Caption transcript for The Lobstermen: “The Mobile Church!” (4/10)

• 00:01 ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
• 00:31 ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
• 00:41 ♪♪♪
• 00:49 ♪♪♪
• 00:51 Caleb Colson: Why did you bring us here to an old church,
• 00:53 Pastor Mike?
• 00:55 The church has no place in the series, you know this.
• 00:56 Joshua Colson: Does this church have a good men's program?
• 00:58 'Cause I like to learn about power tools in church.
• 01:01 Mike Ferland: No guys, I brought you here today because this
• 01:03 church is the perfect example of the modern church.
• 01:07 Caleb: This is clearly not a modern church--
• 01:09 Joshua C.: Super modern, 1850s chic.
• 01:12 Mike: Well, this church, like churches they were built
• 01:14 for a purpose, but they've forgotten what that purpose is.
• 01:19 Israel Hanna: As a result, a lot of these new churches are ending
• 01:22 up to be empty churches, you know, just for that reason.
• 01:25 They're not meeting the needs of other people, they're not
• 01:28 telling them about Jesus.
• 01:30 Joshua C.: I can fix this right now.
• 01:31 Hey everybody, we're open on Sunday.
• 01:34 Mike: There's nobody here.
• 01:36 Caleb: You know, Mike, the reason that the modern church is
• 01:39 in such a state of disrepair, is because instead of following
• 01:43 Yeshua's command to go out into all the world, they tried to
• 01:46 bring the world into them.
• 01:48 And that never jives with the Holy Spirit, especially
• 01:51 becoming worldly.
• 01:52 Mike: Exactly, it doesn't, and that's the unfortunate thing.
• 01:56 I've pastored here in New England for 14 years.
• 01:59 And like this building, the churches today in New England,
• 02:04 throughout the country, are really struggling with that
• 02:07 purpose of going into all of the world.
• 02:11 Some of 'em are even becoming worldly.
• 02:15 And it's about becoming a famous pastor, and you know, how many
• 02:20 likes and follows you're getting, when it's really--
• 02:22 should be about following Jesus.
• 02:25 And he said to go into all the world, make disciples, right?
• 02:28 And what?
• 02:29 Teach them all of the things that I've commanded you.
• 02:33 Too many churches today, it's about the building, the history
• 02:37 of the building.
• 02:38 Like this church here, it has been around for a couple hundred
• 02:41 years, but it's not in use anymore.
• 02:44 It's a museum, you know.
• 02:45 It breaks my heart, in my community so many people are
• 02:49 hurting, so many people with drugs, marriage is ending, just
• 02:54 lives in distress.
• 02:57 Suicides are so high here.
• 03:00 Joshua C.: The saddest thing of all is, you'll--a lot of people
• 03:02 will see a building like this, this traditional shape of
• 03:05 church, and the first thing they feel is hurt because that focus
• 03:08 being on the building and the institution not on the person
• 03:11 has brought so much pain to different people because we have
• 03:15 said it's not about Jesus reaching you, it's about you
• 03:18 falling into line with what we want you to do.
• 03:20 The building itself was never the purpose.
• 03:23 It's not the church. We're the church.
• 03:25 Mike: Guys, I know a thing.
• 03:26 I said I pastored here for 14 years.
• 03:28 I know about church hurt.
• 03:31 Because a couple of years ago, I just got burnt out and that was
• 03:36 not--I didn't get that love of fellow believers.
• 03:41 I got that judgment, I got that, "Oh, you're walking away, how
• 03:44 could you?"
• 03:45 But I reached burnout because of frustration, because
• 03:49 of immobility.
• 03:50 Some of it on my part, you know, to adapt, but when you are
• 03:55 constantly coming up against, you know, the resistance to go
• 03:59 into all the world when it's in your heart.
• 04:02 Joshua C.: And I know specifically in your situation,
• 04:05 the pastor became the sounding board for their religion and
• 04:09 then the retaliation.
• 04:11 And then everything that happened in your situation was
• 04:13 because you wanted to do what God told you to do, and they
• 04:16 wanted to do what man thought they should do, and they had
• 04:18 an impasse.
• 04:19 Israel: So Mike, you got--you reached your frustration by the
• 04:22 fact you teach the truth.
