to speak toChris and I about we had
another prophetic apostolicplant in us overseas, chris and
I about we had another propheticapostolic plant in us overseas.
And so I'm not going to go intoa whole lot of details right now
, but I will in a little whileabout our new calling and
mission to the nation of Icelandand just your partnership with
all this is so, so grateful.
So this is our fourth quarter.
We're going into our fourthquarter and games are won and
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lost.
In what quarter?
The fourth quarter.
So we're all in.
It's in the hand of God, it'sin the miraculous and the
prophetic begin to set up.
As a matter of fact, we feellike we're literally living
oracles of the prophetic goinginto Iceland, and I'll share a
couple of those things with you.
But I want to just share just acouple thoughts with you this
morning.
I call it the two greats God'spriority, our possessions and
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God's priorities.
Okay, the two greats, ourpossessions, in other words, the
stuff that you have, control of, our possessions and God's
priorities, and how ourpossessions and God's priorities
line up.
So I want to share a passage ofscripture, but before I do, I
want to give you the backgroundof this passage.
Okay, so the religious leadersof the day when Jesus was in
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ministry, they were all tryingto trap him, they were jealous
of him, they were trying to traphim, and they wanted to trap
him literally so they coulddestroy him, so they could
literally take him out of thepicture, they could kill him.
So they're trying to catch himin something that he was going
to say that would try to putallege some kind of crime and
destroy him.
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That's what they were doing.
So the first time this happened, one of the time, they came up
the Pharisees, and they began toask him a question on whether
they should pay taxes to Caesar.
All right, so now they'retrying to get him in trouble
with the Romans.
Hey, you know, should we paytaxes?
And Jesus said, well, let mesee some money.
So they brought him a coin andhe looked at it and he goes
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whose picture's on this coin andwhose name?
Caesar?
Well, if it's Caesar's, give itto him.
I mean, so he just fries himright there, just publicly
humiliates him.
That question was all donepublicly.
Well then, the next time, thatwas the Pharisees, the next one
was the Sadducees, another sectof the Jewish leaders, and this
time they query him publicly.
They said hey, we had a personwho, a woman, who was married to
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seven brothers.
They all had her At the end.
Whose wife will she be?
Well, again, he just publiclyexcoriates them, just humiliates
them all publicly.
This passage we're about to readis the final time Jesus is
questioned publicly.
He's never questioned againpublicly after this question.
That's about ready to come tohim.
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So after the Pharisees and theSadducees just got torched by
Jesus, they came together andthey got this doctor of the law,
this person who is the experton the law of Moses, basically
what we know as the OldTestament.
He was the expert and so heknew it all they come, and now
this man has Jesus in public andhe asks him this question here
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it is Teacher, which is thegreat commandment of the law.
Now, let me just stop rightthere.
Do you understand what this guyasked Jesus?
Do you understand what he askedhim?
He said Jesus, what is thegreatest thing in all of this,
what is the most important thingin all the scripture?
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So I want to suggest somethingto every single one of us.
We're people of purpose, peopleof destiny, people of vision.
Let me suggest something to you.
You cannot get this wrong, youcannot miss this answer, because
Jesus is going to answer him onwhat is the most important
thing in all of scripture.
If there's one thing, this isthe thing you cannot get wrong
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Teacher, which is a greatcommandment in the law.
And Jesus said to him get wrongTeacher, which is a great
commandment in the law.
And Jesus said to him you shalllove the Lord, your God, with
all your heart, with all yoursoul and with all your mind.
This is the first and the greatcommandment.
In other words, this is themost important commandment of
all that you are to love theLord, your God, with all your
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heart, which is all of youremotions, with all of your soul,
with all your volition, withall your mind, all your
cognition, all of your intellect.
You're to love him basicallywith every single bit of your
being.
That's how you're to love him.
Now, when we look in scripture,there are basically four words
that we find for the word love.
So when you read scripture youmay not always get them, but
there's four words for love.
One of them is the word storge,and that's kind of familial
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love.
That's like how mom and dadlove their child, how grandma
and grandpa love grandchildren.
That's just that natural lovethat you have for people who are
your DNA and family.
The other one is eros, and erosis that physical attraction
type love.
Okay, that you know boyfriendand girlfriend, you know husband
and wife and it better stay inthose realms.
