1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Alright, good morning. Sir, how y'all doing? 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Good, good, good, good. 3 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:13,000 What are some discoveries that we made about the technology that we've been through here in this room? 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Anybody have an old school flip phone? Brick phone? Bag cell phone? 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Nobody? Yeah? You had the bag with the, yeah, okay. 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:39,000 And then when the cell phone plans were like astronomically like crazy, or you had to wait until the weekends or 7pm to different things of that nature. 7 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Technology has come a long way. I'm going to actually start and share a poem called Vices. 8 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:59,000 It's about relationships. 9 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,000 It's a love letter of sorts. Alright. 10 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,000 At least we're not like those other couples. 11 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,000 At least I listen. 12 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,000 I speak back. I'm dialed in. I'm committed. 13 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 And I'm so happy that you've got a plan with me. 14 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Those other couples, they argue, they cheat, and they fall for cheap impressions. 15 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,000 But I'm here now and generations to come. 16 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:35,000 So please stay close enough for me to hear the vibration of your voice and for me to respond to your every touch. 17 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Let me feel the warmth of your skin sliding across my face. 18 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Please, please, I beg you, protect me. 19 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:48,000 And please be gentle. Even if you drop me, I will do everything in my power not to fail you. 20 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Let nothing come between us. Let's not be like those other couples. 21 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Remember, we have a plan together. Remember, our love can last as long as there are clouds in the sky. 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,000 I can't wait until you pick me up again. 23 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,000 I love you, Siri. 24 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 P.S. Who's Alexa? 25 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Yeah, that's one of those poems you thought that was about. 26 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 They're like, Crill, what are you talking about? 27 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Do you get some of that? 28 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Our love can last as long as there's clouds in the sky. 29 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 You're going to make me cry. 30 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 It's not about a person. 31 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Marriage counseling happening in the room. 32 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Yeah, they thought that up. Sorry, that's not for you, Trish. 33 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:44,000 But our relationship that we have with phones is an interesting thing because the technology continues to advance. 34 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:50,000 There's different phases of technology, not just with phones but with everything. 35 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:56,000 It's interesting how it will kind of relate to some of the things that we'll talk about. 36 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Because in fact, with technology, there's things that just get old. 37 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Some of the awe of a bag phone that you try to describe to our kids. 38 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 You really have to carry this heavy thing with a bag. 39 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:14,000 They don't understand how the battery or the computer had to be bigger than a microchip. 40 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 They're like, it was heavy. The battery was heavy. That's crazy. 41 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 You had to carry it. You don't use it this time. 42 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Why were phone bills so high? You had to pay by the minute. 43 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 All these different things. 44 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000 There's things that we were in awe of once. 45 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Then you don't know anything about that anymore. 46 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 You're just like, whatever. 47 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,000 We're kind of programmed. We're ready for the next thing. 48 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Keep that in mind as we are cruising through the book of Mark. 49 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Mark the first gospel. Today we're going to be in Mark chapter 6. 50 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Actually, it's interesting because I think about one of the first smartphones. 51 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 I thought it was a smartphone. 52 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,000 I graduated from college and we got our first cell phone. 53 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Mine was just a regular little flip phone, old school flip phone. 54 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,000 That was pretty cool for me. It was my first cell phone. 55 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 I was really proud a couple years later. 56 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 I had a full-time job and stuff. 57 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:21,000 I'm like, let me get this Razor Motorola Razor flip phone. 58 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 MP3 player. 59 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 This is going to be hard for some of the young folks to imagine. 60 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Trish and I, it came with some kind of a plan where you could actually watch a TV channel. 61 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,000 A TV channel? 62 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,000 The basic ones. 63 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,000 You could watch the stuff, Grey's Anatomy, because there's 50 seasons of that or whatever. 64 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 I think it was in its 50s. 65 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 I would get off work and we had this small little phone. 66 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 I'd flip it open and we'd be like, set it up right there. 67 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:59,000 We'd watch a show and we were like, this is great. 68 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 We're watching a show on our flip phone. This is crazy. 69 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 It would get kind of staticky sometimes or it would glitch a little bit. 70 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 We were in awe of that. 71 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 We're like, we're watching TV on our phone. 