1,000 Salvations | Pastor Tyler Johnson | 03.29.26

I simply wrote, can you imagine having a message so important that you're willing to risk your life over it to get it to the people that need to hear it? This is what the early church had in their spirit, and it's what the church today needs to get back in their spirit. In Matthew 10, the Lord would say this way, look. I'm sending you out as sheep among wolves. [01:12:03] (20 seconds)  #MessageWorthRisking

I don't want you to think that that verse is for pastors. That verse is for people on staff at church. That verse is for small group leaders. That verse is for you. Let me read it to you. Imagine the disciples. This is the last words and conversations of Jesus. This is in the last batch of his last words. He's already died and resurrected. He's about to be ascended. And these are his last words to disciples, and he doesn't tell them to go just do anything. He gives them one mission. He goes on to say, go into all the world. Preach the good news to everyone. Next verse, we're telling them, and be baptized. Advertisement. Get baptized. Amen. I believe God's doing something in our church. [00:49:33] (44 seconds)  #GoMakeDisciples

Jesus said, I have to go through Samaria. Samaria is not a have to place. It's like me telling you, have to go to Bakersfield. No shots at Bakersfield. Stop. I'm not trying to be mean. But Bakersfield is not known for the Grand Canyon or the Redwoods or for great food. It's in the middle of nowhere. And so it wasn't a geographic statement. It's like, Jesus, I have to go through Samaria, guys. They're like, do you know of a food spot that we don't know of Jesus? Right. Right. It's we we avoid Samaria. We walk around Samaria. Like, did you have to he was on mission. Yes. Great. He had that had to mentality. I just wrote this down. The church becomes powerful when it goes from, I should share the gospel to, I must share the gospel. So he goes, I have to go through Samaria. [01:02:22] (49 seconds)  #MustShareGospel

Now let's get back to Matthew nine. What is the Lord saying? Pray for problems so people will want me. No. He doesn't say that. Pray for supplies so we can no. He doesn't say that. He says, pray for workers because the need is here in the world. A lot of people want me. The supply is here, but the delivery system is broken in the world. The Pharisees have quenched it. The religious have quenched it. The apathetic have quenched it. The the the check the box Christians have quenched it. And he's saying, there is enough of heaven for all those in need, but the the workers, the delivery system, something is broken down in this last mile. Amazon, who has literally uses this phrase, the last mile or the final mile, they have perfected it, and it is expensive to perfect. [01:17:36] (47 seconds)  #PrayForWorkers

And I'm here to tell you that I believe that if we pray this prayer as a church and we've been praying at team prayer, that's what the Lord says. Ask the Lord of the harvest. Therefore, to send out workers into the harvest. He goes, so here's the problem. Solution is just pray more workers in. And so we've been praying, and our prayer has been simply this is we I'll just let you know on some team prayer talk. But I we are praying that when I preach this message and you start to hear the word of God to say, go get them, you would have this fire in your spirit. Not a not a religious burden. I gotta go do another religious thing. No. No. Throw that out. But you would feel the call and the responsibility to live out the mission that God gave you for your life. [00:41:45] (45 seconds)  #CalledNotBurdened

I've never asked Rachel what I should preach in our eight year. I don't like, what should I preach? Should I preach it? It was one of those moments I just I I felt so lost. I felt like Rachel, like, with authority, like, from the Lord. Like, you preach Luke 15. And and so I get in Luke 15, and and I start reading it, and it it wrecked me. It reminded me of the simplicity of why I'm alive. This whole Christian thing can get really complicated, not because the word makes it complicated, because we complicate it. Oh, should I watch this or listen to that, or should we do this? No. No. Simplify it. I'm gonna love God and love people. I'm gonna fall in love with my Lord, and I'm gonna be a missionary in my city. [00:44:09] (36 seconds)  #LoveGodLovePeople

After the presentation in the courtyard, each branch had a handful of college students signing up. But at the marine table, there was a line around the corner. You see, the marines figured something out. They didn't have perks to win over young people. All they had was purpose to give. I believe the this is that people want to live for a mission, a mission worth living for and even dying for. I just have this strong conviction in our church that when I think about our church and you come here, I think people love to be called to a greater mission. I'll talk to other pastors, and they'll ask me, give me what's happening at Mission Church? What is it? And I'll tell them this. Man, people wanna climb a mountain with you. People wanna take back ground with you. Go go go take back your region. [01:22:48] (51 seconds)  #PurposeOverPerks

She goes on to say she would say, I I had this picture that the Lord gave me. And she goes, the picture was an escalator going up and an escalator going down. And she goes, I cannot walk by the people that don't know the Lord because when I walk by them, I see them on the escalator going down to hell. And as I'm on the escalator going up to heaven, they look at me and say, why didn't you tell me about this Jesus? Why didn't you give me a shot? Why didn't you give me an opportunity to say yes to heaven? Why didn't you tell me that there was a savior that loved me where I was at, that I didn't have to clean myself up, but he's the one that would make me clean and make me new? Why did you tell me that I could have a new beginning? And she would go on and say, I have no good answer for these people. [01:08:19] (41 seconds)  #TellThemNow