• 04:24 Not everybody wants to hear the truth.
• 04:27 They like to have their ears tickled.
• 04:29 So as a result, I was a pastor at one time and I figured,
• 04:33 "Where am I gonna pastor?"
• 04:35 You know, go to these churches and you know, most of 'em
• 04:37 wouldn't even accept me.
• 04:39 So I went to the jail.
• 04:40 Now, I would rather preach actually in jail, to tell you
• 04:43 the truth, because there's people there who are willing to
• 04:45 listen, you know.
• 04:47 And I just loved it.
• 04:48 So I would get the guys in the jail, or the Lord would, and we
• 04:51 filled up the church.
• 04:53 And that's the problem, nobody goes out like you're
• 04:56 talking--like we're talking about.
• 04:58 Jesus and his disciples set the example.
• 05:00 They went out to the villages and the towns and the people
• 05:04 wherever they could find 'em.
• 05:06 And after a while, the people started to find them.
• 05:09 Joshua C.: Yeah, they started a search to dig them out.
• 05:11 Caleb: I think that's very cool because last week we learned
• 05:14 about how to be empowered with the Holy Spirit so then Yeshua
• 05:18 could send us out.
• 05:19 So this week, guys, we're gonna learn to become axmen.
• 05:23 Follow me guys, you're gonna enjoy this.
• 05:27 Caleb: Acts 2:42 through 47, "And they continue
• 05:30 steadfastly in the apostle's doctrine and fellowship in the
• 05:33 breaking of bread and in prayers and many wonders and signs were
• 05:37 done through the apostles.
• 05:39 Now all who believed were together, and had all things in
• 05:42 common, and sold their possessions and goods, and
• 05:45 divided them among all, as anyone had need.
• 05:48 So continuing daily with one accord in a temple and breaking
• 05:51 bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and
• 05:55 simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with
• 05:58 all people.
• 05:59 And the Lord added to the church daily those who were
• 06:02 being saved."
• 06:05 Caleb: Look at this gentlemen.
• 06:07 Just wait till you see what I have in store for you today.
• 06:10 Joshua Aaron: Hello, guys.
• 06:12 Mike: Where'd you come from, dude?
• 06:14 Caleb: I totally did not expect to see to--
• 06:16 Joshua A.: The reverend.
• 06:19 Caleb: Joshua. Joshua A.: Caleb.
• 06:21 Israel, my brother.
• 06:23 Israel: Are you really Joshua Aaron?
• 06:25 You are?
• 06:26 Joshua: In the mustache, the flesh.
• 06:28 Caleb: [laughs] Mustache--flesh.
• 06:29 ♪♪♪
• 06:36 Tina Scheer: I started logrolling there and then we
• 06:38 logrolled my brothers and sisters and in our late teens
• 06:41 and early 20s, we were like, "Let's start a lumberjack show."
• 06:44 So our family's original lumberjack show started in
• 06:47 Hayward in 1979.
• 06:51 And then I worked there for 15 years before I decided to come
• 06:54 to Maine to start my own lumberjack show.
• 06:58 Tina: Good morning.
• 07:00 Joshua C.: Good morning.
• 07:01 Tina: How's it going?
• 07:02 Joshua: Wonderful, that's incredible right there.
• 07:04 That's an entrance.
• 07:05 Tina: It's a beautiful morning in Maine for doing
• 07:07 some lumberjack sports.
• 07:08 Israel: Look at this guy over here.
• 07:09 Tina: This is Lumberjack Johnny.
• 07:11 Israel: Lumberjack Johnny, all right.
• 07:15 Tina: You guys got the same color flannel on.
• 07:17 Caleb: He has an ax.
• 07:18 Are you gonna teach us, like, to do stuff with ax?
• 07:20 Johnny: Yeah, this is a throwing ax.
• 07:22 Caleb: We're gonna be axmen?
• 07:24 Oh yeah, totally cool.
• 07:25 Tina: I just hope you don't have an ax-cident.
• 07:29 Caleb: Two dad jokes in a row, that's two.
• 07:31 Mike: You do have a weird ax-cent.
• 07:34 Tina: Oh, come on.
• 07:36 No, so we're gonna teach you how to ax throw, crosscut saw.
