following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church last sunday night we had worship in the midst of worship god spoke to me very clearly very clearly and says we need to do something we need to bring the presence of god into the park because jesus changes li and so what the commitment was for us was is to put up tents if we need to sleep there they sleep there why can't we sleep there they should stop us well there is a little law there's a law that says if you're homeless and you have no place to stay the police can't do anything you can camp where you want to camp on public property anywhere you can park on the federal buildings grass along it was happening for quite a long time you can you can put it in anywhere you want if you are homeless don't have a place to stay so we put a tent up there's a problem there no there is it this isn't my home my home is heaven i don't have a place to stay i'm just tearing that's what the bible says i'm tearing is that tell me is your home your who it better not be if you're christian your home better be all to only heaven because there's a mansion waiting for your always wait for you you just haven't got there yet so my argument is is i'm just tearing here i'm just hanging out here have to hang and skyway most of the time but i decide i want to hang in the park for a few days ok so i thought you know that might work out well i don't know some people tell me no way the police will never let you get away with this and i says how do you know what the police will do sit in chairs and just start sharing jesus and worship and praise i mean do all that the run of the reasons that we won't do it is because we're scared we're afraid we're afraid what people will think we're afraid that if we go into jerusalem people may not like us people may get angry with us maybe somebody will get offended and i gave you something if we do this somebody won't like if we do this somebody may get angry with you if we do this somebody made think that you're judging them so that stop us shouldn't stop us jesus did say i want you to go into drew's thems the marriage day and animals for the role all the if they like you and they receive you that's not what he said and here's the truth of the matter if you go with love yes with most people we do when they when you show love gets with most people do they respond with love back if you're if you if you operate out of love it's hard to be angry at lot so when i was an atheist i'm on the college campus and i have a group that i was with  was called the college republicans and we would go there and we actually had it that we would help elect people that republicans and then we also had it that we run the student government and so we had run for office and i became one of the court justices in the midst of that so we'd have to campaign to get in that position and then the all these always these christian ladies would like to come and talk to jesus and they have as nice as can be and i was mean to them but you know what i only went so far because how can you really be mean to people that would be nice to you so i would tell them they were dominated tell them they were stupid but i didn't take a bad hit why would i do that they're not hurting me and can i tell you most people who share the gospel they may get angry and they make us you out or something like that so be it so who cares is bad enough to stop us because some people won't like it so we go into jerusalem and i want you to know there's a cost that's a ball how we know there's a cost that's a ball when you go to jerusalem there's a cost for following jesus is there there's a cost for following jesus that there's no cost everybody would follow jesus so this look at the cost now i know in the american church we don't talk about this in the mission field they understand it mega church we don't think this way being nice and friendly to people don't ever say in the middle thin them don't talk about the word of god don't try to get a commitment out of people just accept jesus and everything's going to be ok and you disco a lot just accept jesus that's all you have to do how many times people say it just accept is that all that's all you have to do is that all you have to do to get saved that's all you have to do but if you're going to walk on this earth are supposed to more than just accept jesus we're supposed to witness were supposed to share we're supposed to give our all so what is the cost of this look what scripture says the cost is is going to cost us something so what do you think the cost is before don't don't look don't look don't look don't cheat what is the cost you're treated differently so the cost is people may not like you may be mean to what else is the what's the cost i need to feed back persecution what else is the cost sacrifice do you know that the number one cost is time and sacrifice if you're going to make a commitment to jesus how do we know that this liquid jesus said luke chapter nine versus fifty seven to sixty two so they're hanging within and walking along and his mom says i will follow you wherever you go jesus and jesus said they give very much i appreciate that commitment is that when jesus said oh they very much appreciate their commitments glad to hear that you're going to follow me you know jesus does he system things that make you not want to following this is that strange listen what he says which is replied fox's have been delivered and birds have ness but the son of man has no place to even lay head was he telling that person you may not be able just to see where you're at you may have to move you may have to go someplace else if you're going to follow me you may have to pack your bags and go someplace else you know that sounds cold does it not sound cold he's saying you know a lot forget about that person that your father just died you've got to work to do the ministry don't twist jesus words don't twist my words if your father dies tomorrow we'll go bury him ok you can do that all right but what is the same you're going to get caught up in the days of this rule because you've got an excuse to not do what you need to do right now there's this lord i will follow you but st let me say