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[" niegozo3opersusse不是ileen学和 behavioral preached by others instead of teaching".

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Don

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I'm gonna be with you

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I'm gonna be with you

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Jesus Christ is gonna be

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with you

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I'm gonna be with you

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Hello, Water Spirit

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Our story starts inside of me

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Good morning, good morning, good morning.

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My goodness, what a great day yesterday at the Grand Prix.

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Had some folks join us, had a lot of fun.

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The look in the eyes of the kids, they saw their hard work racing down the track and

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occasionally over the padding and into the wreck zone and as cars, you know, you think

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it's going to run the same way every time you put it down the track, but it's like,

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you're really fast, you put it down the track, and then that time it's a little slower.

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But anyway, that was really fun and we had a lot of fun doing that and that's cool.

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Continue to pray for our sick, our wounded.

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That's good buddy, thank you.

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And got that going on today, pray for Tyler especially because now he's got strep throat,

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which was a horrible gift from his dad probably, unintentionally, but yeah that happens.

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I probably got it from school or I couldn't got it from school because he's virtual.

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And you actually cannot get viruses through the computer, that's not how that works.

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But you can get a virus on your computer.

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Anyway, so Tyler is very sick.

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Is he better this morning at all?

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Not really.

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How many hours has he done the antibiotics?

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Like 24 hours now?

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He started yesterday.

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He started yesterday evening, so really, yeah, it really kicked in.

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So I then pray for Amalia.

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Amalia has an unknown, a virus of unknown origin and she's been sick for a couple days

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and she acts like the flu, yeah, it acts like a bad case of the flu.

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But it seems like it is.

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And so she's not here with us today, we've caused them to have to do some adjusting,

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I understand.

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So praise God, Amalia is a great asset to our worship team and a great servant in our

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body and we're grateful.

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And one of her great works on this world is she created Tyler, whose sixth birthday is

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today.

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You can believe Tyler is six.

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Dude, you were running around here in diapers just yesterday.

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You're so big.

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Growing up, man, I'm so proud of you.

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Thank you.

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So much for being sick today.

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Yet another reason to celebrate the Lord.

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All right, so we're going to pray together.

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Do remind that we do have other mission opportunities, other outreach activities, things going on

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already going on through the pantry, through the life station, crosswalk upcoming.

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So keep your ears healed.

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Lots of cool stuff to do for Jesus as we reach new heights in Jesus.

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Let's pray together.

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Father, you are our awesome God.

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You are our amazing creator God.

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What name could there be for the God of all except I am.

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We call you God.

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You sent your son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins.

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The sins of every man and every woman and every young person.

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In fact, the word says that he who you know, saying you made him to be sin for us that we might

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become the righteousness of God.

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That's what we want.

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We want to walk a little bit more each day in the way we are.

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We want to do the things that we should do.

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I guess we got to learn sometimes because sometimes we don't know the things that we should do.

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Sometimes we know what they are, but we do not do them.

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So some of our worship, some of our time together will be about that today.

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We want to learn and grow and reach new heights in Jesus.

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But especially God, we want to give you your proper place as the king of all, the maker of all,

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the ruler of all, holy, righteous, just God, also merciful, gracious, for getting you alone.

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Are you we want to hear you the recognition you deserve?

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Except we realize our best efforts are feeble in comparison to that.

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And now we're asking you for the miracle of multiplication.

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Would you make us greatly able to honor you today?

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I'm going to pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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All right.

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So if you would please stand with us and we're going to sing what we believe.

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These are the days for children of faith to stand up and be counted.

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Now is the time for the diamonds to shine on whoever's around it

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What life can be without proof of the hope that is you?

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I'm gonna live what I believe, gonna walk that line, gonna cross the empty

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I stand for what is right, and when everyone can see, it's Jesus that we need

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I'm gonna live what I believe

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The world would sing our praise, the world can we pray

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When the love life would mean it

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Instead of a man and dream to give time away

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What life can be without it?

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What life can be without it?

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What life can be without it?

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When the love life could mean it

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The hope that is you

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that memorized the verse for today and we've been passing out candy and getting tickets and

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I was encouraged yesterday we gave away the prizes and that was kind of cool and so just so you

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understand how it's working there's a board in the office in the outer office and I'll sometimes

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bring it out I'm gonna make it look nicer than it does right now right now it just has pictures of

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the prizes on it I'm gonna fix that up a little bit but anyway and then when you say the verses

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which the number of verses for today was Matthew 22, 37 through 40 is the challenge verse it's the

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whole thing but it's really not all that hard it flows together and each little section is not

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that hard so 22, 37 is a classic verse so that's pretty straightforward verse most people get that

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that was the candy verse for today and so you can see kids come up and grab a couple pieces of

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the candy that means that they said their memory verses and then the ticket verse was 37 through

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40 all the way to the end and the hardest part was that last part where it says on these two

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commandments depend the law and the prophets but that's interesting when you think about it

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because that says that those first three verses that we're trying to memorize all the bible up

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into Jesus's day pretty much hang on those two verses are those two commands if you don't know

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the command love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul with all your mind

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and love your neighbor as yourself you don't know those two commands then you're missing the sum of

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the whole old testament which is pretty interesting because some of us probably went oh you know I

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didn't make that connection so I just memorized those verses this time around to encourage you

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to go ahead if you haven't finished that memorize matthew 22, 37 through 40 and if you're in if

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you're involved in and you're not getting I've been trying to text or send out my messenger to

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the verses to everybody midweek if you're not getting that for some reason or if you want to

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get it you're not getting it then make sure that you let me know that and I'll make sure you get

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it we have plenty of time if you get it by Tuesday you can pick little pieces of you a little bit

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little bit and by Sunday you have the whole thing okay so just make sure I know if I'm not getting

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it to you oh we do not announce the verse for next Sunday now for an outset on Tuesday so if

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you're not getting it make sure that I know so you can get that okay after those verses by the way

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I'm gonna try to do this like that beginning in verse 41 it says now when the Pharisees were gathered

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Jesus asked them a question

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what do you think of the christ whose son is he

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they said to him the son of david he said to them how then is david in the spirit call him lord

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saying and then this is a quote from the old testament the lord said to my lord come and sit

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at my right at my right hand until I put your enemies beneath your feet right and he said

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and then he said no one dared to answer him dared to answer him a word and from that time on they

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asked him no more questions that and that goes to the end of the chapter so encourage you work on

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violent memorization think of what's in those verses and what you can carry with you wherever

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you go you take your bible you can do that but the truth is even if you take your bible like your

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phone like I can't tell you I'm just being transparent how many times I was going to open

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my bible my phone out and somebody texts me oh the phone's ringing oh or oh look I'll tell you I'm

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actually spoken count I gotta look at that real quick and that's how it stands the way you know

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the bible or you have your bible you're carrying it around I wonder where that verse was about

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where Jesus said david wasn't that um Jesus wasn't the son of david the christ wasn't the son of

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david but the lord of david I wonder what that was well if you have that verse memorized after

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26 look at the ability you have and you don't even need this at that moment you can just go

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right to your head right to your heart and there it is don't encourage you by what's my memorization

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is our focus for this six months through may 22nd and then we'll take on a new discipline but we will

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not put away bible memorization just the same as we were not supposed to be putting away prayer

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when we emphasize that and you're definitely not supposed to be putting away worship these are all

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disciplines that are given to us that you use every day you could make a growth plan for yourself

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where you take the top 10 disciplines and plan to use them every single day and you will be

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walking with the lord the way the lord walked with his father right don't encourage me to do that

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how about you have you seen something this week did you hear something you got a testimony you

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want to share okay what do you got I have a I'm not going to play the phone but I have it I wanted

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to share a little bit of the layers because it's not a christian song it's not a christian

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man or anything like that it goes to show that I think you said it last week or two weeks ago

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where even in secular things you can hear god's message and that may be 180 degrees different

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than what the person writing the song was thinking but you can hear the message of god in that there's

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a song it's called waking the lion waking the lion by poppy and that's the song

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the good thing is there's no cuss words in it so well thank you for that yeah all right but it says

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is it is this better tell me there's a better way I'm not afraid I'm not going to hide from the

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virtues above serpents below they want to lie me to rest but I won't go is it better to die than

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live another day I'm not afraid I'm not going to run from the scars and within burning your skin

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they want to lie me lay me to rest but I won't go I want to stand up 100 feet tall because fear

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will never lead the way I'm ready to run 100 miles strong I will never be the same that it would

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say says burning the ash I'll die until I rise again I am not afraid I am not going to stop

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till break till I break down this cage escape from this chase you'll never silence my voice

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no I won't go and it repeats the I will not I won't stand up 100 feet tall because fear will

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never lead the way I'm ready to run 100 miles strong I will never be the same so when I heard

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that song I heard it a while long while ago but I was listening to it yesterday while I was working

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on actually Artemis Carter and it struck me that that's how our relationship with this guy

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I you're not supposed to be afraid of what people say you're not supposed to be afraid of the serpents

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nipping at your feet you're not you're supposed to be able to stand 100 feet tall you're supposed

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to be able to run that 100 miles strong but we have to realize that the only way we're going to

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do that is with God we can't we can't run that race we can't stand that call if we don't have God

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with us because we will fail and we will crumble under our own pressures so it's okay I guess

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so it's okay to be to have the pressures of what you want to do it's okay to have the worries the

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doubts and everything as long as you understand that with God you can run and you can keep going

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because he'll give you the strength he'll he'll make that lion that's in you so you can continue

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to do what he has for you to do

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very good anyone else

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I was just thinking about today yesterday the first scripture I ever memorized I was

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25 years old I was in the older Bible said like older men and women they're my age today though

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that's what they're doing in their 40s 50s but so I always say encourage and re-encourage you might

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already know this I'm just reminding you but um I'm just reminding you that you're going to be

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a father 356 we were just going I just wanted to learn the scriptures but I don't really

