1 00:00:15,458 --> 00:00:16,750 Howdy Mars Hill Church. 2 00:00:16,833 --> 00:00:19,833 Pastor Sutton Turner here and I'm in Ethiopia. 3 00:00:19,875 --> 00:00:21,667 And I just want to thank Jesus 4 00:00:21,708 --> 00:00:25,000 for continuing to use Mars Hill Church 5 00:00:25,042 --> 00:00:28,583 to make disciples and plant churches. 6 00:00:29,167 --> 00:00:34,292 Mars Hill Global is the arm of Mars Hill Church 7 00:00:34,333 --> 00:00:35,917 that makes disciples 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,833 and plant churches all over the world. 9 00:00:38,917 --> 00:00:40,375 We not only do church planting, 10 00:00:40,458 --> 00:00:43,333 but we help better equip church planters. 11 00:00:43,417 --> 00:00:47,042 Most recently we shipped and now distributed 12 00:00:47,125 --> 00:00:49,500 1,000 bibles into Amharic, 13 00:00:49,542 --> 00:00:52,125 which is the language here in Ethiopia. 14 00:00:52,167 --> 00:00:54,042 And we launched a project 15 00:00:54,125 --> 00:00:59,250 to translate Pastor Mark Driscoll's doctrine book into Spanish. 16 00:00:59,333 --> 00:01:02,583 We have people from over 29 different countries 17 00:01:02,667 --> 00:01:06,167 that are giving on a monthly basis to Mars Hill Global. 18 00:01:06,208 --> 00:01:08,125 So whether you're a member 19 00:01:08,167 --> 00:01:11,083 of one of our Mars Hill church locations 20 00:01:11,167 --> 00:01:12,542 in the United States, 21 00:01:12,625 --> 00:01:18,208 or you're 1 of 100,000 podcasters every single week, 22 00:01:18,292 --> 00:01:19,667 we encourage you to pray 23 00:01:19,750 --> 00:01:23,083 about giving above and beyond your tithe 24 00:01:23,167 --> 00:01:24,625 to Mars Hill Global. 25 00:01:24,667 --> 00:01:28,958 Thank you and let's see more materials translated, 26 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,167 more pastors sent out, more churches planted, 27 00:01:32,250 --> 00:01:34,500 and more people saved by Jesus Christ. 28 00:01:55,583 --> 00:01:59,708 I grew up in a Catholic family that left the church 29 00:01:59,833 --> 00:02:01,500 pretty early in my life. 30 00:02:01,542 --> 00:02:05,375 Then it was as a young man of about 19 years old 31 00:02:05,458 --> 00:02:07,667 that I found Jesus. 32 00:02:07,750 --> 00:02:10,292 And I became the first in a movement that's going 33 00:02:10,375 --> 00:02:13,000 a very different direction in my family. 34 00:02:13,042 --> 00:02:17,000 Yeah, I was in the army at the time I met her, 35 00:02:17,042 --> 00:02:20,167 and Denise used to send me a Bible and gospel tracks 36 00:02:20,208 --> 00:02:21,542 all the time, 37 00:02:21,625 --> 00:02:23,750 and I wasn't all that much interested in that, 38 00:02:23,833 --> 00:02:26,167 so I'd throw those away and I'd read her letters. 39 00:02:26,250 --> 00:02:28,500 And when I came to the states, 40 00:02:28,542 --> 00:02:31,375 I came up to the state of Washington 41 00:02:31,458 --> 00:02:34,292 to meet her for the first time, and boy, 42 00:02:34,375 --> 00:02:36,792 I just fell head over heels in love with her 43 00:02:36,875 --> 00:02:40,958 and she didn't have the same kind of reaction to me. 44 00:02:41,042 --> 00:02:42,875 And after about 3 days, 45 00:02:42,958 --> 00:02:45,667 I asked her to take me back to the bus station. 46 00:02:45,750 --> 00:02:48,167 It was on the way to the bus station 47 00:02:48,250 --> 00:02:51,083 that we were involved in a terrible car accident 48 00:02:51,167 --> 00:02:52,833 and I broke my back, 49 00:02:52,875 --> 00:02:56,417 and I was in the local hospital there, 50 00:02:56,500 --> 00:02:59,708 and Denise came in to visit me, and she left a Bible 51 00:02:59,833 --> 00:03:02,167 and some gospel tracks on my nightstand. 52 00:03:02,250 --> 00:03:04,667 And I picked them up and started to read them, 53 00:03:04,750 --> 00:03:08,667 and read about Jesus' substitutionary death, 54 00:03:08,750 --> 00:03:11,667 and his grace for me, and forgiveness of sins, 55 00:03:11,750 --> 00:03:14,458 and that he wanted a different kind of life for me. 56 00:03:14,542 --> 00:03:16,583 So, it was in the hospital bed 57 00:03:16,667 --> 00:03:20,000 that I received Christ as my Savior. 58 00:03:20,042 --> 00:03:23,375 And Denise and I got married about 6 months later, 59 00:03:23,458 --> 00:03:27,583 and had 3 boys, and I went to graduate school 60 00:03:27,667 --> 00:03:30,458 and got my degree in biblical counseling 61 00:03:30,542 --> 00:03:33,292 from Grace Seminary, opened a private practice. 62 00:03:33,375 --> 00:03:36,500 I was in practice for about 25 years 63 00:03:36,542 --> 00:03:41,167 and I did just a ton of marriage counseling, 64 00:03:41,208 --> 00:03:43,458 and counseling with single people 65 00:03:43,542 --> 00:03:45,375 that were struggling with things, 66 00:03:45,458 --> 00:03:49,375 and helping them through those times to get close to Jesus 67 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:51,292 in a different kind of a way 68 00:03:51,333 --> 00:03:53,375 that wasn't just a behavioral fix, 69 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:57,125 but a transformation in the heart. 70 00:03:57,167 --> 00:03:59,500 I'm the lead pastor of Mars Hill Sammamish. 71 00:03:59,542 --> 00:04:02,958 I have been for about 2 years, and one of the greatest things 72 00:04:03,042 --> 00:04:06,292 in the world is that my whole family is there. 73 00:04:06,375 --> 00:04:10,667 My wife, my boys, their wives, and their children 74 00:04:10,750 --> 00:04:12,833 all worship together with us. 75 00:04:12,917 --> 00:04:17,000 To see my boys serving Jesus and loving the church, 76 00:04:17,042 --> 00:04:20,167 to see them leading their family in worship, 77 00:04:20,250 --> 00:04:23,500 and my grandchildren, seeing them love Jesus 78 00:04:23,542 --> 00:04:25,875 and worship them every Sunday. 79 00:04:25,958 --> 00:04:29,000 They bring them with them when they serve at the church, 80 00:04:29,042 --> 00:04:31,667 they bring them when we're worshiping at the church. 81 00:04:31,750 --> 00:04:34,458 It's been one of the real blessings of my life 82 00:04:34,542 --> 00:04:38,667 to have them be a part of what Jesus is doing through me. 83 00:04:38,708 --> 00:04:41,167 That's mine to enjoy every Sunday at 84 00:04:41,250 --> 00:04:43,958 Mars Hill Sammamish Church. 85 00:04:45,708 --> 00:04:48,250 All right, leaders. It begins and ends with us. 86 00:04:48,333 --> 00:04:50,042 Everything rises or falls. 87 00:04:50,167 --> 00:04:53,167 Everything begins and ends with the quality of a leader. 88 00:04:53,250 --> 00:04:56,000 The health of a family is really contingent upon the parents. 89 00:04:56,042 --> 00:05:00,042 The well-being of a company is contingent upon the CEO. 90 00:05:00,125 --> 00:05:02,833 Ultimately, for us as a church, everything's going to rise 91 00:05:02,917 --> 00:05:05,833 or fall regarding our legacy with the leaders. 92 00:05:05,917 --> 00:05:07,833 So, if you're an elder at Mars Hill, 93 00:05:07,917 --> 00:05:10,833 go ahead and raise your hand. Let us know who you are. 94 00:05:10,917 --> 00:05:12,250 Elders, pastors of the church, 95 00:05:12,333 --> 00:05:14,250 there's 64 across our 15 locations. 96 00:05:14,333 --> 00:05:16,542 How many of you men are elder candidates? 97 00:05:16,625 --> 00:05:17,958 You're in the process. 98 00:05:18,042 --> 00:05:20,958 There's 54 across our 15 locations. 99 00:05:21,042 --> 00:05:22,458 How many of you are deacons, 100 00:05:22,542 --> 00:05:24,667 men and women who are leaders in our church? 101 00:05:24,708 --> 00:05:27,333 Go ahead and raise your hand. We thank God for you. 102 00:05:27,417 --> 00:05:29,042 There's more than 600 of you, 103 00:05:29,125 --> 00:05:30,667 500 of which are unpaid. 104 00:05:30,708 --> 00:05:34,458 So, the majority of our deacons, by a long shot, are volunteers. 105 00:05:34,542 --> 00:05:36,750 How many of you lead Community Groups? 106 00:05:36,833 --> 00:05:38,708 You're a Community Group host, Community Group leader, 107 00:05:38,792 --> 00:05:40,708 Community Group apprentice, raise your hand. 108 00:05:40,792 --> 00:05:42,125 Thank you. 109 00:05:42,208 --> 00:05:43,625 There's 1,000 of you. 110 00:05:43,708 --> 00:05:46,000 There's 1,000 of you that are leading Redemption Groups 111 00:05:46,083 --> 00:05:48,208 and Community Groups, or getting trained to do that. 112 00:05:48,333 --> 00:05:49,875 In addition, there's innumerable leaders. 113 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,292 Kid's Ministry, Student Ministry, 114 00:05:51,333 --> 00:05:52,667 Women's Ministry, 115 00:05:52,750 --> 00:05:55,583 all kinds of things that are happening at the church. 116 00:05:55,667 --> 00:05:57,375 And here's what's so important: 117 00:05:57,500 --> 00:05:59,583 It's important that we never forget, 118 00:05:59,667 --> 00:06:02,333 particularly those of us who are in leadership or aspire 119 00:06:02,417 --> 00:06:06,250 to leadership, that people become like their leaders. 120 00:06:06,333 --> 00:06:08,250 So, when God seeks to effect change, 121 00:06:08,333 --> 00:06:10,833 oftentimes in history and Scripture, 122 00:06:10,875 --> 00:06:13,667 he doesn't initially begin by speaking to everyone, 123 00:06:13,708 --> 00:06:17,333 but selecting out the leaders and speaking to them, 124 00:06:17,375 --> 00:06:20,708 knowing if he can effect change at the level of leadership that 125 00:06:20,792 --> 00:06:24,250 everything flows from the top, and that if leaders change, 126 00:06:24,333 --> 00:06:26,000 things change. 127 00:06:26,083 --> 00:06:27,958 That's why when Jesus comes to the earth, 128 00:06:28,042 --> 00:06:29,917 he doesn't go into all the nations. 129 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,667 He gathers a bunch of leaders, and trains them, 130 00:06:32,708 --> 00:06:35,667 and sends them into all the nations of the earth. 131 00:06:35,708 --> 00:06:39,833 That being said, there are some haunting words from Jesus 132 00:06:39,875 --> 00:06:42,542 in Luke 6:40. 133 00:06:42,625 --> 00:06:46,042 I read it as a newer Christian, and it's haunted me ever since. 134 00:06:46,125 --> 00:06:50,167 Jesus says that students become like their teacher. 135 00:06:50,250 --> 00:06:52,875 It's a simple principle, but it is this, 136 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,292 that whoever you decide to follow, 137 00:06:55,333 --> 00:06:57,333 you will become like them. 138 00:06:57,417 --> 00:07:00,750 As a leader, that's a haunting thing for me. 139 00:07:00,833 --> 00:07:03,708 I wish you had a better pastor, so pray for this one. 140 00:07:03,792 --> 00:07:06,708 I'm wanting to grow as much and as fast as I can 141 00:07:06,792 --> 00:07:08,125 by God's grace. 142 00:07:08,208 --> 00:07:10,125 But for all of us who are leaders, 143 00:07:10,208 --> 00:07:12,625 we need to know that the decisions that we make 144 00:07:12,708 --> 00:07:15,250 and the way that we live, it doesn't just affect us, 145 00:07:15,333 --> 00:07:17,000 it affects others who are following us 146 00:07:17,083 --> 00:07:18,750 because they're going to be like us. 147 00:07:18,833 --> 00:07:20,417 This could be a good thing. 148 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:23,333 I'll give you an example where this is a real positive thing. 149 00:07:23,375 --> 00:07:25,542 Some years ago, I had an opportunity to preach 150 00:07:25,625 --> 00:07:28,250 at a church in Missouri, and I recently visited there again 151 00:07:28,333 --> 00:07:30,125 this past year. 152 00:07:30,208 --> 00:07:32,750 And to be honest, it's not a great town. 153 00:07:32,833 --> 00:07:34,167 It's in Missouri, 154 00:07:34,208 --> 00:07:36,667 and so that should sort of give you an indication. 155 00:07:36,708 --> 00:07:39,417 It's not a great--and it's a long ways to get there, 156 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:41,167 and you've got to get a connector, 157 00:07:41,208 --> 00:07:42,542 and it takes forever, 158 00:07:42,625 --> 00:07:45,750 and massive time change, so it takes a whole day to get there. 159 00:07:45,833 --> 00:07:47,750 We land late, everything's closed, but I'm hungry. 160 00:07:47,833 --> 00:07:49,167 It's time for dinner. 161 00:07:49,208 --> 00:07:51,167 The only thing open is a place called 162 00:07:51,208 --> 00:07:52,542 The Waffle House. 163 00:07:52,667 --> 00:07:55,042 I don't know if you've heard of The Waffle House. 164 00:07:55,167 --> 00:07:57,250 I think the menu is set by Jack Kevorkian. 165 00:07:57,333 --> 00:07:59,458 It's a place filled with double-battered, deep fried, 166 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:02,250 maple syrup, gravy. 167 00:08:02,333 --> 00:08:06,125 It's a slow suicide at The Waffle House. 168 00:08:06,208 --> 00:08:11,833 And so we went there for dinner, and it shared the parking lot-- 169 00:08:11,875 --> 00:08:15,542 I kid you not--with a cardiology clinic, which I thought, 170 00:08:15,625 --> 00:08:20,042 "This sort of sums up this little town." 171 00:08:20,125 --> 00:08:22,250 It's nice--you can go to The Waffle House, 172 00:08:22,333 --> 00:08:23,667 have your heart attack, 173 00:08:23,708 --> 00:08:25,667 and they have a shuttle that'll run you 174 00:08:25,708 --> 00:08:27,042 across the parking lot 175 00:08:27,125 --> 00:08:28,833 over to the heart attack cardiology clinic. 176 00:08:28,875 --> 00:08:31,333 All that to say, it's not a particularly awesome place 177 00:08:31,375 --> 00:08:34,125 to be, but then you walk into this church, 178 00:08:34,208 --> 00:08:36,167 and that's an awesome place to be. 179 00:08:36,208 --> 00:08:40,333 Loving, kind, sweet, happy, joyful, generous people, 180 00:08:40,375 --> 00:08:44,333 and being there is really encouraging 181 00:08:44,375 --> 00:08:45,708 and it's life-giving. 