• 07:40 If you want a chainsaw, you can chainsaw.
• 07:43 If you want to attempt to go up that pole.
• 07:45 Caleb: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
• 07:47 Tina: We're gonna teach you guys how to be a lumberjack.
• 07:49 And you know that--you know we have a saying around here: never
• 07:52 trust a man without a beard.
• 07:53 Joshua C.: See, I've been saying that my whole life.
• 07:56 Tina: You all get to stay.
• 07:58 Joshua C.: Romans 12:3 through 8, "I say to everyone among you
• 08:02 not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to
• 08:04 think, but to use sound judgment, as God had assigned to
• 08:08 each person a measure of faith.
• 08:10 For just as we have many parts in one body--and all the parts
• 08:14 do not have the same function-- so we who are many, are one body
• 08:18 in Messiah in everyone parts of one another.
• 08:21 We have gifts that differ according to the grace that was
• 08:24 given to us--if prophecy in proportion to our faith; if
• 08:28 service, and our serving; or the one who teaches in his teaching:
• 08:33 or the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; for the one who
• 08:36 gives, in generosity; the one who leads, with diligence; the
• 08:39 one who shows mercy, with cheerfulness."
• 08:44 Tina: All right, who's first?
• 08:46 Caleb: I volunteer as tribute.
• 08:47 Joshua C.: Oh, wow.
• 08:49 Caleb: [laughs] All right, sir, how far away do I go?
• 08:53 Tina: There's a line up there.
• 08:54 Caleb: Red line.
• 08:58 Caleb: All right, gentlemen, get ready for the axman.
• 09:03 [exhales]
• 09:06 I did straight. I did straight.
• 09:08 Joshua C.: It hit wood.
• 09:09 Caleb: I count that as a hit.
• 09:11 I did it. I got it.
• 09:13 Who's next? Who's next?
• 09:14 Who's next? Come on, come on--
• 09:16 Joshua C.: Y'all wanna see somebody do it worse?
• 09:18 Where am I standing, Johnny?
• 09:19 Johnny: Wherever is comfortable for you.
• 09:21 Joshua: None of it's comfortable.
• 09:23 [grunts]
• 09:28 all: Oh!
• 09:30 Joshua C.: I did get the GoPro, yeah.
• 09:34 Tina: And it's still there.
• 09:37 all: Oh!
• 09:40 Caleb: Yes, well done.
• 09:41 Joshua: I have wounded my target shoulder.
• 09:44 Caleb: You know, Josh, our bodies are now the temple of the
• 09:48 Holy Spirit.
• 09:49 Wherever we go, the presence of God goes with us.
• 09:52 And it was always meant to be that way.
• 09:54 We're walking, talking holy of holies.
• 09:57 You know, back when Yeshua said it was finished, a veil in the
• 10:01 temple was torn in pieces. [speaking in Hebrew]
• 10:04 It was torn in half.
• 10:06 And 1 Corinthians 3:16 says, "Do you not know that your bodies
• 10:09 are a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?
• 10:13 You are of God and you are not your own."
• 10:14 I mean, that's awesome.
• 10:15 Joshua: It's important though, not just to focus on the Holy
• 10:17 Spirit but to remember that your physical body is that temple of
• 10:20 the Holy Spirit.
• 10:22 And if for some reason you neglect that physical body and
• 10:24 it can no longer house the Holy Spirit, you can't do your job.
• 10:27 And so, we also have to take care and train these bodies to
• 10:30 be physically strong and healthy so that we can be actual axmen.
• 10:35 Caleb: Now you did it. Axmen dad joke.
• 10:38 Ha-ha, got you. [laughs]
• 10:41 Caleb: Ephesians 1:22 through 23, "And God placed all
• 10:45 things under his [Yeshua's]
• 10:46 feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the
• 10:50 church, which is his body, the fullness of Him who fills
• 10:54 everything in every way."
• 10:56 Tina: So this is an M-tooth racing saw: one person's on one
• 10:59 side and one person's on the other.
• 11:01 So you have your right hand on bottom, left hand on top.
• 11:03 You wanna be about as far away as you can reach in.
• 11:05 So you go back and forth, and back and forth.
