1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,040 Good morning. 2 00:00:02,140 --> 00:00:04,000 It's so nice to be with you again. 3 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:07,040 I'm going to see if I can move this forward a little bit. 4 00:00:07,140 --> 00:00:08,040 There we go. 5 00:00:08,140 --> 00:00:11,120 So I don't have to lean in too much. 6 00:00:11,220 --> 00:00:12,780 I have been absent for a long time, 7 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,620 and that's going to be part of my testimony actually today. 8 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,560 So I'll tell you more about that. 9 00:00:17,660 --> 00:00:19,960 But the last time I was here, I don't know, 10 00:00:20,060 --> 00:00:24,700 does anybody remember what I preached about? 11 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:25,200 Anybody? 12 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:29,240 It's been so long. 13 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,740 It's no wonder. 14 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:36,440 I talked about resting in Jesus, coming to Jesus moment 15 00:00:36,540 --> 00:00:37,580 by moment. 16 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,820 It was a very transformational realization for me 17 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:45,320 when I learned that we can come to Jesus any moment. 18 00:00:45,420 --> 00:00:48,620 When I'm frustrated, when I've just sinned, 19 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,520 even if it was the 10th time today, 20 00:00:51,620 --> 00:00:55,200 and he just wants us to come to him and not distance ourselves. 21 00:00:55,300 --> 00:00:57,360 That's how we discipline, right? 22 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,160 We're like, you go to your room. 23 00:00:59,260 --> 00:01:01,060 Time out. 24 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,640 Jesus is now coming to my arms. 25 00:01:03,740 --> 00:01:05,640 OK, just talk to me about it. 26 00:01:05,740 --> 00:01:06,900 Yeah, I know you're frustrated. 27 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,640 Just tell me. 28 00:01:08,740 --> 00:01:12,940 And so this is kind of building up 29 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,880 on that, what I talked about last time. 30 00:01:17,980 --> 00:01:21,880 I want you just to talk to maybe the person in front of you 31 00:01:21,980 --> 00:01:22,860 or beside you. 32 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:24,260 If you're by yourself on the pew, 33 00:01:24,260 --> 00:01:27,300 maybe you can find someone close to you. 34 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,060 I want you, in 30 seconds, just to tell your partner, 35 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,600 what person do you respect the most and why? 36 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:36,460 What person? 37 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,700 Not outside of God. 38 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,400 What person do you respect and why? 39 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,420 OK, does anybody want to volunteer? 40 00:01:49,420 --> 00:01:54,680 Just the person and why they respect that person. 41 00:01:54,780 --> 00:01:55,620 OK, Bella. 42 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:00,660 Oh, by the way, I'm going to get mad at you. 43 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:01,760 That's awesome. 44 00:02:01,860 --> 00:02:06,300 So for the sake of our online audience, 45 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:11,400 this young lady says her mom because she gets mad at her. 46 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:17,600 So she respects her for towing the line, I guess it is, right? 47 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,080 Anybody else? 48 00:02:21,180 --> 00:02:22,820 Somebody else brave enough to? 49 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:24,580 Yes. 50 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,080 OK, so Darren says his dad because he watched him walk 51 00:02:28,180 --> 00:02:31,620 from alcoholism to the point where he gave his life 52 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:32,960 to the Lord then. 53 00:02:33,060 --> 00:02:36,220 And right to his death, he was somebody 54 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,400 who was always improving himself. 55 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:39,400 So praise the Lord. 56 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:45,140 What are the qualities that people have that we respect? 57 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:46,780 What are some of the qualities you could just 58 00:02:46,780 --> 00:02:48,680 yell out a quality? 59 00:02:48,780 --> 00:02:49,680 One word. 60 00:02:49,780 --> 00:02:51,680 Integrity. 61 00:02:51,780 --> 00:02:54,140 Sincerity. 62 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:55,980 Caring. 63 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,180 Honesty. 64 00:02:58,280 --> 00:02:59,660 Selfless. 65 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:00,980 Yes. 66 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:02,780 OK. 67 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,460 Are they usually authority? 68 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,000 Can they be authority figures in our life? 69 00:03:07,100 --> 00:03:11,560 We listen to them because we respect them. 70 00:03:11,660 --> 00:03:15,040 So what does that have to do with our relationship 71 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:16,900 with Jesus? 72 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,240 Do we respect Jesus as an authority in our life? 73 00:03:25,340 --> 00:03:28,040 When someone says, OK, now I want 74 00:03:28,140 --> 00:03:31,620 you to be honest about this, OK, when someone says, 75 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,760 I want to be, I want to Lord over you, 76 00:03:34,860 --> 00:03:37,420 I want to be Lord in your life, what's 77 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,460 the first thing that happens? 78 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,300 How do you feel? 79 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:43,520 It's like, oh, OK, cool. 80 00:03:43,620 --> 00:03:44,520 Sure. 81 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,500 No. 82 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,560 I don't know about you, but I get this little pit. 83 00:03:52,540 --> 00:03:54,900 Excuse me, but I'm Lord over my own life. 84 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,880 I really don't need you to help me out here. 85 00:03:57,980 --> 00:03:59,980 And you know, it's how little teenage you're feeling, 86 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,480 I guess. 87 00:04:01,580 --> 00:04:03,840 When you're facing your parents and they say something, 88 00:04:03,940 --> 00:04:07,620 you're like, I can do, I can think for myself or whatever. 89 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,060 And sometimes even with God, right? 90 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:12,820 God speaks to us. 91 00:04:12,820 --> 00:04:15,320 And we're a little bit like, oh, but I 92 00:04:15,420 --> 00:04:16,820 think I'm doing just fine. 93 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,360 I don't want to do that. 94 00:04:20,460 --> 00:04:25,640 But I want to submit to you that God does not 95 00:04:25,740 --> 00:04:31,740 ask us to do anything he hasn't done first. 96 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:33,640 God knows what it means to submit. 97 00:04:33,740 --> 00:04:35,280 And we're going to talk about that today. 98 00:04:35,380 --> 00:04:37,040 We're going to explore what it means 99 00:04:37,140 --> 00:04:40,980 to honor Jesus as Lord of our lives. 100 00:04:40,980 --> 00:04:42,980 Let's bow our heads again. 101 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,320 My Father, please send the Holy Spirit 102 00:04:46,420 --> 00:04:48,260 to teach us from your word today what 103 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:52,400 it means to honor you as Lord of our lives. 104 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:55,600 In Jesus' name, amen. 105 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:59,200 So before we figure out what we're supposed to do, 106 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:02,340 I want to look at how Jesus, what his relationship was 107 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:03,400 with the Father. 108 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:06,100 So let's look at John 5.30. 109 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,080 John 5.30. 110 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,720 It says, I can, this is Jesus speaking, 111 00:05:11,820 --> 00:05:17,960 I can of myself do a few things, nothing. 112 00:05:18,060 --> 00:05:19,120 OK. 113 00:05:19,220 --> 00:05:21,820 So Jesus says he can do how much by himself? 114 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:22,620 Nothing. 115 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:23,720 OK, think about that. 116 00:05:23,820 --> 00:05:28,360 Sometimes we think, oh, Jesus does this because he's God. 117 00:05:28,460 --> 00:05:32,300 But he says, I can't do a thing by myself, right? 118 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,840 As I hear, I judge. 119 00:05:34,940 --> 00:05:37,500 And my judgment is righteous, because I do not 120 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:42,180 seek my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me. 121 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:46,320 So how does he judge correctly? 122 00:05:46,420 --> 00:05:47,620 Right, he hears, right? 123 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:48,780 It says he's hearing. 124 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:50,580 As I hear, he's hearing the Father. 125 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:55,860 He's following what the Father is telling him to do. 126 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,760 He does according to his Father's will 127 00:05:58,860 --> 00:06:00,660 and not his own will. 128 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:05,460 Here we see a God who is submissive, right? 129 00:06:05,460 --> 00:06:07,840 Submissive to his Father. 130 00:06:07,940 --> 00:06:10,340 Let's look at John 4.34. 131 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,580 One more, just across the page for some of you. 132 00:06:15,140 --> 00:06:19,920 Jesus said to them, my food is to do the what? 133 00:06:20,020 --> 00:06:23,020 Will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 134 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:32,000 Now, if I say my food, so let's say you say, my food is soccer. 