Church 419 - Paducah, KY

Some of us know how to work, produce, serve, lead, and keep going. We just do not know how to stop. And eventually, when your value gets tied to your output, rest starts to feel like failure. In Mark 6, Jesus looks at disciples who have been doing exactly what He called them to do, preaching, serving, healing, and ministering, and tells them: “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” In this message, Pastor Mark talks about: • Why rest belongs in a series about running to win • The difference between living like a son and living like a tool • Why productivity does not determine your value • How rest was built into creation from the beginning • Why Adam experienced rest before he had accomplished anything • Why rest is not a reward for productivity • How being needed can start feeling like being valuable • Why Jesus invited His disciples to rest before they asked for it • How rest can become an act of faith • The difference between healthy rest and spiritual drifting • Why grace does not eliminate good works • What Sabbath can look like for followers of Jesus today • Why Jesus is ultimately our deepest rest • What “It is finished” means for people who are exhausted from trying to prove themselves Here is the truth: A son rests. A tool breaks. A tool exists for what it can produce. A son is loved because he belongs to the family. Some of us have started relating to God like we are tools in His shed. “Give me another assignment.” “Let me prove I can handle it.” “Let me accomplish one more thing.” And when we get tired, we feel guilty. But Jesus does not relate to His people as disposable tools. He invites us to come away and rest. Rest is not quitting the race. It is sitting down beside the Lord of the race. And rest is also not permission to hide from responsibility. There is a difference between resting and drifting. Purpose without rest becomes exhaustion, but rest without purpose can become avoidance. Ultimately, Jesus does not simply give us rest. Jesus is our rest. On the cross He said: “It is finished.” You do not have to work your way into God’s love. You do not have to become productive enough, successful enough, disciplined enough, or spiritual enough to convince God to accept you. Jesus accomplished what you never could. So yes, run. Work. Serve. Obey. Become more like Jesus. But do not run to earn your place in the family. Run because Jesus has already brought you into it. Scripture: Mark 6:30-32, Genesis 2:2-3, Psalm 127:2, Ephesians 2:8-10, John 19:30 Series: RUN TO WIN Message: Part 4 Church Four19 exists to help people meet, love, and follow Jesus. Join us Sundays at 9:00 or 10:30 AM. Learn more at church419.com #RunToWin #Rest #Sabbath #Mark6 #ChristianMen #ChristianSermon #ChurchFour19

Big moments usually have smaller beginnings. When we read Luke 5, we remember the dramatic ending: “They left everything and followed Him.” But before Peter left everything, Jesus asked him to do something much smaller: “Put out a little.” That ordinary yes became the beginning of a completely different life. In this Day One message, Pastor Mark talks about: • Why we often see the result and forget the process • How God uses ordinary decisions to shape our direction • Why one wrong turn does not mean God has run out of road • How Jesus can use what is already in your hands • Why small obedience creates room for deeper trust • What empty nets can do to our expectations • Why we cannot let past disappointment determine future obedience • The difference between knowing churches exist and actually knowing Jesus • Why Church Four19 is intentionally pursuing growth • How growth creates new responsibility • What kind of church we want to become as we grow • Why generosity should shape us before success does • How a small yes in a preschool room can change the direction of a life • Why you do not always know which yes is going to matter Peter thought he had a fishing boat. Jesus saw a pulpit. Peter thought the lake was empty. Jesus saw a catch. Peter thought he was being asked to move the boat a little. Jesus knew where that yes would eventually lead. That is how calling often works. We want God to show us the next ten years. Jesus gives us the next step. And when we get it wrong, grace is not finished with us. A wrong turn may cost you something, but it does not mean God has run out of road. For Church Four19, this Day One is also about asking what kind of church we want to become. Not simply bigger. Not simply with more parking, more space, or better facilities. We want to become a church marked by: MORE OF JESUS. LESS OF ME. More of His heart. More of His compassion. More of His mission. Less ego. Less control. And that means before we ask, “What can we build?” we want to ask: Who can we bless? The goal is not more for the sake of more. It is: God, give us more so we can give more. And personally, maybe your Day One begins with one small act of obedience. Forgive. Serve. Give. Get baptized. Stop hovering around the edges. Take one step deeper. You do not need to understand where every yes will lead. You just need enough faith for the next one. Scripture: Luke 5:1-11 Message: DAY ONE Rally Call: MORE OF JESUS. LESS OF ME. Church Four19 exists to help people meet, love, and follow Jesus. Join us Sundays at 9:00 or 10:30 AM. Learn more at church419.com #DayOne #Luke5 #MoreOfJesus #CallingOverComfort #ChristianSermon #ChurchFour19 #Faith

What is actually fueling your life? Fear can make you move. Guilt can make you work. Approval can make you run hard. Pride, anger, pressure, and stress can all keep you going for a while. But just because something can move you does not mean it was meant to fuel your life. In 2 Corinthians 5, Paul tells us what kept him going through suffering, rejection, hardship, and sacrifice: “The love of Christ compels us.” In this message, Pastor Mark talks about: • What it means to be compelled by the love of Christ • Why the Christian life begins with how deeply Jesus has loved us • The difference between running for love and running for approval • Why the wrong fuel eventually leaves us sputtering • How fear, guilt, pride, and recognition can become unhealthy motivation • Why biblical love is not weak or sentimental • How truth and love belong together • What Jesus’ restoration of Peter teaches us about grace and truth • Why loving Jesus must eventually become visible in the way we love people • How service becomes unhealthy when recognition is the fuel • Why we love because Jesus loved us first • How to examine whether your current life is moving toward the legacy you want • Why the goal is to be known by love Paul does not say ambition compelled him. He does not say guilt compelled him. He does not say fear compelled him. He says love did. The cross settles the question of whether God loves you. You do not run hard enough to convince God to love you. You run because you already have been loved. And when the love of Christ becomes the fuel underneath your life, it changes the way you treat people. You forgive because you have been forgiven. You give because you have received grace. You love because He loved you first. Jesus showed us what love looks like with Peter. Peter failed. Jesus did not pretend the failure did not happen. But He also refused to let Peter’s worst moment become the final word over his life. He restored him and then pointed Peter toward people: “You love Me? Then love them.” That is where love becomes visible. And when the race is finally over, maybe one of the greatest things anyone could say about us is simply: He loved Jesus, and because he loved Jesus, he loved us well. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 Series: RUN TO WIN Message: Part 3, What Are You Running For? Church Four19 exists to help people meet, love, and follow Jesus. Join us Sundays at 9:00 or 10:30 AM. Learn more at church419.com #RunToWin #2Corinthians5 #LoveOfChrist #ChristianMen #Discipleship #ChristianSermon #ChurchFour19

