Collierville First Baptist Church

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A when you think of God, what comes to your mind? Maybe that song has influence. What comes to your mind this morning? Some people view God as being remote and detached from the everyday reality of life. Others view him as if he is shrouded in obscurity and he's basically unknowable. Others view him as being a perpetually kind Mr. Rogers, who is only concerned about our happiness.

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Others view him as a demanding drill sergeant who's always barking orders and getting on our case. Too many people, though, however, go through their entire lives and are never spiritually staggered by the true knowledge of God. That is totally unacceptable. Over and over. The Bible affirms the importance of knowing God, really knowing God. Do you really know God or do you just know about him?

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In Jeremiah 924, the prophet wrote, but let him who boast boast of this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness on earth. For I delight in these things, declares the Lord. And Daniel 1132 the prophet wrote, the people who know their God will display strength and take action.

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In Philippians three eight, Paul wrote more than that, I count all things to be lost in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. A personal knowledge of the Lord will create a tidal wave, a passion of energy, of love, compassion, devotion and purpose in our lives. We will see ourselves as we really are when we really know God, and we will begin to see every trial and every joy in our lives as it relates to the glory of God in our lives.

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The prophet Isaiah serve the Lord in a at a difficult time in the life of the covenant people of God. It was around 700 B.C., and the covenant people of God had embraced a diminished view of God.

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So the prophet Isaiah serve the Lord during that difficult time. The people were known for several things. They were known for they greedy materialism, for their drunken pleasure, for their brazen rebellion, for their moral perversion, for their boastful pride, and for their corrupt leadership. On top of all of this, their beloved king had died. His name was Zion, and he reign for 52 years.

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Do you realize that is 13 of our four year presidential elections? 13 of them? He reign for 52 years. In Second Chronicles, chapter 26, verse four, the Bible says of this great king, he did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done, he restored and strengthened the city of Jerusalem. He led the army to successfully defeat their enemies.

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Under his leadership, agriculture flourished. He was an excellent leader, a leader of leaders. However, like his grandfather Joash, that we talked about last week, he started well, but he didn't finish well in second Chronicles 2616, the Bible says, but when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the Lord his God.

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For he entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense that was a no no. The king could not go into the holy place of the temple and burn incense. That was only for the priest. God judged him, and God gave him leprosy that day, and he was a leper until the day he died.

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Do you know what that means? That means he couldn't go into the temple and worship again. He was secluded from God, secluded from the temple.

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Isaiah was shaken to the core by all of this, the spiritual demise of the people of God and the death of this famous leader by the name of desire. But that's when it happened. Oh, it happened. And I guarantee Isaiah didn't expect it to happen. This great prophet of God was given a vision of the King of Glory, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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How do we know it? Well, gee, how do we know it was God the Father? Well, we know that because of what the Bible says in John chapter 12 and John chapter 12, the Bible says, but though he had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in him, this was to fulfill the word of Isaiah, the prophet which he spoke.

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Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For this reason they could not believe. For Isaiah said again in verse 40 of John chapter 12, he has blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart. So that they would not see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and be converted, and I heal them.

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Now listen, verse 41 of John chapter 12, these things Isaiah said, because he saw his glory, and he spoke of him. Get this. Now, 700 years before Jesus was incarnated, Isaiah the prophet had a vision of Jesus and all of his splendor and glory as the King of glory. Now take your Bible. Turn to Isaiah, chapter six. In Isaiah chapter six, I want to speak to you on the subject, the King of glory.

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And here's the truth I want to sow in your heart this morning. You see, the Bible says, if we sow, we will reap. So here's what I'm showing in your heart. Here's a seed I'm sowing in your heart. This morning. Give the King your very best. He deserves it. We glorify him when we do this, giving him your best calls for three action steps in our life.

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Number one, worship the King. Isaiah chapter six, verses 1 to 4. In the year of King You, Zion's death, I saw the Lord sitting on the throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of his robe filling the temple. Now who was the Lord? He was saying, it was the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of glory. Seraphim stood above him, each having six wings.

