1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 I don't really know what is right here 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Says one who is my savior 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:18,000 I take him at his word and dream 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:24,000 That son has saved me this hour 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:30,000 And in my heart I find a need 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Of which you'll be my savior 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:42,000 That he will leave his place on earth 8 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:48,000 And come for sinful men to die 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:54,000 To kill his place, oh what sin I 10 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Before I knew my savior was 11 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,000 My savior loves my savior this 12 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 My savior's always there for me 13 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000 My God he was, my God he is 14 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 My God he's always gonna be 15 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 My savior loves my savior this 16 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 My savior's always there for me 17 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000 My God he was, my God he is 18 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 My God he's always gonna be 19 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:32,000 He's living, dying, let me pray 20 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:38,000 That straight past solace from this grave 21 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:45,000 That he who lives to be my king 22 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Will start to be my savior 23 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:56,000 That he will leave his place on earth 24 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:02,000 And come for sinful men to die 25 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:08,000 To kill his place, oh what sin I 26 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Before I knew my savior was 27 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 My savior loves my savior this 28 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 My savior's always there for me 29 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 My God he was, my God he is 30 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000 My God he's always gonna be 31 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 My savior loves my savior this 32 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 My savior's always there for me 33 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,000 My God he was, my God he is 34 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,000 My God is always coming. 35 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:49,000 My Savior loves, my Savior lives, my Savior's always there for me. 36 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:55,000 My God he works, my God he is, my God is always coming. 37 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:02,000 My Savior loves, my Savior lives, my Savior's always there for me. 38 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:08,000 My God he works, my God he is, my God is always coming. 39 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:14,000 My Savior loves, my Savior lives, my Savior's always there for me. 40 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:21,000 My God he works sink up to the call he gives, my God is always coming. 41 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:27,000 My Savior loves, my Savior lives, my Savior's always there for me. 42 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Why God he works, why God he acts, why God is always with me. 43 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 What's the purpose? 44 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,000 The same of us, the same of you. 45 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,000 The same of us, the same of you. 46 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Amen. 47 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Alright, thank you. 48 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 At this time we'll dismiss the children and the children's work. 49 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:57,000 See you kids. 50 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Don't worry about Jesus. 51 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Music 52 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Music 53 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Music 54 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Music 55 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Music 56 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Music 57 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Music 58 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Music 59 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Music 60 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Music 61 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Music 62 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Music 63 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Music 64 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Music 65 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Music 66 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Music 67 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Music 68 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Music 69 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Music 70 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Music 71 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Music 72 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Music 73 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Music 74 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:09,000 We are going to talk about apprehending. 75 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Can someone define the word, we lost Josh, we lost Josh, we will not get the literal definition of the word, but everyone want to define the word apprehending for us. 76 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 You don't have to look it up, just tell me what it means. 77 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Capture, seize, right? 78 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,000 So you hear like the police apprehended a suspect. 79 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 So we're going to talk about apprehending. 80 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Did you know the Bible talks about apprehending? 81 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,000 It does. 82 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000 So if you have a Bible with you, flip with me to Philippians chapter 3. 83 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Thank you Jesus. 84 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Amen. 85 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 This is his word. 86 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,000 We're going to read chapter 3 by the time we're done. 87 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,000 All the way to the end. 88 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 But it won't take long, don't freak out. 89 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,000 It will be all good. 90 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 We're going to do great on time. 91 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Alright. 92 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,000 So we're reading 3 beginning in verse 1. 93 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Oh, somebody took your extra point. 94 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Oh, good job. 95 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Sorry, Katelyn. 96 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Alright. 97 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 I'm going to read. 98 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,000 I can hear my left side, so I'm going to read. 99 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 That way I can break it down as I go. 100 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Do you need something? 101 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Okay. 102 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Alright. 103 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 So he says, finally my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. 104 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:28,000 To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you. 105 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 In other words, he's going to repeat again the same things. 106 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Don't worry about it. 107 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 He doesn't mind doing it. 108 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:37,000 And if you hear it again, that will help you make sure you get it right. 109 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Verse 2. 110 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Beware of the dogs. 111 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Beware of the evil workers. 112 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Beware of the false circumcision. 113 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:49,000 For we are the true circumcision who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus 114 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,000 and put no confidence in the flesh. 115 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:56,000 So there was a conflict that went on in the early days about whether a believer had to be circumcised or not. 116 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:01,000 So if you are not a Jew, you are a Gentile, you likely were not circumcised. 117 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 And then to become a Christian, you'd be told you have to be circumcised. 118 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Does everybody in the room know what circumcision is? 119 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Snip the foreskin of the penis. 120 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000 And it's not pleasant for an adult man. 121 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,000 It's debilitating for two or three days. 122 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,000 And so to become a Christian, they were saying you had to do that. 123 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,000 That's not true. 124 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:24,000 But it was obviously making it very hard on new Christians. 