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Beyond More: Seeing Beyond Limitations || Pastor Adam Mesa
February 2, 2025 · 1 hr 12 min
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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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Vision and Growth at Patriot Church 0:00 And tithe and give offering regularly. What an exciting weekend. I hope you guys have already had a chance to enjoy so far. The courtyard is open after 2 years of working on that project, and the0:12 north side is open. Next 30 days the south side will be open. And just so incredible to open it last night, and then even throughout today seeing so many families enjoy it. And0:24 within a month, our south side will be open, more fire pits, more places to sit, some activities people are gonna do. Right after that 30 days where we have a new coffee shop renovation that we're doing. It0:36 gets put in right after the south side's done, and then we bring our retail center, we're bringing that in the courtyard as well. And so, really leading up towards going over the next 60 days, that whole courtyard's0:47 gonna look completely different. But more than that, I want to say thank you. Not to those that just regularly give, but those who gave towards the past Vision Sundays. Outside, all of that shade, everything from the0:58 lucky climber to all of the fire pits, that was a 1700000.0 dollar project. About 700. That's a big project. We could clap towards that. That's great. But here's the better news.1:11 You guys, our church, we take care of it. We took care of it. There was no loan that had to be pulled. We didn't borrow from nobody. We didn't call an old homie from the streets and say, hey, can we get a couple million1:23 and in a couple years get you back our church? We gave towards it. Your regular offering covered about a million dollars of it. And in the past 2 years for our vision Sundays, our anniversary Sundays,1:35 you gave towards it about another 700000 dollars And so, when we need, when we even did it, we set it to be able to reach families and create spaces for community, we are able to fund it in 24 months. And1:47 so it's incredible to see what our church can do collectively together when each person sacrifices, which a little bit is what we're gonna talk about today. But I'm excited, because we're launching a new series that's1:58 gonna continue what we see God doing in in the life of our church. And I know that God is gonna speak to you over the next 5 weeks as we do a series together. And here's what I want to do. Normally, we encourage you to2:09 take notes in your Bible or your own journal, but this weekend is something special. Because over the next 5 years, we're doing a series called Beyond, where we take a journey together to understand how God is taking2:20 patriot beyond places more than anything we can ask or think. And so part of this, we've already constructed and put together a journal book for you. So, if you reach behind your seat, there's a2:31 slot. You'll see a journal there. If you're outside, our dream team will get it to you. There's no slot. But you'll see a booklet journal that we've given you. If you're up in the theater seats,2:43 you're going to see our dream teams passing them out to you right now, because you don't have a slot behind your seats plastic back there. But everybody has this. And you can see it's so nice. Like it's thick2:55 paper. Like, that's not the cheap stuff. It's like, some of it's flat, like it's not even shiny, some of it is. Like it's just, this is fancy. This is, you know.3:07 And so, we ask that you guys bring this for the next 5 weeks to church. Every time you come to church, bring this with you. This book is gonna have information for you. It has testimonies in3:19 there of what God has done through the lives of people at our campuses. It also has a daily devotional. So, if you want to grow in your faith every Monday through Friday for the next 5 weeks, every single3:31 day, there's a daily Scripture and a daily reflection for you as well. And so, we thought it all out for you. You can have this with you every single day, and you can go through it. But, I3:43 know everybody here's a looky loo, don't be looking through it yet. Okay? You sneaky people. Just go to page 21. That's where we're gonna be at. That's sermon notes.3:54 Page 21 is where you're gonna find ourselves. You have a card on page 21, you just set it to the side, cause this is where you can take notes today. And then also the next page after4:06 that it says Monday, that's the scripture we're gonna read today. So if you didn't bring a Bible, you'll be able to join us in the scripture reading that we have. So if you have a Bible, you want to follow along, or in4:17 your journal that you have today, go to Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20. You can go to Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20. Try to remember this every single week. Don't try to collect it.4:29 They're not Pokemon cards, okay? So each 1 costs money, so don't forget 1 next week and then by the end of this have 5 journals. You know, try to keep it with