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Okay, that's eros, all right.
The next is phileo, and phileois brotherly type love.
That's normally the type oflove that the church kind of
camps at.
We like to think that we get tothis other one I'm going to
share, but most of the time thechurch is camped in phileo.
Okay, but Jesus, the word thathe used is the word agape.
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Now, how many of you guys haveheard the word agape?
Okay, we heard it.
You know we drive down.
You see agape, christianfellows, agape church.
Well, agape is basically thesame type of love.
When said God, so loved theworld, that's agape.
And agape is the all-in love.
Agape is the love that says I,I will do absolutely anything
for you, I am totally committedto you, even to the laying down
of my life.
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All right, when Jesus said a newcommandment, and that was I
don't have time for three, butthat is the new commandment.
We have the great commandment,the great commission and then
the new commandment.
But the new commandment.
Jesus said I give you a newcommandment you love one another
.
That is agape, that is all in.
It says I will even die for you, okay.
And so Jesus says this you areto love the Lord, your God, you
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are to agape him with all yourheart, with all your soul, with
all your mind.
This is the first and greatcommandment.
In other words, you're to beall in Everything he has, every
single bit of you, single bit ofyou.
So I want to ask you a questionthis morning what does it look
like to love the Lord, your God,with all your heart, with all
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your soul and with all your mindhere in the West Valley.
What does it look like to lovethe Lord, your God, with all
your heart, with all your soul,with all your mind, here at
Cornerstone?
What does that look like?
And what should that look like?
I'm going to ask you one otherquestion how much do you really
love God?
Do we really love God in theway that Jesus said?
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This is the greatestcommandment of all.
This is the first and greatcommandment and the second is
like it.
You shall love or you shallagape your neighbor as yourself
On these two commandments, andit's all along.
The prophets he said on thosetwo things, every all the law
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and the prophets he said onthose two things.
Every other thing in scriptureis predicated on those two
things.
Everything else is predicatedon loving God with our heart,
mind, soul and strength, andloving your neighbor.
Well, who is your neighbor?
I want to suggest to you.
When Jesus said who's yourneighbor, he told the whole
story, the parable of the GoodSamaritan.
I want to suggest to you theneighbor isn't just somebody
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who's in proximity to you.
Our neighbor are those who arethe Buddhists in Thailand, the
Hindus in India, the Muslims inIran.
That's who our neighbors are.
Our neighbor is the world, ashe was saying, and our neighbor
is in the people who we alwayslike.
If you're a Republican, yourneighbor's a Democrat, if you're
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a Democrat, your neighbor's aRepublican, and if you're
neither one of those, yourneighbor's an independent, a
libertarian or whoever else.
But Jesus was saying you lovethem like you love yourself.
So what compels us?
Can I tell you really honest Ididn't want to go to Kyrgyzstan
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and Kazakhstan.
I mean, why would I want to gothere, man, especially
Kyrgyzstan man?
That was tough.
I mean, those people didn'twant us there.
I spent 24 hours with KGB.
I mean there was extortionthere.
I spent 24 hours with KGB.
I mean there was extortion, itwas dirty.
I mean it was tough.
Why would I want to go there?
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Because I love God and I lovethe world.
I love my neighbor.
That's why we did that.
We were compelled.
Why do we give?
Why do you do kingdom buildershere?
Because you love God and youlove your neighbor.
This is the why.
This is what compels us inmission.
This is what compels us inministry.
I've been in university studentministry for 42 years.
For 42 years.
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I see people in this for thelove of students.
No, I don't do this for thelove of students, I haven't done
it.
Some of those students, they'repunks, man, they're mean,
you've been on them.
Some of those students areterrible.
They're absolutely horriblepeople.
I don't do it for the love ofstudents, I do it for the love
of God.
Number one I do it for the loveof God.
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Then I do it for the love of myneighbor, which are those
really mean students at times.
But it's the love of God thatcompels us, that's what compels
us to give, that's what compelsus to go, that's what compels us
in all these things.
Let me share the last littlepoint here on scripture.
That was a great commandment.
Now let me give you thebackground of this next one.
So Jesus pulls his disciplestogether.
He's about ready to ascend upto heaven, where he would stay
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until the resurrection, thefinal resurrection, the
redemption, our hope, ourrapture.
