2000 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III

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Hey, how you doing? Are you well? Yes. This is an Australian accent in case you were wondering. Anyone been to Sydney, Australia? Anyone want to come to Australia? We'll do an Aussie lesson. We say, "awesome." This is how the Queen speaks, she says, "awesome." So everyone say, "awesome." Oh, you all sound dignified! Say it again, awesome. Ok, now say it like an American. Just saying. I'm loving being here, I think if I was a single woman, your registrations for people to come to this college would've went up after that kind of introduction. He goes, "wear your PJs and get a picture with Tim Tebow." And I'm thinking, man, oh man, how you can increase your regos to this college. I was just sitting there laughing going, it's very deep and meaningful, I'm going to wear my PJs to the chick event and so all the guys are suddenly going to attend and this is what we're trying to stop in universities. But anyway, that's ok. I need to come and talk to you. You know, I'm so honored to be here. I couldn't even begin to explain how honored I am to be at Liberty. I am married, for those of you that don't know. I am married to the single most ravishing piece of masculine flesh on planet earth. His name's Nick. He's hot. I've been married for 17 years, and we have two little daughters. We have my Catherine Bobby who is 10, my little Sophia Joyce who's 6. They are alpha and omega, beginning and the end. And I was laughing when you said that the college is 42 years old, I'm older than the college. I'm like 46. Do I look it? Right answer, thanks. I'm going to tell you a little about me. We talked about the A21 Campaign, I'm not here just to talk about that. If you want to find out more information about that, then you can look that up online at the a21campaign.org there's a whole lot of information. I am excited. We only started 4 years ago in Thessaloniki, Greece where I saw the posters of some young women and children that I found out had been trafficked. I didn't even know human trafficking existed on the earth in our lifetime, or that slavery was on the earth. Went on to find out, as many of you know, that slavery is the fastest growing crime worldwide. And so we started then the A21 campaign in an attempt to help abolish injustice in the 21st century. And who would've known four years later by the grace of God, that we are now in 7 countries, involved in investigation right through to rescue. I was just in Thessaloniki last week and we have a transition home there full of young women that have been rescued and in the last 9 days, I don't know if you follow me on Twitter, you would have seen a couple of days ago I tweeted that in 9 days we had 9 traffickers all sentenced and convicted. Maximum sentences, all put in jail for the whole lot. That was just last week. I'm so excited. In a region of the world where there was almost nobody being convicted of this crime. So, one life at a time, we're making a difference, and God has done some awesome things. But I need you to know, trafficking I'm passionate about, but the thing I'm most passionate about is the cause of Jesus Christ and the Gospel of Jesus Christ and everything we do, flows out of that. I need you to understand. In a generation that is so passionate about causes, Jesus said, "that for this cause I came to earth." There's one cause that's above every other cause and justice flows out of the cause of Jesus Christ going forward. I'm going to speak to you today about the most important thing. Here you all are in university. We have future, all the future leaders of society in this room. Politicians, and doctors, and lawyers, and scientists, and business people, mothers, fathers, whatever, we have all the leaders of society in this room. Maybe there's not a more important meeting I'm going to speak to this year than this group of people in this room. So I want you to hear above everything else, the thing that I'm most passionate about is not just stopping human trafficking. We ought to stop every injustice in the earth. But the only way we are going to dispel the darkness on the earth is not just getting passionate about causes, but it's by illuminating the light of Christ in a lost and a broken world and propagating the gospel of Jesus Christ in our generation and I pray that we are more passionate about that than anything else, because that's what we have to move forward with. I was at the Sydney Olympic games in the year 2000. And I'm passionate about any sort of sport, but I'm particularly partial to the track events and because I'm a woman, I really like women's events in case you, one track runner here, obviously. So in that, I went to the women's 4 by 100 meter relay. Now you Americans should have won that. You had the fastest team in the 2000 Olympics. But I think coming into the second exchange, the team got a little bit sloppy. There was a really sloppy exchange and you ended up coming third, the women's 4 by 100 meter team came third behind the Bahamas and behind Jamaica. But you should've won because you had the fastest team. Now in the 2004 Athens Olympics, I switched it on again, because you should've won again. You had the 4 fastest individual runners and you had the fastest team. But you might remember, coming into the exchange, Marion Jones came into the exchange zone to hand off to Lauren Williams and she slowed down coming into the exchange zone. And so what happened was Lauren had taken off, and by the time she had gotten the baton in her hand, by the time they handed this over, it was outside of the