One More Life | Living by Faith

The life of faith happens right here every day in your every day and my every day spaces. You know how rarely we're gonna have to wrestle with faith on a plane about to land in Tel Aviv when they're shooting missiles? Might be once in your lifetime. But do you know how often you're gonna have to wrestle with going to work and actually sharing the gospel with a friend with all the consequences of that and maybe being ostracized for a while? Every day. [00:36:23] (24 seconds)  #FaithInSmallMoments

But the reality is when people come to know Jesus, whoever they may be, what we find when it is authentic and the gospel becomes the lens, it does change things. And the kingdom of God of life, light, and freedom when it's brought does bring life, light, and freedom. And in this moment, this person notices this. This Muslim Arab man who should hate us just walked in and cared for us because apparently he knows Jesus now. And that vision, that's the solution. [00:24:07] (35 seconds)  #GospelChangesLives

that's never gonna happen because our God is not battling against the enemy. He is sovereign, but that's what we're battling against. Then I I'm I'm reminded again that our battle as people who follow Jesus now should be a battle that we bring about the things we're called to bring about. That we make the gospel known by the way we live, and by the way we serve, and by the way we care, and by the way we pray, and by the way we love. And it doesn't matter who's in front of us, that's who we're gonna love. [00:32:09] (28 seconds)  #LiveTheGospel

To my marriage, to my family, to my workplace, to my neighborhood, to the world, to wars. There's the solution. If every human just came to know Jesus and authentically lived out the gospel, what would our world be like? I already know. Because we're gonna end up there someday in God's kingdom. In the meantime, it's not that yet. So guess what we get to do? We get to be the hands and feet of Jesus and love people well. Which people? Of them. [00:53:14] (26 seconds)  #HandsAndFeetOfJesus

I just thought to myself as they shared that story, is that not what we want in our lives every day? That the people in our workplaces, and the people in our neighborhoods, and the people in in in in in our social networks would not say of us? Oh my gosh. The solution to our workplace not being so hostile is that everyone would come to know Jesus like that person. Or the solution to our neighborhood's politics is that everybody would come to know Jesus like that person. Wouldn't that be amazing? [00:24:42] (29 seconds)  #BeTheVisibleSolution

All the roads get stopped up. People abandon their cars and walk away. Bombs are coming. We got to get out. But also, you know that because they're going to bomb Orlando to the ground, when you come home, if you come home, there's not anything there. So you can't, like, collect all your stuff, and you just have to get out. And suddenly, when you see it that way, you're like, these are just Lebanese folks hanging out in the town, and suddenly, they gotta get out because bombs are coming, and they gotta get out now, and they may never come home. [00:26:53] (26 seconds)  #EvacuateUnderFire

The greater Orlando area is like four and a half million people, but Orlando proper, the whole city, the borders of Orlando is about 400,000 people, give or take. You with me? Imagine if we got word today that there's some stuff going on in Orlando, and they're gonna bomb Orlando and bomb it to the ground to get rid of that, and everyone that lives in Orlando needs to evacuate in the next day or two. Can you even begin to imagine the chaos of that? [00:26:26] (27 seconds)  #ImagineMassEvacuation

And this family says to her, these are not believers. All these folks in the world says to her, that's the solution. If all the Arabs, the Muslims came to know Jesus, it would solve everything. Amen. Which is that true? Yes. Absolutely. It also happens to be true that if all the Jews also came to know Jesus, that would be a big part of solving everything too. She kind of left that out a little bit, but I I get it. We're humans. [00:23:42] (25 seconds)  #FaithForEveryPeople