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memorize anything because I was I was just being fed all the time it's awesome learning about

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who God was how much he loved us his son and just the word just kept just wanting to get more and

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more and then he was talking all of a sudden he said you know trust the Lord and follow your heart

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and you're not going to understand it all the ways acknowledge it and you would direct your path

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and that I was like I because that because I usually listen I wouldn't say nothing but I was

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like wait what did you say and it was like a big deal to me like it was like that at that moment

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I wanted to know that verse it meant a lot to me I was like but who would say something like that

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and so um I always say a truth the truth and truth it was the truth I mean everybody's been

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somebody wrong they're going to say they're sorry you know because they messed up but God's never

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apologized to anyone God's word is always true it's the truth that you can trust the Lord follow

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your heart lean not on your understanding and always acknowledge him and he will direct your

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path it's not like an exception to this word this is who he is and so I was just thinking about it

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you know because everybody makes a mistake and everybody has an apology but nowhere in the Bible

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does God apologize and nowhere today is going to say I'm sorry if any apologize happens is that

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Jesus went to the cross for us that was his apology that we could not ourselves apologize for the

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punishment that we deserve that brought us peace was at the cross God's wrath that day was on the

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son Jesus and so it's like that was our apology so we can come close to him so we can live for him

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so that we can be reunited with him so we can be with him eternally so the reason I share that

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stuff is um that scripture when I memorized that and that's everything I call it foundational

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scripture from that verse all the other verses that I remember I just kind of just set off from that

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and I mean it's just to me it's like it's just a joy like I've always said before you know like

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I love life I love everything but life doesn't always love you back you know it's but that's not

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the idea if you get it back it's just that we have this love that we have this hope even look at this

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screen it's like just for a moment you can see that waterfall and after seeing water on that

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screen it's like this is God's creation and when we're going through stuff and we're going through

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a lot of stuff I mean sometimes you just have to look at what's not been tainted you know what's

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not ever going to take it away and it is God's creation and God's work everything else

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you know in this life you just never know what you never know what's going to happen

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but those things are always going to stay forever eternally the same okay we're going to pray this

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time and then we'll have tithing offerings and we'll have a little more worship and soon the

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children will be released to go to their lessons and we'll look into the word and we pray that God

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will move in us I'm going to ask brother Tim Mitchell would you pray for us lead us in this prayer as we

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When you're strong, when you're strong

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When the sun is shining on your eyes

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You are the reason to be proud

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You are the reason to be proud

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You are the reason to be proud

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You are the reason to be proud

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You are the reason to be proud

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You are the reason to be proud

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Yeah!

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I love you, I love you so

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I'll love you forever and ever

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Everything you satisfy me

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With your love

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If faith can move the mountain

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Let the mountains move

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We come with expectation

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Waiting here for you

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Waiting here for you

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You're the Lord of all creation

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And still you know my heart

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You're the author of salvation

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You promised from the start

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We're waiting here for you

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With our hands lifted high

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In praise

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And it's you we adore

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Singing hallelujah

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Hallelujah

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You are everything you promised

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Your faithfulness is true

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And we're desperate for your proudness

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All we need is you

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We're waiting here for you

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With our hands lifted high

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In praise

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And it's you we adore

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Singing hallelujah

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A couple things real quick.

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First of all, I want to remind you

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that we are working through the book of Deuteronomy.

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But for the next month or so,

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we're going to step aside from that task.

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And we're in chapter 20 in the middle there, verse 10.

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And we will come back to it.

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But for the next month or so,

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we're going to step aside from that task

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as we approach Easter Sunday,

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which is, believe it or not,

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right around the corner.

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And we're going to look at some of the texts

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leading up to the arrest, the crucifixion,

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the death, the burial,

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and of course, the resurrection

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of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Okay?

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And so we're going to do that

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beginning today with one of what I think

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is the simplest sermon titles

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and topics that I have ever approached.

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So you have heard a lot of times

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probably watching TV, watching sports,

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that kind of thing,

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where somebody will get really excited,

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somebody did well, and they'll go,

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let's go!

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Right?

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And they'll hop around a little bit.

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Let's go!

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Good job!

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Let's go!

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In sports.

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And so I'm going to be honest,

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that irritates me.

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I really don't like that.

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I think I don't understand what it means.

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Like they're shouting up and down,

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we're going to let's go.

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But I do understand it in a way,

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because they're just excited

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and trying to express their emotions.

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Then I thought, well, where did it come from?

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What's that all about?

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And so I try to look up,

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and you know where it came from?

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You don't.

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You know why?

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Because nobody knows.

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Like you can search and scour the internet.

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Nobody knows exactly where that saying came from.

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Now it did get a lot of momentum

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from actually baseball, football,

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stadiums, and somewhere they would go,

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like let's go Yankees, let's go.

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When I was a kid,

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I remember being like five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

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We go every year pretty much

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to go out to the Mud Hens baseball games.

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It would be let's go Mud Hens, let's go.

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And the chant of the crowd, let's go Mud Hens, let's go.

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And then that boiled down to just let's go, let's go.

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And we're super excited and let's go.

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And sometimes you don't know what else to say

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other than let's go.

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But the whole idea of let's go is that was good.

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That's getting us where we want to go, right?

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You made a score, you made a play, you made a tackle,

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you made a sack, you made an interception, whatever.

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That was good.

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Let's do more of that.

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Let's do that.

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Let's go.

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And that's what it means.

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And to be able to boil down so much energy and excitement,

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I have a new found love of the phrase let's go.

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And it's biblical.

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So if you'll grab your Bibles, if you would,

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and maybe a little who to holler, amen, something,

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as we go to John 14, 31.

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Amen.

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Let's go.

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Yes, very good.

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All right, that'll work.

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So the text for the sermon is just John 14, 31,

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but we will use several other texts by the time we're through.

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So once we've read it, don't go, oh, we're done with the Bible for today

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because that certainly is not the case.

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So John 14, 31, and I'll read 30, but our emphasis is in 31.

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I will not speak much more with you for the ruler of the world is coming

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and he has nothing in me.

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So this sets the context because this is in the day,

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this is like leading up to Jesus' arrest.

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He's still speaking with them, but then shortly he'll be arrested

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and the ruler of the world is not Judas.

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It is not the priest, but it is sort of the one that they were responding to.

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In fact, the devil himself may have taken over Judas,

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and you can get into the theology of that.

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I'm not going to do that today, but the bottom line is he said the ruler

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of the world is coming and he has nothing in me.

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And because of that, he said I will not speak much more with you.

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He's not quite done yet, but soon he will be speaking with them before his arrest.

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Then verse 31 says, but that the world may know that I love the Father.

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Let's stop right there for one second.

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He said I'm going to stop speaking with you shortly

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because the one who rules the world is coming and he has no part with me.

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And now you kind of can maybe think of like that would be casting pearls before swine.

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I submit to you that you should be sharing Jesus with everybody in your life.

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You should be witnessing about Christ and God's goodness all the time.

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And anybody you possibly will listen to, you should be doing that.

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But if the devil himself ever would show up, and it's kind of unlikely,

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but if he ever would show up face to face with you, if that ever would happen,

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that ain't the moment to go to your witness.

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You can shut him down, you can tell him that he's virtually nothing

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compared to the one who is in you, but that ain't the time to try to win somebody to Jesus.

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He's not going to be one to Jesus.

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He knows enough about what God's plan is, and I don't think he knows everything,

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but he knows enough about what God's plan is to know he doesn't want anything to do

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with the Christ.

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And so Jesus is saying, I'm going to cast my pearls before swine.

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When that guy comes, that ruler of the world comes, I'll be done speaking with you.

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That time is coming soon.

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But then he says, but that the world may know so that everyone may not realize.

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So the ruler of the world is coming, got no part with him,

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but the world, the ruler of the world is coming, got no part with him,

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but the world must know.

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See the difference there?

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The world must know, because the world must know so that the world may know,

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so that the world may know that I love the Father.

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The world must know that Jesus was doing the work of God the Father

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when he came to hang on the cross.

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Jesus could have, he said, could I not call an army of angels even now to stop this?

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And the answer is he could have.

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I was reading that text the other day, and I was just like, man, that's so amazing

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that he could have stopped it, but he chose not to stop it.

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I want to get ahead of myself, but the bottom line is Jesus is choosing to lay down his life.

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He's choosing to surrender himself into the control of the one who would rule the world.

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But even as he surrenders himself into the control of the one who would rule the world,

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the world must know that Jesus loves the Father.

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And because of that, he says, but that the world may know that I love my Father,

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something is going to happen.

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But the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.

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So the world might know that Jesus loved the Father because Jesus did the will of the Father.

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See, this is the problem we have in the world today.

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We have a lot of folks walking around saying they love God, calling themselves Christians,

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or maybe by some other name.

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There are people in other religions who also claim that their God is the God.

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They say that they love God, but there's no love in it because there's no following the direction

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of the one who gave it.

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So God the Father has set some parameters by which a man or a woman might live a good life,

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might live a productive life, an abundant life,

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chief of which of course is to believe in the one whom he has sent.

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But having believed in the one whom he has sent, you ought to be following the commands of God.

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And Jesus said, so that the world may know that I love the Father,

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and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.

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Even the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.

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Now you and I are hoping, probably living our lives,

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pretty much hoping we'll never be crucified or whipped within an inch of our life.

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And you say that can't happen, but Paul was whipped 40 lashes.

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In fact, they even stoned him once and left him for dead outside the city.

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By the way, you stoned somebody leaving for dead, they're dead.

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And then he got back up and walked into the city and preached the gospel some more.

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So we're hoping that none of that ever happens to us.

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But Jesus had a command to die on the cross to pay for sin, to bring new life.

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And he did that willingly, the world must know, he said.

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And I will follow the command of my Father because the world must know.