125 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Because all of a sudden they had to go through this ritual that never should have had to been. 126 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Paul is saying, beware of them. 127 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Don't worry about that. 128 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 That's a false teacher. 129 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,000 We are the true circumcision. 130 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 And if you were around back in the day when we went through the entire book of Hebrews, 131 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 we studied that for several weeks in a row. 132 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:46,000 And true circumcision is not of the body part, but of the what? 133 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Say the word. 134 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,000 The heart. 135 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,000 The heart. That's right. 136 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,000 True circumcision is not of a physical body part, but of your heart as a person. 137 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 So what he's saying is, beware of them. 138 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Don't worry about them. 139 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 We put no confidence in the flesh. 140 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Remember that phrase, no confidence. 141 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. 142 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,000 So he's saying, there are things about me that would make me good. 143 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 If I wanted to do that, I probably could. 144 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,000 If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more. 145 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Circumcise the eighth day of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, 146 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:27,000 as to the law, a Pharisee, which means a teacher of the law and somebody who knew it very well, 147 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:33,000 as to zeal, that means like energy or pursuit of God, a persecutor of the church. 148 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,000 So he was working for the Jewish church to persecute Christians. 149 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,000 He had so much zeal and excitement for God, he was going all over the place and persecuting Christians 150 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,000 when they thought that that was wrong. 151 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:48,000 As to the righteousness, which is in the law, found blameless. 152 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 So you'd say, in other words, under the law, he was found blameless. 153 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 He did everything he was supposed to do. 154 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:58,000 But whatever things were gained to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 155 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 So even though he was all that, right? 156 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,000 If you could, in that day, if you could say you were all those things, you were like a devout Jew, 157 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,000 that's really powerful. 158 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 He was everything he was supposed to be. 159 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,000 He said, I count all that as loss. 160 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:17,000 More than that, I count all things to be lost in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, 161 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,000 for whom I have suffered the loss of all things. 162 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Count them but rubbish, that means garbage, in order that I may gain Christ. 163 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,000 So all those things I had, I have given up that I might gain Christ. 164 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:34,000 And may be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the law. 165 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:41,000 In other words, I don't have any set points or rules to prove that I'm good, right? 166 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:46,000 I have a righteousness in Christ, is what he's looking for. 167 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,000 And he says, I'll start back in 10. 168 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,000 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, 169 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:59,000 being conformed to his death, in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. 170 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 His goal eventually was to be resurrected from the dead. 171 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 That means to go to heaven, right? 172 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 We want to spend eternity with God, that's the goal. 173 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Not that I have already obtained it, this is where it's interesting. 174 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Or have already become perfect. 175 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,000 So he's saying, I haven't already seized it, I haven't already grabbed it, right? 176 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 I haven't already apprehended it. 177 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Or have already become perfect. 178 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,000 But I press on in order that I may lay hold of that. 179 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,000 In other words, that I may apprehend it, that I may seize it, that I may take it. 180 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:32,000 That I may lay hold of that, for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 181 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 And he's like, Jesus seized me? 182 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Now I press on in order that I may hold on, I may lay hold of that for which he held me. 183 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 So he took me, why did he take me? 184 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,000 So I can be with him in a right relationship forever. 185 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Now I press on so that I can also take hold of that which he took hold of me for. 186 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 That's what he's saying. 187 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,000 13, brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet. 188 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 In other words, I haven't seized it yet. 189 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 I haven't apprehended it yet. 190 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:05,000 But one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 191 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:12,000 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 192 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,000 In other words, I'm not worried about all that what happened before. 193 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 I am pressing on. 194 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:24,000 The call of God in me is to that goal, to press on to that goal in Christ Jesus. 195 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude. 196 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:35,000 And if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you. 197 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:42,000 However, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained. 198 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 How far we've risen, how far we've reached, as much as we know you could say. 199 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Let us keep living by that same standard. 200 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Last verse for now. 201 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Brethren, join in following my example and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us. 202 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:03,000 So, we should understand that those first 16 verses are explaining how to live as a Christian. 203 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 How to walk as a Christian. 204 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 I know it's convoluted, right? 205 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 You've got to break it down a little bit, so we're going to do that. 206 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:16,000 So, he's saying that there were these people who were making Christianity, or being a Christian, out to be something more. 207 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:24,000 They were evil workers, doing wrong, causing people to mutilate themselves for Jesus. 208 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:29,000 And he said, beware of that, let me tell you what's right. 209 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,000 I could say in my flesh all these good things about myself. 210 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,000 I was all of these things. 211 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:42,000 But I give all that up to be the one good thing, which is the thing Jesus purchased for me. 212 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 So, the reference goes on the first blank on your note-taking sheet. 213 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,000 It is Philippians 3, 1-17. 214 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:56,000 So, if you put PHIL like Phil, and then 3, 1-17. 215 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 That's what goes on the first part there. 216 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,000 So, the first thing that you see in this text, if you didn't see it, here it is. 217 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Let me just make it plain. 218 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,000 He's talking about focused living. 219 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Okay? 220 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Let's dumb things down. 221 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Let's make it as simple as we possibly can. 222 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:21,000 When Paul was writing to the Corinthians, he wrote it very simply in one verse. 