Living A Sold Out Life

If you're with us for the first time today, you came on a great day. We are in week four of a six-week series that we are calling Old School, and we're calling it that because we are learning modern truths from ancient stories in the Old Testament. We're looking at some of the most incredible stories in the Old Testament that are deeply pregnant with great spiritual significance, and today we're gonna look at a bit of an obscure story tucked into the book of Genesis, the very first book of the Bible about an incredible woman by the name of Rebekah. Now, if you're not familiar with Rebekah, let me take a moment and just fill you in with where we're going, why her story is so important, and why the leadership lessons of her life should matter so much to us today. Now, the interesting thing about her story is that her story doesn't actually start with her at all. It starts with a famous man in the Bible by the name of Abraham. God had made a promise to Abraham and his wife, Sarah, that he would give them a son, even though they were both old and never had children before. He gives them the promise, and there is a long hiatus between the promise and the fulfillment, but 24 years later, he has given them a miracle child by the name of Isaac.

And as Abraham grows older, he wants his son to find a great wife to build a life and a legacy with, and God had brought Abraham a long way from his origin home country and given him the land of Canaan, and because of his obedience, God had blessed him abundantly. He was an incredibly wealthy man. He was an incredibly influential man, but Abraham was, pun intended, old school. He was old school. And so when he thought about a wife for his son, he did not want a wife to come from their new land. He wanted his son to have a wife from his origin country and from his people, and so he calls him, his chief servant, and he gives him a task. And he says, what I want you to do is I want you to take some camels, I want you to take some money, I want you to take some goods, and I want you to make the trek all the way back to my homeland, and there I want you to find a wife for my son Isaac. Don't worry, God will go before you and make a way, because this is a tall order. And the servant knew that. He was being asked by one of the most influential men on the planet to go and to find a suitable wife for his son. Well, how do you do that?

How do you know what is suitable? How do you know if you're gonna pick the right one? And Abraham says, listen, don't worry, I know it seems like an impossible task, but I trust the Lord, and I believe he's gonna lead you, and he's gonna guide you, and he's gonna choose the right wife for Isaac. So the servant loads down 10 camels with all kinds of expensive and exotic gifts, and he makes the long trek back to Abraham's home country. And again, as he travels, the Bible tells us that he's thinking out loud, man, how am I gonna do this? I mean, how am I gonna accomplish this? I mean, this really is an impossible task. Where do I even start? How do I know if she's gonna be beautiful enough for Isaac? How do I know if she's going to be smart enough and gracious enough to fit into such a prestigious family as my master? And so it was really an overwhelming task, but this is where we pick up the story in Genesis chapter 24. I'm gonna read quite a bit of verses of Scripture here, and then I'm gonna come back, and we're gonna unpack the story of Rebekah, and we're gonna learn the great leadership lessons from it. So here we go, bear with me. I'm gonna read verse 12 through verse 27. Here we go. Then he loaded 10 of Abraham's camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master.

And he traveled to distant Aram, nay, Haram, easier for you to say. And there he went to the town where Abraham's brother Nahor had settled, and he made the camels kneel beside a well just outside the town. It was evening, and the women were coming out to draw water. O Lord, God of my master Abraham, he prayed, please give me success today, and show unfailing love to my master Abraham. I am standing here beside this spring, and the young women of the town are coming out to draw water, and this is my request, Lord. He's praying to God. I will ask one of them, please give me a drink from your jug. And if she says, yes, have a drink, and I will water your camels too, let her be the one you have selected as Isaac's wife. So this is his fleece before the Lord. He's saying, God, I don't know how to choose. I don't know how to pick one. This is over my head and beyond my pay grade, yet this is my task, but Lord, I trust you, and so I'm gonna put out a little test, and if this is what happens, I'm gonna choose to see that it's your hand of providence. This is how I will know that you have shown unfailing love to my master.

