God invades our space. Natural purposes need disruption from Heaven. A blind man cried out and got the attention of the Son of David and got mercy. (Mark 10:46-52)

Speaker: Jason Moore, Josh Johnson
Date: 2026-09-27
Time: Sun 6:30 pm
Sermon #13213

Josh Johnson –

He was over there quizzing me. He’s like, You’re the youngest, right? I’m like, No, okay. I can’t say that. He’s just, yeah, trying to think of things to say. 

It’s good to see P. Jason here. I just heard him like his big cowboy boots walking in, like, Yep, he’s here. So, P. Gary reached out to me to give a thought on what it’s like to be a young dad in this world. So, a couple weeks ago, I was listening to the first part of Exodus. And so, if you want to turn in your Bibles to Exodus 1. And while you’re turning, I’ll just start the thought. 

What does God want for my children, I think, or for my child or for whatever you have in your life? What does God want for you? He wants an unconditional love. He wants to give you that. He wants forgiveness. He wants a home that exalts the Lord Jesus Christ. We know that. We’ve been taught that very well. 

What does the world, what does this evil world want for you? Whoa. That’s, yeah. So, it says about Jesus that he was in the world and the world was made through him and the world did not know him. So, this is, this is the state of the world that we’re in today. They still don’t know Jesus Christ. They still don’t know the King of Kings. 

So, in Exodus 1:15 and 15-17, we can read that. Vs. 15-17. There is an evil, wicked ruler in Egypt and he’s saying that all of the boys should be killed. He’s scared of what the people of Israel can do if they become too strong. 

And I think today there is evil at work in this world that they’re scared when a young person or it could be a boy or a girl. Spiritually, they can grow up and have a life laid down for God. But I think this world is trying to kill that in young people today. They’re trying to numb them with entertainment. They’re trying to put a screen in front of them and have them sit in their house all day and not be adventurous and have imagination like God had created them to do. 

So, this world is, yeah, is killing that in young people today and they can doubt their usefulness. They can say, well, I can’t go out. I can’t do anything for myself or for the Lord. I’m just, I’m stuck. I’m stuck in this house. I’m stuck behind a screen or something. 

Exodus 2, chapter 2:2-3, This was Moses. Ad by the grace of God, he lived, but he was not perfect. He killed the Egyptian and he admittedly had a speech impediment, but God still used him. 

Despite the flaws that we have, God still uses us. We can still go by faith and do the things that God wants us to do. So, now that was, Moses was the imperfect example. That’s still a great example. 

But now, we have the perfect example in Matthew 2 starting at vs. 13-15. So, out of Egypt came both Moses and through a roundabout way came Jesus. Moses was the first example and now Jesus is the more perfect example. 

Vs. 16. So, King Herod, another evil ruler trying to take out the young men, the young boys from two years old and under. So, this is the better Moses, the new Moses. This is Jesus called out of Egypt to save and protect the world that wanted to kill him. Yeah. 

The infant boy that the magi saw was God, the Creator in the flesh, and he would lead us out of our slavery instead of Moses. Now, we are led out of the, from the slavery of sin. And he does not have his life taken by anybody but he gives up his life. 

He says that no one takes his life from him. He lays it down and he died on that cross for you and for me. So, my encouragement is maybe you don’t have children right now, but maybe you have a job. Maybe you’re working on school. You’re working on your house. You’re working on your outreach. Whatever it is, that project can be used by God and for God. No matter how small it is, if it looks like it’s in the infancy, protect it. Take care of it. Like God wants to use that. 

John 10:10, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that you may have life and have it abundantly.” Amen. 

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Jason Moore – Good evening. Wow. They were great, weren’t they? Wow. Fantastic. I was telling P. Gary, we don’t have fireplaces in Texas! We actually, I just came from 100-degree weather, so it’s freezing up here. Holy moly. Yeah, that’s awesome.

Really great to see everyone. And greetings from H-town from my wife and from my son who’s going to be 13. Can you imagine that? He’s as tall as I am, so I have to always establish who’s boss. No, he’s a great, he’s a great young kid and it’s amazing. 

