The Sermon The Power, The Call and How To Dance In It by Ethan Price
Jul 07, 2013
The Power, The Call and How To Dance In It (32:09)
Referenced Scriptures: 2 Peter 1:1-18; John 21:18-19
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2 Peter 1:1-18
1) Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
2) Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
3) seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
4) whereby he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust.
5) Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
6) and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;
7) and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
8) For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9) For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
10) Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
11) For thus will be richly supplied to you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
12) Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
13) I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
14) knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord, Jesus Christ, made clear to me.
15) Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
16) For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17) For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
18) This voice we heard come out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mountain.
John 21:18-19
18) Most assuredly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and carry you where you don‘t want to go."
19) Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me."
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I brought him suffice away from Outlook and he slapped him across the face and you want there. I didn't fall asleep in church anymore after that he was close, but he had learned his lesson today I was him, what would I want to preach about today. I was really a spent a lot of time in prayer and really you don't know what is God trying to present, hard what I wanted to teach about and dumb, yet we were youth camp, which couple was one. These guys are here, my friends in Delaware and Pittsburgh and some other friends went and I was really, really praying the ISA God speak to me. You know what what you want me to preach about this week and I was just flipping through my Bible and I really felt like I was saying he wanted me to preach him from second Peter chapter one if you guys would like to turn their. This caliphate sent out with the title. My sermon. The power the call and how to dance 's first I wanted to speak upon the power you know the power of Christ of the graduates were with me to second Peter chapter one, starting with verse one. Is I get myself prepared and ready up here is the second year. Okay, second Peter chapter one verses one to thought I wanted to challenge myself a little bit with the sermon is usually on auto pastors of the year you see different different styles of pre- gendered beat your your topical preacher someone to take subtopic and finds different different parts in it in the Bible and how it relates into the topic that he wants to speak about. Obviously, that's what I do, but for me, I've never really taken text and examined it and really broken apart, and then note told from that angle and out. This is the starting with with verse one verse two it says Peter a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ to those who, through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received the faith is precious. His arms. Grace and peace be yours in abundance to the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. Note that this is Peter speaking here to the people of will be modern-day Turkey and down to it, I was aware I was looking at it and trying to figure out. You know what, what is Peter were worth you getting these motives from and where he's speaking from and this text and dumb. If you turn to wheels of time with me but John twenty one versus I think it's eight to nineteen Jesus is speaking with Peter and Jesus asked Peter three times he says. Like that and Jesus asks Peter and he says no, would you we you tend to my flock, will you keep my seat and good care and Peter says yes, Lord, I will and he says again, he said, Peter, we tend my flock, we care for my sheet and he says yes, Lord, I will. And he said the third time Peter when you tend to my flock and take care of my sheep at that point, Peter was was kind of guy said, my lord, why are you questioning as I said this two times already and the Lord said, I know that you will tend to my seat and can care for my flock, he said, but you will die a death living for me and doing that and Peter is speaking here and he is saying he's writing this from those of his death he would die for Christ is coming near and his writing and that what was his goal here is to explain to the people, modern-day Turkey is that, be sure of the power in the calling God has upon your life and that's what he's no trees trying to occur him our faith in Christ, not for respondent and his motives from yourself. You will go to him, verse three can't get into where it talks about the power of Christ, and starting with verse three and forces his divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness through these he has given us is very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. Now I'm a woman stop there an end. Look at this portion of text on reef and message an account explains what would Peter 's trying to say here. This is everything that goes into the life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know personally and intimately the one who invited us to God. The best invitation we were at. We ever receive. We are also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you your tickets to participation in the life of God. After you turn your back on the world corrupted by lost now, peters trying to say here. We're filled with the power of Christ, we are given everything that we need to live a Barbie life, but this can only be determined by having knowledge of Christ and getting to know God personally on retardant Sunday school, getting to know the character of God. It's kind of like how I'm not trying to bash on Iceman, but how when were given a task to put something together were always we never use the instructions right. We always do these instructions. These were were all knowledgeable and we can do ourselves, whether that's what Peter 's trying to say here is that you can't live a godly life without getting to know the Scripture, and what what God 's character as there is no way we can. We would know how to live a godly life without being without I wonder what it do what it has to say to us and then we realized his work object together. Womack should bring out the instructions were able to complete the task in the task of living a godly