He's going to be up there untilthen.
And so he pulls his disciplestogether.
Now there could have been asmany as hundreds of people
around at this point.
When he shares this.
Most theologians don't believeit was just the 12 who were at
that point, just the 11 who werethere, but he shares this with
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them.
Now you got to think about this.
If you're about ready to leaveand you're going to speak into
those people who you're leaving,everything with, the last
things you say are going to bepretty real important, don't you
think so?
Here's what Jesus says.
This is called the greatcommission, and Jesus came and
spoke to them saying allauthority has been given to me
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on heaven and on earth.
All authority has been given tome on heaven and on earth.
Let me just say this I broughtmy favorite book from my new
favorite author and it's on thetable out back Now.
The first session just aboutcleared them out, but there's a
few of them back there.
It's called Kingdom Authority.
It's an exegesis of thispassage and I want to tell you
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something.
I really believe it issomething that will bless every
person in here.
You will learn from that.
It's practical stories in it.
Pragmatics, good biblicalexegesis, I think will be a
blessing to you.
Also, in the back is our prayercard.
If you grab that.
Jesus said all through, heavenhas been given me.
Therefore, go, therefore, andmake disciples of all nations,
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baptizing them in the name ofthe Father and of the Son, of
the Holy Spirit, teaching themto observe all things I've
commanded you and lo.
In other words, and check thisout, I am with you always, even
to the end of the age, amen.
Now I'm going to read this onemore time.
I want you guys to think aboutthis.
You guys are in the firstservice.
You can't answer this, okay.
Jesus says all authority hasbeen given me in heaven and on
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earth.
Go, therefore, and makedisciples of all nations,
baptize them in the name of theFather and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit, teaching them toobserve all things I've
commanded you, lord, I'm withyou always, even to the end of
the age.
I want some of our Englishteachers, english majors, people
who know English, what is theprimary verb in that sentence
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that says go, therefore, makedisciples of all nations,
baptized in the name of theFather, son and Holy Spirit.
Teach it.
What's the primary verb?
Say it loud I set you up.
I set you up.
It's not go, it's makedisciples.
We always think it's go, butthe primary verb is make
disciples.
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It is not go, it is makedisciples.
And how do we make disciples?
We make disciples by going tomake disciples by baptizing, to
make disciples by teaching.
That's a process, but theprimary verb is make disciples.
All those other verbs aresubsidiary to the primary verb.
Okay, and you know, I didn'tknow this until I got in here
this morning and actually when Iwas speaking I looked and I
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said I'm looking at your corevalues on the back of your wall,
back here.
Number one love God.
What was the first thing wetalked about?
Love the Lord, your God.
Number two make disciples.
Okay, so I'm just sharing yourcore values.
And who?
But to the whole world, to thewhole world, man, that's your
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neighbor, the whole world we go.
It's called the GreatCommission.
Now, the Great Commission is tomake disciples and really, when
you read it the way it was, itkind of says as you're going,
you make disciples, baptizingthem and teaching them, and I
will be with you always, even tothe end of the age, right, but
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we have a responsibility to makedisciples, to be a disciple.
You have to be a disciple tomake a disciple.
Hear what I said You've got tobe a disciple to make a disciple
.
A disciple is a person wholoves the Lord, their God, with
all heart, mind, soul and spirit.
A disciple is somebody who isall in.
They've sold out everything,not just quote a Christian.
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You go around the world.
A lot of people put the phraseChristian on them, but they're
far from a disciple of Christ.
We're called to be disciplesand to make disciples.
Four things Assuming personalresponsibility.
Like I said, man, I was 18.
We go.
We have a responsibility to goto the nations, to go to the
people, to make disciples.
We give.
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That's why we do kingdombuilders.
We do kingdom builders so wecan send people to go, so we can
go ourselves.
We do kingdom builders tosupport the church, to make
things, that things can happen,the vision, that big picture
vision.
And then we pray.
We strategically pray and wewelcome.
When I say welcome, we welcomethe nations to us.
You know the nations are comingto us from all over and they're
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coming in Arizona as well.
The opportunity is for us towelcome them and to be able to
bring them and begin to showthem Christ.
Those are four things that wedo when we assume personal
responsibility.
