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Mission Commander Swanbeck: Good morning, Mr. Hunt. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves the recovery of a stolen item designated "Chimera." You may select any two team members, but it is essential that the third member of your team be Nyah Nordoff-Hall. She is a civilian, and a highly capable professional thief. You have forty-eight hours to recruit Miss Hall and meet me in Seville to receive your assignment. As always, should any member of your team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions. And Mr. Hunt, the next time you go on holiday, please be good enough to let us know where you're going. This message will self-destruct in five seconds.

Ethan Hunt: If I let you know where I'm going, I won't be on holiday.

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Mission: Impossible II

Mission: Impossible II , also known as M:I-2 , is the 2000 sequel to the 1996 film Mission: Impossible . Ethan Hunt is on the job again, this time preventing the deadly virus, "Chimera" being spread and eliminating a rogue IMF agent.

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Ethan Hunt [ edit ]

• Clear the bridge for me.
• We just rolled up a snowball and tossed it into hell. Now lets see what chance it has.
• We've got 19 hours and 58 minutes. I'll get Bellerophon into your system by then. Just stay alive. I'm not going to lose you!
• [ Response to Swanbeck's remark ] If I let you know where I'm going, I won't be on holiday.
• I would've thought the hardest part was curbing that pressing need of yours to get your gun off. You were in such a hurry to knock off that 747 that you never figured out where Chimera really was. [ Ambrose: I knew where it was! ] Then you knew the only way that Nekhorvich could smuggle the live virus is by injecting himself and using his own bloodstream as a Petri dish. You knew that while you were knocking him off, destroying the very thing you came for.

Sean Ambrose [ edit ]

• If you look at Hunt's operational history, and I have, he invariably favors misdirection over confrontation.
• In just a few hours you can be assured of going down in history as the Typhoid Mary of Oz. G'day.
• STOP! PUT A SOCK IN IT! Hit that b****y gun and you'll spread the virus all over the place!
• This is what's known as getting your gun off!
• You know women, mate. Like monkeys, they are. Won't let go of one branch until they've got a grip on the next!
• You know, that was the hardest part about having to portray you…grinning like an idiot every fifteen minutes.
• You're sorry and I'm sorry.
• [holds up the anti-virus in front of the infected Nyah] Feel like pleading for your life?
• STOP... MUMBLING!
• [Ethan approaches him with a knife] Go ahead, Hunt. Use it. It's not a bad way to go. A lot better than the way that bitch is going to die.
• Run that bastard down.

Mission Commander Swanbeck [ edit ]

• [ On recording played through Ethan's sunglasses ] Good morning, Mr. Hunt. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves the recovery of a stolen item designated Chimera. You may select any two team members, but it is essential that the third team member be Nyah Nordoff-Hall. She is a civilian, and a highly capable professional thief. You have forty-eight hours to recruit Miss Nordoff-Hall and meet me in Seville to receive your assignment. As always, should you or any member of your I.M. Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions. And Mr. Hunt, the next time you go on holiday, please be good enough to let us know where you're going.
• This is not mission difficult, Mr. Hunt, it's mission impossible. Difficult should be a walk in the park for you.
• Well, mate, maybe this is one of those times we shouldn't follow orders.

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• Luther Stickell : The satellite doesn't work as fast as I do.
• Luther Stickell : [After getting shot at] Oh, I'm mad now !
• Luther Stickell : [After getting shot at] That punk put a hole in my Versace!
• Nyah Nordolf-Hall : [having injected herself with the virus] You're not gonna shoot me, Sean! Not this bitch . 'Cause she's worth thirty seven… million pounds!
• Nyah Nordolf-Hall : I don't have a conscience. I'm a bloody thief.
• Dr. Nekhorvich : [first line, repeated line] Well, Dimitri, every search for a hero must begin with something every hero needs, a villain. Therefore, in a search for our hero, Bellerophon, we have created a monster: Chimera.
• Dr. Nekhorvich : Well, I've heard...

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• Tom Cruise – Ethan Hunt
• Anthony Hopkins – Swanbeck
• Ving Rhames – Luther Stickell
• Dougray Scott – Sean Ambrose
• Richard Roxburgh – Hugh Stamp

See also [ edit ]

• Mission: Impossible
• Mission: Impossible III
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
• Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

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Ethan Hunt : [about recruiting Nyah]  I don't think I can get her to do it.