you. If you forget it once, that's okay, we'll try to get you4:41 1. But and if you don't get 1, Dream Team will start getting them too. You'll get them by the end of service as they're gonna work to get all the extra booklets and stuff like that. Well, if you're ready for the reading4:51 of God's word today, would you stand as we honor God. We're gonna read 1 verse today. We're gonna read quite a bit of scripture, but we're gonna launch with 1 passage of scripture today and allow God to speak to us5:02 through this. Here's what Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20 says. Now to Him, speaking of God, now to God, who is able to do far more, someone say far more.5:15 Abundantly beyond, someone say beyond. Beyond. All that we ask or think according to the power that works within us. Let's read it 1 more time. Now to Him who is able5:26 to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works within us. You may be seated. Is it5:38 that powerful? Apostle Paul says in Ephesians that God can go beyond anything you think or you ask. And He does it abundantly.5:51 He does it abundantly. And His power works in us. When we follow Jesus, God's power by the gift of the Holy Spirit enables you to do things, to see things,6:03 that go and stretch far beyond anything you or I can ever ask or think. That's what God wants to do. God doesn't want to do less than what you can think or what6:15 you can ask. The scriptures say that Jesus says that if you pray according to the will of God, God will answer all things that you pray if it's according to the will of God. God wants to6:27 exceed our prayer life. God wants to exceed the things that we ask for. And as a church here at Patriot, we are in a season where we are seeing God exceed things that6:38 we have been believing God for. Exceeding things that anything we could ask or think. This past year we ended the year with more baptisms we've ever done in 1 calendar year in the history of our church in 30 years.6:50 1900 people baptized last year alone. I'm believing God that we can baptize 3000 people this year throughout this whole year. I know that God can do it, and I'm7:02 waiting for God to exceed everything that we expect and anything that we ask. Additionally, right now across America, for every 1 church that plants in America, 4 churches are closing in America.7:14 There are more churches closing than are opening. There are more churches that are struggling than are able to sustain what's going through. Covid had to do with that. Transitions had to do that. More pastors7:27 are aging out and retiring than they have pastors that want to get in. How many guys know it's not attractive nowadays necessarily to be a pastor? And so, a lot of people are saying, I don't want to do that. And so as7:38 pastors are retiring, there aren't enough pastors to come in and pastor those churches. So instead, a lot of them are just closing, having to close their church doors and not gather anymore. Then we look at what's7:49 happening in our church right now across all of our 3 campuses, each campus has seen a growth of 20 to 30 percent in the last 12 months. We've seen God grow in our church. Right8:01 now at all of our campuses, we are pretty much completely out of parking at certain services across all of our campuses. And so many of you guys were challenged to get into church today, just8:12 because of parking. You may look around and say well we have seats, but that's why people are sitting in the courtyard, people are sitting in cafe, people are everywhere around this campus. So this, they're not may not8:22 be in the sanctuary, they're here on-site watching service. And so if everyone, we said everyone leave the courtyard, leave everybody, come sit in the sanctuary, you'd see the sanctuary be completely full. And so we're8:33 out of parking. Our Pomona campus, their service, SEGA service, they're out of parking right now. Our Alameda campus that we've had for less than 90 days, since they've become Patriot Alameda, they have increased by 308:44 percent at their church campus. And they have no parking at their church campus. Because Alameda is no parking anywhere in that city. But it's8:56 incredible what God is doing. It means that in the life of our church, God is exceeding what we ask or think. But oftentimes you see the growth of church, but when the church grows, more than likely what's9:08 happening is the people are growing, and that's why the church is growing. And we see within our church that there's a hunger and excitement for people to not only know God, not only serve God, but to invite their9:18 friends to see what God is doing. And we're seeing more salvations than we've expected. And we're seeing more children come to our children's ministry than was expected. We planned last night for our Saturday launch to9:29 have about 50 to 60 kids. A hundred and 40 kids came to children's ministry just last night alone at our Saturday launch. There were children's volunteers that told me they were coming to service, but they luckily9:41 keep their sweater in their car. They went and grabbed their sweater and ran into service to help serve. Because God is exceeding