Crystal and I, when we were inour kids we were in the nation
of Kyrgyzstan.
We'll go to the photo of thetwo girls.
Now we're in the nation ofKyrgyzstan.
We're walking through.
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On day one we're plantinguniversity student ministry in
Kyrgyzstan.
Day one we're walking throughthe little student union
cafeteria in the university andwe heard some people speaking
English, looked over and sawthese two girls.
I've shared this story multipletimes at this church before, but
I think it's worth sharingagain.
We saw these two girls sittingat the table, heard them speak
in English, said girls, yourEnglish is incredible.
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Where did you learn?
They said well, we learned inAmerica.
We studied in America for oneyear as internationalists.
I said oh, phenomenal.
I said what country are you guysfrom?
They said we're from the nationof Turkmenistan.
Now how do you know whereTurkmenistan is?
Again, it's only about 1% ofany congregation knows where
Turkmenistan is.
Turkmenistan is one of theCentral Asian nations, that is
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literally.
It was part of the formerSoviet Union.
It is a closed Islamic radicaldictator who runs a nation, so
it's a strong Muslim nation.
Turkmenistan is.
So the first time in my life I'mmeeting somebody from
Turkmenistan.
I'd never met anybody fromTurkmenistan until we're sitting
there with these two girls.
I said oh, wow, well, it's apleasure to meet you.
Well, thank you.
I said so what's your names?
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So the girl to our left, hername is Lita.
The girl to the right, her nameis Iyadah, and so they told us
their names.
Well, where'd you study?
So the girl to the left, nita,said well, I studied in
Wisconsin.
So she told us her story alittle bit.
Then the girl to the right, hername was Yedda.
She shares her story and shesays well, I studied in one of
those far western states.
I said which one she goes?
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Well, I don't know if you'veever been there.
I said I love that.
So what town were you in?
Well, she called it a village.
She said well, I was in thevillage of Catalina.
I said oh yeah, why Catalina?
I said.
And I had a U of A t-shirtunderneath my shirt and I
flashed the red and blue man.
I pulled it up, I'm flashingred and U of A.
And so she's talking to me.
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And back in this part of theworld, there's no ice, there's
no fountain drinks, there's noneof those kind of luxuries,
there's no convenience storeslike QT there.
It doesn't exist.
And she started talking aboutthe Circle K and the 32-ounce
thirst buster and her eyesmisted with tears as she was
talking about that.
And then she said well, while Iwas there, I moved to even a
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smaller, smaller village.
You may not know where it is.
I said I know every village inArizona.
She said, well, it was avillage of Florence.
I said, yeah, I'm from Florence, arizona.
No, no way, no way.
And let me tell you somethingEverybody there had goosebumps.
I mean these two Muslim girlshad goosebumps because Holy
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Spirit showed up right there andthey began to realize this
isn't just some coincidentalmeeting.
They started understanding thatthere was a destiny set in
motion and I mean, they gotspooked.
I'm from Florence.
I mean, I said I graduated fromFlorence High School.
I graduated from Florence HighSchool.
I'm a Florence gopher, so am I?
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I mean, they couldn't believeit.
Well, let me just go quickly.
Our very first one more friend,kai Alpha, meaning the history
of Central Asia.
The first one to come to Christwas Lita, to the left, first
one that very first week, 18months later, ieta, to the right
, the girl from Florence.
She came to Christ, baptizedthem both in water, baptized in
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the Holy Spirit.
But let me tell you somethingthat's your fruit as well,
because we would have nevergotten there had you not helped
us get there.
You guys invested extravagantlyto make sure that we got on
that field.
And I could tell you anotherhundred stories like this.
But let me just say this In thetapestry of heaven, every human
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being that was ever born issupposed to be in that tapestry.
Not every human being born willbe in that tapestry, but that
is what they were supposed to be.
Those two people will be inthat tapestry.
But what would have happened ifI would have said, ah, I don't
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want to go to Kyrgyzstan, Idon't feel like it?
What would have happened if Iwould have said you know what?
I would have missed my nowpurpose.
You see, that day that we metthem in that cafeteria, that was
purpose, that was big purpose,that was now purpose.
But guess what?
It played into destiny.
That purpose played into thosetwo girls' long-term, eternal
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destiny.