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With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet, with two he flew. And one called out to another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory, and the foundations of the thresholds tremble, tremble at the voice of him who called out while the temple was filling with smoke.

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So in the midst of the moral and spiritual disorder and malaise of his day, Isaiah was stunned by a vision of the King of glory, the Lord Jesus Christ himself. From that day forward, he had a proper view of the Lord, and it shaped his entire world view. Now that day he learned some things about the King of Glory.

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He learned that the King of Glory is eternal. Notice what it said. Isaiah recorded this fact. I saw the Lord. He was alive. He was living. The Bible says that Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. Jesus had no beginning. He will have no. And he is eternal in nature. Listen to the first verse in the Bible states, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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And in John chapter one, the Bible says that Jesus created everything. So as the beginning of recorded time, the King of Glory was already in existence. Paul wrote this about him in first Timothy 117 to the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory, forever and ever. Amen. Now, when things in our lives get a little crazy, it's important that you and I understand that our King is alive.

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He is alive. That leads to a second glimpse of the King of Glory. Not only is eternal, but the Bible says he's sovereign. The King of Glory is sovereign. Isaiah saw the Lord sitting on a what a throne! He's sitting on a throne. The Hebrew word here for Lord is Adonai. It means sovereign master. It reveals that the King of Glory has authority to rule the entire world.

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And one day, one day. Listen, dear friend, I believe in the very near future. Jesus is going to sit on the throne there in Jerusalem, them in the Millennial Kingdom, and he's going to rule over the entire earth, and all the nations will stream to Jerusalem to worship him, and he will rule for all of eternity in the new heavens and the new earth.

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Listen, when all this was going on, and in Judah at the time with the covenant people, the Lord Jesus the King of Glory, was not wringing his hands up there in heaven, asking, Angel, what shall we do? He did not call an emergency session of the Trinity to try to hammer out a response. He was on his throne.

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It's a picture of perfect peace and stability in the midst of the unseen instability that takes place on this planet and even in our hearts. So the King of Glory is eternal. The King of Glory is sovereign. The King of Glory is powerful. Notice the Bible says that Isaiah saw the Lord sitting on the throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of his robe filling the temple.

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His regal garments filled the temple, leaving room for no other, no other leader, no other person in the world, no president, no dictator, no prime minister, no king, no queen, no prince, no governor, no Senate or no representative. No Supreme Court judge has the power to rival the King of Glory. Nothing you will ever encounter in this life is too big for him.

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And you need to understand that today. And the King of Glory is holy, the Seraphim. Their name means burning ones. Burning ones. They're angelic beings. And they were in constant motion flying around. They had six wings with two they flew, meaning that they were ready to do the will of God at any moment. The will of the King of Glory at any moment.

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With two they cover their feet, showing how they revered and respected the King of Glory. And with two they cover their face in humility, and they sang of the holiness of God. Holy, holy, holy. It's not just a repetition. It is an emphasis in Hebrew thought and Hebrew thought. You they don't have holy, holy, or in holiest. So in in order to express the absolute pure holiness of God, they have to repeat it three times.

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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. Now look, this elevates Jesus, the King of Glory, to a place of supreme importance. By the way, this is the only character mistake of God of Jesus that is repeated three times in Scripture. The Bible doesn't say God is love, love, love, or God is gracious, gracious, gracious, gracious. The Bible only says God is holy, holy, holy, and the King of glory is not only holy, he is glorious.

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In verse three, the seraphim declared, the whole earth is full of his glory. It's a picture of the glory of the King of Glory spilling out of heaven onto the father star in the universe, all into the the deepest crevices of planet earth, the mountains, the crevices, the deserts of all creation. That's where the glory of God ends up.

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Isaiah discover that the King of glory is eternal. He is sovereign. He is powerful. He is holy, and he is righteous. I don't want you to ever forget. Please don't forget. This is the last sermon in this series glorified. And I don't want you to ever forget that when God formed you in your mother's womb, he created you to glorify him and to enjoy him forever.