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Listen to me, there's going to come a time in your life, I guarantee, without a doubt,

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there will come a time in your life when the only thing you can do in that situation

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is to ensure that others will know that God is who he says he is

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and that you are a follower of God, follower of God, is to do the thing that God has given you to do,

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whatever that thing is. Sometimes, let's be realistic, it sucks.

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You may have to stand there and take somebody else's mess.

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You may have to pile in and lift something that you don't want anything to do with.

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You may have to clean it up or overcome it, even though it was not your creation in the first place.

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You may have to suffer through it, straying to draw breath through it,

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because it is the path that God has marked out for you.

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And in the midst of that, here's what you can do when it gets right down to it, the bottom line,

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the only thing you can do is do what you know God has given you to do.

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The truth is in the strength that God has given us, and did Jesus have strength?

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Oh yes. In the strength that God has given us, it seems like on any given day

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that there are so many choices in what we can do.

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So many choices in how we can overcome a problem or how we can dig into something.

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We're intellectual, so we solve the problem, we think about it.

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Here are seven possible things. Here's the pros and cons.

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I can go this way, I can go that way. This makes perfect sense to me because I'll come out financially ahead,

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or because my family will be better taken care of, or whatever.

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Every day we look at all these verbs, we think of all these things.

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But listen, there's really only one absolute necessary thing,

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and that is whatever it is that God has told you to do.

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While you're adding on TV, video games, car repairs, car ownership, transportation, jobs,

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clocking in, clocking out, cashing paychecks, where you're doing all the things in this world,

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just remember that there is a soil in which the growth of God,

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the thousand-fold growth of the Kingdom of God is choked out by the cares and the riches of this world.

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And Jesus said, not me, not in my day, not in front of a look-on world,

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a world looking to see what I will do. No. I know that all people, all time,

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all the people ever before I was ever born, and all the people long after I'm dead, buried, resurrected,

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gone to be with my Heavenly Father, all people are going to be looking at this moment in time,

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and so that the world may know, I'm going to do the one thing that we can know for sure,

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and that is I'm going to follow the commands of my Father.

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Now for Him, that included crucifixion. And He knew that.

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He knew a horrible death awaited Him. Earlier on in His ministry,

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He was able to walk away from those who tried to kill Him because it wasn't time yet.

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But now He knows the time is approaching.

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And He said, with the time approaching, listen, right now,

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you're awful worried about all these things in your life you've got to take care of.

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When you're laying on your deathbed and the doctor says,

458
00:36:12,580 --> 00:36:16,580
we've turned the ventilator up as far as possible, she can barely stay awake,

459
00:36:16,580 --> 00:36:20,580
he can barely stay awake, in that moment you're going to go, this is only one thing.

460
00:36:20,580 --> 00:36:24,580
There is only one thing. I want to go out trusting God.

461
00:36:24,580 --> 00:36:27,580
I want to go out trusting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

462
00:36:27,580 --> 00:36:31,580
I want to go out of here and go into there where He has prepared for me,

463
00:36:31,580 --> 00:36:34,580
that place He's been prepared for me from the moment I trusted Jesus.

464
00:36:34,580 --> 00:36:37,580
I want to leave here and go there. So there's going to be a moment in time.

465
00:36:37,580 --> 00:36:41,580
I submit to you, you ought to reach forward to that moment in time

466
00:36:41,580 --> 00:36:46,580
and bring that level of devotion, that level of care, that level of priority

467
00:36:46,580 --> 00:36:50,580
out of what God has said you must do and put it today.

468
00:36:50,580 --> 00:36:53,580
Stop trying to collect. Stop trying to be distracted.

469
00:36:53,580 --> 00:36:55,580
Say, I'm not trying to be distracted, I'm just so distracted,

470
00:36:55,580 --> 00:36:58,580
that's all I can do about it. You ain't trying real hard not to be distracted

471
00:36:58,580 --> 00:37:01,580
or you wouldn't be distracted.

472
00:37:01,580 --> 00:37:03,580
Because you've got the willpower, you've got the discipline.

473
00:37:03,580 --> 00:37:06,580
You are a creator, you are a person made in the image of God

474
00:37:06,580 --> 00:37:09,580
and you are able, He who is in you, if you're a Father of the Lord Jesus Christ,

475
00:37:09,580 --> 00:37:11,580
He who is in you is greater than He is in the world.

476
00:37:11,580 --> 00:37:14,580
You don't need anything and He has it all. Don't kid yourself.

477
00:37:14,580 --> 00:37:18,580
God has allowed Him to rule.

478
00:37:18,580 --> 00:37:21,580
Subjected Him to God's rule, but allowed Him to rule. He has it all.

479
00:37:21,580 --> 00:37:24,580
And so everything you're going after that you think makes you feel a little bit better,

480
00:37:24,580 --> 00:37:29,580
if it ain't of Jesus specifically, then all it is is stuff that belongs to Him.

481
00:37:29,580 --> 00:37:31,580
Who do you think is on the other end of the fishing line,

482
00:37:31,580 --> 00:37:33,580
the hook that you're tugging on trying to get off the little thing

483
00:37:33,580 --> 00:37:36,580
that's going to make you feel a little bit better about the way your day is going to go

484
00:37:36,580 --> 00:37:40,580
or your family is going or your relationship or somebody did what you wanted them to do?

485
00:37:40,580 --> 00:37:44,580
The person on the other end of that fishing line is the ruler of the world.

486
00:37:44,580 --> 00:37:49,580
And when you're tugging on the hook of Satan, what you really need to be doing is saying,

487
00:37:49,580 --> 00:37:52,580
I'm going to follow the commands of my Father.

488
00:37:52,580 --> 00:37:54,580
And Jesus set that example for us.

489
00:37:54,580 --> 00:37:57,580
Now He's not ready to be crucified just yet.

490
00:37:57,580 --> 00:38:01,580
Quite a bit happens between this text and there.

491
00:38:01,580 --> 00:38:05,580
But what He does say here at the end of this text, He then says,

492
00:38:05,580 --> 00:38:12,580
As the Father gave me command, even so I do, He said, arise, let us go from here.

493
00:38:12,580 --> 00:38:14,580
There it is, let's go.

494
00:38:14,580 --> 00:38:19,580
Let's go, packed in that little let's go in the middle of that statement, arise, get up, here we go.

495
00:38:19,580 --> 00:38:22,580
Let's go from here.

496
00:38:22,580 --> 00:38:33,580
Jesus was saying, number one in this text, so that the world may know that I love the Father.

497
00:38:33,580 --> 00:38:36,580
This is not just enduring His Lordship.

498
00:38:36,580 --> 00:38:39,580
God tells me what to do and I do it.

499
00:38:39,580 --> 00:38:41,580
Oh boy, check a box.

500
00:38:41,580 --> 00:38:43,580
My to-do list is follow Jesus today.

501
00:38:43,580 --> 00:38:46,580
And I look at the end of the day, I'm like, yeah, I followed Jesus today.

502
00:38:46,580 --> 00:38:47,580
I did it.

503
00:38:47,580 --> 00:38:54,580
I prayed some, I sang some, worshiped some, gave some, served some, suffered some.

504
00:38:54,580 --> 00:38:56,580
I made it through another day following Jesus.

505
00:38:56,580 --> 00:38:59,580
This is not about enduring Lordship.

506
00:38:59,580 --> 00:39:03,580
This is not about the continuation of His Lordship.

507
00:39:03,580 --> 00:39:07,580
Jesus Christ will be Lord whether you are subject or not.

508
00:39:07,580 --> 00:39:11,580
He will be Lord whether I am subject, whether the church remains,

509
00:39:11,580 --> 00:39:13,580
which the true church will remain according to the scripture,

510
00:39:13,580 --> 00:39:16,580
the gates of hell shall not prevail against us,

511
00:39:16,580 --> 00:39:19,580
but He will be Lord whether we recognize Him or not.

512
00:39:19,580 --> 00:39:23,580
He will be Lord even when getting the money, getting the stuff,

513
00:39:23,580 --> 00:39:27,580
appreciating the things of life are your greatest priority.

514
00:39:27,580 --> 00:39:29,580
Jesus will still be Lord.

515
00:39:29,580 --> 00:39:35,580
The contradiction lies in if He is your Lord, why are you not behaving accordingly?

516
00:39:35,580 --> 00:39:37,580
That's the contradiction.

517
00:39:37,580 --> 00:39:43,580
He's going to be Lord whether you endure His Lordship or not.

518
00:39:43,580 --> 00:39:49,580
In fact, we ought to reverse our attitudes and be so grateful

519
00:39:49,580 --> 00:39:54,580
that He is enduring, standing next to God, making intercession for us.

520
00:39:54,580 --> 00:39:58,580
He is continually smoothing over the bumps.

521
00:39:58,580 --> 00:40:02,580
He is continually erasing our unrighteous behavior

522
00:40:02,580 --> 00:40:07,580
if we have indeed received the grace that Jesus gives.

523
00:40:07,580 --> 00:40:09,580
This is not about getting by.

524
00:40:09,580 --> 00:40:13,580
He did not come so that they may have life and endure it better.

525
00:40:13,580 --> 00:40:17,580
He came so that we may have life and life abundantly,

526
00:40:17,580 --> 00:40:19,580
not just eternal life, so it lasts forever.

527
00:40:19,580 --> 00:40:20,580
That's abundant.

528
00:40:20,580 --> 00:40:23,580
You know how many days I have left with Jesus?

529
00:40:23,580 --> 00:40:24,580
Limitless.

530
00:40:24,580 --> 00:40:29,580
Because when my physical body stops working, I'll be in heaven for an eternity.

531
00:40:29,580 --> 00:40:31,580
And if you're a follower of Jesus Christ, you are the same way.

532
00:40:31,580 --> 00:40:33,580
So that's abundance. I get that.

533
00:40:33,580 --> 00:40:35,580
But He's not talking about only abundance unending.

534
00:40:35,580 --> 00:40:38,580
He's talking about abundance today.