• 11:08 ♪♪♪
• 11:15 Tina: I say for a second, but I can't stop.
• 11:17 Caleb: You can help finish it--
• 11:19 Joshua C.: And it's a my-size coaster.
• 11:20 Tina: Right. All right.
• 11:24 Joshua C.: Who's going? Brother?
• 11:26 Caleb: Who's gonna be the Jill?
• 11:27 Joshua A.: I'll be the Jill. Oh, you go.
• 11:28 Joshua C.: No, no, go.
• 11:31 [grunting]
• 11:32 Tina: Keep in the wood.
• 11:34 He's lifting.
• 11:36 Caleb: Heave-ho, heave-ho. Gotta sing.
• 11:38 Sing, Josh.
• 11:40 Joshua A.: I've gotta learn the song.
• 11:42 Caleb: Stop lifting. Joshua A.: You're lifting.
• 11:44 Tina: Nah, he's lifting.
• 11:46 Caleb: I'm lifting?
• 11:47 Joshua A.: It's gotta be hard to be so tall--yeah!
• 11:50 Israel: We can do it.
• 11:51 Joshua C.: All right. Israel: All right.
• 11:54 Caleb: Look at you guys going.
• 11:56 You know, part of being one body in the body of Messiah is
• 11:59 working together in unity like that.
• 12:02 You know, we were called to be the bride, and Messiah is
• 12:05 the head.
• 12:07 Matthew 18:19, guys, says that we are to be two or more
• 12:11 believing on anything, and thereof our Father grants that.
• 12:14 That's why he made the union of marriage, Mike.
• 12:17 It's so that we could fully understand how to be one with
• 12:19 Messiah as we're one with our spouse.
• 12:21 And look, the results speak for themselves, it's awesome.
• 12:26 Joshua C.: Ephesians 5:21 through 24, "Submit to one
• 12:29 another out of reverence for Christ.
• 12:31 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the
• 12:35 Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is
• 12:38 the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
• 12:41 Now, as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should
• 12:45 submit to their husbands in everything."
• 12:50 Tina: All right, so this is the underhand chop.
• 12:51 This is how you cut a log in two before crosscut saws when all
• 12:55 the work was done with axes.
• 12:56 So you need--you can't chop on top of a round log.
• 12:59 You need a solid base in which to get your most productive and
• 13:03 accurate hits.
• 13:04 So he gets the log ready, then he gets his raising ax, and then
• 13:08 he gets on top and chops that baby in two!
• 13:11 Go, Johnny.
• 13:14 Mike: Oh my goodness, dude!
• 13:18 Joshua C.: He is way tougher than I am.
• 13:23 Caleb: Oh, he did it, he did it, woo-hoo!
• 13:30 Joshua A.: I know, I feel like a knight.
• 13:32 I'm a footed knight.
• 13:35 I'm a knight in the foot.
• 13:37 Caleb: You know Josh, the structure of a modern church is
• 13:39 nothing like it was in Acts the way that God designed.
• 13:43 I mean--and if you look back in the old days, there was a
• 13:46 hierarchical structure, if you will--that's a hard
• 13:49 word to pronounce.
• 13:50 Joshua: It's a terrible word.
• 13:51 Caleb: You had the apostle, then the prophet, then the
• 13:54 evangelists, then the pastor, and then the teacher.
• 13:57 And these five were--they were supposed to work together in
• 14:01 unity, in one.
• 14:02 They were like King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
• 14:05 They were called the elders and this group of elders were in
• 14:09 charge of ruling, or leading, shepherding the church.
• 14:13 Joshua C.: Well, unfortunately, today's church gets it
• 14:15 really wrong.
• 14:16 They kind of misinterpret things.
• 14:18 It is the Messiah who is supposed to be the chief
• 14:20 shepherd of the church to lead the flock, Yeshua.
• 14:23 And it's--that group of elders has spoken about in 1 Peter 5
• 14:27 that helps make governing decisions based on what Messiah
• 14:30 Yeshua tells them to do.
• 14:32 Caleb: So pastor's not the head?
• 14:34 Joshua C.: I mean, only if you read the Bible, but you know.
• 14:38 Joshua C.: Axman, look at that.
• 14:39 Caleb: Oh, buddy.