135 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,600 OK, what does that mean? 136 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:37,860 Yeah, it's your life, right? 137 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,340 You live it, you breathe it, you watch it. 138 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,900 You know if somebody, if there's something going on, 139 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,040 if the World Cups are going on, you know who played who. 140 00:06:46,140 --> 00:06:47,000 You know who's winning. 141 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:48,840 You know who's losing. 142 00:06:48,940 --> 00:06:51,040 You know who's been not deleted. 143 00:06:51,140 --> 00:06:52,540 What do you call them? 144 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:53,120 Removed? 145 00:06:53,220 --> 00:06:54,220 Yeah, whatever. 146 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:55,080 I don't know the lingo. 147 00:06:55,180 --> 00:06:56,880 As you can see, it's not my food. 148 00:06:56,980 --> 00:06:59,280 It's my kid's food. 149 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:05,060 But yeah, my food means it's just everything 150 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:06,660 that I live for, right? 151 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:11,340 And he is saying, my food is to do the will of my Father. 152 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,400 Wow, that is something. 153 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:18,840 I want you to think about it, that Jesus, the God, 154 00:07:18,940 --> 00:07:22,580 he shared the throne with his Father. 155 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,580 And yet, when he here on Earth, he 156 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,980 submitted to the will of his Father. 157 00:07:28,980 --> 00:07:32,960 He surrendered to the Father every moment of his life. 158 00:07:33,060 --> 00:07:37,000 And so I want to look at how Jesus surrendered specifically. 159 00:07:37,100 --> 00:07:38,800 And of course, I'm going to look at it 160 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:42,560 in three periods of the day, and that will help. 161 00:07:42,660 --> 00:07:46,840 So the first one is in the evening. 162 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,280 How did Jesus surrender to the Father? 163 00:07:52,380 --> 00:07:57,120 Let's look at Mark 1, verse 35. 164 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,120 Excuse me, verse 35. 165 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:07,660 Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, 166 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:12,460 he went out and departed to a solitary place. 167 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,300 And there he prayed. 168 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,500 So what does this passage tell us about Jesus? 169 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,000 What did he do? 170 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,040 OK, specifically, in this passage, he when? 171 00:08:29,140 --> 00:08:31,040 OK, he got up early, right? 172 00:08:31,140 --> 00:08:36,020 And it said he went where? 173 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:37,360 He went to a solitary place. 174 00:08:37,460 --> 00:08:40,060 And what time in the morning? 175 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,860 It's before daylight, so before sunrise. 176 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:48,600 He went to a solitary place, and he spent that with his Father. 177 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:50,600 OK, I want you to keep this verse in mind 178 00:08:50,700 --> 00:08:53,040 when we go back to Isaiah. 179 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,540 Let's look at Isaiah chapter 50. 180 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:02,280 Isaiah chapter 50 and verse 4. 181 00:09:02,380 --> 00:09:04,620 Isaiah 50, verse 4. 182 00:09:07,620 --> 00:09:09,920 Now as we read this, I want you to think, 183 00:09:10,020 --> 00:09:12,820 who is speaking in this verse? 184 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,220 Is it Isaiah? 185 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,320 Or who's speaking here? 186 00:09:17,420 --> 00:09:21,200 So the Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned, 187 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:25,140 that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who 188 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:26,460 is weary. 189 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:29,600 He awakens me morning by morning. 190 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:34,880 He awakens my ear to hear as the learned. 191 00:09:34,980 --> 00:09:37,980 OK, so who is the me in there? 192 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,340 He says, God gave me the tongue of the learned 193 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,660 so I can speak a word in season to him as weary. 194 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,220 And he awakens me in the morning. 195 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,560 He awakens my ear to hear as the learned. 196 00:09:48,660 --> 00:09:50,660 Who is speaking? 197 00:09:50,660 --> 00:09:53,460 How do you know? 198 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:56,140 Oh, OK, if you have a New King James, 199 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,640 that's what I love about the New King James, 200 00:09:57,740 --> 00:10:00,900 is they do put all the pronouns are capitalized. 201 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,780 Yeah, so it's capital M. So we know it. 202 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,080 But how would we know it if we didn't have that? 203 00:10:07,180 --> 00:10:07,680 Hint, hint. 204 00:10:07,780 --> 00:10:09,940 Look at verse 6. 205 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:10,440 What was that? 206 00:10:10,540 --> 00:10:10,940 Say it again. 207 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:12,020 Context. 208 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:13,540 Context, exactly. 209 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,680 If you look at verse 6, it says, I gave my back 210 00:10:16,780 --> 00:10:19,080 to those who struck me, my cheeks to those 211 00:10:19,180 --> 00:10:20,320 who plucked out my beard. 212 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,900 I did not hide my face from shame and spitting. 213 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:29,000 And we know that Isaiah is the messianic prophet. 214 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:32,840 And so a lot of Isaiah's writings are messianic. 215 00:10:32,940 --> 00:10:34,580 And they're pointing forward to Jesus. 216 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:36,240 And so here, this is Jesus. 217 00:10:36,340 --> 00:10:37,780 So I want you to think about this. 218 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,580 This is Jesus speaking. 219 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:46,180 And he is saying, God wakes me up morning by morning. 220 00:10:46,180 --> 00:10:51,160 He awakes my ear to hear as the learned. 221 00:10:51,260 --> 00:10:52,560 Now, think about this. 222 00:10:52,660 --> 00:10:58,660 According to this prophecy, God is waking up God. 223 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:00,800 I guess somebody's going to go out and check that car. 224 00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:04,040 Somebody's going out there to check the car 225 00:11:04,140 --> 00:11:06,140 to see if it's one of ours. 226 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,040 Oh, what color is the car? 227 00:11:09,140 --> 00:11:10,740 Oh, it's stopped. 228 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:15,380 I guess somebody who had the keys figured that out. 229 00:11:15,380 --> 00:11:19,120 That was probably Carolyn's car. 230 00:11:19,220 --> 00:11:20,280 I know her car's red. 231 00:11:20,380 --> 00:11:25,920 I just take every opportunity to goad her. 232 00:11:26,020 --> 00:11:29,260 Anyway, OK, so here, this is awesome 233 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:34,040 to think that even Jesus didn't even consider his time his own. 234 00:11:34,140 --> 00:11:36,900 He let God wake him up because God knew 235 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,300 what he was going to face that day. 236 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,880 He knew how many people he'd have to heal that day, who 237 00:11:40,980 --> 00:11:43,140 he was going to talk to that day. 238 00:11:43,140 --> 00:11:46,180 And he woke him up to spend time with him. 239 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:47,320 The same with us. 240 00:11:47,420 --> 00:11:51,020 Do we know what we're going to face in a day? 241 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:52,480 But God loves us so much. 242 00:11:52,580 --> 00:11:53,580 And he's actually waiting. 243 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:54,220 Can you imagine? 244 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:55,260 He's just asleep. 245 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:56,260 So he's waiting. 246 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,360 I can't wait till Medina wakes up. 247 00:11:58,460 --> 00:12:00,900 I can't wait till Jennifer wakes up. 248 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,560 I can't wait till Cliff wakes up. 249 00:12:03,660 --> 00:12:06,500 He is thinking of us constantly. 250 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,500 And he says, OK, now's the time. 251 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:09,800 I'm going to wake them up. 252 00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:12,640 The same love of the Father that woke Jesus up 253 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,040 to spend time with him. 254 00:12:14,140 --> 00:12:16,940 He says, I know how much time you need with me today 255 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:21,040 because you're going to face some people today. 256 00:12:21,140 --> 00:12:23,580 And so it's a beautiful thing. 257 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:28,360 This is a challenge for you to ask God every evening, 258 00:12:28,460 --> 00:12:30,620 God, wake me up. 259 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:32,020 I'm giving you permission. 