life and living a life pleasing to God. So, and then am I want to share this hour, so this video to that video ready in about a bullet for this video is a group of kids going an experiment where they're holding onto an electric fence and are all on top of inflated notes of them. It seems like a good idea to write well, Google handled and watch the video is in and is and is him and I is can you know I would like to show that video overdone but whenever be ready to pause it when I say pause can can can you guys do not as a way to do that are now is there okay what if you guys are second only to put you on the spot. Okay cause he posit there, what, what is he saying he suggests unsafe to illustrate this, the power of God is the facts as we grasp on to the power of God were doing good right word. We seamen were doing blood work were digging in the God 's word were experiencing God more and more were figuring out God 's character is holding onto the fence were doing okay because the ground. The ground is the world that since the worldly thing. Now if were about the world and were living a godly life and were not affected by the things of this world not to continue to play little bit more, please. Okay, you can deposit their okay now as we grow in our faith, we experience the power of God. We want to share with others correct processing work was Christians were called to do is when we experience the log in the cognizant and graced the power of God. Wheat we did build up interest in the point where Scott starts to overflow and when it overflows. That's when we spread the good news of Christ and his estate. They're not touching the world and not touching the grass of the nonaffected by things of this world, you can run played again and I think that's positive. There is, I forgot I was on what they said the guys name was, but he is what I posit he's getting ready to hold the hands of the next person, but this guy is on the ground. He is of this world and the godly power, God 's power and is is Holy Spirit is within us as were above the water were not citizens will because work were digging into God works John Moore more than what it would plan is Paul when God 's power condoms as penicillin, but when God 's power touches this earth. Something happens, it can be a shock like this, it can cause a little story can cause little crazy, but the great thing is, it's not a bad crazy. It's a good crazy because when God 's power touches the earth. And when God sent his son to live on this earth. It caused the ruckus. Didn't know it caused an issue, because when Jesus was here the religious people didn't like in this invisible to see the one his work is demonic. He's he's killing his people, but it is something that is not of Christ, and when God touch this earth like I said, it causes a boom to know when when we accept God into our lives, it causes a boom in our life does not, and went when we accept God, we say, God, you know, I want you to be the master. What should be the leader of our lives. Michael my life. It causes something you can see something different about that person. Because you know him, but it used to have there was a speaker Jonathan Shuttlesworth, you guys know one of my hands-down favorite speakers of all time. But you know, if you could tell someone that you say walks in the Spirit, as you know, we all walk in the spirit to spirit within us. You could feel something different. You could feel the aura are or are we say that if you feel that around him because you know you can tell when somebody you can can't tell you know, I mean you can kind of see it whenever we only experience. Him to get to know God more and more it. It is a creates a boom in our life, and when a guy comes in, it creates a boom in the map boom expands customer we experience God 's love and the we ask me to fill with more and more of God then it overflows and we allow Howard God 's love overflow from most people know something about people know what's going on the understand there's something different about that person, you can you can tell that there's then there's something going to do something different about them, you can press play and an continuous and beyond that. That's the illustration and show that when we get filled with God 's power and we experience the power of God. If it changes something as we began to link hands. We began to interlink arms and wheat we grow his brothers and sisters in Christ and encourage each other. The something happens as it extends out, not a chain extends out because it is like when. When one person gets saved. How many close friends is that person have we all have at least maybe four, five, some more, some last pencil, sociable, you are, think, or people to people like you know that you have your group of friends. Okay select safe. I guess I'm unsaved I am experience God 's love and say I meet Maria for the first time and I sitting a high how are you, well I meet her and my other friends. Well, verse one two three four five people right here save their my closest friends. Well when I need them and I share the power of God, and I share the love of God they experience that they may not recognize what it is the main commitment to understand what it is. But then maybe say one of them gets sick, then they have five other close friends. They are friendly of acquaintances that have good friends and my good friend Sybil that they know what the great thing is when one person is saved in one person experiences the power in the love of God creates a boom like I said as he booms, it spreads and go from each person, each person is we want into their lives. How Jesus did help Jesus built relationships with his disciples. He didn't just that wasn't just Aquinas. They were just acquaintance they were good friends of Jesus so is weak. We experienced on more and more in the power of God and begins to work in our lives and begins to work in other people 's lives, so this out to shift gears. We talk about the power of God at do for us. We'll talk about the call of God. Note this when I was preparing a youth camp again. God gave me this this the section of what authorities say what I would rush and preach upon and I until I really dug into it explains what Peter is is trying to say here, he says, and dumb. First, cannot all skip five through nine. This is here in verse ten. Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. Fourth, you do these things you will never fall and you will receive a rich welcome into the internal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Now he says here be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. Well call to do something by God, whether it be full-time ministry party when a part-time history, you're in the ministry, whether being called to full-time ministry or say when you get saved whenever you're older. God calls you to be right there. He takes you where you're at, so that you can share the love of God, he says, sure of your calling in your election not be about either what I know, but being sure knowing what you're being called to do what God is calling you to do is Christians also question what would we Hall was Christians. He does its job something out, what if Christians. What are we called to do. Save party hearing disciples were discipleship by and by, else what would we call to do and be afraid to say that, through speaking love shallot frying experience love write anything else we called to do as Christians should estimate exactly anything else. I keep going and males share took it off with that you exactly to mature spiritually called to do many things but there's a difference for the knowledge and those callings upon our life and being short of them in applying those in our life. The great commission talks about nothing. It's Matthew Wright, go ye into the world and spread the good news of crisis. The shortened version of the exact type of wording. But God calls us to share our testimony to make disciples. Francis Chan will really dig and opposes a really big fan of Francis Chan found his. His church is really neat. What he does this every morning. He streets. They do worship. This is already takes place in our mid to early in the morning and worship session. He does maybe a fifteen twenty minute sermon and the rest of the time they go there in San Francisco downtown San Francisco pretty rough area and they go in and knock on people 's doors. Now people like you, I want do not like. I mean, what if we get rejected, but Francis Chan is trying to say that were called to make disciples, because as we experience God, and we understand God 's love for us. Why would we not want to share them as I make sense. One saying is because when we express that want and why wouldn't we want someone else to experience as for my life personally is the just talk about knee for the second note, I felt like God, saying his colony to the ministry and be a pastor and all attending Valley Forge Christian College on the front and rear to a zero degree in youth ministry, and I remember when I was out young. This is about ninth-grade one when I felt the calling and I was like I don't know the first thing about preaching at all like I know Pastor McGee preaches up and my God breaches once in a while but not to do that like how can I talk without long, otherwise a talk nonstop, but you know, and I was worried I said, you know the kind dismissed it in on. I had plans last year of attending evangel University to become physical therapist because a member saying is how my pinafore Valley forge a twenty five thousand dollars year. That's a lot of money and special pastor 's salary that you don't make big bucks being a pastor, and that's okay. You know, is provably fine, but I would oust then you know how home I get to be able to pay for this. You know how monument, it would pursue the psychology of I, didn't you have faith in God number of mock my junior year whenever I was it fine arts, and I was doing my guitar solo. It districts and as I was out there playing. I got done of voting went fairly well is pretty please with the performance was walking out and I was get my stuff together. My family and my friends new guys, et al. I called left and I most want to meet him, and a guy comes up to me is like I is like a area are you not have know this guy is as your Evan Wright and Mike know he's like all now is from ballot for someone to talk to Evan isn't what you just perform. I said yes I support your nailing. Fifty oh six hi all of this is some director from the Valley Forge music department like to offer you a scholarship from the school. At that point, I mean like my jaw was on select like him appoint you know, I said the Armature will be done in my life I'll go to Valley Forge and you would you want me to do and like Peter says, be sure of your calling, be sure what you are called to do, because when God says, have faith in me you may not know what the situation is or how your can to be able to get out of this situation are in a higher inability of yourself all causes don't worry at all. Take care, but your faith in me and love me and entered into my work gets in nobody who why am personally. And I'll take care of the rest in a laughing. That's such a great thing in and they talked about it in the famous year for fine arts was the race and dumb. I preached about how there was a story of dirt Redman, I think his name was. It was the early youth Olympics related. I'm not quite sure he was on it was the lipids and he was favored to win one of the sprinting competitions and down. He was heavily seated and he began to take off in the gunshot went and he took maybe ten strides and skews me, and he tore his ACL collapse and in the whole crowd went completely silent like it was, like Emerson and all of a sudden your way way way you see this guy, but louder in court and he's running barreling down the stands and the security guards are stopping and this is the user. You can't walk it. It is always wise to know I need to go get my son and it was Derek Redmond 's father and one downstairs. He goes to a son, and he grabs his son. He said let's finish this race together and I thought that was like the coolest thing ever, but it's also the same thing with is when we trip up. We fall were injured gods right there beside of that beside us, saying a limit. Let me help you take my hat. Let's do this together and as we go up how our calling and spreading the good news Christ. Right there along with us embracing us internist along with it since your early losses and you receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom toward God and Savior Jesus Christ. As we walked hand-in-hand with God, and more sure of our calling in when we dig into what God has to say him him him race him your ultimate goal in your gift is being with God forever in heaven, and the continued growth and just play that song and I want improved search towards the tent. One of my sermon here now. The last part is in us is the power the call and how to dance and some you all a huge Jesus culture fan. I think I love Jesus culture there like one of my favorite all-time and such. I'd love Jesus, controversial and bound this song, dance with me and him. It talks about saying God, let's see, let's let organized let's dance together and I need I need some help up here. I need typically got your help me please get to my friend Tiffany, she should dance his achievements in nationals for fine arts with her with her dance and our on-site embarrass you typical answer, you can visit me, slapped embarrassment. Now when we have these two things together. The power in the call. This is how the dancing when war with Dominic. I really can embarrass you in this mutant land with what