535
00:40:38,580 --> 00:40:41,580
That you can have abundance today.

536
00:40:41,580 --> 00:40:43,580
Jesus used the phrase a couple of times.

537
00:40:43,580 --> 00:40:47,580
He said, those who give up, blah, blah, blah, I will return it to them when?

538
00:40:47,580 --> 00:40:49,580
Well, someday in heaven.

539
00:40:49,580 --> 00:40:53,580
No, in this lifetime, He says.

540
00:40:53,580 --> 00:40:56,580
Following Jesus is about the choices we make today.

541
00:40:56,580 --> 00:41:01,580
And listen, if you should, and I hope you don't have to endure it,

542
00:41:01,580 --> 00:41:03,580
but I think the truth is we probably will,

543
00:41:03,580 --> 00:41:06,580
if you should truly have to suffer in this lifetime, James says,

544
00:41:06,580 --> 00:41:09,580
consider it pure joy.

545
00:41:09,580 --> 00:41:12,580
When they came home after they were beaten and told, don't talk about Jesus anymore,

546
00:41:12,580 --> 00:41:16,580
in Acts 4, they came back praising God

547
00:41:16,580 --> 00:41:19,580
because they were allowed to suffer as Jesus had suffered.

548
00:41:19,580 --> 00:41:21,580
How does that compare with you sitting down with your paycheck

549
00:41:21,580 --> 00:41:26,580
thinking about whether you have enough to buy a little something that you've been dreaming about?

550
00:41:26,580 --> 00:41:31,580
Do you praise Jesus that you have enough to buy a little something you've been dreaming about?

551
00:41:31,580 --> 00:41:33,580
I hope you do.

552
00:41:33,580 --> 00:41:37,580
Will you praise Jesus when you don't have enough to buy a little something you've been dreaming about?

553
00:41:37,580 --> 00:41:41,580
Or worse than that, when you don't have enough food to eat?

554
00:41:41,580 --> 00:41:43,580
Which can happen to anybody.

555
00:41:43,580 --> 00:41:44,580
It doesn't matter your walk of life.

556
00:41:44,580 --> 00:41:48,580
As soon as your health goes or your job goes or something critical happens,

557
00:41:48,580 --> 00:41:53,580
floods destroy property, fires happen, diseases set in,

558
00:41:53,580 --> 00:41:56,580
everything that you have could go away in the blink of a minute.

559
00:41:56,580 --> 00:41:58,580
Just gone, boom, gone, just like that.

560
00:41:58,580 --> 00:42:04,580
Everything I thought I had, my love, my family, my kids, my house, my cars, my job, my health.

561
00:42:04,580 --> 00:42:07,580
You could be in hospital for the next two and a half months and come home

562
00:42:07,580 --> 00:42:11,580
and find people living in your house which you can't get out without eviction by the time they're gone.

563
00:42:11,580 --> 00:42:13,580
True story, this happened to a guy that we've searched the Life Station.

564
00:42:13,580 --> 00:42:16,580
I just met him two weeks ago.

565
00:42:16,580 --> 00:42:18,580
Now he's got nothing.

566
00:42:18,580 --> 00:42:24,580
After retiring, after 25 years on the job, living well, alone in his own house, now he's got nothing.

567
00:42:24,580 --> 00:42:30,580
Going back to work at a minimum wage job to try to put food on the table so he doesn't go hungry.

568
00:42:30,580 --> 00:42:32,580
Now he doesn't have a wife or kids.

569
00:42:32,580 --> 00:42:35,580
Which by the way, when I almost had nothing myself,

570
00:42:35,580 --> 00:42:40,580
the fact that I would have my wife or kids was huge sustenance to me because I said to my wife,

571
00:42:40,580 --> 00:42:44,580
at least we'll be together. We'll have nothing but we'll be together.

572
00:42:44,580 --> 00:42:46,580
But he didn't even have that.

573
00:42:46,580 --> 00:42:49,580
And that could happen to any one of us at any moment in time.

574
00:42:49,580 --> 00:42:53,580
And so God is the one, if you will, He is Lord.

575
00:42:53,580 --> 00:42:55,580
He is the one protecting us, providing us.

576
00:42:55,580 --> 00:42:59,580
Look at what you have and even the suffering you have and realize that is the abundance.

577
00:42:59,580 --> 00:43:06,580
All of it is being done so that the world may know that I love the Father, Jesus said.

578
00:43:06,580 --> 00:43:12,580
What they were about to go through, what Jesus was about to do, what He was about to experience,

579
00:43:12,580 --> 00:43:21,580
what they were going to let the world do, was all so that people could know that God is real.

580
00:43:21,580 --> 00:43:24,580
He deserves glory. He's still on the throne.

581
00:43:24,580 --> 00:43:26,580
He's still saving souls.

582
00:43:26,580 --> 00:43:32,580
He has no greater desire than to have a relationship with you and me through whatever you go through.

583
00:43:32,580 --> 00:43:38,580
That's God. And He's not done. Let's go.

584
00:43:38,580 --> 00:43:41,580
Let's do what it is that He's called us to do.

585
00:43:41,580 --> 00:43:44,580
Let's recognize who He is and what He stands for.

586
00:43:44,580 --> 00:43:48,580
If you're following along in your Bibles, go with me to 2 Corinthians chapter 4.

587
00:43:48,580 --> 00:43:50,580
2 Corinthians chapter 4.

588
00:43:50,580 --> 00:43:56,580
To the right, a little ways, about 20 pages in my Bible, 2 Corinthians chapter 4.

589
00:43:56,580 --> 00:44:00,580
First we're going to read verse 2 out of there.

590
00:44:00,580 --> 00:44:09,580
It says, In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy.

591
00:44:09,580 --> 00:44:11,580
I apologize. That's verse Corinthians.

592
00:44:11,580 --> 00:44:13,580
That's a good verse 2. That's a good verse 2.

593
00:44:13,580 --> 00:44:16,580
We're going to go to 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 2. There we go.

594
00:44:16,580 --> 00:44:24,580
But we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the Word of God,

595
00:44:24,580 --> 00:44:31,580
but by the manifestation of truth, commending ourselves to everyone, every man's conscience in the sight of God.

596
00:44:31,580 --> 00:44:35,580
But we've got to break that down because there are some big words in there, so let's look at it.

597
00:44:35,580 --> 00:44:38,580
But we have renounced the things hidden.

598
00:44:38,580 --> 00:44:42,580
That thing that you're doing that you ain't supposed to be doing.

599
00:44:42,580 --> 00:44:45,580
That thing that you're into that you ain't supposed to be into.

600
00:44:45,580 --> 00:44:50,580
That thing that you're failing to do and you're letting everybody else think you're doing it.

601
00:44:50,580 --> 00:44:56,580
We've renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness.

602
00:44:56,580 --> 00:45:01,580
You need to stop figuring out how and trust God that He knows how.

603
00:45:01,580 --> 00:45:05,580
Not walking in craftiness or adulterating the Word of God.

604
00:45:05,580 --> 00:45:15,580
Stop twisting the Bible to support your personal opinions or your cultural background or your feelings about the way things are going.

605
00:45:15,580 --> 00:45:18,580
Just it is what it is.

606
00:45:18,580 --> 00:45:24,580
Not walking in craftiness or adulterating the Word of God, but by the manifestation, that means the making known.

607
00:45:24,580 --> 00:45:35,580
So everything is shown, the manifestation of truth, commending ourselves so we can be recognized by others to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

608
00:45:35,580 --> 00:45:41,580
See, God wants people to know that He's available for a right relationship with Him.

609
00:45:41,580 --> 00:45:47,580
God wants people to know that all the necessary work that has to be done in order for people to come into a right relationship with Him

610
00:45:47,580 --> 00:45:49,580
has already been done.

611
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:56,580
And if you know those two things, then you ought to be living with the realization that God's number one goal in all the universe

612
00:45:56,580 --> 00:46:00,580
is for people to come into a right relationship with Him.

613
00:46:00,580 --> 00:46:03,580
This must be made manifest. This must be known.

614
00:46:03,580 --> 00:46:09,580
Our choice of actions must be so that they may know that I love the Father.

615
00:46:09,580 --> 00:46:15,580
Jesus' motivation, and if you are a Christian, the word Christian means little Christ, then it ought to be your motivation.

616
00:46:15,580 --> 00:46:22,580
Jesus' motivation was that He would endure all things, whatever the Father desired He should be subject to through the ruler of the world.

617
00:46:22,580 --> 00:46:30,580
He would endure it, and He would do so so that all people may know that He loves the Father.

618
00:46:30,580 --> 00:46:38,580
A little further on, 2 Corinthians chapter 5, so you're going just a little further to the right, 2 Corinthians chapter 5, beginning in verse 5.

619
00:46:38,580 --> 00:46:46,580
Now, He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

620
00:46:46,580 --> 00:46:53,580
Therefore, being always of good courage and knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

621
00:46:53,580 --> 00:46:58,580
This is a little aside in there, for we walk by faith, not by sight. That's how we know that.

622
00:46:58,580 --> 00:47:02,580
We walk by faith, not by sight, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

623
00:47:02,580 --> 00:47:09,580
Then verse 8, we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

624
00:47:09,580 --> 00:47:21,580
So your dream of having a bigger thing, a prettier thing, a tastier thing, a better relationship, you're aiming so low.

625
00:47:21,580 --> 00:47:27,580
If this was Archer, you're firing your bow in the dirt, wanting him to do or her to do what you want them to do.

626
00:47:27,580 --> 00:47:35,580
You're aiming in the dirt. You'll never hit the target, because the target that we aim for is absent from the body, present with the Lord.

627
00:47:35,580 --> 00:47:44,580
Therefore, also, we have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, so wherever we are, to be pleasing to Him.

628
00:47:44,580 --> 00:47:52,580
We want to be pleasing to God, and I get it. You know, we're screw ups. We make mistakes.