72 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 As you know, stuff got better. 73 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Stuff came out and you kind of get rid of that. 74 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,000 You kind of lose some of that awe and astonishment. 75 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Well, Jesus in this passage that we're going to go through today, 76 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 we're going to comb through this, just six verses in chapter six, 77 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 chapter six, verse one through six. 78 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:41,000 We're going to see Jesus goes to his hometown and they're in awe. 79 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:49,000 This message is funny to me because they kind of go from being in awe to what I call gnaw. 80 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 That's kind of the title of the message. 81 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:55,000 I usually don't have a title of the message, but it's called from awe to gnaw. 82 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,000 I don't know. 83 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 We see this happen. It's flip-flopped. 84 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 They're in awe of miracles. They're in awe of some of his teaching. 85 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Then they're like, gnaw, gnaw. 86 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:10,000 For us, with our cell phones, I wouldn't trade this for the flip phone. 87 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Gnaw. 88 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,000 You're not going back where there's some reason, 89 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 and we have to kind of think about that and wrestle with that 90 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 and think about what that has to do with us today and our church, 91 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:27,000 of why did they go from awe to gnaw? 92 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:32,000 All right? 93 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,000 So let me pray for us, and then we'll dig in. 94 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,000 God, thank you so much for your word, and I pray, God, 95 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 that as we look through Mark chapter six, 96 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,000 as we look at Jesus returning back to his hometown, 97 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:53,000 and people filled with awe, and then they're not in some certain areas. 98 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Lord, I pray that we can wrestle with some questions. 99 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 I pray, God, that as we reflect on some of these truths, 100 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Lord, that it will, man, that we'll kind of identify our place 101 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 in how we view Jesus, and that we can leave here 102 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,000 in a better understanding of who you are, Jesus, 103 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:15,000 and how much you love us, and how you are worthy to be praised, 104 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,000 and you are worthy for us to continue to be in awe of you, 105 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,000 despite all the things that we know and all the things that we think we know, 106 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:30,000 but you are, in fact, a God that is worthy of our praise. 107 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 In your name we pray. Amen. 108 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:39,000 So I kind of did that backwards, but let us stand, 109 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,000 I was like, we're praying, yeah, so I'm going to go in backwards, 110 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 but let us, we have a tradition where we stand in the reading of scripture, 111 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,000 if you're able, in the heart, mind, and spirit, 112 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 and we're going in reverse. 113 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:57,000 But Mark chapter six, verse one through six, 114 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. 115 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,000 When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, 116 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:11,000 and many who heard him were amazed. 117 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Where did this man get these things, they asked. 118 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:20,000 What's this wisdom that has been given to him that he even does miracles? 119 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, 120 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Judas and Simon? 121 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Aren't his sisters here with us? And they took offense at him. 122 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,000 He said to them, only in his hometown among his relatives, 123 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:41,000 and in his house is a prophet without honor. 124 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,000 He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people 125 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:52,000 and heal them, and he was amazed at their lack of faith. 126 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Alright, be seated. 127 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 So again, this morning we're going to continue the series. 128 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 We've been walking through the book of Mark. 129 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Again, there's no cell phones in this passage, 130 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:11,000 but the reality that Jesus' presence in his hometown generated a response 131 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:17,000 that people went from being fascinated to unbelief. 132 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:22,000 In this chapter, Mark will write about two significant reactions, 133 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 but one that we'll talk about this morning. 134 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,000 One is the people of Jesus' hometown. 135 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:32,000 The other, later on in the passage, is about King Herod. 136 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,000 You'll be able to go ahead and look at that later, 137 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,000 but we're just going to dig into these first six verses. 138 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,000 But between these interactions, there's an important question that we'll wrestle with, 139 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:47,000 and it's my prayer, again, that we'll walk away with something applicable to our life. 140 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,000 But the question is, why do you think people reacted so differently to Jesus? 141 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:57,000 How did they go from being in awe to gnaw? 142 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,000 So, let me unpack a little bit of context of what's going on in here. 143 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:08,000 So this is Jesus' second recorded time and his last time visiting his hometown of Nazareth. 