I love this. Before he had finished praying, sometimes he does it like that. Not always, but sometimes God will do that in your life. Before he finished praying, he saw a young woman named Rebecca coming out with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his wife Milcah. Rebecca was very beautiful and old enough to be married, but she was still unmarried, and so she went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up again. Running over to her, the servant said, please give me a little drink of water from your jug. Yes, she said, my Lord. I have a drink, and she quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and gave him a drink. And when she had given him a drink, she said, I will draw water also for your camels too until they have had enough to drink. And so she quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw water for all of his camels. And in a minute, I'm gonna break this down and tell you what a significant thing she was taking on, a task to do this. The servant watched her in silence, I think this is funny, wondering whether or not

the Lord had given him success in his mission. He had just prayed for this to happen. He had just prayed for this, and it happens exactly the way that he prayed, but he's still wondering because he knows it's such a big deal. Then at last, when the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring, two large gold bracelets for her. Whose daughter are you, he asked, and please tell me, would your father have any room to put us up for the night? I am the daughter of Bethuel, she replied. My grandparents are Nahor and Milca. Yes, we have plenty of straw and feed for the camels, and we have room for guests. The man bowed low and worshiped the Lord. Praise the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, he said. The Lord has shown unfailing love and faithfulness to my master, for he has led me straight to my master's relatives. Now listen, this is an amazing story, and if you just read the story in and of itself, you would glean many great lessons, but I wanna boil it down. I wanna cut through all of the lessons that are in there because there are many, because there is one leadership lesson to me in the story of Rebecca that cuts through it all, that stands out as a glaring, glaring leadership lesson that I think every one of us need to take away today,

that God has called his people to, that the world desperately needs, because listen, I want you to hear this. There's only really four types of people in this world. There really are only four types of people. There are dropouts, cop-outs, hold-outs, and sold-outs. That's it. Dropouts, cop-outs, hold-outs, and sold-outs. Let me tell you what each one of them are. A dropout are quitters. They have no grit, they have no stamina, they have no constitution for anything that's difficult or that requires effort or hard. They lay down at anything that requires discipline and they give zero effort to anything in front of them. They just drop out of life, drop out of effort, drop out of everything. Cop-outs are excuse makers. They are never without a reason why something cannot be done. They always see the cloud in every silver lining, no matter how wonderful the opportunity may be. It is their negativity and fear that always prevails. Hold-outs are half-hearted minimizers. They may even have great talent. You may even notice they have great potential, but they're lazy and they're uncommitted and they're only willing to give some effort, but they never give their all to anything in life.

And then there is this last category of people that represents a small number of people. They are sold-outs. Sold-outs are people of excellence. They bring their best, their very best, to everything that they do every single day. Whatever their hand finds to do, they do it with all their might as unto the Lord. They give it all they got for as long as it takes until the job is done. They are gritty people. They are generous people. They are wholehearted second-milers. And Rebecca had made up her mind somewhere, sometime in her life, that she was not going to be a hold-out, that she was not gonna live as a cop-out, that she was not gonna live as a drop-out, that somewhere in her life, she made up her mind she was gonna live a sold-out lifestyle. She wasn't gonna live by giving the minimum or doing only what is required or necessary. She was going to live big, she was going to give big, and she was going to go big in her life. And when the servant asked for a simple drink of water, she approached his request with, not only will I do what you asked me to do, not only am I gonna do what you have required or asked of me, I'm gonna go above and beyond and go the second mile and do more than you've asked me

and put all I can into it. Ladies and gentlemen, this is different, and this is radical, and it stands out in a world full of half-hearted minimizers. Most of the time, the prevailing attitude in our world, and you know it's true, is that people come to anything and say, I'm gonna do the least that is expected of me, but still hope to get the most out of it. That is a prevailing attitude in our world. There are not a lot of sold-outs left in this world. If you are a follower of Christ, please listen, if you are a follower of Christ, if you name the name of Jesus, you have been called specifically by God to be a sold-out life in a world of minimizers and half-hearted people. God has called us to be the light of the world, a city that's set on a hill that cannot be hid. We are supposed to be different and unique and stand out from the rest of the world. And one of the ways that we stand out is that we do not approach life or anything in it half-hearted or as a cop-out or a drop-out, but we live our lives in honor of the Lord as a sold-out. Let me give you a scripture right here. Colossians 3, let every detail of your lives, your words, your actions. Whatever he says, be done in the name of the master Jesus. Thanking God the Father every step of the way. Servants, honor your earthly masters

and don't just do the minimum. That will get you by. Do your very best. The call is, God said, I want my people to be sold out. Work from the heart for your real master, for God. Confident that you'll be paid in full when you come into your inheritance. I love this line. Keep in mind always that the ultimate master you're serving is Christ. The sullen servant who does shoddy work will be held responsible. Being a follower of Jesus does not cover up bad work. What a scripture, what a scripture. He said you can't just name the name of Jesus and then give half-hearted effort and think you're bringing glory and honor to God. He calls us to a sold out lifestyle. Rebecca didn't have a minimum effort for maximum payment mentality. She thought and lived differently and because of it, it was about to change her future and her family dramatically forever. And so what I wanna do is I wanna give you three lessons that I see in Rebecca's life that we need to take away today and hopefully inspired if you have lived a half-hearted life or if you've not went all in with Jesus that today God would inspire you through the power of the Holy Spirit and his word