629
00:47:52,580 --> 00:47:57,580
But in the making of mistakes or in the making of bad decisions, there ought to still be the desire to be pleasing to God.

630
00:47:57,580 --> 00:48:02,580
Right in the midst of it, you're like, oh, I did it again.

631
00:48:02,580 --> 00:48:07,580
Lord, I'm sorry. Forgive me. I mean no offense. Help me move past this. Help me put it away once and for all.

632
00:48:07,580 --> 00:48:10,580
I want to please you, God.

633
00:48:10,580 --> 00:48:21,580
And teaching the world that we want to please God, even though we may be screwing up because we are still in the flesh, or wherever we may be, is the most important thing.

634
00:48:21,580 --> 00:48:26,580
10 says, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.

635
00:48:26,580 --> 00:48:30,580
I want to please God, because one day God is going to judge me.

636
00:48:30,580 --> 00:48:37,580
That each one may be recompensed. He's going to pay me back. He's going to pay me back.

637
00:48:37,580 --> 00:48:45,580
That each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

638
00:48:45,580 --> 00:48:49,580
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, what?

639
00:48:49,580 --> 00:48:51,580
Let's go.

640
00:48:51,580 --> 00:48:58,580
Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, because one day we will stand before him and say, what did you do with your voice?

641
00:48:58,580 --> 00:49:01,580
What did you do with your breath? How did you apply your mind?

642
00:49:01,580 --> 00:49:06,580
What about whatever charisma you possessed? What about whatever physical strength you have?

643
00:49:06,580 --> 00:49:09,580
What about the fact that you're tall and intimidating, or short and charming?

644
00:49:09,580 --> 00:49:13,580
What about the fact that I made you something awesome? What did you do with that?

645
00:49:13,580 --> 00:49:18,580
Well, let me pay you back for all the expense that you incurred on my account.

646
00:49:18,580 --> 00:49:24,580
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men.

647
00:49:24,580 --> 00:49:29,580
But we are made manifest, that means we are made known to God.

648
00:49:29,580 --> 00:49:33,580
And I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

649
00:49:33,580 --> 00:49:40,580
It was Paul's desire that the Corinthians would recognize who they were working for, who they loved, and who was at work in them.

650
00:49:40,580 --> 00:49:48,580
Verse 12, we are not again commending ourselves to you, but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us,

651
00:49:48,580 --> 00:49:55,580
that you may have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart.

652
00:49:55,580 --> 00:50:02,580
You got a job to do. You do, to show up, to shine a light, to make a difference,

653
00:50:02,580 --> 00:50:06,580
to teach people that you are doing what you are doing because you love God.

654
00:50:06,580 --> 00:50:13,580
There are a lot of people out there trying to convince the world, and I get it, because there is a lot of suffering and darkness in the world.

655
00:50:13,580 --> 00:50:17,580
There are a lot of people out there trying to convince the world that God loves the world.

656
00:50:17,580 --> 00:50:24,580
And that is true. But the world does not love itself, not in a healthy way,

657
00:50:24,580 --> 00:50:31,580
but in a destructive way, filled with passions and erotica, desiring one thing after another, covetous nature,

658
00:50:31,580 --> 00:50:36,580
led along by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life.

659
00:50:36,580 --> 00:50:41,580
And that pathway puts them into opposition with God.

660
00:50:41,580 --> 00:50:44,580
They are going after what is not good for them, and they are in opposition with God.

661
00:50:44,580 --> 00:50:48,580
So yes, God loves them, but here is what is going to fail you every time.

662
00:50:48,580 --> 00:50:54,580
You go into someone's life and they are doing what it is they want to do after what they want to be after,

663
00:50:54,580 --> 00:50:59,580
and you try to tell them, God loves you, God loves you, God loves you just the way you are.

664
00:50:59,580 --> 00:51:08,580
And while that is all true, the real message of Jesus is, I love God. I love God.

665
00:51:08,580 --> 00:51:12,580
Now let us talk about what it looks like to love God.

666
00:51:12,580 --> 00:51:15,580
Is what you are doing expressing love to God?

667
00:51:15,580 --> 00:51:20,580
You are following the lust of your eyes, the lust of your flesh, the pride of life.

668
00:51:20,580 --> 00:51:29,580
You are following those things.

669
00:51:29,580 --> 00:51:34,580
The bottom line is, every moment of time the Lord says do something,

670
00:51:34,580 --> 00:51:38,580
you do what it is you are given to do so that you may be commended to the world,

671
00:51:38,580 --> 00:51:42,580
and especially committed to God. It is like living for an audience of one.

672
00:51:42,580 --> 00:51:46,580
I am living for God. But when I am living for God, where does it put me?

673
00:51:46,580 --> 00:51:52,580
It puts me showing up, manifest, demonstrating to people that I love God.

674
00:51:52,580 --> 00:51:56,580
That is what it is all about. And you cannot do that while you are throwing a fit.

675
00:51:56,580 --> 00:52:01,580
You cannot do that while you are destroying the people around you with your words or with your physical actions.

676
00:52:01,580 --> 00:52:03,580
You cannot.

677
00:52:03,580 --> 00:52:10,580
Live your life so that the world may know that you love the Father, just like Jesus did.

678
00:52:10,580 --> 00:52:14,580
But let us be realistic, humans get into that place and then start thinking,

679
00:52:14,580 --> 00:52:22,580
well I want them to know that I love God so I cannot let them know what I am actually like.

680
00:52:22,580 --> 00:52:26,580
If you have to play that game, you have already lost.

681
00:52:26,580 --> 00:52:28,580
You have already lost.

682
00:52:28,580 --> 00:52:39,580
Because you are covering up what you are actually like instead of allowing what you are actually like to be what Jesus would have you to be.

683
00:52:39,580 --> 00:52:47,580
You may or may not recognize the name Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he was the author of Sherlock Holmes.

684
00:52:47,580 --> 00:52:57,580
As an experiment he sent out a letter to twelve friends and relatively good circle of wealthy men across London, England.

685
00:52:57,580 --> 00:53:02,580
And he said, the jig is up, they know, run.

686
00:53:02,580 --> 00:53:05,580
That is what the letter said.

687
00:53:05,580 --> 00:53:11,580
To a man, he sent twelve letters to a man, all twelve men fled the country within twenty four hours.

688
00:53:11,580 --> 00:53:14,580
Now he did not tell them what they were in trouble for.

689
00:53:14,580 --> 00:53:20,580
But the truth is, all men have sinned and all men have fallen short of the glory of God.

690
00:53:20,580 --> 00:53:28,580
And if I said to you, I know what you did and you believed me, a chill would go down your spine.

691
00:53:28,580 --> 00:53:32,580
If I said I was there and I witnessed, I saw it, I know and I am going to tell everyone.

692
00:53:32,580 --> 00:53:35,580
You think about moving out of state.

693
00:53:35,580 --> 00:53:39,580
Maybe because that is a stupid thing for me to do.

694
00:53:39,580 --> 00:53:42,580
But also maybe because you do not want your secrets exposed.

695
00:53:42,580 --> 00:53:45,580
And it is the same way with me. We all have our secret things.

696
00:53:45,580 --> 00:53:51,580
But according to what we just read, we ought to repent of those things and turn back to God and begin to live in the light.

697
00:53:51,580 --> 00:53:55,580
That the world may know we love God.

698
00:53:55,580 --> 00:53:58,580
The second thing to see in here is Jesus was teaching.

699
00:53:58,580 --> 00:54:08,580
And again, I say when Jesus models a behavior, when he says this is what I do, our job is to do what he set the course.

700
00:54:08,580 --> 00:54:14,580
He has broken the path. He has pushed back the foliage.

701
00:54:14,580 --> 00:54:18,580
He has smoothed the ground. He has done it the hardest possible way.

702
00:54:18,580 --> 00:54:22,580
Now it is our turn to do what it is that he showed us how to do.

703
00:54:22,580 --> 00:54:27,580
And he said, I do exactly as the Father commands.

704
00:54:27,580 --> 00:54:33,580
Well you can break this down. Number one, you are going to have to learn what God expects.

705
00:54:33,580 --> 00:54:37,580
We have His Word. We have His Holy Spirit.

706
00:54:37,580 --> 00:54:41,580
We have prayer you can ask and He will tell you.

707
00:54:41,580 --> 00:54:44,580
We know that does not always work.

708
00:54:44,580 --> 00:54:47,580
Especially depending on where we are walking at the time.

709
00:54:47,580 --> 00:54:52,580
But we do have prayer.

710
00:54:52,580 --> 00:54:55,580
And we have examples of His character.

711
00:54:55,580 --> 00:54:59,580
Examples of His character through the worst times that humans can expect.

712
00:54:59,580 --> 00:55:05,580
Examples of His character through long historical track record.

713
00:55:05,580 --> 00:55:09,580
God has always been the same and He will always be the same.

714
00:55:09,580 --> 00:55:14,580
And you can learn what it is that He would have you to do day in, day out.

715
00:55:14,580 --> 00:55:18,580
Romans 12 verses 1 and 2, which I am ashamed to say I no longer have memorized.

716
00:55:18,580 --> 00:55:21,580
I thought I did but it fell out of my mind somewhere.

717
00:55:21,580 --> 00:55:23,580
Romans 12, 1 and 2.

718
00:55:23,580 --> 00:55:29,580
I urge you therefore brethren by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to God.

719
00:55:29,580 --> 00:55:31,580
Which is your spiritual service of worship.

720
00:55:31,580 --> 00:55:33,580
And verse 2, do not forget this.

721
00:55:33,580 --> 00:55:39,580
And do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what the will of God is.

722
00:55:39,580 --> 00:55:45,580
See that phrase right there? You may test, you may understand, you may figure out, you may prove what the will of God is.

723
00:55:45,580 --> 00:55:48,580
It does not matter if you approve of the will of God.

