Catch The Fire Church Raleigh
Gen Z for Jesus | Gen Z
This week, we heard from four powerful GenZ preachers. We strongly believe that God is moving within GenZ and bringing unity amongst all generations. Be encouraged, challenged, and witness the Spirit of God in the next generation.
(upbeat music) - Welcome to the Catch the Fire Church podcast. We're so glad you're joining us and we hope you're encouraged by this message. - Today is a special day. It is a different day that we are really excited about. We as a team have really felt a burning over the last few years for the Gen Z generation, that they would know God, that they would encounter God and that there would be revival that would break out among the Gen Zs. And so last year we did this and today we are making space and room for that again, where we are gonna be hearing from four different speakers today, each for about eight minutes who are bringing the word. They are from the ages of 17 to 26 and we are just excited. It was straight fire in first service and we can't wait to hear in second service. So I wanna invite up today our first speaker. This is Caleb Maleta. So you can, let's stand and honor Caleb. Sorry, you just sat down, but this is Caleb. He's 17 years old. He's a rising senior in high school. And he's been part of this church in this youth group for many years and we're just really excited to hear what God has on your heart. - All right. Hello everyone. Before I begin this, I'll just again thank the church leadership for giving us this opportunity. There is a lot of trust and responsibility that comes with preaching up here. So I just would like to thank you one more time. All right. Before we begin, let's just start this in prayer. Thank you Father God for your never ending love. Thank you Jesus for the sacrifice on the cross. Thank you Holy Spirit for your fellowship. We just thank you that you are here in the room and that we pray that our hearts will be open to whatever you have for us today. Jesus name, amen. All right. So I'd like to start today's sermon with a quote from A.W. Tozer. The sea is always trying to get into the ship and the world is always trying to get into the church. The world around us continues to try and find its way in. To come in, to splash in with soft words and beautiful white crest. Forever whispering, don't be so aloof. Don't be so hostile. Let me come in. I have something for you. Something that will do you good. The world is making offers to the church, but we don't need the world. The world has nothing that the Christian church needs. Today I'll be sharing something God has put upon my heart, a call to action, love in its entirety. The world tries to twist the image of God's love and tries to make us follow it. Be kind, love is love, but love is not love without God. God is love and we shouldn't be following any other type of love. But even when we are following God's love, are we sharing the full extent of what God's love truly is? So often I have said that I love God in my actions, yet my words and actions say otherwise. It is when I have let my guard down. Let the world's little waves begin to erode the foundation of my faith and the way I reflect God's love begins to crumble. You and I are called to reflect God's love. He is kind and patient, but also holy. We need to reflect him in his entirety. Otherwise we are not loving as he does. We as the body of Christ need to uphold the truth because eventually if we don't, our love will be no different than the world's. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians 13, 4 through 7. Many of you know this passage. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast. It is not proud. It does not dishonor others. It is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered. It keeps no records of wrong. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. But when looking at that passage, do we always follow it? Are we always in patient forgiving to those who cut in front of us when we're driving? Do we give glory to God in everything or do we take credit for our own achievements? Perhaps we are patient with others and we give all the glory to God. But let's take it another step. Do you pray for that family member or co-worker that you dislike? Have you talked to Jesus about Jesus to your next door neighbor, the one that you have been living next to all of these years? I have often fallen victim to this, the sin of omission. I have said that I love Christ and am following Him, yet I am apathetic to the lost world I see around me. I don't get angry at the person who cut me off, yet I don't bat an eye at the homeless person at the next intersection. That isn't love. Love is not self-centered. Or do I stay silent when I see my friend living in sin? In my 17 years of life, I have seen the world get more and more confused. Do I stay quiet about my faith in the salvation I've found in Jesus? No, that is not love. Love rejoices in the truth. So, how do I reflect God's love? Ephesians 5-1-2 shows us how. Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in love as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. If we love God, we will imitate Him and His love. But imitating requires us to not just know Him as a loving Father, but as a holy God. 1 Thessalonians 4-7. For God has not called us to impurity, but in holiness. Romans 12-9, "Let love be genuine, abhor what is evil, hold fast to what is good." God hates sin. Sin is why I deserve death. My sins are the reason why Jesus, the Son of God was hung on a tree. Yet, as I see Him hanging on that tree, He smiles down at me, forgiving every single one of my sins as He has done with each and every one of you. But I continue to do those unholy things. The small waves the world wants me to live in. A little bit of pride. Caleb, you should go do this and everyone will love you. No, there is no sin in God. If we truly love God, there will be no sin in our lives. But if we fake ourselves out, saying we truly love God, yet continue to say otherwise with our actions, we have begun to lose our connection to God and can no longer love others properly. So, what do we do? How do I begin to love again the way God does? There are three things we must do. One, regain your first love and be holy. Revelation 2, 4 through 5. But I have this against you. That you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember, therefore, from where you have fallen. Repent and do the works you did at first. To regain our first love, we need to make a decision moment by moment to live our lives dedicated completely to Him. We must be quick to repent and receive the Lord's forgiveness. We need to live lives wholly and set apart. God must be the only source of our greatest satisfaction. 2, abide in Christ. Now we must abide in Him. In John 59, it says, "As the Father loved me, so have I loved you, abide in my love. Spend time in His presence and His word and let Him transform you. Enjoy every moment, every minute of your life in His presence. Be completely transfixed upon His glory and majesty." 3, love in its entirety. Yes, be kind and patient, but do not be kind or patient to the love and the evil the world tries to tell you is good. Bring the full gospel, sharing God's grace, but also His truth. Jesus loved and sat with sinners, but He also said, "Go and sin no more." We cannot just be sidelined Christians. Shouting from our pews, Jesus loves you, yet never reaching down and lifting the finger to ease people's burdens. We need to be challenged as ambassadors for Christ to be able to live life with God and bring others to Him. Walk in love and reflect God His entirety. Let's pray. God, we love you and it is your love that allows us to love other people. Search our hearts and see whether our love is coming from ourselves or it's coming from you. And if it's coming from ourselves, help us to be connected to you because from that we can love others. Let us no longer be that ship rocked back and forth by the evil of the world, but let us be the ocean instead. Let us be the current that brings our friends, family and other people to you. Let us sink continually into your love. And it's for all these things. Jesus name, amen. Amen. Thank you, Caleb. That's so good. Thank you so much. Come on, I love it. All right, I want to invite up next journey Lopez to come on up. Journey is 26 years old. She's a graduate from UNC Chapel Hill and she's also our social media manager here at the church. So we're excited for you to bring the word this morning. Hi, everyone. I'm Journey for those that I haven't met yet, and I'm just really excited to be sharing with you all today. Thank you, Erin and Jess, for the opportunity to share. Jumping right in, I just want to start by reading Psalm 8610, which says, "For you are great and do wondrous things. You alone are God." And I've been reflecting on Psalm 86 this week. Specifically this verse, I felt like the Lord was leading me back here again and again throughout the week as I was preparing for today. And as I read it, I'm just fully reminded of all the wondrous things that God has done in my own life. Just two and a half years ago, I struggled with severe anxiety. I had dropped out of school for a couple of years. I was deep into new age, like tarot cards and crystals. I just, I wasn't going anywhere in my life. I felt like I was drowning, but Jesus met me where I was and he pulled me out of that darkness. He did wondrous things in my life. I've been healed. I've been set free. I've been cleansed. I've been made new. And now I get to walk in the same power that transformed my life. Sometimes we can hear the phrase, the power of God, and we're numb to those words. We read verses like 2 Timothy 1, 7, but we're not actually walking in that truth. But we have been given a spirit of power, his spirit, and that power is always at work within us, especially when we take hold of that truth. 