0:00:09.631,0:00:12.617
He asked the pastors that [br]he's preaching to,

0:00:12.617,0:00:15.200
would you rather have

0:00:15.200,0:00:17.483
a hundred fireball radicals

0:00:17.483,0:00:20.880
in your church

0:00:20.880,0:00:23.398
than a hundred wooden Indians,

0:00:23.398,0:00:26.790
people that sit there...

0:00:26.790,0:00:31.592
I know what my answer [br]to that question would be.

0:00:31.592,0:00:33.866
I mean, if I thought right now about

0:00:33.866,0:00:37.909
what would I want a church to look like

0:00:37.909,0:00:39.669
that I was pastoring?

0:00:39.669,0:00:41.789
I have a picture in my [br]mind of what that is.

0:00:41.789,0:00:44.710
And I'll definitely tell you,[br]it's on the fireball radical end

0:00:44.710,0:00:46.692
rather than the wooden Indian end.

0:00:46.692,0:00:48.374
And I think to myself,

0:00:48.374,0:00:52.020
Ok, you've got Brother Kyle, [br]he's pastoring this church.

0:00:52.020,0:00:54.765
Gary, he's an elder here.

0:00:54.765,0:00:58.379
What their picture of the ideal church

0:00:58.379,0:01:00.169
is I'm certain going to be different

0:01:00.169,0:01:01.353
than what mine is

0:01:01.353,0:01:03.484
and what Gary's is [br]is different than Kyle's.

0:01:03.484,0:01:06.240
There won't be vast differences,

0:01:06.240,0:01:07.805
but maybe a little bit

0:01:07.805,0:01:09.654
based on our preferences,

0:01:09.654,0:01:14.918
our gifts, our desire, and vision.

0:01:14.918,0:01:18.158
And how do we get

0:01:18.158,0:01:20.123
to where we have that?

0:01:20.123,0:01:23.156
Our lives are up and down.

0:01:23.156,0:01:25.511
Brother Kyle's talking right now about

0:01:25.511,0:01:27.949
we're at a certain [br]chapter in our life

0:01:27.949,0:01:30.241
We're not only at a certain[br]chapter in our life,

0:01:30.241,0:01:32.807
we're at a chapter[br]in our church's lives.

0:01:32.807,0:01:34.782
And the churches are changing.

0:01:34.782,0:01:38.626
You know, I came here in '93.

0:01:38.626,0:01:40.680
Fifteen years ago.

0:01:40.680,0:01:44.199
Old building out there.

0:01:44.199,0:01:45.945
Who was still here then?

0:01:45.945,0:01:47.101
Lots of people,

0:01:47.101,0:01:48.586
that aren't here now.

0:01:48.586,0:01:49.675
It was different.

0:01:49.675,0:01:51.444
And lots of people are here now

0:01:51.444,0:01:53.680
that weren't here then.

0:01:53.680,0:01:55.090
It was a different climate.

0:01:55.090,0:01:57.500
Things were changing.

0:01:57.500,0:01:59.460
We've seen that in our own church.

0:01:59.460,0:02:01.245
It's been 7 1/2 years now.

0:02:01.245,0:02:03.738
And things are constantly changing.

0:02:03.738,0:02:04.848
Different people come

0:02:04.848,0:02:06.601
and with those people come gifts

0:02:06.601,0:02:09.314
and different degrees of intensity

0:02:09.314,0:02:11.070
and there's no doubt about it,

0:02:11.070,0:02:12.466
you lose some people.

0:02:12.466,0:02:14.058
And you lose some of that.

0:02:14.058,0:02:16.463
And we can have desires about

0:02:16.463,0:02:19.285
what we might want things to look like,

0:02:19.285,0:02:22.048
and yet if the Lord doesn't [br]put it together that way,

0:02:22.048,0:02:24.598
we could have all the [br]desires in the world.

0:02:24.598,0:02:27.139
We can ask God. We can[br]lay these prayers out there,

0:02:27.139,0:02:29.799
but ultimately, whatever the chemistry is,

0:02:29.799,0:02:31.728
whatever the makeup is,

0:02:31.728,0:02:34.476
we're so dependent on the Lord.

0:02:34.476,0:02:37.532
But I realize this,

0:02:37.532,0:02:42.460
if you come into the New Testament,

0:02:42.460,0:02:44.381
what you find so often

0:02:44.381,0:02:46.049
is that the New Testament writers,

0:02:46.049,0:02:48.511
especially I'm thinking [br]right now of Paul.

0:02:48.511,0:02:51.222
It's not so much when he wants something.

0:02:51.222,0:02:55.898
He wants to see God's people[br]in a certain shape,

0:02:55.898,0:02:56.954
a certain character.

0:02:56.954,0:02:59.287
Or he wants to see the churches[br]a certain way.

0:02:59.287,0:03:02.018
It's very interesting in the [br]New Testament.

0:03:02.018,0:03:04.257
It's not so much that

0:03:04.257,0:03:06.556
we're thrown the Ten [br]Commandments in our face.

0:03:06.556,0:03:09.370
Very often, you know what Paul would do

0:03:09.370,0:03:15.580
is I want to teach the [br]Corinthians about giving.

0:03:15.580,0:03:18.502
Very interesting.

0:03:18.502,0:03:21.613
He lays before them Christ.

0:03:21.613,0:03:23.859
Or you think about the Philippians.

0:03:23.859,0:03:27.038
I want to teach them about humility.

0:03:27.038,0:03:29.707
Where better can he go?

0:03:29.707,0:03:32.700
And he throws out Christ,

0:03:32.700,0:03:34.018
equal with God,

0:03:34.018,0:03:37.862
laid aside His glory,[br]came here to this earth,

0:03:37.862,0:03:40.352
took upon the form of a man.

0:03:40.352,0:03:43.481
And I really believe,

0:03:43.481,0:03:48.043
Brother Kyle says he [br]wanted me to come here,

0:03:48.043,0:03:51.954
and try, whatever he thought[br]he would get from me.

0:03:51.954,0:03:54.045
Obviously, he has something in mind

0:03:54.045,0:03:57.597
when I'm preaching.

0:03:57.597,0:04:00.448
But I've realized this,

0:04:00.448,0:04:03.558
I want the hundred firebrand

0:04:03.558,0:04:05.692
radicals in our church.

0:04:05.692,0:04:07.334
And I would suspect that Kyle

0:04:07.334,0:04:10.292
probably would have a preference[br]on that end as well.

0:04:10.292,0:04:11.504
And I thought about,

0:04:11.504,0:04:13.695
how do you get that?

0:04:13.695,0:04:16.058
Ok, well, if Paul's going [br]to take us to Christ

0:04:16.058,0:04:17.373
in these other things,

0:04:17.373,0:04:18.508
this is probably it.

0:04:18.508,0:04:21.469
If the Spirit of God - because[br]that's where we're dependent,

0:04:21.469,0:04:24.574
if the power of God does [br]not produce what we're looking for here,

0:04:24.574,0:04:27.336
we're just dead in the water, folks.

0:04:27.336,0:04:28.430
And I realize this,

0:04:28.430,0:04:31.693
God is very interested in [br]glorifying His Son.

0:04:31.693,0:04:33.118
In fact, that Spirit was put

0:04:33.118,0:04:34.984
into the church and into this world

0:04:34.984,0:04:36.168
to do just that thing:

0:04:36.168,0:04:37.525
to exalt Christ.

0:04:37.525,0:04:40.302
So if we can't go there[br]and produce something, folks,

0:04:40.302,0:04:42.009
then I don't know that I have

0:04:42.009,0:04:44.641
any hope of going anywhere else.

0:04:44.641,0:04:45.689
And so,

0:04:45.689,0:04:50.900
let's read together in Luke 19.

0:04:50.900,0:04:55.291
Luke 19:41-46

0:04:55.291,0:04:58.762
I am simply taking a snapshot

0:04:58.762,0:05:01.960
of the life of Christ.

0:05:01.960,0:05:04.175
Now realize, I could have gone

0:05:04.175,0:05:06.425
to many places,

0:05:06.425,0:05:08.378
but there's just something about

0:05:08.378,0:05:15.983
these verses that I find very interesting.

0:05:22.495,0:05:26.705
Luke 19:41

0:05:29.509,0:05:32.341
Got that brother?

0:05:32.341,0:05:37.302
I'll give you time to get there.

0:05:37.302,0:05:42.416
Luke 19:41

0:05:45.397,0:05:49.620
"And when He was come near,

0:05:49.620,0:05:51.490
He beheld the city."

0:05:51.490,0:05:55.554
Of course, this is speaking[br]of our Lord.

0:05:55.554,0:05:57.801
"...and wept over it.

0:05:57.801,0:06:02.070
Saying 'if thou hadst known,[br]even thou, at least in this thy day,

0:06:02.070,0:06:05.400
the things which belong[br]unto thy peace,

0:06:05.400,0:06:07.729
but now they are hid[br]from thine eyes,

0:06:07.729,0:06:10.437
for the day shall come upon[br]thee, that thine enemy shall

0:06:10.437,0:06:12.622
cast a trench about thee,[br]encompass thee round

0:06:12.622,0:06:14.834
and keep thee in on every side,

0:06:14.834,0:06:17.065
and shall lay thee even with the ground

0:06:17.065,0:06:18.501
and thy children within thee,

0:06:18.501,0:06:19.871
and they shall not leave

0:06:19.871,0:06:22.897
in thee one stone upon another,

0:06:22.897,0:06:24.998
because thou knewest not

0:06:24.998,0:06:27.694
the time of thy visitation.'

