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turn your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 11 Hebrews chapter 11 as you're turning over there I just want to say it's good to be here together with you today both those of you here in the auditorium and those that are watching in the Overflow room downstairs I appreciate each one of you and uh looking forward just a good week in the Lord and a lot of blessings I'm excited about the message this morning and the opportunity to share it we're going to be going back to our series on broken from Hebrews chapter 11 talking about how God first of all heals broken people and then he uses broken people in Hebrews chapter 11 is God's Hall of Fame it's all the great men and women of the Bible and how that

even these people that were the Great men and women of faith yet they still had their their problems they still had their failures they still were broken in one way or the other but God healed them and God used them and that means God can heal and use us as well and so if you look at Hebrews chap 11 and look at verse number 32 the Bible says in Hebrews 11:3 2 and what shall I more say for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and of baric and of Samson of jeepa and David and also Samuel and of the prophets who through faith sub subdued kingdoms who wrought righteousness obtained promises stopped the mouth of lions quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of uh of the sword out of

the weakness were made strong wax Valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliens women received their dead raised to life again and others were tortured not accepting Deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings yay moreover of bonds and imprisonments they were stoned they were saw asunder they were tempted were slain with the sword they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins to uh being destitute Afflicted tormented of whom the world was not worthy they wandered in the deserts and the mountains and the dens and caves of the earth and these all having obtained a good report through faith received not the

promise God having provided some better things for us they were they without us should not be made perfect let's bow for prayer father we pray that you would bless us again as we open your word that you would speak to our hearts through the lives of these other individuals as well for it's in Jesus name we pray Amen in Hebrews chapter 11 we've been going through and God names a number of the great men and women of faith and we talked about them like Abel and Rahab and uh David and some of the other ones that are listed there but then he gets down to the end of the chapter and like a lot of preachers he runs out of time and and so he just kind of says well and all the others and and I want to

talk about all the others now some of the others we do know who they are we can figure that out for example talks about that they um they they they talked about the Lions and of course we know that was Daniel and there's other ones in there that we can figure out this is who he was talking about but there's a lot of great men and women of faith that are not mentioned by name in this chapter and and they are among the others that are listed there in verse number 636 and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings yeah moreover of bonds and imprisonments and I want to talk about some of those others today the ones that have no name you know when you're going around you know like when you

go in a museum most of the paintings or whatever it might be they all have names on them if you go to like a Hall of Fame they tell the name of the person what they did and and we can see that with a bunch of people but then there's this side room with a list of names that nobody the list of people that nobody knows their name and the Bible's full of people like that people with no name and and so I want to talk about the no-name people of the Bible because that's usually what we are too people may not know your name but God does and names are important in Proverbs chapter 22 and verse number one the Bible says a good name is rather be chosen than great riches and and so we want to have a

name that is a good name you know what you know a lot of names have meaning especially in the Bible names had meanings to them a and so uh in Exodus 33 in verse number 17 the Bible says the Lord said unto Moses I will do this thing that thou Hast spoken for thou has found Grace in my S sight and I Know Thee by name now moses' name meant to pull or to draw out of the water so how do you suppose he got his name remember Moses was in the basket and the and the pharaoh's daughter found him in the basket there and pulled him out of the water and that's where he got his name from there's a lot of Bible names that have meanings to them that match the personality or the person that they're

identifying for example Jacob we looked at him earlier Jacob was called his name means trickster or supplanter and and that's what he did most of his life he would try to trick people and and try to take their place and and through uh tricking them in some way or another you have Isaac whose name actually means laughter um because when God told Sarah and Abraham they were going to have a baby Sarah laughed out loud she didn't think it was going to happen and so when she had the baby she named that baby laugh and then there's a man named nabal some of you remember him he was uh in in 1st Samuel chapter 25 and verse 25 uh he was a man that David came to and asked him to help him out and that

that he would give him protection and nabal said no I'm not going to help you out and kicked him off his property and chased him away and ended up dying and it just was very foolish and name nabal actually means fool or stupid now you got to wonder why would would some mom name her kid fool or stupid now some of you may look at your kids and shake your head say that boy's a fool uh but why would they actually name him fool or stupid I don't know but in 1 Samuel 25:25 it says let not my Lord I pray thee regard this man of bile this is his wife talking about nabal even nabal for as his name is so is he nabal is his name and Folly is with him uh his name is fool and he acts like a fool and then

