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Mike Kai: Give somebody a high five, fist bump, elbow, chicken wing, hug, something to somebody around you and tell them, "You look good today. You look good today." Be careful who you say that to, though.

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Are you guys ready for the word today? I'm excited about the message. Get ready. I want to pray, and then we're going to get right into it. Father, we come before you in the name of Jesus. God, I thank you, Lord.

I thank you that today in NCAA terms is called Selection Sunday. Today is Selection Sunday. But Lord, I know for people in the house today, it's Selection Sunday. For them, Lord God, you have called them, you have selected them, and they are here not by accident, but by divine appointment.

So Father, right now we silence the voice of the enemy. God, we silence all of the thoughts that are going on in our heads, all of the distractions, all of the notifications. Right now we silence them in the name of Jesus.

God, we ask that you take this word, this logos, and help me to rightly divide it. Lord God, give us the rhema from this logos. We give you the glory, we give you the honor, we give you the praise. In Jesus' mighty name, and everybody said, amen. Come on, thank the Lord one more time, everybody.

Thank you, worship team. I want you to open your Bible to Joshua chapter one. We are in Joshua chapter one, verse eight. If you are new to Inspire, I want to bring you up to speed real quick.

We decided that we would pick out the 27 most important stories in the Bible. We could go to 52, but we just picked 27 because we still need to do a family series, a financial series, and a marriage series. We need to break these 27 weeks up.

I wanted to make sure that coming into 2026, our church had an idea of where everything is in the Bible. For the 27 most important accounts, stories in the Bible that resonate with us and where our faith is. That's why I felt it was so important for us to really know the word.

We started off in week one talking about how God created the heavens and the earth. He created the earth in six days and mankind. Out of man, he brought out a woman from his rib. Then God began to do this and then how Satan, our adversary, began to bring the curse of sin, death, and shame into the world by Adam and Eve partaking of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Then we have the effects of sin to this day.

We also look in week two at Noah. When God started all over, he looked at the earth and he saw that everyone's thoughts were only continually evil and wicked all the time. So he decided that he would start all over again. He started off with one man and his family and he brought the flood. For 40 days, rain and water from the artesian wells for 40 days and for 40 nights. We talked about Noah and the ark.

We also talked about the tower of Babel. In the tower of Babel when mankind began to grow again, when they began to populate the earth one more time, they decided that they wanted to build a tower, a tower up to heaven to prove to humanity and to the world that they didn't need God. So what God did was, they said, "Let us make a name for ourselves," so God decided that he would scatter them and their language would become confused.

As a result of their language being confused, they migrated throughout the earth. This is where all the people groups ended up based upon the language. Then we looked at Abraham. Out of all of humanity, God picked one man. Out of this man, all of our faith comes from. Abraham is the founder of our faith. We also learned that Abraham is not the founder, but his son Ishmael who came from Hagar, his maidservant, that became the father of the Arab nation to this day.

Large part of it was Ishmael, but the promise was coming through Isaac. The promise would come through Isaac's son Jacob, not Esau. How Esau linked up with Ishmael's family. That's what happened.

We also had to talk about how God was merciful. He was merciful, but we also needed to talk about Sodom and Gomorrah because that happened during Abraham's time. Then we needed to talk about Joseph and the 12 tribes. How Jacob had 12 sons. One of the sons, Joseph, was sold into slavery by his other brothers. He was found in the pit, from the pit sold to Potiphar, from Potiphar he went to prison, from prison God took him to the palace.

How God can take all of the worst things in our lives and turn them into good. Then last week we talked about Moses and the Ten Commandments. How we needed to understand the Ten Commandments that a lot of our nation was founded upon. How was God going to govern? How was Moses going to lead the people after coming out of the Exodus and the Red Sea? How would he lead them? He led them by these Ten Commandments. We talked about that last week.

Now they're in the desert. I want you to come with me in the desert. For 40 years, before the 40 years, they've made it through the Red Sea. They've made it past Mount Sinai. God wanted to start all over again. He brought the Ten Commandments one more time because Moses broke them out of anger because they were worshiping around the golden calf.