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Now it matters not what you do on this earth. It doesn't matter if you're the greatest businessman who ever lived, the greatest athlete who ever lived. I'm telling you, nothing compares with the importance of knowing and living out your purpose in this life, and that is to glorify the Lord and to enjoy him now and forever more. Listen.

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Give the King your best. That's what this all Isaiah six is all about. Give the King your best. Therefore, to do that, we must worship the king. Secondly, we must respect the king. Isaiah six verses 5 to 7. Isaiah wrote, then I said, woe is me, for I am ruined, because I'm a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips.

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For my eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts. Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. And he touched my mouth with it, and said, behold, this has touched your lips, and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven.

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Isaiah, when he saw this vision of the glory of the King of glory, was immediately convicted concerning his own sin. Now let me tell you, when he came to the temple that day, he came to grieve over the fact that you, Zaya, had died, to grieve over the fact that the covenant people of God had fallen to a low state of spirituality.

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But he was immediately convicted concerning his sin in the presence of the holiness of the King. And in sheer brokenness, he confessed his sin to the Lord, the King of Glory, and genuinely repented of that sin. Now one of the seraphim then took a coal from the altar and touched it to Isaiah's lips, symbolizing the sheer grace of God, the forgiveness of trespasses, and the riches of his grace.

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Let me ask you a question. Just as Isaiah experienced forgiveness for his sin that day, because he confessed and forsook that sin. Don't you want to know today that your sins are forgiven? Let me tell you, there's only one way your sins can ever be forgiven. You'll never be able to earn forgiveness. Forgiveness is an act of God's grace.

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And in order for you to receive that act of God's grace, you have to believe in Jesus as your Savior and your Lord. Now listen, here's the thing about it. Where where did that coal come from that the seraphim took and touched to the lips of Isaiah? It came from the altar where sacrifices were offered. And I'll tell you that sacrifice, that coal pictured, the sacrifice that Jesus would make for us on the cross of Calvary, when he would shed his blood and offer his body as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.

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And that's how Isaiah was forgiven. Listen, here's the thing about it. The Bible says in Ephesians one seven, In Him Jesus, we have redemption through his blood. The forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. Wouldn't you love to know that your sins are forgiven? Maybe you hear today you say, pastor, I haven't given much thought to that.

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Well, one reason we don't give much thought to it is because we haven't been stunned by a true encounter with the living God. The way Isaiah was stunned by our true encounter with the King of Glory. But I tell you, friend, the Bible says this. The Bible says that the Holy Spirit is working in our midst right now.

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The Bible says that if you're a believer here today, the Bible says that you're that that that your body has become the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own. Therefore glorify God in your body. The Bible says, right. And so I want you to understand that the same Jesus that was referred to as the King of Glory by Isaiah is still the King of glory in heaven today.

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And I'll tell you, he loves you. And he was willing to sacrifice himself to save you and to buy your forgiveness from your sins and set you free. Listen, give the King your best. Therefore, we must worship the king. We must respect the king. And number three, we must serve the king. We must serve him. All of this is right here in Isaiah chapter six and Isaiah chapter six, verses eight through ten.

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The Bible says, then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, now notice it. Isaiah could not hear the voice of the Lord until he was cleansed of his sin. Do you realize that if your sins are not forgiven, if you even if you're a believer and you have unconfessed sins in your life, it will create a spiritual deficit in your ability to hear what God wants to say to your heart.

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And if you're not saved, you will never be able to hear the voice of God. I tell you, dear friend, listen, the most important thing in our lives is to hear what God is saying to us. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, here am I.

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Send me. Here am I. Send me. He said, go and tell this people. Keep on listening, but do not perceive. Keep on looking but do not understand. Render the hearts of this people insensitive. Their ears dull and their eyes dim. Otherwise they might see with their eyes. Hear with their ears. Understand with their hearts, and return and be healed.

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The grace of God unleashed Isaiah from sin's paralyzing effect in his life, and it gave him a passion to see the Jewish people respond to the Lord in genuine repentance and faith. See, your sin is a crime against God. Now, there's a lot of talk in our nation today about crime. There's a lot of talk about liberal d.a.s who do not hold people accountable for their crimes.