exchange zone so the US team was disqualified. In 2008 in Beijing, the women's 4 by 100 meter team turned up again and should have won. But on the third exchange, they dropped the baton in the exchange zone and the women's team lost. So three Olympics we should've won, but in 3 Olympics, the team lost, even though every individual runner was the fastest. Even though you were winning as you came into the exchange zone. But what those three Olympics showed us was that it really doesn't matter how much any one individual, how quickly any one individual runs. It really doesn't mater how fast all the individuals are independently. What matters is whether this baton crosses the line or not. In an Olympic games, there's a 20-meter exchange zone in a relay race. There's a 20-meter exchange zone. It takes about 1.9 seconds to get the baton from the hand of one person to the next in that exchange zone. It doesn't matter how fast you are coming in, if you do not get that exchange right and you drop the baton, or you hand the baton over too late, or you're sloppy in the exchange zone, then the entire team loses, or the entire team is disqualified. In this year's London Olympics, we got every one of the exchanges right and so the women's team not only won, but broke a 20-year record. Now what that showed us is, I know we're excited but that's not the point. The point is this: that it doesn't matter how big any one ministry is that graduates from this university. Doesn't matter how big your business becomes. It doesn't matter how great your practice might become. There's one thing that you and I are responsible for in our generation. You and I are not a product of time, we're a product of eternity. God has plucked us out of eternity , He has positioned us in time, and He has given us gifts and talents for the purpose of serving our generation. This is our time in history where God has placed the baton of faith into our hands. And what we do with this baton of faith will actually make a difference for the church of Jesus Christ on the earth. We live in such a pivotal time on the earth today. We are in a spiritual exchange zone and what we do with this baton will determine whether we leave a legacy of faith or not for our generation. The bible says in the book of Hebrews chapter 12, "Therefore then since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses ..." We didn't get here by ourselves, young people. There were people that ran before us, and there are people that are coming after us. And we do not have the luxury of dropping the baton of faith in our exchange zone, of handing it over too late, or of becoming sloppy with the baton of faith because as we have gotten sloppy, look at the state of our nation. Look at the state of this world. I want you to have a look at the most sloppy of one of the most saddest passages of scripture in the Bible for me, personally. In the book of Judges, I think, I'm hoping we've got this up, Judges chapter 2. I haven't checked with the guys, I probably should've, otherwise I'll turn to my Bible. Judges, chapter 2,verse 6. The bible says, "After Joshua just missed the Israelites, they went on to take possession of the land, each his own inheritance. The people served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the Lord had done for Israel. Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of a hundred and ten. And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. After that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel." After all the miracles that Joshua had seen. After leading a generation and surviving in the wilderness and leading a generation into the Promised Land and after seeing the Jericho walls come down, after seeing the River Jordan push back, after seeing them posses so much promise in the promise land. The Bible says, after him, another generation arose that did not know the Lord. What good are all of our conferences? What good are all of our teaching cds and our books and our Christian music and all of our mega churches? What good is any of it, if another generation arises after us that does not know the Lord, nor the things that He has done for our great nation? And if we look at the statistics in this nation, that was the leader in the world when it came to Christianity, so much Christianity out of North America has shaped the Australian church. And when you come here and look at this nation and think, who would've thought in my lifetime we would end up like this. So you and I have a responsibility. Not just to play church. Not just to go through some boring religious obligation. Not to turn our Christianity into some sort of criminalized, institutionalized, bureaucratized kind of list of rituals, but we ought to be radical about our Christian faith because we have a generation depending on us to carry the baton of faith to our generation in every sphere of life. Every sphere of life! Hebrews chapter 12 you'll see, if you guys put it up it says, "Therefore then since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses." I love this, it is so important that you and I recognize we did not get here by ourselves. So much of this generation is all about "me," "I want to be famous, I want to be a hero, I want to be a celebrity." Who can be the biggest? Who can be the best? Who can be the fastest? You know what? Coming into every exchange, that runner was the biggest and the best and the fastest but the whole team got disqualified because they didn't get that extra exchange right in the exchange zone. Doesn't matter what big a deal any one of us is, it takes all of us to hand this baton of faith. In a relay, it's not