our expectations. And God is doing more than anything we can ask or think9:53 of our church. I I think of what God's done over the past 30 years here at Patreon for the first 30 years us being Abundant Living Family Church. I think of in 19 94, if you're new to Patreon, our church started in10:04 Fontana, California. Just 1 city next door. And we didn't start in a building like you're sitting in. We didn't start in a high school or anything like that. We started in my dad, Pastor Diego's living room. A thousand10:16 square foot home, 12 people came on the first Sunday of worship in 19 94, and 3 kids were in children's ministry. Me and my 2 older brothers. That that that's what kids ministry consisted10:27 of. And our children's teacher was my grandma, who taught us on felt board, taught Moses, and taught Jesus on a little felt board. My grandma still helps run our APL, our preschool here10:39 on-site. She's still in the game, believe it or not. Still loving kids and still teaching kids every single week. Then I think to myself those 12 people started inviting friends. And so 12 became10:50 24, 24 became 36, and sure enough, next thing you know they had to go to an elementary school across the street called Shadow Hills Elementary School in South Fontana. And then when Pastor11:02 Diego and the team went to an elementary school just shortly after that, more people started inviting their friends and more people started inviting their families and more people were getting saved and more people were11:12 getting reached. And so they thought to themselves, we need to find somewhere that we can afford, that we can move into. Fontana didn't have anything that they found, but Rancho Cucamonga, there was a little business11:22 complex on Utica. And they moved to Utica. And in Utica, they bought what you see is just they they didn't buy it, they leased just that little square right you see in front of you. But more people started11:34 inviting their friends, and more people were inviting their family, and more people were being saved, and more people were being delivered. And so, next thing you know, they had to lease out the rooms next to it and11:42 knock down walls, and lease out the rooms next to those and knock down walls. And then people said, hey how about ministering to our youth? And so then they leased out a space for youth ministry, and then they leased out11:51 spaces for kids ministry. And that grew so much that in its heyday, there were 5 to 6 services on a Sunday. And Pastor Diego had to preach all of them back to back to back to back for years.12:04 That's faithfulness. Hey, I love you guys, but I don't know that I'll ever do 6 services for y'all. I'll show you the recording that we do on Saturdays12:16 if our church gets that size. But because the leadership of the church, and it wasn't just Pastor Diego, it was the children's pastors, the youth pastors, because every time he added a new service, that added new12:27 ministry, and it needed more people, and it needed more giving, and it needed more things and resources. And guess what? Every step of the way people said yes, we're here for it. Let's do it. But I'm thankful pastor12:38 Diego didn't say you know what, I'm done. Utica is enough, let's stop here. We're not gonna do any more services, people are just gonna have to come and if there's no room they're gonna have to leave. It is what it is.12:49 No, instead everyone in the church in 2005 said you know what? We need to buy a piece of land off Civic Center Drive, and we need to build a church that's 45000000 dollars here at our13:01 Rancho campus. 45000000 dollars later, this gets here. And then all of a sudden people were coming to the church, they say you know what, there's not a church13:13 like this in my city. And we thought to ourselves, you're right. There's incredible churches, but there's no place like home for a lot of people. And so, God put in our heart in 20 16 and 17 to plan a new campus, and we13:23 started in Pomona. And we just started with a few people going to Pomona and holding a few neighborhood parties, and sure enough today they are on La Verne and there's a thriving church that we bought an old Salvation13:34 Army in 20 21. And they meet there today. There's over 500 members that call Pomona campus home. Right now they're having some of the best Sunday attendances they've had in the history of their13:46 campus. And then sure enough, just this past summer we began talks with Pastor Fuego and Tiffany that were, had a church for 3 years and they said we want to become a Patriot campus. And they're right outside of Oakland13:57 and Alameda. And then 90 days ago, we launched less than 90 days ago in December, we launched Patriot Alameda. And we invested 250000 dollars to renovate their14:09 campus. We renovated and we just built, it's actually open this Sunday, we built a coffee shop that would be a place where people can gather, but also we renovated this space because the church is next to an elementary14:21 school called Love Elementary. There was an old architect named Haight, h e I g h t. And the school was named after him. It was called Haight Elementary, but 5 years ago