223 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 And I'll flip over there and read it to you. 224 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 You may be guessing where I'm going. 225 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 It's 1 Corinthians 10-31. 226 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 It's on your note-taking sheet. 227 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:36,000 And it says, whether then you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 228 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,000 So, focused living then, as a Christian, this is how Christians are supposed to live. 229 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Everything is focused on living for God. 230 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 But here's the problem. 231 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Things come into our life that make that difficult. 232 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:53,000 So, you could have a person that's making it hard for you to make good choices. 233 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:58,000 You could have a situation, a health situation, financial situation, a living situation. 234 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:03,000 You could have a personal habit that you've gotten into, something that you really like to eat, 235 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 or something that you really like to avoid. 236 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Like, I can't stand when I hear people chewing their food. 237 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 People have all these things. 238 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 And those things are leeches. 239 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 That's what they are. 240 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,000 They drain you of the life that God is pumping into you as you travel, 241 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:25,000 as you try to live and do everything you do as if you're doing it for God. 242 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 These leeches drain the blood out of you. 243 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Just like if you went through stagnant water, you know what a leech is? 244 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,000 It looks like a little slimy slug thing. 245 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,000 It gets on there. 246 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,000 And the more it sucks the blood out of you, the fatter it gets. 247 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:40,000 And because it has anesthesia in its sucker device, you can't tell it's on there. 248 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 And you get enough of them on you. 249 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:48,000 People have died, get a bunch of leeches on them, and have died from that blood loss. 250 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,000 So those things are like leeches. 251 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 And Paul is saying live focused existence. 252 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,000 So what do we do to deal with leeches? 253 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 So I'm going to tell you first what doesn't work. 254 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:03,000 And when I give you this list, you're going to go, oh yeah, that's what we do with leeches. 255 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,000 So the first thing that doesn't work is complaining. 256 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Talking about the leech, the problem, it could be, again, it can be a health concern, 257 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,000 a job concern, a family concern, a relationship concern. 258 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,000 Someone said something that's plaguing your mind. 259 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,000 I've got several of those things that the enemy tries to throw up in my head when I'm struggling 260 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,000 or trying to do what God wants me to do. 261 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 And then he'll throw up, remember when they said that about you? Yeah. 262 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Things like that. 263 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Or a distraction, a hobby. 264 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,000 You really like to play on your phone. 265 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,000 You like to do reels. 266 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,000 You like to do TikTok. 267 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,000 It could be anything like that. 268 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,000 And then it's slowing you down and complaining about it. 269 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,000 And this is what people do. 270 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Yeah, you know, I know I should study my Bible more, but I just can't stop watching TikTok. 271 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Or I just can't stop. 272 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 I would have studied my Bible more, but I was dealing with my mom. 273 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 She's such a jerk. 274 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 She really bothers me. 275 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:02,000 Or they won't let me do what I want to do, and that's why I'm not doing what I should do. 276 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,000 We complain about the leech in all its various forms. 277 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:12,000 And by the way, how long can you do that for? 278 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Indefinitely. 279 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Once you start complaining, you literally will never find a time to stop. 280 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 Because there's always going to be issues. 281 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 There's always going to be leeches. 282 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 So complaining does not deal with leeches. 283 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,000 If a guy goes through a path of leeches and he comes up out, he's got three or four leeches, 284 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,000 and he's like, I got leeches. 285 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 I got leeches. 286 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 I have leeches sucking my leg right now. 287 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,000 I feel terrible. 288 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,000 I'm getting weaker by the minute, man. 289 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,000 I'm going to die here. 290 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Bob, I got leeches on me right now. 291 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,000 And they're like, just cut the leeches off or burn them off or do something. 292 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Do something, you're going to die. 293 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,000 I can't. 294 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,000 I have leeches. 295 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,000 That doesn't work that way. 296 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000 You will complain until you die. 297 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,000 Complaining is never going to get the leeches off. 298 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:59,000 And it's the same way with the stuff that gets in our life that slows us down or sucks the life out of us 299 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000 when we try to follow God and focus. 300 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Remember, it's about focused living. 301 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 Okay? 302 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Clearly, that was the first blank. 303 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Clearly, what also does not work is leaving them there, like ignoring them. 304 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,000 And the next two blanks are not leaving them or ignoring them. 305 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Those things do not work. 306 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,000 You leave them there or you ignore them, they will still kill you. 307 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Okay? 308 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Now, a person can live with just one leech for a very long period of time. 309 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:30,000 And a relatively healthy person could live with like three leeches on them for quite a while. 310 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,000 Right? 311 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000 So what happens is that a healthy person gets one leech and they're like, it's okay. 312 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,000 I'm still focused on God. 313 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,000 I'm not going to worry about that. 314 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,000 Focused on God. 315 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,000 Yeah, that bothered me a little bit that it's there. 316 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,000 I'm thinking about it on the back of my mind. 317 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,000 But I'm focused on God, so I'm ignoring the leech. 318 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,000 And the leech is still... 319 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,000 You know what happens? 320 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,000 If you actually have a leech on you, you leave it on you, you wouldn't necessarily die right away. 321 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,000 It gets infected. 322 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,000 They're not clean. 323 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 And they're accessing your blood. 324 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 And then you die from the infection, not from the leech. 325 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Right? 326 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,000 So you can't leave it and you can't ignore it. 327 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,000 These things that sap your life as you're trying to be focused for God. 328 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Also, you cannot nurse it. 329 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,000 And by that I mean you cannot create coping mechanisms. 