144 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 And as far as we know, the last time, if we went into the book of Luke, 145 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,000 chapter 4, 16-30, we will see that the first time that he went back home, 146 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 it didn't go well either. 147 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 People were initially impressed by his preaching. 148 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 We will see that in Luke chapter 4, 22. 149 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,000 But ironically, the town he grew up in turned on him. 150 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 They became angry. They attempted to ride out on him. 151 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,000 That's what we say. They were trying to get him out of there. 152 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:39,000 In Luke chapter 4, verse 28-30, we see them trying to get reckless with Jesus. 153 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,000 But regardless of the incident, Jesus returns. 154 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,000 But this time, he returned with his crew. 155 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,000 He returned with the 12 disciples, guardians of the galaxy at that time. 156 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,000 But this made a marble reference. 157 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Was Jesus trying to show the disciples his hometown and give them some job training? 158 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Like, this is going to be tough, guys. I've been here. Tough crowd. 159 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Maybe Jesus was a little bit more hopeful that things would be different this time. 160 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:13,000 But unfortunately, as a spoiler alert, he will be disappointed again. 161 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,000 As a matter of fact, the events in this passage were enough. 162 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,000 I wrestled with this, too. 163 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:26,000 This was enough where we'll see at the end in chapter 6, verse 6, 164 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:31,000 it was enough to cause Jesus to marvel at such unbelief. 165 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:37,000 For even Jesus to be like, man, that's kind of wild. 166 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,000 So even Jesus was taken aback by it. 167 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:47,000 So it's important for us to understand that Mark writes this story of Jesus. 168 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Mark is a good book because it has a lot of action. 169 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,000 It's kind of action packed. A lot of action in there. 170 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,000 So along with telling us about Jesus' teaching and his miracles, 171 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 we get to see this story progress, 172 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:06,000 and we get to see, kind of get a front row seat of people's reactions to Jesus as he's doing these things. 173 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:11,000 So first that we're going to see that there's a large number of people that were drawn to Jesus. 174 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:17,000 As a fact, we see that all the way, Mark, chapter 1, all the way to where we're at today. 175 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,000 The second thing is that we see that there's people's responses and reactions were very different. 176 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:30,000 So I'm going to just blast through some snippets of, in this book, Jesus' greatest hits so far. 177 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 All right. Some greatest hits so far in chapter 2, verse 2. 178 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:39,000 So many are gathered that there was no room left even outside the door. 179 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Chapter 2, verse 13, a large crowd came to him. 180 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Chapter 3, verse 7, a large crowd from Galilee followed him. 181 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,000 332, a crowd was sitting around him. 182 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Chapter 4, verse 1, the crowd that gathered around him was so large. 183 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Chapter 4, verse 36, leaving the crowd behind him. 184 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Chapter 5, verse 14, the people went out to see what had happened. 185 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Chapter 5, verse 21, a large crowd gathered around him. 186 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Chapter 5, verse 24, a large crowd followed him and pressed around him. 187 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:12,000 So just want to get, there's a lot of stuff going on. 188 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Big crowds. 189 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Also, there's some responses. 190 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Chapter 2, verse 5, when Jesus saw their faith. 191 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 It's interesting. Jesus saw their faith. 192 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 In chapter 2, verse 7, why does this fellow talk like that? 193 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 He's blaspheming. 194 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,000 He was catching heat from Mark chapter 2. 195 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Mark chapter 2, verse 12, this amazed everyone and they praised God. 196 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,000 And then, Mark chapter 2, 15, there were many who followed him. 197 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Mark chapter 3, verse 6, the Pharisees went out to begin to plot how they might kill Jesus. 198 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Chapter 3, verse 10, those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him. 199 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Chapter 3, verse 20, he's out of his mind. 200 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Chapter 3, verse 22, he's possessed by Beaselwood. 201 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Who is this? 202 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 That's his own followers. 203 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Chapter 5, verse 17, then the people began to plead Jesus to leave their region. 204 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,000 But then, in the next verse, the demoniac that got healed said, 205 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,000 take me with you, bro. 206 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Chapter 5, verse 20, all the people were amazed. 207 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:22,000 And Pastor Greg was talking about the healing of the daughter that was dying. 208 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Chapter 5, verse 23, my little daughter is dying, please come. 209 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Chapter 5, verse 28, if I just touch his clothes, I will be healed. 210 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Chapter 5, 40, they laughed at him. 211 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Chapter 5, 42, they were completely astonished. 