Remember I told you that they hired a DJ and they're dancing all around this calf. I told you about that. Then all of a sudden, God says, "I'm going to take these people, these stiff-necked, hardheaded people, and I want you to govern them."

Then they bring them up to the edge of the Promised Land, which is at the edge of a place called Kadesh Barnea. They get to Kadesh, and when they get to Kadesh, they're right there at Kadesh. Then all of a sudden, Moses decides to send 12 spies into the land, one from each tribe. There's 12 tribes. One from each tribe.

They go into the land, and for 40 days, say 40 days, for 40 days they look at the land, they scout it, they see the enemies, they see the fortifications. It is indeed a land of milk and honey. They said, "It is indeed a land of milk and honey."

Milk and honey is more than, let me add some granola to that, a little bit of acai, mix that all up. I'm going to sell it for 25 bucks. It's more than that. To be in a land of milk and honey, you get milk from livestock. That means you've got livestock. Honey, where do you get honey? You get honey from the honeycomb. Anyway, you got the bees. Very good, the little kid up there goes "bees." Say it one more time, little child, say "bees." There you go.

All right, so now you got honey, you got bees. Where do bees come from? Bees come from because of flowers. Flowers come from because of fruit, and from fruit you got some trees. All right, here we go. A land filled with livestock and trees and milk and honey.

So now they get up there and they come back and they bring back its fruit, evidence of the fruit. They said, "It is indeed a land flowing with milk and honey. However, but, they are inhabited by giants."

Then they spread an evil report, the other ten spies. But there were two spies, Joshua and Caleb, who had faith. So we are people of the two-spy faith. Can I get an amen? Not the ten-spy fear. Two-spy faith, not ten-spy fear.

They were prevented from going into the land. The Lord would not allow them to go in and he told them, "For every day that you were wandering or you were scouting in the Promised Land, I will add on a year for every day you scouted in the Promised Land that you will be in the wilderness."

So from 40 days they went to 40 years until that entire generation died off. Then Joshua handed off the baton from Moses to lead the people into the Promised Land. Can you imagine? Everybody had to die off. You had to wait for all that first generation, all Moses' generation, they all had to die off.

Can you imagine when they probably got down to the last 100 people? People are like, "Come on, somebody." When they got into the last five people still alive. I want my inheritance. Like people were just waiting, the last one.

Then finally Moses wants to go in and see the land. But because he had an anger problem, because he was told to speak to the rock but he struck the rock, and he said, "Must we?" rather than God, God said, "You not going into the Promised Land. You can't go into the Promised Land."

He pleads with the Lord one more time. It was in my devotions two days ago. He goes, "Lord, please let me see the land." God says, "You will not see the land. Don't ask me again." So if Moses just had a therapist. If Moses just had a counselor. If Moses just went to go see somebody. If Moses just had a kingdom man connect group. Never mind, moving right along.

So now they're wandering in the desert and now they come up to the edge, the precipice. Moses, God won't even let Moses see it. So he goes to the top of Mount Nebo. When he goes to the top of Mount Nebo, he says, "You can look at it, but you can't enter in."

I feel a lot of people are looking at Nebo, but they're not going in. They're looking at the Promised Land, but they never entered in because you're still living by provision of manna in the desert and quail in the afternoon. God says, "I'm bringing you provision, but now I want you to take possession."

If you are ready to take possession of new territory, come on, somebody shout amen. All right, we're in the right crowd today. Joshua chapter one, verse one to six. It says, "After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' aide."

God is speaking now directly to Joshua because he's not speaking to Moses no more, because Moses is dead. He says in verse two, "Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land that I am about to give to them, to the Israelites. I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon."

We're talking about from the Sinai all the way up north to Lebanon today. Do you know that we had to get some missionary families out of Lebanon about two weeks ago before the bombing started happening? Especially because Hezbollah is there. The Israelis are trying to get out Hezbollah again.

We got the missionaries out. They're safe, they're fine, they're out of Lebanon. But that's the territory, the original territory of Israel. From the desert in the south of Sinai all the way up to Lebanon.