about the runner; it's about the baton. In the Christian faith, it's not about how great we are; it's about the baton of faith being passed on from one generation to the next. And we ought to take responsibility. It doesn't matter what profession you are in. Doctor, lawyer, anything, I could go through whole list in this room of what you want to graduate and what you want to do. You need to understand, you are first and foremost a Christ-follower. Everything else is secondary! And it's all about carrying this baton of faith to our generation. Lest we leave a legacy that when we and our generation dies, another generation arises that does not know the Lord in North America nor the things that He has done for this great land. And you don't need to be a rocket scientist or a prophet to have a look at what's happening, morally, politically, socially, environmentally in our world today. And it's not because the devil's gotten any stronger. Last time I read my bible, he's still small enough to fit under my feet and God's still big enough to fill the heavens and the earth. It's not because he's gotten stronger. It's because the light went out. We forgot what it's about. It's about our baton of faith being carried from one generation to the next. If you forget that others have come before you, you will forget that there are still others to come after you and you just run your race for yourself. And we have to be careful in our generation that we don't get so arrogant that we think all the generations before us got it wrong and we can all do it so much better because we're cooler and we're trendier and we've got better technology and they don't know what they were doing. You know what? They must have done something right because we're all still here and rather than being arrogant about the generation before us, why don't we thank God that others faithfully carried the baton of faith in their generation to give us a baton so that we can hand it on to the generation after us. Why don't we thank God for that? "Therefore then since you are surrounded by such a crowd of witnesses," what does he tell us to do? He says we need to run our race but we need to lay aside the weights and the sins that would hinder us from running our leg of the race. I don't know what they are, but the fact that the writer to the Hebrews says weights and sins suggests a difference between a weight and a sin. And we need a generation that is willing to lay aside some of the things that are holding us back. We don't like the word "sin" very much in our generation. It just doesn't seem very cool, does it, or trendy. We are a very secularized, privatized, pluralized, postmodern 21st century people. Sin seems so outdated. But if I had a bottle of poison with a label on it called sin and I ripped that label off and put a new label on it, chocolate syrup, and then put that in your refrigerator, you would think I was psychotic because the milder you make the label, the more potent you make the poison. And what we're doing is poisoning a generation because we're making the label so mild. Let me tell you this, tolerance is not endorsement and so we ought to be a generation of Christians that love everybody. And you're talking to the social justice person here that understands justice, thank God by the grace of God, the A21 Campaign three months ago was given a hero of human trafficking award from your state department, from Hillary Clinton. We've been honored by presidents all over the world, so I am all about tolerance, but I'm not all about endorsement and this is why. I grew up in the poorest local government area in Sydney, Australia. The poorest zip code in the whole nation. Second generation migrant Greek, before "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" when it was not cool to be Greek in Australia and I was very marginalized because my ethnicity. I grew up in a culture that demeaned women. Women were never encouraged to do anything great, except maybe just have babies. You know, when a Greek mother gives birth to a daughter she thinks, "I've got a lean, mean, breeding machine." And so she was like, you know, that's all that a women could do. And pretty much every week of my life from the time I was 3 years old until the time I was 15, I was sexually abused at the hands of 4 men for 12 years. And that messes with you. Big time. And the reason why it goes profoundly quiet in this room when I say that, is because I don't need to be a prophet to know that there are thousands of you that understand in some way, shape, or form, whether sexually or emotionally, or physically understand what it is to have been abused. The Oxford dictionary defines the word abuse as, "to use an object for a purpose for which it was never designed" and for 12 years I was used for a purpose for which God never designed me. And so with that I carried a lot of shame, a lot of guilt, a lot of unforgiveness, a lot of bitterness, a lot of anger, a lot of hurt. I had a lot of weights and sins that I was carrying around. Now we could have said, because I had so much unforgiveness, a lot of well-meaning people would've said to me, "Christine that's ok, look what they did to you." So I would've never have filled my God given destiny because I would've never have been able to be planted in a church, I would've never been able to submit to authority, I would never have - I would've just been an angry, young, bitter woman. And so many of us end up like that. But because I chose to own it as a sin, not what was done to me, but the fact that I harbored so much unforgiveness. And the Bible said that if I did not forgive those who had sinned