330 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,000 For example, if you have a leech on your leg, normally you get a sore. 331 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000 What do you do? 332 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Slap a little Neosporin and a Band-Aid on there, right? 333 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Because you've got a sore. 334 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,000 So if you don't take the leech off, you leave it there, you put the Neosporin in the band-aid, 335 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,000 you might irritate the leech, but it's still going to do its business. 336 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Alright? 337 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 You're still going to suffer. 338 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Taking antibiotics so that you don't get an infection in your leg because you left the leech on there 339 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,000 might actually help you for a while, but at the same time, antibiotics are going to hurt you, right? 340 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:46,000 So all the coping things that we do while we're dealing with these leeches that suck the life 341 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 that is supposed to be focused on God out of us, 342 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,000 also have their side effects, their negative effects, etc. 343 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,000 You have a real problem. 344 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,000 You're searching for a solution. 345 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 You complain to others about the solution. 346 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Somebody says, hey, try this. 347 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 And you're like, hey, that's not a bad idea. 348 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000 I might actually try that. 349 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 But before I try it, I want to make sure I get some good advice. 350 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,000 So I go talk to a few more people about it. 351 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:12,000 And then by that time I've left the leech on there for a long time, so I'm coping with it. 352 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,000 And then I get done with all the advice and I go, you know what? 353 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,000 It is good advice, but it really doesn't seem to be bothering me all that much anymore. 354 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,000 I'm just going to leave it. 355 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,000 This is what we do with cavities, right? 356 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 That's how people treat cavities. 357 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,000 You get a cavity in your mouth like I'm not going to go get it fixed. 358 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:31,000 FYI, if you get a cavity, if you get it fixed right away, it doesn't even hurt. 359 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,000 But by the time most people cope with it and let it go for a while, it hurts, right? 360 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:40,000 So coping with it, coping mechanisms, bad behavior, my kids misbehaving, 361 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,000 so I develop coping mechanisms to deal with their bad behavior, 362 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 that's not the way to do it. 363 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000 That does not solve the problem. 364 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:51,000 All you do is you go, oh, my kid is better because I'm coping with it, 365 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000 so I think my kid is better, right? 366 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,000 And then your kid becomes a teenager and you realize, oh, that didn't work. 367 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Now I've got all these problems I didn't solve before. 368 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,000 What do I do? 369 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 And by the way, it's the same way. 370 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,000 If you're a kid and you're having friction with you and your mom, 371 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000 developing coping mechanisms like hiding around the corner, 372 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:12,000 having an extra Facebook account that you can talk to your friends on so she doesn't know, 373 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 those are all coping mechanisms. 374 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000 That does not solve the problem. 375 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 It only makes things worse. 376 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Ultimately, you've not only had to cope with the problem with the relationship, 377 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,000 but on top of that, you're coping with deception, lying, manipulating, 378 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,000 all these different things. 379 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 So not nursing it or coping it. 380 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000 And then the last one is, and this one you kind of laugh at, 381 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,000 but it's kind of also not very funny when you think about it, you can't show it off. 382 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Your particular leech. 383 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,000 In the year 2000, it was probably January 15th, I was driving down Cherry Street 384 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:48,000 and I heard on the radio, this morning show, it was about probably 8 o'clock in the morning, 385 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:57,000 and they said that the sin of the 2000 to 2010 generation was going to be owning their weaknesses. 386 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:04,000 So we say, yeah, I hear what you say, I should fix that, but I'm just no good. 387 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 And then we go around telling everybody that we're no good. 388 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,000 That way, when we fall through and don't do what we said we're going to do, 389 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 they won't be surprised, right? 390 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Like loan money to a pessimist because he doesn't expect it back, right? 391 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,000 It's the same thing. 392 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,000 So if I tell you I'm a pessimist, then, I'm sorry, borrow money from a pessimist, 393 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,000 I said it backwards, right? 394 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,000 So if I tell you I'm a pessimist, you're like, I'll borrow from him because he doesn't ask for the money back. 395 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,000 I say, well, if I tell you, what? 396 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Yeah, so I'm not going to come asking for it back if I'm a pessimist. 397 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,000 It's the same idea. 398 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:36,000 So if I keep saying I'm a pessimist, people are going to take advantage of my pessimism, right? 399 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,000 If you're a masochist, which means you like to feel pain, 400 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 and you go around telling everybody you like to feel pain, 401 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,000 pretty soon you're going to find some people that are going to cause pain for you. 402 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,000 And now that leash that you had that was slowing you down was a problem because you're a masochist. 403 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000 That's not good. 404 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 That's a mental condition, right? 405 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Now it's not just a mental condition anymore. 406 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,000 It's a real thing in your life, and it's growing, and it's out of control. 407 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:06,000 You can't go around showing it off, telling people, oh, you know, I really struggle with lying, for example. 408 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 I'm trying to defeat that. 409 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,000 But you're not really doing it, and it lasts a really long time. 410 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,000 You've got to not show off your leeches. 411 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Okay? 412 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 And then that brings us back around over to what actually works. 413 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Does anybody know how to get a leech off the best way? 414 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Yeah, you burn it off. 415 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,000 Say that nice and loud. 416 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,000 Say it again nice and loud. 417 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,000 Burn it off. 418 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Burn it off, okay? 419 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,000 That's what goes into blank. 420 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,000 You burn it off. 421 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,000 By the way, just a little side note. 422 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000 If you don't, someday he will. 423 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Yes. 424 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,000 Okay? 425 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,000 A little side note. 426 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,000 If you don't burn the leeches off, someday he will burn them off for you if you're saved. 