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 heart god we thank you for your word we thank you for the principles found in your word we pray lord god that we would honor you in glorify you lord even in the preaching of the word the lord that your word would speak to our hearts it means and i pray that father god that we would go we would obey jesus name amen if you know something if you see your bullet in a kind of gives you the scripture about jesus that jesus if you look at this light it says he must go to jerusalem i change it to we must go to jerusalem but he must go to jerusalem in matthew one thousand six hundred and twenty one jesus told his disciples i have to go to jerusalem yes to go for a reason to endure hardship to be whipped to be beat to be mocked to die on the cross to go into the grave so that he can be resurrected so if you look at that passage is that i have to why would you goal because what do you know there was a resurrection that was coming he knew there'd be a new life that becoming if he went to jerusalem he knew that all to me there was going to be eternal life for every believer we're going to cost me what is it going to cost me with this look at to see what jesus gave us a command jesus gave a command to us everybody see how many everywhere everywhere can i tell you if they had not been filled with the holy spirit they would have gone how do we know that because before they got hold of the deal with the holy spirit where were they they were fishing for fish jesus tells them this because he has to catch up with them because they're going back to what they used to do how many christians go back to what they used to do how many christians go back to what they used to do is the doing something new for jesus a lot of reasons why people backslide the reason people fall away from god the reason people don't grow in christ because they go back to the same way of living is they're doing something different did jesus say to go into jerusalem you can get filled with the holy spirit and you're going to go out and you're going to preach the gospel to share the gospel and what he said is that before you do that you really need to go to bible study for ten years is that what he told him you need to go to seminary that is needed to be filled with his holy spirit if you're filled with god's spirit god will lead and direct you and you give you the power in the billeted to be able to share the gospel is there any wro with going to bible study the rama going to college going to seminary maybe i don't know dangerous it will teach you a lot of similary they don't teach of the work of the ministry they teach you how to believe in you are filled with the holy spirit are you going to want to read the words if you feel this holy spirit you're going to need to work man if i'm going to go and i'm going to wait as i need to know what the bible say as ok they're going to want the were the words critical to be able to witness but you don't have to be a scholar on the word to be able to share your testimony so when he told them to go out again they did not all take three years how to learn to be a witness for jesus if you're filled with god's holy spirit you want to witness as you want to do it god says so our jerusalem where is our jerusalem hope is not called now because i disappear in jerusalem if they have to do something so your hope and your might move someplace else because then you won't have to go into jerusalem which is very in our jerusalem is burey and before we get so busy with this scene and minister ina doing the work of the ministry place else we need to take care of your ego well all of us are going to go to some you missionaries ok through missionaries how do we get missionaries there by supporting them that was one answer pray for them that's another answer sending them that's another answer romo skin they're getting closer raise them up raise them up we're missionaries come from they come out of the church is and here's are one of our problems is we're turn around and we spend more money send them out there raise the number but this church raised up some missionaries more than a few the webbers a bit out of the mission field for how long over thirty years in the mission field coming out of this church where are the others since that time simone congregation rare you're missionaries going out here's the story we need to send out missionaries but we probably won't sit on missionaries if we won't be a missionary in our jerusalem why should we send missionaries if we want  missionaries don't tell them that we live in and so out of it we could support missionaries by giving the support missionaries by praying for them because part missionaries by send them out but we can't see them out until we raise them up ok but maybe what we need to do is look at what we can do here ourselves as the expecting somebody else to go out and do the work of the ministry so i'm going to show you just one part of our jerusalem anybody recognize where this is that in the center there are very is that this gate park were transformed here in the ministry is the skate park anybody know where the skate park is that way all you got to do is walk out this door and you will walk it walk two blocks you make a right right there staring right in front of you is the skate park one of several parks that are in the area that can be our jerusalem can it not oh wait a nd by the time you walk from here to there you might find somebody along the way so you jerusalem could be right literally out the door you drusilla might be somebody in this room we had some of that came to bible study kit where to go what happened to it did you get to talk to him or did he leave before you got it and then he's there for a little bit he walks out so as he walked i told kid catching sometimes you're drusilla walk away you've got to catch it before it walks away what i mean by that maybe there's an opportunity that you have that you'll miss you know keep your eyes open around ok so he's coming to get a wall he's not coming to church but i recognise him now i see em so if he's in a meeting when i'm here  would say hi to all i was the pastor you walked out on actually i will say that because i have a way that i could use that don't you say it to him you walked out on our pastor i'll sa on the par but suddenly in opera want to end it there are several tents now so you