to be expectant to do this. And then at the end of the message, I'm gonna do something I do periodically. I'm gonna just step out of the way and I'm gonna say, Rebecca, here's the mic. And if you could just say something today to the people of Canvas, what would you say about the way you lived and what God did in your life because of it, what would you give us today to walk away that we could live a different kind of a life? So here we go. Three leadership lessons from Rebecca's life about living a sold out life. Here we go. Living a sold out life first means never keeping score. Here's what I mean by that. It means that when we give or when we serve or when we go all out for others that it is not motivated by reciprocity or the expectation that first I did it for you and because I did it for you, now you owe me. That's not what a sold out lifestyle is. And listen, you can truly know the motive behind your giving. You can know the motive behind your serving if you have ever began a sentence with or ever thought this in your mind. After all, I've done for them. If you've ever said it, if you've ever thought it, it means that at the heart of why you did what you did,

you did not do it out of the true heart of generosity. Somewhere in the back of your mind, you believed that you were giving a down payment on a service that would be reciprocated somewhere later in your life and when someone didn't do it, that expectation leads to great disappointment. Regrettably and transparently, I've said it. I've said it in my own life. I've thought it a million times. After all, I've done for them. But the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 13 that real love never keeps score like that. Sold outs don't ever think that way. I've learned that when we live our lives measuring everybody with yardsticks, those yardsticks eventually become boomerangs. And you throw them and you think they're never coming back but they will and they are and they're coming back faster than you threw them. Rebecca, in the text, you never see this anywhere in the text. Rebecca never even hinted one moment what's in it for me. Not one minute did she look at the servant and go, well, I mean, it's dark, it's late, I'm here to get water for my family. I don't have time to do that but I mean, you look like you're a well-to-do guy. What's it worth to you? I mean, what do you got to give

in exchange for this water? And your camels too. I mean, what is it that, not one moment, not one hint in her demeanor at all that she ever thought what's in it for me. She simply saw an opportunity to serve someone else and because her life and her heart had been, listen, pre-programmed to serve and give, she just responded to the need that was in front of her. This type of benevolent heart is one of the ways that we can really know that we are growing in God. When the Spirit of God is moving in our lives, we start to lean more to God's ways than our own. In fact, when the Bible speaks of giving, its entire emphasis is never on what we give. The Bible never really does talk about so much about what we give as much as why we give. For God, it's never the amount of money as much as it is the heart. The heart behind the matter. Here's what he said in 2 Corinthians. So remember, the one who plants few seeds will have a small harvest. But the one who plants much seed will have a large harvest. Each one of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give. But don't give, watch this, reluctantly or because you feel forced to give, why? Because God loves those who give with true joy. Have you ever had somebody give you something

that you could tell they didn't want to give you? They were like, man, you know, this is my favorite. one bro you know but i mean you know if you want it worse than me i mean i guess you could you're like no man dude keep it i don't want it like that i don't want you to give it to me like that man i i want you to be joyful i want you to love me and i want you to be excited about giving it to me you don't want somebody to give you something you know good and well they don't want to give you and they're reluctant or half-hearted about it this is the way god says i look at your heart i look at you and when you give in the offering if you if you stroke that check and you go man i really could have bought me a new gun with this one but god you see i don't want to give it to you but i know what the bible says and so here you go god said dude just keep it just keep it when you write that tied check and you go you know man i mean there's a lot of things i could do with this and god i'm really doing you a wild favor and what god is trying to say is no man see you don't understand that none of it belongs to you i gave you the intellect i gave you the strength i provided you the career i gave you the job i gave you the opportunity all of it belongs to me all i'm asking for you to do is just honor me with the first 10 percent and the first fruits of your life and so i don't want it like that i don't want you to give it reluctantly or begrudgingly i want you to understand i went first i gave you my son i sacrificed my son i gave you the very best that i could have ever given you and i did it with joy that you might be redeemed and saved and i want you to simply honor me because i've honored you and when you give that way the bible says he sees the joy of our heart and it brings joy to the heart of god when we give and live a sold-out life this this is what god is saying he wants us to live generously because we are thankful and glad to serve him and we are thankful and glad for the opportunity to serve others generosity is easy when we remember just how generous god has first been with us it is the foundation gratitude is the foundation of a truly generous heart and a sold-out lifestyle number two living a sold-out life means treating little things watch this like they're big things treating little things like they're big things rebecca first got the attention of abraham's servant by first being willing to be faithful with what was asked of her in the beginning a very simple drink of water she simply said yes to the minimal task can i have a drink of water what would soon be a life-changing encounter for rebecca begin with the willingness to do something small follow me something small that was asked of her