260 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,520 You can read Isaiah 50, verse 4, and said, you woke Jesus up. 261 00:12:35,620 --> 00:12:38,500 God, wake me up at the right time. 262 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:42,800 If it's 3.30 or if it's 5.30, you know how much sleep I need. 263 00:12:42,900 --> 00:12:46,340 And you know how much time I need with you. 264 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,580 And he wants to have unrushed time with you. 265 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:52,980 I mean, I spent time with God all my life, pretty much. 266 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,980 I mean, after I became a Christian, 267 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:57,980 I tried to spend time with God every day. 268 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:00,020 And of course, there were days I rushed out the door. 269 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:01,280 I didn't have time. 270 00:13:01,380 --> 00:13:03,520 But it was on my terms. 271 00:13:03,620 --> 00:13:06,020 I got up and said, OK, my five minutes of devotion. 272 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:07,360 Dear God, bless me with my kids. 273 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:08,800 Blah, blah, blah, blah. 274 00:13:08,900 --> 00:13:09,800 You know, let's get ready. 275 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:11,060 Let's get out the door. 276 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:12,400 But God says, no, no, no, no. 277 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:14,300 Don't rush. 278 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,500 You know, I don't want to be rushed with you. 279 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,880 I want to spend time with you to be able to. 280 00:13:20,980 --> 00:13:26,520 So you can get my word to you, and you can talk to me. 281 00:13:26,620 --> 00:13:28,480 Let's look at how else Jesus surrendered. 282 00:13:28,580 --> 00:13:34,080 Look at Philippians 2, verses 5 to 11. 283 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:39,800 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, 284 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:42,760 being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery 285 00:13:42,860 --> 00:13:47,440 to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, 286 00:13:47,540 --> 00:13:49,440 taking the form of a bondservant 287 00:13:49,540 --> 00:13:51,600 and coming in the likeness of men. 288 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:53,540 OK, I want to pause here, because this 289 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:55,480 is a little convoluted, and especially 290 00:13:55,580 --> 00:13:59,420 for some of our younger crowd to say, what does it mean to say, 291 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,480 it didn't consider it robbery to be equal with God? 292 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:07,720 Can anybody just explain that in a few words? 293 00:14:07,820 --> 00:14:09,960 What does it mean that he didn't consider it robbery 294 00:14:10,060 --> 00:14:12,660 to be equal with God? 295 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:14,400 Selfish ambition? 296 00:14:14,500 --> 00:14:14,900 OK. 297 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,840 He didn't consider it equal to be equal with God. 298 00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:21,800 OK, he says equal, but he didn't consider it what? 299 00:14:21,900 --> 00:14:25,200 He didn't mind stepping down, right? 300 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:27,240 He didn't consider like, OK, I'm not 301 00:14:27,340 --> 00:14:28,980 going to be equal with God, because I am now 302 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:30,840 becoming what? 303 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,620 I'm a man, he said, you know, and I should be like, 304 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,080 we're on the throne here, and then you're telling me 305 00:14:36,180 --> 00:14:39,720 I'm going to step down and be a civilian? 306 00:14:39,820 --> 00:14:43,100 You know, and that's, God is even more than that, right? 307 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,160 It's like, he says, no, it's OK. 308 00:14:46,260 --> 00:14:47,840 I don't mind stepping down. 309 00:14:47,940 --> 00:14:49,800 Yes? 310 00:14:49,900 --> 00:14:50,300 Go ahead. 311 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,040 May not be as well as the suppose. 312 00:14:54,140 --> 00:14:57,840 And so we're supposed to be also servants, right? 313 00:14:57,940 --> 00:14:59,180 Yeah. 314 00:14:59,180 --> 00:15:00,740 That's a very good point. 315 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:02,740 And we don't. 316 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,980 We often don't think of this. 317 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:09,380 This is not an attractive part, right? 318 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:15,960 Like, we don't want to be like God in this sense, right? 319 00:15:16,060 --> 00:15:18,600 So it means that Jesus basically stepped down, 320 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:20,660 and he became a man. 321 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:22,760 And now let's look at the next verse. 322 00:15:22,860 --> 00:15:24,200 This is verse 8. 323 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:27,340 And being found in appearance as a man, 324 00:15:27,340 --> 00:15:34,180 he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death. 325 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,420 So he died. 326 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:37,840 We're all going to die, right? 327 00:15:37,940 --> 00:15:38,840 So he died. 328 00:15:38,940 --> 00:15:40,760 But it goes further. 329 00:15:40,860 --> 00:15:44,080 Even the death of the cross. 330 00:15:44,180 --> 00:15:45,960 He didn't just die a regular death. 331 00:15:46,060 --> 00:15:49,420 He went to the death of a criminal. 332 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:54,160 And so he basically became the basest of human beings. 333 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,400 Like, he accepted, not in his character, 334 00:15:57,500 --> 00:16:03,140 but he accepted the fate of the basest of human beings 335 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:04,400 at that time. 336 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:08,340 And criminals were put on a cross. 337 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:12,480 And so if you think, I'd like to do actually a little analogy. 338 00:16:12,580 --> 00:16:14,220 And so I need two people. 339 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,660 And I'm going to ask, oh, where did Caleb go? 340 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:19,660 There he is. 341 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,620 Caleb and Riley to come up. 342 00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:24,020 Caleb and Riley, come on up. 343 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,600 I'm going to do, we're going to do a little role play. 344 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:29,960 So come right up. 345 00:16:30,060 --> 00:16:32,440 And you can just stand right here in front of them. 346 00:16:32,540 --> 00:16:34,800 And I'm going to tell you what to do. 347 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:39,840 So these are co-directors of a company. 348 00:16:39,940 --> 00:16:41,840 They are equal. 349 00:16:41,940 --> 00:16:43,380 And they own this company. 350 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,440 They call the shots. 351 00:16:45,540 --> 00:16:47,440 They do everything for this company. 352 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:53,220 Now, Caleb, he says, I wonder what it feels like to be 353 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,220 one of my employees. 354 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,120 I think I'm going to be an office employee. 355 00:16:58,220 --> 00:17:00,260 So he comes. 356 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,860 I'm just going to have you sit down just for the illustration. 357 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:04,940 So you come over here. 358 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:05,940 And you sit down. 359 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:07,540 And you take an office job. 360 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,600 And Riley is now the only owner. 361 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:13,840 He's the only director, the CEO, all by himself. 362 00:17:13,940 --> 00:17:16,840 And so Caleb says voluntarily, I think 363 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:18,220 I'm going to be one of your employees, 364 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:19,420 just to see what it feels like. 365 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:20,420 And so he's here. 366 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:21,420 And he's working. 367 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:22,420 And he says, hmm. 368 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:23,420 And he's looking around. 369 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,360 He says, oh, I wonder what it's like to be 370 00:17:26,460 --> 00:17:28,720 an assembly line worker. 371 00:17:28,820 --> 00:17:32,860 So he comes over here and just do something, 372 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:34,560 wrote or whatever. 373 00:17:34,660 --> 00:17:35,460 OK, good. 374 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:36,460 Yeah, that's good. 375 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,460 So he's an assembly line worker. 376 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,800 He's putting things together. 377 00:17:41,900 --> 00:17:42,800 OK. 378 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:47,880 And he's like, wow, this is really the same thing every day. 379 00:17:47,980 --> 00:17:52,020 And Riley's just doing all this stuff at the company. 380 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:53,680 But Caleb is there in the front. 381 00:17:53,780 --> 00:17:57,880 And he says, oh, I wonder what the janitor feels like. 382 00:17:57,980 --> 00:18:01,960 So he's kind of sweeping the bathroom. 383 00:18:02,060 --> 00:18:03,160 And you're sweeping away. 384 00:18:03,260 --> 00:18:04,200 And he becomes a janitor. 385 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:05,320 People are noticing this. 386 00:18:05,420 --> 00:18:06,760 People notice. 