A lot of people ask, “How far is too far?” or “Where exactly is the line?”

But that may already be the wrong question.

In 1 Corinthians 6, Paul says, “I have the right to do anything, but I will not be mastered by anything.”

The issue is not just what you are allowed to do.

The deeper question is:

What has started to own you?

In this message, Pastor Mark talks about:

• Why discipleship is more than figuring out how close you can get to the line

You can be free to pick something up and not be free enough to put it down.

That is mastery.

The question is not:

“Can I have it?”

The question is:

“Does it have me?”

And sometimes freedom requires running.

Joseph ran from temptation.

David ran from his calling.

One protected his calling by fleeing desire.

The other protected his desire by fleeing responsibility.

At some point, you have to run from the right thing.

If comfort masters you, you will run from sacrifice.

If fear masters you, you will run from obedience.

If lust masters you, you will run from faithfulness.

But if Christ is your Master, you will run from anything that keeps you from Him.

And the gospel is not that you finally became strong enough to master yourself.

The gospel is that Jesus bought you out of slavery to sin and made you His own.

Your body belongs to Him because His body was given for you.

His blood was poured out for the sin you tried to hide.

So flee what wants to master you.

Pursue the One who already gave Himself for you.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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Everybody is running toward something, but are we running toward what really matters? In 1 Corinthians 9, Paul challenges us to live with purpose and discipline, choosing consistency over comfort as we become more like Jesus.

Life gets heavy in ways we don’t always know how to name. Sometimes it’s the weight of questions. Sometimes it’s the weight of resistance. And sometimes it’s the weight of exhaustion, when we’ve carried expectations and pain for far too long.

In Matthew 11, Jesus meets people under the weight they are carrying. John the Baptist is in prison with honest questions, and Jesus responds by reminding him of what is true and publicly honoring his faithfulness. There are cities that have seen the works of Jesus but remain unchanged, showing us the danger of being close to God’s activity without surrendering to God’s authority. Then Jesus turns to the weary and burdened with one of the most beautiful invitations in Scripture: “Come to me…and I will give you rest.”

Each week, we’ll look at a different weight people carry and discover that Jesus doesn’t simply expose what’s heavy. He invites us to come to Him, take His yoke, and find rest for our souls.

Life gets heavy in ways we don’t always know how to name. Sometimes it’s the weight of questions. Sometimes it’s the weight of resistance. And sometimes it’s the weight of exhaustion, when we’ve carried expectations and pain for far too long.

In Matthew 11, Jesus meets people under the weight they are carrying. John the Baptist is in prison with honest questions, and Jesus responds by reminding him of what is true and publicly honoring his faithfulness. There are cities that have seen the works of Jesus but remain unchanged, showing us the danger of being close to God’s activity without surrendering to God’s authority. Then Jesus turns to the weary and burdened with one of the most beautiful invitations in Scripture: “Come to me…and I will give you rest.”

Each week, we’ll look at a different weight people carry and discover that Jesus doesn’t simply expose what’s heavy. He invites us to come to Him, take His yoke, and find rest for our souls.

Life gets heavy in ways we don’t always know how to name. Sometimes it’s the weight of questions. Sometimes it’s the weight of resistance. And sometimes it’s the weight of exhaustion, when we’ve carried expectations and pain for far too long.

In Matthew 11, Jesus meets people under the weight they are carrying. John the Baptist is in prison with honest questions, and Jesus responds by reminding him of what is true and publicly honoring his faithfulness. There are cities that have seen the works of Jesus but remain unchanged, showing us the danger of being close to God’s activity without surrendering to God’s authority. Then Jesus turns to the weary and burdened with one of the most beautiful invitations in Scripture: “Come to me…and I will give you rest.”

Each week, we’ll look at a different weight people carry and discover that Jesus doesn’t simply expose what’s heavy. He invites us to come to Him, take His yoke, and find rest for our souls.

We all have feelings, but our feelings don't always tell us the truth. At times we feel abandoned, offended, overwhelmed, anxious, or afraid. The question isn't whether we will feel these things, but what we will do with them. The Psalms teach us how to be honest with our feelings without walking away from faith. They give language to the things we often struggle to say and show us that God is not intimidated by our emotions. Each week, we will look at a different Psalm and a different feeling, discovering how God meets us in the middle of what we feel, and teaches us to worship through what we feel.

We all have feelings, but our feelings don't always tell us the truth. At times we feel abandoned, offended, overwhelmed, anxious, or afraid. The question isn't whether we will feel these things, but what we will do with them. The Psalms teach us how to be honest with our feelings without walking away from faith. They give language to the things we often struggle to say and show us that God is not intimidated by our emotions. Each week, we will look at a different Psalm and a different feeling, discovering how God meets us in the middle of what we feel, and teaches us to worship through what we feel.