against me, then God would not forgive my sin against Him, as others has sinned, God has forgiven my sin against Him. So also must I forgive. So when I owned it, then I was able to deal with it. Because I needed to let go of it so I could do what God has called me to do because worse than me being abused for 12 years, would be me carrying those abuses into my future every single day through bitterness and unforgiveness, I had to let go for me. That's the power of understanding what sin truly is, so that the blood of Jesus Christ could set us free from that and we can move beyond our past into the future that God has for us. When I was two weeks out from my 33rd birthday, I got a phone call from my brother George, and he was 35 at the time, I was just turning 33, my younger brother Andrew was going to be 30. And George said to me, "Christine, I just got a letter from the government department and it says that I've been adopted." Now, I laughed when he told me that, because you know when you're growing up, you never think you're related to your siblings, and so I used to always say to him, "George, your mother's from Mars, we're not related." You know, and he would just think we were joking. But anyway, when he said this to me, I go, "George, of course they've made some kind of administrative error, call the," in Australia it's called the department of community services. I said, "Call the Department of Community Services, and tell them they've made a mistake." He called me back about 10 minutes later, this time he's sobbing, and he said, "Chris, it's true. They know the name of my biological mother, my biological father, they've got an entire file on my life." So I raced over to my mother's house and I walked into the lounge room, and my brother had driven to my mom's house, and he had given her this piece of paper from the government department. I saw my mother took it, I walked in right at that moment. My mother took this piece of paper, she's sobbing. I thought, "Oh my gosh this is true." And she goes, "George, I'm so sorry. All of the adoption laws in Australia, 35 years ago, they were all closed adoptions. We never thought you would find out. Before your father died, the last thing I promised him was that I would never tell you. I tore up all of the paperwork and I threw it away." And guys, you've got to understand, this was A Moment. My mother's crying, my brother's crying, dog's crying, snot's flying, I mean like it's a big, fat Greek moment. It's all happening. I walk into the kitchen, because when you're Greek you kind of go, "What am I going to do, I'm going to make coffee and eat baklava." You just get food. Food solves everything. So I'm in the kitchen, and my mother walks in behind me and this is what she said to me, she said, "Christina, since we're telling the truth, do you want to know the whole truth?" I turned around, guys, and I don't know why I said this initially, I said, "I've been adopted too." And with tears streaming down her face, she just nodded her head. I'm two weeks out from my 33rd birthday and I just found out I'm adopted. I was stunned! I didn't say anything for a few minutes, which in and of itself is a miracle greater than the resurrection of Jesus. But anyway, I didn't say anything! And then the next thing that came out of my mouth right there in my Greek Orthodox mother's kitchen. I went, "Oh well, Mom. Before I was formed in my mother's womb, whosever womb that was, He knew me. He knitted together my innermost parts, He fashioned all of my days before as yet there was one of them, I am fearfully and wonderfully made." And church, that day every fact that I thought to be true about my life changed. What my name was, what my heritage was, I mean to this day, in 2012, I still do not know the facts surrounding my conception. I don't know if I was the result of a one-night stand. I don't know if I was the result of some ongoing adulterous affair. I have no idea if I was the result of a rape. But although I do not know the facts, I have discovered a force that is much higher than the facts, and it's called the truth of the word of God. And Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 10 does not say that I am the workmanship of a rape. It doesn't say that I'm the workmanship of an adulterous affair. It says that we are His workmanship recreated in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them and nothing has changed, nothing has changed. We are not a product of time. We're a product of eternity. However we got here, and maybe the enemy sent an assignment like he did in my life while I was still in my mother's womb, to still kill and destroy my life, but I got here to earth and now God is using me, who was rescued by Him to turn around and rescue others. That is the great story of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I feel like Joseph in Genesis, chapter 50, verse 20, who turned around to his brothers and said, "you meant this for evil against me but God meant it for exactly this purpose, so that we can see the salvation of many people alive." I don't know what your story is. I don't know where you are from. But you are not here by accident, and if you trust God, He will work together for good all things in your life and He will turn it around and use your past to give somebody else a future, if you would allow Him to do that, church. He would. That's what Jesus does. It's all about a baton of faith, from one generation to the next. And we have the truth of His word in a pluralistic world with no absolute truth, there is right, there is wrong, there are sins we need to lay aside and there are weights we need to lay