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I want to tell you, friend, when you and I sinned against God, it's a crime against God. And our God is a just God, a righteous God, and he will hold us accountable. The Bible says this in Habakkuk chapter one, verse 13. The eyes of the Lord are too pure to approve evil, and he cannot look on wickedness with favor.

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That's God, that's our holy, righteous God. Now we see sin everywhere. Therefore we see sin nowhere. But understand this, that you can't determine what sinful by what other people are doing. You determine what sinful by what the Word of God says. And by the example of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Now listen, sin is a crime. It's offensive to him.

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Here's here's the dangerous thing. When one hears the Word of God and does not act upon the Word of God in obedience, his heart can get very hard. That's why the Bible says today if you hear his voice, harden not your heart. And then in Isaiah chapter six, verses 11 to 13, listen to this. Then I said, Lord, how long, Lord, how long am I to go and tell these obstinate, unbelieving Jews about you?

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How long? And he answered, until cities are devastated, and without inhabitant houses, or without people, and the land is utterly desolate. The Lord has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. Yet there will be a 10th portion in it, and it will again be subject to burning, like a terabits, or an oak whose stump remains when it is felled.

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The holy seed is its stump. So Isaiah says to the Lord, see, not only did he hear the Lord's voice, but he also spoke to the Lord. How long, Lord? And God described the eventual collapse of the covenant people of God, because they refused to listen to him. How many of us in this room, how many watching live stream, have had the Holy Spirit speak to them through the Word of God through a sermon?

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So reading your Bible and you've totally ignored it. Oh friend, we cannot afford to ignore the voice of our Lord through the Word of God. Now God's promise in verse 13 is awesome. Look at it again. Yet there will be a 10th portion in it. Some people say that God is through with Israel. God is not through with Israel.

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God has a plan for his covenant people. And the Bible says here in verse 13 that there will be a tent, for there be a remnant of a believers among the Israeli people. And he talks about the stump that's failed in a holy seed in its stump. Have you ever seen a stump, a tree, been cut down? And there's that stump and then out of that stump, you see a green thing begin to poke its head up and begin to grow again.

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You know what that holy seed is? That's the Lord Jesus Christ that would be incarnated about 700 years after Isaiah wrote this. That's the Lord Jesus Christ who would offer himself as our sacrifice on the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will one day reign forever and ever and ever. And it is our job. Just like was Isaiah's job, to go to the covenant people of God and to tell them over and over again, no matter how many times they rejected, to tell them the truth about God and the truth about God's Word.

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And that's what we're today. I want you to understand that if you're a born again believer in this room, or you're born again believer at home, I want you to know that if you're really going to glorify the King of glory, then you must serve him. You must serve him. You must go and tell your neighbors, go and tell your family members.

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Go and tell your friends that there is a Savior who will save them and forgive them, and change their hearts and change the way they view all of life. Hey, I'm going to ask Zach and Becca to join me up here for just a moment.

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You go back in the middle.

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This is Zach and Becca Tucker. They've been with us. How many years? Eight years. Eight years? Eight years. They've been on our staff here at Carmel First Baptist Church. And they've got a call of God on their lives. They have heard the voice of the Lord. So who will go for me? And they said, here am I. Here we are.

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Send us. So Zach and Becca talk to us just a minute about your call to missions. Yeah. So for me, I had the benefit of being raised in a Christian home. My parents are actually here with us today. And so I came to know the Lord at about eight. And around the time of 11, I really began to see.

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The Lord opened my eyes to what it would look like to go to the nations. And, you know, as an 11 year old, I didn't have a great perspective on what that would mean. And now here we are 19 years later. I've gone through some things to get some education and to give up some education to pursue this.

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But ultimately, what came down to it was actually 20, 24 says, I consider my life worth nothing to me. If only I may finish the race and complete the task. The Lord Jesus has given me the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace. And so that verse kind of began to to mold my life in that I'm being called to give up.