Then it goes from the great river, the Euphrates. You know the Euphrates River is in Iraq. The ancient Euphrates, the Tigris, the Havilah, all of these very ancient rivers. It's all the Hittite country, all the way to the Mediterranean Sea from the east to the west.

"And no one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you." In verse six, "Be strong and courageous because you will lead these people to inherit the land that I swore to their ancestors to give them."

On the screen, the rest of it, "Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left that you may be successful wherever you go."

If you follow the law of the Lord, you will be successful, everybody. Verse eight, "Keep this book of the law always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then," somebody say then, "then you will be prosperous and successful."

I want to give you four things to inherit the land and possess the land that God has for you. If you are ready, somebody say ready. Ready. Here we go. Verse two, you guys are my favorite service. I'm just telling you right now.

I'm getting 90% replies. 8:45, they're a little slow. 7:45, they're alert, they're ready to go because they wake up early. 12:15, they got done partying last night, they're a little slow too at the 12:15. But you guys are perfect. You are on point at this service.

Verse two says, "Moses my servant is dead." I want you to write this down. Number one: honor the past, but there's more in the future. You have to honor the past, but there's still more in the future. God's got so much more for you. There's so much more for you.

I know everybody's got a past, but I'm not just talking about that kind of a past. I'm talking about honoring two kinds of past. Number one, we honor the past and we learn from the past. Let's talk about learning from the past. I've got to learn from my past. I've got to learn from the way that I used to be that I can't be the way that I need to be in the future.

I've got to learn that the person that God wants me to be, the person that's going to inherit and possess more property, more inheritance for the church, more for the kingdom of God, I've got to be different than I was before.

I also have to know that I'm not defined by the way that I used to be. Before I came to Christ, before I got my life together. You've got to remember that your shame is dead, your sin is dead, your failure is dead, yesterday is dead. You've got to leave it behind you. Come on, somebody say, "Moses is dead." You learn from your past, but you also have to learn for the future.

We've got to honor the past. When I think about the past, the past is important. Even though Moses is dead, it doesn't mean you throw shade on Moses. Curating the past. To curate something, you have to learn to curate.

Curate means that you are protecting, your combing through. Have you ever on Pinterest, I'm not really on Pinterest, but I get Pinterest notifications. Like I'm looking to build a something, I go on Pinterest and look at a Pinterest board and I want to build something.

On Pinterest it says, "We've just curated a new board for you." Curated means that you're collecting stuff. So that word curator actually comes from an old English word that has to do with people who, when it comes to old English churches, that what they do is they are curating the architecture, they're curating the history of the church. They are gathering and combing through and sifting through what is the most important parts of that church.

It's the same way that people pay money to hire a curator for the Academy of Arts in Honolulu or for Bishop Museum in Kapalama. You're going to pick the right artifacts. You're not going to pick something from Southeast Asia when you're looking for Polynesian artifacts.

So you have to curate all the right stuff. You and I have the responsibility of curating our past. That's why it's so important to gather the stories of your grandmother and your grandfather. That's why it's so important that when you understand, Hawaiians we like the word Mo'olelo, the stories and the history are very important.

That's why we sit down with the Kupuna and we sit down with our Kupuna to tell us the stories. That's why you ask your grandfather for what your great-grandfather was like, because you never met him because he likely died before you were born. It's all these stories that we honor and curate the past.

Our past, we honor it. Inspire Church, we came out of the Foursquare denomination. My senior pastor was Ralph Moore. Although we're not close like we used to be, I still honor, you've always heard me honor my past where I came from.

Moses is dead, and for a lot of you, you're about to take leadership. A lot of you are called to something such a time as this. God is calling you and beckoning you to a higher level of responsibility, but it also comes with spiritual warfare, not just the benefits.

So when God's calling you and he tells you Moses is dead, he also wants you to know that you honor the past, but you also have to understand that your future is even greater than your past. That's why I'm grateful for everybody that's ever given to Inspire Church.

That's why I'm grateful that we stand in this building today because there are people when we were in the Waikele Elementary School that gave to a promise. We didn't even have a building yet. We told them we don't even have a building right now. We have no idea, but we are giving to a vision that one day we'll be able to put down money in order to rent something, lease something, possibly even buy something.

