Disciple: God and Country - Pastor James Hooper

So, me being a bible nerd, I go to the word disciple, and the word disciple is and it is actually, the root word from that is and it means to learn by use and practice. This is disciple, to learn by use and practice. So discipleship is not a class you take on Thursday night. That's not discipleship. You can take a discipleship class, but that's not discipleship. Discipleship is you live your life and have somebody watch it. [00:15:53] (42 seconds)  #DiscipleshipIsPractice

What I want to say is do I have the right amount of umami? Umami is that rich, savory flavor that you can't really describe, You've got sweet, salty, but then you have umami, which is that makes you go, oh, that's good, that's umami. That's how I want to represent God to this world. I want people to go, I won't want that, I want that. I want that. [00:11:30] (30 seconds)  #GodsUmami

That's how I am, that's how people can taste and see. We are the only way people will see God on this earth because we are image bearers of God. Do I need to take you back to Genesis where God said, Let us make man in our image and after our likeness and let him have dominion over the earth? Let's make man just like us. We bear God's image. That's how people are gonna know how God is. Are you being salty? They're gonna see a salty God. Are you being fakey sweetie stuff? That's how they're gonna see God, but if you are loving and you're genuine, come on, you can have faults and failings and people still realize that God is good. [00:12:00] (47 seconds)  #ReflectGod

This is what this is saying. We carry the name of God everywhere we go. So if we carry it inappropriately, if we carry the name of God because we are image bearers of God, if we carry that into places that God does not want us to go. He goes with us, but we are carrying it in vain. [00:19:58] (28 seconds)  #CarryGodsNameRight

That word take, unfortunately, has been changed from the original meaning. The original meaning is, the word is Nassau. Nassau. It's spelled like NASA, but it's Nassau. To lift, to bear up, to carry, and then finally, to take. [00:18:40] (24 seconds)  #NassauMeansCarry

But Proverbs chapter 29 verse two says, When the right righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when a wicked man rules, the people groan. This is what it is to be a disciple and be a witness because I have the power, we've just sang about that, we have the power, and it's not just to go, oh, it is to be a witness. This Holy Spirit has empowered me, he has empowered you to actually be a witness to what it's like being a child of God in this world. [00:09:03] (40 seconds)  #EmpoweredToWitness

I hear these liberals talking about, oh, the right the right, they're just they're they're so greedy and all this kind of stuff, but what they call generosity is they take they take my $100 bill because they don't want me to have it and they give it to somebody else and oh look, we're being generous. Well, that's somebody else's money, that's not your money, that's not generosity, that's stealing. [00:25:13] (24 seconds)  #ForcedGenerosityIsTheft

I've told you this before, we are priests. Once you're a believer, you are a priest. God intended for every one of His kids to be a priest. What a priest's job is, we're not gonna wear robes and stuff, collars and stuff, I've done that before because of the context of where I was ministering, I did that. And so, but what it is, a priest is the one that goes between, is a representative of God to man and represents man to God. Until that man becomes a priest himself, then we represent God, so we are priests. Our responsibility as children, as image bearers of God, is to represent God to man and man to God. So, [00:29:12] (47 seconds)  #PriesthoodOfBelievers