So, just really blessed to be with you tonight and just to kind of share a couple thoughts from my heart and things are going well down in Houston. We are just, P. Adam, just to give you a quick update. P. Adam Speedy, you remember him? He’s amazing. The book of Acts on legs. That’s what I always say. 

So, our Bible school there, Texas Missionary Bible College, is growing. We’re reaching four different cities and it’s really, God’s doing something there. God’s doing something as the finished work Gospel is really impacting the belt buckle, the Bible belt buckle as they say. And the Gospel, it has a beautiful ring to it, doesn’t it? It takes us out of the center and puts God right back where he is, needs, and ought to be. So, that’s been really great.

And just seeing God raise up disciples. And we’re looking at a new building, moving into a new building for us here in Magnolia, Texas. And that’s going to be a great step of faith for us. But we are just so encouraged to be connected to you. And we are mourning with you with the, with the promotion of P. Scibelli. That really shocked us and we are just glad that death is not the end. Amen. Praise God. And he definitely heard that “that good and faithful servant” ring out and we miss and love him and his dear family. 

He was recently in Houston with us and man the Texans loved him cuz he was just shot from the hip literally and we love that we carry that baton. Don’t we all do that? We now have that great opportunity in a fresh way to just lovingly but also without timidity to preach the Gospel. Amen. So, that’s something we definitely learned and we herald. 

So, I thought I’d just share a couple of maybe simple thoughts tonight, but they’re burning in me. And we’ve been sharing them in Houston but thank God for you. That’s what I want to say right out of the gate. Thank God for you. Thank God for your faithfulness. Thank God for the way you continue. And thank God for the way you support and love the Gospel. Amen. (Prayer). 

So, I want to look just quickly here at Mark chapter 10. And I want you to think with me about just a simple thought about a holy interruption. Just two words, but they’ve been something that’s been really just really resonating in my heart. 

How many people like to be interrupted? No way. Right? Especially in a conversation, right? You’re talking and all of a sudden someone just crashes in with another thought. That’s not so great. But a holy interruption is something very important. It’s when God invades our space with a divine purpose. 

And this, I want to unpack that a little bit, but there is a quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer that’s really always been in my mind. But it says, “Be ready to allow yourselves to be interrupted by God.” Ain’t that good? Allow yourselves to be interrupted by God. 

And tonight’s a great inter – a great example of how you could be doing a thousand things, but you chose to come and hear the Word. And thank God for that. We were interrupted. Our space, our routine, our plan, which are wonderful by the way. Our free will is really a gift from God. 

But oftentimes, if we could say, God competes with our free will and he seeks to interrupt a natural plan so that we can have a supernatural purpose. And I just want you to think with me, because I was provoked. I was driving recently where we live and I was passing a soccer field, a baseball field. And if you do this, do not be offended by what I’m going to say. 

But I was driving on a Sunday morning and it was full of people playing baseball. And I thought to myself, Ah, it’s so great they’re playing baseball, but all of these people should be in church. And I was like, Lord, why aren’t these people in church? 

And we all know that there’s three sides to every story. So, I didn’t judge them, but I thought, wow, I want my life to be interrupted by the Holy Spirit so that I’m not fitting God into my world, but I am aligning myself and yielding myself to him and to his purpose. Isn’t that good?

So, on a daily basis, it is such an amazing thought to be interrupted by God. And how does that happen? It’s quite interesting. Yeah, if you were to look here with me in Mark chapter 10:46-52, we see a character here, blind Bartimaeus, and I and maybe I’ll just kind of overview it. But blind Bartimaeus was an interesting beggar, a blind beggar, and he sat by the roadside and he heard Jesus coming. 

And there’s Jesus, our precious Savior, moving with compassion, moving with purpose, moving and pressed with people, moving him to some sort of need and some sort of immediate, urgent situation. 

And then guess what? Bartimaeus, what does he do? He cries out, Son of David, Son of David, Son of David, have mercy on me. Just think, just think about that. Jesus was on a mission to do something good. He was about his Father’s business. But there was an interruption. There was a change of plans. And what did Jesus do? Jesus stopped. He stopped. 

And picture this. The disciples and everyone around him is saying, Would you be quiet? Don’t trouble the master. Don’t mess up the plan. He’s got a lot to do. He’s a busy guy and you’re just an interruption. 