there's others in the Bible the same way but you know what about your name how many of you here know what your name means raise your hand if you know what your name means raise your hand it kind of surprises me how do you look at it with Google you can look it up real easily and find out what your name is I the Bible times they would name their children something significant I I know most of us our parents named our children named us because they uh just like the name or my my case my mom was in love with the actor John Wayne and so she named me Wayne Uh there's a lot of different reasons why but I I looked up some of your names on the internet and the name John means god is gracious the

name Jason means God Is My Savior the name Alex is defender of humankind and Alex is a marine I think that's kind of appropriate the name Nathan means gift of God the name Miranda means talks a lot no no no it actually means it actually means worthy of admiration all right um the name Noel means Christmas Child the name Hannah means favor or Grace and the name Melissa uh means honeybee and and then uh this is this is a real hard one the name rose means Rose all right so you ought to look up your name if you don't know what it means but you know in the Bible not only did names have significance but in the Bible God would change people's names in John 1:42 and he brought him to Jesus and when

Jesus beheld him he said Thou Art Simon now Simon means uh to hear hearing or listening he said Thou Art Simon the son of Jonah Thou shalt be called sephus now sephus is the uh same word Aramaic word for peter so Peter and sephus means the same thing Thou shalt be called sephus and um and sephus means a rock you remember in Matthew chapter 18 when Jesus said who do people say that I am and and Peter said thou are Thou Art the Christ the son of the Living God and Jesus said Upon This Rock I will build my church and he was using a play of words he had named Simon Peter or sephus rock and he said Upon This Rock he said Thou Art Peter A Little Rock and upon this big rock of your statement it was

not Peter he was going to build his church on but the statement that thou art the Christ the son of the Living God now Peter's original name was Simon and if you remember Peter was not a good listener uh he was not good at listening in fact right after that Jesus was telling his disciples right after he said Simon Upon This Rock I'll build my church and commended him and praised him right after that he started telling his disciples how he's how he's going to have to die uh and and be buried and raised again and Peter grabs hold said no Lord you can't die because he wasn't listening and so God had changed his name and there's other examples of that in the Bible as well in Genesis 17 and verse

number five is it says neither shall thy name anymore be called Abram which means exalted father but thy name shall be Abraham which means father of all Nations for a father of many nations have I made thee so God would change people's names now let me ask you a question if God were to come down today and change your name to match who you are what would he change your name to if God were to come down today and change your name to match who you are what would you would it be something like always late would it mean something like Grumpy in the morning would it mean breaker of rules liar or would it be something like lover of souls obedient one doer of right what kind of name would God give

you today to match who you are think about that now names not only have meanings but they also have a reputation reputation is different than the meaning my my name Wayne means wagon master and that's kind of appropriate I I lead the church but uh what I what's more important is what do people think when they hear my name when they hear the name pastor Wayne what is my reputation when they hear your name what is your reputation in Revelation 3 and verse number one it says and unto the angel the church in sard is right these things sayith he that hath the seven spirits of God and the Seven Stars I Know Thy works that thou Hast a name that thou livest nor dead he said you have a a name but

your name you don't live up to that reputation that name in Mark chapter 7: 13 talking about the two Apostles James and John they were called the sons of thunder their reputation these guys were loud and boisterous and kind of Fighters and then it talks in James 22:23 it talks about Abraham and Abraham was called the friend of God so what what is your name when people hear your name at work what do they think when people hear your name in your family and your friends and your relatives what do they think about your reputation what is your name rep represent your name has a specific meaning but more importantly what does your name mean to people when they hear it what is your reputation is

your name respected in 1st Samuel 18 and verse number 30 then the princes of the Philistines went forth and it came to pass after they went forth that David behaved himself more wisely than all the Servants of Saul so that his name was much set by in other words when people heard the name David they thought here is a wise young man here is somebody that does what's right and I wonder young people what do people think when they hear your name uh adults what do they think when they hear your name what is your reputation is it respected or does your reputation stink in Ecclesiastes chapter 7 and verse number one it says a good name is better than precious ointment and the day of death and the

