Talk

Our Aim

Louie Giglio
January, 27, 2019

Louie Giglio reminds us of our ultimate goal and shows us how, no matter the size of our platform, the mission is the same.

We should strive for excellence in our work, to be distinctive in our passion and dedication, to pay the cost to be consistent; but if all of that doesn't ultimately build a platform on which we tell the world around us about Jesus, then we will never live out our calling to its end goal.

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Take Maya Moore, for example. One of the greatest women's basketball players of all time has leveraged her public platform to tell the world about Jesus and spends her Sundays planted in the body of Christ and leading out in the choir.

Scripture References

Warnings and Encouragements

1Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying:

“Be
on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.
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What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.

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“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.
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But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
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Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
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Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

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“I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God.
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But whoever disowns me before others will be disowned before the angels of God.
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And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

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“When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say,
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for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”

The Parable of the Rich Fool

13Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

14Jesus replied,

“Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?”
15Then he said to them,
“Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

16And he told them this parable:

“The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.
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He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’

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“Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.
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And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” ’

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“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

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“This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”

Do Not Worry

22Then Jesus said to his disciples:

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.
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For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.
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Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!
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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life
?
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Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

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“Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
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If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith!
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And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it.
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For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them.
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But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

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“Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.
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Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Watchfulness

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“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning,
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like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.
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It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.
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It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak.
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But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
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You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

41Peter asked, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everyone?”

42The Lord answered,

“Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time?
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It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns.
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Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
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But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
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The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

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“The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows.
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But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

Not Peace but Division

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“I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
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But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!
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Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.
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From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three.
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They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

Interpreting the Times

54He said to the crowd:

“When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does.
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And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It’s going to be hot,’ and it is.
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Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?

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“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
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As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled on the way, or your adversary may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
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I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.”

17Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
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“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
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“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
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Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
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In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
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“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

1Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4Now he had to go through Samaria. 5So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her,

“Will you give me a drink?”
8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

10Jesus answered her,

“If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13Jesus answered,

“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
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but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

16He told her,

“Go, call your husband and come back.”

17“I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her,

“You are right when you say you have no husband.
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The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

19“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

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“Woman,”
Jesus replied,
“believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
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You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
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Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
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God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

25The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

26Then Jesus declared,

“I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

27Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

28Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

31Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

32But he said to them,

“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

33Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”

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“My food,”
said Jesus,
“is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
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Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
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Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
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Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
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I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

Many Samaritans Believe

39Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41And because of his words many more became believers.

42They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son

43After the two days he left for Galilee. 44(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) 45When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there.

46Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

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“Unless you people see signs and wonders,”
Jesus told him,
“you will never believe.”

49The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

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“Go,”
Jesus replied,
“your son will live.”

The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 51While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”

53Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him,

“Your son will live.”
So he and his whole household believed.

54This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

23Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.