aside. And for this generation those weights are the weight of opinion, the weight of entitlement, the weight of celebrity and arrogance. This is what this generation does. We stand in the exchange zone, while someone else is running with the baton, and we stand there and go, "I don't know if I want that baton. I don't like the color of it. I don't have enough salary package with it. I don't want to work in anonymity and obscurity because, bless God, I deserve more." And we just wait. And we've got faithful people running with the baton of faith coming into the exchange zone. Whoever runs in a relay into a standing still person, you will knock them off. Some of you are waiting and you're going, "Well, I wasn't passed the baton, they're passing it too late. It's too traditional. It's too this, it's too that." And instead of running - when you come into the exchange zone, there is this moment. Johnnie, would you come here for a minute? You go, come here, as if you're ready for it. Are you an athlete? No, that's not how you receive. Did you just see what he did? You turn and you look that way. That's the finish line. You stick your hand behind you. Oh Lord. Does anyone know how to do this? Anyone an athlete here? Come up here, quick. Don't humiliate me. This is going on the world wide web. Don't come to Liberty for track, for this man, anyway, ok. But come for everything else! Where are you? Can you just stand there? Please, make it look like we know what we're doing here. There you go. So we're coming in. I'm running, hang on, stop, stop, stop. Can you see this? There is this 0.1 second within this 1.9 second exchange zone where I am running full steam with the baton; he is running full steam without the baton. There is no seamless exchange if you are not willing to run without it for a moment. Most of us are not willing to run without it. We're not willing to do our time in anonymity and obscurity. But you have to understand, every time you're running full pelt without the baton. So you're in college, and you're keeping yourself morally pure. (You're not going to get it. Just hold your hand out.) This is what you're trying to do. You all prematurely try to take it out of our hand and then we drop it because you don't have the weight and the character to carry it yet. And you're gifted, the most gifted generation ever! But the gift that is on you will destroy you if what is in can't sustain you. And God is trying to build what it on the inside of you. And you can't build it - You can't build it if you're not running, If you're not serving, If you don't care about title, If you don't care about position. But you serve in your church. You serve your pastors. You serve your leaders, and you do it without any position. Most of you sacrificed your destiny on the altar of a position you want because you won't accept the place that God wants to set you in. And if you embrace your place, God will promote you. Promotion does not come from the north, south, east, or west, it comes from God. And we need to understand, God opens doors that no man can shut and it is better to be marked by God than marketed by man because God will elevate you to the place that He wants you to be. God will elevate you. (To Johnnie Moore) You're fired! Someone take him to track class. You know when the prophet Samuel was coming to anoint the next King, when the prophet Samuel was coming to anoint the next King of Israel. He came to Jesse's house and he saw Eliab first, and Eliab was the most successful one. He's the one that would have been at all the Christian conferences. He's the one that was very successful, had the degrees, had the titles, had all the invitations. And the prophet got it wrong. He said, "Surely this must be the Lord's anointed." Because man always looks at the outside and in our obsessed culture, that's what we look at. Who's the most gifted? Who's the most talented? Who's the fastest shooting star? Who's the little celebrity person? Who can build the biggest practice? Who can build the best? Who can do this? And God says, "I don't look at that stuff like you all do." And let me tell you, in this generation, it hasn't changed. The ways God does things don't change just because technology changes. Doesn't mean God's methods change. And never ever, ever confuse methodology with orthodoxy, ever. The gospel is still the gospel. God always works on the human heart. God is always looking for faithful servants that have got character above gift and talent any day and every day of the week. I'm living proof of that. I'm the kid that was left unnamed and unwanted in a hospital. I'm the kid that should not be standing here. But I'm the kid that God marked in the backside of the desert in anonymity and obscurity and that chose to die a thousand deaths. And to say, "God whatever it takes, I want to carry the baton of faith to my generation." And I'm 46 and I'm still going. It's not how great you start at 22 and 18 and 19, because when you get to my age, there are very few of us left. There was 10,000 of us when I was your age as well. What I'm telling you is that the thing that's going to make sure you not only run your race but that you actually finish you course. Because it's got a whole lot more to do with what's in your heart than the gift and the talent that you have externally. And the prophet came, and he got it wrong. And Jesse the father of the house got it wrong too. He said, "Here's my 7 sons I'm parading in front of you. Samuel, choose one of them." And the Lord said, "No, I haven't chosen them. I haven't." So Samuel says, "Is there anyone else?" He goes, "I've got this loser kid. He's in