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Maybe it's comfort, maybe it's all these different things. But for us, it became a joy of the nations or what we want to go to. Okay. And back. And what about you? Yeah, I actually have a similar story to Zach, which is kind of fun. But I was, raised in a Christian home, and, felt the Lord kind of calling me to missions after when I was really young, when my my parents would read us, autobiographies of missionaries and, I just that just planted a seed in my heart, to go to the nations and to be a missionary.

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And then, the Lord kind of confirmed that call just over and over again throughout my life, we were able to both do, summer missions in college. Not together. Teenagers don't be missionary dating out there. And, but we were able to do, some our missions and, just have been able to serve both locally and internationally.

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And so. Yeah. Amen. Amen. Well, I remember when you came on staff eight years ago, you expressed to Sam and me that you had a call to be a missionary, a missionary. And I praise God that you have never let that waver. Now you're going as International Mission Board missionaries from the Southern Baptist Convention, correct? That is correct.

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And so what that means is that while we will be changing from FBC staff to International Mission Board staff, that you guys still get to have a huge hand in our ministry and what we do. So the international Mission Board missionaries are funded through two different ways. Now, one of those is the cooperative program that our regular budget has, a portion of it that goes to.

00:30:56:14 - 00:31:22:23
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And that cooperative program is dished out to multiple things. And in fact, I've already been in benefit of that. As a seminary student, I've gotten a discount through the cooperative program, but now part of that will pay our salary and our housing and our medical costs and all the things that it takes to live overseas. The other part of that is the, Lottie Moon Christmas offering that our church gives to our of our World mission offering, which will be collected March 10th, I believe, with kind of the theme of go and tell.

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And so those two things are what make up how EMB staff are funded. And we'll be considered full time, missionaries. Our first term, which is three years, were considered apprentices. And the second term, and then beyond we're considered career missionaries. Okay. So, Becca, where are you going? We are going to Guadalajara, Mexico.

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Which is, the third largest city in Mexico, according to Wikipedia. And that's close to my hometown, Saltillo. Look at that. Oh, is that. Yeah. And so we will spend our first year, when we're in Mexico, we'll spend it in Puebla. So if you guys hear that we're in Puebla, that's fine. We're just there for a year for language school so we can learn some Spanish.

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And then we will, do our long term ministry in Guadalajara. Amen. So what is your assignment? So we actually kind of have two jobs. A little bit of our time will be spent doing local work in Guadalajara, most likely among college students. That will kind of land into the strategy there, in the same way that sometimes I get lent out to other ministries of the church.

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But my primary job is student in the college ministry. So I'm not crucial to the strategies. We're not crucial to that. But we'll step in and do about 10 to 15 hours a week of local work. The rest of our time actually gets to be a lot more global than that. So we're going to be, the American people's next gen volunteer coordinators.

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Long word to say, that we're taking over the college summer missions program for everything that south of the United States. So we get to call all the different EMB teams that you already work with and support and say, hey, can you use some free labor for eight weeks in the summer? And how can they help your strategy?

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How can we recruit them? How can we coordinate them? Getting to you and working with you? So that's kind of our quick version of our job. So, Becca, when will you start with and when do you start this assignment? Yeah. So we will, transition from staff here to staff with I and B starting July 4th, I think, and then we will go to Richmond, Virginia, in August for about seven weeks.

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We'll do training there. And then pretty immediately, kind of come home, reset and then go, to Hope. We're hoping to be in Puebla in October, beginning of October. Yeah, we should land in Mexico somewhere around the 1st of October, and we'll actually leave the country from Memphis. So once we do our training, in Virginia, we come back here and we leave the country from Memphis.

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So you'll be with us through through summer camp with students this summer, which is the last full week of June. And then our transition from one staff to the other will happen the first week of July. Okay. Okay. Well, we're glad you're going to be here a little while longer, maybe two. Hey, I want to I just want to say to you, too, that we're proud of you.

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You have exhibited impeccable, integrity. You've worked hard. You've made a difference in the young people in this church. And I know we'll be forever grateful to you for all you've done. Amen.