212 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 And then, here we are. 213 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,000 So, there's a lot of reactions going on. 214 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,000 There's some healing going on, some miracles going on, some hating going on. 215 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Jesus continues to stay who Jesus is. 216 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:59,000 And here's his first, a lot of stuff going on in these six verses. 217 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,000 The first verse, Jesus left there and went to his hometown, 218 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 accompanied by his disciples. 219 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,000 When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, 220 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:15,000 and many who heard him were amazed right now. 221 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Something astonishing, astounding, staggering, stupefying, what does all mean? 222 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:31,000 If you've ever been in that state where we're watching a movie on this flip phone, crazy. 223 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 We're in awe. 224 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 We won't be in awe of that anymore. 225 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,000 We've moved on past that. 226 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:45,000 In real life, a dog shaking his paw probably won't leave you in awe. 227 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,000 That kind of rhymed, too. 228 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:56,000 A dog being able to call 911 for his owner, you might be like, oh, that's kind of cool. 229 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Michael Jordan for the first time jumping from the free throw line, leave you in awe. 230 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,000 LeBron breaking the scoring title, probably not. 231 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,000 I'm just hating. 232 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Look at that. 233 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,000 I had to put that in there, All-Star Weekend. 234 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000 20th year, on his 20th year. 235 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Maybe not astonishing, but the truth is, anytime that you find yourself kind of gasping and saying, 236 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:27,000 I can't believe what I'm seeing or hearing, you're probably seeing or hearing something astonishing 237 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,000 and leaving you in this state of awe. 238 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:36,000 As we've seen before in this book, we know for a fact that the Scriptures tell us that. 239 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:41,000 The Scriptures tell us that people were amazed. 240 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:47,000 What was it about Jesus' teaching that astounded many people in Nazareth? 241 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Because it shows us in verse 2, it says they were astonished. 242 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,000 They were in awe of his wisdom and the miracles. 243 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:01,000 So there's no doubt, in fact, in the Scriptures that Jesus was a captivating person. 244 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,000 There's no doubt about if people agreed or not, he was a captivating person. 245 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 People were following him. 246 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:13,000 There were large crowds. 247 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:19,000 But in his wisdom, when we think about the way that he taught, people knew that he made sense of life. 248 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,000 He explained profound things in simple ways. 249 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 But why were they in awe of this? 250 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 I try to kind of grasp of what would this look like? 251 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Let's say that I bought a pair of new Jordans and I wasn't pleased with them, so I called the hotline. 252 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 And I actually got a human that called me back and said, 253 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Hey, I worked for Team Jordan. Let me hear your complaint. 254 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,000 That would be kind of delightful. 255 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:51,000 But what if Michael Jordan called me and was like, Hey, you got a problem with my shoes? 256 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,000 I'd be like, Is this for real, Jordan, bro? 257 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Let's FaceTime real quick. You know what I mean? 258 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:04,000 But you would be in awe. So picture Jesus is not only teaching you, but you know, 259 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,000 we're up here preaching stuff, we're quoting stuff, we're quoting scholars. 260 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:12,000 He ain't quoting nobody. He's like, I'm him. 261 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,000 It's the source. 262 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Like, I'm coming to you and I'm teaching you. I'm not quoting no peer-reviewed articles. 263 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 I don't have a PhD or a master's. I'm him. 264 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,000 So what I'm telling you, this is me. Like, I'm talking about like the one that's coming up. 265 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Like, I'm here. 266 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:38,000 So it's different. So people are astonished at this wisdom because they're like, man, this makes sense, man. 267 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,000 But it's him. Like, he's saying, like, I'm the guy. 268 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 There's no sources. I'm the source. 269 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:52,000 So it calls this thing in people where it's just like, man, I think that's your right, but who are you? 270 00:18:52,000 --> 00:19:01,000 He's just a regular person, especially when he goes to his hometown. 271 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Secondly, people obviously respected the miracles. 272 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:10,000 You know, everybody kind of likes David Blaine a little bit. You kind of got to respect the tricks. 273 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:15,000 You're like, that's cool stuff. I don't know. That's cool. 274 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:22,000 We hear about it. We've seen Jesus snap. He's doing some great things. 275 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:30,000 But the wisdom and the miracles were not enough for people. 276 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:36,000 In his hometown, in verse three, they start asking questions. 277 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:43,000 They begin to use kind of their own logic by asking, where did this man get these things? 278 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Like, essentially, they're asking like, OK, for real. So where you learn all these tricks, bro? 279 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:57,000 They rejected him. And when we see this group of people in the matter of three verses go from all to none, 280 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,000 they're face to face with the infinite God, the infinite God, man, Jesus. 