you're going to dance later Adesso somebody injured in a desk and as you hold them hand-in-hand as colic. Anyway, when we hold the hand of God, and were holding onto God, and we experienced most of the power in the colonies we pursue these together we began to dance together like this and it is your dancing together as friends and you love God and God loves you is is you embrace him, and he embraces you with your didn't read to all about you: what guys call you doing you have the power of Christ in you, you're going in this together, so is your walking and dancing along with the things of life guys right there with you in his brief on to embarrass you, but you don't. When we experience the power and money we go about our calling the great thing is one dollars right there with us is saying let's go hand-in-hand and dance in this together and were dancing and were going about the things of this life because God doesn't let us go like a Lego brand is an industry but you don't is God night a week awesome God we may go hand-in-hand and hand-in-hand together with God, he's right there along with you. So in case you trip up as you fall backwards dog grabs you and brings you right back up. As you write there hand-in-hand with God something to appreciate and thank you very much. Your round of applause. Thank you for this kind of thing an illustration yell. We began to dance with God, and is the song said, you know, dance with me, God, and we have been some people don't realize or never would get to see what the power of God 's true power of God. What power he has. We were at youth camp last year there was a group member of the disease that she had. It was like civil Halsey, but some disease were handicapped her and she was and she was really weakening and she couldn't do a whole lot and another Jonathan Shuttlesworth, he said. Has power to you, Jesus came and heal people on this earth. He brought Lazarus back to bed some pretty sure he can heal anything. I know that you can heal anything but what he was saying as he says, when we have the power of Christ as not like we have just the most amazing we can do stuff here and there but sexy believing what God you believe in what God can do in our life is when we house the power Don Holy Spirit comes into us. We have the power to heal people. We have the power to change people 's life as we go about our calling and we share the good news of Christ people experience that I mean there's nothing greater, especially moving to web related sat as if moving to puzzle. I stayed up. I was your ten years you not grow up in this church. Florida has a minimum. Our light. We will guys drawn out and out and made that time when I was younger I I didn't get a chance to see you the growth in the church and the change of people in the church, but that now the not unpleasant, but I'm older and I went into it around halfway through my junior year I was able to experience change in people, or maybe it was ten, thirteen people in a sudden, rapid numbers matter, but it was pretty Slim Pickens, and you see people began to grow in their faith and common out of their shell guys keyboarding out with singer worship in music news, Kelly, Joan relaxant but then you see people begin to grow. As you begin to build relationships with them, and they see God in us. We begin to see gone them as they grow in their and that is it's so cool because when they grow, they begin to worship God, and dig and was one note God 's character, you see them bringing people to church than to those longer and been discharged on forever and he came back in any sort of bringing his cousins and they started bringing more friends, and because what in the video. It's a start hand in hand in the power of God, and as they step onto this earth when Jesus came to this earth. It was a boom in an a created Iraqis, but a good practice to people, but it created something different. So what I'm trying to say years when we experience the power of God, and we get to know God understand what he can do for us what he can do for other people. We realize calling upon the call to spread the gospel of Christ, and to show people the love of God, and were also called to grow ourselves, you can never reach a point where you're okay spiritually because when you think you're okay spiritually, you're in for a warm heart, because when you think you're okay with God, then you're there you can only grow, you can only experience more and more of God, so called to spread the gospel of Christ, but also called to grow ourselves, and it talks about in the Ecclesiastes how our life is worth nothing if we don't serve because the ultimate goal is having. But if we don't know God, and we don't make disciples and grow ourselves, we don't know God, but it's it's happening it is. It's true and it's tough to say people don't talk about it a lot but I mean hell is not a pleasant place it on the burning lake of fire. It's eternal burning and extreme pain page. We could even imagine here on earth. But the great thing about God is when we experience God and understand who God is coming. It's a known more and more, or ending places have announced such such a cool thing. It also affects one of the enclosing this and say that you know this is telling sound loosey-goosey, but now I appreciate what the people you guys here at my family[ church family, so I have my family and pleasant thought how my family and liberties, because of downed Pleasantville doesn't mean him any different friendship wise relationship as he was with you guys know I appreciate what you guys are done in my life and what you guys do as a churches is cool you know answers need to see new faces and every, every time I come the church you see somebody new people being in a more consistent as needed, such as illicit banking is a church giving me this opportunity you want to preach now and the police attempted preaching, think Jimmy Bulger practiced enough, but somehow really do appreciate what you guys doing you guys don't know what you guys do because you guys are awesome, yet so no, I'll be off to college no send me cookies are some like that. Send me some in the mail love to hear from everybody you know, but some I do, I do appreciate what you guys do you know special with help account for much of the nationals last year. I mean, AIDS is expensive going to nationals in without you guys are one of impossible to thank you guys as a church and to all my friends here, you know, think you know personally for changing my life and down allowing me to do this, you know, this is something that I love to do, getting slowly but surely better adding to know what some specimen that I truly love to do and I proceeded to give me the opportunity to do so, we cut down this closing prayer and then we go about our business slowly thank you. I think you for this opportunity. It was preached. Thank