day of one's birth you know when you die what are people going to say about you in your life what is the ointment of your name what is the reputation does your reputation extinct in Proverbs 10: 7 it says the memory of the just is blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot see we want to live our lives in such a way that when people see our name that they have a it's respected and our reputation doesn't stink we need to live a good life in Acts chapter 16 in verses 1 and two it says then came he to derba and lisra and beheld a c certain disciples was there named timotheus the son of a certain woman which was a Jewish and believed but his father was a Greek which was well reported of by the

Brethren that were lisra and ionium see he was a certain disciple in other words there he had a reputation he he stood out in the crowd people looked at and said this is somebody that's special this is somebody that's different than the people around him and that's the way we need to be as Christians we need to be a a certain person at work where people say that person is a Godly Man a Godly woman we need to be a certain person in our neighborhood we need to be that kind of person has a reputation that doesn't stink but one that is respected and honors the Lord I want you go over to 1 Corinthians chapter 10 the reason I'm preaching about names this morning is because there's a lot of people

in the Bible we don't know their name we we don't know their name we know names like David or Paul or or Mary or we know a number of people in the Bible and their names stand out and when we hear their name we think when you hear the name Noah you think of the flood when you hear the name Daniel think of the Lions you you hear the name David you think of Goliath you know uh their names stand out but there's a lot of people in the Bible that were great men and women of Faith they're great examples to us but we don't even know their name in in 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and beginning with verse number six it says now these things were our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil

things as they also lusted neither be ye idolators as some were some of them as is written the people sat down to eat and drink and Rose up to play neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed and fell in one day three and 20,000 neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed as serpents neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured were destroyed the Destroyer now all these things happen un them for examples that they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come wherefore let him that thinketh he stand to take heed lest he fall there is no temptation taking you but is common to man but God is faithful who is not suffer

to be tempted above that you're able but will with the Temptation also make a way Escape that we will bear it see he gives us these examples in the Bible men and women like Daniel and David and Noah and Moses but also these unnamed men and women so that we can learn from their lives learn what they did right and learn what they did wrong so that we don't make the same mistakes and that we can do the right things and and and do what God wants us to do and so the purpose of the word of God is for us to learn from their examples now sometimes we can learn from Bad examples uh in in 1 Corinthians 10 and verse 11 and it says now all these things happen unto them for examples that there are

written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come and so sometimes the examples are bad examples don't do it like this uh it tells us first of all in verse number six now these things were our examples the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted in Galatians 5: 16-1 17 it says this I say then sh this I say then walk in the spirit you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the Flesh and these are the contrary the one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you would we need to learn how to not let things control our life it's not just lusting after immoral things and things that

are wrong but it's just lusting after the things of Life wanting more money and more things and more of everything in life and we get so caught up in the things of life we don't have time to serve the Lord and then if you look at verse number seven it it says neither be ye idolators as were some of them as as it is written the people sat down to eat to drink and Rose up to play you know idolatry is is having anything that's more important than God in 1 John 5:21 says little children keep yourself from Idols he you see these were people that were all they were doing is eating and drinking and Rose up to play you see they got so caught up with all the entertainment of the world and so caught

up with the video games and the internet and the sports and all the rest of these things that those things became Idols that kept them from the word of God and kept them from church and kept them from serving the lord and and they became Idols in their life or in verse number eight it talks about neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed and fell in one day 3 and 20,000 and and not to commit fornication you know the Bible talks about in 1 Corinthians chap 6 and: 18-20 to hold your place in 1 Corinthians 10 turn over there real quick 1 Corinthians 6:1 18-20 it says flee fornication every sin that a man doeth is without the body but he that committed fornication sins against

his own body what know ye not that your body is the Temple of Holy Ghost which is in you which you have of God and you're not your own for you are bought with a price therefore glorify God your body and your spirit which are God's you see we need to realize that fornication is a unique sin that has unique consequences in our life you know all Sin is Sin and all sin separates us from God but fornication is a sin that affects you in ways that no other sin does and when we get immorality we get into pornography and things like that it is going to destroy us and we can learn that from people like David and how much it messed up his life and we need to stay away from those things and learn the