387 00:18:06,860 --> 00:18:09,200 Hey, that guy used to be CEO. 388 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:12,100 He's pretty much devoted. 389 00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:13,300 He must have done something wrong. 390 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,300 So they start mistreating him. 391 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,180 They start mistreating him. 392 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:18,180 Now you're on the floor. 393 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:19,880 You're scrubbing the floor. 394 00:18:19,980 --> 00:18:20,380 Oh, I know. 395 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:20,880 Sorry. 396 00:18:20,980 --> 00:18:21,780 We've got a broken foot. 397 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:22,280 I'm sorry. 398 00:18:22,380 --> 00:18:22,780 Do I? 399 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:23,280 OK. 400 00:18:23,380 --> 00:18:24,720 He's scrubbing away. 401 00:18:24,820 --> 00:18:27,520 And people mistreat him to the point 402 00:18:27,620 --> 00:18:30,380 that they leave him to death. 403 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:37,420 And at once, you were a co-CEO. 404 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:41,360 And this is the one thing that Jesus did at Volcantero. 405 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:45,800 He did not say, somebody didn't take him out of there 406 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:47,300 and put him in the seat. 407 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:48,300 He put him here. 408 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:49,300 He went down. 409 00:18:52,380 --> 00:18:54,880 Thank you so much for helping me out with that. 410 00:18:54,980 --> 00:18:57,280 I might call on you again. 411 00:18:57,380 --> 00:18:59,480 Not right now. 412 00:18:59,580 --> 00:19:05,420 But I want to draw your attention to Gethsemane. 413 00:19:05,420 --> 00:19:11,200 Because Gethsemane was, here, Jesus is overwhelmed. 414 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:16,640 He's carrying the weight of every sin committed, 415 00:19:16,740 --> 00:19:19,840 whether the person was going to accept his gift or not. 416 00:19:19,940 --> 00:19:23,600 Every sin, including yours that had not been committed yet, 417 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:26,580 he is carrying the weight of it all. 418 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,620 And notice what he prays. 419 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:33,780 Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. 420 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:35,160 And everything's possible. 421 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,920 I mean, you can take this cup away from me. 422 00:19:39,020 --> 00:19:41,160 There's nothing impossible for you. 423 00:19:41,260 --> 00:19:43,900 You can take this cup away. 424 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:44,800 And how does he end? 425 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:47,660 He says, but. 426 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:48,300 What does he say? 427 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:48,960 But? 428 00:19:49,060 --> 00:19:50,600 Not? 429 00:19:50,700 --> 00:19:55,880 Not my will, but your will be done. 430 00:19:55,980 --> 00:19:57,340 Three times he wrestled. 431 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,780 Did Jesus want to live? 432 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:01,240 He wanted to live. 433 00:20:01,340 --> 00:20:04,420 His humanity, in his humanity, he 434 00:20:04,420 --> 00:20:05,580 wanted to live. 435 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,160 He did not want to die. 436 00:20:08,260 --> 00:20:12,800 But he said, I'm not going to do what I want. 437 00:20:12,900 --> 00:20:16,260 I'm going to do what my Father wants. 438 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:18,000 And he submitted. 439 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:19,540 And he surrendered all. 440 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,400 And because of that, we have a chance. 441 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:25,800 We have a chance for the kingdom. 442 00:20:25,900 --> 00:20:29,440 Did Jesus ever draw a line at surrender and say, well, 443 00:20:29,540 --> 00:20:31,580 I'm surrendering up to this point. 444 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:32,380 Here's the line. 445 00:20:32,380 --> 00:20:34,480 I'm not crossing over. 446 00:20:34,580 --> 00:20:36,320 Jesus didn't draw a line. 447 00:20:36,420 --> 00:20:39,520 He surrendered everything he was. 448 00:20:39,620 --> 00:20:41,820 He surrendered everything he had. 449 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:45,220 And he even surrendered his attitude. 450 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:51,900 And so the second part to this is the morning. 451 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,600 When you wake up every night, what do you do in the evening? 452 00:20:56,700 --> 00:21:01,340 What do you ask God to do what? 453 00:21:01,340 --> 00:21:02,840 Wake you up in the morning, right? 454 00:21:02,940 --> 00:21:05,020 Just spend an unrushed time with him. 455 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:09,080 And then in the morning, you wake up and you say, Jesus, 456 00:21:09,180 --> 00:21:10,480 I surrender all. 457 00:21:10,580 --> 00:21:15,080 I surrender all I am, all I have, and the hardest thing 458 00:21:15,180 --> 00:21:18,320 of all for me, even my attitude. 459 00:21:18,420 --> 00:21:20,360 You can even have my attitude today. 460 00:21:20,460 --> 00:21:23,060 That is hard. 461 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,060 It's really hard. 462 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:25,500 But that is what Jesus did. 463 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,400 And he can give us the power to do that. 464 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,800 OK, I have a lamp. 465 00:21:31,900 --> 00:21:35,780 I need someone who's going to help me out with this. 466 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,480 This lamp. 467 00:21:38,580 --> 00:21:41,580 Colton, do you want to come up here? 468 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:43,980 Oh, Velma, you want to come? 469 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:45,880 Colton, I'll get you next time. 470 00:21:45,980 --> 00:21:46,380 OK? 471 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,120 Well, she's cheery today. 472 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:59,060 OK, I want you to make that lamp work. 473 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,700 There's one, just one thing is you can't plug it in, 474 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,800 but try to make it work, OK? 475 00:22:07,940 --> 00:22:08,900 What's the problem, Bella? 476 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,140 Can't you make it work? 477 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,640 I'm trying my best. 478 00:22:14,740 --> 00:22:15,820 I had confidence in you. 479 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,280 No, I'm just kidding. 480 00:22:18,380 --> 00:22:20,080 Actually, I'm sorry. 481 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,220 I love Bella. 482 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,760 Actually, OK, this is just, thank you. 483 00:22:25,860 --> 00:22:27,420 It's just an illustration. 484 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:32,000 But obviously, why is this not going to work? 485 00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:34,940 It is not plugged into what? 486 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,500 Electricity, which is what? 487 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,000 The? 488 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:42,080 It's a source of power, OK? 489 00:22:42,180 --> 00:22:44,740 This needs an outside source of power. 490 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,040 OK, it's kind of duh. 491 00:22:47,140 --> 00:22:49,020 Glenn, are you? 492 00:22:49,020 --> 00:22:50,320 Yeah, it is duh. 493 00:22:50,420 --> 00:22:54,420 But do we do this in our spiritual lives often? 494 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:55,560 Are we plugged into power? 495 00:22:55,660 --> 00:23:00,400 Are we trying to shine our light without being plugged in? 496 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:04,020 Let's look at John 15, 4. 497 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:09,260 You remember when Jesus prayed, in John 17, actually, 498 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:10,960 he prayed. 499 00:23:11,060 --> 00:23:12,500 He talked about his source of power. 500 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,140 He said, the Father and I are what? 501 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:15,780 One. 502 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,100 One, right? 503 00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:18,980 He said, I and my Father are one. 504 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,240 I'm in the Father, and the Father is in me. 505 00:23:22,340 --> 00:23:28,080 And here in John 15, this explains the relationship 506 00:23:28,180 --> 00:23:32,520 that Jesus wants with us, which is very similar to his Father. 507 00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:38,700 John 15, verse 4, it says, abide in me and I in you. 508 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,560 As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, 509 00:23:41,660 --> 00:23:44,300 unless it abides in the vine, neither 510 00:23:44,300 --> 00:23:47,940 can you unless you abide in me. 511 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,640 And so it sounds mysterious, right? 512 00:23:50,740 --> 00:23:53,580 Abide in me and I in you. 513 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,680 And then you'll bear fruit, and then you'll have power. 514 00:23:56,780 --> 00:24:00,220 So I'm going to go ahead and plug this in. 515 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:05,180 And so you tell me, where is the power? 516 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,460 What is this power thing here? 517 00:24:07,460 --> 00:24:11,420 Where is that? 518 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,020 Where is the electricity and the power? 