you for your part that you instill upon us and we are called to live a higher life. We pray that you would just feels with one mortar Holy Spirit as we began to experience you got to want to share that with other people, we thank you for your grace and your mercy, we pray that as we go about our everyday lives we go into this week, a private people would notice something different about us and in our workplace Anil realizes something different about him print you just give us the strength to share our faith. We thank you for that I thank you for the people here. How awesome they are and how they love you so much time we think your premise. You would just be with him every step of their lives. We know that you will die in your name and ID guys are very much appreciate him and him that is installed and used condom articleI brought him suffice away from Outlook and he slapped him across the face and you want there. I didn't fall asleep in church anymore after that he was close, but he had learned his lesson today I was him, what would I want to preach about today. I was really a spent a lot of time in prayer and really you don't know what is God trying to present, hard what I wanted to teach about and dumb, yet we were youth camp, which couple was one. These guys are here, my friends in Delaware and Pittsburgh and some other friends went and I was really, really praying the ISA God speak to me. You know what what you want me to preach about this week and I was just flipping through my Bible and I really felt like I was saying he wanted me to preach him from second Peter chapter one if you guys would like to turn their. This caliphate sent out with the title. My sermon. The power the call and how to dance 's first I wanted to speak upon the power you know the power of Christ of the graduates were with me to second Peter chapter one, starting with verse one. Is I get myself prepared and ready up here is the second year. Okay, second Peter chapter one verses one to thought I wanted to challenge myself a little bit with the sermon is usually on auto pastors of the year you see different different styles of pre- gendered beat your your topical preacher someone to take subtopic and finds different different parts in it in the Bible and how it relates into the topic that he wants to speak about. Obviously, that's what I do, but for me, I've never really taken text and examined it and really broken apart, and then note told from that angle and out. This is the starting with with verse one verse two it says Peter a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ to those who, through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received the faith is precious. His arms. Grace and peace be yours in abundance to the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. Note that this is Peter speaking here to the people of will be modern-day Turkey and down to it, I was aware I was looking at it and trying to figure out. You know what, what is Peter were worth you getting these motives from and where he's speaking from and this text and dumb. If you turn to wheels of time with me but John twenty one versus I think it's eight to nineteen Jesus is speaking with Peter and Jesus asked Peter three times he says. Like that and Jesus asks Peter and he says no, would you we you tend to my flock, will you keep my seat and good care and Peter says yes, Lord, I will and he says again, he said, Peter, we tend my flock, we care for my sheet and he says yes, Lord, I will. And he said the third time Peter when you tend to my flock and take care of my sheep at that point, Peter was was kind of guy said, my lord, why are you questioning as I said this two times already and the Lord said, I know that you will tend to my seat and can care for my flock, he said, but you will die a death living for me and doing that and Peter is speaking here and he is saying he's writing this from those of his death he would die for Christ is coming near and his writing and that what was his goal here is to explain to the people, modern-day Turkey is that, be sure of the power in the calling God has upon your life and that's what he's no trees trying to occur him our faith in Christ, not for respondent and his motives from yourself. You will go to him, verse three can't get into where it talks about the power of Christ, and starting with verse three and forces his divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness through these he has given us is very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. Now I'm a woman stop there an end. Look at this portion of text on reef and message an account explains what would Peter 's trying to say here. This is everything that goes into the life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know personally and intimately the one who invited us to God. The best invitation we were at. We ever receive. We are also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you your tickets to participation in the life of God. After you turn your back on the world corrupted by lost now, peters trying to say here. We're filled with the power of Christ, we are given everything that we need to live a Barbie life, but this can only be determined by having knowledge of Christ and getting to know God personally on retardant Sunday school, getting to know the character of God. It's kind of like how I'm not trying to bash on Iceman, but how when were given a task to put something together were always we never use the instructions right. We always do these instructions. These were were all knowledgeable and we can do ourselves, whether that's what Peter 's trying to say here is that you can't live a godly life without getting to know the Scripture, and what what God 's character as there is no way we can. We would know how to live a godly life without being without I wonder what it do what it has to say to us and then we realized his work object together. Womack should bring out the instructions were able to complete the task in the task of living a godly life and living a life pleasing to God. So, and then am I want to share this hour, so this video to that video ready in about a bullet for this video is a group of kids going an experiment where they're holding onto an electric fence and are all on top of inflated notes of them. It seems like a good idea to write well, Google handled and watch the video is in and is and is him and I is can you know I would like to show that video overdone but whenever be ready to pause it when I say pause can can can you guys do not as a way to do that are now is there okay what if you guys are second only to put you on the spot. Okay cause he posit there, what, what is he saying he suggests unsafe to illustrate this, the power of God is the facts as we grasp on to the power of God were doing good right word. We seamen were doing blood work