Thank God that even though we still lease this, this building after 13 years has brought three more properties and one more to come in Jesus' name. He says, "Moses is dead. Now then, you need to apprehend it. Now then you need to seize it."

Paul the Apostle writes in Philippians chapter three, verse 12. He says, "Not that I have already obtained all this or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of, to apprehend for that which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself to have ever taken hold of it, but one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."

For anybody that is watching online, for anybody that is part of our online YouTube or online family, I need to tell you that you need to honor the past, but I want to remind you, there's so much more in the future. Somebody say amen. Somebody's must be thinking, "Was he mad? Oh, he's so fiery." No, I'm just passionate and looking forward to watching the selection Sunday. Anyway, moving right along.

Verse two C. He says, "Now then get ready to cross the Jordan River." The second thing I want you to write down in your notes, number two: get ready to cross your Jordan. Get ready to cross your Jordan.

The Jordan River's a place that Joshua had known all about. It's very possible that Joshua when he was with the 12 spies went in and had seen the Jordan River. It's very possible that Joshua had remembered, it had been seared into his mind what the Jordan River would look like.

After 40 years, the size of the river must have grown in his mind. When he finally got to the river, I bet he was like, "I thought it was bigger than this. I imagined it to be bigger than this. I know it's at flood stage right now, but I imagined it bigger than this."

Isn't it interesting, times in our life that we actually imagine things more formidable than what they actually are until you get up and close to it? Listen now, everybody has died off and the new generation is being led by Joshua. We're talking over a million people to two million or even more. They're all coming with him and they're looking to Joshua now. God is speaking directly to Joshua and they come up to the edge of the Jordan.

You could either turn around and go back or you can cross that Jordan. Their parents and their grandparents had already gone through the Red Sea. The Red Sea was coming out of the Exodus. The Red Sea was coming out of Egypt. Pharaoh was coming right behind them and chasing them right behind with his chariots. They needed to hurry up and they needed to hightail it through the Red Sea on dry ground.

But this generation is not getting a Red Sea. This generation is getting a Jordan. I want to tell you that the next generation is supposed to have it better than the previous generation because the previous generation has paid the price that you can go through a Jordan.

I feel like I'm preaching up in here today. Listen, listen. After 40 years, the size of the river grew in their hearts and became more for them than just a body of water to be crossed. It became a line of containment. For years when they saw it in 40 years, it said to them, "This far but no further." It was a limit to their potential and a lid on their hopes and dreams.

I've been to the Jordan River a couple of times. The Jordan River is fascinating. Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River. On my first tour as a young pastor, I was taken to Israel. It blew my mind for the very first time to be able to read where the Bible originated from and to read the stories like read about Jesus in Capernaum, sitting in Capernaum, reading about Jesus.

To sitting at the Temple Mount, finding about Jesus talking about the Temple Mount and wailing and sad about what would happen to the temple and how it would be destroyed before he's crucified. He says, "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, if you only knew the hour."

To be able to be there. So we went north to the Jordan River where it comes out of. Every river has a source. This one comes out from the mountains of Lebanon at the bottom of Mount Hermon where you have this spring called Dan. It's place is called Tel Dan. It is in this place that this river called the Jordan River called Tel Dan, that this is the beginning of the Jordan River.

So when you get there, people say that you've got to get baptized in the Jordan. I'm like, "Why I got to get baptized in the Jordan? Like I already baptized." Like I already got baptized. "Well, you've got to get baptized in the Jordan. You should do it. Everybody does it."

So I'm like, "All right, I'll go." So all these tour buses come up and tour vans and we get up there to the Jordan. So when we get up to the Jordan, all of a sudden I've got to put on a white robe and you've got to pay a fee. Nothing wrong, I get it. It's a tourist thing, but it's religious too. It's a spiritual experience, so I'm going to get baptized.

They give me a white robe. But before I put on the white robe, you know what they give me? They give me a wetsuit. Come on, somebody, because I'm the pastor. The pastor gets a wetsuit. You know why? Because he's going to be in the water longer than everybody else.