427 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 But in the meantime, this is how you do it. 428 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,000 You burn them off. 429 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000 It's ready, aim, cut. 430 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,000 It's got to go. 431 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Once you identify what the leech is, you get rid of it. 432 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,000 And people are going to go like, oh, no, that's harder than it sounds. 433 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,000 And I agree with you that it's harder than it sounds. 434 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:06,000 I've shared as part of my testimony before that it took over two and a half years for me to stop lying after I got saved. 435 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,000 It took two years and seven months for me to stop using foul language after I got saved. 436 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:19,000 So burning it off may take some effort, may take some time, but you will eventually get to that focused living that God has given you. 437 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Probably one of the classic examples of this is watching things like rated R movies or TVMA shows or things online that are like soft porn, girls in G-string bikinis doing flips, you know, things like that. 438 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:41,000 That's probably one of the most classic examples in our generation of people watching what they shouldn't watch. 439 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:46,000 And then it's really hard to cut it off, to stop. 440 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:51,000 But there's only one way to deal with a leech, and that is to burn it off. 441 00:26:51,000 --> 00:27:01,000 The goal is, and this goes in the next big blank there, the goal is to return to productivity. 442 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,000 Remember we started with focused living. 443 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,000 So I'm going to give you an illustration from football. 444 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000 Not a football guy. 445 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000 I don't do football a lot. 446 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000 I would rather play it than watch it. 447 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,000 I'm getting a little old for football now, so I do play it some still. 448 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:22,000 So you've got a fullback, and he's got to go through the line. 449 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:30,000 So the play is designed, it's a blocking stunt, which means the tackle or somebody over here is going to pull and they're going to block. 450 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:36,000 There's going to be an extra blocker, and the hole is going to leave a hole over here, but the fullback is already going to be gone at that time. 451 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,000 But he's going to go right behind that blocker through the line. 452 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Now there should be a hole. 453 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000 There should be. 454 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:48,000 Now when he starts to run, does he look to see if there's a hole? 455 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,000 No. 456 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000 The play is, he goes through the hole. 457 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,000 So there should be a hole. 458 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,000 So he's going to focus living. 459 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,000 He knows the play. 460 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,000 He's got to go where he's got to go. 461 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Anywhere else has less odds of being open anyway, because there he has a blocker. 462 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Everybody knows what's going on. 463 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,000 That's the way to go. 464 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:09,000 So the return to productivity is us saying, this is the way we should go. 465 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,000 We're going to go the way we should go. 466 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,000 And what might happen, as sad as it is, is we may crash or we may fail. 467 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000 It could go poorly. 468 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Somebody might tackle us. 469 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,000 Somebody throw up a flag, something like that. 470 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:27,000 But we're going to go full bore the way God said we're supposed to go, 471 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,000 and then let God sort out what happens. 472 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000 Karina, could you sit up, please? 473 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,000 Thank you. 474 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,000 Appreciate it. 475 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,000 All right. 476 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:39,000 So I'm going to show you a passage of Scripture that speaks to this. 477 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,000 And it's one of the darker passages in the New Testament. 478 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,000 It is Matthew 5, 29 through 32. 479 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:52,000 And that's what goes in that blank right there after the return to productivity. 480 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Matthew 5, 29 to 32. 481 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,000 And Jesus says, hang on to your hat. 482 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Here we go. 483 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:07,000 And if your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you. 484 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,000 For it's better for you that one of the parts of your body perish 485 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,000 than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 486 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:18,000 And if your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you. 487 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000 For it's better for you that one of the parts of your body perish 488 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000 than for your whole body to go into hell. 489 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,000 And it was said, whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce. 490 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,000 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for that cause of unchastity, 491 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,000 makes her commit adultery. 492 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,000 And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. 493 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,000 And he goes on. 494 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,000 And if you didn't catch it, this is in the part of the Scripture 495 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,000 where he's saying, it's in Matthew 5, it's part of the Sermon on the Mount, 496 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:51,000 where they had made a bunch of excuses for not doing things right. 497 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000 And then he's going to go through and he's going to whack them to smithereens. 498 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,000 He's going to tear them apart. 499 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,000 He's going to say there are no excuses. 500 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000 He says, it's focused living. 501 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Let me tell you exactly how strict this is. 502 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:09,000 Now, is he saying somebody should actually cut off their hand? 503 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,000 Is he? 504 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,000 No, he's not. 505 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,000 You know why you know that's not the case? 506 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:20,000 You know that's not the case because you're created in the image of God. 507 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:26,000 Self-mutilation of any kind would be wrong. 508 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,000 So then what's the figurative language actually mean? 509 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:35,000 Now, is there a place in which a person probably should cut their own hand off? 510 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,000 Could that ever happen? 511 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,000 Yeah, it could, right? 512 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,000 So like your hand gets stuck in a grinder that could tear you up completely. 513 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000 It'll take you. 514 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,000 There's no one to save you. 515 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Your whole body's going in. 516 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,000 If you take your hand off, you can survive. 517 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,000 Gangrene is set in your arm. 518 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,000 It's as far up as your elbow and you're backwards somewhere far away from medical health. 519 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,000 There's nothing you can do. 520 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000 By the way, if you get to the hospital, that's probably what they're going to do anyway. 521 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,000 So they take the arm off above the gangrene so it doesn't get to your heart and kill you. 522 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,000 So there is a time, right? 523 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000 So that's the kind of imagery that he's using. 524 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000 But he's saying you should never self-mutilate. 525 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:15,000 But that's how important this focused living for Jesus is, right? 526 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:22,000 So what you do is you say, I'm going to do all things I do as if I do them for the Lord. 527 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,000 And anything that gets in my way is grist for the mill. 528 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,000 It's a leech. 