• 14:44 Joshua C: Hey, this [indistinct] is delicious.
• 14:50 Tina: Does somebody wanna try the hot saw, the big chainsaw?
• 14:54 We gotta get your safety gear on 'cause you always wanna put on
• 14:57 your chainsaw chaps, eye protection.
• 14:59 Joshua C.: My beard is not safe enough?
• 15:00 This is a really nice beard.
• 15:02 It's very dense.
• 15:03 Tina: We could be through with that thing in one swipe.
• 15:06 Joshua C.: Oh, my beard is so offended, now I gotta
• 15:09 challenge it.
• 15:10 Caleb: Ephesians 4:11 through 16, "And He Himself gave
• 15:13 some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and
• 15:17 some pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints for
• 15:20 the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
• 15:24 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge
• 15:27 of a Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the
• 15:30 stature of the fullness of Christ."
• 15:32 Caleb: You gonna--good gaming, brother?
• 15:36 You got a good game, Johnny, you know?
• 15:38 Tina: Climber, ready. Three, two, one, go!
• 15:42 Joshua C.: Yeah! Caleb: Go, Johnny, hoo!
• 15:45 Joshua C.: That is incredibly swift.
• 15:46 Caleb: What in the world?
• 15:48 Joshua C.: It's like a Spi--Ryan.
• 15:50 Ryan needs to compete against Johnny.
• 15:52 Little spider monkey.
• 15:57 Mike: Well done.
• 15:58 Joshua C.: Oh, he's catching all the drones in the top of
• 16:00 the trees for us.
• 16:01 Caleb: Well done.
• 16:03 Joshua C.: That's amaz--oh! Caleb: Woo, yeah!
• 16:06 Caleb: Right, Yeshua called us to be his mobile church.
• 16:10 He didn't say you just had to go horizontally across the world.
• 16:14 What if there are people who need Yeshua up, you know, in the
• 16:17 sky like the birds?
• 16:18 I mean, maybe there's like natives that live up in the
• 16:20 trees like the Ewoks.
• 16:22 I gotta go up and lead those up people to Yeshua.
• 16:25 So this is gonna be interesting.
• 16:27 But I've been waiting for this forever.
• 16:28 ♪♪♪
• 16:33 Joshua C.: There you go, come on, dude, yeah.
• 16:36 Mike: Kick that spur in there.
• 16:38 Joshua C.: Use those--use that leg strength, brother.
• 16:43 Does he need to lean back to have tension, or--
• 16:46 [everyone exclaiming]
• 16:47 Mike: All right? Caleb: All right.
• 16:51 Joshua C.: You've--you made five girls and raised 'em.
• 16:54 You can do this.
• 16:56 There's nothing scarier in this life than raising five women.
• 17:00 Keep going.
• 17:01 Tina: Except sliding down a pole structure.
• 17:04 Joshua C.: Come on, bubba, you can do it, keep it up.
• 17:07 Mike: You're almost there. You're almost to the--.
• 17:10 Joshua C.: Yes sir, yes sir.
• 17:13 There you go. Come on.
• 17:18 Joshua A.: It was beautiful, his was flowing in the air.
• 17:22 The high frame really blocks.
• 17:24 Oh my goodness.
• 17:28 Get the heck out of here.
• 17:30 Caleb: I am done.
• 17:32 What else do we got now?
• 17:34 Come on, I can take it all on.
• 17:37 Tina: I think you're a lumberjack already.
• 17:40 Caleb: I did. Tina: You did it.
• 17:41 Caleb: I'm a real man. Tina: You get a certificate.
• 17:44 Caleb: Thank you, Tina, this has been amazing experience.
• 17:46 Tina: I hope you guys had a great time.
• 17:47 Joshua C.: We had an amazing time.
• 17:49 Tina: Yeah, it was really fun getting to know you guys and
• 17:50 watching you try to be lumberjacks.
• 17:53 Joshua C.: The operative word being "tried" because none of us
• 17:56 can fill Johnny's shoes or sleeves yet that ripped off,
• 17:59 apparently, while he was being a man.
• 18:02 Caleb: The great Maine lumberjack right there.
• 18:04 Tina: That's right, he is a great Maine lumberjack.