1 John 5, 4 and 5 says, "For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that God has overcome the world, our faith. God has overcome everything, and we are overcomers through him. It's his spirit in us that overcomes it all and sets us free from the things that we are bound to. His power is real, it's active, it's transformative. My life is proof of that, and so are all of our lives in this room. And when I think about what I was brought out of, I know that we should be so expectant for what God is doing right now. At the time, I didn't know it, but when I was turning to those things, what I was really searching for was a sense of meeting, a form of identity, just something real in my life. And I see others in my generation that don't yet know the Lord, and I see my old self in them. I used to be where they are. They don't know yet, but what they're really actually desiring is a relationship with Jesus. My generation is so hungry for him. There's a tangible desperation. We're seeking genuine encounters. We want realness, we want truth, we don't want a counterfeit, we don't want the substitutes, we want the true living God. And there's so many negative stereotypes right now around all the generations, but God is so much greater than that, and his power is still at work. He transformed my life, and I know that he's going to keep transforming lives. He's going to keep transforming the people who are involved in new age. He's going to keep transforming the people who deal with anxiety and depression. He's going to keep transforming the people that don't even believe in him right now. For all the things that he's done for me, I know he's doing those things and just so much more right now, and we can really tune into what he's doing. I heard the word "investment" from the Lord, and he was just really emphasizing how crucial it is right now to be invested in all the generations. I started coming to catch the fire last April, and my experiences here has been so awesome, so amazing. It's been my first time in Christian community, and my experience here over the last year would have been drastically different if I didn't have people and older generations really taking the time to pour into me and invest in my spiritual walk. If they hadn't chose to invest, I would have of course still been saved, still have the Holy Spirit, but our experiences are so different when we have people who love us and are pouring into us. And there's a division, often division between age groups, sometimes a mistrust or even a condescension towards people that are older or younger than us, but we have to approach each other in love and honor. Because we have the Holy Spirit and His power inside us, we can be a part of what God is doing across all the generations. When we're walking in His power, God uses us, and there's such an urgency right now to disciple others, especially those that don't know Him. We can see Gen Z overcome the darkness. We can see their lives be transformed. We can have hope that God is going to continue to do so many things, and He has special things in store for all of us. And we in the body need to be lovingly investing in and intentionally leading those around us. Investment can look like anything. It can look like serving with the youth. It can look like sowing into someone's mission trip. It can look like getting coffee or lunch with a young adult. Jesus commanded us to make disciples, so no matter what it looks like, we have to be obedient to that command. And it's when we're our obedient and fully surrendered that we can see His full power at work. So I ask you, who are you choosing to invest in? Are there youth in your life that you can pour more into? And for those of us in my age group, are we willing to receive and learn from leadership? Are we willing to submit? Are we willing to seek guidance and accept direction? Paul at the end of Ephesians 3 is praying, and in verses 20 and 21, he says, "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen." God can and is doing so much more than we could even begin to ask or think about. And He's empowered us all to do amazing things. And He's empowered this generation, my generation to walk in exactly what He's called us to. There are rumblings of hunger for the Lord all around us. So many people are ready to know Him. And for my generation, we want to receive. We want to be trusted to lead. We want to know the heart of God. And we want the fullness of God. I'd invite you guys to stand with me as we just end in prayer. Father, I just thank you today. Thank you for all the generations. Thank you for everything that each generation and each age group brings to the body. I just pray against any stereotypes, any negativity that is associated with each generation. Our identity is in you. It's not in our age group. And we pray specifically for Gen Z, for those of us in the body, we just pray that you continue to give us such a strong desire for you because we already know that nothing else can satisfy us like you do. And we pray for the loss of this generation that you would open up their eyes and that they would come to know you, come to see you for who you are, not who other people have said you are, but for who you truly are. And I also pray for just unity, mutual respect, and honor between all of the generations. We ask that you just prepare our hearts to be expectant, help us to be expectant to what you're doing because you're doing so much more than we can even think of or begin to ask for. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Thank you, Journey. That was so good. And thank you for just challenging us to invest in one another. So I want to, you guys can sit, but I want to encourage us to just be thinking through who are people that we can really invest in, whether that's asking them to be part of our lives, whether that's us pouring into them, whether that's finding someone else who's older, that we're like, we actually want them to pour into me. So I'm going to approach them, but let's be thinking about how we can invest. All right, Jacob Scheller, I want to invite you up to come and speak today. Jacob is our, I'm sorry, guys. Up down. Jacob and Jenna, his wife are youth pastors here at Ignited at Cush the Fire. Jacob is 25 years old and a powerhouse. And we're honored to have you speak today, Jacob. Hello, everybody. My name is Jacob Scheller. I just want to say thank you on behalf of my wife and I. It has been a joy to get to know and love on your children. It makes it really easy to pastor them when you love them. And I just want to say thank you for trusting us with the, sorry, it made me laugh with the, just with the responsibility of helping you guys raise Godly children. So with that being said, let's crack a Bible open. If you want to join me in Genesis chapter 37, this is my favorite book of the Bible, because I feel like every time I read it, something new is jumping off the page. We're going to start in verse 18. We're going to skim a little parts, but verse 18. Now when they, they, the brothers saw Joseph afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him. Then they said to one another, look, this dreamer is coming. Therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit. And we shall say some wild beast has devoured them. We shall see what will become of his dreams. But Ruben heard it and delivered him out of their hands and said, let us not kill him. And Ruben said to them, shed no blood, but cast him into this pit, which is in the wilderness and do not lay a hand on him that he might, sorry, end quote, that he might deliver them out of his hands, out of their hands and bring him back to his father. Skipping to verse 28, then Midianite traders passed by. So the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for 20 shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt. Then Ruben returned to the pit and indeed Joseph was not in the pit and he tore his clothes. And he returned to his brothers instead. The lad is no more and I, where shall I go? So they took Joseph's tunic, killed a kid of the goats and dipped the tunic in the blood. Then they sent the tunic of many colors and they brought it to their father and said, we found this. Do you know whether it's your sons or not? And he recognized and said, it is my son's tunic. A wild beast has devoured him without a doubt. Joseph is torn to pieces. The title of my sermon today is called the blood always atones. I read this story, especially growing up as a kid. And you read this story and the way I think we sometimes kind of teach the narrative is that Ruben in this narrative is a good guy. Ruben is the brother who's acting on behalf of Joseph. He's trying to get Joseph out of a sticky situation. And it's often talked about in a positive light. Now, from what I know about scripture and what I know about some other things Ruben does, the Bible never talks positively about Ruben ever. He's the oldest brother of the 12 sons of Jacob and yet the inheritance goes to Judah. There's something about Ruben that even though this story kind of shares about him in a good light, there's something about his motives and intentions that I believe is off. And when I was doing a little research behind it, I found there's this commentary from a Jewish rabbi who says that when Ruben is acting on behalf of Joseph, he's not acting on behalf of Joseph, he's acting on behalf of himself because Ruben as the oldest son has an understanding that whatever happens to his youngest brother, all the guilt and all the shame will land on Ruben's shoulders. In this story, Ruben is like Adam. He is the first born and all the guilt of the first sin will rest squarely on his shoulders. Now, I'm going to let you guys in a bit of a secret here. We are not Joseph in this story, but our flesh is actually Ruben in this story. In that we are self-preserving, self-satisfying, it's all about us, it's about avoiding guilt, it's about avoiding blame, it's like Ruben's trying to get back in his dad's good graces and our flesh is all about how can I fix this? How can I do something about this? Right? And so I think that the actual intents of Ruben's heart were not for Joseph, they were not for his fathers, but they were self-satisfying. Now, if we look later in this verse, we have Ruben, who is distraught, verse 