I'm not talking about warm water, it's freezing in the Jordan. This is snow melt water. There's condensation coming out of my mouth. I thought I was going to see Kevin Costner behind me. I thought a grizzly bear was going to come out. I thought, "I'm not in Israel, I am in Montana. I don't know, I'm in Idaho. What am I doing here?"

I've got the robe on and everybody's freezing. My dad gets baptized, and then my mom, bless her, she gets baptized. I'm sitting there shivering, shaking, my teeth are hitting one another. I thought my teeth was about to crack and I'm holding it. I'm trying to get people, "Hurry up." Like I'm like, "Next." It's like conveyor belt baptism. "Next." Just dunking people real quick. I promise you we prayed over them, but don't laugh at me. You'd do it quick too if you were me.

I've got this wetsuit with a white robe on it and all of a sudden I'm thinking, "This is a spiritual experience. I'm feeling very good for everybody else. I'm feeling like this is amazing. I'm feeling like they're never going to forget this."

Somebody's worshiping on the side. We're going to take pictures. Condensation coming out of my mouth. I thought this is so holy. All of a sudden I look to the corner and about ten feet away from me was a family of river rats that were swimming from one side over the other and they were making this big wake behind them.

That was my Jordan experience. I had another one on another tour. I went to the one by Jericho because that's where Jericho, Jesus I think he got baptized more by Jericho. So you go to the baptism over there when he came out of the wilderness. You go over there to Jericho. But in order to go to Jericho, you've got to show your passport because it's occupied territory.

So you get in there and all of a sudden they drive you closer to the Jordan River. The further down the river goes, the more siltier and dirtier it looks. Across the side are Jordanian army on the other side of that river. I'm looking at them like going, "How's that? What's up, brother? Shalo-ha."

Shaka and Aloha, Shalo-ha. Shalom and Aloha, Shalo-ha. Trying to bring world peace, come on somebody. All of a sudden I look at this water. I'm like, "No wonder General Naaman from Second Kings didn't want to get dunked in this water after the prophet Elisha told him to dunk seven times in the water."

I could already see it. "What is this water here? It's so dirty, cannot even see my feet." I believe General Naaman might have had a French accent even though he was Syrian. "What is this? I cannot put myself through this."

I can totally automatically see it. Finally you go down to the bottom of the Jordan River that goes into what we call the Dead Sea, which is the lowest spot on earth. That's the Jordan. Every time they came up to the Dead Sea and every time they came up to the Jordan River, every time they saw it in the distance, they knew: no further than this.

Some of us in this room here today, and I'm preaching to somebody here today, and somebody online is listening to this, that somebody or something or some mindset said: no further than this. I'm telling you today is the day that you step in faith to cross your Jordan.

But you've got to understand number three: that you have to step first in faith to claim your territory. Somebody say step first. Step first. When you step first, you have to step first because God will not step for you.

Verse three says, "I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses." Do you know there's something about stepping? You better be stepping. I'm telling you right now, sometimes you have to step with your feet and your first step is critical. Your first step.

If you want to talk about sports, your pastor's got a killer first step, just want to let you know. But I want to tell you this, you've got to be willing to step. It's selection Sunday, come on somebody. I'm lying down on the couch, I've got my basketball, I'm shooting it like this in the couch. My wife goes, "You miss playing hoop?" I said, "Of course I do." She goes, "Okay, just asking." I'm just sitting there in the couch practicing on my form, just watching the ball spin. Anyway, because I hurt my foot so I can't play for real. Moving right along.

There's something about stepping, but a lot of people are afraid to get wet feet. They don't want cold feet. They don't want cold feet. Every step of faith will involve getting your feet wet. When I look at this and I see the steps, I want to tell you that when you step out in faith, there will be a warrior, there will be a spiritual warfare kickback. Listen to me, nobody leave the room until we're done. I'm not holding you hostage, I'm just saying listen.

When you step out in faith, people tell you: stay in your lane. I get it, there's certainly areas you have to. But when you are taking new territory, territory that the enemy thinks he owns. Territory like if you step in, if you believe for something big.