182 00:08:45,792 --> 00:08:48,833 And I wondered, "Where does this come from? 183 00:08:48,875 --> 00:08:50,542 Where does this emanate from?" 184 00:08:50,667 --> 00:08:53,542 And then you meet the pastor and his wife and their kids. 185 00:08:53,667 --> 00:08:55,167 They're great. 186 00:08:55,208 --> 00:08:57,750 They're sweet, and kind, and loving, and generous. 187 00:08:57,833 --> 00:09:01,750 The culture of the church flows from the nature of the family. 188 00:09:01,833 --> 00:09:04,958 And had dinner with the pastor and his wife, 189 00:09:05,042 --> 00:09:06,833 and there's flowers on the table 190 00:09:06,917 --> 00:09:09,750 because the pastor buys his wife flowers. 191 00:09:09,833 --> 00:09:12,458 And then I get home from my trip and there's flowers 192 00:09:12,542 --> 00:09:16,750 in our kitchen, and the staff had sent flowers to Grace 193 00:09:16,833 --> 00:09:20,333 when I was gone, thanking her for sending me. 194 00:09:20,375 --> 00:09:22,417 The church never ran a class on, 195 00:09:22,500 --> 00:09:25,333 "Five Reasons to Give a Woman Flowers," 196 00:09:25,417 --> 00:09:28,333 but as the pastor gives wife to his flowers, 197 00:09:28,375 --> 00:09:30,750 the staff learned that it's good to give women flowers. 198 00:09:30,833 --> 00:09:32,417 And women, it is, amen? 199 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:34,750 Can I least get an "Amen" on that point? 200 00:09:34,833 --> 00:09:37,417 You may not like the rest, but the free flowers thing, 201 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:39,667 you should go with that. 202 00:09:39,708 --> 00:09:42,000 In addition, as I was teaching in the church 203 00:09:42,083 --> 00:09:44,833 and walking down the hallway, I noticed something, 204 00:09:44,875 --> 00:09:48,167 that most of the couples were holding hands. 205 00:09:48,208 --> 00:09:49,875 And the older couples were holding hands, 206 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,292 which I love to see, 207 00:09:51,333 --> 00:09:53,792 but the truth is, you don't see it very often. 208 00:09:53,833 --> 00:09:56,000 I thought, "Oh, I wonder where they got this." 209 00:09:56,042 --> 00:09:59,167 The pastor and his wife get up to introduce me for this event 210 00:09:59,250 --> 00:10:01,167 I was teaching at, and they walk up. 211 00:10:01,250 --> 00:10:02,583 Guess what they're doing? 212 00:10:02,667 --> 00:10:05,500 They're holding hands, because they're friends. 213 00:10:05,542 --> 00:10:09,667 Again, they didn't teach a class, "How to Hold Hands." 214 00:10:09,750 --> 00:10:11,083 Step one, take your hand. 215 00:10:11,167 --> 00:10:12,958 Step two, take their hand. 216 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,792 Step three, put your hands together. 217 00:10:14,833 --> 00:10:16,875 They never taught a class on it. 218 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,083 They just modeled it, because like it's often said, 219 00:10:19,167 --> 00:10:21,583 much of leadership is caught, not taught. 220 00:10:21,667 --> 00:10:24,083 It's through observing and modeling. 221 00:10:24,167 --> 00:10:27,000 Well, that being said, it's incredibly important 222 00:10:27,042 --> 00:10:31,167 that God's leaders conduct themselves in godly ways, 223 00:10:31,250 --> 00:10:33,667 because people are going to follow the example 224 00:10:33,708 --> 00:10:35,500 that the leaders set. 225 00:10:35,542 --> 00:10:39,000 And so as we find ourselves in Malachi 1:6-14, 226 00:10:39,042 --> 00:10:42,167 God has a word for everyone, but it is particularly, 227 00:10:42,208 --> 00:10:45,292 firstly for those of us who are leaders. 228 00:10:45,333 --> 00:10:47,667 And you're going to hear over, and over, and over 229 00:10:47,750 --> 00:10:49,083 in the book of Malachi, 230 00:10:49,167 --> 00:10:51,625 God's going to ask a number of questions. 231 00:10:51,667 --> 00:10:54,708 OK, and here today, he asks this question. 232 00:10:54,792 --> 00:10:57,333 "Where is my honor? 233 00:10:57,417 --> 00:10:59,708 Where is my honor?" 234 00:10:59,792 --> 00:11:02,083 I would yell louder, but I'm losing my voice, 235 00:11:02,167 --> 00:11:05,250 so listen at a higher volume and help me out, OK? 236 00:11:05,333 --> 00:11:09,667 "Where is my honor?" 237 00:11:09,708 --> 00:11:13,083 What an important question in a day when it is 238 00:11:13,167 --> 00:11:17,583 fashionable to be dishonorable, 239 00:11:17,667 --> 00:11:20,250 when children are encouraged to dishonor their parents, 240 00:11:20,333 --> 00:11:24,000 when spouses are encouraged to dishonor their spouse, 241 00:11:24,042 --> 00:11:28,000 when people are encouraged to dishonor their leaders, 242 00:11:28,042 --> 00:11:30,667 and when even Christian leaders find it fashionable 243 00:11:30,750 --> 00:11:33,167 to dishonor God. 244 00:11:33,250 --> 00:11:37,583 And God has a question: "Where is my honor?" 245 00:11:37,667 --> 00:11:42,083 And so you can read it with me in Malachi 1:6. 246 00:11:42,167 --> 00:11:44,875 Here's the Lord speaking through his servant, Malachi. 247 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,667 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. 248 00:11:49,750 --> 00:11:52,958 "If then I am a father, where is my honor? 249 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,167 "And if I am a master, where is my fear? 250 00:11:56,208 --> 00:11:58,333 says the Lord of hosts," the God who rules 251 00:11:58,417 --> 00:12:00,458 over angels and demons, all that is spiritual, 252 00:12:00,542 --> 00:12:02,750 "O priests, who despise my name." 253 00:12:02,833 --> 00:12:05,417 He is here first speaking to the priests. 254 00:12:05,500 --> 00:12:09,250 In the Old Covenant, everything orbited around the temple. 255 00:12:09,333 --> 00:12:11,542 In the New Covenant, it orbits around the church. 256 00:12:11,625 --> 00:12:12,958 In the Old Covenant, 257 00:12:13,042 --> 00:12:15,167 the people were led by the priests. 258 00:12:15,208 --> 00:12:18,333 In the New Covenant, they're led by the pastors. 259 00:12:18,417 --> 00:12:23,917 These are the spiritual leaders, and he calls them out by name. 260 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:29,750 "Priests, where is my honor?" 261 00:12:29,833 --> 00:12:33,833 And God tells us two things regarding his character, 262 00:12:33,917 --> 00:12:37,042 that he is a Father and a Master. 263 00:12:37,125 --> 00:12:42,958 And Father, it reveals to us his affection for us, 264 00:12:43,042 --> 00:12:47,667 and Master reveals his authority over us. 265 00:12:47,708 --> 00:12:51,167 So, we all live on a continuum. 266 00:12:51,250 --> 00:12:54,667 Some of us are going to more easily see God as loving, 267 00:12:54,750 --> 00:12:57,375 compassionate, gracious, tolerant Father. 268 00:12:57,500 --> 00:13:00,667 Others of us are going to lean in the direction that he is 269 00:13:00,708 --> 00:13:05,167 more authoritative, in charge, giving orders, boss, Master. 270 00:13:05,208 --> 00:13:06,958 How many of you, on that continuum, 271 00:13:07,042 --> 00:13:10,625 you would more easily see God as Father? 272 00:13:10,708 --> 00:13:13,250 He loves you, he's patient with you, he's gracious with you, 273 00:13:13,333 --> 00:13:14,833 he's merciful toward you. 274 00:13:14,917 --> 00:13:17,500 How many of you would more easily see God as Master? 275 00:13:17,583 --> 00:13:20,000 He tells you to do something, you better do it. 276 00:13:20,083 --> 00:13:21,417 He's like a boss. 277 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:23,042 It's both. 278 00:13:23,125 --> 00:13:26,208 If you only see God as Father, you can start to see him 279 00:13:26,292 --> 00:13:29,542 as permissive Father, the enabling Father, 280 00:13:29,625 --> 00:13:32,250 the Father that lets you get away with things that you 281 00:13:32,333 --> 00:13:34,708 shouldn't because he doesn't really command you, 282 00:13:34,792 --> 00:13:38,125 he just endures you. 283 00:13:38,208 --> 00:13:42,333 Conversely, some of you who see God firstly or mostly as Master, 284 00:13:42,417 --> 00:13:45,625 you won't know his love for you, his affection for you, 285 00:13:45,708 --> 00:13:48,542 his tenderness for you, his concern for you. 286 00:13:48,667 --> 00:13:51,500 And you'll see him more as one who gives rules, 287 00:13:51,542 --> 00:13:53,167 but you won't see the relationship 288 00:13:53,250 --> 00:13:56,458 and the Father's affection behind them. 289 00:13:56,500 --> 00:14:00,250 And so it's important that we keep both of these continually 290 00:14:00,333 --> 00:14:06,667 in our view through each eye, seeing God's fatherly affection 291 00:14:06,708 --> 00:14:09,833 and his masterly authority. 292 00:14:09,875 --> 00:14:11,250 And he says, "You know what? 293 00:14:11,333 --> 00:14:13,750 "You guys have forgotten who I am. 294 00:14:13,833 --> 00:14:15,708 You've forgotten who I am." 295 00:14:15,792 --> 00:14:19,833 And he asks this question, "Where is my fear? 296 00:14:19,875 --> 00:14:21,625 Where is my honor?" 297 00:14:21,708 --> 00:14:23,333 And these go together. 298 00:14:23,417 --> 00:14:27,042 God is to be feared, respected, revered, 299 00:14:27,125 --> 00:14:30,458 and honored with our life, and our dollars, 300 00:14:30,542 --> 00:14:32,958 and our deeds, and our days. 301 00:14:33,042 --> 00:14:34,667 And so when it's talking about honor, 302 00:14:34,708 --> 00:14:37,833 he's talking about respect, esteem, value, defer, 303 00:14:37,917 --> 00:14:43,250 elevate, submit to, obey, follow, cherish. 304 00:14:43,333 --> 00:14:45,917 That's what he's talking about. 305 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,583 Now, that being said, 306 00:14:50,667 --> 00:14:53,250 here's the question: 307 00:14:53,333 --> 00:14:59,667 is your life one that God would say is honoring to him? 308 00:14:59,750 --> 00:15:02,333 It doesn't matter what you say. 309 00:15:02,417 --> 00:15:04,708 You're going to see in this book, 310 00:15:04,792 --> 00:15:07,000 they keep arguing with God. 311 00:15:07,083 --> 00:15:09,250 He asks a question, they ask two more. 312 00:15:09,333 --> 00:15:11,667 That's how the whole book goes. 313 00:15:11,708 --> 00:15:13,042 God says, "I'm not pleased." 314 00:15:13,125 --> 00:15:15,042 "Well, you should be. We're doing our best." 315 00:15:15,125 --> 00:15:16,458 "You're not honoring me." 316 00:15:16,542 --> 00:15:19,167 "We feel like we are. How are we not honoring you? 317 00:15:19,208 --> 00:15:20,542 We disagree." 318 00:15:20,625 --> 00:15:21,958 "You're not being generous." 319 00:15:22,042 --> 00:15:24,625 "Oh, our committee voted and our committee voted three to one, 320 00:15:24,708 --> 00:15:26,833 "and you're only one vote, so you lose, Lord. 321 00:15:26,875 --> 00:15:28,542 "We talked about this and we disagree. 322 00:15:28,625 --> 00:15:29,958 The pastor's on our side." 323 00:15:30,042 --> 00:15:31,667 They're going to argue the whole time. 324 00:15:31,708 --> 00:15:33,042 So, here's the bottom line. 325 00:15:33,125 --> 00:15:34,542 It doesn't matter what you think. 326 00:15:34,625 --> 00:15:36,750 If God looked at your life, would he say, 327 00:15:36,833 --> 00:15:40,333 "Honoring to me," or, "Dishonoring to me"? 328 00:15:40,417 --> 00:15:43,458 So, the whole issue is honor, and then he's going to proceed 329 00:15:43,542 --> 00:15:46,542 to talk about three ways that we are to honor him. 330 00:15:46,625 --> 00:15:50,375 My question to you is, what would you guess would be 331 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:54,167 the first way that he would approach the issue of honor? 332 00:15:54,250 --> 00:15:57,167 Where should he start? 333 00:15:57,208 --> 00:15:59,875 He starts in a place that you don't want him to, 334 00:16:00,042 --> 00:16:03,250 which means you need him to, 335 00:16:03,333 --> 00:16:06,833 and that is to honor God with your wealth. 336 00:16:06,917 --> 00:16:09,250 Immediately, immediately, I can just--this is what happens. 337 00:16:09,333 --> 00:16:10,750 "Oh, megachurch pastor's talking about money. 338 00:16:10,833 --> 00:16:12,958 Here we go, here we go, here we go." 339 00:16:13,042 --> 00:16:14,333 Megachurch pastor preaching the Bible, 340 00:16:14,417 --> 00:16:16,500 retting over your idol. 341 00:16:16,583 --> 00:16:20,500 OK, that being said, Malachi 1:6-9. 342 00:16:20,583 --> 00:16:22,042 "But you say." You notice this? 343 00:16:22,125 --> 00:16:23,667 How many of you do this? 344 00:16:23,708 --> 00:16:25,417 God says something, you disagree with it, 345 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:27,625 you've got a bunch of questions and objections. 346 00:16:27,708 --> 00:16:30,250 So do they. 347 00:16:30,333 --> 00:16:32,542 "But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'" 348 00:16:32,625 --> 00:16:34,333 God answers. 349 00:16:34,375 --> 00:16:36,667 He's like a patient dad with a bratty kid. 350 00:16:36,708 --> 00:16:41,333 "By offering polluted food upon my altar. 351 00:16:41,417 --> 00:16:44,042 But you say, 'How have we polluted you?'" 352 00:16:44,125 --> 00:16:45,958 You see this? 353 00:16:46,042 --> 00:16:48,042 "By saying," he answers, 354 00:16:48,167 --> 00:16:50,583 "that the Lord's table may be despised. 355 00:16:50,667 --> 00:16:55,250 "When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? 356 00:16:55,333 --> 00:16:58,667 "And when you offer those that are lame or sick, 357 00:16:58,708 --> 00:17:01,167 is that not evil?" 358 00:17:01,208 --> 00:17:06,208 Now God's going to--he's going to tell a little joke. 359 00:17:06,292 --> 00:17:07,958 He's going to make fun of them. 360 00:17:08,042 --> 00:17:09,333 Some of you are like, 361 00:17:09,417 --> 00:17:12,250 "You should never make fun of people." 362 00:17:12,333 --> 00:17:16,667 God does. 363 00:17:16,708 --> 00:17:18,625 "Present that to your governor; 364 00:17:18,708 --> 00:17:20,958 "will he accept you or show you favor? 