30, he returned his brothers and said, "The boy, Joseph is no more, and I, where shall I go? He is concerned only for himself." And now, look at what happens next. They take Joseph's tunic, they kill a goat, and they dip the tunic in the blood, and they sent the blood to the fathers. I want to, like, let's take a step back of the immediate story and look at symbolism here. They take a goat, an innocent animal, and they slaughter it, and they take the tunic of Joseph, they dip it in the blood, and they present it to the father. There was a perfect sacrifice that was killed, and that blood was then presented to God. What happens because of this? Because blood was given, Jacob now thinks a wild animal killed his son. The blame and the guilt that would have fallen on Ruben's shoulders has now been cast off to some animal in the wilderness. Do you see how the blood always atones? There was no part of, no, sorry, Ruben didn't even do anything right. He is wrong in this whole story. We are wrong in this whole story, but it's the beauty of the blood that even in our ignorance, the wrath of God is satisfied. I want to jump forward in this story to Genesis 45. I'm not going to read it. I'm just going to summarize, but Joseph, who I believe in this story, is acting as a Christ type. He is a prophet, like he is a prophetic character for Jesus in the future, and you have this moment in Egypt where he sees his brother's repentant heart towards Benjamin, the other son that Jacob loved. And because of their repentant heart, Joseph, I almost said Jesus because it's essentially the same thing, Jesus reveals himself to the brothers, and there's this moment of they have a repentant heart, and then the revelation of Joseph slash Jesus occurs, and there's reconciliation in their family. Now, the forgiveness and the reconciliation never happens if the blood doesn't atone. It doesn't happen. At the cross did every single human being in history become a Christian? No, it didn't, but the blood atoned for us in our ignorance, Paul, Romans 5, 8, God demonstrates his love for us in this while we were still sinners. Christ died for us. Oh, I got chills, actually. In our ignorance, in our rebellious hearts, in our rejection, in our apathy, in our whatever, Christ still died for us then, right? The repentance and the forgiveness happened 22 years later according to this biblical story, but the atonement happened the second that goat was killed and presented to the Father. The other story, I'm going to be really quick. The other story that I think about is when Adam and Eve are leaving the garden, what does God do? He fashions them garments of skin from one of the animals in the garden. He gives them a bloody tunic to cover their sin and shame. So what Adam would have been naked, God actually takes a bloody tunic, which is what they present to Jacob. It's a bloody tunic, and their shame is covered. We are Reuben, and the bloody tunic has covered our shame. On top of that, those of us that are contending and praying for non-believers in this room, guess what? Joseph's bloody tunic is still atoning and covering the shame of those who do not even believe in Jesus. This is the gospel message that the perfect sacrifice was given as the covering for our sins, that through our repentance and belief in Jesus Christ, we may have eternal life and salvation. The Israelites lived really pretty in notion for a long time. I think it's interesting, Joseph happens at the end of Genesis. The enslavement doesn't happen in Genesis. There is a happy ending to the story. If you'll stand with me, I just want to intercede for those of us contending for the Rubens in the room. Those of us desiring to see the repentant moment after 22 years, after 22 days, after 22 minutes, I don't know. So Jesus, right now, we thank you for your blood that always atones. It has never stopped atoning. It will never stop atoning. I pray right now that the spirit of wisdom and revelation would rest upon the shoulders of people in this room that we would see God. The eyes of our heart would be opened to see the Lord, that the spirit of wisdom and revelation would go to those who do not yet believe that the eyes of their heart would be open to see God. Thank you, Father, for your blood that has never stopped atoning. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for your grace. And we call the generations home. We call those that we have lost hope in home. And right now, I just pray, like Jesus, would you bring repentance on our own minds? Your blood is atoning even still. Your blood is atoning even still in our ignorance and our sin and in our addiction. We love you and we bless you. Thank you for your mercy. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Jacob. So good. If you have youth or you know any youth, we have youth on Wednesday nights at 7pm. We hope they come. I can't wait to send my kids to youth. You're so deep. Such a deep well. Thank you so much. All right. Well, last but certainly not least, this is Christian Elias. Let's give it up for Christian. He is 17 years old and a rising high school senior. Take it away, Christian. Thank you. Before we start, I just want to say, Jacob, you are the best youth pastor. And I love you so much. Yeah. And he did say, if I had enough time for a full sermon, it still wouldn't be enough to tell you how much of an impact he's had on my life. But he is so smart and handsome and tall and muscular. And listen, the one thing I'm going to say is that you said your honor to have us as our youth pastor. And I think all the youth can testify that we are honored to have you and Jenna as our youth pastors. So thank you so much. All right. I'm going to get started. John chapter 6 verse 35. While you're going there, I'm just going to say that I love these kinds of days. Whenever there's something different in church happening, I love it. But this is just amazing. I'm just going to read this one verse. John 6, 35. And I love that journey started by sharing her testimony because if God did it for her, that means God can do it for anyone. And the Spirit of the Lord is in this place. The Spirit of Jesus is in this place. And when the Spirit of the Lord is in this place, that means there's freedom. And whatever sin you may be in, whatever lie there is, that's telling you that you're always going to be stuck in your sin. And you have to age in order to get out of your sin. I'm telling you right now, there's freedom. When the Spirit of the Lord enters the room, there's freedom. It doesn't matter how long you were there. It doesn't matter what the kind of sin it is. When you have an encounter with Jesus, you can be free. And there is freedom in this place. All right, let's go. One verse. Then Jesus declared, oh, by the way, for context, Jesus just fed the 5,000 and people want more bread. And this is what he says. Then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. This is interesting because I was meditating on this topic of hunger for Jesus. And I was like, how can we be hungry for Jesus when we come to him? And he says, we'll never hunger a thirst again. How can we be hungry for Jesus when he promises satisfaction? And I realized that the people wanted bread, number one, because they ran out of bread and number two, because it didn't satisfy them. And that's exactly the kinds of things that the world gives. It gives us things that are temporary, that will run out, and it gives us things that will never satisfy us. And I want to remind you of a simple truth that Caleb said, that there is nothing that will satisfy you except Jesus. His presence is the only thing that will ever satisfy our hearts. We are created for intimacy and relationship with God. And we are separated from him. There is a void, but that only Jesus can fill. I'm telling you there's no bread. There's no temporary thing that can fill that void. It's only Jesus. It's only Jesus. That includes, listen, that includes the things that God gives you that are temporary, because he does bless you, and it's great. But I'm telling you right now that you may be anointed, but it is not as important. Your anointing is not as important as being in the presence of the anointor. The prosperity God blesses you with is not as important, not nearly as important as being in his presence, because his presence will satisfy you. Prophecy will cease. This is in the passage that Caleb was reading. He didn't get to it, but prophecy will cease. The tongues will cease. Knowledge will vanish, but love never fails. That will not cease. And the only thing that can truly satisfy your heart is Jesus Christ. That's the only thing. Here's a quote. "The devil will give a meal if that means you aren't pursuing the meal Jesus has for you." What does that mean? The thing is Satan wants to keep you hungry for everything, except Jesus, because he knows that he knows that he knows that when you're hungry for Jesus, you will have an encounter with him when you seek him, and his presence will transform you. So he wants you to be hungry for everything else that's not of God, including the things that God gives you. But none of those will satisfy you. You've got to be in his presence. He is the only thing that will fill you. So I'm still a little confused as I'm studying, because Jesus is the only thing that will satisfy. But if he does satisfy, why should we be hungry for more of him? As a matter of fact, the Greek word for hunger implies that there's something missing. There's a need. But Jesus says, "If you come to me, you'll never be hungry or thirsty again." And something on top of that is that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is an immersion of the Holy Spirit. So when you're baptized in the Holy Spirit, you're not empowered with some of the Holy Spirit. You're not given most of the Holy Spirit. You're given all of the Holy Spirit, and he completely fills you and empowers you. Think about water baptism. Imagine the waters, the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit is when you are completely immersed and filled in the Holy Spirit. Ascending him for baptism is immersion. Like