0:06:27.694,0:06:29.027
And He went into the temple,

0:06:29.027,0:06:32.297
and began to cast out them[br]that sold therein

0:06:32.297,0:06:33.402
and them that bought,

0:06:33.402,0:06:34.374
saying unto them,

0:06:34.374,0:06:37.924
'it is written, 'my house is the house[br]of prayer, but ye have made it

0:06:37.924,0:06:40.221
a den of thieves.'"

0:06:40.221,0:06:46.577
Now, I have entitled my sermon

0:06:46.577,0:06:52.707
"From Weeping to Whipping"

0:06:52.707,0:06:57.008
subtitled, "The Necessity of [br]Passion in Missions."

0:06:57.008,0:06:58.317
It's apparent to me,

0:06:58.317,0:07:00.903
as it probably is to you,

0:07:00.903,0:07:03.167
that the people who come [br]along in life

0:07:03.167,0:07:06.176
and turn the world upside down

0:07:06.176,0:07:10.651
are not the ones who are indifferent.

0:07:10.651,0:07:12.526
That's just true.

0:07:12.526,0:07:14.284
It's not the disinterest.

0:07:14.284,0:07:18.062
It's not the neutral,

0:07:18.062,0:07:20.002
cool-spirited individual

0:07:20.002,0:07:22.837
who usually makes a [br]difference in this world.

0:07:22.837,0:07:26.026
Rather, it tends to be the[br]passionate people.

0:07:26.026,0:07:27.564
When I talk about passion,

0:07:27.564,0:07:30.677
I mean that unusually [br]powerful emotion,

0:07:30.677,0:07:34.537
compulsion that drives some[br]to be and do,

0:07:34.537,0:07:35.980
what so many others,

0:07:35.980,0:07:40.990
they just sit on the [br]sidelines and they watch.

0:07:40.990,0:07:44.046
That's the idea.

0:07:44.046,0:07:47.059
It just seems to me,

0:07:47.059,0:07:49.652
that if you look at this world,

0:07:49.652,0:07:52.957
look at our history -[br]the history of mankind.

0:07:52.957,0:07:54.105
You look around.

0:07:54.105,0:07:56.095
Everything great; [br]everything worthwhile;

0:07:56.095,0:07:57.745
if things are significant,

0:07:57.745,0:07:59.244
if you see something out there

0:07:59.244,0:08:01.148
that's impactful, fulfilling,

0:08:01.148,0:08:03.010
it's typically the result of

0:08:03.010,0:08:07.421
somebody's undeniable and [br]unstoppable passion.

0:08:07.421,0:08:09.306
The endeavors that stand out

0:08:09.306,0:08:11.287
in human history are the result

0:08:11.287,0:08:13.567
of people with deep, consuming desire

0:08:13.567,0:08:15.719
to see something come to pass.

0:08:15.719,0:08:17.652
Brethren, you just look around.

0:08:17.652,0:08:18.697
You look at history.

0:08:18.697,0:08:21.586
You look at every major military endeavor.

0:08:21.586,0:08:26.549
You look at the major [br]scientific breakthroughs,

0:08:26.549,0:08:29.315
pioneering expanses into the unknown,

0:08:29.315,0:08:31.615
greatest ages, greatest turns in history,

0:08:31.615,0:08:33.705
they're marked typically by

0:08:33.705,0:08:37.673
certain valiant efforts of somebody

0:08:37.673,0:08:38.838
somewhere

0:08:38.838,0:08:40.479
some time

0:08:40.479,0:08:43.419
that had passion.

0:08:43.419,0:08:45.014
I mean really.

0:08:45.014,0:08:46.159
You know that's true.

0:08:46.159,0:08:50.436
The world is typically turned by[br]the fanatics.

0:08:50.436,0:08:53.567
It's always been turned [br]by the passionate people.

0:08:53.567,0:08:54.591
And you know what?

0:08:54.591,0:08:58.467
It's no less true for the [br]missionary endeavor.

0:08:58.467,0:09:00.932
Every major missionary advance,

0:09:00.932,0:09:03.859
every penetration in the [br]world's darkest holes.

0:09:03.859,0:09:06.278
Heard a little bit about[br]William Carey.

0:09:06.278,0:09:09.883
What do you think was pulsing[br]through that man's heart and veins

0:09:09.883,0:09:12.362
those days in his little shop there,

0:09:12.362,0:09:14.042
when he'd work on those shoes.

0:09:14.042,0:09:16.791
What was he doing all the time?

0:09:16.791,0:09:18.204
Maps.

0:09:18.204,0:09:21.137
His mind is off in other places.

0:09:21.137,0:09:24.635
He's contemplating the heathen.

0:09:24.635,0:09:26.556
It's the passionate people.

0:09:26.556,0:09:28.357
You've got Hudson Taylor.

0:09:28.357,0:09:29.628
What's the guy doing?

0:09:29.628,0:09:31.437
I mean before he goes to China.

0:09:31.437,0:09:33.836
The guy's sleeping on boards!

0:09:33.836,0:09:36.790
He's eating rice.

0:09:36.790,0:09:40.939
He's in some dismal shanty [br]shack part of town,

0:09:40.939,0:09:43.588
and he's ministering to people.

0:09:43.588,0:09:46.614
While his friends are doing what?

0:09:46.614,0:09:48.514
They're sleeping on the cushy beds.

0:09:48.514,0:09:52.680
They're eating roast beef [br]and pudding, right?

0:09:52.680,0:09:56.084
And you don't even know about his friends.

0:09:56.084,0:09:59.114
But you can sure read about him.

0:09:59.114,0:10:02.599
Folks, it's typically the [br]passionate people

0:10:02.599,0:10:07.037
who seem to exchange [br]the safety of inaction,

0:10:07.037,0:10:09.342
and there is safety in it, folks.

0:10:09.342,0:10:12.854
But they exchange that safety of inaction

0:10:12.854,0:10:16.097
for the hazards of God-inspired progress

0:10:16.097,0:10:17.654
out somewhere.

0:10:17.654,0:10:19.742
Whether it's into your neighborhoods

0:10:19.742,0:10:22.049
or out among the heathens somewhere.

0:10:22.049,0:10:24.714
That's just the way it is.

0:10:24.714,0:10:27.580
It's said that Robert Murray McCheyne,

0:10:27.580,0:10:30.131
wherever he stepped, Scotland shook.

0:10:30.131,0:10:32.152
Now I realize he wasn't a missionary,

0:10:32.152,0:10:34.296
but he definitely had [br]an evangelist's heart.

0:10:34.296,0:10:36.643
He made a nation shake.

0:10:36.643,0:10:38.940
What is it that makes nations shake?

0:10:38.940,0:10:40.770
You think it might be the fact

0:10:40.770,0:10:42.824
that when that man [br]stepped into the pulpit

0:10:42.824,0:10:44.619
he couldn't help but weep

0:10:44.619,0:10:47.241
and show sorrow and anguish for souls

0:10:47.241,0:10:49.778
just about every time?

0:10:49.778,0:10:51.524
Stick his head in the Bible

0:10:51.524,0:10:53.150
and just weep for the people.

0:10:53.150,0:10:54.915
There was passion, there was emotion.

0:10:54.915,0:10:57.662
You think that had anything...

0:10:57.662,0:11:00.494
Folks,

0:11:05.613,0:11:16.833
these are the things that[br]are going to move this world.

0:11:16.833,0:11:23.408
Jim Elliot - he said,

0:11:23.408,0:11:25.057
"the shouts in our churches

0:11:25.057,0:11:32.512
have been replaced by yawns."

0:11:32.512,0:11:35.687
Now you know what?

0:11:35.687,0:11:38.575
I know where we're at as a church

0:11:38.575,0:11:40.703
- the church I pastor -

0:11:40.703,0:11:44.259
I have some idea about where it's at.

0:11:44.259,0:11:46.565
I'm not exactly certain where [br]Community is.

0:11:46.565,0:11:51.136
I haven't been here for over seven years.

0:11:51.136,0:11:53.627
But is that the case?

0:11:53.627,0:11:57.497
Are there yawns now where[br]there used to be shouts?

0:11:57.497,0:12:00.194
I remember those days 15 years ago.

0:12:00.194,0:12:06.185
I heard plenty of shouting here.

0:12:09.102,0:12:10.729
Folks, it's always been that way.

0:12:10.729,0:12:15.279
Passion drives the evangelistic endeavor.

0:12:15.279,0:12:18.045
It's always been the burning heart

0:12:18.045,0:12:21.391
that presses forth with the new endeavor.

0:12:21.391,0:12:24.153
It's the burning heart that starts them.

0:12:24.153,0:12:31.068
It's the burning heart that sustains them.

0:12:31.068,0:12:33.812
And where that passion is quenched,

0:12:33.812,0:12:36.118
mark my words,

0:12:36.118,0:12:39.026
you cannot produce a single example to me

0:12:39.026,0:12:40.949
where passion is quenched,

0:12:40.949,0:12:43.047
where the missionary endeavor

0:12:43.047,0:12:45.814
will continue to live.

0:12:45.814,0:12:48.526
Oh, you can coldly carry on

0:12:48.526,0:12:51.237
some mechanical little deal

0:12:51.237,0:12:52.771
that you've got going.

0:12:52.771,0:12:54.555
You can coldly sign the check

0:12:54.555,0:12:56.418
and send it to somebody on the

0:12:56.418,0:12:57.810
other side of the world.

0:12:57.810,0:12:59.817
I'm not saying you can't do that

0:12:59.817,0:13:01.276
and there be no passion,

0:13:01.276,0:13:03.368
but you can't maintain this thing

0:13:03.368,0:13:05.613
in the way that God would

0:13:05.613,0:13:08.652
have you to do it, [br]unless there is passion.