If you want to, we're talking about buying where they say you can't buy in Hawaii. I don't agree with that. I believe you can. You just got to be smarter. You got to save more money. It's going to cost more in the down payment. But I promise you every building that we have, almost every building that we have, not all of them because one of them was a surprise, Mililani was a surprise.

I walked the territory. I walked it, I walked it, we walked it. The staff walked it. We put a stake in the ground. We did communion on the land. We walked it, we walked it. "This is ours in Jesus' name."

Now I want you to know I just don't go everywhere going, "That's mine, that's mine, that's mine." I don't do that. But I'm walking and I'm stepping by faith believing for it. This one I did at least 20 times. This one at least 20 times in the front.

I'm telling you, if you want to be in a certain neighborhood, walk in that neighborhood. I'll tell you, walk in front of that house, but don't walk behind it because everybody got a Ring camera and you're going to show up on social media. But you've got to walk it. Somebody say walk it. You've got to step it. When you step in faith, the enemy is going to kick you back.

That's what happened this week. Worship team can come out. Some of you saw that, some of you didn't. That's okay if you didn't. But a young man radically saved. Radical. Radical. Three-syllable radical: rad-i-cal.

So good. Holy Spirit, only God. Started coming to Young Adults, started coming to Sunday mornings. I never met him until today. He just went on social media saying, "This is the new me. This is me. That was me, this is me."

So thank God that when I came to church in 1980-something, thank God that it didn't say, "If you're struggling and you're single dad and you don't have your family together, you can't come in yet." Thank God there were no signs on the door that says that if you have anger issues you can't come here yet, you have to get counseled.

Thank God it didn't say that if you're dealing with lust and you're dealing with thoughts and you're dealing with depression and anxiety, you can't come through these doors. Thank God it didn't say to anybody that if you have a different preference and maybe you're struggling with identity that you can't come in here yet.

Thank God that there's no sign on the wall that says these things. Thank God they don't say these things. But thank God that when you come through these doors, thank God that when you walk with the Lord, thank God when you say, "Not my will but your will be done."

Thank God that he died for you on that cross. Thank God that while we were still sinners that Jesus gave his life for us. Come on, somebody say thank God. Thank God.

I don't know where you are, what's going on in your life today, but I told you today was going to be selection Sunday. The question is not, "Does God select you?" He already has. The question is, "Will you select him?"

He's already died on the cross for you. Already paid by his blood. He's already shed his blood. He's already been crucified, already suffered. He's already in heaven and he's waiting for you. Today you select him. He's already selected us.

No matter who you are, where you've been, what you've done, no matter what category, what thing I said or what thing I might have missed, I want you to know that God loves you just the way you are and you can come to him just as you are.

But he loves you too much to stay the way you are. So if you're ready to come just the way that you are, if you're ready to say, "God, do what only you can do in my life because I can't do it." If you're ready to say, "God, I'm open. I want to live your life, not my life. Not my version, not the way that I want to identify with it. I want to know how you identify me."

If that's you today, you are in the right moment. You're in the right place. No matter how good you are, no matter what a good person I know you are, no matter religion, I know that you do. But maybe today is the day that you say, "Look, I need a relationship. I don't know him as my Lord and Savior. I don't know him like that, I don't know him that way."

If you want to know him like that, if you want to know him that way, I want to lead you in this prayer. So from the front row to the back row, from the right side to the left side, from everybody that's watching on online and everybody that's right here in overflow, no matter who you are, where you've been, what you've done, get ready, and don't wind it down because here's the pinnacle of this message.

Every eye closed and every head bowed. I tell you what: God is not a pre-qualifier of persons. In other words, God is no respecter of person. It doesn't matter who you are. You could be at the highest level of society and culture, or you could be at the lowest point of your life.

No matter who you are, where you've been, what you've done, at the count of three, if you're ready for the forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life, that when you die you'll be in his presence instead of hell. If you realize there's no purgatory, no reincarnation, that you want to come back, there's only one shot at life and then comes the judgment. If you want Jesus, if you've tried everything else, you're ready to come to him, then get ready at the count of three to raise your hand.

