Difference Makers (His Presence)

Thank you, brother Ryan. Good morning, everyone. How are you doing today? Yes. Well, they was telling us. I mean, that's how we can't wait for Christmas and we are starting the season that is the Advent season, and yes, we can wait. We are excited about it and guess what? Well, Christmases have very important. The most important really important events for those Christians, when the Lord Jesus Christ was born. And of course, when he surrendered his life for us all and put, in that case, something that I just want to make sure that today we, we can see their ecig-city. What is this Christmas season? For those? What does that really mean? And what does this Christians? It is not just Christmas all about the trees and the lights in the bulbs and excitement that the present Photos of Christians. It is not even about the, a baby in the manger. 4K for justice Christian. See something that we need to consider that is God himself coming to are to our messy, dark, confuse world to save us. So he kind of mission when he sent his only son to Earth. So he can sell being Spirit, decided to send his son to Earth. For those have hope and be safe right to that. He's a most important. Think about Christian about Christmas and four losses, Christians. We know that there is something for those what each one of us. So the title for today, when I'm talkin is, you are our goal to make a difference? All right, so that means that we all it is not just Pastor, Dave, a brother, bro, it is all of us. Okay, we I'd be tickled to make a difference and I just wanted to to share with you about things that you have heard. You are very well aware about these things, but it's important in this season to refresh our minds about how everything happened and how the Lord has chosen people all over the history. Doobie difference-makers. Alright difference-makers. And today, he's also calling us to be a difference-maker. So the first one that I want to bring to our mind is married. OK. DC on girl, very humble in a small village, lost in anywhere. That. Okay. So she was just a young girl, beautiful and then Lord had her in her plans and you know, that Mary was already commissioned to. Be the mother of the Son of God and she was there, I mean being a little girl, your lady. Okay. And then the Lord called her and when she called her she could have said no way Over My Dead Body. I really don't want to do this. This is going to put myself in a really difficult position. I would be embarrassed, I will be put on shame perhaps, they are going even through Stone me because in the culture of those times, I mean, that was exactly what happened when they found that someone was pregnant without being married. But Mary decided to say, yes, to the Lord, the Lord called her. And Mary said, yes, here I am. So, let's go to our first verse of today. When Mary response to the Lord, and that's what she said. And Mary said, My soul. Glorifies the Lord.

In my spirit rejoices in God, my savior for he has been mindful of the humble estate of his servant. From now on all generations with gold, me blessed, for the mighty one has done great things for me. Holy is his name is what these young lady, all of the sudden became a revolutionary of love, because of her acceptance to the mission that the Lord has given to her by giving birth in her room to the Son of God. He allowed the whole world to be saved to have hope to be in life. So I was just like that. Perhaps a simple, not a simple thing, and not a simple task even we could call it like a mission impossible. According to the film. When the people says, if you To accept it. Okay, in this case, well, Mary was ready to accept it so she did and that was one of a big difference maker cuz she did it. Perhaps he may have said no weapon or would have done well perhaps he had someone else in mind, but the Lord knew her, he knew her how he knew who she was, he knew that she loved the Lord. So the Lord didn't make a mistake selecting Mary for this impossible task but she did and here we are 21st century. The same thing continues for us. All right, so that was the first one that I just wanted to to bring to your attention. Let's think about the shepherd's. So, these people that have been in the middle of the night out there in the cold of the night with a sheep, and they were taking care of them and then none of the children in Luke chapter 2 verse from a 220, it is price exactly what was happening. They were already there. They were happy to pick it up there, and they're cheap. And then all these huge, like these huge liking, the angel appeared in the angel, gave the shepherd's play music, telling them that the Lord Messiah had been born in that he was promised before. He had a ride in that, they needed to go and worship him, all right? So and it was not just one Angel. The Bible says, in your, in those verses 8 to 20, please if you can tonight, It says I'm not only that angel it was hundred. It was multitude more teachers of heavenly entities game. So I was just like thousands of angels being dead and all of them were shouting. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Holy is a man. So all sorts of things that they were doing to Worship in the shippers where I think that they were just as scared. Imagine being in the middle of the night and and something like this happened, I think that the first reaction was they were scared, but after they heard that it was something really good, it was a great news and they have brownies with this coming. The Messiah coming to are of course they said Hallelujah that was amazing things but let's read what the shepherd's did. As soon as the engine in all the arrest of the Angels left, let's go to Luke Chapter 2. Verse 17. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning, what had been to them about this child. So, the first reaction, after the Angels left, the shepherd said, okay? Let's go, let's try to find the boy. Let's see what happened. Let's see you. What the angel said is true, so, there they go or together. We the Sheep. They went to find the baby in. Manger, and they found him. After they have seen him the day, I could say that we are all night. I mean, we're experiencing what the angel had seen them. I told them then they immediately took a response because their go at that point in time was to spread the news. There was no Instagram. There was no one except there was no social media to post something with the baby. No way. There was nothing like that but they play a critical point because they weren't the first ones that have to spread the news and how they were going to spread the news, we're going to be lynched from Village to Village to spread the news that they had seen the Messiah. As the angel said, the same way that he had prophesized overs hundreds of years before. And they weren't there. So there we go. Another round of people that they were difference-makers because they could have said, ok, Google, baby. Yeah. It could be just what we are doing. Know they receive this to be the First Responders and go and share the news. All right, so that is kind of far the second round of a difference makers. All right. Let's go to the next one. Well, over the years. And when Jesus started his ministry about 30 years plus, when he started, well, he wanted to have the gang of disciples we can say and basically what he did was to start calling people, how many did he call do you know, How many disciples did he call? Come on 12 disciples, right? And he was over the village, calling him calling them, okay? One by one until he had this group of people, these disciples that he had in mind, I am going to make him make them like a real difference makers. Alright, I need them to do this again. Impossible task. I think Mary had perhaps the most difficult one of the beginning. But now what, what's going, what's even more critical because they have to do exactly what the Lord came to do to die for our sins. But making sure that after he left and would be resurrecting, the 12 disciples had the commission to continue with the job that he came to accomplish, okay? Because it was not going. There he needed someone that being test at testifying or what happened, or what he had done. Now they had to go and do exactly the same thing. I mean, performing Miracles sharing the good news Sharon about their experiences, Etc. So there we go. Let's just go to Matthew. 4:19 and the Lord with a simple phrase said, come follow me and I will send you out to fish for people. These guys wear fisherman. Okay, that's what they were doing. They had a boat that used to go to the sea, to the lake, just to fish, okay? To go fishing and well, they were cutting a fish but the Lord came in. Just with a simple word says, follow me. Follow me. Imagine the power of His presence of his words. For this guy's just one of the seven listening, follow me and they went to when we see him, okay? They didn't ask they didn't say, okay, what to do for our, how much are you going to pay for these? No, they just followed him because there was a mission for them. There was something that they needed to learn going with him through his ministry but they didn't know about it at that point in time. They just heard the phrase follow me and they did and we know what happened with these twelve men. Why perhaps it was so late 11:10 and another was added later when Jude Judas, did what he did but The whole world Western Forum because of The Obedience of these men because their willingness to share the gospel because of their willingness to travel to all that area in just a share and make more disciples. There was one commission that the lord gave them and it was go and preach the gospel to Every Nation. Baptizing them in the name of the father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, so they did okay. And again they didn't have a car, they didn't have planes, they didn't have anything. So, how did they do it? They were just walking from town to town from City to City, traveling, and doing all sorts of things and that's how they go. Spell started moving forward, over the years. Okay. Have you noticed something in these cases that I have shared with you? Enemies of the Lord. Read notice nobody. I can't the nobodies of the world because when he selected Mary Marius I said was, how young girl okay in a lost Village somewhere in that area? The shippers, very humble people, hard workers arrived, and then the disciples, they were