519 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,060 I mean, most of us don't think about it. 520 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:19,960 Yeah, but essentially, where does that come from? 521 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,480 Yeah, there's a, like, out there somewhere, 522 00:24:26,580 --> 00:24:31,340 there's this big ocean of electricity, right? 523 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,080 This big, we don't even know. 524 00:24:33,180 --> 00:24:35,180 I mean, most of us know, oh, yeah, OK, 525 00:24:35,180 --> 00:24:38,380 there's a wire that goes there to the pylon that eventually 526 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,460 goes to, do you do hydro here? 527 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:41,520 Hydro? 528 00:24:41,620 --> 00:24:42,560 We call it the hydro. 529 00:24:42,660 --> 00:24:45,360 In fact, in Canada, we call it the hydro bill. 530 00:24:45,460 --> 00:24:46,500 That's our electricity bill. 531 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,020 We always say the hydro bill because we 532 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:51,060 have hydroelectricity. 533 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,140 Niagara Falls, I guess. 534 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,740 So we don't even really understand it. 535 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,280 We don't understand necessarily where it all comes from, 536 00:25:00,380 --> 00:25:03,240 but we know that there's this big power source. 537 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,540 And so this lamp, as soon as it plugs in, 538 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,320 it's abiding in the source powers, right? 539 00:25:09,420 --> 00:25:11,980 It's abiding in the electricity. 540 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:13,080 And then what happens? 541 00:25:13,180 --> 00:25:14,920 Where does the electricity go once I 542 00:25:15,020 --> 00:25:18,020 turn this little switch on? 543 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:20,900 Yeah, it comes in through the wire. 544 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:27,840 So the electricity is abiding in the lamp as well. 545 00:25:27,940 --> 00:25:30,000 The electricity is inside the lamp, 546 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,080 but the lamp is plugged into the big source of power. 547 00:25:34,180 --> 00:25:36,340 And that's what it's basically saying. 548 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,280 You abide in Christ, but Christ is in you. 549 00:25:40,380 --> 00:25:42,140 He comes as soon as you abide in Christ. 550 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,320 He's coming in, and he's helping you shine, right? 551 00:25:46,420 --> 00:25:47,480 He's helping you shine. 552 00:25:52,420 --> 00:25:54,560 So that's the relationship that God wants. 553 00:25:54,660 --> 00:25:58,200 I have one more verse here, Colossians 1, 27. 554 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,900 And that is the secret of the Christian life in three words. 555 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,040 And so as we read it, I'm going to read it, 556 00:26:05,140 --> 00:26:08,240 and I want you to tell me what the three words are. 557 00:26:13,540 --> 00:26:16,920 Colossians 1, 27. 558 00:26:17,020 --> 00:26:19,720 And of course, this is Paul, so it's 559 00:26:19,820 --> 00:26:21,980 part of this long paragraph. 560 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,460 I'm coming in the middle of a paragraph, one of his sentence 561 00:26:25,460 --> 00:26:28,020 paragraphs, right? 562 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:29,460 And it's talking about the mystery. 563 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,660 I'll start from verse 26, because it'll 564 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,540 be easier to understand. 565 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,200 The mystery which has been hidden from ages 566 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:40,940 and from generations, but now has been revealed to his saints. 567 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,340 To them God willed to make known what 568 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:50,040 are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, 569 00:26:50,140 --> 00:26:52,880 which is, what is it? 570 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:57,160 Christ in you, the hope of glory. 571 00:26:57,260 --> 00:27:03,200 And so while you cannot resist temptation on your own, 572 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:06,100 if you have to be plugged into that power, 573 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,240 but Christ is in you, once you plug in, he is in you. 574 00:27:10,340 --> 00:27:13,440 He has gained the victory over every temptation 575 00:27:13,540 --> 00:27:15,540 when he was here. 576 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,040 And when you plug into him, you give him the authority 577 00:27:19,140 --> 00:27:21,920 to resist temptation. 578 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,720 You have no strength to overcome your bad temper, 579 00:27:25,820 --> 00:27:27,420 to overcome your lack of patience, 580 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:32,860 to overcome whatever it may be, but you can do all things 581 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,560 through Christ in you. 582 00:27:36,660 --> 00:27:38,700 Maybe you struggle with an addiction. 583 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,200 Maybe you struggle with the spirit of unforgiveness, 584 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:46,980 but Christ in you exercises his authority 585 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:51,720 to free you from what you cannot free yourself. 586 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,140 And so the kingdoms of the world, 587 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,120 when they say, when they want authority over you, 588 00:27:58,220 --> 00:27:59,360 what do they do? 589 00:27:59,460 --> 00:28:00,460 What is their attitude? 590 00:28:05,300 --> 00:28:06,820 What's that? 591 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,000 Yeah. 592 00:28:08,100 --> 00:28:13,060 Pointy fingers are, it's a little bit like this, right? 593 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,060 Looking down at you. 594 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:20,080 But when Jesus wants authority for you, he says, oh, sorry. 595 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,580 I'll go back here. 596 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:27,780 When Jesus, God's kingdom, when Jesus uses his authority, 597 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,780 not against you, but he uses authority 598 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,280 in front of your enemy, in front of those temptations, 599 00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:38,600 those addictions, those unforgiving attitudes 600 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:41,220 that you so much want to get rid of. 601 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,040 And that's where he exercises his authority 602 00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:49,000 to help you to do what you cannot do yourself. 603 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,140 The leaders of the world say, serve me. 604 00:28:56,180 --> 00:29:01,140 But Jesus says, I will serve you. 605 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,020 Think about that. 606 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,960 It's a totally different reason. 607 00:29:10,060 --> 00:29:13,320 When we submit to God, we submit to someone 608 00:29:13,420 --> 00:29:17,000 who loves us so much and wants to work on our behalf, 609 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,160 but he will never use force. 610 00:29:19,260 --> 00:29:23,040 He will never make us do anything we do not want to do. 611 00:29:23,140 --> 00:29:25,980 He waits for us until we're ready. 612 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,480 And when we submit to him, he says, OK, 613 00:29:29,580 --> 00:29:31,680 I'm going to wash your feet. 614 00:29:31,780 --> 00:29:35,340 He says, I am going to be the authority in your life 615 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,180 to help you with all those things you're struggling 616 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:42,360 with, whatever it is. 617 00:29:42,460 --> 00:29:45,560 I want to give you an illustration here. 618 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:50,100 I need someone who, just a second. 619 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,600 I need someone who always wanted to drive a sports car. 620 00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:55,400 And I think that's Colton back there, 621 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:58,540 wanted to drive a sports car, right? 622 00:29:58,640 --> 00:29:59,640 Come on up. 623 00:29:59,740 --> 00:30:03,380 So do you know where the driver's seat is? 624 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,280 OK. 625 00:30:05,380 --> 00:30:08,280 So Colton, go ahead, sit in the car. 626 00:30:08,380 --> 00:30:09,740 Get comfortable. 627 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,420 Hands on the wheel. 628 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,360 OK, this is a real fancy car. 629 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,280 OK, you're driving along. 630 00:30:16,380 --> 00:30:18,160 Having a good time. 631 00:30:18,260 --> 00:30:19,820 OK, this is us. 632 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,760 This is representing us in our life, right? 633 00:30:23,860 --> 00:30:24,860 We're driving. 634 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:26,660 We're in charge of our life. 635 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:32,200 But then Colton says, oh, I want to give my life to Jesus. 636 00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:33,940 So what is he going to do? 637 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,680 Is he going to keep driving? 638 00:30:37,780 --> 00:30:40,540 Is he going to keep driving the car when 639 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,620 he gives his heart to Jesus, if that's his life? 640 00:30:43,620 --> 00:30:44,480 No. 641 00:30:44,580 --> 00:30:50,180 Where are you going to go if Jesus is driving for you? 642 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,820 Where do you need to go? 643 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,360 What seat are you going to sit in? 644 00:30:58,800 --> 00:30:59,960 Yeah, maybe. 