529 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,000 It's got to be burnt off, right? 530 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,000 Now at this point in time you might be like, I'm not sure now about this. 531 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:43,000 Because he's asking for focused living following Jesus sounds a lot harder than most people have made it out to be. 532 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:49,000 James says, he who doubts shouldn't think he has anything. 533 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:55,000 And Jesus says, focus living to the point that you let nothing stand in your way. 534 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Hit the gap. 535 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,000 Trust the blockers. 536 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,000 Trust that God will make a way for you through. 537 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:09,000 Be sure, if you want to look briefly with me at Ephesians 1, 12-15. 538 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:17,000 Ephesians 1, 12-15. 539 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:27,000 And it says, it's in the middle of a sentence, but because it's a really big run on sentence, I'm just going to start at the verse marker. 540 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:33,000 To the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ should be to the praise of his glory. 541 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:38,000 In him you also, after listening to the message of the truth, the gospel, or your salvation, 542 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:43,000 having also believed, you were sealed in him with the Holy Spirit of promise. 543 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:49,000 In other words, you heard the truth about Jesus, you believed, you're saved, the Holy Spirit comes in and sealed you up. 544 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000 You cannot lose your salvation if you're saved. 545 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:59,000 But now there are leeches and we're learning how to deal with the leeches, but we're going to the end to win. 546 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,000 We're going to heaven when we die. That's settled. 547 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,000 14. Who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, that's talking about the Holy Spirit, 548 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:11,000 with a view to the redemption of God's own possession to the praise of glory. 549 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,000 It's settled. It's done. The blockers will be there. 550 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:24,000 Then 15 he says, for this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you, 551 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:30,000 and your love for all the saints, do not cease giving thanks for you while making mention of you in my prayers. 552 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:38,000 See, he had heard about how they had decided to live for Jesus and how they were not letting anything stop them from living for Jesus. 553 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,000 And that's what people should be able to hear about us. 554 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:47,000 So this passage then, how is it about apprehending? 555 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,000 Remember this whole thing is about apprehending. 556 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:59,000 Do you want to take a stab at it? What we've been talking about, how is it about apprehending? 557 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:08,000 Remember in the first passage that we read, Philippians 3, he said, I have not yet, what? 558 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:20,000 Let's just say apprehended it, right? I haven't reached it yet, but I strive to apprehend it for the same purpose that he apprehended me. 559 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:28,000 And then if you look briefly at 1 Corinthians 4, 7, hang tough, I know it's warm in here, 560 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,000 and we're long into it, we're almost done, you're doing great. 561 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:44,000 1 Corinthians 4, 7 says this, for who regards you as superior? 562 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,000 And what do you have that you did not receive? 563 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:53,000 But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it or if you had not received it? 564 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:59,000 So remember, Jesus apprehended us, not the other way around. 565 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:08,000 Now we strive, as Paul was saying, to apprehend him, to apprehend that which he apprehended us for, which is eternal life with him. 566 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:16,000 So the blanks are, you received and don't boast. 567 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:22,000 So you did not apprehend it, for those of you who think, because this is what happens, I've seen it, 568 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:29,000 you talk about becoming a Christian, and they'll go, well I'm a Christian. 569 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,000 So somebody's talking about it, two guys sitting around talking about being a Christian living for Jesus, 570 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:39,000 and another guy gets in the conversation, they're like, well I'm a Christian too, as if I made the right decision, 571 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:46,000 I prayed to accept Christ, I follow Jesus, saying I achieved something. 572 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,000 But it's not something that you achieved, it's something that he achieved. 573 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,000 So Paul says, in verse 15, he says, 574 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:00,000 Wherefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us, to the glory of God. 575 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,000 Did you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? 576 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000 No. 577 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000 How many times have you said that? 578 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,000 I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. 579 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:18,000 But you didn't accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, Jesus accepted you. 580 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:23,000 Did the groceries buy themselves and put them in your cart and you took them home? 581 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,000 No, you bought the groceries. Jesus bought you. 582 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,000 So who accepted who? 583 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,000 If I go to the grocery store and pick up two packages of fruit drinks, 584 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000 and one of them is busted open and leaking, the other one's not, 585 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:40,000 and I take the one that's not busted open and leaking, I chose that package of fruit juice and took it home, 586 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:46,000 did that fruit juice do anything at all in order for me to accept it? 587 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:52,000 No. Its condition was, it was not busted, I chose it, I accepted it, I took it home, 588 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000 and that's what Jesus is doing with us. 589 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000 He accepted us, not the other way around. 590 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,000 That leads me to some very forward or aggressive terms. 591 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,000 Anybody, if you're a football fan, how about, 592 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,000 Hup! 593 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000 And what happens? Everybody moves. 594 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,000 Or, 595 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000 Go! 596 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000 And all the runners start running. 597 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000 Do, be, stand, don't quit! 598 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,000 Go, be, go, do, get them, get them, right? 599 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,000 Or, what is it, let's go! 600 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,000 Right? 601 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000 I heard that on TV like a bunch of times on game shows and stuff like that, 602 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:34,000 and I had to actually Google it and figure out why people were saying let's go because it really doesn't make any sense. 603 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,000 Everybody said let's go. 604 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Yeah, let's go! Yeah! 605 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,000 Play ball, charge, press toward, focus. 606 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000 How about that one? 607 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,000 Focus. Jesus says focus. 608 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000 Jesus says apprehend it. 609 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,000 Grab it. 610 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:58,000 But this passage goes beyond saying that we need to try to apprehend what He has done for us, 611 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000 and that He has apprehended us. 612 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,000 It's really about dependence. 613 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,000 Because we didn't accept Him, He accepted us. 614 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:12,000 Now if you want to get in when the time comes, you have to rely on the fact that He accepted you. 615 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:21,000 Paul said I counted it as loss, that I might be found in Him, not my own righteousness, righteousness of God by faith. 