Mission Commander Swanbeck : You mean it'll be difficult?

Ethan Hunt : Very.

Mission Commander Swanbeck : Well, this is not mission difficult, Mr. Hunt, it's mission impossible. "Difficult" should be a walk in the park for you.

Luther Stickell : [after getting off the helicopter and steps in sheep droppings]  Shit.

Ethan Hunt : Yes it is

Mission Commander Swanbeck : [during a breifing in Sevile, Spain]  Ms. Hall and Ambrose had a relationship which he took very seriously... she walked away and he's been wanting her back ever since. We believe she's our surest and quickest way of locating him.

Ethan Hunt : And then what?

Mission Commander Swanbeck : Make sure she continues to see him, gets him to confide in her, and report to you.

Ethan Hunt : You made it sound as if I was recruiting her for her skills as a thief.

Mission Commander Swanbeck : Well then I misled you, or you made the wrong assumption. Either way, we are asking her to resume her prior relationship - not do anything she hasn't already done... voluntarily, I might add.

Ethan Hunt : No. She's got no training for this kind of thing.

Mission Commander Swanbeck : What? To go to bed with a man and lie to him? She's a woman - she's got all the training she needs.

Ethan Hunt : You turned around.

Nyah Nordoff-Hall : What are you going to do? Spank me?

Mission Commander Swanbeck : [during a breifing in Sevile, Spain]  You were under specific instructions to bring back a living sample of the Chimera virus. I'd be very interested to know how, after you'd managed its recovery intact, it subsequently got destroyed.

Ethan Hunt : By fire. That's the best way, really.

Mission Commander Swanbeck : [seeing and hearing his briefing through sunglasses and it's earpieces]  Good morning, Mr. Hunt. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves the recovery of a stolen item designated "Chimera." You may select any two team members, but it is essential that the third member of your team be Nyah Nordoff-Hall. She is a civilian, and a highly capable professional thief. You have forty-eight hours to recruit Miss Hall and meet me in Seville to receive your assignment. As always, should any member of your team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions. And Mr. Hunt, the next time you go on holiday, please be good enough to let us know where you're going. This message will self-destruct in five seconds.

Ethan Hunt : [5 seconds before he throws the sunglasses in front of him]  I let you know where I'm going, I won't be on holiday.

[Nyah is standing right in front of Ethan] 

Luther Stickell : [over radio]  Ethan, Nyah's in the building. Do you copy?

Ethan Hunt : [dryly, into radio]  Thank you.

Ethan Hunt : [to Luther, after they learned how difficult and critical their mission will be]  We just rolled up a snowball and tossed it into hell. Now lets see what chance it has.

Dr. Nekhorvich : Well, I've heard...

[takes off mask of Dr. Nekhorvich to reveal Ethan] 

Ethan Hunt : ...all I need to hear.

[last lines] 

Ethan Hunt : Let's get lost.

Ethan Hunt : [to Nyah, after looking at his watch hiding behind a metal container]  We've got 19 hours and 57 minutes. I'll get Bellerophon into your system by then. Just stay alive. I'm not going to lose you.

Ethan Hunt : after saving her from the door she was hanging on from the cliff below, now his sitting in the car Don't you think we should wait a decent interval?

Nyah Nordoff-Hall : [sitting on top of him]  Who wants to be decent?

Ethan Hunt : [to Luther, using an ear piece radio, while riding on his motorcycle as his being pursued by Sean and his men]  Clear the bridge for me.

Billy Baird : [spying on Ambrose through his binoculars]  Ambrose is meeting some bloke in the bar. Big bloke. Ginger hair. They're into something.

Ethan Hunt : [looking at the man who Ambrose is meeting with]  Who is this guy?

Luther Stickell : Checking now, Ethan.

[runs the man's face through facial recognition] 

Luther Stickell : John McCloy, CEO Biocyte Pharmaceuticals. In 1989, acquired Biocyte in a hostile takeover.

Ethan Hunt : He was Nekhorvich's boss.