Well, I love blind Bartimaeus. I think we all should be like blind Bartimaeus, right? He cried louder like P. Duke, right? He cried louder. I love that. I love that. And what happened? Jesus stopped and said, Bring him to me. And I don’t know about you, that just strikes me because God took the time like many of, all of you, we could say. Our church represents that holy interruption that says, you know what? The mission’s important, but that person is more important. 

And blind Bartimaeus is, he gave just, he cried out Son of David which caught the attention of Christ. Now, think about that for a minute. To be interrupted means that my attention must be diverted. And I was studying this recently in psychology about attention. And it literally means we are to actively select something different to, actively select or focus on a different purpose. 

And we know Satan constantly wants to interrupt us in the negative. He wants us to have us be sin-focused, self-focused. He wants us to be outcome driven. And what happens? He is constantly having us to actively select something that’s outside of God’s truth. Well, it happens the other way around. Through prayer, reflection, or praise, there’s a holy interruption. Don’t you like that? I kind of like that. 

It’s just striking me that our busyness, and by the way, isn’t that a plague in our day-to-day? And I, I am a busy person like you and busy with good things. But sometimes we need to be, to have a holy interruption. Just like Saul had a holy interruption. Peter had a holy interruption. Moses wandering had a holy interruption with the burning bush. 

And it was like he was perplexed and turned to see what that great sight was in Exodus 3 and 4. He had a holy interruption. God is saying, I want your attention. I want your attention. Like you are giving great attention tonight. But I’m just saying, God is saying, I want your undivided attention. 

And I don’t know about you with kids and job and ministry and life in 10th gear. That’s a, that’s a constant struggle, isn’t it? You know they say that with what we focus on, we are, we become, right, we are shaped by our inner thought and our activities. And imagine a holy interruption that changes our plans, our routines, and our journeys. 

Now, this was convicting for me to hear because we think our plan is good. And it probably is and our mission is good and it probably is and it – but God is saying I have to change the landscape from you being the driver to me being the driver. I want you to be participating in my plan, my will, not just your plan. 

And I love this about Bartimaeus because he would not allow God to move past him without a touch. And we see this in Mark 5all over the place. The woman with the issue of blood. She interrupted the plan. I mean, you know, this interruption really caused a new direction. A new direction. 

So, think about this. Bonhoeffer is saying I want you to leave the noise and I want you to enter into some white space. You know, we do an interesting illustration in counseling. We, I work with a whiteboard I wonder where I got that. Huh? I love working with a whiteboard in sessions. 

And we have this little illustration and we put a black dot in the middle of the whiteboard. And I say, I say, What do you see? What do you see in this, in this particular, you know, the whiteboard? And they say, We see a black dot and I said, yeah. That’s obvious but what else in is that, that picture? And a lot of times we see what’s wrong or what’s contrasting but actually 99% of that whiteboard is white. There’s nothing there.

And imagine approaching our situations by not looking at what’s wrong but looking at what God wants to do. The white space. So, like white space or unplanned space in our calendars. It sounds foreign in our day-to-day, isn’t it? But that I hope not. But the holy interruption moves us into this place where we’re not task oriented. We’re God conscious. We’re saying, God, what is your plan? What is your will? What is your desire? What is it that the Body of Christ is active in? And I want to align to that. 

How does that happen? Well, maybe we get on our knees. And isn’t that true? When we get on our knees, prayer interrupts our busyness. We may think activity equals spirituality, but it does not actually. Isn’t that true? 

But when we get on our knees and it is tough to stop. But when we stop, God is saying, I interrupted you because I want to invite you into a new place. I want to invite you to a deeper space. I want to invite you to something you haven’t yet seen. 

In Jeremiah 33:3, I want to, I want you to call on me and I will show you great and mighty things that you have no idea about. A holy interruption. A holy interruption. I think I’m going to say that about a hundred more times. I like it. Praise. It interrupts our circumstances. 

You know, Satan hates when we worship. Worship is our weaponry. Just like our amazing Bible that is taking back territory that the devil is constantly distracting and deceiving and we give away things so quickly because we’re distracted because of what it is. 