616 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:27,000 Believe, belief affected, believe more. 617 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:34,000 If by any means I may arrive at the salvation that He chose me for, 618 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:43,000 a man who's apprehending is not tempered with depending, 619 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:52,000 is just as prone to acts of wickedness as a man who believes there is no God, 620 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,000 and therefore no one to set the standard. 621 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000 Did you catch that? 622 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:05,000 If you have not figured out as a Christian that you are dependent on Him to get you to the finish line. 623 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,000 By the way, why are we declared innocent day after day after day? 624 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000 Because Jesus died on the cross, right? 625 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000 No. 626 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000 That's actually not right. 627 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,000 That is why we were first declared innocent. 628 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,000 But we are now declared innocent day after day after day, 629 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:27,000 because Jesus didn't stay dead, He was resurrected, and now, 630 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000 righteous to His righteousness, 631 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:36,000 because He is standing at the right hand of the Father making intercession daily. 632 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,000 What if Jesus decides not to show up to work one day? 633 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000 Everybody goes to hell. 634 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,000 That's the bottom line. 635 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:51,000 God sees your sin, He sees it, He sees what we've done wrong, what we failed to do, where we weren't focused, 636 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,000 where we let the leeches remain, He sees all of that. 637 00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:00,000 So if Jesus doesn't say, yeah, but that one's mine, one time, you're done. 638 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,000 Your goose is cooked. 639 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,000 And then you won't have to worry about the leeches burning off, because you'll be burning. 640 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:13,000 So the bottom line is, Paul is talking about apprehension, or apprehending, tempered with depending. 641 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:20,000 So yes, I strive for that which God wants me to be and do and go where He wants me to be at the end and so on, 642 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,000 but I depend on Him to get there at the same time. 643 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,000 So there are three types of men. 644 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:31,000 The first guy is a guy who has no God, or no real God, right? 645 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000 Has the wrong God, possibly. 646 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,000 And he says, I can do whatever. 647 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,000 The blank is whatever. 648 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:42,000 I can do whatever society will tolerate, or whatever I'm willing to take the lumps for. 649 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,000 Cop didn't see it, I didn't do it. 650 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,000 Oop, cop did see it. 651 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,000 Oh, I got a ticket. 652 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,000 No big deal. 653 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,000 I'll do it again next week, probably. 654 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:54,000 So they'll do whatever society will tolerate, or whatever they're willing to take the lumps for. 655 00:40:54,000 --> 00:41:00,000 That's the kind of man that Paul was talking about with the wicked dogs that do evil. 656 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:06,000 Man number two, having been saved, so he believes in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, 657 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:16,000 Jesus has accepted him, made him a follower, but he says, so whatever I do now, right? 658 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:22,000 Meaning, because I'm saved, whatever I do now, I'm safe. 659 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000 Whatever punishment I face here, or whoever I hurt, I'll be in heaven anyway, 660 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,000 so I can do whatever I want to do now. 661 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:36,000 So the first guy says, whatever society will tolerate, and this guy says, I'm saved, 662 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,000 and so whatever I do now, I'll be okay. 663 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,000 And then there's man number three. 664 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:48,000 He's like, Paul, this man is informed by this scripture, having seen the life, the death, 665 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:53,000 the resurrection of Christ in his mind's eye, he realizes that God has expectations, 666 00:41:53,000 --> 00:42:00,000 and that they are expectations that on his own he cannot meet. 667 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,000 So I'm going to strive, but I will fail. 668 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,000 I will make mistakes without Jesus' help. 669 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,000 So these are expectations that rightly God has those expectations on us. 670 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:16,000 And then we say, I see them, but on my own, I'm not going to make it. 671 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:21,000 I can just tell, it's too hard to never lie, right? 672 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,000 It's too hard to never steal. 673 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,000 Now, we already did it before we got saved anyway, so surely we were not going to make it, 674 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,000 but even if we're trying now, there's still going to be something that we're going to do 675 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000 if we get it almost all right. 676 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000 We're sure that we probably won't get it all right. 677 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:40,000 And so we focus, and then he works to apprehend Christ's salvation 678 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,000 while he depends on God to give the victory. 679 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,000 So go back to the football analogy for one second. 680 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Our team coached Jesus. 681 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:56,000 The enemy team, anyone who would stop you, anyone, anything, evil spirits, demons, 682 00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,000 habits, sins, whatever, that would stop you from getting to heaven. 683 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,000 The coach knows the plays. 684 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,000 He calls him in. 685 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,000 We run the plays. 686 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:12,000 If we get through the enemy, we end up in the end zone, which for us is heaven, for eternity. 687 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,000 If we do not get through, we get stopped and we try again. 688 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:21,000 And we keep trying, keep trying, every moment, focused, trying to do the plays 689 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,000 the way the coach has given. 690 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:27,000 Now, the coach has the plays, and he knows all the tactics of the enemy. 691 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000 He knows what the future will bring. 692 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,000 He knows all that's coming. 693 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,000 We don't. 694 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,000 So when you're the fullback and you get handed the ball as a Christian, 695 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:40,000 are you going to hit the gap or bounce around the outside? 696 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,000 Are you going to run up there and see if there's a hole? 697 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,000 How many times are you going to run up there and see if there's a hole 698 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:50,000 and get tackled in the backfield before you realize the coach drew the play up 699 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:55,000 so that you're already going through the hole by the time those guys get in the backfield 700 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,000 to try to tackle you? 701 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,000 That's how the play is drawn. 702 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,000 And so if you stay in the backfield, you'll get tackled. 703 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,000 And if you go through the hole, you're going to make yards. 704 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,000 That's what Paul was saying. 705 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,000 Be the kind of person informed by this scripture. 706 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,000 Now, be the kind of person you've seen life, death, the resurrection of Christ in your head. 707 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,000 Now, you weren't there, but in your head you saw this. 708 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,000 And you realized God has expectations of me. 709 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:22,000 And these are things that on my own I probably won't meet them. 710 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,000 But I'm going to focus my life and give it my best effort. 711 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,000 And I'm going to work to apprehend, that means to seize the salvation. 712 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:34,000 And then I'm going to depend on God to give me the victory. 