Luther Stickell : Right. He worked for them as a research scientist at Biocyte. Ambrose is showing something to McCloy on a digital camera.

Ethan Hunt : Whatever McCloy's looking at, he's not happy about it.

[McCloy gives the digital camera back to Ambrose and leaves] 

Luther Stickell : Ambrose just pulled the camera's memory card and put it in into an envelope. Put it in his inner left jacket pocket.

Ethan Hunt : Confirm left jacket pocket.

Luther Stickell : [rewinds the footage and checks]  Roger that.

Ethan Hunt : Nyah. Nyah, Ambrose is on his way back to you. There's an envelope inside...

Nyah Nordoff-Hall : His left jacket pocket.

Ethan Hunt : That's right.

Nyah Nordoff-Hall : Where do I meet you?

Ethan Hunt : Betting table 12, off the paddock. Are you sure you're up to this?

Nyah Nordoff-Hall : I'll muddle through.

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  In the 1960s, Mission: Impossible became one of television’s most popular shows. It told the story of a group of undercover agents sent out to perform important and dangerous tasks. It was a story of secrecy, a story of covert missions.

            Each episode began the same way. One of the undercover agents was given a case file. Inside the case file was an audio recording that detailed his mission. Always included in this message was the phrase, “Your mission, should you choose to accept it …” which implied that the agent had the option of not taking the assignment.

            From the visual of a burning match lighting a fuse and the suspenseful theme song to the clandestine manner in which agents received their instructions, Mission: Impossible created a sense of urgency. What if the secret agent had decided not to accept the mission? There would have been tragic results. 

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            We love to live vicariously through the suspenseful stories of fictional secret agents. But as Christians, we have been given a real mission. Your case file is no man-made piece of work; you have been given the greatest instructional manual of all-time, God’s Word. Jesus gave you and me more than a mission; He gave us a Great Commission.

But our mission is not to be covert; instead we have a mission to convert. And like the television show, we too should have a sense of urgency in our mission to reach to the lost. Every believer in Christ must choose to embrace the mission and make it his own.

            So your mission—and mine—should we choose to accept it, is to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world and proclaim “liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed” by the enemy (Luke 4:18). 

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            The Great Commission is essentially the same as Christ’s own mission: “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). He told the disciples, “As the Father has sent Me, I also send you” (John 20:21).

            But His mission was not easy. Jesus had moments of anxiety and suffering. Think about him lying on his face in the Garden of Gethsemane, praying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will ” Matthew 26:39.  He was obedient to His Father’s mission, even unto death.

 Delivery of the Mission 

            After His resurrection, Jesus gathered His disciples together and delivered to them their mission. Though the disciples could hardly have understood the depth of the mission they had been given, Jesus’ words in John 14:12 probably began to take on new meaning: “He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to my Father.” The disciples (past, present, and future) were being commissioned to take Jesus’ physical place in the world—to be His hands, feet, and heart to a world growing daily in size.

            But Jesus did not leave them powerless to fulfill their mission. He told them he would send a Helper. And that Helper came in the person of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4-5).  And what a difference the gift of the Spirit made! The fearful band of disciples who cowered behind closed doors after Jesus’ death became men who turned their world upside down (Acts 17:6). 

The Heart of the Mission 

            Here is what Jesus said to them—and to us: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28.19-20). Go and preach, baptize, and teach. When those three activities are carried out and obeyed, the result is new disciples who then go and do the same three things until Christ returns. 

            Jesus accepted His mission and expects us to accept ours: to make disciples of all the nations. 

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The first episode features Flux Factory, a non-profit arts organization focused on fostering collaboration in Long Island City, Queens. Christopher Robbins, self described as a maker of “socially mediated public art,” and Douglas Paulson, also a social practice artist, kick off The Art Assignment with a replay of their first meeting. At the time the pair were both living in Europe and decided to meet in the exact geographical halfway point between their two locations. The assignment asked viewers to do the same: choose a friend, determine the halfway point between your two locations, decide on a time and meet in the middle with no further communication.

So not only is the show an exciting addition to the sparse community of videos about art online but The Art Assignment also illustrates a fundamental hurdle to creating well produced shows on YouTube. Not long after the trailer was launched in September of last year, YouTube killed its video response feature, which allowed reply videos to link to an original post to facilitate online conversation. And, since the core functionality of the show is to elicit documented art making, that change in functionality affects how people can interact.