365 00:17:21,042 --> 00:17:23,333 "says the Lord of hosts. 366 00:17:23,417 --> 00:17:25,167 "And now entreat the favor of God, 367 00:17:25,208 --> 00:17:26,833 "that he may be gracious to us. 368 00:17:26,917 --> 00:17:28,625 "With such a gift from your hand, 369 00:17:28,708 --> 00:17:31,167 "will he show favor to any of you? 370 00:17:31,208 --> 00:17:33,500 says the Lord of hosts." 371 00:17:33,583 --> 00:17:34,958 So, they're bringing their offerings. 372 00:17:35,042 --> 00:17:38,667 God says, "First things first: you don't honor me." 373 00:17:38,708 --> 00:17:40,250 "How do we not honor you?" 374 00:17:40,333 --> 00:17:41,833 "With your giving." 375 00:17:41,875 --> 00:17:43,500 "You're going to talk about our money?" 376 00:17:43,583 --> 00:17:45,125 "Yes." 377 00:17:45,208 --> 00:17:49,333 How many of you know that God keeps account? 378 00:17:49,375 --> 00:17:52,292 He knows how much you make, how much you give, 379 00:17:52,333 --> 00:17:53,750 and how you spend it. 380 00:17:53,833 --> 00:17:55,250 Did you know that? 381 00:17:55,333 --> 00:17:57,958 He does, he does. 382 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,458 God says, "I look at the giving of the people, 383 00:18:00,542 --> 00:18:02,417 "particularly the priests and the leaders, 384 00:18:02,500 --> 00:18:05,125 and the offering is not generous." 385 00:18:05,208 --> 00:18:08,125 And here's the issue: God doesn't want your money. 386 00:18:08,208 --> 00:18:11,125 God wants your heart, and your heart is an indication of your 387 00:18:11,208 --> 00:18:13,125 money, because Jesus says, "Where your treasure is, 388 00:18:13,208 --> 00:18:14,500 there your heart is." 389 00:18:14,583 --> 00:18:17,167 You can't say, "I love the Lord, I just don't give." 390 00:18:17,208 --> 00:18:20,542 In the same way, a husband and a father can't look at his wife 391 00:18:20,625 --> 00:18:22,333 and kids and say, "I love them; 392 00:18:22,375 --> 00:18:23,833 I just don't give them anything." 393 00:18:23,875 --> 00:18:27,917 Love is not what you feel, love is primarily what you do 394 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,917 and how you give. 395 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,833 And so what God is trying to do is get the finances 396 00:18:33,875 --> 00:18:35,458 straightened out, 397 00:18:35,542 --> 00:18:37,458 because once the finances are straightened out, 398 00:18:37,542 --> 00:18:39,958 then the rest of life tends to get straightened out. 399 00:18:40,042 --> 00:18:43,125 And we tend to think conversely, "As soon as I get my life 400 00:18:43,208 --> 00:18:45,333 in order, then I'll get my finances in order." 401 00:18:45,375 --> 00:18:46,708 That's the wrong order. 402 00:18:46,792 --> 00:18:48,208 You get your finances in order, 403 00:18:48,333 --> 00:18:50,500 it forces you to get your life in order. 404 00:18:50,542 --> 00:18:53,833 And in that day, they didn't have debit cards. 405 00:18:53,917 --> 00:18:56,375 So if you're a farmer, you bring your crops. 406 00:18:56,500 --> 00:19:00,250 Let's say you're a herdsman, you bring your animals. 407 00:19:00,333 --> 00:19:04,958 Maybe you've got a business and you bring your gold, your coins. 408 00:19:05,042 --> 00:19:07,458 So, they're collecting their offering and the food, 409 00:19:07,542 --> 00:19:09,833 he says, is polluted. 410 00:19:09,917 --> 00:19:12,667 What this really is, it's rotten. 411 00:19:12,708 --> 00:19:15,333 This is literally like you're at the house, 412 00:19:15,417 --> 00:19:17,000 and you open the fridge. 413 00:19:17,083 --> 00:19:19,208 You're like, "Oh my gosh, look at that sandwich. 414 00:19:19,292 --> 00:19:20,625 "It's got a beard. 415 00:19:20,708 --> 00:19:23,167 "That is a furry, funky, nasty sandwich. 416 00:19:23,208 --> 00:19:25,833 "That's a green beard on the sandwich. 417 00:19:25,917 --> 00:19:27,667 What should we do with it, Martha?" 418 00:19:27,708 --> 00:19:31,958 "We'll bring it to church and put it in the offering basket." 419 00:19:32,042 --> 00:19:34,958 "Oh yeah, we'll give that one to the--what about the good one?" 420 00:19:35,042 --> 00:19:37,625 "We'll eat that, but the Lord gets the furry, 421 00:19:37,708 --> 00:19:39,250 "green bearded sandwich. 422 00:19:39,333 --> 00:19:40,667 That's what he gets." 423 00:19:40,708 --> 00:19:43,167 Oh, and why do people do this, by the way? 424 00:19:43,208 --> 00:19:45,167 "Oh, oh, smell this, smell this, smell this." 425 00:19:45,208 --> 00:19:46,542 You're like, "Well, why?" 426 00:19:46,625 --> 00:19:47,958 "It smells like Satan's breath." 427 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,708 "Why do I want to smell it? 428 00:19:49,833 --> 00:19:51,167 I don't want to smell it." 429 00:19:51,250 --> 00:19:53,167 "Oh, it smells terrible. What should we do? 430 00:19:53,250 --> 00:19:54,583 Let's throw it away." 431 00:19:54,667 --> 00:19:56,000 "Don't throw it away. 432 00:19:56,042 --> 00:19:58,750 Let's bring it to church and give it to the Lord." 433 00:19:58,833 --> 00:20:00,458 So, imagine you're sitting in the pew, 434 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:01,833 and the plate's coming by. 435 00:20:01,917 --> 00:20:03,583 You're like...because it's just all nasty, funky, 436 00:20:03,667 --> 00:20:05,042 gross, rotten food. 437 00:20:05,167 --> 00:20:07,458 And God's joke is, "You would never feed 438 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:09,958 the political officials this." 439 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,958 The governor, the pagan ruler, leader, 440 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,667 if he came over to dinner at your house, you wouldn't, 441 00:20:14,750 --> 00:20:19,000 "Hey, do you want some chunky milk, and a bearded sandwich, 442 00:20:19,042 --> 00:20:22,667 "and something that smells like socks on a warm summer day? 443 00:20:22,750 --> 00:20:24,167 Would you like that?" 444 00:20:24,250 --> 00:20:26,250 You don't serve that to people you respect. 445 00:20:26,333 --> 00:20:29,583 And God's saying, "Why would you give to me what you would never 446 00:20:29,667 --> 00:20:31,750 give to someone else you respect?" 447 00:20:31,833 --> 00:20:33,667 That's disrespectful. 448 00:20:33,750 --> 00:20:37,000 Also, he's inferring and referring to the paying 449 00:20:37,042 --> 00:20:38,583 of their taxes, 450 00:20:38,667 --> 00:20:40,583 that the governor would demand your taxes, 451 00:20:40,667 --> 00:20:43,667 and you would not try and get away with giving the governor 452 00:20:43,708 --> 00:20:45,375 a lame, you know, tax payment. 453 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:48,333 For example, let's say you get your tax bill and the government 454 00:20:48,417 --> 00:20:50,208 says, "You owe x number of dollars." 455 00:20:50,292 --> 00:20:52,708 And you're like, "Yeah, I don't want to pay that. 456 00:20:52,792 --> 00:20:54,500 "I did have a beater old car 457 00:20:54,583 --> 00:20:56,500 "that got in a wreck and was totaled. 458 00:20:56,583 --> 00:20:58,167 "I'll tow that to the IRS office, 459 00:20:58,250 --> 00:21:00,667 "leave it at the front door with a note saying, 460 00:21:00,750 --> 00:21:02,083 "'My taxes are now paid,' 461 00:21:02,167 --> 00:21:04,083 and I'm sure they'll be OK with that." 462 00:21:04,167 --> 00:21:07,667 God's saying, "You're conducting your affairs with me in a way 463 00:21:07,708 --> 00:21:09,792 "you don't conduct your affairs with others. 464 00:21:09,833 --> 00:21:13,458 You're taking advantage of my kindness, and that's not right." 465 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:17,542 In addition to their food, they are bringing another form 466 00:21:17,667 --> 00:21:20,458 of their offering, and that is their animals. 467 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:24,042 And here's the Craigslist ad for their animals, 468 00:21:24,167 --> 00:21:27,792 "Blind, sick, and lame." 469 00:21:27,833 --> 00:21:30,583 How many of you, those aren't the keywords you're typing in 470 00:21:30,667 --> 00:21:32,667 looking for an animal? 471 00:21:32,750 --> 00:21:34,667 All right, recently we got a dog. 472 00:21:34,708 --> 00:21:36,042 My kids wanted a dog. 473 00:21:36,167 --> 00:21:37,458 Imagine if I brought home-- 474 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:39,667 "I got a dog, kids. I got a dog. 475 00:21:39,708 --> 00:21:41,375 I got a dog. Here it is." 476 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:42,792 "Can it fetch?" 477 00:21:42,833 --> 00:21:44,167 "No, it's blind." 478 00:21:44,250 --> 00:21:45,875 "Can we take it for a walk?" 479 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,292 "It's got two legs, no. 480 00:21:47,333 --> 00:21:49,292 "You can drag it around or carry it, 481 00:21:49,333 --> 00:21:51,500 but you cannot take the dog for a walk." 482 00:21:51,542 --> 00:21:52,875 "Well, that's OK. 483 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,375 At least we can enjoy him." 484 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:56,083 "No you can't, it's diarrhea dog. 485 00:21:56,167 --> 00:21:57,500 He's sick. 486 00:21:57,542 --> 00:21:59,500 Sick, diarrhea dog." 487 00:21:59,542 --> 00:22:01,042 "Thanks, Dad." 488 00:22:01,125 --> 00:22:05,667 "Yeah, happy birthday. Happy birthday." 489 00:22:05,708 --> 00:22:08,667 The only thing good about that dog is it can't run away. 490 00:22:08,708 --> 00:22:10,667 That's the only thing good about that dog, 491 00:22:10,708 --> 00:22:13,833 and that's actually bad. 492 00:22:13,917 --> 00:22:15,750 See, and that's what God's saying, like, 493 00:22:15,833 --> 00:22:18,750 "You would never give these things to people you love. 494 00:22:18,833 --> 00:22:23,542 Why do you think I'm excited about them?" 495 00:22:23,625 --> 00:22:25,917 So then, God has some questions. 496 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,208 They have some questions. 497 00:22:28,292 --> 00:22:29,833 Here's their two questions. 498 00:22:29,917 --> 00:22:32,000 And this is what people do. 499 00:22:32,083 --> 00:22:33,458 God says something. 500 00:22:33,542 --> 00:22:36,333 If we don't want to obey it, we start asking questions, 501 00:22:36,417 --> 00:22:38,167 trying to change the subject. 502 00:22:38,208 --> 00:22:42,417 So, their questions are, "How have we despised your name? 503 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:45,000 "Hypothetically we did, how did we do that? 504 00:22:45,083 --> 00:22:49,333 "And how did we pollute the offering to you? 505 00:22:49,417 --> 00:22:53,375 How did we do that? Prove it to me, God." 506 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:59,542 Here's God's question: "Is that not evil?" 507 00:22:59,667 --> 00:23:01,000 And he says it again. 508 00:23:01,083 --> 00:23:02,708 He says it twice. 509 00:23:02,792 --> 00:23:05,208 "Is that not evil?" 510 00:23:05,292 --> 00:23:08,625 Here's what he's saying: "You're not cheap, you're evil." 511 00:23:08,708 --> 00:23:13,250 Different horsepower on that word. 512 00:23:13,333 --> 00:23:16,208 Different horsepower on that word. 513 00:23:16,292 --> 00:23:18,833 Some of you say, "I'm cheap," and God would say, 514 00:23:18,917 --> 00:23:21,250 "No, you're evil." 515 00:23:21,333 --> 00:23:24,250 Oh, because see, God looks at the heart. 516 00:23:24,333 --> 00:23:26,542 See, it's out of the overflow of the heart 517 00:23:26,625 --> 00:23:28,458 that the wallet spends. 518 00:23:28,542 --> 00:23:30,833 I'll give you an example. 519 00:23:30,917 --> 00:23:35,750 I know a guy who would have said he was cheap. 520 00:23:35,833 --> 00:23:37,958 He told everybody he's cheap. 521 00:23:38,042 --> 00:23:39,333 Just a cheap guy. 522 00:23:39,417 --> 00:23:41,833 The worst guy ever to go out to dinner with. 523 00:23:41,917 --> 00:23:43,833 Like, if there's a group, he's over there, 524 00:23:43,917 --> 00:23:45,417 "Who got the iced tea? $1.27. 525 00:23:45,500 --> 00:23:47,625 Who got the iced tea? We've got to split." 526 00:23:47,708 --> 00:23:50,333 I'm like, "Really Judas, you've got to do all the accounting 527 00:23:50,417 --> 00:23:51,750 "after the meal? 528 00:23:51,833 --> 00:23:53,167 "Really? Come on, come on. 529 00:23:53,208 --> 00:23:55,083 Just, whatever. You know, don't be like that." 530 00:23:55,167 --> 00:23:57,292 He was not generous toward his wife, 531 00:23:57,333 --> 00:23:59,542 not generous toward his family, not generous toward God, 532 00:23:59,667 --> 00:24:01,958 not generous toward anybody. 533 00:24:02,042 --> 00:24:04,667 He was cheap. He was cheap. 534 00:24:04,708 --> 00:24:07,167 God would say--and it's not that he didn't have it, 535 00:24:07,208 --> 00:24:09,167 it's that he wouldn't share it. 536 00:24:09,208 --> 00:24:12,333 That's evil. That's evil. 537 00:24:12,417 --> 00:24:15,750 Because love is not just the way you feel, love is what you do, 538 00:24:15,833 --> 00:24:17,958 and love is how you give. 539 00:24:18,042 --> 00:24:20,958 Right, "God so loved the world, he gave." 540 00:24:21,042 --> 00:24:26,000 The Bible connects giving and loving. 541 00:24:26,083 --> 00:24:28,750 So, they got divorced, and he lost half of everything, 542 00:24:28,833 --> 00:24:31,500 and wrote a big check to a divorce attorney. 543 00:24:31,583 --> 00:24:35,250 He didn't save anything. 544 00:24:35,333 --> 00:24:37,250 He lost everything. 545 00:24:37,333 --> 00:24:39,250 He wasn't cheap, he was evil. 546 00:24:39,333 --> 00:24:42,167 Not only did he never really give his money to his wife 547 00:24:42,208 --> 00:24:44,833 and his family, he never really gave himself to his wife 548 00:24:44,917 --> 00:24:46,333 and his family. 