lesson and then in verse number nine of 1 Corinthians 10 it says neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted were destroyed of serpents you say well how can you tempt Christ the Bible says in Hebrews 4:15 for we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin so Christ can't be tempted can he well I think the example we have is the Temptation remember when when Satan when Jesus was out in the wilderness and fasted for 40 days and 40 nights and S Satan came along and tempted him and how did he tempt him he tempted him by quoting scripture out of context he tempted him by challenging

him to to become his own God and do his way rather than God's way and you know when we tempt Christ is when we decide that I want to control my life instead of letting God control my life I want to be the ruler in my life instead of let God rule in my life and that's how we temp God and then you go on further here in verse number 10 it says neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of destroying you know more people in the Bible died from complaining than anything else God destroyed them for complaining and griping and whining in Philippians chapter 2 and veres 14 and 15 it says do all things without murmurings and disputings that you may be blameless and harmless as

sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse Nation among whom you shine as lights in the world and and we need to realize that the lesson we need to learn from those that went before us is don't be complainers don't whine and and he's referring especially back to when they were coming out of Egypt and and they had the Mana God was supplying their food and yet they complained because it wasn't good enough it wasn't spicy enough and and they complained because they were living out in the wilderness and and but they were free and sometimes we just complain too much and we gripe too much and we murmur and we need to get away from that and so we've got bad examples in the

Bible but we've also got good examples in the Bible in James chapter 5 and verse number 10 it says take my brethren the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering Affliction of patience God gave us people like job and others in the Bible that would help us understand how we should react to suffering how we should react to Affliction and how we should deal with temptation in our lives and there's there's many great EX examples in the scriptures that's what we're going to look at over the next few weeks some of those examples that we don't need have a name of but we can learn lessons from but I wonder about you what about your name there's one name you need to

have for sure and that's the name Christian the Bible says in Acts 11: 26 and when he had found him he brought him up onto Antioch and it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church and taught many people and the disciple were called Christians first in Antioch and I wonder can you be truly called a Christian not just a name only because the word name Christian means Christlike one can you be called a Christian do you have Christ as your savior I want you to turn over to Matthew chapter 7 with me please Matthew chapter 7 do you know does Jesus know your name now of course God knows everything but does he know your name as a Christian in in Matthew chap 7 and

beginning with verse number 21 it say not everyone that sath unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven many will say to me that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied thy name and of thy name have cast out Devils thy name done many wonderful works and then will I profess on them I never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity you see Jesus says I don't know your name because you haven't trusted in my name you see it's not enough to go to church and to read your Bible and to give money in the offering basket it's not enough to do good works the Bible says in Ephesians 28:9 for by grace are you saved through faith

then not of yourselves it's the gift of God not of Works L A man should boast and all the good works you do doesn't make you a Christian going to church doesn't make you a chrisan you see you're a Christian if you've called upon the name of Jesus Christ as your savior the Bible says in Revelation 20 and verse number 15 whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast in the Lake of Fire is your name written down in God's Book of Life in Matthew chap 1 verse 21 it says and she shall bring forth a son and th Thou shalt call his name Jesus the name Jesus means Jehovah is salvation for he shall save his people from their sins it's the name of Jesus that can save you it's not the name

Baptist it's not your parents' name because they're Christians but it's the name of Jesus in Acts 4 and verse number 12 it says neither is there salvation in any other for there's none other name under Heaven given among men whereby you must be saved and I wonder have you called upon that one name the name of the one who loved you for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that who whoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life have you called upon his name in Romans chap 10: 9- 10 it says that if Thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and Shall Believe in thine heart that God has raised the dead Thou shalt be saved for with the heart men

believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation in Romans 10:13 for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved have you called upon that name does he know your name as one of his children is your name written down in the Lamb's Book of Life and as Christians if we call upon the name of the Lord if we are Christians then Colossians 3:17 says what should we do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to the God and the father by him we need to live our lives to live up to that name Christian if I were to go to your workplace this week and say give your name would they say that that guy is a Christian that lady is a