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So I want to pray for you, too. And for Owen and Eleanor. Okay. Our heavenly Father, I thank you so much for this young family. I thank you, father, that they were in a position to hear your voice when you call them and said, who will go for me? And I thank you that like Isaiah, they said, Lord, hear, hear.

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Here we are. Send us. We'll go. We'll go and tell. Lord, I know it's not going to be easy there going to be. And there's going to be some hard times for them, just like there were hard times for Isaiah and Lord. You told it, there will be hard times, and you know that there will be hard times for Zach and Becca, and I pray in the name of Jesus that they would be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that their toil is not in vain.

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In you, Lord, I pray you bless. Oh, and Eleanor, I pray, Lord, those kids will grow up and be young champions for Christ. And I pray that Zach and Becca's ministry would have a tremendous kingdom impact for your glory. Lord, please. In Jesus name, Amen. Thank you. God bless you.

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How are you to wrap up the sermon and what we've been talking about today? There's a splendid moment in the movie Jurassic Park, when world class paleontologist Alan Grant, who devoted his life to the study of dinosaurs, suddenly comes face to face with a real live dinosaur. What does he do? He falls to the ground, dumbstruck. You see, it's one thing to piece together the bones of a dinosaur and pick through fossils, but to encounter an actual dinosaur.

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There was no comparison for Alan Grant to many of us. Too many of us have picked through the relics of religion. And we've assembled a god from these relics that make us feel good. That makes us happy. That does not ask us to get out of our comfort zone. Zach and Becca has gotten out of their comfort zone.

00:37:22:02 - 00:37:54:24
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But like Isaiah, we need a fresh encounter with the one true God, the King of Glory. And when we have that encounter, we need to remember this. We have got to give our King our best because he deserves it. We've got to worship the King. We've got to respect the king, and we've got to serve the king. That's how we glorify him.

00:37:54:26 - 00:38:23:09
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Now, if you're in this room and you've never received Jesus as your Savior and your Lord, I want to encourage you today to do just just that. That's the first step to glorifying. How can you glorify him if you reject him? So give your heart to Jesus today. Believe in him. Trust him as your Savior and your Lord, and commit your life to him.

00:38:23:11 - 00:38:58:12
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The way Zach and Becca committed their lives to him years and years ago. And then, if you're a believer in this room, ask yourself this question do I really respect the King of Glory? Do I respect to him by the the words that come out of my mouth? Do I respect him by the actions of my life? Do I respect him when I look at my heart and examine the motives of my heart?

00:38:58:13 - 00:39:26:14
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Do I really respect the King of Glory in these ways? Listen, if you're in this room and you're a believer and you say, pastor, I'm not really respecting the Lord the way he deserves, I would encourage you to come to the altar and just bow before the Lord just the way Isaiah did in the temple that day. He fell on his face in that temple, and he confessed to God.

00:39:26:16 - 00:39:49:08
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And God forgave him, cleansed him, gave him a fresh start and a fresh new purpose in life. And he'll do the same for you. But if you're here and you want to receive Jesus as your Savior and your Lord, you come to one of our staff members and we'll help you with that decision. I'm going to ask the staff to come and our worship team to come.

00:39:49:11 - 00:40:14:04
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And I want to encourage you. Do not do not listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit and ignore it. It's a dangerous game to play. So let me pray. Heavenly father, thank you so much for the men and women and kids in this room. And father, I pray in the name of Jesus that we would obey you right now.

00:40:14:06 - 00:40:41:00
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I pray you would speak clearly to us. I pray that we would have one of those stunning, fresh encounters with you in this moment. And I pray, Lord, that souls would be saved. And I pray that believers would repent and get right with you. Confess our sin. Oh God in heaven, have your way in our hearts. Give us a fresh purpose, a fresh meaning in our lives.

00:40:41:03 - 00:40:54:22
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And Lord, help us to worship you. Help us to respect you and help us to serve you in Jesus name. Amen. Let's stand and worship that you come as God leads you.