549 00:24:46,417 --> 00:24:49,000 Not only did he never give his money to the Lord, 550 00:24:49,083 --> 00:24:51,167 he never really gave himself to the Lord. 551 00:24:51,250 --> 00:24:54,375 Where your treasure is, your heart is. 552 00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:56,833 And God looks down and says, "This isn't just cheap; 553 00:24:56,917 --> 00:24:59,458 this is evil." 554 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:03,125 And it starts with church leaders, 555 00:25:03,208 --> 00:25:08,708 and so let me talk real plainly. 556 00:25:11,083 --> 00:25:13,750 Many churches don't even track the giving of the leaders, 557 00:25:13,833 --> 00:25:15,750 and then the leaders are encouraging the people 558 00:25:15,833 --> 00:25:17,750 to be generous, but nobody's checking to see 559 00:25:17,833 --> 00:25:19,167 if the leaders are generous. 560 00:25:19,208 --> 00:25:20,833 I would say that's evil. 561 00:25:20,917 --> 00:25:23,042 Now, I'm not going through checking every single leader, 562 00:25:23,125 --> 00:25:24,917 but I'm making sure that every leader, 563 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,042 particularly those on paid staff and eldership, give. 564 00:25:28,125 --> 00:25:31,833 Out of the 64 elders, 63 are generous. 565 00:25:31,917 --> 00:25:35,125 One, not sure about, we'll follow up with. 566 00:25:35,208 --> 00:25:37,125 Sometimes there's extenuating circumstances; 567 00:25:37,208 --> 00:25:38,542 something happened. 568 00:25:38,625 --> 00:25:40,542 We don't want to be legalistic about this, 569 00:25:40,625 --> 00:25:43,750 but we do want to say, "Before we ask anybody to do anything, 570 00:25:43,833 --> 00:25:46,250 "we want to make sure that the leaders are setting 571 00:25:46,333 --> 00:25:47,667 a good example." 572 00:25:47,708 --> 00:25:49,875 And I learned this painfully early on in ministry. 573 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,667 We started flat broke college kids. 574 00:25:51,708 --> 00:25:54,667 Everybody was a punk rocker committed to anarchy, 575 00:25:54,708 --> 00:25:57,167 so good luck trying to get an org chart together 576 00:25:57,208 --> 00:25:58,667 with this crew. 577 00:25:58,708 --> 00:26:00,958 But--and we were struggling, but for some reason, 578 00:26:01,042 --> 00:26:04,333 no reason that makes any sense, a church brought me in 579 00:26:04,375 --> 00:26:06,042 as a consultant. 580 00:26:06,125 --> 00:26:08,042 And I was going to work for free, 581 00:26:08,125 --> 00:26:10,042 which is probably why they brought me in; 582 00:26:10,125 --> 00:26:11,458 that's what they could afford. 583 00:26:11,542 --> 00:26:14,167 So, they bring me in as a consultant, and the issue 584 00:26:14,208 --> 00:26:15,667 was, "We have this small church. 585 00:26:15,708 --> 00:26:18,167 "It's been going a long time and it's struggling financially. 586 00:26:18,208 --> 00:26:20,167 "We can't really afford to compensate the pastor. 587 00:26:20,208 --> 00:26:22,167 "He loves the people, he works really hard, 588 00:26:22,208 --> 00:26:23,667 "puts in a ton of hours. 589 00:26:23,708 --> 00:26:26,333 "We all appreciate him, but we need to take better care 590 00:26:26,417 --> 00:26:27,750 "of him and his family. 591 00:26:27,833 --> 00:26:30,250 So, how can we increase the revenue at the church?" 592 00:26:30,333 --> 00:26:32,250 I said, "Well, before we get into that, 593 00:26:32,333 --> 00:26:34,958 "my question is what is the giving of all the elders, 594 00:26:35,042 --> 00:26:36,958 "the pastors, the senior leaders in the church? 595 00:26:37,042 --> 00:26:39,458 "You guys need to tell me, go around the circle, 596 00:26:39,542 --> 00:26:42,458 "what do you give, what do you give, what do you give, 597 00:26:42,542 --> 00:26:44,458 what do you give, what do you give?" 598 00:26:44,542 --> 00:26:46,958 And all of a sudden, it's like somebody turned on 599 00:26:47,042 --> 00:26:48,333 the air conditioning. 600 00:26:48,417 --> 00:26:49,750 "Oh, it's chilly in here." 601 00:26:49,833 --> 00:26:52,167 And then the guys start all looking at the ground, 602 00:26:52,250 --> 00:26:54,375 like...and all of a sudden, it's like everybody turned 603 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:55,792 into Rain Man. 604 00:26:55,833 --> 00:26:57,167 Like, what happened? 605 00:26:57,250 --> 00:26:58,875 Like, all of a sudden, I lost-- 606 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,167 "Hey, hey, why do we got to do that? 607 00:27:01,208 --> 00:27:03,167 The left hand shouldn't tell the right hand," 608 00:27:03,208 --> 00:27:05,625 and "Oh, it's none of your business," and you know, 609 00:27:05,708 --> 00:27:07,125 "Shouldn't we trust--" All of sudden, 610 00:27:07,208 --> 00:27:08,625 they're quoting verses out of context. 611 00:27:08,708 --> 00:27:11,625 All of a sudden, they got all kinds of excuses and answers. 612 00:27:11,708 --> 00:27:13,750 It stinks like Malachi 1. A lot of questions. 613 00:27:13,833 --> 00:27:15,958 I said, "Well, how much do you guys give?" 614 00:27:16,042 --> 00:27:17,458 They would not answer the question. 615 00:27:17,542 --> 00:27:19,917 I said, "OK, then I'm done. I've got to go." 616 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,958 The bookkeeper, who was unpaid, walked me out. 617 00:27:22,042 --> 00:27:23,958 He said, "The pastor gives and I give. 618 00:27:24,042 --> 00:27:26,667 The other elders"--five or six guys, however many it was-- 619 00:27:26,708 --> 00:27:28,042 "they don't give. 620 00:27:28,125 --> 00:27:32,167 The reason they wouldn't tell you is that they're not giving." 621 00:27:32,208 --> 00:27:34,333 He said, "And some of them run small businesses. 622 00:27:34,417 --> 00:27:35,833 "Some of them are doing OK. 623 00:27:35,917 --> 00:27:38,542 You know, they're not rich, but they're not broke." 624 00:27:38,625 --> 00:27:41,542 And he said, "If the elders would all tithe 10%, 625 00:27:41,625 --> 00:27:43,917 "everything they want to do would be paid for. 626 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,333 "God's already given the money, but it's in the pockets 627 00:27:46,417 --> 00:27:50,583 of the elders and they won't share it." 628 00:27:50,667 --> 00:27:55,083 That is, what's the word, Mars Hill? 629 00:27:55,167 --> 00:27:58,292 That's evil. 630 00:27:58,333 --> 00:28:01,750 That's evil. That's evil. 631 00:28:01,833 --> 00:28:04,208 And that's what he's talking about. 632 00:28:04,292 --> 00:28:06,917 It's not about how much you give, 633 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:13,042 but it's about how much you give out of what you have. 634 00:28:13,125 --> 00:28:15,708 So, there's a woman in the New Testament. 635 00:28:15,792 --> 00:28:17,667 She's a widow. She's really broke. 636 00:28:17,708 --> 00:28:19,458 She gives generously. 637 00:28:19,542 --> 00:28:22,250 If you look at it, it's just a small pittance, 638 00:28:22,333 --> 00:28:25,917 but percentage-wise, it's great generosity. 639 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,042 I had an experience like this when everything literally 640 00:28:30,125 --> 00:28:32,833 fell apart in Haiti some years ago. 641 00:28:32,917 --> 00:28:37,667 If you remember that, led relief mission there, 642 00:28:37,708 --> 00:28:40,458 and you guys were generous, and we helped rebuild churches 643 00:28:40,542 --> 00:28:42,958 and bring medical supplies and stuff. 644 00:28:43,042 --> 00:28:45,542 Landed in this devastated country to deliver 645 00:28:45,625 --> 00:28:48,542 the medical supplies and went out to visit the churches, 646 00:28:48,667 --> 00:28:51,042 just to see what was going on with God's people 647 00:28:51,167 --> 00:28:54,000 after the tragedy hit, and it was horrifying: 648 00:28:54,042 --> 00:29:00,667 Churches collapsed. People in the church, staff members, 649 00:29:00,708 --> 00:29:07,333 people in for prayer meetings, choirs practicing. 650 00:29:07,417 --> 00:29:08,833 Dead bodies in the street. 651 00:29:08,917 --> 00:29:12,750 I saw a kid shot in the head in front of me and bleed out within 652 00:29:12,833 --> 00:29:14,250 the first hour of being there. 653 00:29:14,333 --> 00:29:15,708 It was crazy. 654 00:29:15,792 --> 00:29:18,458 I was visiting the churches. 655 00:29:18,542 --> 00:29:20,542 One church was collapsed. 656 00:29:20,625 --> 00:29:22,917 Members of the church were in the church. 657 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,833 The pastor was unsure if his own family was dead or alive. 658 00:29:25,917 --> 00:29:27,833 He thought they were in the church 659 00:29:27,917 --> 00:29:30,542 but couldn't find them in the rubble. 660 00:29:30,625 --> 00:29:32,833 I'm in a tent talking to this guy. 661 00:29:32,917 --> 00:29:36,167 And I can't remember if it was a candy bar or a PowerBar, 662 00:29:36,208 --> 00:29:39,833 and he broke it in half and he handed it to me. 663 00:29:39,875 --> 00:29:41,833 He didn't even think about it. 664 00:29:41,917 --> 00:29:43,333 I said, "What are you doing?" 665 00:29:43,417 --> 00:29:45,667 He said, "I'll split it with you." 666 00:29:45,708 --> 00:29:49,750 That's everything this man had. 667 00:29:49,833 --> 00:29:52,083 Church just fell to the ground, right? 668 00:29:52,167 --> 00:29:54,458 His ministry is buried in the rubble, 669 00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:57,833 his family might be dead, his home is gone, 670 00:29:57,917 --> 00:30:02,375 and he's going to break his bar in half and share it. 671 00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:07,375 Well, that tells me everything I need to know about that guy. 672 00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:09,167 As we looked at him, we said, 673 00:30:09,208 --> 00:30:10,667 "Well, we're going to support you." 674 00:30:10,708 --> 00:30:12,375 He's like, "You don't even know me." 675 00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:13,792 I was like, "I do. 676 00:30:13,833 --> 00:30:17,458 I know everything I need to know." 677 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:22,583 That God is a generous God 678 00:30:22,667 --> 00:30:26,500 and God has a heart that wants to give, 679 00:30:26,542 --> 00:30:31,000 and when God puts resources in the hand of the leader, 680 00:30:31,042 --> 00:30:33,292 and then the leader clenches their fist rather than 681 00:30:33,333 --> 00:30:37,167 sharing, they don't have the Father's heart. 682 00:30:37,250 --> 00:30:42,167 That's exactly what he's going after in Malachi 1. 683 00:30:42,250 --> 00:30:44,958 So, here's some questions for you. 684 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,958 They had two questions for God, God has a question for them, 685 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,917 I have four questions for you: 686 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,625 How in the world can you justify giving God your sin 687 00:30:54,667 --> 00:30:57,833 and not your wealth? 688 00:30:57,917 --> 00:31:04,667 If I came to you and I said, "Give to the Lord your sin," 689 00:31:04,750 --> 00:31:10,500 you would say, "Yes, I'll give him all my sin. 690 00:31:10,542 --> 00:31:13,583 "I'd like to be forgiven for everything I've done and stuff 691 00:31:13,667 --> 00:31:16,042 "I haven't even got to yet. 692 00:31:16,167 --> 00:31:20,292 "Oh, I'll give generously all my sin, Lord Jesus. 693 00:31:20,333 --> 00:31:22,375 I'll give it all." 694 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:25,167 If I came and then said, "And give your wealth," 695 00:31:25,250 --> 00:31:31,542 "I don't know, you know? Why do you ask? 696 00:31:31,667 --> 00:31:33,167 "What are your motives? 697 00:31:33,208 --> 00:31:34,792 What are you gonna--" 698 00:31:34,833 --> 00:31:37,167 all of sudden, the questions come. 699 00:31:37,250 --> 00:31:41,000 Why would you enthusiastically give God your sin 700 00:31:41,042 --> 00:31:43,792 and begrudgingly give God your wealth? 701 00:31:43,833 --> 00:31:47,375 Why would you give him the worst gladly 702 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:50,250 and give him the best begrudgingly? 703 00:31:50,333 --> 00:31:55,375 Number two, how can you gladly receive from God 704 00:31:55,500 --> 00:32:00,042 and not gladly give to God? 705 00:32:00,125 --> 00:32:02,833 "Lord, thanks! 706 00:32:02,917 --> 00:32:07,125 Mine." 707 00:32:07,208 --> 00:32:13,833 God gives to us so that we can enjoy and share 708 00:32:14,625 --> 00:32:17,500 so that others might have joy. 709 00:32:17,583 --> 00:32:22,333 We've got five kids as you know, but when we go somewhere, 710 00:32:22,375 --> 00:32:24,000 be at a high school football game, 711 00:32:24,083 --> 00:32:27,000 or we go to a little league game, or whatever it is, 712 00:32:27,083 --> 00:32:29,042 there's always a concession stand. 713 00:32:29,125 --> 00:32:35,250 Here's what I don't have to do: give $4 to each kid. 714 00:32:35,333 --> 00:32:38,167 Instead, I give $20 to 1 kid, 715 00:32:38,208 --> 00:32:40,333 and they know the drill. 716 00:32:40,417 --> 00:32:43,833 "I get this from Dad, and I get to go get some stuff, 717 00:32:43,917 --> 00:32:47,458 "pretty awesome, and then I get to pay for all the other kids, 718 00:32:47,542 --> 00:32:49,167 and we share." 719 00:32:49,208 --> 00:32:51,667 It'd be a horrible thing for the kid to go, 720 00:32:51,708 --> 00:32:53,167 "Thanks Dad, $20 in my pocket." 721 00:32:53,208 --> 00:32:55,167 Then the kids are like, "Where's my lollipop?" 722 00:32:55,208 --> 00:32:56,875 You say, "Oh, the love of money 723 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,875 "is the root of all kinds of evil. 724 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,958 I'm saving you from a horrific fate of being greedy." 725 00:33:02,042 --> 00:33:06,000 All right? Wrong verse. 