But think about that praise. When we praise the Lord like we did so beautifully tonight, it was so powerful. The presence of God is so powerful in this room and it interrupts our circumstances because you know what? Naturally speaking, we can drone. We can just drone. Oh, the same old routine. Same old eat, sleep, and eat. Yeah. Sleep, eat, and work and the whole routine. 

And then God is like, No, I want your mission to be your workplace within reason. I want your mission field to be that person on the side of the street there that you bring a $17 cup of soup to. That’s quite a cup of soup, by the way. I’d like to kind of know more about that! 

But that interruption, that interruption at the gas station, that interruption that says, hey, there is an eternal time clock where every click of the clock someone is passing into a Christ-less eternity. Like there’s an interruption that says, Lord, I want to worship you while I wait on you. Worship you while things are upside down and all around. 

It’s like, Okay, Lord. You are my focus. And guess what? When that happens, clarity, guidance, guidance, guidance happens. So many people talk with us about, I just don’t the will of God. Well, imagine by way of illustration, you’re going to the grocery store and you’re moving 30 miles an hour in the grocery store. You know what’s going to happen. You’re going to crash or I’m going to crash through everything, and I’m not going to be able to grab ahold of anything. Why? Because I’m moving too fast to grab or to enter our present situation. 

So, a lot of times we seek the will of God and God is saying slow down or stop or come away. Pray. Worship me and reflect which interrupts our thinking. Isn’t that good? 

Why do I need a Bible? I need the Bible to interrupt my thinking. I don’t know about you, my mind can go all over the place, right? Like the destructive thought patterns. The Bible interrupts our thinking and thank you Jesus that the Bible leads us to a divine perspective and a divine objective and a divine conclusion. It’s amazing. 

So, there’s an interruption when we’re discouraged. And there’s a nothing wrong with being discouraged at times, but what happens? I want to interrupt that cycle and say, God, what do you say about me? What does the Bible say about me? What does the Bible say? 

Say, Wait a minute. You have no evil thought about me. That’s amazing. 1 Corinthians 13:4 and Jeremiah 29:11. God does not think evil about me. Imagine that verse interrupting a downward spiral or a discouragement or a negative confession or any type of downcast countenance. It’s amazing. Why? 

And I hope this is encouraging for you, because we want to interpret obstacles as opportunities. Think of that. So, our daily life there’s obstacles. Have you noticed that?  Right. The noise. That noise. I don’t know if any of you sleep with white noise. It’s actually very interesting what it does to the brain. It actually is an interesting equilibrium and cancels out and helps people turn off that psychic noise. 

But God wants us to interrupt and give us his thoughts, his mind, his joy, his purpose, his eternal perspective. And this is what’s so unusual about our lives. And there’s nothing natural about our lives, because we’re constantly interrupted and maybe we’re doing life and we raise our kids and that’s the toughest job you’ll ever love by the way. Pray for me as a father of a teenager. My sons amazing, by the way. 

But just to say teenagers, they’re like from another planet, aren’t they? Sorry for you teenagers. We love you. They change every seven minutes, they say. So, honestly, it’s like I need to be interrupted and not get into my natural mind and get angry or upset or somehow naturally think about. I want to say, Lord, I need your mind. I need your wisdom. I need your Gospel.

I’ve been really burdened that my son would know the Gospel. That he would know the Gospel. Our young people, we have an amazing generation. You know, this generation, I recently gave – I was talking with a family and I handed a Bible to a 16-year-old and she goes, This is my first Bible. And I thought, This is your first Bible? You’re born in America. It’s amazing. 

This generation, very important generation, and very lost. Very lost. Very lost. And we interrupt them on evangelism. We interrupt them and say, You have tremendous value. And God loves you and go, you are not a mistake. And there’s an interruption from the devil that is drowning and droning our young people with suicidal thoughts and mental health fractures. It’s unbelievable. It’s incredible.

I remember talking with someone recently just saying, you know, God loves you. And the power because they’re not our words. They’re the Bible words. They’re kingdom words. They interrupt and they realign us back to eternal, eternal perspective. And this person literally started crying. And I looked at them and I said, You know, I said, I can just see that this was, she goes, no one’s told me that I was loved. 

