Empowered by Grace, Commissioned with Power (My story, His story)

Morning, to the one to those who were joining us online. We start a new season, it's oldest. It's August already. You ready for the you ready for heading towards Christmas? Somebody's going on. Now don't tell me that Dave whenever the end of the year that we all the beginning, I was just typing at recess mean, 34 months and we step into a new thing. You must be stepping through this. So everyone of you, how you should have a car, either on the chat Eagle sitting on, then you'll sitting on the card or it's on the chair next to you. This is a card that we used on the Outreach yesterday and I'm going to be preaching a little bit from this. One of the things that we do is a church

Is we want people to talk to people? Is it good to talk? Is it good to sometimes not know how to start a conversation. Now, you go to. I don't know. You go to a cheese and wine party. You go to a business meeting, you were standing around and some people standing on the side of little bit cooler than other people are being really loud in the middle. And you're looking for a trick. You're looking for something to help us to stop something. That's the purpose of everything. That's on the table in the back leaflets. If you want to take them away, type them away, we give away some freebies and these are ready. Then don't say about giving things away for free. You get the wrong idea. If we just tried to give away for free, for example, we have a carrier bag and it says on it helping you to carry your load I'll try and see if you see some iffy. I want everybody in church to have one of these in the handbag. If you have good hand by Jensen in your pocket or in your briefcase. So that when you see somebody struggling down the road with a load of stuff, you say, hey like. Something that could help you and you take the bag out and you give it away. That was the first thing you would say, if somebody offered you a bag, Thank you. Yeah. And then you might go to sleep and then you might be read on the Outside Inside, running me Christian Fellowship.

You're having to work out a compensation that guy's they're asking you a question. Every single one of the things that we give advice says helping you to a should do a giveaway. A mug that says helping you to quench your thirst. We give a wire. A Magna. Father says helping you to have a clearer vision of simple. Things that people struggle with carrying things around. If you have a Workman, who comes to your house and maybe there's some gardening and you offer them a cup of tea.

That's the whole purpose of these things. It's not just to give stuff away to start a conversation on the card that we gave away yesterday to a number of people, thanks for the wolf. The number of people who came and helped us as we we we met on the High Street and reached out to the people was just having a conversation with people and I'm going to look through some of these things just like this. We step in to a new series for August, his story on my story. His story is about surviving Judaism. Inside the type of what I want to share to die. You could be summarized like this empowered by Grace, commissioned with power.

Is anybody you need a torch in the middle of the night and you guys do you know where it is? Cuz you put it in that place where you always remember to put your torch, you know, you've done that kind of thing happen to you in case of emergencies. You know what you reaching in the dark into the drawer, you get hold of your torch, the torch. You press the button and nothing happens. Now what you say you can't see it cuz you got to see you. Now you fumbling around in the dark and if there's no electricity cuz the like the power is going off. Maybe you need to find a candle in the dark and find some matches in the dark or find another torch. Why might the torch not work? Number one, you forgotten to put new batteries in the number to the battery supply. Just let me encourage you. If you got an emergency till it's just test it once in awhile. It's always a good thing that you're much, emergency, things are there for emergencies,

2 Corinthians 5:20 says this. We are there for Christ's ambassadors as though. God will making his appeal through us, we employ you on Christ behind be reconciled to God and I are ambassadors for something. You are ambassadors for your family. You represent your family, your ambassadors for the nation that you were born in your ambassadors, for the company that you work for, you might be ambassadors for the church, will an ambassador carries something. Ambassador is never empty handed.

I will die when they will have the empty handed for the have a message. I'm what I want to explode today is what might not message be. Cuz we're at commissioned as an ambassador's. The moment you were born again, you are not just saved, you were sent. It doesn't necessarily mean to another country, but maybe you've been sent to your work. Maybe you being sent to your post code, maybe you've been sent to your University. I want to ask the question. Are we missing out on Mission? Was sent into the world, which is a Place full of confusion. I don't know what you'll find does. But my find regularly bleeps and says terrible things happening. It's always bad news.