645 00:31:00,060 --> 00:31:00,860 Yeah, go ahead. 646 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,160 So you're going to give up the wheel. 647 00:31:02,260 --> 00:31:04,760 I know this is tough, especially for someone who's probably 648 00:31:04,860 --> 00:31:06,140 dying to drive already. 649 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:11,340 Yeah. 650 00:31:11,340 --> 00:31:13,840 So he's given up the driver's seat. 651 00:31:13,940 --> 00:31:16,320 Jesus is driving now. 652 00:31:16,420 --> 00:31:18,380 OK, but I have a question. 653 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,820 What if it's just not going fast enough for him? 654 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:27,720 Or maybe he's not really going where he wants to go. 655 00:31:27,820 --> 00:31:30,400 You know, he's saying, Jesus, ah. 656 00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:34,000 And so what could he do if he's in the passenger seat? 657 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:38,440 Well, what can you do? 658 00:31:38,540 --> 00:31:39,840 Has nobody ever done that? 659 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,180 And you're in a car, and then you see somebody bearing. 660 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:43,480 Yeah. 661 00:31:43,580 --> 00:31:48,440 You can very easily, from the passenger seat, like, wait. 662 00:31:48,540 --> 00:31:49,980 Or haven't you done that for your spouse? 663 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:51,020 I have to do something. 664 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,180 Can you just hold the wheel for a second? 665 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:59,160 Or if it's not fast enough, you're like, put the gas on. 666 00:31:59,260 --> 00:32:01,620 You're moving your foot over. 667 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,740 So the passenger seat might not be a great place to be. 668 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,340 So where should he go? 669 00:32:09,340 --> 00:32:15,480 If the passenger seat is a little bit too, say it louder? 670 00:32:15,580 --> 00:32:16,080 Too close? 671 00:32:20,780 --> 00:32:23,920 You mean, oh, and he puts, well, he would have to, yeah, 672 00:32:24,020 --> 00:32:27,060 he would just kind of, from the passenger seat, you know, 673 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:28,020 he grabs the. 674 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,700 So here, he wants to be, yeah, more submissive than that. 675 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,900 He doesn't want to be in a position where he can, you know, 676 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:40,340 change the speed or grab the wheel. 677 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,980 So where is he going to go? 678 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:44,080 Back seat. 679 00:32:44,180 --> 00:32:45,680 I guess you're going to have to go sit in the back seat, 680 00:32:45,780 --> 00:32:49,480 where you'll sit probably right now. 681 00:32:49,580 --> 00:32:50,180 OK. 682 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,980 So is it totally safe now? 683 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:58,560 He has no influence over his, what's that? 684 00:32:58,660 --> 00:33:01,960 He's got to, oh, that's OK. 685 00:33:02,060 --> 00:33:03,420 He almost doesn't need that anymore. 686 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:04,460 Does he still need one? 687 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:04,960 Maybe. 688 00:33:05,060 --> 00:33:06,300 I don't know. 689 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:10,140 But oh, you do. 690 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:11,040 OK. 691 00:33:11,140 --> 00:33:13,740 Well, what can he do now? 692 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:14,740 Does he have any influence? 693 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,040 Oh, I see people doing this. 694 00:33:17,140 --> 00:33:17,780 Yeah. 695 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,880 You ever heard of the backseat driver? 696 00:33:19,980 --> 00:33:20,380 OK. 697 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:21,380 Hey, Jesus, no, no, no. 698 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:22,240 Watch that corner. 699 00:33:22,340 --> 00:33:22,740 Oh, no. 700 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:23,780 Turn left. 701 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,280 You're going way too slowly for me right now. 702 00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:27,780 You know? 703 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:28,780 No. 704 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:33,320 And so where are we going to go? 705 00:33:33,420 --> 00:33:33,920 Truck. 706 00:33:34,020 --> 00:33:35,100 There he goes. 707 00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:36,900 Oh, somebody who's at the trunk. 708 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:37,500 Bravo. 709 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,400 Yes. 710 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:44,340 Yes, Jesus probably, if we surrender to him totally, 711 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,100 we're in the trunk. 712 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:47,580 We're lying down. 713 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,840 We can't see where we're going. 714 00:33:49,940 --> 00:33:52,180 You know, when Abraham was told, you've 715 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,880 got to leave your father, your mother, your whole family, 716 00:33:54,980 --> 00:33:56,720 everything you have ever known. 717 00:33:56,820 --> 00:33:58,520 I have a place out there for you. 718 00:33:58,620 --> 00:34:01,020 And by the way, you're going to be living in a tent for a while, 719 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,760 so get your tent. 720 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,420 And he goes out. 721 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:10,360 And it says in Hebrews, he went out not knowing 722 00:34:10,460 --> 00:34:13,360 where he was going. 723 00:34:13,460 --> 00:34:17,500 And so he was basically lying in the trunk, right? 724 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,380 Abraham was lying in the trunk saying, I have no idea. 725 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:22,840 And he didn't even ask. 726 00:34:22,940 --> 00:34:25,540 He didn't ask, can you give me some more details 727 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,840 about the place and the people there? 728 00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:29,980 He just went. 729 00:34:29,980 --> 00:34:34,320 Thank you, Colton, for being a great driver and non-driver. 730 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,560 I have a short testimony before we end. 731 00:34:45,740 --> 00:34:49,400 So I have been gone for so long. 732 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:51,500 I was not gone from College Dale. 733 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:59,620 I did go for I had one mission trip in November or December. 734 00:34:59,620 --> 00:35:01,520 And then I came back. 735 00:35:01,620 --> 00:35:09,060 And I had to move because the person where we were renting, 736 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,120 they were selling their house and moving along. 737 00:35:12,220 --> 00:35:14,660 And so we were renting from in the same, 738 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,900 it was a duplex type of situation. 739 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,360 So I ended up moving, just to be really short in the story, 740 00:35:20,460 --> 00:35:23,600 four times until I am where I am. 741 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:25,440 And I finally found a place. 742 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:30,040 But I had struggles with my car. 743 00:35:30,140 --> 00:35:32,380 And there were just different things. 744 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:37,580 And it was discouraging for me in some ways. 745 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,020 And I kept saying, OK, God, I'm going to trust you on this. 746 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,020 You have never let me down. 747 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:44,420 I'm going to trust you on this. 748 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:50,160 And actually, in probably the last two, where I am now, 749 00:35:50,260 --> 00:35:52,160 I moved there the beginning of April. 750 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:57,300 So it's been, what, four months or so? 751 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,600 But I realized, looking back, I realized 752 00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:01,380 I have gotten very lazy. 753 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,880 And I was going to church. 754 00:36:03,980 --> 00:36:07,020 Because of my car situation, I was walking to church. 755 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,680 I lived very close to College Dale Church. 756 00:36:09,780 --> 00:36:12,120 And then now where I am, I'm far out. 757 00:36:12,220 --> 00:36:14,260 I can't walk anywhere. 758 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,260 I'm in northern Ottawa. 759 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,420 And then I just got really lazy. 760 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,260 I just didn't go to church. 761 00:36:21,260 --> 00:36:26,500 I was turning on my online sermons and listening 762 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,540 and very comfortable at home. 763 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,300 And I started to, God was working in my heart. 764 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,540 And I started praying. 765 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,480 I said, God, you know, I'm not really churched. 766 00:36:38,580 --> 00:36:39,780 I don't go to my home. 767 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,680 My home church is actually College Dale. 768 00:36:41,780 --> 00:36:44,280 I don't go there anymore. 769 00:36:44,380 --> 00:36:46,680 I don't know if you know, but they've also lost their pastor. 770 00:36:46,780 --> 00:36:49,580 They lost two pastors, actually, the Connect Pastor 771 00:36:49,580 --> 00:36:53,560 and the main pastor at College Dale Church. 772 00:36:53,660 --> 00:36:58,700 And so I was just praying and praying. 773 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,460 And then I thought about Ringgold. 