281 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:08,000 And they looked with their finite wisdom and logic and deduced him down to just a regular guy. 282 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:15,000 That's kind of cool. Says great things. But we ain't putting our faith in you, though. 283 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:20,000 No, they deduced him down to just an ordinary town's guy. 284 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 In verse three, they're breaking down his portfolio. 285 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:29,000 We know your mom, your brothers, your sisters. 286 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:35,000 You fixed our table, put our roof on. Your dad, you know, he was a good dude. 287 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:40,000 You guys do some good work, good woodwork, good carpenters here. 288 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Like, we grew up with dude, but you can't be him, though. 289 00:20:46,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Like, you really can't. They thought they knew him better than anyone else because he lived there. 290 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:06,000 You can picture them saying, we might not be able to explain this wisdom and these miracles, but we know who you are, 291 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:14,000 and you're not really that important. 292 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Nazareth was known to be kind of a nowhere town made up of nobodies. 293 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:27,000 And it's estimated that the population was between 150 to 200 people, not thousand. 150 to 200. 294 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:32,000 So insignificant was this town that is not mentioned in the Old Testament, 295 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,000 and it only receives a little attention in the New Testament. 296 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Nathaniel, if we flip to the book of John in verse, John 46, there's kind of an interesting story. 297 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Nathaniel's being introduced to Jesus by Peter, and in hearing about where Jesus is from, 298 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Nathaniel said, can anything good come from Nazareth? 299 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:57,000 They're like, hey, bro, you're going to meet Jesus. Jesus, where he from? 300 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:04,000 And Jesus meets him and is like, bro, you don't even know. You don't even get it. 301 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:09,000 And Nathan's just like, could anything good come from there? 302 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:17,000 So in the same fashion in Jesus' presence, Jesus is being ridiculed by his people. 303 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:24,000 His hometown doesn't deny, but it's not enough for them to put his faith. 304 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:35,000 They can't seem to reconcile what Jesus has done with who they think Jesus must be. 305 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:45,000 And we have to remember there's a list of miracles that he's done so far in the name of Jesus and God. 306 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:50,000 But Jesus, he speaks on this. He speaks directly to it. 307 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,000 He kind of says, you think that you know me because I grew up here. 308 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,000 You think you know me because I've done some work maybe for you in your own house. 309 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:01,000 You think you know me because I've been around and your cousins know me. 310 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,000 And you know, you might even call me cousin. 311 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:13,000 But he says a prophet ain't even welcomed in his own town, not even welcomed here. 312 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:18,000 And what happened in Nazareth after this is very interesting. 313 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,000 And I don't have all the answers, but the better question is what didn't happen. 314 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:28,000 And we read in verse number five. It's very interesting. 315 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:34,000 It says he referring to Jesus could not do any miracles there. 316 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:38,000 He could not do any. I just I've been looking at this scripture all week. 317 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,000 He could not do. Jesus could not do any miracles here. 318 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:50,000 He couldn't. Is that a typo? He wouldn't. He couldn't. 319 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:57,000 What should it say? It says he couldn't do any miracles there. 320 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:09,000 But there were a few people that he healed. And then it says he was amazed at the lack of their faith. 321 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000 I kind of want to throw my anchor down here. 322 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,000 The miracles didn't do it. His wisdom didn't do it. 323 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:25,000 And Jesus reflecting on their lack of faith, their trust in Jesus, because it's faith. 324 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:32,000 You get anything from us today as your faith invites Jesus into a situation, 325 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:38,000 into your life in order to do the miraculous. 326 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:45,000 And we could see in the scripture that in this case, unbelief restricted him. 327 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:50,000 And I kind of wrestled with it a little bit. And sometimes, you know, if you're a parent or whatever, 328 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,000 sometimes you can think of some of the things that you might want to do with your kid. 329 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000 And you can do something crazy and mess it all up. 330 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000 And you're like, I can't, we're not going to McDonald's now. 331 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 You see what you just did? 332 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:10,000 The environment's not really conducive for me to bless you with a Happy Meal right now. 333 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000 You know what I'm saying? 334 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:19,000 In this passage, right, and I can't, this is mind boggling in some ways. 335 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,000 And there could be some people that are going to be like, just take the kids through the drive-through. 336 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Sometimes we're like, no, we're not doing that today. 337 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:35,000 And I feel like we've come to this moment where Jesus is like, 338 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000 this environment's not even right for this. 339 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,000 Like, they're whiling out. 340 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 It's not happening. 341 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:47,000 There's a few of y'all that really get it. 342 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Is that right or wrong? 