Good news, please Mister app. The world's going to trouble the phone won't spell struggles.

Now, the church was never meant to be a cruise ship. The church is meant to be a battleship.

We're not into sense into this world of confusion with just simple message. We sent me the message of reconciliation, we three Heavens diplomatic Authority. If you are a diplomat, if you are a representative of your Ambassador, you carry some Authority. And you can choose whether you want to use that one. That's a different matter. And I'm not going to go in the heavens representative to a postcard to Allwood, place to all University, to the Bulls room to off frames to our family to the High Street. It's not in the in the in the scriptures on screen, but I saw a 6 beside says this. Then I Heard a Voice from the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for it and I said, Here I am. Send me if we not going somewhere, we missing part of our mission. And we need to carry the power of the Gospel with us. Romans 1:16 says this, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. What is the power of God to Salvation for everyone, who believes for the Jew first? And also, for the Greek. So, For All Mankind,

the gospel is not a week Dusty.

Hopeless power. It's the power of God. When we speak it, we release More Than Just Words and information. We release transformations.

The gospel carries the fire of God's it breaks chains. When spoken with anointing, we don't need some have an excuse for it. We don't need to edit it. Let's just proclaim the word of God and let the spirit do the rest.

Romans 10 verse 17 says. So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Your salvation is simple. In some senses, Romans 10. Verse 9, if you declare with your mouth, If you declare with your mouth and believe in your heart that God. God has raised him from the dead. You will be saved. Might be not, maybe you will be safe. Salvation is not complicated. It's a confession. It's a belief. It's a gift. I'm record to deliver that gift to others. There's nothing better than presenting. A gift to something. You enjoy giving gifts the people and sometimes I'll have the privilege. Somebody says that you can, you give it to somebody else. I didn't have to buy it and I get the privilege of giving it when you got to anybody inside these for you. Some, some people feel, they deserve a gift and then when they accept the gift thing, before I even write to get a smile on that face, someone's giving me something.

Ephesians 2 verses 8 and 9 says this. What is by Grace? You have been saved through faith, not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of Works. Lest anyone should buy the gift of God.

The challenge is that because I'm talking about empowered by Grace, we got to realize. This gift is free. Sometimes when we gave these gifts away, we've done this on the Hydra literally being in the High Street, giving away gifts to start a conversation. And people say, can I give you some money? What we did lava come in my with Saint John's. We stood outside the station, giving away pastries and giving away vouchers for coffee. Some people said, where do I put the money said no, it's free. Now, do you know what was going on in that head? Sit in the Hawks What's the trick? What's the hay tonight? Yeah, they couldn't believe that we wanted to give something to them for free. And here's the interesting thing for quite a few people we gave pastries to then went to the next question. Why? That's a fantastic question. When you give a gift. Why are you giving me this gift? And you can go down the number Boutte because the Bible says because I love you. Do you want to go down that road? I'm because I'm being obedient because we we at the church still doing it. Because God loves you. Pick your choice. One of the things that we did yesterday as we prayed and Outreach yesterday, was I said, Is various different ways but number one talk to somebody number to us the Holy Spirit to help you in your conversation and see where you end up. If you end up talking about football and you felt that was the direction of Audi Spirit. Maybe that passion in the winter time, with the hands up in the air, you can connect to get back to the things that you'll passionate about.

It's free to us because it cost Christ. Everything. So the price has been paid, not by the church. But by the Son of God, the Son of God died on the cross for our sins and for all sickness, and for all salvation,

But he rose again. This is not a dead face that we have. It's a living faith and we receive him in all his fullness and All His glory. Keith Hazel, who is now with the Lord? He said they switch off. Both just explain salvation prophesy. It told people to that, right? Then to t.i. Sons and Daughters of the Living God Heather. What couple of conversations? I had yesterday, and I ended up in a place, I wasn't expecting in terms of physics. Are you in the conversation? And how, why am I ending up here? I'm ending up here because I'm connecting with the person in the spice that I feel comfortable in. We are empowered to impact. The world. Act 1 verse 8, you will receive power. When the Holy Spirit comes upon you is useless without batteries. That don't work. We as Christians without the Holy Spirit. Empty. We just empty vessels is another scripture to us about being like empty vessels plying. Goins. Do you know what we re sound? Well, we sounds good. We look good. People are drawn to you all the lights of the world. The country spirit is not just here to make us feel the war Russia in Goosebumps.