774 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,140 And I said, man, I haven't been there in so long. 775 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:07,540 And I actually have cards, prayer cards. 776 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:08,640 And I started to go through. 777 00:37:08,740 --> 00:37:09,940 And I was praying for y'all. 778 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:11,940 Because I go through all the different churches 779 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:13,820 I've been to and the people I know. 780 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:14,940 And so I was praying. 781 00:37:14,940 --> 00:37:19,480 And then Kevin sent me a text just out of the blue. 782 00:37:19,580 --> 00:37:21,580 He said, oh, we lost our pastor. 783 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,560 We need someone who wants to, who wouldn't mind preaching. 784 00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:26,700 Would you preach on? 785 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,360 And they gave me this date, not knowing at all 786 00:37:29,460 --> 00:37:31,460 that it was my birthday or anything. 787 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,540 And it's very significant because God 788 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:38,240 does special things for me on my birthday. 789 00:37:38,340 --> 00:37:42,500 And his word to me has always been light. 790 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,080 I'm going to be your light. 791 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:48,240 And I feel like it was like a little glimmer of light. 792 00:37:48,340 --> 00:37:49,280 And I said, yes. 793 00:37:49,380 --> 00:37:50,480 I prayed about it. 794 00:37:50,580 --> 00:37:52,720 But in my heart, I already knew pretty much. 795 00:37:52,820 --> 00:37:57,180 And I feel God is saying, I want you back in church. 796 00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,420 You got to stop hiding out. 797 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,560 You got to get up and take a shower and get dressed 798 00:38:01,660 --> 00:38:08,060 and look nice and go to church, not sit in your grubs all day. 799 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,600 And so it's something I surrendered to him. 800 00:38:11,700 --> 00:38:13,300 And that wasn't easy because I like 801 00:38:13,300 --> 00:38:14,400 to do what I like to do. 802 00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:17,480 And I feel like I can have very spiritual moments by myself 803 00:38:17,580 --> 00:38:20,040 in my prayer room in my house. 804 00:38:20,140 --> 00:38:22,240 And I love my times with God. 805 00:38:22,340 --> 00:38:24,480 But God is saying, no, but you also need community. 806 00:38:24,580 --> 00:38:27,580 And so this is something I had to surrender. 807 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,960 Very simple, very tiny little thing for some people. 808 00:38:31,060 --> 00:38:34,900 But it's actually very huge in my experience. 809 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,800 And so this is my first day of many Sabbaths 810 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:44,060 that I have decided I want to worship in community 811 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,540 and not just by myself. 812 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,300 I want to surrender that. 813 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,900 I need a couple people to help me with something, 814 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,880 going to pass out some things up here. 815 00:38:55,980 --> 00:38:58,620 So give everybody a piece of paper. 816 00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:01,720 And you can go down this side and go down this side. 817 00:39:01,820 --> 00:39:05,020 And you can go down the, and actually, why don't you, 818 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:06,280 are you going to help? 819 00:39:06,380 --> 00:39:08,360 OK, here, you can go down the other side. 820 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,720 And I'm going to ask Riley, just to give everybody a pen, 821 00:39:11,820 --> 00:39:13,860 if you don't have one. 822 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,400 OK? 823 00:39:15,500 --> 00:39:20,600 You take one side and one paper per person and a pen, 824 00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:21,840 if they don't have it. 825 00:39:21,940 --> 00:39:23,440 And I'm going to explain to you. 826 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:30,980 So if you think of it in terms, this 827 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:35,620 is going to help you remember is that in the evening, 828 00:39:35,620 --> 00:39:39,820 you ask the Lord to wake you up the next day. 829 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:43,260 And His terms, in His time, you surrender that, 830 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,160 just like Jesus did. 831 00:39:45,260 --> 00:39:47,860 And then when you wake up, you surrender everything, 832 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,760 like Jesus did. 833 00:39:49,860 --> 00:39:52,860 Everything you have, everything you are, even your attitudes, 834 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,800 surrender to Jesus. 835 00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:56,740 And then finally, during the day, 836 00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,080 you keep plugged in to your source of power. 837 00:40:00,180 --> 00:40:05,420 And that means constantly asking God, moment by moment, God, 838 00:40:05,420 --> 00:40:07,820 please, God, help me. 839 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,280 That sister just did this to me. 840 00:40:11,380 --> 00:40:14,520 And I feel like calling her and telling her off. 841 00:40:14,620 --> 00:40:19,400 Please, God, help me have the victory over this temper I have. 842 00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:22,000 Oh, God, that addiction I'm suffering. 843 00:40:22,100 --> 00:40:23,000 I just can't. 844 00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:24,400 I do this 10 times a day. 845 00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:25,860 Help me, God. 846 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,000 This is how we abide in Him, is just constantly. 847 00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:31,580 And it's not how many times you fall. 848 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,980 Because that beautiful verse that says, 849 00:40:33,980 --> 00:40:38,680 seven times, and God keeps, He will keep getting up. 850 00:40:38,780 --> 00:40:39,920 God keeps lifting Him up. 851 00:40:40,020 --> 00:40:42,680 And seven is just, doesn't mean it's only seven times. 852 00:40:42,780 --> 00:40:45,620 That's just the complete verse. 853 00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:47,020 It's a complete number. 854 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,860 It means whenever, however many times. 855 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,560 And so everybody with this, I want you to draw. 856 00:40:53,660 --> 00:40:56,440 And actually, I should have drawn one myself. 857 00:40:56,540 --> 00:40:59,200 But I don't have a marker. 858 00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:00,800 Anyway, I want you to do a T-chart. 859 00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:02,840 You know what that is, where you draw a line this way, 860 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,540 and then you draw a line down the middle. 861 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,240 So just draw a line with a little space up here, 862 00:41:09,340 --> 00:41:10,580 and a line down here. 863 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,380 And on the left side, you're going 864 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:19,380 to write, what I have surrendered to Jesus. 865 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,700 Or you could just write for short, surrendered to Jesus. 866 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:24,660 Surrendered to Jesus. 867 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,600 And I want to mention, this is between you and God. 868 00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:29,900 Nobody's going to see this. 869 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,640 You're going to tuck this away in your Bible, 870 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,540 and you're going to put this by your bed stand, 871 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,500 or in your bedside table, or whatever. 872 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,380 And this is between you and Jesus. 873 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,080 No one else will see this. 874 00:41:39,180 --> 00:41:40,680 So you write, surrendered to Jesus. 875 00:41:40,780 --> 00:41:44,220 And then you can put a little crown there. 876 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,620 A little crown to show that that is surrendered to Jesus. 877 00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:49,860 He is Lord over these areas of your life. 878 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,420 But on this side, you're going to write, 879 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,720 not surrendered to Jesus. 880 00:41:54,820 --> 00:41:57,700 What is not surrendered to Jesus. 881 00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,900 So on the left side, a little crown. 882 00:41:59,900 --> 00:42:02,000 Surrendered to Jesus. 883 00:42:02,100 --> 00:42:05,840 On the right side, what is not surrendered to Jesus. 884 00:42:05,940 --> 00:42:08,940 I'm going to say a short prayer. 885 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,980 And then I'm going to give you a few moments to fill this out. 886 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,180 This is only between you and God. 887 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,940 And you don't have to look at what your wife or husband 888 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:17,540 are writing. 889 00:42:20,780 --> 00:42:24,080 This is really something that we're 890 00:42:24,180 --> 00:42:26,120 going to ask God to reveal this to you. 891 00:42:26,220 --> 00:42:27,460 So let's bow our heads. 