This person was very successful and they never heard the Holy Spirit interrupted and penetrated through the layers of so much hardness and for the first time, they were able to touch the love of God, the person of Christ. It’s so good, isn’t it? 

Our Bibles, our Bibles, they change our thinking. It’s so encouraging. So, just as I close, I want us to think about a couple things here. So be ready or allow yourselves to be interrupted. You know, I was thinking about moms and dads. One of the most valuable mission fields is our kids, isn’t it? our kids. 

We’ve said it before. If you want to go home and if you want to change the world, go home and love your family. Mother Theresa said that. And I always tuck that away because our kids, they’ve been sent the message of the world is follow the herd. Don’t rock the boat. Just do what everyone else does, right? 

The secularism and the liberalism and all these other liberal things. And we are interrupting it with God’s character, God’s mind, God’s truths. And people are being touched. So, faith interrupts comfort. Let me read a couple things here. Faith interrupts comfort. Is there anything wrong with comfort? No, I mean, I enjoy comfort in the right time, but faith will interrupt comfort. 

Have you ever said, I don’t want to do that? And God’s like putting a burden on your heart and says, I need you to do that. And it’s like, Okay, Lord, thank you for interrupting my doubts, interrupting my faithlessness. Thank you for interrupting my comfort. 

And we get out of our lazy boys or whatever we’re, whatever we’re sitting in, right? And then God moves us and then we meet God in these moments. God interrupts self-focus and our greatest – think about this – our greatest appointments are disguised by interruptions. It’s amazing. 

So, what are we saying tonight? Maybe we’re doing something good. And I’m sure we are. But when things change or flip, we want to step back and say, Okay, Lord, There’s no delays or denials, but maybe you’re inviting me here or you’re giving me a burden there or you’re showing me something here, Lord. Open the eyes of my heart as it so beautifully says in Ephesians 1:17. Open my eyes to see your wondrous works because they’re past finding out. 

You know, our lives are such a gift from God, isn’t it?  They really are. When we look at Luke 10:33, the Samaritan. He saw, he was wounded and what happened? There was a wounded man and his life was interrupted and he helped hm.  And he used his means to help that Samaritan and his life was changed forever. 

Bartimaeus was healed. And isn’t it true? When Jesus walks by, our life is never the same. When I come to church, church is a holy interruption. I’ve been saying that to our, to our people. We have this, I heard this statistic and I’m still not sure if I believe it, but the statistic is a faithful, fervent Christian today goes to church twice a month. And I thought to myself, that can’t be right. That can’t be right. 

But we are interrupted and we have new priorities. We’re interrupted and we, our money goes to places that we would have never dreamed and we support the cause of Christ and God gets all the glory. Prayer and praise like we’re saying tonight. We get on our knees and we say, Lord I’m weak. And we’re interrupted with the presence of God, the faithfulness of God, the power of God, the love of God. 

And that’s what we’re experiencing in Houston. We’re not much, that’s for sure. But we’re constantly being led. At least that’s our prayer. Led and being interrupted from the flesh, interrupted by doubt and self-focus. And God is saying, I have greater things. I have greater things prepared for you. 

So, what does that mean? Will we allow ourselves to be interrupted? Maybe our health is interrupting us. Maybe our finances are interrupting us. Maybe a dream has been lost and it’s like, Wow. This is not what I signed up for. You ever said that before? 

God is like, I know cuz if you’re leading the boat, you’ll never get where I need you to go. Isn’t that good? Really uncomfortable but really valuable. And then God’s interruptions are invitations and they are so the divine destination is so encouraging. Isn’t it? 

Because why? He gets all the glory. The impossible becomes possible. The blind man that was a nuisance now becomes a showcase of grace. Maybe, maybe someone that is an annoyance, God is saying that this my plan. Or maybe, maybe the good thing that you’re doing, God is saying keep doing it. Let me be the center of it and let me keep moving you in my thoughts and in my confidence. Amen. 

So, interruptions, right? So, the next time you have a conversation and someone interrupts you – No! I’m must joking here. Thank you for interrupting my conversation. Actually, if you do that in Texas, it’s not good actually because it’s such a respect kind of culture. We could tell you a lot of stories about that. But just to kind of say interruptions are good because it could be God. Amen. (Prayer)

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