were digging in the God 's word were experiencing God more and more were figuring out God 's character is holding onto the fence were doing okay because the ground. The ground is the world that since the worldly thing. Now if were about the world and were living a godly life and were not affected by the things of this world not to continue to play little bit more, please. Okay, you can deposit their okay now as we grow in our faith, we experience the power of God. We want to share with others correct processing work was Christians were called to do is when we experience the log in the cognizant and graced the power of God. Wheat we did build up interest in the point where Scott starts to overflow and when it overflows. That's when we spread the good news of Christ and his estate. They're not touching the world and not touching the grass of the nonaffected by things of this world, you can run played again and I think that's positive. There is, I forgot I was on what they said the guys name was, but he is what I posit he's getting ready to hold the hands of the next person, but this guy is on the ground. He is of this world and the godly power, God 's power and is is Holy Spirit is within us as were above the water were not citizens will because work were digging into God works John Moore more than what it would plan is Paul when God 's power condoms as penicillin, but when God 's power touches this earth. Something happens, it can be a shock like this, it can cause a little story can cause little crazy, but the great thing is, it's not a bad crazy. It's a good crazy because when God 's power touches the earth. And when God sent his son to live on this earth. It caused the ruckus. Didn't know it caused an issue, because when Jesus was here the religious people didn't like in this invisible to see the one his work is demonic. He's he's killing his people, but it is something that is not of Christ, and when God touch this earth like I said, it causes a boom to know when when we accept God into our lives, it causes a boom in our life does not, and went when we accept God, we say, God, you know, I want you to be the master. What should be the leader of our lives. Michael my life. It causes something you can see something different about that person. Because you know him, but it used to have there was a speaker Jonathan Shuttlesworth, you guys know one of my hands-down favorite speakers of all time. But you know, if you could tell someone that you say walks in the Spirit, as you know, we all walk in the spirit to spirit within us. You could feel something different. You could feel the aura are or are we say that if you feel that around him because you know you can tell when somebody you can can't tell you know, I mean you can kind of see it whenever we only experience. Him to get to know God more and more it. It is a creates a boom in our life, and when a guy comes in, it creates a boom in the map boom expands customer we experience God 's love and the we ask me to fill with more and more of God then it overflows and we allow Howard God 's love overflow from most people know something about people know what's going on the understand there's something different about that person, you can you can tell that there's then there's something going to do something different about them, you can press play and an continuous and beyond that. That's the illustration and show that when we get filled with God 's power and we experience the power of God. If it changes something as we began to link hands. We began to interlink arms and wheat we grow his brothers and sisters in Christ and encourage each other. The something happens as it extends out, not a chain extends out because it is like when. When one person gets saved. How many close friends is that person have we all have at least maybe four, five, some more, some last pencil, sociable, you are, think, or people to people like you know that you have your group of friends. Okay select safe. I guess I'm unsaved I am experience God 's love and say I meet Maria for the first time and I sitting a high how are you, well I meet her and my other friends. Well, verse one two three four five people right here save their my closest friends. Well when I need them and I share the power of God, and I share the love of God they experience that they may not recognize what it is the main commitment to understand what it is. But then maybe say one of them gets sick, then they have five other close friends. They are friendly of acquaintances that have good friends and my good friend Sybil that they know what the great thing is when one person is saved in one person experiences the power in the love of God creates a boom like I said as he booms, it spreads and go from each person, each person is we want into their lives. How Jesus did help Jesus built relationships with his disciples. He didn't just that wasn't just Aquinas. They were just acquaintance they were good friends of Jesus so is weak. We experienced on more and more in the power of God and begins to work in our lives and begins to work in other people 's lives, so this out to shift gears. We talk about the power of God at do for us. We'll talk about the call of God. Note this when I was preparing a youth camp again. God gave me this this the section of what authorities say what I would rush and preach upon and I until I really dug into it explains what Peter is is trying to say here, he says, and dumb. First, cannot all skip five through nine. This is here in verse ten. Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. Fourth, you do these things you will never fall and you will receive a rich welcome into the internal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Now he says here be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. Well call to do something by God, whether it be full-time ministry party when a part-time history, you're in the ministry, whether being called to full-time ministry or say when you get saved whenever you're older. God calls you to be right there. He takes you where you're at, so that you can share the love of God, he says, sure of your calling in your election not be about either what I know, but being sure knowing what you're being called to do what God is calling you to do is Christians also question what would we Hall was Christians. He does its job something out, what if Christians. What are we called to do. Save party hearing disciples were discipleship by and by, else what would we call to do and be afraid to say that, through speaking love shallot frying experience love write anything else we called to do as Christians should estimate exactly anything else. I keep going and males share took it off with that you exactly to mature spiritually called to do many things but there's a difference for the knowledge and those callings upon our life and being