And can I tell you, every day,if we're not on purpose for God,
somebody can miss their destiny.
We can miss our destiny whenwe're not on purpose for God.
We're people of purpose, we'repeople of destiny and we're
people of vision.
Man, big things God is doingand saying.
So let me wrap things up here.
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So we're in the fourth quarter,first quarter U of A Second
quarter.
Student missions movement Thirdquarter.
National director of Chi Alpha,fourth quarter.
So when Chris and I, before we,stepped away from national
director of Chi Alpha, the Lordbegan to stir on us and said you
have another propheticapostolic plant in you.
You've got another propheticapostolic plant, overseas man.
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As we began to seek the Lord God, I mean, where would you want
us to go?
We'll go anywhere.
Where would you want us to go?
We all thought we'd go back tothe Middle East, north Africa,
central Asia.
I think everybody else thoughtwe'd probably go back there.
But I was speaking six years agoat a conference for Ravi
Zacharias, before he had, beforethe fall, ravi Zacharias.
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And so I'm speaking for RaviZacharias and one of the other
speakers' name is Rice Brooks,and Rice Brooks is the guy who
wrote the book God's Not Dead,produced the movie God's Not
Dead.
That's Rice Brooks.
So we're sitting at the tableeating lunch.
Rice said man, scott, I'm kindof jet lagged.
He said I just flew here fromIceland.
And he said I just flew herefrom Iceland.
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And he said yeah, man, I wasdoing apologetics on a
university.
And he said 99.8% of Icelanders, 18 to 25, do not believe in
God, believe Jesus is just ahistorical figure and the
Bible's a myth.
But they all believe in fairies, elves and demons.
Now, when he said that, some onmy mind I just kind of chuckled
and said, oh, I could work withthose guys.
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You know, never, ever thinkingI would.
So Chris and I are processingGod.
Where would you have us go?
And I'm telling you, at night Iwould keep hearing Rice Brooks'
sentence 99.8% collegiatedemographic don't believe in God
.
9.8% Collegiate demographicDon't believe in God.
And it would just keep playingover and over.
Then one day I said Crystal, doyou think maybe the Lord would
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have us go to Iceland?
She goes Iceland.
But the more we began to dig,the more we began to discover
Iceland is totally Viking.
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The Vikings founded in 874 AD.
Every single Icelander is aViking descent, 100% of them,
all their livestock are ofViking descent.
It's all the remnants of theViking.
It's all the remnants of theViking.
But in the history since 874,there has never been a Christian
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awakening in the history of thenation.
They've never had an awakening.
Now there's been otherawakenings, there's been pagan
awakenings, but it has neverseen a Holy Spirit, spiritual
kingdom, awakening in all of thehistory of this nation.
Now there are 10 Pentecostalchurches in Iceland, in nation.
Now there are 10 Pentecostalchurches in Iceland, in the
whole nation there are 10Pentecostal churches.
They have seven pastors andonly three of those are
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full-time.
Are you getting the picture?
There is no Assembly of Godmissionaries on there.
There's no quote Assemblies ofGod period in the nation.
These churches are all looselyaffiliated, these 10.
There's no Baptist missionariesin the nation.
There are no Methodists.
I mean, basically there'snothing.
There's no Campus Crusade forChrist, there's no Navigators,
there's no InterVarsity, there'sno Chi Alpha, there's no
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Students for Christ.
There's nothing.
And in the history there'snever been a campus ministry
other than the state-runLutheran.
That isn't even really a campusministry.
It is considered the mostliberal, tolerant, lgbtq nation
on earth.
There's strongholds, paganstrongholds and sexual
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strongholds there that are justsick and profound Things where
the enemy has just fought,fought an entire nation on.
They've never had any form ofawakening.
There's no.
Basically there's hardlyanything going on there.
So God begins to show us.
We say yes, yes, we need to sayyes to Iceland, and so we make
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the commitment to go.
Well, assemblies of God WorldMissions sends a letter to.
I call him the bishop.
He jokes and calls himself theCEO, but he's kind of the
facilitator of these 10 churches.
He tries to keep them connectedrelationally.
Okay, that's what he does.
And they sent him a letter andthey said if we could send you a
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missionary couple to Iceland todo anything, what's your
priority, what's the one thingyou'd want them to do?