Christian if I were to go to your neighbors around your house and ask them would they say yeah they're a Christian they live like a Christian they act like a Christian they glorify the name of God you see we need to live our lives in such a way that not only we have a good reputation but we need to live up to the reputation of Jesus Christ for his name turn over to Hebrews chapter 11 again one of the most moving things things that you can do here in Hawaii is to go up to the punch bowl Memorial Cemetery up in the crater and walk around all those Graves of men and women who have died for our freedom who have given their lives for our country and to read those names I remember taking a a

friend of mine James Earls a pastor in the main Lon he was a in Korea he wasn't saved at that time he was a duck driver he he's the one that brought him to Shore and duck drivers lived about the average of about 2 and 1/2 minutes I think it was but he managed to lived through the Korean War and we went up to the Punchbowl Memorial cemetery and we went up to the wall for the Korean all the names of those who died in the Korean War and he went down at list he says I knew him and I knew him tears coming down as sh and I said I knew him and I knew him and he looked at that wall he said my name should be on there but God and His grace allowed me to live long enough to get saved and those names

meant something to him but you know what really touches my heart when you walk around that cemetery and you see those little slabs that say unknown there's somebody buried there that died for your freedom and for my freedom there's somebody that gave their life and nobody even knows their name they're a hero but we don't know their name how many of you ever been to the unknown Memorial at Washington DC how many you ever been there for that it's an awesome thing isn't it it's an awesome thing to think they're buried there men and women who died for our country and we don't even know their name and yet we honor them day after day after day in Hebrews chapter 11 he talks about these other

people that don't even have a name and yet they're Heroes of the faith we don't even know who they were people like we look at later like a widow who gave her last bite of food to a prophet people like a little teenage girl who had been taken as a slave who told the general non that with Leprosy that the prophet in Israel could heal him people like a little boy who brought his lunch to hear Jesus and gave it to the Lord people throughout the scriptures we don't even know their name a widow who gave a might people that are examples to you and I you know will people remember your name in years to come in Matthew chapter 26 and: 13 it says verily I say unto you whosoever wheresoever this gospel

shall be preached in the whole world there shall also be that this woman hath done be told for a memorial for her you remember the story about the woman who came and washed jesus' feet anointed his feet and he said she will be remembered forever anybody know her name we don't know her name we don't know her name but we know what she did and there's a lot of people that are just like that we don't know their names but the impact they had is just as great now don't be remembered for the wrong thing in John 6: 70-71 Jesus answered them have not I chosen you 12 and one of you is a devil he spake of Judas Scar the son of Simon for he that he was that should betray them being one of the 12

everybody knows who Judas was but you don't want to be known for that see who we want to be known for is not our name but jesus' name remember what John said in John chapter 3 and: 30 he must increase but I must decrease my father-in-law had a business card in the back of the business card it printed this if you meet me and forget me you have lost nothing if you meet Jesus and forget him you've lost everything people may not always remember your name but I want to live my life in such a way that they remember his name they remember Jesus who will remember you who will remember you in years to come will your family remember you in 1 Chronicles 4: 9 and 10 it says and Jaz was more honorable

than his Brethren his mother called his name Jaz saying because I bear him with sorrow and jabz called on the god of Israel saying oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed and large my coast and that thine hand might be with me and that wouldest keep me from Evil that it may grieve me and God granted him that which he requested now what makes this so special not just his prayer not just his name the name JZ meant sorrow he was born in sorrow in his birth there's something that happened his mom said I'm going to choose to name you sorrow that's what his name meant maybe she died in child birth maybe his father was killed in battle we don't know but he started out in a life of sorrow but yet he

prayed a prayer and said God I want you to bless me but what makes it even more significant is those two verses come right in the middle of a very long passage of so and so begat so and so and so so and so begat so and so and so and so begat so and so and every verse has five or more names to it except for these two verses talks about one person that prayed a prayer and he stood out among all of his brethen among all his family what about you do you stand out with your family will you be remembered in your community when you leave here in Hawaii will people remember you in Acts chap 9:36 now there was a japa a certain disciple there's that word certain again named Tabitha which by