726 00:33:06,083 --> 00:33:08,458 "God loves a cheerful giver. Give me the lollipop. 727 00:33:08,542 --> 00:33:11,000 That's a better verse right now." 728 00:33:11,083 --> 00:33:12,667 OK, you get that? 729 00:33:12,708 --> 00:33:14,750 You've got to look at it that way. 730 00:33:14,833 --> 00:33:16,167 Everything comes from Dad. 731 00:33:16,208 --> 00:33:20,750 Some of it we get to enjoy and some of it we need to share. 732 00:33:20,833 --> 00:33:25,542 Number three, would you rather give God your money or 733 00:33:25,625 --> 00:33:29,250 save it up to buy a rope like Judas did? 734 00:33:29,333 --> 00:33:32,625 The story of Judas is this: He didn't give generously. 735 00:33:32,708 --> 00:33:37,250 He stole continuously. 736 00:33:37,333 --> 00:33:41,417 And he saved up all his money so he could go buy a rope 737 00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:46,042 and hang himself. 738 00:33:46,125 --> 00:33:50,500 Sometimes giving keeps you from buying a rope. 739 00:33:51,667 --> 00:33:54,583 It keeps you from spending money on things 740 00:33:54,667 --> 00:33:58,292 that are going to kill you. 741 00:33:58,333 --> 00:34:04,292 In that way, God is not taking from you; he's saving you. 742 00:34:06,417 --> 00:34:09,542 It never dawned on me until this week as I was praying-- 743 00:34:09,625 --> 00:34:11,167 Judas stole all that money. 744 00:34:11,208 --> 00:34:12,833 What did he do with it? 745 00:34:12,917 --> 00:34:15,833 He bought a rope. 746 00:34:15,917 --> 00:34:18,042 That was not a good investment. 747 00:34:18,125 --> 00:34:24,542 Number four, Jesus was not a lame sacrifice, 748 00:34:24,625 --> 00:34:28,208 so why would you think that Jesus wants a lame sacrifice? 749 00:34:28,292 --> 00:34:31,833 How many of you would agree Jesus is not a lame sacrifice? 750 00:34:31,917 --> 00:34:34,500 The Bible does not say, "God so loved the world, 751 00:34:34,583 --> 00:34:38,250 "he sent the blind, lame, sick sacrifice, 752 00:34:38,333 --> 00:34:42,167 his only begotten Son." 753 00:34:42,208 --> 00:34:43,750 See, the whole point 754 00:34:43,833 --> 00:34:46,750 of the Old Testament sacrificial system 755 00:34:46,833 --> 00:34:50,250 was to foreshadow the coming of Jesus. 756 00:34:50,333 --> 00:34:55,292 You bring a sacrifice without spot or blemish, 757 00:34:55,333 --> 00:35:00,667 foreshadowing that Jesus would come without spot or blemish, 758 00:35:00,708 --> 00:35:03,667 the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, 759 00:35:03,708 --> 00:35:05,667 the Lamb of God without spot or blemish. 760 00:35:05,708 --> 00:35:08,458 The Bible uses all this language. 761 00:35:08,542 --> 00:35:11,250 And if Jesus was not a lame sacrifice, 762 00:35:11,333 --> 00:35:14,958 if God gave us his only begotten Son, the best, 763 00:35:15,042 --> 00:35:18,500 perfect, without spot or blemish, sinless, 764 00:35:18,583 --> 00:35:24,250 why would we think that Jesus, who was a perfect sacrifice, 765 00:35:24,333 --> 00:35:29,333 would be excited about a lame sacrifice? 766 00:35:32,917 --> 00:35:39,708 These are strong words because this is the last thing God is 767 00:35:39,792 --> 00:35:45,958 going to say for 400 years, and he wants to make sure that 768 00:35:46,042 --> 00:35:50,833 people take seriously his glory. 769 00:35:50,917 --> 00:35:56,167 If God's people don't take God's glory seriously, no one will. 770 00:35:58,833 --> 00:36:02,625 Number one, we honor God with our wealth. 771 00:36:02,708 --> 00:36:08,167 Number two, honor God with your work. 772 00:36:08,208 --> 00:36:09,667 "Oh!" 773 00:36:09,708 --> 00:36:12,667 I kind of hear it like that. Your dad ever say that? 774 00:36:12,708 --> 00:36:14,167 You don't even know what happened. 775 00:36:14,208 --> 00:36:15,917 You can just get an idea, right? 776 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,042 Hear your dad in the other room, "Ohhhh!" 777 00:36:19,125 --> 00:36:22,833 You're like, "Not a good day for Dad." 778 00:36:25,792 --> 00:36:30,333 "Oh that there were one among you." 779 00:36:30,417 --> 00:36:35,000 If I could get one priest on the org chart, 780 00:36:35,083 --> 00:36:39,250 "who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire 781 00:36:39,333 --> 00:36:42,542 on my altar in vain!" 782 00:36:42,625 --> 00:36:45,667 Sometimes ministry is in vain. 783 00:36:45,708 --> 00:36:48,833 How brutal is this? 784 00:36:48,917 --> 00:36:51,750 Some of you are like, "This is not a very encouraging sermon. 785 00:36:51,833 --> 00:36:53,250 "I thought he'd be more encouraging. 786 00:36:53,333 --> 00:36:54,750 "How'd he get all these people? 787 00:36:54,833 --> 00:36:58,583 He just yells at them the whole time." 788 00:36:58,667 --> 00:37:00,958 "He's been doing it for 17 years." 789 00:37:01,042 --> 00:37:03,833 "That's crazy. That's unbelievable. 790 00:37:03,917 --> 00:37:09,417 I've yelled at people, and they don't come to my house anymore." 791 00:37:11,833 --> 00:37:14,208 Imagine if you got a tweet from Jesus, 792 00:37:14,292 --> 00:37:19,333 you got a text from Jesus, "I have no pleasure in you." 793 00:37:19,417 --> 00:37:26,333 Aww, I was hoping for something different, 794 00:37:26,417 --> 00:37:30,167 like, "You're my favorite." 795 00:37:30,208 --> 00:37:31,958 How much pleasure in you? 796 00:37:32,042 --> 00:37:34,750 No pleasure in you. 797 00:37:34,833 --> 00:37:40,167 Now, God already told us in chapter 1, "I love you," 798 00:37:40,208 --> 00:37:46,083 and here he says, "I just don't enjoy you." 799 00:37:47,917 --> 00:37:51,833 The relationship is in trouble, amen? 800 00:37:51,917 --> 00:37:55,042 "I love you, 801 00:37:55,167 --> 00:37:59,375 there's just nothing about you that I enjoy," 802 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:01,542 and he's saying this to his people. 803 00:38:01,625 --> 00:38:04,458 It'd be like God saying, "Sunday, no pleasure for me. 804 00:38:04,542 --> 00:38:06,167 "Community Group, no pleasure for me. 805 00:38:06,208 --> 00:38:08,833 "Redemption Group, Children's Ministry, 806 00:38:08,917 --> 00:38:13,167 "Women's Ministry, Student Ministry, 807 00:38:13,208 --> 00:38:17,042 no pleasure to me." 808 00:38:17,125 --> 00:38:19,458 Here's what's crazy: people were still coming 809 00:38:19,542 --> 00:38:21,667 because they liked it. 810 00:38:21,708 --> 00:38:26,125 You can have a church that people like and God doesn't. 811 00:38:26,208 --> 00:38:27,958 Church is for him. 812 00:38:28,042 --> 00:38:31,458 There are benefits for us, but church is for him. 813 00:38:31,542 --> 00:38:33,958 And the worst thing is when a church gets together, 814 00:38:34,042 --> 00:38:35,333 and votes, and says, 815 00:38:35,417 --> 00:38:37,833 "We like it," because there's only one vote that counts 816 00:38:37,917 --> 00:38:42,542 if God says, "I don't." 817 00:38:42,625 --> 00:38:45,833 "I find no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, 818 00:38:45,875 --> 00:38:48,333 and I will not accept the offering from your hand." 819 00:38:48,417 --> 00:38:52,000 "Collect the offering and then set it on fire, 820 00:38:52,042 --> 00:38:55,667 because I don't want it." 821 00:38:55,708 --> 00:38:58,167 "For from the rising of the sun to the setting," 822 00:38:58,208 --> 00:38:59,542 that means the earth. 823 00:38:59,667 --> 00:39:02,500 Just so you guys know, our goal is earth. 824 00:39:02,583 --> 00:39:04,750 They find life on another planet, we called dibs, 825 00:39:04,833 --> 00:39:06,333 we're planting, OK? 826 00:39:06,417 --> 00:39:09,458 That's how we roll. 827 00:39:09,542 --> 00:39:13,417 "My name will be great among the nations, 828 00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:17,708 "and in every place incense will be offered to my name, 829 00:39:17,792 --> 00:39:19,458 "and a pure offering. 830 00:39:19,542 --> 00:39:22,667 "For my name will be great among the nations, 831 00:39:22,708 --> 00:39:24,333 "says the Lord of hosts. 832 00:39:24,417 --> 00:39:27,042 "But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table 833 00:39:27,125 --> 00:39:32,458 is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised." 834 00:39:32,542 --> 00:39:36,000 We do not understand the magnitude of what God 835 00:39:36,083 --> 00:39:38,833 has just said. 836 00:39:38,917 --> 00:39:43,000 The temple was the center of worship and witness 837 00:39:43,083 --> 00:39:47,333 for the entire Old Covenant. 838 00:39:47,375 --> 00:39:49,833 That God is in heaven, and we are on earth, 839 00:39:49,917 --> 00:39:54,167 and we cannot ascend up to God, and Jesus has not yet descended 840 00:39:54,250 --> 00:39:57,250 down to us, and so the connecting point 841 00:39:57,333 --> 00:40:00,500 between heaven and earth was the temple. 842 00:40:00,542 --> 00:40:04,167 It was the temple. 843 00:40:04,208 --> 00:40:08,292 And the temple was filled at its center with the presence 844 00:40:08,333 --> 00:40:10,500 of the glory of God, 845 00:40:10,542 --> 00:40:13,000 and the people of God would come there to worship 846 00:40:13,042 --> 00:40:14,792 and to meet with God. 847 00:40:14,833 --> 00:40:19,000 And the priest would offer sacrifices so that death could 848 00:40:19,042 --> 00:40:22,375 come in the place of sinners that they might experience 849 00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:27,083 salvation and removal of God's wrath. 850 00:40:27,167 --> 00:40:29,333 And all of this was the foreshadowing of 851 00:40:29,417 --> 00:40:32,292 the coming of Jesus, who is the presence of God among us, 852 00:40:32,333 --> 00:40:35,500 who is the connecting point between heaven and earth, 853 00:40:35,542 --> 00:40:37,458 who is our great high priest, 854 00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:42,333 and who offers his own life as a sacrifice. 855 00:40:42,417 --> 00:40:46,833 And what God says is, "Shut it down!" 856 00:40:46,917 --> 00:40:52,208 All of the synagogues were connected to the temple. 857 00:40:52,292 --> 00:40:54,417 All of the leaders and theologians were taught 858 00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:56,375 at the temple. 859 00:40:56,458 --> 00:41:00,167 If you shut the temple down, people can't meet with God, 860 00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:02,875 people can't atone for sin, 861 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,083 people can't connect with their Creator. 862 00:41:07,167 --> 00:41:09,958 And God says, "I'd rather have that. 863 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:15,167 I'd rather have nothing than a vain thing." 864 00:41:15,208 --> 00:41:21,792 This is infinitely more significant than God even saying 865 00:41:21,833 --> 00:41:25,583 something like, "Shut down the White House. 866 00:41:25,667 --> 00:41:28,167 "Shut it down. 867 00:41:28,250 --> 00:41:31,375 "Lock the doors, everybody out, turn off the lights, 868 00:41:31,500 --> 00:41:33,167 "unplug everything. 869 00:41:33,250 --> 00:41:36,083 We're done." 870 00:41:36,167 --> 00:41:42,500 It's infinitely more significant than that. 871 00:41:42,542 --> 00:41:45,833 God is saying, "I can't even get one guy on the payroll 872 00:41:45,917 --> 00:41:50,333 to do what I tell him to do and shut it down." 873 00:41:53,833 --> 00:41:58,333 It is not always a grievous thing when a church shuts down. 874 00:41:58,417 --> 00:42:03,958 Sometimes it's a grievous thing when a church doesn't shut down. 875 00:42:04,042 --> 00:42:07,625 There are about 400,000 Protestant churches 876 00:42:07,708 --> 00:42:09,750 in America. 877 00:42:09,833 --> 00:42:12,667 Eighty percent are plateaud and declining, 878 00:42:12,708 --> 00:42:16,042 forty percent are considered very sick, near terminal, 879 00:42:16,125 --> 00:42:19,750 and every year, one percent close, about four thousand, 880 00:42:19,833 --> 00:42:24,750 give or take. 881 00:42:24,833 --> 00:42:27,750 Some churches are great and love Jesus. 882 00:42:27,833 --> 00:42:30,250 Some are in struggling season that's going to make them 883 00:42:30,333 --> 00:42:34,625 stronger and flourish, but some just need to be shut down. 884 00:42:39,708 --> 00:42:45,458 They are not honoring God with their work. 885 00:42:45,542 --> 00:42:49,750 Routine has replaced ritual. 886 00:42:49,833 --> 00:42:52,792 It no longer means anything. 887 00:42:52,833 --> 00:42:59,792 If the leaders are half-hearted, the people are quarter-hearted, 888 00:42:59,833 --> 00:43:04,667 and their children are hardhearted. 889 00:43:04,708 --> 00:43:07,042 And that's not going to be a legacy, 890 00:43:07,125 --> 00:43:12,458 that's going to be a tragedy. 891 00:43:12,542 --> 00:43:17,667 And the leaders are not working hard, and caring, and giving, 892 00:43:17,708 --> 00:43:21,000 and people are going to be like their leaders, 893 00:43:21,083 --> 00:43:26,042 and God is devastated by the entirety of this system. 894 00:43:26,125 --> 00:43:29,333 We are to honor God, number one, with our wealth, 895 00:43:29,375 --> 00:43:32,250 number two, with our work of ministry, 896 00:43:32,333 --> 00:43:35,500 and number three, with our weariness. 897 00:43:35,583 --> 00:43:40,958 "But you say, 'What a weariness this is.'" 898 00:43:41,042 --> 00:43:44,750 You hear this? 899 00:43:44,833 --> 00:43:50,750 "Community Group again? With these people? 900 00:43:50,833 --> 00:43:57,042 "Can't we get nicer, better people with less problems? 901 00:43:57,167 --> 00:44:03,958 Every time she comes, she cries." 902 00:44:04,042 --> 00:44:08,000 Redemption Group, "We finished last quarter, 903 00:44:08,083 --> 00:44:13,458 we start this quarter, more broken people." 904 00:44:13,542 --> 00:44:18,667 "Oh, it's Sunday again? 905 00:44:18,708 --> 00:44:22,750 "Didn't we just do this? 906 00:44:22,833 --> 00:44:26,833 "Oh, Mark's yelling again. 907 00:44:26,875 --> 00:44:29,833 "Agh, he's always yelling. 