He sends back and says we'vebeen praying for movement on our
universities for eight years.
If you could send us anybody towork with university students,
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that would be our number onepreference.
Not even knowing that God hadalready spoken to us, you guys
never knowing this, we believeour universities are ripe right
now for a mighty move of God.
When they heard that they weregetting national directors of
Chi Alpha, they couldn't believeit.
The nation I'm going to tellthis a little bit more here, jay
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, than I did in this first one.
It's interesting they could notbelieve it.
We said yes.
So in March we'd been there fourtimes since then and so in
March we were in nation and thiswas kind of their council, to
where all the churches and thechurch leaders get together and
they get together in one placeand they begin to just pray and
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show what's going on and beginto strategize and have some
teaching.
So all these 10 churches cometogether and anybody who's a
leader is in this church and aleader is.
If you fold the bulletin,you're a leader.
Okay, it doesn't matter whatyou do.
Oh, you picked.
Okay, you're a bulletin.
Yeah, you're in.
So that's a leader.
So there were 80 people.
So you got to understand.
In the entire Pentecostalchurch, anybody did anything.
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There were 80 people at thiscouncil.
Well, they had crystalline comeup and let me just say this
missionaries, especially inEurope, aren't always welcome,
you got to understand're notalways welcome.
At times they're seen asculture destroyers, you know.
So they're not always welcome.
And so they have us come up andthey interviewed us for an hour
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and 15 minutes, publicly, andGod just began to open up doors
to begin to talk about awakeningon the campus, been talking
about what God was speaking,doing the prophetic words, and
I'm telling you, crystal and Ifeel like we are living oracles
of prophecy because the Lord hadspoken to them that he was
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going to send two people to thenation who are experts in
university and student ministryand to help make this and to
help this things be fulfilled.
They're sharing all this here.
So we're all going like god,you're doing something.
It's purpose now, this is ourpurpose now.
There's big term destiny as we,in a way, faces in the tapestry
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of the kingdom, and there'svision to believe god for great
things.
Man, man, I said at the end.
I said look, we're Americans,we're two Americans, we're
always going to be American, Isaid.
But we want to be as Icelandicas two Americans have ever been.
I said so what I'm asking?
From now on, when you use theword we, that Crystal and I are
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part of your we and anytime yousay us, the word part of your us
.
Man, they had us come downright.
Then All 80 of them got aroundus, got down on their hands and
knees, began to pray over us,began to pray blessing and at
the end the elder said you areus and from that moment they
took us in and they only treatus as them.
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It's not like all the Americans.
It's Scott and Crystal who wereus.
I'm telling you, god is doingthe supernatural.
Let me share the last littlepicture Now.
I'm not here, by the way.
I'm not here to try to getmonthly pledge.
You guys have supported us for35 years.
I'm here to tell you how wehave partnered in ministry and
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how God is beginning to do somethings to our neighbors, to our
neighbors who felt like God hadforgotten them.
So in December, the first weekof December, holy Spirit speaks
to me and says Scott, when youand Crystal get to Iceland,
there's a young couple inIceland who are looking forward
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to connecting with you andyou're going to disciple them
and they are influential inpolitics, influential in
education, influential ineconomics, in the military that
hasn't started yet.
All the way up to the presidentand the prime minister.
I shared that with Crystal.
I said man, I feel like theLord's telling us that we're
going to be discipling a couplewho's influential all the way up
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.
So we talked about this word.
One week later we're speaking atour little assembly got church
in Mayer I shouldn't say littleassembly got church.
Our healthy assembly got churchin Mayer Mission Church.
And at the end the pastor saidScott and Crystal, can I chat
with you guys for a minute?
Sure, hey, when you walked inthe foyer the Lord gave me a
prophetic word.
And the Lord said that when youand Crystal get to Iceland,
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you're going to meet a youngcouple who are very influential.
They're influential ineconomics, in education, in
politics, in the military.
That has been formed all theway up to the president and
prime minister.
We're going.
Gosh man.
The Lord just spoke this to usone week ago, exactly, word for
word.
One month later we're in anothermeeting.
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A woman comes up to Crystal andsaid Crystal, when I came in
here I felt like the Lord had aword for you.