0:13:08.652,0:13:11.082
To have the kind of impact on this world

0:13:11.082,0:13:13.602
to turn it upside down for Christ,

0:13:13.602,0:13:16.115
it requires the hot heart.

0:13:16.115,0:13:20.472
Not the cool mind.

0:13:20.472,0:13:23.361
So, brethren, the case I want to make

0:13:23.361,0:13:25.580
this morning, tomorrow,

0:13:25.580,0:13:27.106
this is really just going to be

0:13:27.106,0:13:28.785
one long message from right now

0:13:28.785,0:13:30.259
all the way through when

0:13:30.259,0:13:32.874
I say amen tomorrow

0:13:32.874,0:13:34.218
is this:

0:13:34.218,0:13:37.393
God-breathed passion sustains

0:13:37.393,0:13:38.913
the missionary endeavor.

0:13:38.913,0:13:40.345
There's no substitute for this

0:13:40.345,0:13:42.710
where passion for God for souls is weak,

0:13:42.710,0:13:45.131
zeal for missions will be weak.

0:13:45.131,0:13:46.770
And where that passion dies,

0:13:46.770,0:13:49.614
you can have all the learning,

0:13:49.614,0:13:51.252
and you can have all your books,

0:13:51.252,0:13:52.934
you can have all your Calvinism,

0:13:52.934,0:13:54.364
you can have all your money,

0:13:54.364,0:13:55.904
and programs, your theatrics,

0:13:55.904,0:13:58.006
all sorts of people, all the talk,

0:13:58.006,0:14:00.813
all the intentions, all the analyzing,

0:14:00.813,0:14:01.970
all of it,

0:14:01.970,0:14:04.198
will do little good.

0:14:04.198,0:14:07.279
God give us passionate people.

0:14:07.279,0:14:08.738
I would rather have 10

0:14:08.738,0:14:12.067
wild-eyed passionate savages

0:14:12.067,0:14:13.787
that you've got to corral

0:14:13.787,0:14:15.119
and guide and direct

0:14:15.119,0:14:16.665
and they scare you half the time

0:14:16.665,0:14:18.091
than a bunch of people,

0:14:18.091,0:14:19.529
a hundred people, two hundred,

0:14:19.529,0:14:20.320
five hundred

0:14:20.320,0:14:21.512
that they all sit there,

0:14:21.512,0:14:24.520
and you get all stirred up...

0:14:24.520,0:14:25.828
I can remember being in a

0:14:25.828,0:14:27.339
reformed Baptist church up in

0:14:27.339,0:14:28.145
Grand Rapids.

0:14:28.145,0:14:29.718
Now, that just gave that away

0:14:29.718,0:14:30.429
who that is,

0:14:30.429,0:14:32.747
but I remember something exciting

0:14:32.747,0:14:34.329
coming from the pulpit,

0:14:34.329,0:14:36.849
and one guy said,

0:14:36.849,0:14:39.381
"Mmmm."

0:14:39.381,0:14:41.470
I thought (scream), I want to

0:14:41.470,0:14:45.215
go back to Community.

0:14:47.726,0:14:49.466
Folks,

0:14:50.560,0:14:53.773
let our people be simple, let them be poor

0:14:53.773,0:14:57.008
let them be insignificant [br]in this world's estimation,

0:14:57.008,0:14:59.309
lowly, despised, foolish, weak,

0:14:59.309,0:15:01.007
but just let them burn with a

0:15:01.007,0:15:02.426
God-given fire.

0:15:02.426,0:15:04.002
One of the greatest hopes of the

0:15:04.002,0:15:05.287
missionary endeavor,

0:15:05.287,0:15:08.522
it's this, it's fire in the pulpit.

0:15:08.522,0:15:12.214
It's a blaze out there [br]in the pews, in the seats.

0:15:12.214,0:15:13.511
That's what's necessary.

0:15:13.511,0:15:15.767
I'll use the words of old Duncan Campbell.

0:15:15.767,0:15:16.770
He said this,

0:15:16.770,0:15:20.621
"We shall, at our best, appear to

0:15:20.621,0:15:27.510
a mad world as a crowd of common people

0:15:27.510,0:15:29.447
in a common market

0:15:29.447,0:15:32.525
babbling about common wares."

0:15:32.525,0:15:36.922
And that's if we have no passion.

0:15:36.922,0:15:39.638
I believe the best place, the first place,

0:15:39.638,0:15:42.429
we need to look to find this necessary

0:15:42.429,0:15:46.280
union of mission and passion

0:15:46.280,0:15:47.509
is in none other than

0:15:47.509,0:15:49.583
the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

0:15:49.583,0:15:50.940
That's where we need to go.

0:15:50.940,0:15:54.231
That's where I want us to go.

0:15:54.231,0:15:57.452
We think of Him in so many ways.

0:15:57.452,0:16:01.611
King. Lord. Judge.

0:16:01.611,0:16:03.108
We thought about last night.

0:16:03.108,0:16:04.620
All right and proper.

0:16:04.620,0:16:07.307
We're talking missions this morning.

0:16:07.307,0:16:08.861
And even here, we can't get away

0:16:08.861,0:16:11.346
from the fact that even [br]when it comes to missions,

0:16:11.346,0:16:13.656
He is the First and the Last.

0:16:13.656,0:16:15.680
He's the model.

0:16:15.680,0:16:19.172
Jesus is the classic missionary.

0:16:19.172,0:16:21.417
He is the prototype missionary.

0:16:21.417,0:16:23.139
In Him, we have the standard.

0:16:23.139,0:16:25.754
Maybe you don't typically [br]think that way about Him,

0:16:25.754,0:16:27.375
but think with me here.

0:16:27.375,0:16:29.148
The word: missionary.

0:16:29.148,0:16:31.800
It comes from a Latin word,

0:16:31.800,0:16:35.285
derived from a word that has the meaning

0:16:35.285,0:16:38.949
the act of sending.

0:16:38.949,0:16:42.271
That's exactly what a [br]missionary is, right?

0:16:42.271,0:16:44.814
It's one we send.

0:16:44.814,0:16:46.453
Someone sent forth to proclaim

0:16:46.453,0:16:47.795
the Gospel of Christ.

0:16:47.795,0:16:50.220
That's exactly what they [br]did in Acts 13 is it not?

0:16:50.220,0:16:51.615
The Spirit of God designated

0:16:51.615,0:16:52.968
Barnabus and Saul,

0:16:52.968,0:16:54.652
and it says there that the church

0:16:54.652,0:16:56.106
sent them forth.

0:16:56.106,0:16:57.818
They were sent out.

0:16:57.818,0:16:59.364
Now in the Greek language,

0:16:59.364,0:17:02.256
the equivalent word somewhat close to this

0:17:02.256,0:17:04.873
is apostolos from which [br]we get the word apostle.

0:17:04.873,0:17:07.339
Both missionary and apostle have the same

0:17:07.339,0:17:08.902
basic meaning.

0:17:08.902,0:17:10.701
They contain the idea of one that is

0:17:10.701,0:17:12.527
sent forth with a mission,

0:17:12.527,0:17:14.184
or a messenger that is sent forth

0:17:14.184,0:17:15.610
with a message.

0:17:15.610,0:17:18.872
Listen, Scripture tells us,

0:17:18.872,0:17:24.627
it actually gives Christ [br]this title of apostle.

0:17:24.627,0:17:26.879
In Hebrews 3:1

0:17:26.879,0:17:28.236
"Wherefore holy brethren,

0:17:28.236,0:17:29.971
partakers of the heavenly calling

0:17:29.971,0:17:33.401
consider the Apostle and High Priest

0:17:33.401,0:17:35.702
of our profession, Christ Jesus."

0:17:35.702,0:17:41.681
Christ Jesus is the Apostle.

0:17:41.681,0:17:43.221
Not just an apostle,

0:17:43.221,0:17:44.842
He is the Apostle.

0:17:44.842,0:17:45.998
He sets the standard.

0:17:45.998,0:17:48.478
He is the missionary of missionaries.

0:17:48.478,0:17:50.870
He is the messenger of God.

0:17:50.870,0:17:53.891
He is the Chief Sent One.

0:17:53.891,0:17:55.793
Now here's the thing,

0:17:55.793,0:17:58.083
this is not at all

0:17:58.083,0:18:02.105
a foreign concept in Scripture.

0:18:02.105,0:18:04.511
Have you ever noticed how often

0:18:04.511,0:18:07.025
Jesus said things like this?

0:18:07.025,0:18:08.479
John 5:36

0:18:08.479,0:18:13.575
"The Father hath sent Me."

0:18:13.575,0:18:14.518
Luke 4:18

0:18:14.518,0:18:17.695
"He hath sent Me to [br]heal the brokenhearted,

0:18:17.695,0:18:19.559
to preach deliverance to the captives."

0:18:19.559,0:18:20.884
John 4:34

0:18:20.884,0:18:23.800
"My food is to do the will

0:18:23.800,0:18:26.180
of Him that sent Me."

0:18:26.180,0:18:27.362
John 6:57

0:18:27.362,0:18:29.069
"The living Father hath sent Me."

0:18:29.069,0:18:30.099
And on we could go.

0:18:30.099,0:18:33.246
At least some 34 times,

0:18:33.246,0:18:36.019
just in the Gospel of John alone,

0:18:36.019,0:18:39.583
Jesus Christ states that He is sent

0:18:39.583,0:18:41.492
of the Father.