• 18:06 And I hope you guys enjoy yourselves here.
• 18:09 And learned a little bit about our sport and the history of
• 18:11 logging in America, and you guys all passed.
• 18:15 You're all lumberjacks.
• 18:16 Yoho!
• 18:19 Joshua C.: Knew it, I knew it.
• 18:21 Tina: Thank you, guys.
• 18:23 Now, go enjoy some more Maine.
• 18:24 Joshua C.: Doing push-ups or something manly.
• 18:28 Caleb: Wouldn't you like to stop blowing monthly fees on
• 18:31 pagan entertainment?
• 18:32 Joshua C.: Well, yeah.
• 18:34 Caleb: Well, how about spraying the gospel of Yeshua while
• 18:36 giving a bunch of cool stuff?
• 18:37 Joshua: Heck yeah.
• 18:38 Caleb: Then join the "Bearded Bible Bonanza" on Patreon, where
• 18:41 you'll see the brothers continue their teachings with
• 18:43 never-before-aired content that pagans don't want you to see.
• 18:46 God bless their souls.
• 18:48 Joshua C.: Ephesians 4:14 through 16, "We should no longer
• 18:51 be children tossed to and fro and carried about with every
• 18:54 wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, and the cunning
• 18:57 craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the
• 19:00 truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him, who is the
• 19:04 head--Christ--from whom the whole body joined and knit
• 19:07 together by what every joint supplies, according to the
• 19:11 effectiveness working by which every part does its share.
• 19:15 It causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love."
• 19:19 Joshua C.: Gentlemen, I'm so glad that you were so willing to
• 19:20 wake up this morning as usual at 3:37 a.m.
• 19:23 just to spend some quality time together with nothing but men.
• 19:26 I wanted to talk about something very important today.
• 19:28 I think it's overlooked, especially in the body of
• 19:30 Christ, and that is that we are the church.
• 19:33 I was told in my translation of the Bible that I read that we
• 19:36 are actually a mobile church, right?
• 19:38 Because anywhere I go I have Yeshua on the inside of me, I
• 19:41 bring him with me and henceforth, I can have church
• 19:43 anywhere, right?
• 19:45 So today I thought what better than to reach anybody that may
• 19:49 be lost in that wilderness on the border of Canada.
• 19:52 And you know what?
• 19:54 I couldn't live with myself if they died and go to hell because
• 19:56 nobody told 'em so I've rented us these extreme ATVs to go out
• 20:00 and find the gospel with these people.
• 20:02 Don't laugh, the Holy Spirit has something for us today, I
• 20:05 believe it.
• 20:07 Joshua C.: Oh, it's so ugly out here.
• 20:10 I almost wanna close my eyes it's just disgusting.
• 20:13 I don't see any concrete.
• 20:15 I don't smell any smog.
• 20:16 That's perfect.
• 20:18 It's absolutely perfect.
• 20:21 You know, we have this trail right here which is pretty handy
• 20:23 because, obviously, when we have a trail we know we're
• 20:26 designated--we can go here and if, you know, we can start to
• 20:29 get lost or we feed somebody to a moose and we wanna run away,
• 20:34 we know how to get back faster.
• 20:35 But sometimes you don't have a trail.
• 20:37 I've been on some of these trails with Mike.
• 20:39 We get out there, there's no internet signal, but it's easy
• 20:43 to get lost is the point.
• 20:45 You know, and I think sometimes, especially with men in life, we
• 20:48 can get off the trail, not follow the directions of God's
• 20:53 Word, and kinda get lost.
• 20:55 And instead of stopping and asking for help, we kind of
• 20:58 barrel on down the road.
• 21:00 And whether that's for our own pride, whether it's because
• 21:04 we're afraid of the consequences of what if you went too far down
• 21:07 the road, we wake up one day, we don't know where we're at, we
• 21:11 don't know who we are, and we definitely don't know how to
• 21:13 get back.
• 21:15 And it's super simple and it doesn't take wrong intention,
• 21:17 you know.
• 21:19 I was thinking the other day--I lived in Zambia many years ago
• 21:23 in an orphanage and worked with the kids during the week and
• 21:27 every once in a while we'd get a break on the weekend to go kind
• 21:29 of do something we wanted.