had she not been willing to even do that there is no doubt that he would have realized she wasn't the one and the great blessing that was about to rush into her life and family would have passed over her and gone to someone else here's the absolute truth while we all pray for greater levels of favor in our lives god cannot trust us with greater things if we have not demonstrated faithfulness with what we currently have now don't ask god for 2 000 if you ain't faithful with 20 he ain't gonna do that in fact let me show you this scripture here watch this jesus went on to say this in luke chapter 16 he said if you're honest in small things now i know you'll be honest in big things and he said if you're dishonest in the small things you'll be dishonest in the big things if you're not faithful in even the small jobs who's going to put you in charge of the store he said if you're not conscientious about how you sweep the floor how are you going to manage the store if you're not conscientious and sold out and how you stock the shelves if you don't go all out and do your very best on the minimal things how am i going to trust you with greater favor later if you're a cop out a sold out or or hold out or a dropout god says i can't trust you with great levels of favor you have already demonstrated that you can't be faithful even with that which is least why would i trust you with that which is much the way you do anything ladies and gentlemen is the way you do everything according to the scriptures the way you do anything is the way you do everything if someone can't even handle and be trusted at the level they currently have how could they ever be promoted to a higher level or given more so when it comes to our finances when it comes to our work ethic when it comes to our commitment to service and excellence on our jobs or careers i want you to wrestle with this i want you to wrestle with this as your pastor i'm praying that the rest of this day the holy spirit will cause this to come to your mind and you will contemplate it pray over it and wrestle with it i want you to ask yourself this question are we demonstrating to god that we are ready for him to bless us with more based on how we are currently handling what we have god am i am i proving to you based on what i am currently doing with what you have given to me now can i be trusted with greater levels of favor and blessing or am i living half-hearted am i a holdout but i want you to be a sold out with me now i'm going to be a holdout with you but i want you to be sold out with me and god says nah nah it don't work that way if you want god to be sold out with you you have to be a sold out with god when sees that we are honoring him with where we are right now,

he will help us grow and trust us with what is next. Number three, living a sold out life means, watch this, seizing ordinary moments to demonstrate extraordinary generosity. How easy would it have been for Rebecca to just say, I mean, I've got too much to do already. I mean, I really do. I mean, I'm here to get water for my family, it's late in the evening, we're about to cook dinner, I really don't have time for this. I've only got enough time to get water for just me and my family, and while I would like to do something for you, I simply don't have the ability. Sun's going down, I gotta get back, I've already lowered my jar. Or she could have said, you know what, I'm gonna give this guy a drink, and I'm just gonna, you know, he asked me for a drink, I'm just gonna do that, and then I'm gonna go about my way. You need to understand that when she agreed to water the camels, this was an extraordinary act of service. I don't know if you've known this or not, but watering a camel is not like watering a dog, or a cat, why anybody would do that anyway. I don't understand that, because, you know, cats are of the devil. I mean, they just are.

I mean, listen, don't email me, it's a joke, okay? I can't say anything anymore. I get people, you, God's not in that, he loves cats. No, he doesn't, no, he doesn't. First off, he doesn't. You can't trust a cat, you're plotting your demise all the time, you know it. All right, let me get off this. It's a camel! Now, I'm not a big math guy, okay? So I'm really proud of this. I put this together to prepare for you, but I wanted to put some perspective. I wanted you to understand what a big deal this was. I did some research the other day, and I put together what I call a camel watering calculation. This is highbrow stuff, people. I mean, you're not gonna get this everywhere. I learned, the Google machine said, that the average camel can drink at one time 20 gallons of water, 20 gallons of water. So I put the math to it, and again, I'm proud of this, I don't do a lot of math, this might be easy for y'all, it's not easy for me, I'm an English guy, but here's the equation, watch. 10 camels at 20 gallons each is 200 gallons of water. 200 gallons drawn with a five-gallon jar, which was typical at the time, is 40 trips to do it. 40 trips at a very conservative three minutes each is two to three hours of doing it.