don't have a heart attack you go there right now there's not that many tents out there is every bit every leaves a little bit ok but in the middle can you see what's in the middle what is that and you tell there's needles there's baggies see the needles  caps there's baggage you know those bags hold drugs little baggies normally about that size what they are ok they can be different size and they have drugs and but there is through the park you'll see needles so they operate on there's needles through the park is not as bad as it used to be sometimes it gets worse sometimes it gets better you know if we start having can't see in the park and we have needles you know to get to that you understand that that if we allow people who are doing drugs to put tencent parts that what will happen will be more people with tents that would do more drugs and so then the skate park will alternately be covered tent drugs and then people won't want to go there to take their kids their dogs there people don't want to go there now there's been times where people who are smoking math and you can see the smoke out of the t so do you think that's a safe place for kids to be is that where you would want to take your kids to go play on the skateboard ok so what do we do it's our jerusalem so if that's our jerusalem what do we do  do we go and complain and scream and yell and rumble and say the city should do something about it and what don't the police do something about it when the parks do something about it why don't everybody do something about it and everybody includes everybody but one human being who is it yeah us me everybody should do something about except for us so we all need to do is we need to get our a r fifteen they go out there protect the park but you need to do is you need to get a big sword and you stand in front of a judge of the park and you're not allowed is that what we do know better but he said no every said no right no we don't do that what we do is we share the love of god so tense for jesus last sunday night we had worship in the midst of worship god spoke to me very clearly very clearly this is real need to do something we need to bring the presence of god into the part 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 then 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 very that's what the bible says i'm terry is that tell me as 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 you're always waiting for you just haven't got there yet so my argument is is i'm just tearing here i'm just hanging out here i 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've got 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 and do all that so i decide to talk to the police because you know i'm kind of strange i get ideas that i think we should do will as i shared with them this is the idea just so you know all is we're thinking about putting up tents and actually camping out there and and turn around and share in the gospel and what i want to know is what you kick us out and he says you know what we would love you there we would love you there he says but we have some plans to take care of that part and i can't share all the plans but they have some plans the run 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 if you do this somebody made think that you're judging them so that stop us shouldn't stop us that 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 guess what most people do when they when you show love guess what 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 love 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 were 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 may cuss 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 it'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 saying the little 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 except 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 we're 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 does that cost with this look what scripture says the cost is it's 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 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 time do you know that the number one cost is time and sacrifice if you're going to limit the jesus how do we know that this look what jesus said luke chapter nine versus fifty seven to sixty two so they're hanging within a walk 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 that commitments lead to head was he telling that person you may not be able just to say where you're at you may have to move may have to go someplace else if you going to follow me you may have to pack your bags and go someplace else you know that's true certainly true for missionaries isn't it that the pact or pagans and go someplace else jesus said to another person come follow me the man agreed but he said lord st let me return home i bury my father all father does but i got to do a that sounds cold doesn't not sound cole he's saying you know a lot forget about that person that your father just died you 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 role because you've got an excuse to not do what you need to do right now so follow jesus is going to cost this is 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 go the next life where you can do 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 god i thank you father god for your words i thank you father god that we are called warriors and soldiers for your kingdom are supposed to be soldiers for christ so i pray father god that we would put on the full armor of god and we take the sort of the spirit and large body parts that passage that also says that we are to pray we can put on all of the armor of god but we need to pray lord god that father god would make a commitment and prayer kingdom so father god will make a commitment to go into trees jesus name a man's master ridge do 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 here is there is hope t v dot org and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity the let you know step by step out accept jesus christ your lord and savior encourage you to go to t v or that is there is  life seattle open door church located and during committed to loving god loving people and loving one seattle open door church once you are know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves  doors 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