• 21:30 And Zambia was decently close to Victoria Falls, which is one of
• 21:35 the seven natural wonders of the world.
• 21:36 It's a waterfall that's so big it goes across Zambia and
• 21:39 Zimbabwe, it's beautiful.
• 21:41 And so, there was a group of us that wanted to go see the falls,
• 21:44 but we get there with these wooden canoes--so we have a
• 21:47 guide and I'm in a boat with a friend of mine.
• 21:51 And the guide says very specifically, he said, "Make
• 21:53 sure that you keep your eyes on my lead canoe 'cause we're gonna
• 21:57 go down this river, and the river has a current, and there's
• 21:59 a lot of things along the way that can harm you."
• 22:02 You know, you can crash, you can flip, you can have all these
• 22:05 other issues, but one of the big ones was that the number one
• 22:08 killer of man in Africa at the time was the hippopotamus.
• 22:11 And I--you laugh at 'em, but their jaws were so strong that
• 22:14 if they got you, they could cut you in half with one bite.
• 22:16 And they're amazing swimmers, okay?
• 22:20 So they said there's hippo nests all over the place and you don't
• 22:21 know how to see it, but I know how to see it.
• 22:24 So you stay in line and you pay attention, right?
• 22:27 Now, as any good man does along this way, I say to my friend,
• 22:31 "Hey, I wanna get some video footage.
• 22:35 I'm not gonna pay attention for a second.
• 22:36 I want you to pay attention while I'm getting this
• 22:39 footage," right?
• 22:40 So I'm in my camera and I'm looking around, getting these
• 22:41 epic shots of the Zambezi River.
• 22:43 And I'm just relying on the fact that my friend's gonna, you
• 22:45 know, do this, right?
• 22:46 And off in the distance I see, like, this kind of like flailing
• 22:50 figure, and I zoom in on my lens and it's my guide and he's
• 22:52 standing in this canoe and he's flailing his arms like this.
• 22:55 And he's yelling something I can't quite make out and I pay
• 22:58 attention, he goes, "Ippo!
• 23:00 Ippo!"
• 23:01 And I'm like, "Hippo? Where?"
• 23:03 And I take my eye out of the--out of this false
• 23:06 perspective I was looking through, right?
• 23:07 I was zoomed in like 50 times.
• 23:09 And so, when I took my eye out of that false perspective and
• 23:11 I looked, my friend was doing the same thing I was doing,
• 23:16 taking pictures and not paying attention.
• 23:18 And instead of us paddling towards this area, we split off
• 23:21 into this V shape on the river and had gone straight into a
• 23:24 hippo nest.
• 23:26 So literally the one thing you weren't supposed to do.
• 23:28 And I look, and all these mama hippos on either
• 23:30 side are like, bloop!
• 23:31 And submerged out of the water and I'm like, "Oh!"
• 23:34 So I grabbed the oar and I'm like...
• 23:37 Like, literally the canoe is tilting up like this because I
• 23:40 don't know.
• 23:41 And you see them coming towards us, and eventually we paddled
• 23:43 out, and got over there, and the guide's like yelling at me and
• 23:45 all this kinda stuff.
• 23:47 Our perspective in life is so shortsighted that we're making
• 23:51 all of these decisions and all these choices based off this
• 23:53 right here.
• 23:55 And yet God is on this position looking at the entire river, and
• 23:58 the falls, and everything from above, and seeing it all
• 24:01 at once, and all the power, and all the might,
• 24:03 and all the problems.
• 24:05 And he's gonna go this way, "All right, now go this way.
• 24:08 Now go this way, bud."
• 24:09 And he's given us his Word as a guide.
• 24:12 His Word guides us--maybe not to say on Tuesday you're gonna go
• 24:15 down the falls wrong, but he says, "Look, here's a character
• 24:18 that you can follow.
• 24:20 Here is my Word that says these are things you should and
• 24:22 shouldn't do.
• 24:24 Here's how to be a man that is a leader and when you follow these
• 24:27 precepts, I will step in with the Holy Spirit and give you the
• 24:30 rest of what you need on a daily basis because I love you."
• 24:33 But when we don't do that and we put that aside, next thing you
• 24:36 know, we're in the devil's hippo nest.