0:18:41.492,0:18:43.001
Every time He says that

0:18:43.001,0:18:45.855
He's affirming His missionary capacity.

0:18:45.855,0:18:49.782
He is the Sent One.

0:18:49.782,0:18:51.369
That's what a missionary is.

0:18:51.369,0:18:53.493
Christ is the definitive God-sanctioned

0:18:53.493,0:18:54.717
standard for missions.

0:18:54.717,0:18:57.233
And I want you to notice something,

0:18:57.233,0:18:59.206
it ought not to surprise us

0:18:59.206,0:19:02.252
that it's John

0:19:02.252,0:19:04.791
who all these times declares Him

0:19:04.791,0:19:06.325
as the Sent One,

0:19:06.325,0:19:08.564
more than any of the other Gospel writers.

0:19:08.564,0:19:09.483
Why?

0:19:09.483,0:19:11.311
Why ought that not to surprise us?

0:19:11.311,0:19:14.420
Because you know how [br]He starts his Gospel?

0:19:14.420,0:19:17.514
You've got this everlasting Word.

0:19:17.514,0:19:19.201
This Word who was with God,

0:19:19.201,0:19:20.677
and who was God,

0:19:20.677,0:19:22.136
and you get down to verse 14

0:19:22.136,0:19:24.057
and what does that Word do?

0:19:24.057,0:19:27.604
The Word became flesh

0:19:27.604,0:19:30.961
and dwelt among us.

0:19:30.961,0:19:32.401
Now what do we have here?

0:19:32.401,0:19:34.897
We have incarnation.

0:19:34.897,0:19:36.509
What do we mean by incarnation?

0:19:36.509,0:19:38.935
That's a fancy word that means

0:19:38.935,0:19:42.532
deity becomes humanity.

0:19:42.532,0:19:44.143
Or God becomes man.

0:19:44.143,0:19:46.629
In the beginning was the Word.

0:19:46.629,0:19:48.660
The Word. The expression of God.

0:19:48.660,0:19:50.171
The declaration of God.

0:19:50.171,0:19:51.838
There you have the second person

0:19:51.838,0:19:53.190
of the Godhead -

0:19:53.190,0:19:54.793
that is Jesus Christ.

0:19:54.793,0:19:57.608
The Word was with God.

0:19:57.608,0:19:59.862
And the Word was God.

0:19:59.862,0:20:01.252
He's speaking of Jesus.

0:20:01.252,0:20:04.393
Now verse 14 tells us this truth.

0:20:04.393,0:20:09.237
How did Jesus influence the world?

0:20:09.237,0:20:13.124
He didn't sit

0:20:13.124,0:20:17.084
up in glory

0:20:17.084,0:20:20.986
and send us an email.

0:20:20.986,0:20:22.930
The Lord didn't sit on the throne

0:20:22.930,0:20:26.103
up in heaven and loft tracts down to us

0:20:26.103,0:20:28.140
or holler down at us.

0:20:28.140,0:20:30.197
What did He do?

0:20:30.197,0:20:33.571
He came and He dwelt among us.

0:20:33.571,0:20:36.495
The Word became flesh.

0:20:36.495,0:20:38.442
Eternal deity that dwelt forever

0:20:38.442,0:20:40.830
in power and glory and beauty

0:20:40.830,0:20:42.640
of the same essence with the Father,

0:20:42.640,0:20:44.336
He gave up that glory.

0:20:44.336,0:20:47.146
In condescension, He came forth

0:20:47.146,0:20:48.630
on a mission.

0:20:48.630,0:20:51.645
And what was His mission?

0:20:51.645,0:20:53.546
Remember what He told Pilate?

0:20:53.546,0:20:55.499
For this purpose I was born

0:20:55.499,0:20:57.273
and for this purpose I have

0:20:57.273,0:20:58.423
come into the world.

0:20:58.423,0:21:01.166
And what was that purpose?

0:21:01.166,0:21:06.464
To bear witness to the truth.

0:21:06.464,0:21:09.532
The mission of the Christ:

0:21:09.532,0:21:11.799
bear witness to the truth.

0:21:11.799,0:21:13.169
Not just to bear witness to

0:21:13.169,0:21:15.368
one truth among many.

0:21:15.368,0:21:17.021
He's not saying there's one truth

0:21:17.021,0:21:18.500
for you and another for me.

0:21:18.500,0:21:20.181
Jesus Christ came into the world

0:21:20.181,0:21:21.761
to bear witness to the truth.

0:21:21.761,0:21:23.550
He was sent from heaven,

0:21:23.550,0:21:25.130
by His Father,

0:21:25.130,0:21:26.750
into this world,

0:21:26.750,0:21:28.579
as a messenger of truth.

0:21:28.579,0:21:32.483
Is that not exactly what [br]missions is all about?

0:21:32.483,0:21:33.659
He laid aside His glory.

0:21:33.659,0:21:35.042
Laid aside His high position.

0:21:35.042,0:21:37.091
Laid aside His comforts, His safety.

0:21:37.091,0:21:38.406
And the Bible says,

0:21:38.406,0:21:40.989
He descended into the lower parts

0:21:40.989,0:21:42.141
of the earth,

0:21:42.141,0:21:44.383
and He took upon Himself [br]the form of humanity.

0:21:44.383,0:21:46.919
He came, He dwelt in [br]the womb of the virgin.

0:21:46.919,0:21:49.937
The Eternal Word became flesh.

0:21:49.937,0:21:52.033
That is the reality of incarnation.

0:21:52.033,0:21:56.597
And that is the very fabric of missions.

0:21:56.597,0:21:58.354
And here's the thing,

0:21:58.354,0:22:02.139
passion characterized that incarnation.

0:22:02.139,0:22:03.768
The Word became flesh,

0:22:03.768,0:22:08.110
and what did He do?

0:22:08.110,0:22:11.768
He dwelt among us.

0:22:11.768,0:22:14.684
He did not dwell far away,

0:22:14.684,0:22:17.090
out there in a field,

0:22:17.090,0:22:19.080
up on a mountain top,

0:22:19.080,0:22:20.701
in a monastery.

0:22:20.701,0:22:23.927
He came and He dwelt among us.

0:22:23.927,0:22:25.760
Not like some stoic,

0:22:25.760,0:22:27.491
not all cool and detached.

0:22:27.491,0:22:29.895
He dwelt among us with His passions.

0:22:29.895,0:22:30.852
Look at the man.

0:22:30.852,0:22:32.177
The God-man.

0:22:32.177,0:22:33.624
He came from heaven.

0:22:33.624,0:22:34.942
Sent of His Father,

0:22:34.942,0:22:36.997
and what did He come into this world with?

0:22:36.997,0:22:39.279
He brought His tears here.

0:22:39.279,0:22:41.213
He brought His indignation here.

0:22:41.213,0:22:43.755
He brought His rejoicing [br]in the Spirit here.

0:22:43.755,0:22:45.442
He brought His sorrows here,

0:22:45.442,0:22:46.803
He brought His zeal here,

0:22:46.803,0:22:49.614
His compassion, His weeping, His anger,

0:22:49.614,0:22:50.544
His love.

0:22:50.544,0:22:51.879
He brought them here.

0:22:51.879,0:22:53.410
He came from God

0:22:53.410,0:22:55.214
with the bowels of love

0:22:55.214,0:22:56.761
and He got right next to men

0:22:56.761,0:22:58.460
in their sin

0:22:58.460,0:22:59.579
and in their need.

0:22:59.579,0:23:01.763
A passion burned in the heart of Jesus.

0:23:01.763,0:23:04.123
And by that passion, He was driven

0:23:04.123,0:23:06.648
to do His Father's will,

0:23:06.648,0:23:09.491
and to go hard after the souls of men.

0:23:09.491,0:23:11.013
To call sinners to repentance.

0:23:11.013,0:23:13.359
And to go all the way to the cross.

0:23:13.359,0:23:16.482
This passion drove Him right to where

0:23:16.482,0:23:18.643
sinners are - in their dark holes,

0:23:18.643,0:23:20.154
in their back streets,

0:23:20.154,0:23:22.808
in the depths of where men dwell

0:23:22.808,0:23:23.763
in their sin,

0:23:23.763,0:23:25.873
and in their wickedness [br]and their need

0:23:25.873,0:23:27.215
and their depravity.

0:23:27.215,0:23:30.707
He wasn't so cold and so passionless

0:23:30.707,0:23:32.419
that He wasn't willing to condescend

0:23:32.419,0:23:34.806
and dwell with the lowliest, neediest

0:23:34.806,0:23:36.928
dirtiest, sinful creatures.

0:23:36.928,0:23:40.795
He came on a mission to dwell among us.

0:23:40.795,0:23:44.465
So forever stamp that into your minds.

0:23:44.465,0:23:47.553
The reality of Christ as the great

0:23:47.553,0:23:51.483
prototype missionary.

0:23:51.483,0:23:55.555
Now, let's look at our text.

0:23:55.555,0:23:57.563
Finally, Luke 19.

0:23:57.563,0:24:00.260
Now look, the reason that [br]I spent so much time

0:24:00.260,0:24:01.875
looking at Jesus as a missionary

0:24:01.875,0:24:03.384
is because what I want you to

0:24:03.384,0:24:05.816
constantly have in your minds

0:24:05.816,0:24:07.715
is that everywhere in the Gospels,

0:24:07.715,0:24:10.410
including right here in Luke 19,

0:24:10.410,0:24:14.709
Jesus is living, He's functioning,

0:24:14.709,0:24:18.245
He's breathing, He's going [br]about His business,

0:24:18.245,0:24:22.705
in the mission field - His mission field.