goodbye to my family but jesus taught many who put the hand of the plow then looks back is not fit for the kingdom of god what he was saying you said you wanted to follow me now if you're following me matter so much don't want to follow paul you're going to have to get on the slides because my power went out so follow jesus is going to cost us it's going to cost us time and it's going to cost us energy is going to cost a sacrifice if we're going to reach drusilla is going to cost us something are you willing to pay the cost so there's talk about reaching jerusalem just talk about tents for jesus paul but the next life do you know that every one of us can participate in ministering in that part and you know what'll happen if we minister the park you know or probably also minister someplace else someplace else why because we found out that when we minister at the park we actually could do it so we do something else so we can do what we're going to put up canopies or tents can somebody help put up the canopy and tear down so we put up a canopy put it up in the daytime we take it down in the night time is anybody spiritually gifted to do that kid right there do you know that's a spiritual gift you know why is this spiritual gift because if you don't get the canopy up we can do it i know it's a spiritual gift because when they were building the temple there was a gem i can remember his name but he was a workman that worked with gold silver everything you could think of and it says he was known to buy the holy spirit and the people go to him and find out how they're to do what they're supposed to do he was a workman not a spiritual guy he wasn't a guy that was meant to to go to synagogue every day but he was an individual who knew how to use his hands to build the sitting now so if you tell me pastor rich i can't go there because i can't sit i'm not going to believe you because you're all sitting right now and you have sat for about thirty minutes forty minutes so can you sit for thirty minutes forty minutes in a chair i'll get you the most comfortable chair there is with a question yeah a pastor i could sit but i can't pray quietly i know you can do we have to it's a prayer i don't hear half of you so i know you could sit and pray pray quietly so you can sit and pray quietly you can sit in the chair and people are coming in another part maybe there's nobody in the park and you're going to ur kingdom lord i am praying that wherever my eyes i can see i'm praying for your holy spirit to work and move lord i pray right there that guy that's blocking like this that's all high he's never going to get close to me but little bit so it looks like you're seeing in some you can sing so we put on some music and amazing grace their body can sing amazing grace in this church you may sing it off key it's ok doesn't matter it's the heart it's not how good you can sing is the heart can you sing god says the inhabits the praises of his people so you when you sing guess one god inhabits that can you share your testimony can you tell people you accepted jesus well yeah but i'm not like them yes you are you're sinner like them you're still this and this is crazy you're still center in a sane at the same time accepted christ our life we're saying we're covered by blood we're justified we're sanctified we've been set apart in god's eyes is this be i'm not sin but the truth of the matter we still sin a times so can you share your testimony may be accepted christ twenty years ago thirty years ago all eighty years ago at the go higher than that anybody or than eighty except the jesus now that being said she's eighty she waited longer she wait a while before she accepted jesus so out of it do you have a testimony can you share your testimony somebody was not about drugs not about addiction not about homelessness it's about jesus about god take your life and doing something is about god transforming your life somehow some way did something can you pray for people can you actually lay hands of people and pray for people can you walk there it greet the people at the park and you saw your friendly proud not a prayer just isn't my get but i have the gift of hospitality can you be hospitable at the park hey welcome come on and what you sit down with us you know what we're having some tacos they want some tacos can you be hospitable he just creep people get this welcome people and can you help keep the park lane because you're no you're you're so so shy you're so quiet you're so introverted that there is you can if a person comes to you get a panic attack ok stay away from people and go to garbage so if you can't deal were garbage and go and pick up garbage who can't do something to reach jerusalem and if we do that guess what you might do it right over here but do it over there make it a safe week and here's what happens when you haven't been shot and killed and stabbed the knife and everything else because as you think that happen if you're there when that doesn't happen you might see somebody that's homeless or looks homeless and menu at the grocery store you might actually walk up to them and to them you never been able to do that before but after you've been in the park for a week and you didn't get shot killed and rob maybe you realize that homeless people are as eve was bad as some make in the bee and they're actually human beings that need a savior that need to be loved is that i condemn and by the way you also learn which ones not to hang with because some of them are whack jobs some  you don't want to be around but you'll figure that out right so when you see them start to stab past a ridge that's the one you don't go to k you stay away from those because they're going to step as the rich if i was stab you so you don't hang with those but all of a sudden you start to realize they're just human beings and so wherever you go you see him at the library you see him on the bus or whatever you might finally as the holy spirit rises up with then you and you start to talk to a say what is your story and i know your story you share how you got where you are now and maybe the way you do that is say before you say that then it is can i share my story with you i know that i am an