1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,360 Thank you for listening to this message from LifeHouse Church. 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:17,720 Good morning, good morning, LifeHouse. 3 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:18,720 Is there somebody? 4 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:19,720 Give them a high five. 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,400 Tell them it's good to be in the house. 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,840 It's good to be in the house this morning. 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:25,280 It is good to be in the house. 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:26,280 Thank you. 9 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,240 Have my voice back. 10 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:36,560 Yeah, if you're with us online at East Shore or here, it's just good to be in God's presence, 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:41,960 feel His presence, sing and worship the Lord and break into His word. 12 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:45,120 Can I just do something since I'm up here and I got the mic, can I just do something 13 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:46,120 this morning? 14 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,840 I want to give a plug for life groups. 15 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,160 One of the big things that we really believe in here is community. 16 00:00:53,160 --> 00:01:00,120 We believe that somebody grows individually, exponentially faster if they're discipling 17 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,680 together and following Jesus together. 18 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:07,200 So if you've not been in a life group or you've kind of stepped away from life group, I really 19 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,880 am asking you to consider getting involved in a life group. 20 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:12,320 There's lots of different life groups. 21 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:17,840 I'm doing one this year, this semester I should say, about the Holy Spirit. 22 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,440 If you're interested in that, I'm going to give a shameless plug for mine, right? 23 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:26,160 If you're interested in learning more about Holy Spirit, who He is and what the Bible 24 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,960 has to say about that and in the New Testament, and maybe you got questions about things like 25 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:33,360 the baptism of the Holy Spirit or speaking in tongues. 26 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,000 There's a host of things that you see in the New Testament you might have questions about. 27 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,720 I'd love for you to come into that group. 28 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,820 We're going to explore, we're going to dive into the word and talk. 29 00:01:42,820 --> 00:01:45,000 So those are great. 30 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,080 That's my shameless plug for my group, but there are many groups that are going on that 31 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:50,320 you can get involved in. 32 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:51,800 Please do that. 33 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,160 Talk to somebody that's in a group. 34 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:54,600 They'll tell you it's beneficial. 35 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:55,720 You don't have to take my word for it. 36 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:56,720 Ask somebody else. 37 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:57,720 Amen? 38 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:58,720 It's true. 39 00:01:58,720 --> 00:01:59,720 Anybody? 40 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:00,720 Those of you in the group say amen. 41 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:01,720 Amen. 42 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:02,720 All right. 43 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:03,720 Awesome. 44 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:04,720 That was a good amen. 45 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:05,720 Well, it is good to have you. 46 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,560 Now, listen, I'm going to start off this message with a question. 47 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:15,240 Have you ever been accused of being childish? 48 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,540 Have you ever been accused of being childish? 49 00:02:18,540 --> 00:02:21,160 How many of you have been accused of being childish in the last year? 50 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:22,160 All right. 51 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:23,160 Good. 52 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:24,720 How many in the last month? 53 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:25,720 How many this morning? 54 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:26,720 All right. 55 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:27,720 Good. 56 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:28,720 Good. 57 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:29,720 All right. 58 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:30,720 Yeah. 59 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,520 If you've been accused of being childish, you're probably going to love this message. 60 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:33,520 All right. 61 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,080 And if you haven't been accused of being childish, you might want to by the end of the message. 62 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,200 But listen, just so you get this in your spirit, just so you get this in your heart, turn to 63 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,720 somebody this morning and tell them we're going to talk childish today. 64 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:46,720 We're going to talk childish. 65 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:47,720 Come on. 66 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:48,720 Come on. 67 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:49,720 Let's get this in your spirit. 68 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:50,720 We're going to talk childish. 69 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:51,720 I'm going to pray before we read God's word. 70 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,000 We're going into Mark chapter 10, verse 13. 71 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,160 So if you bow your heads, Lord, we thank you for this day. 72 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,320 God, thank you for each one that's in the house. 73 00:02:58,320 --> 00:02:59,920 God, it's outside of the house. 74 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:04,480 And Lord God, I pray that your word would go into our hearts, minds, shift us, change 75 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:05,480 us, Lord. 76 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,080 God, sometimes even deliver us from ourselves. 77 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,440 And Lord, God, help us and guide us, direct us, Lord, that we might walk out the kingdom 78 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:13,440 on earth. 79 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:14,640 And Lord, your will on earth. 80 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:18,040 And we give you praise and glory in Jesus name. 81 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:19,040 Amen. 82 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,040 Amen. 83 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,840 Mark chapter 10, verse 13 is where we're going. 84 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:24,640 If you brought your Bible, you can turn there. 85 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:27,040 If not, you can take a look at the screens. 86 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:28,680 They're going to put it up there for you. 87 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,960 It says this, then they brought little children to him. 88 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,880 Now I'm going to stop just right there for a second because you need to know who the 89 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:40,840 day and who the hymn is in this first part of this scripture here. 90 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:46,040 And they brought, that's the parents, brought children to him, which is Jesus. 