short of them in applying those in our life. The great commission talks about nothing. It's Matthew Wright, go ye into the world and spread the good news of crisis. The shortened version of the exact type of wording. But God calls us to share our testimony to make disciples. Francis Chan will really dig and opposes a really big fan of Francis Chan found his. His church is really neat. What he does this every morning. He streets. They do worship. This is already takes place in our mid to early in the morning and worship session. He does maybe a fifteen twenty minute sermon and the rest of the time they go there in San Francisco downtown San Francisco pretty rough area and they go in and knock on people 's doors. Now people like you, I want do not like. I mean, what if we get rejected, but Francis Chan is trying to say that were called to make disciples, because as we experience God, and we understand God 's love for us. Why would we not want to share them as I make sense. One saying is because when we express that want and why wouldn't we want someone else to experience as for my life personally is the just talk about knee for the second note, I felt like God, saying his colony to the ministry and be a pastor and all attending Valley Forge Christian College on the front and rear to a zero degree in youth ministry, and I remember when I was out young. This is about ninth-grade one when I felt the calling and I was like I don't know the first thing about preaching at all like I know Pastor McGee preaches up and my God breaches once in a while but not to do that like how can I talk without long, otherwise a talk nonstop, but you know, and I was worried I said, you know the kind dismissed it in on. I had plans last year of attending evangel University to become physical therapist because a member saying is how my pinafore Valley forge a twenty five thousand dollars year. That's a lot of money and special pastor 's salary that you don't make big bucks being a pastor, and that's okay. You know, is provably fine, but I would oust then you know how home I get to be able to pay for this. You know how monument, it would pursue the psychology of I, didn't you have faith in God number of mock my junior year whenever I was it fine arts, and I was doing my guitar solo. It districts and as I was out there playing. I got done of voting went fairly well is pretty please with the performance was walking out and I was get my stuff together. My family and my friends new guys, et al. I called left and I most want to meet him, and a guy comes up to me is like I is like a area are you not have know this guy is as your Evan Wright and Mike know he's like all now is from ballot for someone to talk to Evan isn't what you just perform. I said yes I support your nailing. Fifty oh six hi all of this is some director from the Valley Forge music department like to offer you a scholarship from the school. At that point, I mean like my jaw was on select like him appoint you know, I said the Armature will be done in my life I'll go to Valley Forge and you would you want me to do and like Peter says, be sure of your calling, be sure what you are called to do, because when God says, have faith in me you may not know what the situation is or how your can to be able to get out of this situation are in a higher inability of yourself all causes don't worry at all. Take care, but your faith in me and love me and entered into my work gets in nobody who why am personally. And I'll take care of the rest in a laughing. That's such a great thing in and they talked about it in the famous year for fine arts was the race and dumb. I preached about how there was a story of dirt Redman, I think his name was. It was the early youth Olympics related. I'm not quite sure he was on it was the lipids and he was favored to win one of the sprinting competitions and down. He was heavily seated and he began to take off in the gunshot went and he took maybe ten strides and skews me, and he tore his ACL collapse and in the whole crowd went completely silent like it was, like Emerson and all of a sudden your way way way you see this guy, but louder in court and he's running barreling down the stands and the security guards are stopping and this is the user. You can't walk it. It is always wise to know I need to go get my son and it was Derek Redmond 's father and one downstairs. He goes to a son, and he grabs his son. He said let's finish this race together and I thought that was like the coolest thing ever, but it's also the same thing with is when we trip up. We fall were injured gods right there beside of that beside us, saying a limit. Let me help you take my hat. Let's do this together and as we go up how our calling and spreading the good news Christ. Right there along with us embracing us internist along with it since your early losses and you receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom toward God and Savior Jesus Christ. As we walked hand-in-hand with God, and more sure of our calling in when we dig into what God has to say him him him race him your ultimate goal in your gift is being with God forever in heaven, and the continued growth and just play that song and I want improved search towards the tent. One of my sermon here now. The last part is in us is the power the call and how to dance and some you all a huge Jesus culture fan. I think I love Jesus culture there like one of my favorite all-time and such. I'd love Jesus, controversial and bound this song, dance with me and him. It talks about saying God, let's see, let's let organized let's dance together and I need I need some help up here. I need typically got your help me please get to my friend Tiffany, she should dance his achievements in nationals for fine arts with her with her dance and our on-site embarrass you typical answer, you can visit me, slapped embarrassment. Now when we have these two things together. The power in the call. This is how the dancing when war with Dominic. I really can embarrass you in this mutant land with what you're going to dance later Adesso somebody injured in a desk and as you hold them hand-in-hand as colic. Anyway, when we hold the hand of God, and were holding onto God, and we experienced most of the power in the colonies we pursue these together we began to dance together like this and it is your dancing together as friends and you love God and God loves you is is you embrace him, and he embraces you with your didn't read to all about you: what guys call you doing you have the power of Christ in you, you're going in this together, so is your walking and dancing along with the things of life guys right there with you in his brief on to embarrass you, but you don't. When we experience the power and money we go about our calling the great thing is one dollars right there with us is saying let's go hand-in-hand and dance in