0:24:22.705,0:24:24.516
Everywhere we find Him in the pages

0:24:24.516,0:24:25.820
of these four Gospels,

0:24:25.820,0:24:29.310
He is the Apostle sent from Heaven

0:24:29.310,0:24:31.263
to earth by the living Father.

0:24:31.263,0:24:33.293
I want you to see Him as that.

0:24:33.293,0:24:35.359
One who came from outside this world,

0:24:35.359,0:24:37.953
One who laid aside His [br]comforts and His glory

0:24:37.953,0:24:39.296
to dwell among us.

0:24:39.296,0:24:40.924
Not far from us, among us.

0:24:40.924,0:24:43.657
And we look here in Luke 19,

0:24:43.657,0:24:46.528
I want you to feel this reality.

0:24:46.528,0:24:48.507
As you experience the yearning, burning,

0:24:48.507,0:24:50.070
passionate heart of Christ,

0:24:50.070,0:24:52.709
see all that right there

0:24:52.709,0:24:55.330
in the missionary context.

0:24:55.330,0:24:58.155
Now, like I said before,

0:24:58.155,0:25:00.718
I could have taken you to any number

0:25:00.718,0:25:02.858
of texts that show you the sort

0:25:02.858,0:25:05.591
of fire that burned in the[br]missionary heart of Christ,

0:25:05.591,0:25:08.100
but I find Luke 19 especially compelling.

0:25:08.100,0:25:09.410
And I want to show you why,

0:25:09.410,0:25:12.277
by having you notice three things here.

0:25:12.277,0:25:14.144
First.

0:25:14.144,0:25:23.343
Christ's passion agreed with His mission.

0:25:23.343,0:25:25.924
In other words, you can actually see

0:25:25.924,0:25:31.115
a distinct connection between what Christ

0:25:31.115,0:25:37.166
got excited about and why He was there.

0:25:37.166,0:25:39.006
Now let me explain what I mean.

0:25:39.006,0:25:41.739
The very term "mission" implies

0:25:41.739,0:25:43.741
there's a task to carry out.

0:25:43.741,0:25:44.976
There's a goal.

0:25:44.976,0:25:46.440
There's some aim at hand.

0:25:46.440,0:25:47.780
What might that aim for the

0:25:47.780,0:25:49.680
Son of God be in [br]coming into the world?

0:25:49.680,0:25:52.457
Well, we looked. He came to [br]bear witness of the truth.

0:25:52.457,0:25:57.719
He told us in some other places,[br]maybe more reasons

0:25:57.719,0:26:00.527
or a fuller picture on why He

0:26:00.527,0:26:02.127
came into this world.

0:26:02.127,0:26:04.056
Can you guys think of a text right off?

0:26:04.056,0:26:06.150
He came into this world to?

0:26:06.150,0:26:08.974
Save sinners.

0:26:08.974,0:26:13.976
That's clearly very focal [br]in the mission of Christ.

0:26:13.976,0:26:17.128
Christ Jesus came into the world

0:26:17.128,0:26:18.011
to save sinners.

0:26:18.011,0:26:20.635
1 Timothy 1:15

0:26:20.635,0:26:22.199
Here's the thing,

0:26:22.199,0:26:25.454
I find that when I look [br]there at Luke 19:41,

0:26:25.454,0:26:27.179
we would all have to admit

0:26:27.179,0:26:31.175
that the very nature of Christ's passion

0:26:31.175,0:26:34.035
is absolutely consistent with His mission.

0:26:34.035,0:26:36.181
It was for the souls of men that He wept

0:26:36.181,0:26:38.342
as He looked over Jerusalem.

0:26:38.342,0:26:41.291
Christ's mission is to save sinners.

0:26:41.291,0:26:42.269
Now look,

0:26:42.269,0:26:45.620
His passion is towards sinners.

0:26:45.620,0:26:49.005
His mission is to save sinners.

0:26:49.005,0:26:51.943
You see a consistency there?

0:26:51.943,0:26:53.892
You see they're in harmony.

0:26:53.892,0:26:58.167
His mission: rescue the souls of men.

0:26:58.167,0:27:00.926
His bowels of compassion likewise

0:27:00.926,0:27:03.612
yearned and burned for men.

0:27:03.612,0:27:04.724
But there's more.

0:27:04.724,0:27:10.410
In John 7:18, Jesus describes [br]Himself like this.

0:27:10.410,0:27:11.606
John 7:18

0:27:11.606,0:27:15.692
He describes Himself as the One who seeks

0:27:15.692,0:27:20.336
the glory of Him who sent Him.

0:27:20.336,0:27:23.659
The Father sent the Son.

0:27:23.659,0:27:25.374
And in being sent into this world,

0:27:25.374,0:27:27.367
one of the aims of the One being sent

0:27:27.367,0:27:28.999
is to seek the glory of the One

0:27:28.999,0:27:30.559
doing the sending.

0:27:30.559,0:27:32.733
The Son was sent and came

0:27:32.733,0:27:34.960
in order to seek the glory of the Father.

0:27:34.960,0:27:36.648
And again, if we look right here

0:27:36.648,0:27:38.655
at this portion that we read:

0:27:38.655,0:27:40.918
Luke 19:45-46

0:27:40.918,0:27:43.962
We find Christ full of holy zeal,

0:27:43.962,0:27:46.998
for what?

0:27:46.998,0:27:49.334
Nothing other than His [br]Father's glory and honor.

0:27:49.334,0:27:51.898
His mission, He says,

0:27:51.898,0:27:53.529
was to come in to glorify the One

0:27:53.529,0:27:54.513
who sent Him.

0:27:54.513,0:27:57.421
And what do you find Him [br]doing right there?

0:27:57.421,0:27:58.680
His mission?

0:27:58.680,0:28:00.055
Glorify His Father.

0:28:00.055,0:28:02.091
His zeal, His passion,

0:28:02.091,0:28:03.918
was for the glory of His Father.

0:28:03.918,0:28:05.143
Now look,

0:28:05.143,0:28:06.759
you might be saying,

0:28:06.759,0:28:09.515
ok we see that.

0:28:09.515,0:28:13.745
Folks, don't miss the simplicity of this.

0:28:13.745,0:28:16.578
His passion agreed with His mission.

0:28:16.578,0:28:21.473
It is any wonder that we can't sustain

0:28:21.473,0:28:23.191
high energy, high fervency exertions

0:28:23.191,0:28:25.616
for some radical missionary advance

0:28:25.616,0:28:27.441
into the kingdom of darkness

0:28:27.441,0:28:30.409
when our people's passions are not

0:28:30.409,0:28:34.105
consistent with our mission?

0:28:34.105,0:28:36.642
Folks, when your passion is for

0:28:36.642,0:28:39.722
the way your house looks,

0:28:39.722,0:28:40.814
is it any surprising,

0:28:40.814,0:28:42.617
that the church isn't sending forth

0:28:42.617,0:28:45.143
more missionaries?

0:28:45.143,0:28:50.474
When your passion is for the flowers,

0:28:50.474,0:28:52.442
your passion is for the car,

0:28:52.442,0:28:55.107
your passion is for [br]the workshop, or your job,

0:28:55.107,0:29:01.151
your passion is for your money;

0:29:01.151,0:29:05.854
Do you really think that where we

0:29:05.854,0:29:08.486
have people whose passions are not

0:29:08.486,0:29:10.774
in the direction of the souls of men

0:29:10.774,0:29:12.406
and the glory of God that we're

0:29:12.406,0:29:15.884
going to produce any [br]type of missionary thrust

0:29:15.884,0:29:19.762
advance whatsoever?

0:29:19.762,0:29:21.898
Folks,

0:29:21.898,0:29:22.684
you know what?

0:29:22.684,0:29:24.885
We can look around at a lot of churches.

0:29:24.885,0:29:26.358
And I've found people,

0:29:26.358,0:29:31.270
they are passionate for Calvinism.

0:29:31.270,0:29:32.563
But they could give a flip

0:29:32.563,0:29:34.284
whether the guy down the street

0:29:34.284,0:29:37.906
is damned and going to hell.

0:29:37.906,0:29:39.438
You've got people passionate

0:29:39.438,0:29:41.519
for whether everybody's on time or not.

0:29:41.519,0:29:44.057
Now I like that myself,

0:29:44.057,0:29:46.298
but we have passion for Puritans,

0:29:46.298,0:29:49.306
we have passion for this thing over here,

0:29:49.306,0:29:52.581
passion for that thing...

0:29:52.581,0:29:56.531
Folks, you get a passion for

0:29:56.531,0:29:59.580
the three point expository sermon,

0:29:59.580,0:30:01.985
passion for the regulative principle,

0:30:01.985,0:30:04.958
passion for this and that...

0:30:04.958,0:30:07.105
Everything be done orderly,

0:30:07.105,0:30:09.923
and I'm not against all [br]those types of things,

0:30:09.923,0:30:17.095
but these same people won't shed a tear.

0:30:17.095,0:30:19.380
I'd rather have a guy that can't

0:30:19.380,0:30:22.043
come to church ever on time,

0:30:22.043,0:30:24.265
but when you have prayer meeting,

0:30:24.265,0:30:26.620
that guy is just doubled over,

0:30:26.620,0:30:28.676
shedding tears.

0:30:28.676,0:30:31.159
I personally would rather he come on time

0:30:31.159,0:30:34.912
and bend over and shed tears,

0:30:34.912,0:30:36.027
but you know what,

0:30:36.027,0:30:37.495
if it's one or the other,

0:30:37.495,0:30:40.075
I'll tell you what I'll take.

0:30:40.075,0:30:43.203
We have to ask ourselves that.