When she signed up to water the camels, she was not signing up for something that was going to be simple or easy or convenient. It was going to be incredibly difficult, it was gonna be incredibly labor-intensive, it was gonna be very, very time-consuming and strenuous, but this extraordinary act of generosity in this ordinary moment on maybe a Tuesday afternoon, it just doesn't seem like anything is going on exciting, set her apart from every other woman that was at that well, and as a result, her life was changed in a way she could have never imagined because she decided to live a sold-out lifestyle. She was selected to be, that day, the wife of an heir to the nation of Israel, a princess, if you will, and one of the wealthiest and influential families on the entire planet at the time. It is an amazing, amazing story. And again, if I could, if Rebecca was here, and it was one of those moments where I could just step aside and say, Rebecca, we just went through your story briefly, but your life is such an inspiration to us, and I wanna hand you the mic, Rebecca, and I just wanna, I want you to offer us some words of wisdom today for those of us that call Canvas home. What would you tell us today as we leave so that we might grow deeper in God

and live a more sold-out lifestyle? What would you tell us about the way that you lived your life and about what the results of that are? I think Rebecca would tell us three things. I think, number one, she would say, you need to understand that living a sold-out life will open doors of opportunity that you could never imagine in your life. If you live this way, God will see you, and he will find favor with you, and he will open up doors of opportunity that you can't even possibly begin to imagine in your wildest dreams. Rebecca gave more than she was asked to give, and because of it, she received more than she ever thought that she would in her life. Bible says in Luke 6 and 38, give to others and you will receive. You will be given much. It will be poured into your hand more than you could hold, so much that it will spill over into your lap because the way you give to others, he said, is the way that God will give to you. He said, when you release whatever is in your hand, God says, I'll release what's in mine, and my hands are bigger than yours, and my hands are bigger than yours, and so when I can see that you can be trusted.

and you're faithful, I'm gonna release what's in my hand and bless you in ways you can't imagine. In fact, if you keep reading, you're gonna find out that because of her new lineage with Abraham's family, this is interesting, that Rebecca is named as one of the 40 great-grandmothers of Jesus himself. It wasn't just that he blessed her life and blessed her immediate family, but he honored her legacy and her sold-out lifestyle by allowing her to be a part of the great lineage of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world himself. What an honor. And he did it because she was a sold-out, all-in, full-heart winner. Number two, she would say, living a sold-out life will spill over into your family and future generations as well. Watch this, Genesis chapter 24. Then Abraham's servant bowed to the ground and worshiped the Lord. Then he brought out silver and gold jewelry, clothing, and presented them to Rebecca, but watch, he also gave lavish gifts to her brother and mother. Her brother and mother didn't touch a jar. They didn't get a single drop of water. They didn't go and pick up water and take it to the camels. They didn't do anything for the servant. It was Rebecca, but because of Rebecca's sold-out lifestyle,

the blessing spilled over into her family. Y'all with me? Listen, this is the point. I got a question. Where do you think Rebecca learned this from? Where do you think Rebecca learned to live a sold-out lifestyle from? If you go back, I'm not gonna read it to you, but if you go read all of chapter 24, you are gonna see that when they go back to Rebecca's home for the night, that her family welcomes them in, they wash their feet, they tend to their animals, they feed them supper, and they offer them a place to sleep. Her family was this way. Extraordinary hospitality and living a sold-out lifestyle was a way of life for her old family, and because it was a way of life for her family, it got into her. Your children are watching you. Your grandchildren are watching you. Don't ever expect to raise sold-outs if you live as a hold-out. Don't ever expect to raise sold-outs if you live your life as a cop-out. Don't ever expect to raise sold-outs if you live your life as a dropout. Dropouts don't produce sold-outs. Hold-outs don't produce sold-outs. If you give minimum, they're gonna give minimum.