343 00:25:50,000 --> 00:26:01,000 In this situation with Jesus, we see that some people not only missed out on who Jesus is, 344 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:06,000 but missed out on this true interaction with Jesus because of their unbelief. 345 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,000 And I reflect on that with us, and what does that mean for us? 346 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Right? 347 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:17,000 Because we can look and we can argue, but how is it possible for a human being can hold back the powers of God? 348 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:30,000 But when I think about the deal here, think about how apart from the eyes of faith, 349 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,000 we can't really see who Jesus truly is. 350 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:40,000 Miracles can only take us so far, but in and of themselves, it's not enough. 351 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 His teachings point to him. 352 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 His miracles point to him. 353 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:58,000 There are these divine signs and billboards that we could just miss. 354 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Has anybody heard about what's going on in Asbury? 355 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 Asbury. 356 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Revival. 357 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,000 It's been interesting, right? 358 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:17,000 Because when you talk about things like this, there's a lot of skepticism, there's a lot of stuff going on. 359 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:22,000 I know I kind of scrolled right past it when I first heard about it. 360 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:27,000 And this week as I was wrestling with his passage, and I'm looking into it not really deeply, 361 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:32,000 but I have a friend of mine that Greg and I went to Judson University, 362 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,000 and I'm good friends with the guy that's in charge of the chapel services. 363 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000 He's worked there for quite a number of years. 364 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,000 He does Christian. 365 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,000 He's a teacher in the Christian ministry department as well. 366 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:47,000 But he's a really good dude. 367 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:52,000 He went, and he just was like, I just wanted to go. 368 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,000 He's in charge of his own chapel services on the campus, 369 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000 and this sparked off at a chapel service on another campus. 370 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:03,000 He just wanted to go and just be a fly on the wall for his own little deal. 371 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000 And I want to just read some of his thoughts, because when I read his thoughts, 372 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,000 it just reminded me, it just reminded me of this passage. 373 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,000 It reminded me of how we can interact with this as we go. 374 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:21,000 But these are his words. 375 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,000 It's been a couple days since I returned from a spontaneous trip to Asbury 376 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,000 to see for myself what was happening among the student body. 377 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:35,000 My summary, this is everything that we've been praying for. 378 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,000 I'm on a national email thread with campus chaplains and deans talking about how 379 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,000 chapel, especially after COVID, has changed. 380 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:47,000 Each dean recounts the same thing, phones out, headphones in, laptops, 381 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,000 and talking loudly during services. 382 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:54,000 Students all over the states, disaffected, disconnected, 383 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,000 disinterested in cultivating their spiritual lives. 384 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000 And I see this at my university too. 385 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:08,000 This move cuts through delusionment, distraction, cynicism. 386 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,000 It's the real deal. 387 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:15,000 Powerful, prayerful, orderly, passionate, patient, full of testimony, worship, and prayer. 388 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:21,000 I'm typically skeptical of revival talk and what may be emotionalism. 389 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,000 This is not that. 390 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,000 This isn't driven by personality nor preaching. 391 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,000 It's all organic and rather ordinary. 392 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000 It's unimpressive from the outside. 393 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:35,000 No fancy lights or fog, no drum kit, no lyrics on a screen. 394 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:40,000 It's the ordinary work of worship, prayer, confession, intercession. 395 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000 Students are confessing sin and encountering the love of God. 396 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,000 The culture of this space centered on three things, 397 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:53,000 radical humility, purity of heart, and hunger. 398 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:58,000 Radical humility counters the insta-famous impulse, like look how spiritual I am. 399 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,000 Purity of heart counters change for thee but not for me. 400 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,000 And hunger counters cynicism. 401 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:09,000 My prayer for Gen Z is that this is woven into the fabric of their faith. 402 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,000 May it be in my school as well. 403 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:17,000 And it really hit me that there's sometimes, you know, as we're in this day and age, 404 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:23,000 where we can grab all this information and do our own research and look into everything, 405 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,000 and then we can form a conclusion of exactly what we think, 406 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:31,000 and we can kind of prescribe this is how God's working in this situation. 407 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,000 And I'll show you all my evidence of this. 408 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:43,000 And sometimes, sometimes I feel like when I look at this story, 409 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:51,000 we can kind of dismiss the people of Nazareth, but that's kind of the story of us as well, if we're honest. 