908 00:44:29,875 --> 00:44:32,042 "Bet you he's going to take an offering 909 00:44:32,125 --> 00:44:38,042 "when he's done yelling. 910 00:44:38,125 --> 00:44:42,250 "They don't even have good coffee. 911 00:44:42,333 --> 00:44:45,958 The coffee's never as good--" 912 00:44:46,042 --> 00:44:49,875 Weariness. 913 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,833 "I've been doing this for years, 914 00:44:51,917 --> 00:44:56,167 I've been doing this for minutes," whatever. 915 00:44:56,250 --> 00:45:03,333 "I'm sick of it. I'm tired of it." 916 00:45:07,208 --> 00:45:13,250 It's actually right here, "And you snort at it." 917 00:45:13,333 --> 00:45:15,917 That's the Hebrew word for-- 918 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,500 Any of you had that day? 919 00:45:18,583 --> 00:45:20,333 Somebody's like, "I need you to... 920 00:45:20,417 --> 00:45:23,667 "Could you please...? 921 00:45:23,708 --> 00:45:28,000 It would really help us if you..." 922 00:45:28,083 --> 00:45:32,208 You're just done. 923 00:45:32,292 --> 00:45:34,458 Your heart's not in it. 924 00:45:34,542 --> 00:45:38,458 You just sort of roll your eyes, deep breath. 925 00:45:38,542 --> 00:45:40,458 How many of you have got that kid? 926 00:45:40,542 --> 00:45:42,500 "Hey, can you do the dishes?" 927 00:45:45,917 --> 00:45:49,458 They just roll their eyes. 928 00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:53,333 OK, we're God's kids and we do that to him all the time. 929 00:45:53,417 --> 00:45:55,000 Could you give? Could you pray? 930 00:45:55,042 --> 00:45:57,000 Could you serve? Could you become a member? 931 00:45:57,042 --> 00:46:01,208 Could you become a deacon? Could you pick up your trash? 932 00:46:03,708 --> 00:46:06,042 "Again?" 933 00:46:06,125 --> 00:46:08,542 "Yes, until I come back or set you on fire. 934 00:46:08,625 --> 00:46:13,542 Either way, yes." 935 00:46:13,625 --> 00:46:18,458 What a weariness this--do you think God ever gets sick of us? 936 00:46:18,542 --> 00:46:22,708 I'm thinking yes. 937 00:46:22,792 --> 00:46:25,833 "And you snort at it, says the Lord of hosts. 938 00:46:25,917 --> 00:46:30,750 "You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, 939 00:46:30,833 --> 00:46:33,333 and you bring it as your offering!" 940 00:46:33,417 --> 00:46:35,833 "You stole from your company, you lied on your taxes, 941 00:46:35,875 --> 00:46:38,542 "and you're tithing that to me. 942 00:46:38,625 --> 00:46:43,958 Just so you know, I'm not looking for stolen tithes." 943 00:46:44,042 --> 00:46:49,750 "Shall I accept that from your hand? 944 00:46:49,833 --> 00:46:52,542 "says the Lord. 945 00:46:52,667 --> 00:46:55,667 "Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, 946 00:46:55,750 --> 00:46:57,083 "and vows it, 947 00:46:57,167 --> 00:47:02,000 and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished." 948 00:47:02,083 --> 00:47:06,500 It's not that they won't give--or let me say it this way: 949 00:47:06,583 --> 00:47:09,667 it's not that they can't give; it's that they won't give. 950 00:47:09,708 --> 00:47:13,750 God says, "I gave you a nice animal for a sacrifice, 951 00:47:13,833 --> 00:47:18,625 and you gave me the lame one." 952 00:47:22,500 --> 00:47:27,458 We cheat when we don't give God our best. 953 00:47:27,542 --> 00:47:30,167 That's what he's saying. 954 00:47:30,208 --> 00:47:33,667 Any ministry leader who is not wholehearted in their service 955 00:47:33,708 --> 00:47:37,167 is cheating--cheating the Lord and the people-- 956 00:47:37,208 --> 00:47:39,708 and I see it all the time. 957 00:47:39,792 --> 00:47:42,042 There are some good, godly, hardworking, 958 00:47:42,125 --> 00:47:44,667 wonderful leaders in our church and other churches, 959 00:47:44,708 --> 00:47:51,000 but I'll just be honest and say, not all pastors are above 960 00:47:51,042 --> 00:47:54,083 the accusation of cheating. 961 00:47:54,167 --> 00:47:57,833 I've seen pastors who don't work very hard. 962 00:47:57,917 --> 00:48:01,333 They golf a lot and go out to lunch. 963 00:48:01,417 --> 00:48:05,042 I've seen leaders who falsify their expense reports 964 00:48:05,125 --> 00:48:07,750 and push money over to the side of the church 965 00:48:07,833 --> 00:48:09,250 for personal things. 966 00:48:09,333 --> 00:48:11,250 That's cheating. 967 00:48:11,333 --> 00:48:14,250 I talked to one guy some years ago--I'll never forget it-- 968 00:48:14,333 --> 00:48:17,958 I was new to ministry, and I was talking about Mars Hill. 969 00:48:18,042 --> 00:48:21,208 We were just a couple years old at the time and I said, 970 00:48:21,292 --> 00:48:23,708 "Yeah, I hope to be here for my whole life, 971 00:48:23,792 --> 00:48:25,208 "preaching and teaching the Bible. 972 00:48:25,292 --> 00:48:26,625 "That's my hope, man. 973 00:48:26,708 --> 00:48:29,833 I want to be with these people for the rest of my life." 974 00:48:29,875 --> 00:48:32,333 I said, "How long have you been at your church?" 975 00:48:32,375 --> 00:48:34,333 "Well, I've been there a couple of years." 976 00:48:34,375 --> 00:48:37,333 He said, "You know, the way it's set up in our denomination, 977 00:48:37,375 --> 00:48:40,458 every 2 or 3 years, they move me from one church to another." 978 00:48:40,542 --> 00:48:41,958 I said, "Wow, isn't that hard?" 979 00:48:42,042 --> 00:48:43,333 He said, "No, no, no. 980 00:48:43,417 --> 00:48:46,542 "I've got 2 or 3 years of sermons and I preach them here, 981 00:48:46,625 --> 00:48:49,542 "and then I preach them here, and then I preach them here, 982 00:48:49,667 --> 00:48:51,792 and then I preach them--" and that's his career. 983 00:48:51,833 --> 00:48:53,792 He doesn't need to study the Bible anymore, 984 00:48:53,833 --> 00:48:56,292 doesn't need to pray anymore, doesn't need to grow anymore, 985 00:48:56,333 --> 00:48:57,667 just plays the greatest hits. 986 00:48:57,750 --> 00:48:59,083 That's cheating. 987 00:48:59,167 --> 00:49:01,708 Pastors who steal sermons from other pastors, that's cheating. 988 00:49:01,792 --> 00:49:04,458 Pastors who expect their people to work and give 989 00:49:04,542 --> 00:49:08,250 and don't work and give, that's cheating. 990 00:49:08,333 --> 00:49:12,042 You need to know that we track the giving of the leaders, 991 00:49:12,125 --> 00:49:15,917 not in a legalistic way, but to make sure that we're not asking 992 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,458 you to do something that they're not doing. 993 00:49:19,542 --> 00:49:22,625 There's nothing worse than parents who look at their kids 994 00:49:22,708 --> 00:49:29,292 and say, "Do as I say, not as I do." 995 00:49:29,917 --> 00:49:31,750 That's cheating. 996 00:49:31,833 --> 00:49:33,958 That's cheating. 997 00:49:34,042 --> 00:49:36,625 And so when it talks about weariness, 998 00:49:36,708 --> 00:49:40,167 there are two ways that we experience weariness, 999 00:49:40,208 --> 00:49:44,917 weariness of ministry or weariness from ministry. 1000 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:46,750 The first is very ungodly, 1001 00:49:46,833 --> 00:49:49,208 the second is actually very godly. 1002 00:49:49,333 --> 00:49:53,167 The weariness of ministry is where you just start going 1003 00:49:53,250 --> 00:49:54,583 through the motions. 1004 00:49:54,667 --> 00:49:56,542 You get hardhearted. You get sick of it. 1005 00:49:56,667 --> 00:49:57,958 You hit your lid. 1006 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,167 You're not going to go to the next level. 1007 00:50:00,208 --> 00:50:01,750 You've maxed out. 1008 00:50:01,833 --> 00:50:04,542 Whatever it is, you've been doing it a long time. 1009 00:50:04,667 --> 00:50:06,667 You're just sort of going through the motions. 1010 00:50:06,750 --> 00:50:10,042 You're weary of ministry. 1011 00:50:10,167 --> 00:50:12,167 All of sudden, people are a burden. 1012 00:50:12,250 --> 00:50:14,375 And I had somebody recently--I said, 1013 00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:16,792 "We're going to plant our 15th church." 1014 00:50:16,833 --> 00:50:20,750 They said, "Do we need it?" 1015 00:50:20,833 --> 00:50:23,542 I was like, "People are going to hell. 1016 00:50:23,667 --> 00:50:25,042 "It's hot. 1017 00:50:25,167 --> 00:50:29,333 Forever's a long time. Yes, yeah." 1018 00:50:29,417 --> 00:50:34,333 It's a blessing to plant a church. 1019 00:50:34,417 --> 00:50:37,167 It's also a burden. 1020 00:50:37,250 --> 00:50:42,542 It's a lot of time, and energy, and money, and work, but yes. 1021 00:50:42,667 --> 00:50:46,875 This person asked, "Well, when are we going to stop?" 1022 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:53,292 "Never, so plan on hanging in there." 1023 00:50:56,500 --> 00:51:01,250 Right, I mean, guys, planting a church is like having a kid. 1024 00:51:01,333 --> 00:51:03,292 Everybody gets excited about the birth, 1025 00:51:03,333 --> 00:51:06,958 but nobody's really fired up about the diapers, 1026 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:11,542 and the midnight feedings, and the ear infections. 1027 00:51:11,667 --> 00:51:13,667 But it's not about just starting things, 1028 00:51:13,750 --> 00:51:16,667 it's about sustaining them. 1029 00:51:16,750 --> 00:51:18,167 And that's what's happening here. 1030 00:51:18,208 --> 00:51:19,667 They've got the temple open. 1031 00:51:19,708 --> 00:51:21,833 The first temple had been shut down--the first temple 1032 00:51:21,917 --> 00:51:23,250 was destroyed. 1033 00:51:23,333 --> 00:51:25,250 Then they rebuilt the second temple, 1034 00:51:25,333 --> 00:51:28,875 and that generation worked hard and gave to make it happen, 1035 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:33,500 and then their kids and grandkids are sick of it. 1036 00:51:33,542 --> 00:51:35,500 They don't care. They're weary. 1037 00:51:35,542 --> 00:51:37,458 They're halfhearted. They've given up. 1038 00:51:37,500 --> 00:51:43,292 They don't have any idea of legacy or sustainability. 1039 00:51:43,333 --> 00:51:46,083 Mars Hill's the hardest thing I've ever done, 1040 00:51:46,167 --> 00:51:49,083 and I'm not done. 1041 00:51:49,167 --> 00:51:52,750 In the grace of God, we will press forward. 1042 00:51:52,833 --> 00:51:54,750 And if we fail, we're going to fail 1043 00:51:54,833 --> 00:52:00,250 in an amazingly, epic way, OK? 1044 00:52:00,333 --> 00:52:05,833 Because I would rather die trying than just die. 1045 00:52:05,917 --> 00:52:10,208 And I believe that if God is gracious enough to save people 1046 00:52:10,292 --> 00:52:13,417 and to use us, then we should avail ourselves 1047 00:52:13,500 --> 00:52:15,958 to every opportunity that he affords us. 1048 00:52:16,042 --> 00:52:20,000 And the truth is we should not grow weary of ministry, 1049 00:52:20,083 --> 00:52:23,042 but we will grow weary from ministry. 1050 00:52:23,125 --> 00:52:25,042 You're going to be tired and exhausted. 1051 00:52:25,125 --> 00:52:28,958 You're going to be and you should be. 1052 00:52:29,042 --> 00:52:31,833 Paul talks about pouring himself out like a drink offering. 1053 00:52:31,917 --> 00:52:34,750 Athletes would say, "I left it all on the field." 1054 00:52:34,833 --> 00:52:39,125 Jesus never got weary of ministry and he still doesn't. 1055 00:52:39,208 --> 00:52:40,958 He's still ministering to us right now. 1056 00:52:41,042 --> 00:52:43,167 But there were times on the earth that Jesus 1057 00:52:43,208 --> 00:52:44,667 got weary from ministry. 1058 00:52:44,708 --> 00:52:47,833 True or false, Jesus took naps? 1059 00:52:47,917 --> 00:52:49,333 Do you ever think that's weird? 1060 00:52:49,417 --> 00:52:52,042 It's like, "Where's God?" "Over there." 1061 00:52:52,167 --> 00:52:53,583 "What's he doing?" "Napping." 1062 00:52:53,667 --> 00:52:55,000 "Why?" "He's exhausted." 1063 00:52:55,042 --> 00:52:56,375 "Really? 1064 00:52:56,500 --> 00:52:58,167 I thought he said he was God." 1065 00:52:58,208 --> 00:52:59,542 "Yes, napping God." 1066 00:52:59,667 --> 00:53:04,167 Wow, Jesus really carried a burden. 1067 00:53:04,208 --> 00:53:06,667 Remember the story where the guys get in the boat, 1068 00:53:06,708 --> 00:53:08,458 they row out, a storm hits? 1069 00:53:08,542 --> 00:53:10,708 They're, you know, sort of rowing against the storm 1070 00:53:10,792 --> 00:53:12,125 all night. 1071 00:53:12,208 --> 00:53:14,333 The seas are violent, their lives are in danger, 1072 00:53:14,375 --> 00:53:15,708 they're all freaking out. 1073 00:53:15,792 --> 00:53:17,250 What's Jesus doing? 1074 00:53:17,333 --> 00:53:18,833 He's sleeping, man. 1075 00:53:18,875 --> 00:53:20,458 He's exhausted. 1076 00:53:20,542 --> 00:53:22,208 It's like, "Wake Jesus up. 1077 00:53:22,292 --> 00:53:25,833 Tell him to quiet the storm." 1078 00:53:25,917 --> 00:53:31,042 You know you're tired when in a violent sea storm, 1079 00:53:31,125 --> 00:53:33,208 you are sleeping on a boat 1080 00:53:33,292 --> 00:53:38,500 while men are screaming for hours, right? 1081 00:53:38,583 --> 00:53:41,500 You're like, "I think he's tired." 1082 00:53:41,583 --> 00:53:42,917 I'm pretty sure he is. 1083 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:44,417 Peter's like, "Get up! Get up!" 1084 00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:45,917 "What?" "We're all dying!" 1085 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,625 "I know where we're going. I was asleep." 1086 00:53:48,667 --> 00:53:51,250 It's amazing to me that the Bible portrays Jesus 1087 00:53:51,333 --> 00:53:53,250 as being tired. 1088 00:53:53,333 --> 00:53:55,667 So, I always get shocked when I meet ministry leaders. 1089 00:53:55,750 --> 00:53:57,667 "How are you doing?" They're like, "I'm tired." 1090 00:53:57,750 --> 00:54:00,333 I'm like, "That's like, 'Hello water, how are you?' 1091 00:54:00,375 --> 00:54:01,708 "'Well, I'm wet today.' 