interpretation is called Dorcas the woman was full of good works and Ales what she did and then she died and they called on Peter in verse 39 then Peter arose and went unto them with them and when he was come they brought him up to the upper chamber chamber and all the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and the garments which Dorcas made while she was with them will you be remembered as the person always brought somebody a meal when they were sick will you be remembered as a person that always helped out the young mother who was alone and raising her children you go over and babysit them give her a break will you remember as the as the person who was there when everybody

needed you will your community remember who you are what about your church will they remember you in Philippians chapter 4 Paul in that last chapter goes down lists name after name after name of different people that had influence in that church that made a difference back in our 25th anniversary for the church my wife and I decided for the anniversary we're going to go through all the old directories and try to contact people that have been here at Ohana over the years and that was before the internet and social media media was so popular so was a little hard to find people and but we went through all the directories and and during that time we printed the directory we probably printed a

new director every 3 to 6 months and a lot of people come and go here at Ohana so names would be added and then then they'd leave and they'd be to taken off and there's some people would come for a few months and then quit coming and and so not all the names were so we'd go through there now I've got a terrible memory I I I have trouble remembering people's names that's why the last three girls I dated were all dian's it just made it I wouldn't make any mistakes later in life you know it just keeps it easy that way so if I forget your name I apologize right now I'm good at that okay but my wife is very good with names and so we were going through these directories and comparing notes and

stuff and many times I would ask her well who is this and who was that and and she would REM oh that's this and they would she would tell me something about them oh I know who they are we now and I would recognize that and there'd be other people we wouldn't remember who they were because they they'd only been there in fact their name would be in one directory and the next one they're gone they they didn't stay in church very long but there was one name we came to and I asked my wife well who is this and she says I don't know I don't remember them and so we thought okay they probably didn't stick around very long but they were in the next directory and they were in the next directory and

they were in the next directory they were in three years worth their name was in three years worth of directories which means they came to church at least some because we don't keep them in there if they don't keep coming and for the life of us we could not remember who they were neither one of us now for me that was normal but for my wife that's unusual this family had come to church at least some for three years and made such little impact that we could not remember them by their name will that be you 10 years from now 20 years now we go through the directory of ohana Baptist Church will we remember your name see a lot of people we remember oh yeah that's the ones that taught that Sunday

school class they're the ones that work with the singles they're the ones that were always out Soul wining these were the ones that what's your name mean in the church you know there's unknowns in this church every Sunday there's unknown nursery workers like Jessica Johnson who was in Sunday school class this morning taking care of the little babies but most people don't know her name but she was there there's unknown sound worker and media team people people are making sure you can hear the message you can see the screens people like McDaniel bza or there's unknown hole diggers Like Larry Abraham that dug the hole for the sewer line over here yesterday so we could repair it most people

don't know he was out there doing that there was an unknown cleaners in the church like KD Schuman and Robert Callahan who come down and made sure the bathrooms were clean for Sunday there's unknown greeters everybody sees their face but they don't always know their name we have a survey we give visitors and a lot of times in the survey we ask them who made an impact and I say that lady at the table I I don't know her name but she was so nice people like Ed Lyn l log who was out there today unknown teachers in the classrooms like the fiestas who were in a two and threey oldold class for Sunday school taking care of those kids and loving them unknown ushers people that are right there in

front of your eyes but nobody thinks about people like Ricky who's out here making sure everybody's got a seat and a place to go and taking care of all the details can I challenge you can you become one of the unknowns see everybody knows pastor Wayne every know everybody knows Pastor Caleb because we're out here in the front and our names are well known but there's a lot of people that we don't know their names but they're doing something for the Lord and making an impact don't be just someone who comes and goes home and nobody will remember you be someone who makes an impact in people's lives will someone remember that you made a difference in their life in Jude 1: 22 and 23 it says and

some have compassion making a difference and others saved with fear pulling him out of the fire hating even the garments spotted by the flesh be that person that makes a difference in somebody's life nobody else knows about it but you made a difference in their life over the next few weeks we're going to be looking at the unknowns in the Bible people for whatever reason God didn't give us their name but people had an impact just like you can have an impact people that were examples just like you can be an example people whose names mean something to God even if we don't remember who they are