724
00:55:48,580 --> 00:55:52,580
But you may prove, you may test, you may figure out, you may see and understand what the will of God is.

725
00:55:52,580 --> 00:55:55,580
That which is good and acceptable and perfect.

726
00:55:55,580 --> 00:56:01,580
You see God's got a plan. God's got a set of commands. God's got a direction. He's got an oriented path.

727
00:56:01,580 --> 00:56:05,580
He has a highway of holiness and He knows how to put you on it and keep you on it.

728
00:56:05,580 --> 00:56:10,580
And if you would not be conformed to this world but be transformed presenting your body as a spiritual sacrifice.

729
00:56:10,580 --> 00:56:13,580
Living according to the way God has laid it out.

730
00:56:13,580 --> 00:56:18,580
You can test and approve. You can figure out exactly what it is the will of God is.

731
00:56:18,580 --> 00:56:20,580
So we make it out to be like the will of God is a mystery.

732
00:56:20,580 --> 00:56:25,580
I can't figure out what God wants for my life. According to this you can do what it is that God would have you to do.

733
00:56:25,580 --> 00:56:30,580
And so doing, learn to know what the will of God is.

734
00:56:30,580 --> 00:56:34,580
That good and acceptable and perfect will.

735
00:56:34,580 --> 00:56:40,580
Now if that wasn't enough for you, look at Colossians chapter 1.

736
00:56:40,580 --> 00:56:45,580
One of Tony Tate's favorite chapters in the entire Bible. Colossians chapter 1.

737
00:56:45,580 --> 00:56:47,580
Beginning in verse 9.

738
00:56:47,580 --> 00:56:51,580
For this reason also since the day we heard of it.

739
00:56:51,580 --> 00:56:59,580
We have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that ye may be filled with the knowledge of His will.

740
00:56:59,580 --> 00:57:04,580
In all spiritual wisdom and understanding so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord.

741
00:57:04,580 --> 00:57:09,580
To please Him in all respects bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

742
00:57:09,580 --> 00:57:14,580
Strengthened with all power according to His glorious might for the attaining of all steadfastness.

743
00:57:14,580 --> 00:57:16,580
That means you won't quit. Let's go.

744
00:57:16,580 --> 00:57:23,580
And patience joyously giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in life.

745
00:57:23,580 --> 00:57:25,580
Go back real quick and look at that phrase in the middle.

746
00:57:25,580 --> 00:57:32,580
We prayed, we prayed, we prayed and asked that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

747
00:57:32,580 --> 00:57:39,580
Oh my goodness, it's a shame He didn't get His prayer.

748
00:57:39,580 --> 00:57:46,580
But the fact is we can be exactly what is listed there.

749
00:57:46,580 --> 00:57:50,580
We can know what it is, what His will is.

750
00:57:50,580 --> 00:57:53,580
We can do so in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

751
00:57:53,580 --> 00:58:00,580
So that we may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord to please Him in all respects.

752
00:58:00,580 --> 00:58:03,580
And then the last one. Ephesians 5.

753
00:58:03,580 --> 00:58:05,580
Ephesians 5.

754
00:58:05,580 --> 00:58:19,580
So from there you're going back just two books to the left. Ephesians 5.

755
00:58:19,580 --> 00:58:20,580
And I'll start in verse 7.

756
00:58:20,580 --> 00:58:24,580
Therefore do not be partakers with them.

757
00:58:24,580 --> 00:58:28,580
For you were formerly in darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.

758
00:58:28,580 --> 00:58:30,580
Walk as children of light.

759
00:58:30,580 --> 00:58:33,580
For the fruit of the light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth.

760
00:58:33,580 --> 00:58:37,580
See, if you walk as children of light, basically you could break your life down this way.

761
00:58:37,580 --> 00:58:43,580
It's going to be goodness and righteousness and truth that you are producing through the power of God working through you.

762
00:58:43,580 --> 00:58:46,580
Not other people are doing good and right and true around me.

763
00:58:46,580 --> 00:58:49,580
But we are walking in goodness and righteousness and truth.

764
00:58:49,580 --> 00:58:53,580
Verse 10 says, trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

765
00:58:53,580 --> 00:58:54,580
That's our daily pursuit.

766
00:58:54,580 --> 00:58:56,580
We're learning what it is that God wants from us.

767
00:58:56,580 --> 00:58:58,580
What pleases Him.

768
00:58:58,580 --> 00:59:02,580
And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness.

769
00:59:02,580 --> 00:59:04,580
But instead even expose them.

770
00:59:04,580 --> 00:59:08,580
For it is disgraceful even to think of the things which are done by them in secret.

771
00:59:08,580 --> 00:59:12,580
But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light.

772
00:59:12,580 --> 00:59:14,580
For everything that becomes visible is light.

773
00:59:14,580 --> 00:59:21,580
God has told us that we can know His will and we can put away those secret wicked deeds.

774
00:59:21,580 --> 00:59:24,580
Verse 17, to end this part, says,

775
00:59:24,580 --> 00:59:28,580
So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

776
00:59:28,580 --> 00:59:32,580
You can figure out what it is that God wants you to do.

777
00:59:32,580 --> 00:59:35,580
It is not outside your reach of simple comprehension to say.

778
00:59:35,580 --> 00:59:37,580
Now much of it is laid out in Scripture.

779
00:59:37,580 --> 00:59:41,580
While I'm waiting for God to tell me specifically to tell somebody about Jesus.

780
00:59:41,580 --> 00:59:46,580
How many verses do you need exactly before you begin to do what it is that God has told you to do?

781
00:59:46,580 --> 00:59:53,580
See it's going to come to a point in time in your life when all the excuses and all the distractions and all those things are going to fade away.

782
00:59:53,580 --> 00:59:58,580
In that moment all you're going to have left to do is whatever God has commanded you to do.

783
00:59:58,580 --> 01:00:06,580
You won't be running for the TV remote, picking up the controllers, grabbing the car keys or grocery shopping anymore.

784
01:00:06,580 --> 01:00:09,580
It will just be what has God commanded me to do.

785
01:00:09,580 --> 01:00:15,580
I submit to you that Jesus is showing us very clearly in this verse that we ought to draw back from that time.

786
01:00:15,580 --> 01:00:18,580
When it comes down to just what has God told me to do.

787
01:00:18,580 --> 01:00:20,580
And that's what we're going to do.

788
01:00:20,580 --> 01:00:22,580
We should move that to today.

789
01:00:22,580 --> 01:00:24,580
We should have that attitude.

790
01:00:24,580 --> 01:00:28,580
Because everything that's stopping you from doing what it is that you're supposed to do today.

791
01:00:28,580 --> 01:00:33,580
Is all the stuff of the world which is under the reign of the world's king.

792
01:00:33,580 --> 01:00:36,580
The devil.

793
01:00:36,580 --> 01:00:38,580
I do exactly as the Father commands.

794
01:00:38,580 --> 01:00:42,580
Learn what he expects through his word, through his spirit, through prayer.

795
01:00:42,580 --> 01:00:44,580
By observing his character.

796
01:00:44,580 --> 01:00:47,580
We can be filled with the knowledge of the will of God.

797
01:00:47,580 --> 01:00:51,580
To please him in all respects.

798
01:00:51,580 --> 01:00:53,580
And then the third thing in here.

799
01:00:53,580 --> 01:00:55,580
And it's the title point for the sermon.

800
01:00:55,580 --> 01:00:57,580
Get up, let's go from here.

801
01:00:57,580 --> 01:00:58,580
That's what Jesus said.

802
01:00:58,580 --> 01:01:03,580
See we come in here, we listen to the word, we pray, we worship, we gather as a church and we represent.

803
01:01:03,580 --> 01:01:05,580
The truth is we do a pretty stinking good job.

804
01:01:05,580 --> 01:01:10,580
Ariana and I like to go on Alexa and we'll say, Alexa play this song.

805
01:01:10,580 --> 01:01:12,580
And then the song will play.

806
01:01:12,580 --> 01:01:14,580
I like that. It's cool.

807
01:01:14,580 --> 01:01:16,580
Don't have to push no buttons or whatever.

808
01:01:16,580 --> 01:01:18,580
A lot of times when I have to push buttons, I push the wrong buttons.

809
01:01:18,580 --> 01:01:20,580
This way I just say, now if she gets it wrong, I can blame her.

810
01:01:20,580 --> 01:01:22,580
I have nothing at stake.

811
01:01:22,580 --> 01:01:24,580
And then she plays the song.

812
01:01:24,580 --> 01:01:26,580
She plays the worship songs that we play in church.

813
01:01:26,580 --> 01:01:28,580
Ariana and I were listening.

814
01:01:28,580 --> 01:01:30,580
I listen to a worship song we play in church.

815
01:01:30,580 --> 01:01:32,580
I'm like, yeah, that's good.

816
01:01:32,580 --> 01:01:34,580
It's not as good as when we do it in church.

817
01:01:34,580 --> 01:01:36,580
And I go to the next one. It's good.

818
01:01:36,580 --> 01:01:37,580
It's not as good.

819
01:01:37,580 --> 01:01:39,580
Ariana says to me, you know dad, yeah.

820
01:01:39,580 --> 01:01:41,580
She said, I haven't heard a worship song that I like as much as when my sisters sing it.

821
01:01:41,580 --> 01:01:43,580
I'm like, wow, that's pretty cool.

822
01:01:43,580 --> 01:01:45,580
But they would love to hear that.

823
01:01:45,580 --> 01:01:47,580
She goes, yeah, maybe.

824
01:01:47,580 --> 01:01:49,580
I said, but it's true.

825
01:01:49,580 --> 01:01:51,580
I said, we represent.

826
01:01:51,580 --> 01:01:53,580
Are we perfect? No.

827
01:01:53,580 --> 01:01:55,580
Alicia, do you occasionally strum a wrong note?

828
01:01:55,580 --> 01:01:57,580
Yeah, she says occasionally.