you are filled with the Holy Spirit. So being hungry for more of Jesus is not about you getting the parts of God that you weren't spiritually prepared for. You have all of Jesus. You have the fullness of God. You have the fullness of the Spirit of Jesus. That's the Holy Spirit. So it's not about getting more of him. It's about knowing more of him, because the Holy Spirit reveals more of Jesus to you. You have all of Jesus in a literal sense, but getting more of Jesus is about getting to discover him and getting to know him more. And when you get to know Jesus more, and when you see Jesus and you see yourselves, you're going to give up yourself for him eventually, because you're going to look at his life and you're going to look at your life. You're going to look at his grace and mercy, and you're going to look at your sin, and you're going to say, "I want to be like Jesus. I want the fullness of God, and I want to change, and I want him to take over my life, my mind, my heart, my family, so that he can have more of me." Nothing else will satisfy except Jesus. You know, Jesus was hungry, because he had food. His food was to do the will of his father. That's what he says in John 4 to his disciples. "My food is to do the will of his father." So he was hungry, but he never ended up empty, because he was always doing the will of his father. And I'm telling you right now, the Spirit of God lives in you when you choose to believe in him. And if his Spirit lives in you, if the Spirit of Jesus lives in you, that means you can be hungry like Jesus was hungry, and you can be hungry for what Jesus was hungry for. And I don't know about you, but I want to be hungry for the loss, like Jesus is hungry for the loss. I want to be hungry for Jesus, like the Father was hungry for Jesus, like the Holy Spirit was hungry for Jesus. I want to be hungry for sinners, like Jesus is hungry for sinners. I want to be hungry for salvation, like Jesus is hungry for salvation. I want to be hungry for revival, like Jesus is hungry for revival. I want to be hungry for Gen Z, like Jesus is hungry for Gen Z. And you know, we think when we think of Gen Z for Jesus, we think I want Gen Z to know Jesus, and that's great. I want you to think something else on top of that. Think of this. Jesus wants Gen Z to know him, because he is the one that brings revival. He is the revival is easy for Jesus. He is the one that will that will save this generation, see we can we can plant seeds, which is what God has called us to do, but God gives the increase. So he is the one that is going to bring salvation, he is the one that is going to do it. And I'm telling you this, because I want you to have hope for this generation. See, some of you are, and I'm hyped too, because I'm a little extroverted, but you don't need extra, you don't need to be extroverted or introverted to receive this message, because it's about hope. It's about hope for this generation. It's about knowing that God wants our hearts, because this generation is hungry for something. But if we would be the church and point them not to temporary brave, that will not satisfy us, but if we could point them to the bread of life, if we could point our children and our grandchildren and the youth in our lives and the people that are in Gen Z and Gen Alpha to Jesus, we could see a generation that is hungry, no God, and have an encounter with them. Because when you have an encounter with God, you will not be the same, period. Man, God's so good. I'm going to pray real quick. Jesus, I thank you. I thank you so much that we have your spirit and we can be hungry, like you were hungry. Jesus, I pray you would fill us up with that hunger. Oh, God, I just ask you that you would show us who you are, and we would want to be like you, and we would chase after you, and we would pursue you with all our hearts, God. Oh, I thank you that we're not too far gone. I thank you, Lord, that you're with us, and you're here, and you're after us, God, and you're desperate for us, God. And I thank you that we can have that same desperation to see the lost, found, to see hope. Our hope in Gen Z become a reality. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Alright, this is perfect. Remain standing. Find somebody next to you, and we're just going to take a moment and carry on praying for the next generation, for Gen Z, for Gen Alpha. So really quickly, turn around, gather in groups, and let's just begin to pray. Come on, don't wait very long. Quickly, just enter right back into that place. We just were that Christian was leading us of prayer and passion for this next generation. Ask that the Lord would send revival, that he would convict hearts, that he would convict wrong mindsets. Ask for his will to be done, not your will, but the will of the Father to be done in this generation in Jesus' name. Thank you so much for joining us. There are so many opportunities to grow, connect, and be encouraged. To learn more, visit TTFRolly.com and follow us on social media. 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