And here's what the Lord sayswhen you and Scott get to
Iceland, you are going to meet ayoung couple who are very
influential in politics, ineducation, economics, even up to
the president and primeminister.
We're sitting there going.
God, we can't wait.
You get us there quick.
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You know we're ready to go.
So in March we just came backlast month, it was a few weeks
ago, but in March, after thisbig meeting I'm sitting with the
CEO facilitator of thePentecostal Church and his wife.
We're in their home Shared ameal with the kids.
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It's just talking about whatGod is saying, what God is doing
, and I'm telling you the faithlevel, the expectation level
Rich, cindy, jay, celeste I'venever seen this in my life
anywhere, anywhere have I everseen an expectation level.
These people are expecting God,jesus, to show up on that
island here real soon.
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I mean it's powerful, theexpectation level.
We're sitting there talking andthey said, oh, by the way,
scott and Crystal, there's ayoung couple here in Iceland who
they can't wait to meet you.
They want you to disciple them,said they're the most
influential Christians on thiswhole nation.
They're influential ineconomics, in education, in
politics and the military.
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I just started, and all the wayup to the president and prime
minister, well, I mean, we'rehearing this right here in
Iceland.
We're just totally when.
We said, well, who are they?
I mean, who are these people?
Oh, they know you.
I said they know us.
Yes, they know who you guys are.
Well, how could they know us?
They were a part of Chi Alphaand this couple listen, this
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couple had been a part of one ofour Chi Alpha groups.
And when I was national, I saidwhat year were they?
2014 to 2016.
So when I first became nationaldirector, they became a part of
Chi Alpha.
Two Icelandic internationalstudents I'm going to go.
Oh, yeah, they know who you areand they are so excited about
you coming.
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They can't wait to connect withyou.
I said, well, what, what campusare they from?
I said I know every campus, Iknow all 300 of them in the
States.
He goes well, let me find out.
He texts him within one minute.
The guy takes back Embry-RiddleUniversity, prescott, Arizona.
You can't script this stuff out.
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You cannot script this stuffout.
And here's what they said wewould never be serving Jesus
today and doing what we're doinghad it not been for Chi Alpha
and Embry-Rill and had it notbeen for what the Lord had done
and how they poured into us andhow all the different stuff in
Chi Alpha.
And they said we just cannotwait to connect with them.
I'm telling you, god's aboutready to do something great on
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that island and I want to saythank you so much for your
partnership, for your giving.
We're in this together and youknow, celeste, I know you guys
are committed to coming out inApril for the Inspire Conference
.
That's going to be a powerful,powerful time, chris, I mean,
and Jay, I just give theinvitation that someday we get
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some guys out there too, or guysand gals.
God's about ready to dosomething great on ice and some
things that have never been donebefore.
We thank you for yourpartnership.
Why am I going to Iceland.
I'm in the fourth quarter.
I'd be more comfortable stayinghere.
I would be Be much morecomfortable.
I could sell everything we have, buy a place up in
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Springerville and just fishevery day and hunt during the
hunting season.
Buy a place up in Springervilleand just fish every day and
hunt during the hunting season.
My sons are both accomplished.
One of them's an attorney forLions Defending Freedom in North
Scottsdale.
The other one's wrapping up aPhD.
I don't need to go to Iceland.
I don't need to go.
I've had all the adventure Ineed for my life.
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I don't need any more.
All the adventure I need for mylife.
I don't need anymore.
But I go because I love God.
I go because of the love of Godand the love of my neighbors.
I go because Jesus asked me tomake disciples of all nations.
I go because I love God makedisciples, reach the world.
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That's why we do what we do.
So as we wrap up here, Iapologize.
I'm over and I apologize.
How much of God do you have?
How much of God do you reallyhave?
How much do you love the Lord,your God?
How much do we love others?
Would you stand up with me ifyou would please, jesus.
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I thank you, lord, for my dearfriends here at Cornerstone and,
lord, I apologize publicly toJay and Celeste for going over,
to Jay and Celeste for goingover.
But, lord, I pray that today wewould all evaluate just how much
we really love you, lord, god.
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I pray we would evaluate, lord,what it means to love the Lord,
our God, with all our heart,mind, soul and strength here in
the West Valley, here atCornerstone.
Lord, I pray that we would takeserious evaluation today and I
pray, lord, god, god, that youwould speak to us personally,
not just corporately.