The holy spirit's here to make us dangerous to the darkness. We all the lights of the world. What's the greatest enemy of Darkness? Knights. Doesn't take much lights on told many stories before. Now, I've been caving when I was younger, and I sat in a dark cave and they told us to turn the lights out, we sign them in the darkness and then they said, okay, please cover your eyes. So we sat there for maybe 20 minutes in the dark and you could hear the dripping water and everything else, and they said, please cover your eyes.

And I covered my eyes but not properly cuz I'm in pain. I didn't listen to the instructor. And so, when I turn one light on, just one light in, isn't it was an I couldn't see anything for nydia for the 10 minutes. Where is everybody else? You'd covered that. I so then just great gradually open their fingers. Became accustomed to the light. But because I hadn't listened to the instructors, I have my fingers like this cuz I was interested, but he's got my eyes overreacted. And that's why I couldn't see anything for me. They were ready to go long before me, I said, you have to wait so y'all can I still can't see anything. You know, when you get that soup bar lights, it's the same with the good news. Sometimes we can dump everything on everybody and it's like selling sometimes, how do you eat an elephant one mouthful at a time?

As you go Proclaim this message, the Kingdom of Heaven is near heal. The sick. Raise that. That's what it says in the gospel of Matthew. We're not just meant to explain the kingdom women to demonstrated. I can say, I love you to hundreds of times, but if I'm, if I'm pushed you out of the way and bought you out of the way and my body language says something different Then I'm not demonstrating the gospel. If we love people, we need to show it to where are chosen, people, you'll know it's not a mistake that you're here. One pizza, two verse nine, but you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people that she may proclaim the Praises of him who called you out of Darkness Into His Marvelous Lights. The world's needs a priesthood of Believers, most people do the pulpit but people who will speak in the hospital people that was speaking to your office people who will speak in the factory cuz your dogs person in that place. You might look around for me, got me. Yeah, there's no one else you're the person in the room right now. Say what you want to say? Share it with passion and power and see will go, but it's not about personality. Some of us are quite some of us are loud. Not about personality. It's about like the entity. We don't need a plan. And here to make a difference, we have a privilege of broadcasting to the rest of the world and it's great to connect with Iris were joining with us from. I mean, I saw people from South Africa, from Norway, from spying, buenos dias Gloria a dios What's the limit of my Spanish, by the way? So, when should we do this? the time is now,

In Romans 13:11, the hours already come for you to wake up from your Slumber in 2, Timothy full to preach, the words be prepared in season and out of season, be prepared. Be ready, wasn't, whether you think it's required or not?

Forgive me, if you have me tell the story before now. But each has my attitude to preparing for Sunday's my dad, and my stepmom used to go to a 9 and I got to leave in the back of the eye very well. When I went to that church for in the white guy of refreshing, I drive up on the Saturday morning and I said, I won't get that for the stuff. I knew Stephen pretty well. He's a bit of a Joker from time to time and I walked into the end of the first session about 5 minutes before the coffee breaks. I was on time and I'm really glad we're about to take a break but I'm really glad Place made it because he's going to be taking the next session. No discussion about me doing anything it's old and Stevens just did I miss an email? What did I do? I didn't even go and check with him. I just went took 21. So I got a cup of coffee said hello to Dad Maureen and then went into a corner and just take out. You got to give me something. It's like I got some quick notes and some things on the Post-it note and then ready for the next session off of the coffee break, sat down. I said Steven said, I know I announced that they was going to be the next session but I was just joking.