1092 00:54:01,792 --> 00:54:03,458 'Well, I kind of expected that.'" 1093 00:54:03,542 --> 00:54:05,833 You're going to be tired if you're serving Jesus, 1094 00:54:05,875 --> 00:54:10,167 but what a great thing to be tired for. 1095 00:54:10,208 --> 00:54:13,167 And let me say that ministry, for those of you who aspire 1096 00:54:13,208 --> 00:54:17,917 to ministry leadership, it's a calling, not a career-- 1097 00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,833 which means it's a lifestyle, not a job. 1098 00:54:21,917 --> 00:54:24,958 How many of you run a small business? 1099 00:54:25,042 --> 00:54:26,417 You're a small business owner. 1100 00:54:26,500 --> 00:54:28,958 OK, it's like that. 1101 00:54:29,042 --> 00:54:30,458 Small business owner can't be like, 1102 00:54:30,542 --> 00:54:32,542 "Five o'clock, we're done." 1103 00:54:32,625 --> 00:54:36,208 No, you're working until it's all done. 1104 00:54:36,292 --> 00:54:37,625 Or like being a parent. 1105 00:54:37,708 --> 00:54:40,750 How many of you moms, kid throws up 3:30 in the morning, 1106 00:54:40,833 --> 00:54:47,333 "Mom! Mom! Mom!" 1107 00:54:47,417 --> 00:54:50,792 "Sorry, we closed at 5:00, we don't open until 8:00, 1108 00:54:50,833 --> 00:54:52,792 "and we do not have a vomit department, 1109 00:54:52,833 --> 00:54:56,333 "so, I don't know, Yelp it. 1110 00:54:56,417 --> 00:55:00,833 You know, I don't know." 1111 00:55:00,917 --> 00:55:02,750 What does mom do? 1112 00:55:02,833 --> 00:55:05,333 Whatever needs to be done. 1113 00:55:05,417 --> 00:55:08,042 Ministry is more like parenting. 1114 00:55:08,125 --> 00:55:12,208 Somebody gets saved-- it's like a kid being born. 1115 00:55:12,292 --> 00:55:13,667 Now you've got to love them, 1116 00:55:13,708 --> 00:55:15,667 and serve them, and grow with them, 1117 00:55:15,708 --> 00:55:18,958 and look after them for the rest of your life, 1118 00:55:19,042 --> 00:55:23,042 and that's going to be exhausting and wonderful 1119 00:55:23,125 --> 00:55:26,500 because you get to see life. 1120 00:55:26,542 --> 00:55:28,250 You're going to grow weary of ministry, 1121 00:55:28,333 --> 00:55:30,000 or grow weary from ministry. 1122 00:55:30,042 --> 00:55:33,000 I would encourage you to pour your life out growing weary 1123 00:55:33,042 --> 00:55:35,375 from ministry. 1124 00:55:35,458 --> 00:55:37,375 Now, here's the question. 1125 00:55:37,458 --> 00:55:39,167 Why? 1126 00:55:39,250 --> 00:55:42,333 Why should we honor God with our wealth, and with our work, 1127 00:55:42,417 --> 00:55:44,167 and with our weariness? 1128 00:55:44,250 --> 00:55:46,167 Why? 1129 00:55:46,250 --> 00:55:47,583 This is amazing. 1130 00:55:47,667 --> 00:55:49,750 Here's what he says: 1131 00:55:49,833 --> 00:55:52,583 "For I am a great King." 1132 00:55:52,667 --> 00:55:54,375 That's why. 1133 00:55:54,500 --> 00:55:58,667 True or false, Mars Hill, Jesus Christ is a great King? 1134 00:55:58,750 --> 00:56:04,417 We serve, we belong to, we are headed for a great King. 1135 00:56:04,500 --> 00:56:06,833 Our King is a great King. 1136 00:56:06,875 --> 00:56:08,958 Our King is the greatest King. 1137 00:56:09,042 --> 00:56:11,250 Our King is the King of kings. 1138 00:56:11,333 --> 00:56:13,625 Our King got off his throne. 1139 00:56:13,708 --> 00:56:15,833 Our King came down and humbled himself. 1140 00:56:15,917 --> 00:56:18,417 Our King gave us his wealth. 1141 00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:20,750 Our King gave us his work. 1142 00:56:20,833 --> 00:56:23,250 Our King gave us his weariness. 1143 00:56:23,333 --> 00:56:25,167 Our King gave us salvation. 1144 00:56:25,208 --> 00:56:27,250 Our King gave us the cross. 1145 00:56:27,333 --> 00:56:29,292 Our King gave us the resurrection. 1146 00:56:29,375 --> 00:56:31,667 Our King gave us the Holy Spirit. 1147 00:56:31,708 --> 00:56:35,667 Our King gives us a mission to make his name great 1148 00:56:35,750 --> 00:56:38,583 among the nations, that everybody would hear 1149 00:56:38,667 --> 00:56:42,042 about how great our King is. 1150 00:56:42,125 --> 00:56:47,375 That's why. That's why. 1151 00:56:47,458 --> 00:56:49,000 That's why! 1152 00:56:49,042 --> 00:56:54,000 And this was an invitation to Israel that tragically, sadly, 1153 00:56:54,042 --> 00:56:57,792 historically, they rejected. 1154 00:56:57,833 --> 00:57:02,167 See, as I yell, it echoes. 1155 00:57:02,208 --> 00:57:04,667 The point of the church is to scream the goodness 1156 00:57:04,708 --> 00:57:08,167 of our great King, that his fame would echo through the nations 1157 00:57:08,208 --> 00:57:10,000 of the earth. 1158 00:57:10,083 --> 00:57:13,833 And the nation of Israel chose not to do that. 1159 00:57:13,875 --> 00:57:17,750 And so God's name is now being made great in the nations 1160 00:57:17,833 --> 00:57:21,167 of the earth, and the good news of Jesus is ringing out, 1161 00:57:21,208 --> 00:57:24,708 not primarily from Israel, but wherever the Holy Spirit 1162 00:57:24,792 --> 00:57:29,167 chooses to plant a church, and to cause people to meet Jesus, 1163 00:57:29,208 --> 00:57:31,667 and to make disciples, and to plant more churches 1164 00:57:31,708 --> 00:57:34,083 and make more disciples. 1165 00:57:34,167 --> 00:57:38,083 If you have any idea how great this King is, 1166 00:57:38,167 --> 00:57:40,583 you don't see this as a burden, but a blessing; 1167 00:57:40,667 --> 00:57:42,792 not something you have to give your life to, 1168 00:57:42,875 --> 00:57:45,292 but something that you get to give your life to. 1169 00:57:45,375 --> 00:57:47,458 Because whatever else or whoever else you were giving 1170 00:57:47,542 --> 00:57:51,375 your life to-- there's no pleasure in it. 1171 00:57:51,500 --> 00:57:54,083 It's not just that God will find no pleasure in it, 1172 00:57:54,167 --> 00:57:55,667 neither will you. 1173 00:57:55,708 --> 00:58:00,125 It's hollow, it's empty, it's lame, it's blind, it's sick. 1174 00:58:00,208 --> 00:58:02,958 It's not life-giving, it's not sustaining, 1175 00:58:03,042 --> 00:58:05,333 it's not eternity-altering. 1176 00:58:05,417 --> 00:58:09,250 But to make the name of great King great--and here's what's 1177 00:58:09,333 --> 00:58:14,333 amazing: our King is great, so making his name great is 1178 00:58:14,417 --> 00:58:17,833 something that we get to do by simply telling the truth 1179 00:58:17,917 --> 00:58:20,833 about who he is and what he's done. 1180 00:58:20,917 --> 00:58:25,333 And that's the whole point, so he says, "I am a great King. 1181 00:58:25,375 --> 00:58:27,750 "I am a great King. 1182 00:58:27,833 --> 00:58:32,250 "I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, 1183 00:58:32,333 --> 00:58:35,792 and my name will be feared among the nations." 1184 00:58:35,875 --> 00:58:39,167 "I want everybody to know who I am and what I've done." 1185 00:58:39,250 --> 00:58:43,500 And Jesus is our King of kings, and Jesus is our Lord of lords, 1186 00:58:43,542 --> 00:58:47,083 and Jesus is our humble Master. 1187 00:58:47,167 --> 00:58:51,583 And Mars Hill, we're not playing church; we're following Jesus. 1188 00:58:51,667 --> 00:58:54,792 And there will be a day when the church comes to an end, 1189 00:58:54,833 --> 00:58:57,167 and it will be absorbed into the kingdom of God, 1190 00:58:57,250 --> 00:59:00,208 and Jesus will be seated on his throne, 1191 00:59:00,292 --> 00:59:03,333 and all the nations will be subject to him, 1192 00:59:03,417 --> 00:59:08,458 and his name will be great, and we, we, 1193 00:59:08,542 --> 00:59:11,833 we will share in his pleasure. 1194 00:59:11,917 --> 00:59:17,042 I want you to be part of what God loves, what God does, 1195 00:59:17,125 --> 00:59:21,042 what God decrees, and what God commands. 1196 00:59:21,125 --> 00:59:25,208 And Mars Hill, I am so excited. 1197 00:59:25,292 --> 00:59:27,083 I don't know if you caught that. 1198 00:59:27,167 --> 00:59:31,250 I'm really excited about Jesus and the opportunity he's given 1199 00:59:31,333 --> 00:59:33,667 us to be part of making his great name great 1200 00:59:33,750 --> 00:59:35,375 among the nations. 1201 00:59:35,458 --> 00:59:38,583 And so I want to share with you kind of where we're at. 1202 00:59:38,667 --> 00:59:41,292 This was, in the days of Malachi, a little update, 1203 00:59:41,375 --> 00:59:43,167 and it was not a good one. 1204 00:59:43,250 --> 00:59:45,667 I have a much better update, by God's grace. 1205 00:59:45,750 --> 00:59:48,833 And I want to share with you our plans to continue to make 1206 00:59:48,917 --> 00:59:51,000 the name of our great King great. 1207 00:59:51,042 --> 00:59:53,458 So, as we collect our tithes and offerings, 1208 00:59:53,500 --> 00:59:55,083 after that, we'll take Communion, 1209 00:59:55,167 --> 00:59:57,250 remembering Jesus' broken body and shed blood, 1210 00:59:57,333 --> 01:00:00,833 the work and the gift of our great King. 1211 01:00:00,917 --> 01:00:03,500 Let me do a brief update on how things are going. 1212 01:00:03,542 --> 01:00:08,500 And thank you, things are going pretty well, and by God's grace, 1213 01:00:08,542 --> 01:00:11,167 I think next year will be our biggest year of all. 1214 01:00:11,250 --> 01:00:12,583 Here's where we're at: 1215 01:00:12,667 --> 01:00:18,250 Recently, 10,177 adults in attendance across Mars Hill. 1216 01:00:18,333 --> 01:00:20,083 Fifteen churches, five states. 1217 01:00:20,167 --> 01:00:22,833 We count people because people count. 1218 01:00:22,917 --> 01:00:25,500 We count people because people count, 1219 01:00:25,542 --> 01:00:29,333 and it's not just numbers, it's faces and names. 1220 01:00:29,375 --> 01:00:32,625 There are also almost 2,500 kids, right? 1221 01:00:32,667 --> 01:00:34,083 Can we say, "Praise God"? 1222 01:00:34,167 --> 01:00:36,583 We like kids. 1223 01:00:36,667 --> 01:00:39,917 When we started Mars Hill 17 years ago, 1224 01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:41,583 there wasn't even a children’s ministry-- 1225 01:00:41,667 --> 01:00:43,500 because there were no children. 1226 01:00:43,583 --> 01:00:47,708 People are coming in, getting saved, getting baptized, 1227 01:00:47,833 --> 01:00:50,708 getting married, getting pregnant. 1228 01:00:50,792 --> 01:00:54,375 Ideally, that's the order, OK? 1229 01:00:54,458 --> 01:00:57,417 And lots of kids are being born 10 and under, 1230 01:00:57,500 --> 01:00:59,417 so there's the future, there's the legacy. 1231 01:00:59,500 --> 01:01:01,583 We don't want to do what they did, 1232 01:01:01,667 --> 01:01:03,375 and one generation builds the temple, 1233 01:01:03,500 --> 01:01:07,667 and then the next generation abuses it. 1234 01:01:07,708 --> 01:01:11,000 Percentage of adults who gave, 30%. 1235 01:01:11,042 --> 01:01:14,083 Some of you are not Christian, the rest are evil, OK, 1236 01:01:14,167 --> 01:01:15,792 based on Malachi. 1237 01:01:15,833 --> 01:01:18,542 OK, so next slide--I thought you'd find that funnier 1238 01:01:18,667 --> 01:01:20,375 than you did. 1239 01:01:20,500 --> 01:01:24,792 OK, our giving is averaging about $40 per adult per week. 1240 01:01:24,833 --> 01:01:27,917 Our expenses are about $44 per adult per week. 1241 01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:31,125 That's roughly $4 difference per adult per week. 1242 01:01:31,167 --> 01:01:34,167 We had a little bit of a surplus and we're reinvesting it 1243 01:01:34,250 --> 01:01:38,167 in our local churches, and I'll explain to you what's coming up. 1244 01:01:38,250 --> 01:01:40,208 So, here are our year-end goals. 1245 01:01:40,333 --> 01:01:41,667 We want to meet budget. 1246 01:01:41,750 --> 01:01:44,500 We'd like to bring in an additional $2 million surplus 1247 01:01:44,583 --> 01:01:46,208 for a number of projects. 1248 01:01:46,333 --> 01:01:48,708 We're moving Mars Hill Tacoma. 1249 01:01:48,833 --> 01:01:50,875 They've outgrown their setup/tear-down school 1250 01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,708 into a great church, but it needs some renovation. 1251 01:01:53,833 --> 01:01:56,417 It'll allow us to grow in the South Sound, 1252 01:01:56,500 --> 01:01:58,292 and that is a very fast-growing church. 1253 01:01:58,333 --> 01:01:59,917 Same for Mars Hill Everett. 1254 01:02:00,042 --> 01:02:02,375 They recently had their first Sunday in their new building, 1255 01:02:02,458 --> 01:02:05,333 and we've got some construction and work left to do to get 1256 01:02:05,417 --> 01:02:06,750 that place all tidied up. 1257 01:02:06,833 --> 01:02:08,167 Same for Mars Hill Olympia, 1258 01:02:08,208 --> 01:02:10,583 moving into their first permanent home. 1259 01:02:10,667 --> 01:02:12,542 As well as Mars Hill Huntington Beach-- 1260 01:02:12,625 --> 01:02:14,000 that'll be a rental. 1261 01:02:14,042 --> 01:02:16,667 The others are all purchases, but long-term homes 1262 01:02:16,708 --> 01:02:18,375 as our church family is growing. 1263 01:02:18,458 --> 01:02:20,875 We want to be good stewards, get into new buildings. 1264 01:02:20,958 --> 01:02:25,000 And here's what's cool: the cost of ownership is lower than 1265 01:02:25,042 --> 01:02:28,333 the cost of renting, so it's actually a great investment 1266 01:02:28,375 --> 01:02:29,708 for us as well. 1267 01:02:29,792 --> 01:02:31,208 And these churches have given generously, 1268 01:02:31,292 --> 01:02:34,917 but the rest of the family needs to kick in to sort of get them 1269 01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,083 over the finish line and into those new homes. 1270 01:02:37,167 --> 01:02:38,833 And also we're opening Mars Hill Phoenix, 1271 01:02:38,875 --> 01:02:41,333 so that'll be our 15th church in our 5th state. 