0:30:43.203,0:30:45.324
Here's Christ.

0:30:45.324,0:30:46.913
He had a mission.

0:30:46.913,0:30:49.058
And He was passionate about

0:30:49.058,0:30:53.203
the aspects of that mission

0:30:53.203,0:30:58.662
He came to fulfill.

0:30:58.662,0:31:01.303
I assure you, folks.

0:31:01.303,0:31:06.645
We will not see the type of sacrificial

0:31:06.645,0:31:11.975
giving of time and money;

0:31:11.975,0:31:14.403
We will not see the fervent

0:31:14.403,0:31:17.112
prayers and fasting;

0:31:17.112,0:31:19.019
We will not see people ready

0:31:19.019,0:31:21.189
to lay down their lives

0:31:21.189,0:31:26.485
and do some daring endeavors out of love,

0:31:26.485,0:31:32.474
out of a desire for the passion of God,

0:31:32.474,0:31:33.987
if we're all hung up about

0:31:33.987,0:31:36.056
the Spurs or the Cowboys;

0:31:36.056,0:31:38.604
if our passion in life is about guns

0:31:38.604,0:31:39.918
or about the welder,

0:31:39.918,0:31:44.645
or about the new tires for the car,

0:31:44.645,0:31:47.760
or this toy and that toy.

0:31:47.760,0:31:49.054
Who was it that said?

0:31:49.054,0:31:51.166
And I don't think I'll [br]even quote it right,

0:31:51.166,0:31:53.946
but Tozer, he was talking about

0:31:53.946,0:31:57.075
man's susceptibility to idolatry.

0:31:57.075,0:32:01.078
We have this deep-seated tendency

0:32:01.078,0:32:03.864
to be pulled aside by every idol

0:32:03.864,0:32:05.340
that comes along.

0:32:05.340,0:32:07.374
It seems like even as Christians,

0:32:07.374,0:32:09.356
there's always one we're fighting.

0:32:09.356,0:32:11.432
It's always something trying to creep

0:32:11.432,0:32:14.305
back in - one or two or five things.

0:32:14.305,0:32:16.179
Folks, you let your passions run

0:32:16.179,0:32:17.386
off on those things;

0:32:17.386,0:32:20.127
the church will die [br]when it comes to missions.

0:32:20.127,0:32:22.093
You just start giving your passions,

0:32:22.093,0:32:25.594
you start giving your heart to all sorts

0:32:25.594,0:32:26.595
of other things;

0:32:26.595,0:32:28.893
this will never be sustained.

0:32:28.893,0:32:30.286
Amy Carmichael said,

0:32:30.286,0:32:33.134
"Oh, for a passionate passion for souls!

0:32:33.134,0:32:35.980
Oh, for a pity that yearns!

0:32:35.980,0:32:40.146
Oh, for the love that loves unto death!

0:32:40.146,0:32:42.158
Oh, for the fire that burns!

0:32:42.158,0:32:44.772
Oh, for the pure prayer [br]power that prevails,

0:32:44.772,0:32:47.355
that pours itself out for the lost,

0:32:47.355,0:32:51.155
victorious prayer in the conqueror's name.

0:32:51.155,0:32:54.030
Oh, for a Pentecost!"

0:32:54.030,0:32:55.999
The second thing I want you to notice:

0:32:55.999,0:32:59.910
The intensity of Christ's passions.

0:32:59.910,0:33:01.689
You think with me real quick here.

0:33:01.689,0:33:04.275
You know what?

0:33:04.275,0:33:06.475
You've got to picture Him.

0:33:06.475,0:33:08.197
This is what we often [br]times look at

0:33:08.197,0:33:09.749
with the triumphal entry.

0:33:09.749,0:33:12.464
He's coming.

0:33:12.464,0:33:14.159
He's on the back of this colt,

0:33:14.159,0:33:15.238
and He looks out,

0:33:15.238,0:33:16.914
and I guarantee you, folks,

0:33:16.914,0:33:20.022
that when it says He's [br]seeing Jerusalem there,

0:33:20.022,0:33:22.156
He's not looking at buildings.

0:33:22.156,0:33:24.667
He sees people in those streets.

0:33:24.667,0:33:27.196
There are men, there are [br]women, there are children.

0:33:27.196,0:33:29.112
They are out about their business

0:33:29.112,0:33:30.578
in the marketplaces,

0:33:30.578,0:33:32.019
and He looks down there.

0:33:32.019,0:33:35.373
Let me tell you something,

0:33:35.373,0:33:37.697
It says He wept.

0:33:37.697,0:33:39.112
I'm talking to you right now

0:33:39.112,0:33:40.830
about the intensity of His passions.

0:33:40.830,0:33:42.608
That is not the same word for weep

0:33:42.608,0:33:44.951
that you find over in Luke 11

0:33:44.951,0:33:47.664
when He wept at Lazarus's tomb.

0:33:47.664,0:33:49.029
When He wept there,

0:33:49.029,0:33:50.764
that term has to do with the fact

0:33:50.764,0:33:52.306
that He shed tears.

0:33:52.306,0:33:53.951
This one here has to do with the fact

0:33:53.951,0:33:55.591
that He wailed.

0:33:55.591,0:33:57.942
He lamented.

0:33:57.942,0:33:59.422
If you ever read these words

0:33:59.422,0:34:00.784
that He's speaking here

0:34:00.784,0:34:02.781
as though He spoke them like some stoic,

0:34:02.781,0:34:04.342
you are wrong.

0:34:04.342,0:34:06.203
He is wailing.

0:34:06.203,0:34:09.159
He is filled with affections and passions

0:34:09.159,0:34:10.691
for the souls of men

0:34:10.691,0:34:15.269
that literally rent Him.

0:34:15.269,0:34:19.441
It tore at Him.

0:34:19.441,0:34:21.786
Audible weeping is the emphasis.

0:34:21.786,0:34:24.225
The most intense pity and sympathy

0:34:24.225,0:34:25.649
and love and kindness

0:34:25.649,0:34:28.121
compassion and sorrow are flowing together

0:34:28.121,0:34:30.290
in this eruption of holy emotion.

0:34:30.290,0:34:33.431
And the amazing thing about this is

0:34:33.431,0:34:37.310
that in the matter of one verse,

0:34:37.310,0:34:39.413
all of a sudden, Luke just

0:34:39.413,0:34:41.452
whisks us away from that

0:34:41.452,0:34:44.019
and puts us in the temple now.

0:34:44.019,0:34:45.942
And what do you see there?

0:34:45.942,0:34:48.459
I called this "From Weeping to Whipping."

0:34:48.459,0:34:50.439
Now I hope you'll grant me that liberty.

0:34:50.439,0:34:52.193
I realize that doesn't specifically

0:34:52.193,0:34:53.191
say whipping here.

0:34:53.191,0:34:54.797
It does over in John 2.

0:34:54.797,0:34:56.831
And I realize that's [br]a separate account,

0:34:56.831,0:34:59.347
but I imagine that Him [br]taking those cords,

0:34:59.347,0:35:01.836
making them into a whip,[br]driving them out of there,

0:35:01.836,0:35:03.548
was effective enough the first time;

0:35:03.548,0:35:06.566
He probably did it the [br]same way the second time.

0:35:06.566,0:35:07.803
But I tell you this,

0:35:07.803,0:35:09.684
when I was lost,

0:35:09.684,0:35:11.586
my friends and I did a lot of gambling.

0:35:11.586,0:35:13.653
And I can remember [br]sometimes sitting around

0:35:13.653,0:35:15.546
the poker table,

0:35:15.546,0:35:18.374
and there'd be 10 guys, 12 guys, 15 guys

0:35:18.374,0:35:21.964
and an enormous amount [br]of cash on that table.

0:35:21.964,0:35:23.437
And I can tell you this,

0:35:23.437,0:35:25.077
if some guy would have walked in

0:35:25.077,0:35:27.659
off the street and flipped that table,

0:35:27.659,0:35:29.652
we would have attacked him first,

0:35:29.652,0:35:31.539
and then we would have been scrambling

0:35:31.539,0:35:34.427
like mad to get our money off the floor.

0:35:34.427,0:35:35.692
And I'll tell you what,

0:35:35.692,0:35:37.491
for Christ to walk into that temple

0:35:37.491,0:35:38.862
and do what He did

0:35:38.862,0:35:40.610
and send those guys running,

0:35:40.610,0:35:41.658
I'll tell you this,

0:35:41.658,0:35:43.301
whatever He had in His hand

0:35:43.301,0:35:44.618
or didn't have in His hand,

0:35:44.618,0:35:47.100
whatever they saw in His face[br]and in His expressions,

0:35:47.100,0:35:48.527
it put the fear of God in them

0:35:48.527,0:35:49.885
and they got out of there!

0:35:49.885,0:35:51.718
He had passion.

0:35:51.718,0:35:54.534
It was strong.

0:35:54.534,0:35:58.259
He had the zeal as it says in John 2.

0:35:58.259,0:36:03.978
The zeal of God's house had eaten Him up.

0:36:03.978,0:36:06.716
Look folks, the Lord walked around

0:36:06.716,0:36:10.034
this earth with fire burning in His heart.

0:36:10.034,0:36:11.184
He had a fire there.

0:36:11.184,0:36:14.765
It burned, it raged [br]for the glory of His father.

0:36:14.765,0:36:16.347
For the souls of men,

0:36:16.347,0:36:17.537
there was intensity,

0:36:17.537,0:36:18.685
there was fervency,

0:36:18.685,0:36:21.837
it was always there.

0:36:21.837,0:36:23.559
But you know what?