410 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,000 Because we can just be like, mmm, that's not happening, I don't care, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 411 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000 I don't believe in revivals because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 412 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:02,000 And then something happened to me before, and I got this church hurt, and I'm deconstructing right now, or whatever. 413 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,000 Now, I'm not making light of these things. 414 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:12,000 However, there's times that we, Jesus could be doing real things in and around us, 415 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,000 and we can just be like, whatever. 416 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,000 I know that's not real. Or blah, blah, blah, blah. 417 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Or I had a friend that told me this, or blah, blah, blah, blah. 418 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,000 And this has been real convicting as I've done this message this week, 419 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,000 because it's really easy to point a finger at the people of Nazareth. 420 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,000 But it's very difficult when I point the finger back at myself 421 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:41,000 and think about how many times that I may have dismissed God's Spirit, or dismissed God's presence in my life, 422 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:47,000 or dismissed something because of Chris Britton's knowledge, and my experience as youth ministry. 423 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:54,000 So I can tell if somebody's really living it right or not, because all the examples I've had with all the students that I've worked with, 424 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,000 and I can just be like, I know they say that they're living for Christ, but they're fake, 425 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,000 because I saw what they posted on Instagram. 426 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,000 Not real. Right? 427 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,000 And I could do these things. 428 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:18,000 The problem is sometimes I believe having a childlike faith as an adult, sometimes people think that that's a weakness, 429 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:24,000 or people will say like, ah, that's weak. You can't just have faith in it. 430 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,000 You've got to prove this stuff. You've got to see evidence in all this stuff. 431 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:38,000 You can't just believe in Jesus. You have to prove everything. 432 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:43,000 And I don't have all the answers. Today I'm not giving you a whole bunch of answers. 433 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:54,000 But I want to challenge us not to have a revival, but I start thinking, God, can you help revive all in me? 434 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,000 Revive all. What does that mean for you individually? 435 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Because I believe if we're believers in here, there once was a point where there was this divine all in your life that drew you to Christ. 436 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,000 And maybe that's just wore off like a flip phone now. 437 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:14,000 And that's the thing of the past or the old, or you flipped it closed because of something that you've experienced 438 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:22,000 or something that you don't believe God did or some hurts or some pains or some church stuff or relationship stuff or bad things or whatever the case. 439 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,000 Or maybe, just maybe, like Nazareth, there's people that just lived there the whole time. 440 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:34,000 They're just like, you know, I've talked to some people, I've said, I've been a Christian all my life, and they act like they're bored. 441 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:41,000 They're just like, hmm. I heard somebody say, I really don't have a testimony. I've just been a Christian all my life. 442 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:49,000 I'm like, so what? And they're just like, yeah, I don't really have a testimony. 443 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,000 I'm like, yes, you do. 444 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:58,000 Through God's spirit, he spared you from a lot of stuff that you wouldn't have to see. That's your testimony. 445 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,000 You don't have to be wilding out. 446 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,000 I know a teenager that told me one time, like, Chris, I really don't. 447 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000 I think I'm going to give my life to Christ after I really go through some stuff. 448 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000 I got to go out there and experience some stuff. 449 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,000 So you might not see me at the youth center for a little while till I get this testimony. 450 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:21,000 I'm like, dang, are they on sale or something right now? Where are you going? It's a door buster. 451 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000 And unfortunately, I remember I didn't see this kid for like six months. 452 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:31,000 And they came back one Saturday evening and they had tears in their face and stuff. 453 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000 And they were like, I should have never left. I don't know what I was thinking. 454 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,000 Horrible story this young lady was telling me about what she experienced in them six months. 455 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:44,000 There's a little part of me that wanted to be like, was it worth it? You see, like. 456 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:54,000 And at that moment, I saw them kind of in awe of God's love saying, I know God still loves me. 457 00:34:54,000 --> 00:35:04,000 But are we sometimes too wrapped up in ourselves and our own minds and our own thoughts and our own research that we miss out 458 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:09,000 on the awe that once drew us to our faith? 459 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:15,000 Or we could be on the other side where we haven't even taken that step towards Christ because we're already just like, 460 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:25,000 nah, I ain't ready to put my trust in Christ like that, my faith in Christ like that. 461 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:35,000 As I reflected this week, I cannot personally explain some of the things that have occurred in my spiritual life. 462 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,000 And I know that there's some people that have tried to explain it away. 463 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,000 Chris, you were just emotional. Chris, you were tired. 464 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,000 I know you were just going through some things. 