• 24:38 But the beauty is no matter how far you veer off course, the
• 24:42 second you turn and say, "Abba, Father," he's right there ready
• 24:48 to whip you back into shape and get you on that road.
• 24:52 Joshua C.: Hebrews 10:24 through 25, "And let us consider one
• 24:55 another to provoke unto love and good works; not forsaking the
• 24:58 assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some
• 25:01 is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more as ye see
• 25:06 the day approaching."
• 25:08 Joshua C.: Sometimes it feels like this path takes longer and
• 25:11 sometimes it's kind of like navigating through a pair of
• 25:13 skinny jeans to get here.
• 25:15 But look at that view.
• 25:17 I mean, look at it.
• 25:18 The wide path always leads to Walmart and you don't want that.
• 25:21 It's just destruction.
• 25:22 But this right here, this is worth committing to the rules,
• 25:26 to the details, like following the plan.
• 25:28 I love it.
• 25:30 Caleb: But the--it's beautiful right now, guys, but this is
• 25:32 the truth.
• 25:33 Yeshua promised you will have persecution.
• 25:35 He promised that we would have hard times.
• 25:38 So, though I'm really grateful to Josh for taking this--to this
• 25:42 amazing view, when you go out and you
• 25:44 follow Yeshua, sometimes you go out into the world.
• 25:47 He went into the worst places, guys.
• 25:49 He went with the publicans, the sinners, the tax collectors,
• 25:52 the prostitutes.
• 25:53 It's not always beautiful.
• 25:55 Sometimes it's ugly.
• 25:57 And you see the people that are really scarred and affected by
• 26:02 sin of the world, by Satan, and they're destitute and
• 26:05 they're hurting.
• 26:06 And it takes a lot to reach those hardened individuals, but
• 26:10 we have one key to reach the lost, and that's love.
• 26:14 And that's what this message is about, the mobile church.
• 26:18 We take the presence of God with us wherever we go so that they
• 26:21 can feel the anointing and presence of God and they're
• 26:24 gonna want what we have to climb out of that pit.
• 26:27 Joshua C.: Don't be caught off guard that sinners are sinning.
• 26:30 Guess what?
• 26:31 That's what they do and they're wicked good at it.
• 26:33 That's just the point.
• 26:35 Now, be wicked good at loving them because you're a believer
• 26:37 and you have Jesus on the inside of you.
• 26:39 If you can't be better at having love inside of you than they can
• 26:42 at having sin inside of them, there's a problem in
• 26:44 that equation.
• 26:45 Mike: Yeah, God calls us to be different, right?
• 26:47 Peculiar, set apart and different from the world.
• 26:50 Well, their whole experience in life has just been being judged
• 26:53 by everybody that comes along.
• 26:56 So we come in with love and they're more likely to
• 27:00 receive it.
• 27:01 Israel: You know, Josh, I'd like to remind you that on these
• 27:03 trails, you know, that we don't often know where we're going.
• 27:07 And on--and my journey as an evangelist, I like to look
• 27:11 forward to divine appointments, you know, they're appointments
• 27:14 that are arranged by God himself.
• 27:16 So walking through the woods not knowing where we're at, we come
• 27:18 out to this beautiful scene though, it's just beautiful.
• 27:21 We did not know this was here, but God brought us to
• 27:24 this place.
• 27:26 Now, not every journey ends up in a place like this.
• 27:29 Sometimes you may come upon an accident, for example, where
• 27:31 there's total chaos, or people are wounded, or in different
• 27:35 situations and--but you're there at that moment in time for
• 27:39 a reason.
• 27:40 And that is to speak the Word of God and to speak life to all
• 27:43 those around you, even in that dark place as well as the divine
• 27:46 appointment areas.
• 27:47 Does that make any sense?
• 27:49 Joshua A.: Yeah, makes a lot of sense.
• 27:51 Joshua C.: Well, let's see if we can get out of the forest
• 27:53 before any banjo start playing.
• 27:54 Israel: We gotta have some more divine appointments.
• 27:56 Joshua C.: Yeah, 'cause that other kind
• 27:57 isn't divine, trust me.
• 27:59 Israel: No, we don't wanna do that.
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