892 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,700 Heavenly Father, I just want to make 893 00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:35,700 a short prayer asking you that whatever 894 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,700 is in the heart of each person, Lord, first of all, 895 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,800 to give them kudos, those things that they have surrendered, 896 00:42:42,900 --> 00:42:43,800 Lord. 897 00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:46,680 But then also to look deep down and see 898 00:42:46,780 --> 00:42:50,720 is there bitterness or hatred or lust or love for anything 899 00:42:50,820 --> 00:42:54,580 or anyone that replaces Jesus as Lord of our life. 900 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:55,920 Lord, reveal that to us. 901 00:42:56,020 --> 00:42:58,120 We know it might be just one thing. 902 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,960 You don't reveal to us all the tools we have in the box. 903 00:43:01,060 --> 00:43:03,400 You reveal to us only one. 904 00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:06,400 So Lord, help us bring at least one thing 905 00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:09,260 to mind that is not surrendered to Jesus, 906 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,500 that we want to surrender to you. 907 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,200 Amen. 908 00:43:13,300 --> 00:43:16,840 So I'm going to give you just probably two minutes or so. 909 00:43:16,940 --> 00:43:18,040 You can complete it at home. 910 00:43:18,140 --> 00:43:22,080 But I'll give you a few moments to fill that out. 911 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:27,340 In Ezekiel 36, the most beautiful promise for us, 912 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:31,320 he says, from verse 25 to 27, he says, 913 00:43:31,420 --> 00:43:35,260 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean. 914 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,060 And I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, 915 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,920 from all your idols. 916 00:43:40,020 --> 00:43:43,800 I will give you a new heart and a new spirit within you. 917 00:43:43,900 --> 00:43:46,800 I will take the heart of stone out of your feet. 918 00:43:46,900 --> 00:43:50,640 I will give you a new heart and a new spirit within you. 919 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:54,040 I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh 920 00:43:54,140 --> 00:43:56,580 and give you a heart of flesh. 921 00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,080 I will put my spirit within you and cause 922 00:44:00,180 --> 00:44:02,320 you to walk in my statutes. 923 00:44:02,420 --> 00:44:06,680 And you shall keep my judgments and do them. 924 00:44:06,780 --> 00:44:08,580 That's a beautiful promise. 925 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,760 And so you can take this home and spend time with Jesus. 926 00:44:11,860 --> 00:44:13,320 Or when he wakes you up in the morning, 927 00:44:13,420 --> 00:44:16,100 maybe that's when you want to spend time surrendering that 928 00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:20,640 every day until it's so totally surrendered it doesn't even 929 00:44:20,740 --> 00:44:23,540 come into your mind anymore. 930 00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:28,140 It'll be, it just becomes like it's a non-issue for you. 931 00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:30,480 But it's something that you can surrender each day 932 00:44:30,580 --> 00:44:31,580 to practice that. 933 00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:35,320 And so the challenge is every evening, 934 00:44:35,420 --> 00:44:36,740 what do you do in the evening? 935 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:41,180 You're asking God to wake you up in the morning, right? 936 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:42,760 For un rushed time with him. 937 00:44:42,860 --> 00:44:45,660 And in the morning you do what? 938 00:44:45,660 --> 00:44:46,620 You go out of bed. 939 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:48,400 Before you look at your cell phone, challenge. 940 00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:50,100 Big challenge. 941 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:51,600 Before you look at your cell phone, 942 00:44:51,700 --> 00:44:55,500 you tell God, I am surrendering even that cell phone. 943 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,340 I'm surrendering everything, my electronics, my technology, 944 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:03,900 my attitudes, everything I have, everything I am. 945 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,240 And then finally, during the day, 946 00:45:06,340 --> 00:45:08,840 you are going to Jesus moment by moment, 947 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:15,860 plugging in to that power and abiding in him. 948 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,820 Let's bow our heads. 949 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:23,800 Heavenly Father, thank you so much for being our example 950 00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:26,160 and surrendering all. 951 00:45:26,260 --> 00:45:28,300 And Lord, we want to follow you. 952 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,840 We want to follow you. 953 00:45:30,940 --> 00:45:32,500 We want to surrender all. 954 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:33,900 And Lord, we want to surrender what 955 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:35,540 we don't want to surrender. 956 00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:37,680 We have things in our life that we really 957 00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:38,940 don't want to. 958 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,340 And so Lord, we thank you for your patience and your love, 959 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:42,880 and that you will eventually help 960 00:45:42,980 --> 00:45:46,080 us to take care of those things too, 961 00:45:46,180 --> 00:45:47,880 to surrender them all to you. 962 00:45:47,980 --> 00:45:51,620 Lord, I ask that you cut out anything in our lives 963 00:45:51,720 --> 00:45:54,460 that replaces you as Lord, whether it's bitterness, 964 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,000 whether it's our hurt, whether it's love for anything 965 00:45:58,100 --> 00:46:00,660 or anyone that's above you in our lives. 966 00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,360 Lord, give us a new heart. 967 00:46:03,460 --> 00:46:05,600 And we pray this in Jesus' name. 968 00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,300 Amen. 969 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:09,200 You can be seated. 970 00:46:09,300 --> 00:46:15,080 I just have, I made little cards. 971 00:46:15,180 --> 00:46:18,380 And at the back, it has these three written out 972 00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:23,860 to remind you so you can think about that and how to surrender. 973 00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,520 And so if someone would like to come up and help pass these 974 00:46:27,620 --> 00:46:30,900 out, I see I have my ready workers. 975 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:31,900 Yeah, go ahead. 976 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,260 And Avery, maybe you want to help too? 977 00:46:33,260 --> 00:46:36,060 Can Riley come because I have more things to pass out. 978 00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,360 I also have, I don't know if she wants to come, 979 00:46:38,460 --> 00:46:41,940 one for every person, OK? 980 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:46,940 And also, sorry, this is Pastor McLaughatty's latest book. 981 00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,720 It's pretty much fresh off the press. 982 00:46:49,820 --> 00:46:52,720 It's called God Still Lives, Even When You Wonder. 983 00:46:52,820 --> 00:46:55,320 This book is an excellent sharing book, 984 00:46:55,420 --> 00:46:58,780 in particular for people who are not churched. 985 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,120 This is a book where he gives his experiences that 986 00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,400 show how God really does live. 987 00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:08,900 And he gets quite vulnerable in this book, closer to the end. 988 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,760 My favorite chapter is chapter 15, 989 00:47:10,860 --> 00:47:13,540 where he talks about a time he had 990 00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:17,300 to forgive that was very difficult in his life. 991 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,280 And it shows how he was able also 992 00:47:20,380 --> 00:47:23,680 to surrender his unforgiving spirit 993 00:47:23,780 --> 00:47:25,780 and show how really God still lives. 994 00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,880 So I would definitely want to make sure you have at least one 995 00:47:28,980 --> 00:47:29,980 per family. 996 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:31,860 If you'd like to take more, like one per person, 997 00:47:31,860 --> 00:47:33,060 that's fine. 998 00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,460 And you want to take the box around. 999 00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:40,260 And just go ahead and grab one or two. 1000 00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,640 And if you want more, because he is very willing to, 1001 00:47:43,740 --> 00:47:45,300 he gives these for free. 1002 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,300 This is his ministry. 1003 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,140 If you want more, please let me know. 1004 00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:52,380 After reading this, people will say, oh, can you 1005 00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:53,440 give me some more of these? 1006 00:47:53,540 --> 00:47:54,340 I have so many. 1007 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:58,620 X, Y, Z. My uncle, who doesn't want to hear a thing about God, 1008 00:47:58,720 --> 00:48:00,520 and he knows everything there is because he grew up 1009 00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:02,080 as an Adventist or whatever. 1010 00:48:02,180 --> 00:48:03,820 But he will read this. 1011 00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,820 And I've had already several people come to me and say, 1012 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,560 so-and-so in my life didn't want to know anything. 1013 00:48:09,660 --> 00:48:14,000 But he's now curious, and he wants to know more about God. 1014 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:30,780 So thank you, and have an awesome Sabbath.