465 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:54,000 But I know what I experienced with God's supernatural spirit guiding some key moments in my life, strengthening me, 466 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,000 giving me a piece that I didn't have, helping me to be bold when I needed and other times silent 467 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,000 and other times needed to take action that I probably wouldn't have. 468 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:12,000 There have been some spiritual moments that have changed the trajectory of my life as a result of my faith in Jesus, 469 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:22,000 of an action taken towards, okay, I really feel like I need to do this right now or not do this because of Christ. 470 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,000 I've shared some stories with people before and they're just like, oh, yeah, I can see. 471 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,000 But don't you think that you were just... 472 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,000 And at this point in my life, I'm kind of tired of trying to over explain it. 473 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,000 And some people might say like, well, you're just... 474 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:42,000 you believe in this imaginary character that you think that guided you through this stuff. 475 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:48,000 I believe Jesus' spirit interacted with me in a real way. 476 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:53,000 And I'm not going to argue with anybody about that. 477 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:59,000 My question, can we be a church full of people that ask God to revive all in us? 478 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:04,000 Can we be a church of people that place faith in a Jesus that really loves us? 479 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:14,000 Is it possible that there are corners in our life where God's not active because of our unbelief? 480 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000 I don't have an answer to that. 481 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,000 I can't answer those things. 482 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:31,000 But in life, we know there's relationships that get old. 483 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Sometimes things that are close to us gets old, not just technology and phones and all that kind of stuff. 484 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:43,000 But y'all know what I'm saying. 485 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:54,000 And I'm just hoping that we can get to a point again where we can ask God, what does that mean to revive all in us? 486 00:37:54,000 --> 00:38:02,000 So we can't miss when Jesus is trying to impress upon us His love. 487 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:07,000 Because at the end of the day, I mean, Jesus didn't come to Nazareth to get dissed. 488 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:14,000 I mean, He came, He wanted to be a blessing to them, and they were kind of breaking Him down. 489 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,000 And He was amazed. 490 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,000 He was amazed. 491 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,000 God loves us, and Jesus loves us. 492 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:36,000 And I don't think that, I think this shows us that even though Jesus was amazed at the doubt, He understands. 493 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:45,000 He understands the inner battle that we may have to put our faith and trust in our life in the hands of Christ. 494 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:51,000 So this isn't one of those messages where I'm trying to beat everybody up, but it's one of those things where Jesus really loves us. 495 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,000 And Jesus, again, we see that He came back there. 496 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,000 He didn't have a good experience the first time. 497 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,000 He came back. 498 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000 He still loved them. 499 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000 He still came home. 500 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000 And He still wants to come home to us as well. 501 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000 He still loves us. 502 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:20,000 I think sometimes when I look at our faith journey, and when I look at the progression of cell phones, you know, every year there's not huge, huge updates, 503 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:25,000 but every once in a while there's this big new thing, right? 504 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:33,000 There's a big new thing that kind of marks that generation. 505 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:41,000 And sometimes I feel like that's where our faith, we might have a couple years where we're really struggling, but we might have some highlights where we really trusted God as well. 506 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:50,000 And in our life, maybe we get to that trajectory where we can look back on the different phases of maybe our belief and unbelief, 507 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:59,000 not just to look back and to be sad about it or to have all these regrets, but to look how God loved us all the way through each one of those phases. 508 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,000 And God carried us through each one of those new phases. 509 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:15,000 And we can trust that God's going to continue to update us in ways that we can't even imagine as we put our faith and trust in Him. 510 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000 Let's pray. 511 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,000 God, thank you so much for your word. 512 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:33,000 I pray, I pray, for whatever is going on in Asbury, I'm not a spiritual detective, 513 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:40,000 but I ask that you continue to move on the hearts of those there and around the country. 514 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:55,000 But I also understand, Lord, that there's walls and barriers that as individuals that we put up sometimes, and I pray, God, that you revive all in us. 515 00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:04,000 Break the barriers down so we can truly see who you are, how much you love us, and how much you are worthy of. 516 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,000 Praise. 517 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:16,000 I pray, God, that some of us return to you in new awe, some of us take those first steps towards you in faith as well. 518 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:26,000 But whatever the case, Lord, I pray, God, that we will understand that you are so much closer than we think sometimes, 519 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:34,000 as we may think that you're sitting up in a cloud somewhere shaking your head down at us or shaking your fist at us. 520 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000 God, I know your spirit's here. 521 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,000 I pray that we can be in awe of that and that we might not have to understand everything. 522 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:47,000 I pray that we can put our trust and faith and hope in you and that your spirit will meet us where we're at 523 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:56,000 and that your love will minister to us in a way that is tangible for our journeys. 524 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:11,000 In your name we pray. Amen.