1272 01:02:41,375 --> 01:02:46,708 All of these officially open, all 5, January 12th. 1273 01:02:46,792 --> 01:02:52,833 Huge day, huge day. 1274 01:02:52,875 --> 01:02:56,000 On that day, we start the book of James, 1275 01:02:56,083 --> 01:03:00,250 we kick off our new year, and I think, in God's providence, 1276 01:03:00,333 --> 01:03:04,000 we could grow by 2,000 people next year by opening up 1277 01:03:04,042 --> 01:03:05,500 and adding these churches. 1278 01:03:05,542 --> 01:03:07,583 We're also increasing our Mars Hill Global 1279 01:03:07,667 --> 01:03:10,375 church planting giving to 73 churches. 1280 01:03:10,458 --> 01:03:12,583 What that means is 73 church planters 1281 01:03:12,667 --> 01:03:14,167 in Ethiopia and India. 1282 01:03:14,250 --> 01:03:17,167 You are paying their salary, you are feeding their family, 1283 01:03:17,250 --> 01:03:22,042 you are funding their ministry, 73 church planters, 1284 01:03:22,125 --> 01:03:23,958 and we're increasing that this year, 1285 01:03:24,042 --> 01:03:25,500 so thank you for joining us. 1286 01:03:25,583 --> 01:03:29,917 And to get us ready--you can clap if you want. 1287 01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:31,500 We need to pray, right? 1288 01:03:31,583 --> 01:03:34,625 Because if our hearts are right, everything else will get right. 1289 01:03:34,708 --> 01:03:39,292 Right, before we figure out what to give and where to serve, 1290 01:03:39,375 --> 01:03:41,792 we've got to make sure that our hearts are right 1291 01:03:41,875 --> 01:03:43,708 before the Lord. 1292 01:03:43,792 --> 01:03:46,125 And so we're going to begin on December 1st, 1293 01:03:46,208 --> 01:03:49,333 40 Days of Prayer across all of our churches. 1294 01:03:49,375 --> 01:03:52,708 And you're going to get a list of things to pray for every day. 1295 01:03:52,833 --> 01:03:55,208 And if your health allows you, we're going to have 1296 01:03:55,333 --> 01:03:57,500 the final week be a week of fasting. 1297 01:03:57,583 --> 01:04:01,000 And then we're going to meet in all of our churches for a night 1298 01:04:01,042 --> 01:04:04,875 of worship, and prayer, and fasting to begin the new year 1299 01:04:04,958 --> 01:04:10,000 by committing ourselves in our year to the Lord. 1300 01:04:10,042 --> 01:04:12,750 And Mars Hill, I am convinced, utterly convinced that 1301 01:04:12,833 --> 01:04:15,792 we are poised for the biggest year we've ever had. 1302 01:04:15,875 --> 01:04:17,542 And we've got some great leaders, 1303 01:04:17,625 --> 01:04:19,542 and I've got a great honor today 1304 01:04:19,625 --> 01:04:21,292 of sharing some of them with you. 1305 01:04:21,375 --> 01:04:23,875 I want you to see who we're talking about, 1306 01:04:23,958 --> 01:04:25,917 and what they're doing, and where they're leading. 1307 01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:27,375 We've pulled up their giving. 1308 01:04:27,458 --> 01:04:29,000 They're all giving, OK? 1309 01:04:29,083 --> 01:04:31,375 They're all serving, they're all working, they're all caring, 1310 01:04:31,458 --> 01:04:33,083 they're all trying. 1311 01:04:33,167 --> 01:04:35,875 And you are helping them by giving generously 1312 01:04:35,958 --> 01:04:37,708 and praying faithfully. 1313 01:04:37,792 --> 01:04:39,500 And so as we transition our time, 1314 01:04:39,583 --> 01:04:41,708 I want you to see what God is doing, 1315 01:04:41,792 --> 01:04:43,958 and I want you to be excited: 1316 01:04:57,500 --> 01:04:59,917 Howdy Mars Hill Church, this is Pastor Sutton. 1317 01:05:00,042 --> 01:05:01,750 I'm here with my family. 1318 01:05:01,833 --> 01:05:04,667 My wife, Marcy, my daughter, Grace, 1319 01:05:04,750 --> 01:05:07,042 my daughter, Faye, and Joe Joe. 1320 01:05:07,125 --> 01:05:10,042 We're just here to say thank you for being a part of 1321 01:05:10,125 --> 01:05:12,667 the extended family of Mars Hill Global. 1322 01:05:12,750 --> 01:05:16,875 And Jesus has done some crazy, awesome things through 1323 01:05:16,958 --> 01:05:18,750 Mars Hill Global this last year. 1324 01:05:18,833 --> 01:05:22,250 As you guys know, we support church planters and evangelists 1325 01:05:22,333 --> 01:05:24,292 in Ethiopia and India. 1326 01:05:24,375 --> 01:05:26,000 This last 12 months, 1327 01:05:26,042 --> 01:05:30,042 we've supported 20 evangelists in Ethiopia. 1328 01:05:30,125 --> 01:05:33,542 They preach the gospel to 11,000 people 1329 01:05:33,625 --> 01:05:37,083 and 890 people have been saved, 1330 01:05:37,167 --> 01:05:38,792 so it's just pretty amazing. 1331 01:05:38,875 --> 01:05:40,958 And in India, as a partnership 1332 01:05:41,042 --> 01:05:43,167 with Arjuna and Vision Nationals, 1333 01:05:43,208 --> 01:05:47,458 we've planted over 53 churches. 1334 01:05:47,542 --> 01:05:50,458 And next year, what's super exciting is is that 1335 01:05:50,500 --> 01:05:53,833 our 43 church planters and evangelists 1336 01:05:53,917 --> 01:05:56,333 are going to grow to 73. 1337 01:05:56,417 --> 01:06:01,250 So, I just ask that you guys continue to pray and continue 1338 01:06:01,333 --> 01:06:05,167 to give to Mars Hill and to Mars Hill Global. 1339 01:06:05,208 --> 01:06:08,250 And I just pray that through Mars Hill Church, 1340 01:06:08,333 --> 01:06:13,250 that legacies will be transformed, changed by Jesus, 1341 01:06:13,333 --> 01:06:17,333 not only in the United States, but in Ethiopia and in India. 1342 01:06:17,375 --> 01:06:19,417 Thank you. 1343 01:06:19,500 --> 01:06:22,042 Pastor Bubba here with my wife, Shelly, our son, Jones, 1344 01:06:22,125 --> 01:06:24,750 and our son, Jackson, and we are in Tacoma, Washington, 1345 01:06:24,833 --> 01:06:26,375 where the need is great. 1346 01:06:26,458 --> 01:06:28,583 There are over a million people in this area 1347 01:06:28,667 --> 01:06:30,000 who've yet to meet Jesus. 1348 01:06:30,042 --> 01:06:32,750 And I say yet because we are planting Mars Hill Tacoma 1349 01:06:32,833 --> 01:06:34,875 in the area to be a regional church 1350 01:06:34,958 --> 01:06:36,583 to reach multiple cities. 1351 01:06:36,667 --> 01:06:38,583 And we would ask, be praying for us. 1352 01:06:38,667 --> 01:06:40,000 Pray for more leaders. 1353 01:06:40,042 --> 01:06:42,500 We need 10 more pastors, 60 more Community Groups. 1354 01:06:42,542 --> 01:06:45,542 As well, we would ask to be praying for conversions, 1355 01:06:45,625 --> 01:06:48,250 that people would meet Jesus, that Jesus would save people. 1356 01:06:48,333 --> 01:06:51,250 I'm praying for 200 baptisms in 2014. 1357 01:06:51,333 --> 01:06:53,458 And so we just want to say thank you. 1358 01:06:53,500 --> 01:06:55,750 Thank you for praying, thank you for giving, 1359 01:06:55,833 --> 01:07:00,458 thank you for helping build the legacy in Tacoma. 1360 01:07:00,542 --> 01:07:01,833 Hey, Mars Hill. 1361 01:07:01,917 --> 01:07:03,625 Pastor Ryan here from Phoenix. 1362 01:07:03,708 --> 01:07:06,833 This is my family, my wife, Kate, our daughter Ella, 1363 01:07:06,917 --> 01:07:08,458 and our Son, Liam. 1364 01:07:08,542 --> 01:07:10,167 We are standing in our building. 1365 01:07:10,208 --> 01:07:11,542 It's an art gallery. 1366 01:07:11,625 --> 01:07:12,958 It's in downtown Phoenix. 1367 01:07:13,042 --> 01:07:14,667 It's a really cool place to meet, 1368 01:07:14,708 --> 01:07:16,333 and we're really excited to be here. 1369 01:07:16,417 --> 01:07:18,333 We have over 4 million people that live 1370 01:07:18,417 --> 01:07:20,167 in the surrounding areas of downtown Phoenix, 1371 01:07:20,208 --> 01:07:22,417 and a lot of them don't know Jesus, 1372 01:07:22,500 --> 01:07:25,667 so we have an amazing opportunity to invite people 1373 01:07:25,708 --> 01:07:27,750 into a relationship with Jesus Christ. 1374 01:07:27,833 --> 01:07:31,167 So far, we've already been very blessed here in Phoenix, 1375 01:07:31,250 --> 01:07:33,500 where our 1st quarter gathering a few weeks ago, 1376 01:07:33,542 --> 01:07:36,333 we had 386 people come. 1377 01:07:36,417 --> 01:07:37,875 And then this last week, 1378 01:07:37,958 --> 01:07:39,875 we launched our first 14 Community Groups, 1379 01:07:39,958 --> 01:07:41,875 and we had nearly 100 people show up 1380 01:07:41,958 --> 01:07:43,667 to our first week of Community. 1381 01:07:43,708 --> 01:07:48,167 So, God's do amazing things, but we need for our public launch on 1382 01:07:48,250 --> 01:07:51,250 January 12th, we need a lot more leaders. 1383 01:07:51,333 --> 01:07:53,750 We need more production help, more kids volunteers, 1384 01:07:53,833 --> 01:07:56,583 more security, more Community Group leaders. 1385 01:07:56,667 --> 01:07:59,500 So please be praying for that as we head towards 1386 01:07:59,542 --> 01:08:01,000 our public launch. 1387 01:08:01,083 --> 01:08:03,708 Thank you for praying, thank you for giving as we live 1388 01:08:03,792 --> 01:08:05,542 for a legacy here in Phoenix. 1389 01:08:05,625 --> 01:08:07,208 Hey, Mars Hill. Pastor Ryan here. 1390 01:08:07,292 --> 01:08:09,000 This is my awesome wife, Natasha, 1391 01:08:09,083 --> 01:08:11,458 and we are standing in the auditorium of 1392 01:08:11,542 --> 01:08:14,250 Mars Hill Church Everett, the armory. 1393 01:08:14,333 --> 01:08:17,167 This is about to be transformed into the place where we're going 1394 01:08:17,208 --> 01:08:20,042 to have about 700 seats available for people to come 1395 01:08:20,125 --> 01:08:21,833 and hear the gospel of Jesus proclaimed 1396 01:08:21,917 --> 01:08:23,250 in the heart of Everett. 1397 01:08:23,333 --> 01:08:25,250 We are super excited about being here. 1398 01:08:25,333 --> 01:08:26,667 We have been given 1399 01:08:26,750 --> 01:08:29,750 such an amazing opportunity right in the heart of Everett 1400 01:08:29,833 --> 01:08:32,042 to minister to this city and to this county. 1401 01:08:32,125 --> 01:08:34,458 We trust that Jesus is going to continue doing 1402 01:08:34,542 --> 01:08:36,792 what he's been doing for the last 2,000 years, 1403 01:08:36,875 --> 01:08:38,375 building his church. 1404 01:08:38,458 --> 01:08:41,583 And so we want to invite you guys to pray for us. 1405 01:08:41,667 --> 01:08:43,583 We need tons of volunteers. 1406 01:08:43,667 --> 01:08:46,292 We've had so many new people come to our church already. 1407 01:08:46,375 --> 01:08:48,000 We've outgrown our old space. 1408 01:08:48,042 --> 01:08:50,000 We're about to move into this new space. 1409 01:08:50,042 --> 01:08:52,667 So, would you guys pray that more volunteers would come here, 1410 01:08:52,750 --> 01:08:54,083 that they'd get involved? 1411 01:08:54,167 --> 01:08:56,458 We believe that this building is going to stand 1412 01:08:56,500 --> 01:08:57,958 for over 100 more years, 1413 01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,500 and we believe that legacies are going to be changed 1414 01:09:00,583 --> 01:09:03,500 here by Jesus for his glory, and that families, 1415 01:09:03,583 --> 01:09:06,708 generation after generation of families, 1416 01:09:06,792 --> 01:09:08,917 are going to worship Jesus right in this space, 1417 01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:10,917 that their hearts are going to be changed, 1418 01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:13,417 and that thousands of people are going to be baptized 1419 01:09:13,500 --> 01:09:14,833 for God's glory. 1420 01:09:14,875 --> 01:09:16,500 Howdy, Pastor Mark here with the family, 1421 01:09:16,583 --> 01:09:18,500 part of our "Living for a Legacy" series, 1422 01:09:18,583 --> 01:09:20,750 is letting you know what's coming up this summer. 1423 01:09:20,833 --> 01:09:23,708 We've got something brand-new and super cool. 1424 01:09:23,792 --> 01:09:25,458 We're calling it the Jesus Festival. 1425 01:09:25,542 --> 01:09:28,375 We'll pick a nice day, be outside. 1426 01:09:28,458 --> 01:09:30,375 We're going to have bouncy houses for kids, 1427 01:09:30,458 --> 01:09:31,958 lots of fun stuff. 1428 01:09:32,042 --> 01:09:34,167 We're also going to do baptisms, and preaching, 1429 01:09:34,250 --> 01:09:35,875 and music at Marymoor Park. 1430 01:09:35,958 --> 01:09:37,792 All the Mars Hill churches are welcome. 1431 01:09:37,875 --> 01:09:39,542 We want to see you all there. 1432 01:09:39,625 --> 01:09:41,167 We started the church 17 years ago. 1433 01:09:41,250 --> 01:09:42,583 We didn't have any kids. 1434 01:09:42,667 --> 01:09:44,583 Ashley was one of the first kids born, 1435 01:09:44,667 --> 01:09:47,083 and now that first generation is getting ready for college, 1436 01:09:47,167 --> 01:09:50,292 so it's time for us to get ready to help them get ready 1437 01:09:50,333 --> 01:09:51,667 for their future. 1438 01:09:51,750 --> 01:09:54,000 So, fully accredited undergraduate and graduate 1439 01:09:54,042 --> 01:09:58,458 Bible-based, Jesus-focused education through Mars Hill. 1440 01:09:58,500 --> 01:10:01,375 The credits will be able to transfer to other universities. 1441 01:10:01,500 --> 01:10:03,375 Both institutions are accredited. 1442 01:10:03,500 --> 01:10:05,167 We're excited about that, and with 1443 01:10:05,208 --> 01:10:08,000 3,000 kids ages 10 and under, we've got to get ready 1444 01:10:08,042 --> 01:10:09,458 for the future leaders. 1445 01:10:09,500 --> 01:10:13,458 And the Driscoll family wants to give the church family 1446 01:10:13,500 --> 01:10:16,833 a very merry Christmas. 1447 01:10:26,917 --> 01:10:29,833 Each year, over 10 million Mars Hill church sermons 1448 01:10:29,917 --> 01:10:32,958 are downloaded worldwide for free. 1449 01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,542 This ministry is generously supported 1450 01:10:35,625 --> 01:10:38,167 by Mars Hill church members and listeners like you. 1451 01:10:38,250 --> 01:10:41,750 If you'd like to support our efforts to preach Jesus to the world, 1452 01:10:41,833 --> 01:10:44,750 Please consider making a tax-deductible donation 1453 01:10:44,833 --> 01:10:47,667 by visiting marshill.com/give.