What that told me was never go anywhere without something. It's a lesson that happened decades ago now but I never go anywhere. I was in medical school where we used to meet many years ago and I was sitting in the front row is a Special Assembly with older parents in now and I've been raising money for water right. And I was that just to say a prayer as part of the parents in hundreds of cases of Pat's room on the lady from water rights not going to be able to make it. Could you say something please? About both right now I know something about what's right side Research into my phone but I was ready because I'd already arrived, so I know if I need to share something my heart was ready, even though I had to do some research, so the time is now be ready in season and out of season, it's like Iris. Our, the Harvest is ripe. The work cuz if you don't. Wait, don't hesitate. Don't hold back. The gospel must be heard. The kingdom must be seen the church. We must arise. Now is the time for bold Lions, not silent science. Yeah, we can be a bystander in the Kingdom of God's but you know what? I believe you and I are sent people. We are anointed and appointed and armed with the power of God. He's not behind you, it's in you. The gospel story is not something you tell, it's a fire that you carry. So rise up ambassadors. Speed Shop, priests heal, the sick preach the word break, the chains and the Bible never never never be ashamed of the Gospel. But still the power of God unto salvation. So, I'm done. That's what these cards are all about. I've quoted Those. Cheese on that called, take it away, use it as you want. Put it in your pocket, put it in your briefcase, maybe pray over it. So, I want to pray about a couple of things.

Let's close our eyes.

I'm going to ask you whether your listing at home with your listening lights or weather in the room. Is 3 things. I want to pray for, I want to pray for boldness. I want to pray for a calling for ambassador's and I want to make an invitation for anyone who's no site. So let me stop with boldness, we know what we might be, too, but we just like that. Since stepping out to you, whether you're home with your listing like 2 or in the room, would you stand where you are if you just need a fresh download of boldness today, I pray for boldness to talk to your colleagues at work. Fresh Bowl to share with your family fresh boldness to be on the streets. Some of us are not on the streets because we all recite. But I would encourage you be filled again, with boldness. I feel like people are standing here to pray for you in a moment and baldness the fall upon you. I don't think you might be bored in some see in some places, in some seasons, in some locations, but not in others. So maybe you're just standing sign load. I need a boat next to get a share with my spouse with my children, with my boss. Maybe there's one particular area. What you're saying I need bonus? Well, I want to pray that the Lord will fill you with his spirit and that will bring both. The father, I pray for those who is standing on a cradle of Lord, God would you fill us up with your spirit with no fresh boldness and we take a step of Faith easily in Jesus name.

Sunglasses. Sitting on the sidelines, on the team. Win the football, team win the sidelines. We know I don't play the game in theory. But went on the pitch yet. How many car? See if you, if you eat, I sent there are a few people just need to sideload. I want to be an ambassador for you. I don't feel worthy of things. I've done that. I shouldn't have done well. It's time to go inside alone. I'm sorry, doesn't deny your availability as an ambassador. If you shouted at somebody, he pulled out in front of you. It does not know you were working at, maybe even this. I give her repentance sign to the post new. You now shall sing it. If you've been angry with someone, if you've hurt someone just like a few moments to apologize to redress, Don't allow it to take you off course off path from being an ambassador for the king.

I was literally just talking to Ruby who welcomed people in the doors at 9. She said,

Could invited to go to the Royal show. And I was there with some other people and I met a king.

Yeah, she was excited at the front door about meeting the king. We should be just as excited about meeting King Jesus and introducing other people to him. So if you want a fresh sense of cooling, if you want to step into being the Ambassador for Christ, would you stand those at home? Those listing? Lisa would you stand now?

So father, I pray the Lord to help us to be bats out, ambassadors for you.

Help us to step out in faith and into our calling in Jesus name. Oh man. I'm finally as we do, I read a couple of times confess with your mouth, that Jesus Christ is Lord, and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Maybe you sent it in your heart, I've heard what they doing. I don't know this Jesus Chaplet, they took him out, but I want to know you better. I want to know who I am in him. Would you just raise your hand? You just lift up your hand and let me know. I'm just put it up.

Thank you, Father. father, I pray for those who listing for those who have been nudged Lord, to watch you, Father, I pray that Lord you to whisper in the area speak more clearly to them and let them know more about that place in your kingdom family in Jesus name. Amen.