they changed it14:33 to Love Elementary. And our church is right next to them. We're right next door. We share the same chain link fence. And Monday through Friday, we're gonna open our coffee shop and we're gonna share the love of Jesus14:42 with everyone that's in that community as they come to drop their children off. But how many of you guys know every step of the way there were a group of people who said, you know14:54 what? I believe in what God's doing at my church. Because what happens is when God is doing something in His church, it's because people are doing something in your life. And when God is doing something in your life,15:05 there's something about wanting to tell somebody about what God is doing in their life, your life. And when God is doing something in your life, people say hey, well I want to see what God is doing. Cause if they're15:14 doing that in your life, maybe He could do it in my life. And God's not a respecter of persons. He doesn't have favorites. He has favor, but He doesn't have favorites. You may be a product of His favor, but not a15:26 product of His favorites. And so God shows favor, but guess what? Others can see God's favor in their life. What we've seen as a church is every time we've added in more seats, every time we've added in more15:37 services, every time we've added in new things that can reach people, God has added souls. And when we gather in a church, it's not about gathering in a building or 4 walls, and you've heard it before where we15:49 say the church isn't a building, it's its people. And the church can go outside of the physical 4 walls of the church. That's true. But how many of you guys know oftentimes the ministry that has been done in your life16:00 has happened in the 4 walls of a church?16:03 A lot16:04 of times where God spoke to you for the first time. A lot of times where God redeemed you for the first time. A lot of times the first time you got victory and freedom often happened in some type of church service. Or16:15 some type of neighborhood group. That's where you've seen God most. And we're seeing it a place in our church where God is multiplying faster than we can keep up. We're thankful for that. But you have 2 decisions to make16:26 if God sends a wave. When God sends a wave, you can either get your boogie board out and you can ride it, or you can say God I can't afford a boogie board, give the wave to someone else. There's only 2 decisions you can16:37 make as a people. I want you to see this, right now in America, not in America, in the world there's 2200000000.0 people who call themselves Christians. There's a little over 8000000000 people in the16:49 world, okay. So less than half people call themselves Christian in the world. Of those 2200000000.0, a third of those Christians, 704000000 people call themselves17:01 Christians today because of 3 spiritual roots that they have. For us, our church, we're a product of the first 1. We exist today mainly because of this stream that was17:13 created, which 650000000 people today consider themselves Christians because of 1 movement. It was the Azusa Street Revival, not Azusa the City, but a street in Los Angeles called Azusa Street.17:25 The charismatic and Pentecostal movement gave rise, which believed that God still does miracles, signs, and wonders today. That when you read the Old Testament, you read the book of Acts, what God does in there, he can17:35 do that here. And so there was a movement that started, which we're product of that. We have streams that come from that. And so in 19 o 6 that happened. Little over a hundred years ago. Then 50000000 people call17:46 themselves believers today because they trace their spiritual roots knowingly or unknowingly to Billy Graham. The crusades that he's done all throughout the world. But guess what? Majority of all of his crusades started17:57 here in Los Angeles. And then lastly, 50000000 people today call themselves Christians due to the Calvary Chapel movement in the 19 sixties and the 19 seventies. You'll see amongst 318:09 movements that happened within a hundred years, all about about 60 years apart from 1 another, 20, 30 years apart from 1 another. But you'll see 3 large movements that have affected a third18:21 of people on this planet that call themselves Christians. You can notice is there 1 commonality that you see within that framework? All those movements happened in California. A third of18:33 people today in the world consider themselves Christians, because they've been affected by 1 of 3 movements that started in California. You know it's been about 60 to 70 years18:45 since the last 1 of those movements has happened. You know if God's done it 3 times in the last hundred years, there may be a likelihood He may do it a fourth time in this next hundred years, may do it a fifth time in18:55 the next hundred years. What would happen if our prayer we said, God, would you grace us to be a part of that if there be another movement? I think I think there's no coincidence that rightShow more In this video 0:00 Vision and Growth at Patriot Church19:04 The Power of Community and Sacrifice
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