You'd speak to us about ourresponsibilities to you and to
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your kingdom and to your will.
Lord, god, I pray that today,when people leave, they are
reminded they are people ofpurpose right now.
There's a reason why they'rehere today.
There's a reason why they'll bedoing what they're doing
tomorrow.
May they fulfill their purpose,god.
May they be people of destiny,remembering God.
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They're weaving some things inthe tapestry of the kingdom, god
, may they be full of vision,vision for the personalized
vision for their church orvision for you.
Father, ask in Jesus' name.
I'm going to ask every one ofus who would just come forward.
I'm going to ask if you justcome forward up to the altar and
just take a minute and justbegin to ask the Lord Jesus, how
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do you say I love you?
I don't want you to say this,lord, I love you, but allow
Jesus to speak to us.
Jesus, how do you say I loveyou?
And I want to ask you one otherquestion how far are you
willing to go for Christ, howfar are each of us willing to go
?
And Jesus, how do you say welove you?
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Amen.
I'm asking everybody, come onon up, come on up to the front
and as an active response.
Today you've heard thischallenge from Scott about what
God wants to do in and throughyou see, sometimes it's not just
about you, it's about what hewants to do through you to other
people.
And you've heard that storyabout taking a little kid out of
Florence and taking him acrossthe world and then intersecting
that story with another girlfrom across the world.
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From that was spent time inFlorence, or these couples that
are here, influential in thefuture.
What God is going to do, andthat's the same story he has for
your life that he wants to doin and through you.
And so, as we go into thismoment of this worship moment,
we we have a song here torespond.
I want to encourage you to dothis that you just open up your
hands, like this, to the Lordand say, lord, what my agenda?
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I give it over to you.
And, lord, I ask for animpartation of your spirit, of
your guidance, of your wisdom,of who you are for me.
And as we go into the song thatyou would just pour yourself out
upon me, lord, we just praythat right now, in this moment.
Holy Spirit, have your way inus, lord, pour yourself out upon
us.
Lord, that you would have, lord, you would guide and direct us.
Lord, we ask you for more ofwho you are.
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Lord, we do ask you for thattouch in our body.
We ask you for that healingtouch, lord, we ask you for in
our spirit and in who we are.
Lord, in every part of us.
Lord, that you would have yourway in us.
But, lord, it's because we wantto be used by you for the
destiny that you have for us,lord, that we would say yes,
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with the vision that you'vegiven to us, for our family and
for our friends and for ourneighbors and for our sphere of
influence, lord, that we couldsay yes to you, that you would
use us, lord, for your glory.
Lord, that we wouldn't just staycomfortable but, lord, we would
have that mission that we wantto live for you, lord, as we do.
It's always our challenge, lord, we would have that mission
that we want to live for you,lord, as we do.
It's always our challenge, lord, that we want to be more like
Jesus.
So, lord, as we sing thosewords today, we do with
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intentionality.
In the name of Jesus Christ.
Let's worship the Lord together.
I want to say thanks for yourgrace and going a little bit
longer this today, but I thinkit was worth it.
How many people areappreciative of Scott's ministry
to us today?
So very thankful for that.
Hey, come back next week.
I know the guy.
He has a long nose, but thesermon will be shorter.
Speaker 3 (54:06):
I want to let you know too.
If any of you have anybodygraduating in your family,
please let us know.
We want to honor them in acouple of weeks.
You can go on the app.
If they're graduating highschool, college or trade
anything, we want to celebratewith them, and so make sure that
the church is aware of that.
Also, we're having babydedications next week, and so we
want to pray over as a churchand bless your children.
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So if you would like to haveyour kids dedicated, you can
also call the office if you haveany questions, but you can sign
up through the app.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
Before we go, I want to pray this blessing over us.
Before we go, I want to praythis blessing over us the Lord
bless you and keep you.
Lord, make his face to shineupon you and be gracious to you.
Lord, lift up his countenanceupon you and give you peace.
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Lord, I pray a blessing uponyour church, your people, lord,
that you empower us by yourspirit to live your love out to
those around us.
We pray all this in thepowerful name that is Jesus
Christ.
Amen, amen.
Know this.
We love you very much here atCornerstone.
God bless you and have a greatweek.
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