WEBVTT 00:00:05.773 --> 00:00:07.714 Christianity is radical. 00:00:07.714 --> 00:00:09.750 It is not an add-on to your life. 00:00:09.750 --> 00:00:11.432 It changes your entire life. 00:00:11.432 --> 00:00:13.607 It is a new pair of glasses 00:00:13.607 --> 00:00:15.719 where you see everything new. 00:00:15.719 --> 00:00:17.385 When I was saved, I went outside 00:00:17.385 --> 00:00:19.412 and I saw the trees and I saw the flowers 00:00:19.412 --> 00:00:20.875 and I broke down weeping, 00:00:20.875 --> 00:00:22.925 because for the first time I realized 00:00:22.925 --> 00:00:27.222 that those were creations from our God. 00:00:27.222 --> 00:00:34.268 How do I say this without being impolite? 00:00:34.268 --> 00:00:36.621 How many of you are playing church? 00:00:36.621 --> 00:00:38.755 You need to wake up. 00:00:38.755 --> 00:00:40.070 Before it's too late. 00:00:40.070 --> 00:00:44.527 And you need to be shaken awake. 00:00:44.527 --> 00:00:46.591 Many people are doing church. 00:00:46.591 --> 00:00:48.521 Many people think that their 00:00:48.521 --> 00:00:50.805 church attendance merits them something. 00:00:50.805 --> 00:00:52.223 Many people are just 00:00:52.223 --> 00:00:54.645 adding on this Sunday service begrudgingly 00:00:54.645 --> 00:00:56.377 for the sake of their reputation 00:00:56.377 --> 00:00:58.387 or because their parents say that they should, 00:00:58.387 --> 00:01:01.724 or because polite company says that they should. 00:01:01.724 --> 00:01:03.804 But many people in these churches, 00:01:03.804 --> 00:01:06.401 I have appealed for missionaries 00:01:06.401 --> 00:01:08.227 from many people that don't need 00:01:08.227 --> 00:01:10.036 to think about becoming missionaries. 00:01:10.036 --> 00:01:11.479 You need to think about 00:01:11.479 --> 00:01:13.296 repenting and believing. 00:01:13.296 --> 00:01:15.089 And when that happens, 00:01:15.089 --> 00:01:16.680 when the Lord grabs you, 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:18.539 He grabs you drastically. 00:01:18.539 --> 00:01:20.705 And I don't know any other salvation 00:01:20.705 --> 00:01:22.960 besides a radical salvation. 00:01:22.960 --> 00:01:24.984 So I was going this way, 00:01:24.984 --> 00:01:28.616 and the Lord made me go this way. 00:01:28.616 --> 00:01:33.621 When I was younger, I talked to a preacher 00:01:33.621 --> 00:01:36.516 and he said, "you just need to choose heaven or hell." 00:01:36.516 --> 00:01:37.787 And that's not it at all. 00:01:37.787 --> 00:01:41.679 What idiot would make the wrong choice then? 00:01:41.679 --> 00:01:44.904 You need to see that Christ is the most beautiful thing 00:01:44.904 --> 00:01:46.021 in the universe. 00:01:46.021 --> 00:01:47.779 You need to see the attractiveness, 00:01:47.779 --> 00:01:49.577 the beauty of Christ. 00:01:49.577 --> 00:01:51.173 In everything you do, 00:01:51.173 --> 00:01:57.127 you should try to make Christ glorious. 00:01:57.127 --> 00:02:00.723 And you should love Him closer than a brother. 00:02:00.723 --> 00:02:03.338 And when that happens... 00:02:03.338 --> 00:02:07.464 David Livingston, the missionary to Africa, 00:02:07.464 --> 00:02:10.813 he said if the commission of an earthly king 00:02:10.813 --> 00:02:12.688 is to be considered an honor, 00:02:12.688 --> 00:02:14.397 why would we consider the commission of 00:02:14.397 --> 00:02:17.882 our heavenly King to be considered a sacrifice? 00:02:17.882 --> 00:02:21.373 And so this, it sounds crazy, 00:02:21.373 --> 00:02:26.720 but my life is the logical outcome of the Christian faith. 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:30.611 So I'm not a wild-eyed zealot. 00:02:30.611 --> 00:02:32.602 I'm not a wild-eyed fanatic. 00:02:32.602 --> 00:02:35.434 I'm living logical Christianity. 00:02:35.434 --> 00:02:37.323 I'm not a second tier Christian. 00:02:37.323 --> 00:02:39.540 I am a very average person, 00:02:39.540 --> 00:02:42.143 but I serve an extraordinary God. 00:02:42.143 --> 00:02:45.511 And I'm living out just what the faith 00:02:45.511 --> 00:02:48.313 should logically have us do. 00:02:48.313 --> 00:02:51.227 In Acts 13, you had the church fasting and praying 00:02:51.227 --> 00:02:52.468 deliberately to send out people 00:02:52.468 --> 00:02:53.864 to the Gentiles. 00:02:53.864 --> 00:02:55.962 They sold their property and divided it among the church. 00:02:55.962 --> 00:02:57.969 How many of you have done that? 00:02:57.969 --> 00:03:00.433 The Moravians sent out 1 out of every 12 of their people. 00:03:00.433 --> 00:03:02.836 How many people are here? 00:03:02.836 --> 00:03:06.233 You owe me a few people. 00:03:06.233 --> 00:03:09.317 So, let's get zealous. 00:03:09.317 --> 00:03:13.005 Let's pray for a holy ambition. 00:03:13.005 --> 00:03:16.540 Let's pray that the Lord would make us 00:03:16.540 --> 00:03:21.421 wide-eyed zealots for His cause. 00:03:21.421 --> 00:03:26.139 Maybe I ought to end on that.