No matter who you are, where you've been, what you've done, let's get ready. Here we go. One, I'm going to clap at three, so get ready. When I say three, to clap. One, he will never let you down. Two, for God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life.

Here we go. One, two, three. Put your hand up if that's you. That's me. That's me, that's me, that is me. Keep them up. Got one right there, God bless you. Two right here. Yes, and three and four and five, God bless you. And six right there, seven right there, and eight, nine, and ten right there.

11, 12, there's still time on this side if you still want to raise it. 13 right there, God bless you, and 14 at the top, I see that hand. Come on, anybody else? There we go. 15 right there, I see that hand. God bless you. 16 and 17 and 18 and 19. Yeah, and 20 right there. 21 right here, praise God. 22, 23, yes sir. 24 right there, I see that hand. 25 right here, 26 right here, 27, 28, 29, 30 right there.

Anybody else? If I missed them, ushers? Got 30 people so far. There's still time. 31 and 32 just went up. Thank the Lord. Can we thank the Lord before we pray, everybody? 32 people.

Here's what I want you to do. All 32, look at me. Trust me. I want you to stand at the count of three. We're not going to ask you to come to the front, we'll save that for another time for everybody else. If you can stand here, you can stand anywhere. You can stand when you take your Jordan. Because if you're going to get overcome by the waves, you're going to get overcome by the flood stage of the Jordan, you're going to drown.

But if you are ready for an emboldened prayer over your life, then at the count of three, I want you to stand right where you are, unashamed. Here we go. One, two, three. Stand up if that's you. Stand up if that's you. Yes. Come on, give them a hand, everybody. Give them a hand, everybody. Yep.

Come on, anybody else? You didn't stand yet or you wish you stood? Remain standing, and I want everyone to repeat after me, especially the 32. Everybody say: Jesus, today I surrender and give you my life. Thank you for dying on the cross, shedding your blood that washes my sins as white as snow. I also thank you that when I die, I'll be in your presence for all eternity.

But right now, I need your strength to be in my life. That no matter what happens, I follow through. Let this seed grow into a 30, 60, 100-fold harvest in my life and in my family. In Jesus' name, and everybody said, amen.

Come on, can we thank the Lord, everybody? 32 people. Would you all stand together? Shane, I'll just close it. All stand together. Here's what I want you to do. Number one, I want, don't forget: tap to connect. We want to connect with you, so tap to connect.

Second, everybody say blue flags. Blue flags. 32 people or more, if you've never been connected about your next step in Jesus, go to a blue flag. They're going to tell you what just happened and what your next step is. Everybody say next step. You've got to have a next step. Not like, "Oh, whatever." No, you've got to know what you're going to do next.

And then right now, 12:15, in 30 minutes: Welcome Lunch. Welcome Lunch, it's free. You can come to the Welcome Lunch and you're going to find out more about our church, see if it's a good fit for you, and where you fit as well. But come on, we're taking territory in Jesus' name. Amen? Amen. Can I pray for you, everybody?

Father, we thank you so much for a great Sunday. We thank you for a great church. We thank you, Lord, that we pray for the weather. We pray against the weather, all the wind and the rain, but maybe it's you. Maybe they need it, God.

Maybe it's something prophetic. Volcanoes going off, wind blowing at 100 miles an hour at Mauna Kea, rain like never before flooding Kona. Maybe it's something prophetic in the heavenlies. But God, we lift them up to you in the name of Jesus.

Minimal property damage. God, we give you the glory, we give you the honor for what you're doing in these islands. God, send a wave of revival over every person and every island. God, we thank you, Lord. I pray that you make us salt and light. I pray for our families, Lord God. When we go home, we tell them what happened, the church that we went to, what God did. Oh God, we pray that they would be receptive no matter what.

May the Lord bless you and keep you. May he turn his countenance toward you. May the Lord cause his face to shine upon you. May the Lord be gracious to you and grant you peace. In Jesus' mighty name, and everybody said, amen. God bless everybody, love you. See you next week.

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