If you give half-heart, they're gonna give half-heart. But when they see you, because of your love for Christ and your willingness to go all in for the glory of God, give your best every day at every task, they will emulate you when they get older and they'll become a sold-out too. It matters. It matters. If you don't do it for anybody else, do it for your children and do it for the Lord if you wanna produce sold-outs in your life. They hear what we say, y'all, but they believe what we do. You know it's true. If you tell them to live a sold-out life but they see you living a hold-out life, they're not gonna do it. They hear what you say, they believe what you do, and whatever they see us do, they believe that that is the way life should be lived. And number three, living a sold-out life, she would say, creates legacy because they are the only kind of people that are actually worth remembering. You know this is true. For thousands of years, the great, great, great, great, great grandchildren of Isaac and Rebekah no doubt would rehearse and tell the story of the well that day and how the very lives that they were living and how blessed they are because of Abraham's lineage

and because of his great wealth and influence were forged and shaped by a moment that their mother and their grandmother and their great, great grandmother simply demonstrated on an ordinary Tuesday, an extraordinary act of sold-out lifestyle and service to someone. And because of that moment of a sold-out life being exemplified, it has spilled over into the legacy of their family and their lives have been completely changed and the trajectory of their entire family was altered because of one woman at a well who made up her mind she was not gonna live as a drop-out, cop-out, or hold-out, but she was gonna live sold-out for God and for others. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't have to tell you, but you know it's true. There are no inspiring stories of great greed or accumulation. They don't inspire us. We don't get inspired by people who take it and make it and keep it. We're inspired by people who actually begin to understand that at some level of success, maybe this wasn't all about me. John Rockefeller came to that understanding. He was one of the most inspirational men in my life that I've ever known. I remember one gentleman, he was such a great business mentor to me.

He passed away years ago. He was so influential in the life of Canvas. He really, really was. He taught me business. He didn't let me take the easy route. He made me walk through the fire. He taught me everything. I'll never not forget this gentleman. And he was incredibly wealthy. But you would never know it. And he said to me one time, he said, I came to the conclusion in my life, how many houses can a man live in? How many suits can a man wear? How many cars can a man drive? I mean, how much is enough? And at some point, he began to realize, and he created a foundation that even while he was alive, gave copious and copious and copious amounts of money away. And he, even after his death, him and his wife, his foundation is still donating and generous with Canvas Church to this day. And I'm inspired by it. I wanna be like that. I wanna be that guy, man. It's so inspirational. There are no inspiring stories of greed. There are no inspiring stories of great accumulation. The kind of stories that move us, that inspire us to be better followers of Christ

and servants to others, are the ones that are rooted in sacrifice and generosity. What a stark contrast this kind of thinking and living is to the world we live in. Because we live in a world, man, you know it's true. The world's mantra is, get all you can, can't all you get, sit on the can. Get all you can, can't all you get, sit on the can, baby. You earned it, nobody else has a right to it but you. And that is not the way of Christ. That is not the heart of Christ. This is not the spirit of God. Spirit of God leads his children to live in ways that reflect the heart and the character of Christ. And who was he? The most generous and lavish gifter that the world has ever known. When a group of people live their lives open hearted and open handed and truly make it their mission to love God, love people and serve others. I'm telling you now, people begin to notice the difference and they start to believe themselves that it's true. Let me say it to you this way. The greatest evidence of our Sunday claims is our Monday conduct. The greatest evidence of what we preach on Sunday that it's true is not if we amen the sermon. It's not if we just come and we show up and we shout and we clap and we sing the songs

and we're in attendance. The greatest evidence that what we preach is true, that what we believe is real is the way that we live our lives on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday. It's not enough to live it in this house. We've gotta live it and demonstrate it out there. Whatsoever our hands find to do, may we be sold out and do it big as unto the Lord. This is the will of God for his people. And if you're here, let me say this. If you're here and you have not sold out everything to Jesus, this is your first step. Before you even talk about living a sold out life and living out for God every day, the first step for you, if you've not given all of your life to Jesus, if you've just been around the church or you've been around the gospel and you're kinda had this cavalier attitude and you're kinda had this cavalier, hold out, half-hearted relationship with God, but you know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you have never looked at what he did on the cross that accounted for you, laid your sin at his feet and received the full forgiveness and said that's it. I'm not gonna live half-hearted with God. I'm all in, all the way. All of me is for all of you. If you haven't done that, today is your day.

God brought you here on purpose with a purpose for a purpose. You didn't come to 1045 randomly. You think you did, but you didn't. He called you here so that you could hear the gospel, so that the Spirit of God could convict you and bring you home so that you could know peace that passes understanding in life more abundantly. And it doesn't matter who you are, where you come from or what you've said or what you've done. He's inviting you to come home and to know peace and to know forgiveness and freedom. Can I pray for you right now? Father, I thank you.