829
01:01:57,580 --> 01:01:59,580
So the point is, we're representing.

830
01:01:59,580 --> 01:02:01,580
Do you worship in here?

831
01:02:01,580 --> 01:02:03,580
If you don't worship in here, you ain't going to worship nowhere.

832
01:02:03,580 --> 01:02:05,580
Do you develop a heart to serve?

833
01:02:05,580 --> 01:02:11,580
If you're not going to have a heart to serve in here, you're not going to develop a heart to serve anywhere.

834
01:02:11,580 --> 01:02:15,580
Does the Word of God motivate you to want to live for Jesus?

835
01:02:15,580 --> 01:02:17,580
To show people that you love God?

836
01:02:17,580 --> 01:02:20,580
If that doesn't do it, ain't nothing going to.

837
01:02:20,580 --> 01:02:22,580
No hikes into wilderness.

838
01:02:22,580 --> 01:02:25,580
No sex out of marriage.

839
01:02:25,580 --> 01:02:26,580
No drugs.

840
01:02:26,580 --> 01:02:27,580
Nothing.

841
01:02:27,580 --> 01:02:38,580
Nothing in this creation is ever going to motivate you to love God and to demonstrate that you love God like God himself through his Word and the preaching and the teaching and the servant and the worship and the witness.

842
01:02:38,580 --> 01:02:45,580
And then what we do in here, what we do as a church gathered, we're never stronger except when a whole bunch of us are doing what it is we're supposed to be doing.

843
01:02:45,580 --> 01:02:49,580
And then you're going to go out there, you're going to live like that?

844
01:02:49,580 --> 01:02:53,580
On the job, in school, in your family, with your kids?

845
01:02:53,580 --> 01:02:55,580
Are you losing your temper?

846
01:02:55,580 --> 01:02:59,580
You're saying words that should never come out of the mouth of an encourager?

847
01:02:59,580 --> 01:03:05,580
Are you doing things that should never be done by a child of the light?

848
01:03:05,580 --> 01:03:07,580
Jesus was saying, get up, let's go.

849
01:03:07,580 --> 01:03:12,580
And the problem is, Jesus said, let us get up, let us get up and go from here.

850
01:03:12,580 --> 01:03:16,580
And he said, let's go where we are now.

851
01:03:16,580 --> 01:03:17,580
That's the problem.

852
01:03:17,580 --> 01:03:22,580
He wanted the disciples to get up and go from there to where we are now.

853
01:03:22,580 --> 01:03:23,580
So that doesn't make no sense, right?

854
01:03:23,580 --> 01:03:24,580
They couldn't do that.

855
01:03:24,580 --> 01:03:25,580
They can't come to the fountain.

856
01:03:25,580 --> 01:03:26,580
I get that.

857
01:03:26,580 --> 01:03:28,580
I understand.

858
01:03:28,580 --> 01:03:31,580
But look at where he told them they would go.

859
01:03:31,580 --> 01:03:32,580
Look at John 14.

860
01:03:32,580 --> 01:03:34,580
We're back into John 14 now.

861
01:03:34,580 --> 01:03:43,580
On the third and final point, and the conclusion is relatively small, so you're hanging in there, you're doing great.

862
01:03:43,580 --> 01:03:48,580
John 14.

863
01:03:48,580 --> 01:03:55,580
And he was explaining to them, when he says, let's get up and let's go, he's already explained to them what that means.

864
01:03:55,580 --> 01:03:58,580
I'll go back as far as 16 so you can see the context.

865
01:03:58,580 --> 01:04:06,580
And it says in John 14, 16, it says, I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper, that he may be with you forever.

866
01:04:06,580 --> 01:04:08,580
That is the spirit of truth.

867
01:04:08,580 --> 01:04:09,580
That's a capital S there.

868
01:04:09,580 --> 01:04:11,580
It's a reference to the Holy Spirit of God.

869
01:04:11,580 --> 01:04:19,580
Whom the world cannot receive because it does not behold him or know him, but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you.

870
01:04:19,580 --> 01:04:21,580
I will not leave you as orphans.

871
01:04:21,580 --> 01:04:23,580
Now, here the subtext.

872
01:04:23,580 --> 01:04:27,580
I will leave you, but I will not leave you as orphans.

873
01:04:27,580 --> 01:04:28,580
I will come to you.

874
01:04:28,580 --> 01:04:33,580
After a little while, the world will behold me no more, but you will behold me because I live.

875
01:04:33,580 --> 01:04:34,580
You shall live also.

876
01:04:34,580 --> 01:04:40,580
In that day, you shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.

877
01:04:40,580 --> 01:04:45,580
He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me.

878
01:04:45,580 --> 01:04:50,580
And he who loves me shall be loved by my Father and I will love him and will disclose myself to him.

879
01:04:50,580 --> 01:04:55,580
So this is describing the place at which he was essentially asking them to go.

880
01:04:55,580 --> 01:05:05,580
Now, Judas, not Ascariot, the other Judas, said to him, Lord, what then has happened that you are going to disclose yourself to us and not to the world?

881
01:05:05,580 --> 01:05:14,580
Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my Father will love him and we will come to him and make our abode with him.

882
01:05:14,580 --> 01:05:21,580
He who does not love me does not keep my words and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

883
01:05:21,580 --> 01:05:24,580
These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you.

884
01:05:24,580 --> 01:05:28,580
So I'm explaining all of this to you now where you're going to go, where we're going to go.

885
01:05:28,580 --> 01:05:30,580
I'm explaining all of this to you now while I'm with you.

886
01:05:30,580 --> 01:05:39,580
But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring you remembrance.

887
01:05:39,580 --> 01:05:48,580
All that I said to you, peace I leave with you, my peace I give you, not as the world gives do I give to you.

888
01:05:48,580 --> 01:05:52,580
Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.

889
01:05:52,580 --> 01:05:56,580
You heard what I said to you, I go away and I will come to you.

890
01:05:56,580 --> 01:06:04,580
If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

891
01:06:04,580 --> 01:06:10,580
And now I have told you before it comes to pass that when it comes to pass you may believe.

892
01:06:10,580 --> 01:06:12,580
See, Jesus was declaring the era of the Holy Spirit.

893
01:06:12,580 --> 01:06:15,580
He was declaring the era of the church as we know it.

894
01:06:15,580 --> 01:06:21,580
He was saying a time is going to come after my death, burial and resurrection, which I will return to you in the presence of my Holy Spirit.

895
01:06:21,580 --> 01:06:26,580
I will return to you and I will be with you and I will abide in you and you will abide in me and you will know that I abide in my Father.

896
01:06:26,580 --> 01:06:28,580
And we're going to have us a party all up inside you.

897
01:06:28,580 --> 01:06:30,580
That's what's going to happen.

898
01:06:30,580 --> 01:06:33,580
And you're going to live for me and you're going to do the will of my Father as you live for me.

899
01:06:33,580 --> 01:06:39,580
And all the world will be able to see that I did what my Father wanted me to do and you're now doing what my Father wants you to do.

900
01:06:39,580 --> 01:06:40,580
We're doing it together.

901
01:06:40,580 --> 01:06:48,580
The church will be the church because I will go to the Father and I will petition him and he will send the Holy Spirit and the church age will begin.

902
01:06:48,580 --> 01:06:50,580
A thing is going to happen.

903
01:06:50,580 --> 01:06:58,580
He says, I will not speak much more with you for the ruler of the world is coming and he has nothing in me, but that the world may know that I love the Father.

904
01:06:58,580 --> 01:07:01,580
And as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do arise.

905
01:07:01,580 --> 01:07:06,580
Let us go from here where I am with you, abiding with you, talking with you, teaching with you.

906
01:07:06,580 --> 01:07:14,580
That time is about to end to there where the church will be the people of God, the body of Christ representing his Holy Spirit in them.

907
01:07:14,580 --> 01:07:17,580
And we will do what it is that God wants us to do.

908
01:07:17,580 --> 01:07:20,580
And the world will look at us doing what it is and they'll say, you weirdo.

909
01:07:20,580 --> 01:07:25,580
You're doing all kinds of you give when you don't have to give you serve when you don't have to serve you bleed when you don't have to bleed.

910
01:07:25,580 --> 01:07:37,580
But we know better because the things that we do for the Lord, we do so that the world may see that we love God just as our leader, our Lord, our example, Jesus Christ did.

911
01:07:37,580 --> 01:07:42,580
He was saying, let's get up from here and go to there.

912
01:07:42,580 --> 01:07:51,580
And you and I, if you are a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and you're living accordingly, you and I are there where he was saying, let's go to.

913
01:07:51,580 --> 01:07:53,580
We are there.

914
01:07:53,580 --> 01:07:58,580
Unless, of course, you came in here today and you would not claim the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.

915
01:07:58,580 --> 01:08:03,580
You do not have a personal relationship with God, in which case I would say, let's go.

916
01:08:03,580 --> 01:08:08,580
Move from where you are now to where Jesus said it'll get done.

917
01:08:08,580 --> 01:08:13,580
To where Jesus said it'll be real, where Jesus said heaven will be our eternal destination.

918
01:08:13,580 --> 01:08:26,580
See, they were to move to a place of keeping a place of keeping his word, which is his father's word to a place of togetherness, where the church would be together, united, overcoming the gates of hell and forever serving Jesus Christ.

919
01:08:26,580 --> 01:08:35,580
Until we leave this frail human body, doesn't matter how strong you think you are, until we leave this frail human body and enter into our new perfected body in his presence.

920
01:08:35,580 --> 01:08:38,580
He was saying, let's go to a place of peace.

921
01:08:38,580 --> 01:08:40,580
I don't give you peace like the world gives you peace.

922
01:08:40,580 --> 01:08:42,580
Okay, I'm sorry you banged your forehead.

923
01:08:42,580 --> 01:08:43,580
It's okay.