0:36:23.559,0:36:25.810
Many folks don't like people like that

0:36:25.810,0:36:28.193
in their churches.

0:36:28.193,0:36:29.741
Why?

0:36:29.741,0:36:31.736
It makes them feel uncomfortable.

0:36:31.736,0:36:34.549
People like that, they're dangerous.[br]They're unpredictable.

0:36:34.549,0:36:35.682
They're unconventional.

0:36:35.682,0:36:37.867
They don't follow proper etiquette.

0:36:37.867,0:36:40.564
We need everything right and ordered.

0:36:40.564,0:36:43.013
We've got to have that [br]regulative principle in order.

0:36:43.013,0:36:45.066
You know, people like that, [br]they just shout at

0:36:45.066,0:36:46.240
times they ought not to,

0:36:46.240,0:36:48.615
or they do things strange, bizarre,

0:36:48.615,0:36:49.692
make us uncomfortable.

0:36:49.692,0:36:51.663
Not politically correct.

0:36:51.663,0:36:53.632
I mean, how many of us,

0:36:53.632,0:36:55.398
we have to sit and analyze...

0:36:55.398,0:36:57.214
now if we do this, and we go after

0:36:57.214,0:37:00.079
those guys there in the temple,

0:37:00.079,0:37:03.578
there's likely to be these consequences,

0:37:03.578,0:37:05.107
we might get put on a cross,

0:37:05.107,0:37:06.208
they might kill us,

0:37:06.208,0:37:08.446
we better not do that.

0:37:08.446,0:37:10.610
But folks, I guarantee you this.

0:37:10.610,0:37:14.908
It's these types

0:37:19.521,0:37:22.690
it's these types that it's so amazing

0:37:22.690,0:37:29.254
how often they can find Christians

0:37:29.254,0:37:34.897
who are the perfect cold, wet blanket

0:37:34.897,0:37:37.733
for their fiery heart.

0:37:37.733,0:37:40.505
How often it's the Christians.

0:37:40.505,0:37:42.197
It's not the lost pagan guy

0:37:42.197,0:37:43.777
down the street.

0:37:43.777,0:37:46.432
It's the Christians who when you find

0:37:46.432,0:37:47.649
people like this,

0:37:47.649,0:37:49.513
they just want to take the cold, icy

0:37:49.513,0:37:56.314
bucket of water and [br]splash it on the folks.

0:37:56.314,0:37:57.451
I'll tell you this,

0:37:57.451,0:38:01.813
it's those types - intense like Christ,

0:38:01.813,0:38:05.998
who put the fear of God [br]in the heart of the devil.

0:38:05.998,0:38:07.180
The masses perish.

0:38:07.180,0:38:09.738
The enemies of God go unchallenged.

0:38:09.738,0:38:12.413
And what are we doing?

0:38:12.413,0:38:17.969
Jim Elliot.

0:38:17.969,0:38:22.867
He says, "Ah, generation that hears,

0:38:22.867,0:38:26.492
but feels not.

0:38:26.492,0:38:33.372
Listens, but aches not.

0:38:33.372,0:38:36.170
Harks, but knows not pain,

0:38:36.170,0:38:39.163
nor the pleasurable healing balm thereof.

0:38:39.163,0:38:42.569
Tell me, is all fire extinguish

0:38:42.569,0:38:44.539
save in hell?

0:38:44.539,0:38:48.041
Damned be this tipidity.

0:38:48.041,0:38:50.142
Have we no fire to hate?

0:38:50.142,0:38:52.566
Does no flame seize our prophets?

0:38:52.566,0:38:54.398
Show me one burning heart.

0:38:54.398,0:38:56.654
Let me see a single worldling

0:38:56.654,0:38:59.460
afire with true passion.

0:38:59.460,0:39:02.530
One heavenling, consumed with his

0:39:02.530,0:39:05.523
God's eternal burnings.

0:39:05.523,0:39:07.376
In them, I would find excuse for you,

0:39:07.376,0:39:09.416
my cheating, shamming,

0:39:09.416,0:39:11.442
joyless generation;

0:39:11.442,0:39:13.337
well has your own poet said,

0:39:13.337,0:39:15.227
you live and die ox-like,

0:39:15.227,0:39:17.657
limp and leaden-eyed."

0:39:17.657,0:39:19.186
He goes on to say,

0:39:19.186,0:39:21.381
"Oh, that God would [br]shake up some of those

0:39:21.381,0:39:22.969
married couples around Portland

0:39:22.969,0:39:25.024
with their prim unconcern for

0:39:25.024,0:39:26.560
souls and saints,

0:39:26.560,0:39:29.263
dabbling and building lots, houses,

0:39:29.263,0:39:34.213
jobs, babies, silverware,

0:39:34.213,0:39:36.961
while souls starve for what they know.

0:39:36.961,0:39:38.464
Souls starve for what these

0:39:38.464,0:39:39.842
married couples know.

0:39:39.842,0:39:43.154
God shall not hold us guiltless either.

0:39:43.154,0:39:44.776
He shall suffer loss.

0:39:44.776,0:39:46.708
The urge comes on me at times

0:39:46.708,0:39:49.083
to write in scathing terms,

0:39:49.083,0:39:52.126
articles for these piddly little magazines

0:39:52.126,0:39:55.323
of comfort and kind words [br]for God's little flock.

0:39:55.323,0:39:57.250
Baloney.

0:39:57.250,0:39:58.879
When are we going to rise like men

0:39:58.879,0:40:00.741
and face the world squarely?

0:40:00.741,0:40:03.615
This drively nonsense which [br]condones inactivity

0:40:03.615,0:40:05.862
because of the apostasy of the days,

0:40:05.862,0:40:08.376
needs a little fire to show up,

0:40:08.376,0:40:11.613
the downright ungodliness it hides,

0:40:11.613,0:40:13.640
we cuddle around the Lord's table,

0:40:13.640,0:40:16.247
as though it were the last [br]coal of God's altar.

0:40:16.247,0:40:18.093
We warm our hands thinking that

0:40:18.093,0:40:20.495
that's going to appease the wrath of the

0:40:20.495,0:40:24.284
indignant Christ when He charges us

0:40:24.284,0:40:27.624
with the unmet, unchallenged, untaught

0:40:27.624,0:40:29.545
generation of heathen,

0:40:29.545,0:40:31.672
doing their Christmas shopping.

0:40:31.672,0:40:33.714
It makes me boil when [br]I think of the power

0:40:33.714,0:40:37.027
we profess and the [br]utter impotency of our action.

0:40:37.027,0:40:40.098
Believers who know [br]one tenth as much as we do

0:40:40.098,0:40:42.514
are doing a hundred times more for God.

0:40:42.514,0:40:45.314
With His blessing and our criticism.

0:40:45.314,0:40:47.913
Oh, if I could write it, [br]preach it, say it,

0:40:47.913,0:40:49.641
paint it, anything at all.

0:40:49.641,0:40:51.445
If only God's power would

0:40:51.445,0:40:54.543
become known among us.

0:40:54.543,0:40:55.451
And then he says,

0:40:55.451,0:40:58.565
Ichabod.

0:40:58.565,0:41:00.452
Now, third.

0:41:00.452,0:41:02.576
I would have you notice this about Christ.

0:41:02.576,0:41:09.773
Notice the enduring [br]aspect of His passions.

0:41:09.773,0:41:14.648
When does Luke 19 take place?

0:41:14.648,0:41:16.604
It wasn't day number one of His

0:41:16.604,0:41:18.320
missionary endeavor to the world.

0:41:18.320,0:41:20.319
It wasn't the first day [br]or the first month

0:41:20.319,0:41:21.543
of His public ministry.

0:41:21.543,0:41:23.651
He was at the end, folks.

0:41:23.651,0:41:25.782
This is what's called, [br]like I already said,

0:41:25.782,0:41:26.749
the triumphal entry.

0:41:26.749,0:41:28.696
This is the long-expeted King coming

0:41:28.696,0:41:30.408
in the name of the Lord,

0:41:30.408,0:41:31.883
in several days, He would be

0:41:31.883,0:41:33.452
crucified and killed.

0:41:33.452,0:41:35.632
For nigh unto 33 years,

0:41:35.632,0:41:38.230
Christ has sojourned on His mission field,

0:41:38.230,0:41:40.159
and less than a week from the end,

0:41:40.159,0:41:44.063
the fire still blazes.

0:41:44.063,0:41:49.165
Some of you guys,

0:41:49.165,0:41:54.150
these guys go down on the streets downtown

0:41:54.150,0:41:55.332
and they preach.

0:41:55.332,0:41:58.705
And they came across a guy [br]from another church,

0:41:58.705,0:41:59.959
and here's what happened.

0:41:59.959,0:42:02.704
First week, he went down there.[br]Tried to get the church excited.

0:42:02.704,0:42:03.943
Let's go down there.

0:42:03.943,0:42:05.929
Let's do some evangelism on the streets.

0:42:05.929,0:42:07.488
How many went the first week?

0:42:07.488,0:42:08.506
18.

0:42:08.506,0:42:10.749
How many went the second week?

0:42:10.749,0:42:14.432
1.

0:42:14.432,0:42:19.566
Here's Christ. The intensity. The passion.

0:42:19.566,0:42:20.829
It hasn't diminished.[br]

0:42:20.829,0:42:22.115
It hasn't grown cold.

0:42:22.115,0:42:23.354
It's still hot.

0:42:23.354,0:42:25.292
As magnificent as ever.

0:42:25.292,0:42:27.140
It's there.

0:42:27.140,0:42:30.343
But how typical...