fishermen. So the Lord really notices those people, he didn't go and selected, perhaps a king from a very powerful country. She didn't selected the most reach for the richest people of the world to do this commission, know the Lord selected those that, perhaps, no one noticed before that. They were not coming into that. They didn't have high-profile in any of the time no LinkedIn or anything like that, but they were simple people, they were home, but people, but what they had in common was a heart that love the Lord and a willingness to do what he want them to do. Do kitties eat challenge for you this morning, okay? Because now the same call comes to us, which one of us, all right? And perhaps, you might have been thinking, oh my Lord, but who am I? I have no skills. I have, I haven't been prepared to be either. Pastor Evangelista or anything like that, but the Lord 64 hearts that are willing to do the mission. All right? And we are here in this place for one reason, because we are seeking for the Lord, we are trying to be closer to him. We really want to make a difference. And that's exactly what the Lord wants us to do. So, let's go with our last verse of the day. That is in Matthew chapter 5 verse 14 to 16. And this is like the second part because there's another one but let's just focus on this one. You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill. Cannot be hidden. Neither do people like alarm and put a neither. Do people like the lamp and put it under the boat instead, they put it on in stand and it gives the lie to everyone in the house in the same way. Let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds and glorify your father in Heaven and that is exactly what the Lord is calling us to to do.

We placed are we placing a school? And we placing a job in an office? Are we placing a community, they building where we leave the community their chops, to where we going by and Buy store things. What is our mission field? Okay, and we don't need to be those evangelist that sometimes have to travel far away to bleach or do a campaign to take it. One of us have a small Mission field and we are there. As the Lord says, we are the light of the world. Open up verses before this one says that we are the salt of the earth. Those things that plays flavor to our food. While we aren't those people that plays for the flavor to the environment when we leave. Okay, that we bring the joy that we bring, hope that we bring help that we bring what other people living in darkness need. I mean, please to pay my encouragement to you is, please do not feel that you are nobody because perhaps someone has told you of who you are, what do you have? You are no one. But you know what? You are precious before the Lord, you are an amazing creation of his and he has given you all sorts of gifts and talents and a heart that loves the Lord. And that's only what we need, a man to do with these out, to accomplish this Mission and the What is a Bichon in 2025? Where we said, well, the Lord has already was born and died. Resurrected is in heaven. Yeah, but there is still much to be done because, you know, the prince of this world is working hard. Just bringing confusion in the world, bringing words bring in despair, bring anxiety, bring mental health issues.

So then why did these for us while we are here to transform to touch to give hope to those around. All right? And we are empowered to do that because no, we're not working on our own. The Holy Spirit. Dwells in us, the holy spirit is with us and he will speak for those. Even when you touch someone who is sick and you pray for them, it is not going to be on your hand. I mean, just laying on someone it is. The holy spirit is with you, who will be doing the job, and you need to believe that because if you have allowed the Holy Spirit to dwell in you, then you have the same power, the Lord said and even greater things than these. You will be able to do. If you believe any of you received the Lord. Sophie's Christmas, please consider meditate on these words. And I know all of these stories we have heard them before I meant, but it's just a refresher. How the Lord, the Almighty one creator of everything. Basically an invisible he himself is giving him a son coming to Earth to transform the Earth and our world. We can do the same in our small community, in our family, in our areas of Influence. But let me ask you something because I know that the offer, some of us we had been Christians for ages perhaps. I mean, in my case, more than thirty or forty years, I meant. Thank God. But for some of you, perhaps, you have very recently heard about the Lord Jesus, and you have an ETA that your journey and perhaps you have some dabs in terms of the Lord, am I doing the right thing? Am I just leaving apart things that I enjoy doing or that perhaps are not convenient to me to follow him? And I can tell you yes it is worth it because I like that has the Lord in. It is full of love and peace and hope. So I just want to ask you today. Do you need? The Lord to come into your world, your own world because perhaps your word is a bit messy. It's a bit dark has been in confusion because perhaps, there's no clarity about what the future holds and you still do.