713 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,000 That's what Paul is calling us to. 714 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,000 And in case you think I got this all wrong, 715 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:51,000 Philippians 3, 18-21. 716 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,000 We read through 17. 717 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,000 And then in verse 18 says, 718 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:59,000 For many walk, of whom I often told you and now tell you, 719 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,000 even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, 720 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,000 whose end is destruction, whose God is their appetite, 721 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,000 and whose glory is in their shame, 722 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,000 who sets their minds on earthly things. 723 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,000 For our citizenship is in heaven, 724 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:18,000 from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 725 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:22,000 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory. 726 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:28,000 In other words, He's going to make us like He wants us to be when it's all said and done, 727 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:35,000 by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. 728 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,000 What can stop Him from saving you if He wants to do it? 729 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,000 Nothing. 730 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:46,000 As long as you're willing and submitting and letting Him, He'll save you. 731 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,000 The question is going to be like, what's your life going to be like before you get there? 732 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,000 Are you going to have a bunch of leeches sucking you dry, 733 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:57,000 and you're about to die, falling, failing in sin, worthless, like a... 734 00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:02,000 Are you chasing after the things of the world, always empty inside, 735 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,000 even though you should be filled with the Holy Spirit? 736 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,000 No, don't do that. 737 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,000 He will do it. 738 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,000 We look forward to it. 739 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:18,000 And we will strive to be His until He comes and once and for all makes it done. 740 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,000 That's what Paul is talking about. 741 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,000 What have you apprehended today? 742 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:27,000 Have you apprehended that Jesus Christ died on the cross to apprehend you? 743 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:32,000 And that He apprehended you for an eternity with Him in heaven and a right relationship? 744 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:38,000 And most of what happens between now and then is going to be about things, situations, 745 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:44,000 evil spirits, whatever, trying to slow you down, trying to take the joy out of your life, 746 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:48,000 trying to take the success and the fruit and the goodness out of your life. 747 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,000 That's what it's all about. 748 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,000 You say, well, it really bothers me when... 749 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,000 When are you going to just stop being bothered by that? 750 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,000 You're going to heaven for crying out loud. 751 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,000 Jesus is running the team. 752 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,000 If you run that same play, use that same analogy, and you hit the gap, 753 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,000 and there's a linebacker there, and he knocks your socks off, 754 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,000 and you're in a hospital for a week and a half, 755 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,000 are you going to then complain about Jesus from that point on, 756 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,000 that He gave you the play that ran you into the linebacker, 757 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,000 that almost broke your neck? 758 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,000 Or are you going to get right back on the team that eventually goes to heaven 759 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,000 and has an eternity with God? 760 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,000 Yeah. 761 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:26,000 That's why complaining doesn't work, because the coach is running the show, 762 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:36,000 and by the way, Paul was martyred for his faith. 763 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:42,000 Paul died, as did almost all of the disciples, for their faith. 764 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,000 And if you're living this focused living, there is a small chance, 765 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,000 it's just a small chance because of the day that we live in, 766 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:51,000 but there is a small chance that you might die for your faith. 767 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:57,000 But if you do, you'll punch right through to that which He apprehended you for, 768 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,000 and that's what you want. 769 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:06,000 Let me pray for us that we would learn the lesson of focus 770 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:10,000 and realize these methods that we're trying to deal with our leeches with, 771 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:15,000 it's not going to work, and instead, burn them off, focus living, 772 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:20,000 all that I do, I do for God in order that we cannot be stopped 773 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,000 and He'll take us through. 774 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:27,000 Father in heaven, I praise you. 775 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:32,000 I praise you for settling the matter like nobody else can. 776 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:37,000 Truth is, I find myself discontented at times. 777 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:42,000 I've been preached a couple of times recently, and I'll ask my husband how angry it makes me to see 778 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,000 the world in the condition that it's in where people lost and dying are going to hell. 779 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:49,000 There might even be somebody in this room that's heard the simple truth tonight 780 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:54,000 and they're going to walk away, and rather than give their life over to Lord Jesus, 781 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:59,000 rather than be accepted by the God of heaven and God the Son, 782 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,000 and know their eternal destination, they'll walk out of here 783 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:06,000 and go live for whatever else, by whatever else, and in whatever else. 784 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:11,000 Even making you think, well, as long as I'm not a Christian, I can do whatever I want. 785 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:18,000 And that makes me angry, but at the same time, I realize I've already done it tonight. 786 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,000 That which my anger drives me to do, which is I've explained it plainly. 787 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:26,000 The truth is we all have sinned. We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 788 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:30,000 We all have sinned and we're not good in ourselves. 789 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:34,000 Because of that sin, the Bible says the wages of that sin is death. 790 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:38,000 That means our separation from you, and ultimately our permanent separation from you 791 00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:43,000 when there is no place else to be except hell. 792 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:48,000 But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 793 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:54,000 So if we can have a Lord, that means we have somebody to tell us what to do, and it's Jesus. 794 00:49:54,000 --> 00:50:00,000 If we can have a Savior, somebody to pay the price for our sins, then eternity is settled. 795 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:08,000 What remains then is how we live here on the earth. And I want, I hope, for a focused existence. 796 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:18,000 I hope for a willingness to burn off the leeches and do all things that I do as if I'm doing them for you. 797 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:28,000 I pray for that for myself, for every person in this room, every person on Facebook listening right now. 798 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:32,000 Every person that will get the podcast eventually. 799 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:38,000 Every person that will go and tell about what we experienced here tonight as you spoke this into us. 800 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:42,000 You can maybe with me, but I'm your very special. 801 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,000 Just a child of God. 802 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,000 We all can have that special. 803 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:54,000 It will allow ourselves to be obtained, apprehended by Jesus. 804 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:59,000 Jesus, show us the place that will take us through to the end. 805 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:04,000 And let us always rejoice in the world. 806 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:32,000 I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.