this together and were dancing and were going about the things of this life because God doesn't let us go like a Lego brand is an industry but you don't is God night a week awesome God we may go hand-in-hand and hand-in-hand together with God, he's right there along with you. So in case you trip up as you fall backwards dog grabs you and brings you right back up. As you write there hand-in-hand with God something to appreciate and thank you very much. Your round of applause. Thank you for this kind of thing an illustration yell. We began to dance with God, and is the song said, you know, dance with me, God, and we have been some people don't realize or never would get to see what the power of God 's true power of God. What power he has. We were at youth camp last year there was a group member of the disease that she had. It was like civil Halsey, but some disease were handicapped her and she was and she was really weakening and she couldn't do a whole lot and another Jonathan Shuttlesworth, he said. Has power to you, Jesus came and heal people on this earth. He brought Lazarus back to bed some pretty sure he can heal anything. I know that you can heal anything but what he was saying as he says, when we have the power of Christ as not like we have just the most amazing we can do stuff here and there but sexy believing what God you believe in what God can do in our life is when we house the power Don Holy Spirit comes into us. We have the power to heal people. We have the power to change people 's life as we go about our calling and we share the good news of Christ people experience that I mean there's nothing greater, especially moving to web related sat as if moving to puzzle. I stayed up. I was your ten years you not grow up in this church. Florida has a minimum. Our light. We will guys drawn out and out and made that time when I was younger I I didn't get a chance to see you the growth in the church and the change of people in the church, but that now the not unpleasant, but I'm older and I went into it around halfway through my junior year I was able to experience change in people, or maybe it was ten, thirteen people in a sudden, rapid numbers matter, but it was pretty Slim Pickens, and you see people began to grow in their faith and common out of their shell guys keyboarding out with singer worship in music news, Kelly, Joan relaxant but then you see people begin to grow. As you begin to build relationships with them, and they see God in us. We begin to see gone them as they grow in their and that is it's so cool because when they grow, they begin to worship God, and dig and was one note God 's character, you see them bringing people to church than to those longer and been discharged on forever and he came back in any sort of bringing his cousins and they started bringing more friends, and because what in the video. It's a start hand in hand in the power of God, and as they step onto this earth when Jesus came to this earth. It was a boom in an a created Iraqis, but a good practice to people, but it created something different. So what I'm trying to say years when we experience the power of God, and we get to know God understand what he can do for us what he can do for other people. We realize calling upon the call to spread the gospel of Christ, and to show people the love of God, and were also called to grow ourselves, you can never reach a point where you're okay spiritually because when you think you're okay spiritually, you're in for a warm heart, because when you think you're okay with God, then you're there you can only grow, you can only experience more and more of God, so called to spread the gospel of Christ, but also called to grow ourselves, and it talks about in the Ecclesiastes how our life is worth nothing if we don't serve because the ultimate goal is having. But if we don't know God, and we don't make disciples and grow ourselves, we don't know God, but it's it's happening it is. It's true and it's tough to say people don't talk about it a lot but I mean hell is not a pleasant place it on the burning lake of fire. It's eternal burning and extreme pain page. We could even imagine here on earth. But the great thing about God is when we experience God and understand who God is coming. It's a known more and more, or ending places have announced such such a cool thing. It also affects one of the enclosing this and say that you know this is telling sound loosey-goosey, but now I appreciate what the people you guys here at my family[ church family, so I have my family and pleasant thought how my family and liberties, because of downed Pleasantville doesn't mean him any different friendship wise relationship as he was with you guys know I appreciate what you guys are done in my life and what you guys do as a churches is cool you know answers need to see new faces and every, every time I come the church you see somebody new people being in a more consistent as needed, such as illicit banking is a church giving me this opportunity you want to preach now and the police attempted preaching, think Jimmy Bulger practiced enough, but somehow really do appreciate what you guys doing you guys don't know what you guys do because you guys are awesome, yet so no, I'll be off to college no send me cookies are some like that. Send me some in the mail love to hear from everybody you know, but some I do, I do appreciate what you guys do you know special with help account for much of the nationals last year. I mean, AIDS is expensive going to nationals in without you guys are one of impossible to thank you guys as a church and to all my friends here, you know, think you know personally for changing my life and down allowing me to do this, you know, this is something that I love to do, getting slowly but surely better adding to know what some specimen that I truly love to do and I proceeded to give me the opportunity to do so, we cut down this closing prayer and then we go about our business slowly thank you. I think you for this opportunity. It was preached. Thank you for your part that you instill upon us and we are called to live a higher life. We pray that you would just feels with one mortar Holy Spirit as we began to experience you got to want to share that with other people, we thank you for your grace and your mercy, we pray that as we go about our everyday lives we go into this week, a private people would notice something different about us and in our workplace Anil realizes something different about him print you just give us the strength to share our faith. We thank you for that I thank you for the people here. How awesome they are and how they love you so much time we think your premise. You would just be with him every step of their lives. We know that you will die in your name and ID guys are very much appreciate him and him that is installed and used condom article