older lady with white hair with glasses that talks quiet and saw the can i tell you what jesus did in my life and what person is really going to shut your is done that she's done the book to give you bible tracks to share with them so you can't say anything just give them a bible tract that tells them about the love of god there are so many ways we can reach out so as they close the question is will you go into jerusalem will you make a commitment to go into our jerusalem the tents for jesus ministry is all about really not about ten pts it's about camping now remember there's people that need to know jesus in our jerusalem capping out of just being there so the a free ticket free tickets to a movie so anybody they gets a ticket gets in the movie and if they go online they can get other people so they can get fifteen people get to fifteen people into a movie how are we going to  can you go and as you walk out the door can you go to the cars that are down below right at the basement here and put one of these on their windshield or you slide in the side of the door when you do that that's going into jerusalem one of the amazing that these people that live across the street who never come to this church i've never seen them i've been here seven years not a single person from the complexes are coming to this church i don't know how many times  church has actually come to them but they all part and you take the card put it in their door and they go to that movie and it touches their heart and they accept christ know i'm not even going to bother and say you've made a decision for them that they don't want to go to the movie who gave you the thor to decide that for who gave you that authorities say they don't want to go to  give you that authority no it's a sin we make the choice of these since they you know i don't know if they want to go to the movie or not but i want to give him the chance to do it so yesterday i went over to fred myers by the way we're not supposed to probably do this i don't care if a homeless person can do drugs in the parking lot you have to tell me i can't put these on doors in the parking lot unless you tell me then you tell me don't do it all so i didn't do it here i did over by the wanted to buy a house so i went around i start putting it in the doors put it all over the people in the car in a game to say the one movie lot of people said no they don't even know what it's about is it free movie tickets it has to be a gimmick or there is a gimmick but we got to give it all right get you to the movie and you could hear the gospel so i just went around and put it in there then i went all by wal mart and did that took me about forty five minutes to do that i think everybody here  walk for fifteen minutes in a parking lot of put some things on a car you don't feel led to do that well go to your neighbors you have a fire go over here there's a good place is easy you know you can be real sneaky you  go during the week day you go over to the park and ride there's cars in the in the covering so nobody will see you other than those cameras but they haven't done anything yet they haven't done it in three years of us doing it but you can go and you know  they're not going to be there goal at eleven o'clock everybody knows cars are got there in seattle they're not going to show back up and you can go and do it then and nobody will bother you and you go put on there you do it really fast fast run fast you can do it now i'm teasing you i'm joking with you but the truth of the matter is is i can make a one thousand these tickets and if you don't go out there and give them out it's just thousands of tickets that goes nobody can you do that i think you can do that and then my last point let me finish is i have two swords here i think it feedback that's amazing luck with the speakers i have two swords here i sword pat you waited too long ok there you go that's going to be living there's that now you can have that cheap one i don't care you're not keeping that one know how people were scared to come up to get the sword i don't know why i don't like people that run up i have no idea what i'm going to try to figure that out this kind of weird but people felt on conflict coming to get the sword so if you know feeling come to get a star you probably have a hard time wielding the sword but there's i want to say it don't matter if it's a sword like this of a sword like this what matters is that you go out the battle you've got the battle can god use that sword to use that sword absolutely and what is the sword the sword is the word of the spirit so if you know a little bit of the word or you know a lot of the words it doesn't matter god can use you regardless you only have to know one verse for god and sixteen you don't know what as in john three hundred and sixteen in the bible that's all you need to know god gave his son for people to have eternal life that's all you need to know you have that you have your testimony you have everything that you need so maybe you have a small sword if you have a large sword maybe you've got all the years and years of knowing jesus maybe you only have six days of knowing jesus you have a testimony in a story we just need to go and take the sword out there need to go there touch people's lives and when i say that please please please i'm saying literally go and do that here here in our city there's all kinds of ways that we can do that from the movie we go out there so we have some another church that had the same vision the pastor after i shared my vision the pastor saw me and he says last week i had a vision that we stand a part of that part and for two hours just worship jesus and share the gospel just love on people so i know that their church will do what their church did in our church did what if one of three or four of us did it but it's not this coming week you got to care for the movie but after the movie so next week on tuesday on we're going to start doing some your kingdom but this is master ridge you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in robust in their jeans as recall the band the name of the lord so with pastor richard over through 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