This is an example of a large problem all series, or content, or even app creators face. Shows designed exclusively for YouTube (or any other major content hosting site for that matter) depend on the consistency of the tools they use to maintain the format of their shows. The infrastructure on which these businesses are built, and yes YouTube channels can be profitable businesses, can be changed at any time based on the decisions made by YouTube regarding what they feel is best for their company. There are no guarantees that if you design a show in which the audience will submit reaction videos, YouTube will not then eliminate the functionality that allows that to happen.

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Scripture: Genesis 2:15 , Ephesians 2:10

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Summary: Serving is to be at the core of our lives- that’s what we were created for.

Purpose Driven Life #29

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Are you concerned more with what you receive from something or with what you can contribute to something? Is coming to church a matter of getting something or giving something? Is going to school a matter of getting something or giving something? Is going to work a matter of getting something or giving something?

I know what many of you might say, because of the environment, which we are in, here, today. But what do you think would be the reality, out there, away from here? What might you say, there? What might others say out there?

I think it’s safe to say that many of us are more concerned with consuming and using resources and taking up space, than we are with making a difference with our lives. Yet, at the very beginning, God gave us all our marching orders and they had to do with giving, rather than getting.

Gen.2.15- we are here to tend and keep the garden. We are here to put into and to build. That is the instruction given at the very beginning, once creation was fully in place and when Adam and Eve received their first instruction from God. This defines, then, your fourth purpose in life, or the fourth purpose for you life. You were created to worship God. You were created to belong to God’s family. You were created to grow more and more mature within God’s family. And, you were created to minister or to serve, not to consume and to use. You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it!

This might come as a surprise to you, because what we see around us is people very much concerned with what they are getting from life. What we see is people wound up about getting value and stuff, and not being taken advantage of, and the like. But what we see is not what comes from the heart of God.

1. You were created to serve God: Eph.2.10b- these good deeds are your service. Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God, and this is very pleasing to God.

Matt.25.31-46- many see that doing good for others is the ultimate test and responsibility for the Christian. Upon this passage, in fact, entire theologies are based, including that of the Salvation Army, and other churches with a huge social responsibility component to their church work. They are right, in that this is important to God and needs to be for us. You were placed here to serve God, through your involvement with people.

2. You were saved to serve God. 2 Ti.1.9- God redeemed you so you could do his holy work. You were saved so you could serve- so God had more people on earth doing the good things He wants done. As Christians, we have to take this responsibility seriously. We tend to hide from issues and from opportunities, and feel that it’s up to someone else to do them, but we cannot take that approach. Paul encourages us, in Ga.6.10- to do good when we have the opportunity. When someone is in front of you, with a need, fill that need to the best of your ability; don’t expect that someone else will do it. Notice how Jesus spoke of this:

Lk.10.30ff- some thought it was someone else’s job to do and, besides, they had important other things to do. But how did Jesus feel about this? How does he feel about this today? Are you able to do something good for others? Do you have opportunity, or education, or money, or time to do things for others? Then do them. Don’t sit around thinking you have done what you can do. Jesus paid dearly for your salvation so you could do really good things for others- 1 Cor.6.20. Because of this, offer yourself in whatever way he chooses for you- offer yourself as a living sacrifice- Ro.12.1ff. You were saved so you could do good things. Oh, it might appear that you’re doing exactly the same things as someone who is not a believer, but you’re not. If you do the ’same things’, remember that you’re doing them with the activity of God’s Holy Spirit in you, and that takes the ’doing’ to a higher level than is possible for others. Never forget that the opportunity for this came at the incredible cost of Christ’s life. If you’ve seen the "Passion of the Christ", don’t forget the images you’ve seen which serve to make this cost real.

Your ministry is to serve others. Why aren’t you simply taken to the kingdom of God when you are converted and baptized? Because, in this fallen world, God intends to use you for his goals. God has a ministry or service for you in his church and a mission for you in the world.

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Scriptures: Ephesians 2:10 , Genesis 2:15

Sermon Topics: Love For God

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