924
01:08:43,580 --> 01:08:44,580
I'm sorry you ran out of money.

925
01:08:44,580 --> 01:08:45,580
It's okay.

926
01:08:45,580 --> 01:08:46,580
It's all going to be okay.

927
01:08:46,580 --> 01:08:47,580
We'll send you a check.

928
01:08:47,580 --> 01:08:48,580
It's all going to be okay.

929
01:08:48,580 --> 01:08:50,580
We're going to walk away now, but you're going to be okay.

930
01:08:50,580 --> 01:08:53,580
We don't give peace like Jesus doesn't give peace like that.

931
01:08:53,580 --> 01:08:55,580
Jesus gives peace that endures into eternity.

932
01:08:55,580 --> 01:08:57,580
Your world, your world ain't right right now.

933
01:08:57,580 --> 01:08:59,580
Well, face it, the world ain't right right now.

934
01:08:59,580 --> 01:09:04,580
We are living in a lost and dying world full of unfaithfulness, even in the church.

935
01:09:04,580 --> 01:09:08,580
The world ain't right.

936
01:09:08,580 --> 01:09:11,580
But he doesn't give us peace like the world gives peace.

937
01:09:11,580 --> 01:09:14,580
He gives us peace like only Jesus could give us peace.

938
01:09:14,580 --> 01:09:19,580
Let's go from here where you have no lasting peace because I always am going to have to go.

939
01:09:19,580 --> 01:09:22,580
At some point I'm going to have to go be crucified and die and buried and resurrected.

940
01:09:22,580 --> 01:09:23,580
I'm going to have to go through that.

941
01:09:23,580 --> 01:09:26,580
That peace, this peace, the peace you have now would always end.

942
01:09:26,580 --> 01:09:27,580
That's a world, right?

943
01:09:27,580 --> 01:09:31,580
If you're happy with your wife or you're happy with your husband, you're happy with your kids, you're happy with your job,

944
01:09:31,580 --> 01:09:33,580
that's a peace like the world gives.

945
01:09:33,580 --> 01:09:35,580
It will end, right?

946
01:09:35,580 --> 01:09:39,580
It's not going to last eternally, but the peace that God gives will not end.

947
01:09:39,580 --> 01:09:41,580
That's what he was saying.

948
01:09:41,580 --> 01:09:49,580
And finally, to a place of rejoicing because God is greater and to a place of knowledge

949
01:09:49,580 --> 01:09:51,580
because you can know what it is that's asked.

950
01:09:51,580 --> 01:09:56,580
Have you ever noticed how in the world the target is always changing?

951
01:09:56,580 --> 01:10:03,580
Like in the world right now, you can't even own the car that you own anymore because cars are changing.

952
01:10:03,580 --> 01:10:07,580
And pretty soon, and in certain states it's already this way, the cars that we own right now,

953
01:10:07,580 --> 01:10:10,580
they won't even be allowed to be sold anymore.

954
01:10:10,580 --> 01:10:20,580
I've been cooking on a gas stove for 45 years and an attempt was recently made to outlaw gas stoves

955
01:10:20,580 --> 01:10:23,580
because the target is always changing.

956
01:10:23,580 --> 01:10:24,580
I don't care if they outlaw gas stoves.

957
01:10:24,580 --> 01:10:25,580
That's what the government wants to do.

958
01:10:25,580 --> 01:10:29,580
I'll submit because the Lord says submit to the governance over top of you.

959
01:10:29,580 --> 01:10:30,580
So I'll do that. That's fine.

960
01:10:30,580 --> 01:10:34,580
But what I'm saying is the target is always changing.

961
01:10:34,580 --> 01:10:38,580
The truth is even being denied.

962
01:10:38,580 --> 01:10:41,580
Gender roles are switching.

963
01:10:41,580 --> 01:10:43,580
Everything is changing in the world.

964
01:10:43,580 --> 01:10:51,580
How young a child has to learn about sex, and by sex I mean an intimate act between a boy and a girl.

965
01:10:51,580 --> 01:10:53,580
I would say a man and a woman, but they're learning about it so young.

966
01:10:53,580 --> 01:10:55,580
Let's be realistic, shall we?

967
01:10:55,580 --> 01:11:00,580
The target is always changing in the world, but in the Kingdom of God the target can be known.

968
01:11:00,580 --> 01:11:03,580
The target is the will of that which pleases the Lord.

969
01:11:03,580 --> 01:11:07,580
We do His will and we please Him, and that's a target that can be known.

970
01:11:07,580 --> 01:11:11,580
I want to be part of a kingdom that has a target that can be known.

971
01:11:11,580 --> 01:11:13,580
And Jesus said, let's go.

972
01:11:13,580 --> 01:11:18,580
Let's get up from where they were right then to go where we are right now and know what can be known,

973
01:11:18,580 --> 01:11:21,580
the will of God, and live it out.

974
01:11:21,580 --> 01:11:29,580
All the stuff that's upsetting you, all the stuff that makes you fuss, all the stuff that makes you need encouragement.

975
01:11:29,580 --> 01:11:36,580
It has nothing to do with the standard of the Kingdom of God, which is to live for God the way God gave you to live for Him.

976
01:11:36,580 --> 01:11:43,580
To take all that He has put on your proverbial table and put it to task living for Jesus.

977
01:11:43,580 --> 01:11:48,580
All the stuff that's upsetting you, if you get right down to it, it has nothing to do with that.

978
01:11:48,580 --> 01:11:52,580
It's about money, it's about time, it's about somebody else doing what you want them to do.

979
01:11:52,580 --> 01:11:59,580
It's about something somebody said or the way somebody behaves or the way it looks or the way it tastes or the way you see it.

980
01:11:59,580 --> 01:12:03,580
It's about all that kind of stuff and ain't none of that going to do you any good when it's all good.

981
01:12:03,580 --> 01:12:06,580
Because these chairs are going to be gone, this building is going to be gone, your friends are going to be gone.

982
01:12:06,580 --> 01:12:10,580
Nobody, nobody, nobody will stand up with you at the judgment seat of Christ.

983
01:12:10,580 --> 01:12:24,580
Except Jesus, if He does. And He will, if you trust Him and love Him and accept the relationship that He paid for you.

984
01:12:24,580 --> 01:12:34,580
Now they would do their part, being transported, if you will, to this place of keeping, understanding God's Word and His will.

985
01:12:34,580 --> 01:12:39,580
This place of togetherness, this place of peace, to a place of rejoicing.

986
01:12:39,580 --> 01:12:42,580
Because God is greater, to a place of knowledge.

987
01:12:42,580 --> 01:12:48,580
When they would get in there, they would be given a great commission to become His witnesses throughout all the world.

988
01:12:48,580 --> 01:12:51,580
They would be asked to represent. Jesus was saying, let's go!

989
01:12:51,580 --> 01:12:57,580
The Kingdom of God is on the march. The Kingdom of God will expand and touch every life.

990
01:12:57,580 --> 01:13:01,580
And we will do our part.

991
01:13:01,580 --> 01:13:04,580
And then that brings us to our conclusion.

992
01:13:04,580 --> 01:13:11,580
We have a job to do, it's a lifelong job, and we're not alone.

993
01:13:11,580 --> 01:13:19,580
But the sad truth is this. Noah's message from the steps going up to the ark was not,

994
01:13:19,580 --> 01:13:23,580
something good is going to happen to you.

995
01:13:23,580 --> 01:13:30,580
Amos was not confronted by the high priest of Israel for proclaiming, confession is possession.

996
01:13:30,580 --> 01:13:36,580
Jeremiah was not put into the pit for preaching, I'm okay, you're okay, whatever you want to do is fine.

997
01:13:36,580 --> 01:13:43,580
Daniel was not put into the lion's den for telling people, possibility thinking will move mountains.

998
01:13:43,580 --> 01:13:52,580
John the Baptist was not forced to preach in the wilderness and eventually beheaded because he preached, smile, God loves you.

999
01:13:52,580 --> 01:13:56,580
The two prophets of the tribulation, which is yet to come, will not be killed for preaching,

1000
01:13:56,580 --> 01:14:00,580
God is in His heaven and all is right with the world.

1001
01:14:00,580 --> 01:14:07,580
Instead, what was the message of these men of God and what will be the message of these men of God is simple, it is one word,

1002
01:14:07,580 --> 01:14:11,580
Repent.

1003
01:14:11,580 --> 01:14:17,580
It's time we repented and turned to the God of the universe through His Son Jesus Christ and stepped up and followed His commands

1004
01:14:17,580 --> 01:14:24,580
and stopped worrying about the cares and the riches of this world and became the kind of people that God has made us to be.

1005
01:14:24,580 --> 01:14:34,580
And when God unleashes you like that in your circle, your family, your friends, the people you work with,

1006
01:14:34,580 --> 01:14:38,580
the people that go to your school, the people you bump into when you go out to eat or go to the grocery store,

1007
01:14:38,580 --> 01:14:47,580
you won't pass a stranger who doesn't say, there's something odd about that man, there's something strange about that woman,

1008
01:14:47,580 --> 01:14:56,580
why did he or she stop and take the time of day, why are we even talking right now, what's this thing he's saying about how the word teaches

1009
01:14:56,580 --> 01:15:05,580
we all have failures, we all have sins and how God wants to save us through His Son Jesus, they'll all be saying that

1010
01:15:05,580 --> 01:15:13,580
because you'll be living the proved, tested, assured, certain will of the Lord,

1011
01:15:13,580 --> 01:15:18,580
which is that He would come into relationship with every one of us and everyone you encounter

1012
01:15:18,580 --> 01:15:27,580
and you'll be doing that which pleases the Lord, which will be loving and serving others,

1013
01:15:27,580 --> 01:15:31,580
especially through that cherished message, the gospel.

1014
01:15:31,580 --> 01:15:40,580
So that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commands.

1015
01:15:40,580 --> 01:15:46,580
Get up, let's go from here. Let's go.