0:42:30.343,0:42:32.488
What's the average stay for the

0:42:32.488,0:42:35.819
American missionary on [br]the foreign mission field?

0:42:35.819,0:42:37.797
Do you know?

0:42:37.797,0:42:39.444
It's pathetic and miserable.

0:42:39.444,0:42:43.353
I think it's right around 1 year.

0:42:43.353,0:42:45.430
And our Lord was [br]quite a different example.

0:42:45.430,0:42:47.314
His passion was consistent

0:42:47.314,0:42:49.209
with His mission.

0:42:49.209,0:42:51.147
His passion is intense.

0:42:51.147,0:42:55.481
His passion is enduring.

0:43:02.179,0:43:04.597
You know, folks,

0:43:04.597,0:43:07.622
far too often we have this

0:43:07.622,0:43:13.424
erroneous and probably [br]very arrogant notion,

0:43:13.424,0:43:17.617
that if we have the right doctrine,

0:43:17.617,0:43:23.177
it guarantees our success and blessing.

0:43:23.177,0:43:26.011
I think what Elliot [br]says is absolutely right.

0:43:26.011,0:43:28.532
There are those that know what?

0:43:28.532,0:43:29.993
A tenth as much as we do,

0:43:29.993,0:43:33.102
and they're doing a hundred times more.

0:43:33.102,0:43:35.548
And where you find those guys,

0:43:35.548,0:43:37.616
you're going to find the [br]passion of Christ

0:43:37.616,0:43:44.689
burning in their souls.

0:43:44.689,0:43:53.025
Here's the thing,

0:43:53.025,0:43:56.966
we do need right doctrine.

0:43:56.966,0:44:01.530
But we need more than that.

0:44:01.530,0:44:05.240
You look at this and you say,

0:44:05.240,0:44:09.176
I see the heart of Elliot.

0:44:09.176,0:44:15.252
More than that, I see the heart of Christ.

0:44:15.252,0:44:16.515
You know, folks,

0:44:16.515,0:44:18.668
what do we do?

0:44:18.668,0:44:21.454
Where do we go?

0:44:21.454,0:44:24.701
You know as well as I do,

0:44:24.701,0:44:27.412
that you're not going to get this passion

0:44:27.412,0:44:31.039
watching t.v., eating your twinkies.

0:44:31.039,0:44:34.292
It's not going to come that way.

0:44:34.292,0:44:37.037
2 Corinthians 3:18

0:44:37.037,0:44:41.151
We have a marvelous truth.

0:44:41.151,0:44:43.506
Oh, how often we get all hung up.

0:44:43.506,0:44:45.268
We're like Martha.

0:44:45.268,0:44:49.021
We become all disturbed, perplexed,

0:44:49.021,0:44:51.369
distracted, worried about our service

0:44:51.369,0:44:52.334
for Christ.

0:44:52.334,0:44:53.436
We're running around,

0:44:53.436,0:44:54.753
we're doing this,

0:44:54.753,0:44:57.211
and it all becomes so mechanical.

0:44:57.211,0:44:58.968
We've got our thing we do.

0:44:58.968,0:45:00.608
We've got our week,

0:45:00.608,0:45:02.636
it's all ordered.

0:45:02.636,0:45:04.732
We go through the mechanical plottings

0:45:04.732,0:45:05.826
of this thing,

0:45:05.826,0:45:10.549
we get all hung up on these things.

0:45:10.549,0:45:15.626
We need all the people in our churches

0:45:15.626,0:45:17.261
to get to the place where they say

0:45:17.261,0:45:18.430
I want more than that.

0:45:18.430,0:45:19.373
Be done with that.

0:45:19.373,0:45:20.977
I want the heart of the matter.

0:45:20.977,0:45:22.357
I want to get in this thing.

0:45:22.357,0:45:24.022
I want to be immersed in God.

0:45:24.022,0:45:25.732
I want to be immersed in His fire.

0:45:25.732,0:45:27.665
Because it can happen.

0:45:27.665,0:45:29.243
How's this thing going to happen?

0:45:29.243,0:45:31.395
It's not like we look at ourselves,

0:45:31.395,0:45:32.409
it's not like Drew,

0:45:32.409,0:45:33.618
you look at the past,

0:45:33.618,0:45:34.847
and you say, well,

0:45:34.847,0:45:36.431
that's it.

0:45:36.431,0:45:37.891
Wasted 46 years of my life.

0:45:37.891,0:45:39.650
Nothing can happen here.

0:45:39.650,0:45:41.541
That's not the way I read my Bible.

0:45:41.541,0:45:43.058
What it says is says this,

0:45:43.058,0:45:45.171
we can behold the glory of that

0:45:45.171,0:45:47.048
glorious Christ.

0:45:47.048,0:45:48.392
We talked about last night,

0:45:48.392,0:45:49.590
sitting upon that throne.

0:45:49.590,0:45:51.665
We can behold His glories

0:45:51.665,0:45:54.192
in the Scriptures, in the Gospels,

0:45:54.192,0:45:55.258
we can look there.

0:45:55.258,0:45:56.884
We can get on our faces.

0:45:56.884,0:45:58.314
We can get alone with God.

0:45:58.314,0:45:59.448
We can ask Him.

0:45:59.448,0:46:02.619
Lord, burn that image into our souls.

0:46:02.619,0:46:04.388
And we have a promise right there,

0:46:04.388,0:46:06.936
2 Corinthians 3:18

0:46:06.936,0:46:09.504
That He will do that, degree by degree,

0:46:09.504,0:46:11.258
glory by glory,

0:46:11.258,0:46:13.328
He will write that, emblazon that

0:46:13.328,0:46:15.924
very image into our soul.

0:46:15.924,0:46:17.858
That's why I wanted [br]to show you Christ.

0:46:17.858,0:46:19.824
Because I trust the Spirit of God.

0:46:19.824,0:46:22.321
He's in that business.

0:46:22.321,0:46:25.176
He has promised.

0:46:25.176,0:46:27.620
Does not Romans 8:29 say

0:46:27.620,0:46:30.768
that He has predestined to conform

0:46:30.768,0:46:34.616
His children to the image of Christ?

0:46:34.616,0:46:37.111
He has said that.

0:46:37.111,0:46:39.597
He's going to do that.

0:46:39.597,0:46:41.523
If you are a true child of God,

0:46:41.523,0:46:43.360
and you've been going through a season

0:46:43.360,0:46:44.851
where you've been down,

0:46:44.851,0:46:47.260
where you've been dry, you've been cold.

0:46:47.260,0:46:50.024
You're not going to find the heat

0:46:50.024,0:46:51.986
in your work, in your money,

0:46:51.986,0:46:54.047
in your favorite athletic team.

0:46:54.047,0:46:55.724
It's not going to come there.

0:46:55.724,0:46:58.584
It's not going to come by hours [br]in front of the computer,

0:46:58.584,0:46:59.716
or the television.

0:46:59.716,0:47:02.609
You've got to get alone with God.

0:47:02.609,0:47:04.518
You've got to get in the very presence

0:47:04.518,0:47:06.767
of that inner glory,

0:47:06.767,0:47:08.876
and you've got to stand there

0:47:08.876,0:47:10.479
in the light of that,

0:47:10.479,0:47:12.458
and in the light of the Scripture,

0:47:12.458,0:47:13.562
and on your face,

0:47:13.562,0:47:14.649
like we heard earlier,

0:47:14.649,0:47:15.846
trembling at God's Word;

0:47:15.846,0:47:17.016
you need to find Christ.

0:47:17.016,0:47:18.570
And you need to look at Him.

0:47:18.570,0:47:20.279
And you need to gaze at Him.

0:47:20.279,0:47:21.569
And His mission.

0:47:21.569,0:47:23.419
And you need to plead with God,

0:47:23.419,0:47:26.541
write that, burn that, emblazon that

0:47:26.541,0:47:29.957
into my own heart and life and being.

0:47:29.957,0:47:31.923
Lord, don't let me die.

0:47:31.923,0:47:34.091
Don't let me just fizzle out.

0:47:34.091,0:47:35.612
And you're not going to do that

0:47:35.612,0:47:38.187
in thirty seconds.

0:47:38.187,0:47:39.662
You've got to take time.

0:47:39.662,0:47:41.271
You've got to get with God.

0:47:41.271,0:47:45.472
You've got to see Christ.

0:47:45.472,0:47:49.426
I remember one man telling me,

0:47:49.426,0:47:52.196
"oh, I pray when I'm shaving."

0:47:52.196,0:47:56.166
Yeah, you pray when you shave.

0:47:56.166,0:47:58.409
He made it sound like that's all he did.

0:47:58.409,0:48:00.246
And if that's all you do, you're never

0:48:00.246,0:48:03.695
going to do anything.

0:48:03.695,0:48:05.147
We've got to have some people

0:48:05.147,0:48:06.698
that are serious about this,

0:48:06.698,0:48:08.833
that are serious about the quiet place.

0:48:08.833,0:48:10.800
They're serious.

0:48:10.800,0:48:12.706
Gaze at His glory, brethren.

0:48:12.706,0:48:15.171
Immerse yourselves more and more

0:48:15.171,0:48:17.366
until the fire is lit,

0:48:17.366,0:48:18.481
and the heart burns,

0:48:18.481,0:48:19.667
and all hell is afraid,

0:48:19.667,0:48:22.263
and there is no substitute.

0:48:22.263,0:48:23.993
Here it is.

0:48:23.993,0:48:26.134
This is essential.

0:48:26.134,0:48:31.225
The union of mission and passion.

0:48:31.225,0:48:33.641
Amen.