the backside of the desert, looking after some sheep playing a little harp." Could be the one of you that's looking after those 5 kids in that country youth ministry that you think, "Does God even notice? I'm not even on the speaking circuit. Would God even notice if I go and serve Him as a missionary in a foreign country? Means I'm not going to make a whole lot of money. Would God even notice?" What does it really matter? Because man doesn't notice. God says, "I'm preparing you in anonymity and obscurity. I'm preparing you for the thing that I've already prepared for you but I need to know that you're going to go through your preparation stage. I'm going to need to know that you're going to run without the baton. Because if you're running without the baton, then I can put that baton into your hands. But if you're not running and you're just standing still waiting for the best one. I don't like that color, I don't like this. You better pay me more. My time's worth more. I'm better than that. And you squander your time on earth because you're waiting for a better position, you're waiting for a better package and you miss God's call. So that you can just get what man would celebrate. You're going to squander this one and only life that you have. God says, "I need you to be running." We look at the baton, "I don't like that. It's not my love language. It's not where I fit on my disk profile. It's not my strength finder." And so what we do is we write Christian books to excuse Christians from being a Christian. There's only one love language, sweetheart, it's called die. Die to self. In Gethsemane, Jesus got on His knees and He said these words, the most missing words in the 21st century church. "Nevertheless!" He said to His Father, "I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this, but if there's any other way, would you take this cup from me." And then He said these words, "Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done." We have said, and talked, and written so much about destiny and purpose and dreams, but understand they only have a place within the plan, and the purpose of God. It is the only thing that will last for eternity. And some of us need to bend the knee and say, "you know what Father, I was running this way, but nevertheless, not my will but Yours." When I started A21, it wasn't to be trendy! I was a 41 year old woman with a 1 year old and a 5 year old. Successful in ministry doing what God had called me to do. But then it came a place where the Lord asked me to do this and it was, "You know what Lord, I could be comfortable now, I could go into my 50's and just live a nice little life. But nevertheless, not my will, but yours." And the only way you will continue to fulfill the purpose of God in your generation and carry the baton of faith is if we say, "Nevertheless, not my will. I want to sleep with my boyfriend, but nevertheless, not my will. I might want to go chase after my own dream. But Lord, nevertheless, not my will." And if we would lay aside our will, and pick up His will and purpose, we will carry that baton of faith to our generation and we shall see the Kingdom move forward in our generation on this earth. Nevertheless Lord, not my will, but thine me done. "Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside the weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us and run with perseverance." We don't like that word in our instant, quick fix, gratification, 21st century. 140 characters and I want an answer now. I want a text now. If someone doesn't answer, I text in 15 seconds, we think, "what's wrong?" The Lord says, "No, perseverance. That's what I'm teaching you in anonymity and obscurity." I'm standing here today, I'm 46, young people. 24 years of serving God in the backside of the desert. 24 years. God's done amazing things with A21. Highest awards in the world, traffickers in jail, homes all over the world full of real, live victims, not just talking about it, really doing it. Over 100 staff all around the world. But it's taken 24 years of serving and I'm still committed, same church, same pastor, still sewn into the same place. Those words that are no longer trendy, commitment, faithfulness, loyalty, longevity. "Oh, Christine, this generation doesn't like it." Big deal if they don't like it, God likes it. And so it's not a matter of what we like, it's a matter of what He likes, and if you seriously want to fulfill what He's got for you, you ought to do what He says. And how do we do that? How do we persevere? By fixing our eyes on Jesus. The runner that was -- (Come back here, quick, this is your last moment, 53 seconds, look that way.) - He can't fix his eyes on me. Once he starts going, he's got to fix his eyes on - When you get this baton, fix your eyes on Jesus. You know what some of you need to do? Some of us, we fix our eyes more on how many people are following us on Twitter, than how many are not following Jesus on the Earth. We ought to be looking more at that. Some one us need to get our faces off Facebook and get our face in The Book and begin to fix our eyes on Jesus and focus on the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Fix your eyes on Jesus. This is the greatest generation we've ever had on the earth. We can actually get this job done if we would just die to ourselves, fix our eyes on Jesus Christ and remember young people, it is all about handing on this baton of faith from one generation to the next. You can do what has never been done. We together can usher in the second coming of Jesus Christ if would just stay focused in our generation in Jesus' name, amen and amen. Thanks guys.