91 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:47,040 Okay. 92 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,600 Got to get that picture in your mind. 93 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,200 Then they brought little children to him that he might touch them. 94 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,320 But the disciples rebuke those who brought them. 95 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,660 But when Jesus saw it, he was greatly displeased and said to them, let the little children 96 00:03:59,660 --> 00:04:04,720 come to me and do not forbid them for such is the kingdom of God. 97 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:09,760 Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a child will 98 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:11,720 by no means enter it. 99 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:17,600 And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them and he blessed them. 100 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:24,440 Only a few verses, but there's this scene that unfolds where Jesus and his disciples 101 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,820 and some parents and some children are all coming together. 102 00:04:28,820 --> 00:04:32,560 And I want you to get the picture in your mind because Jesus is out ministering. 103 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,840 Jesus is out doing what Jesus does. 104 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:36,320 He's preaching the kingdom. 105 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:37,940 He's preaching the word. 106 00:04:37,940 --> 00:04:39,680 He's healing people. 107 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,680 He's delivering people from evil spirits. 108 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,880 He's doing all the things he does in ministry. 109 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:49,840 And all of a sudden, all these parents start to bring their children to Jesus. 110 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:54,280 And what they want to happen is they want to bring their child to Jesus so Jesus will 111 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:57,360 lay his hands on them and bless them. 112 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,360 They want their child blessed by Jesus. 113 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,880 And these parents, they know that Jesus has power. 114 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:05,320 They know he can heal. 115 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,800 They know that this quite possibly could be the Messiah. 116 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,960 He's at least a prophet in their eyes and they want their children. 117 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,520 How many know any good parent wants their children to be blessed, right? 118 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:22,640 Any good parent wants to have their child blessed and somebody to speak over them, particularly 119 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,160 the son of God to speak over their lives. 120 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,120 And as you get the picture in your mind, I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, you know, 121 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,800 this probably look like the mall a little bit at Christmas time, right? 122 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:34,400 The Santa Claus line. 123 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,680 How many of you ever seen the Santa Claus line, right? 124 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,920 All the parents are there with their kids and Santa Claus is sitting up there. 125 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,840 And I think it probably looked just a little bit like that. 126 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:44,920 These parents are lined up with their kids. 127 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,840 Maybe they're jockeying for position to get in there first so they don't got to stand 128 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:49,840 for three hours. 129 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:50,840 Right. 130 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:54,280 And how am I know that Santa always has some helpers, right? 131 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:59,480 He has some elves, people dressed up, I mean, elves dressed up, you know, and they're helping 132 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:00,480 out. 133 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:02,560 And I'm thinking that's kind of the disciples, right? 134 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:03,880 Jesus is there. 135 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,120 The disciples are there. 136 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,440 See, the disciples are angry little elves. 137 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:09,440 All right. 138 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,400 They not only didn't want the kids to, you know, to be they didn't want the kids around 139 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:14,400 at all. 140 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:15,720 They didn't want them lined up and quiet. 141 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:16,720 They didn't want them there at all. 142 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,120 And matter of fact, they're chasing them away. 143 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,680 You know, they're shushing them off. 144 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,320 They're saying like, hey, get him out of here. 145 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:24,600 This is an adult meeting. 146 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,320 This is for for adults, right? 147 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:27,900 Where Jesus is ministering. 148 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:29,400 This is serious business. 149 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:34,040 And Jesus kind of gets aggravated and he's not aggravated at the kids. 150 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,440 He's annoyed with his disciples. 151 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,640 He says, let him come to me. 152 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,080 I want to bless them. 153 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:45,320 And in the middle of all this confusion and in the middle of this is taking place, he 154 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,280 said he says something that we need to get a hold of. 155 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:50,120 His disciples should have got a hold of it. 156 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:51,300 The parents should have heard it. 157 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:52,720 And we need to hear it today. 158 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:57,160 He says, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means 159 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:58,560 enter it. 160 00:06:58,560 --> 00:06:59,560 That's serious business. 161 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:00,560 All right. 162 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,720 When you look at that, you got to be thinking, what does that mean? 163 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,500 Because this is serious. 164 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:08,200 I want to know about you, but I want to know. 165 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,000 I want to know because I want to enter the kingdom of God. 166 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,080 I want to know because I don't want to miss it. 167 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:17,000 I want to know what it is to come into the kingdom like a child, because I don't want 168 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,700 to miss Jesus, I don't want to miss the kingdom of God, I don't want to miss the blessings, 169 00:07:20,700 --> 00:07:22,260 I don't want to miss the inheritance. 170 00:07:22,260 --> 00:07:23,640 I don't want to miss any of it. 171 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:25,620 This is a heaven or hell thing. 172 00:07:25,620 --> 00:07:29,280 Cuz if you miss the kingdom of God, guess what kingdom you're in? 173 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:30,360 There's only two. 174 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:31,360 Right? 175 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,340 It is it's a heaven and hell thing. 176 00:07:33,340 --> 00:07:34,840 This is a big deal. 177 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,040 This is life and death kind of stuff. 178 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,540 This is not just a minor skirmish between Jesus 179 00:07:40,540 --> 00:07:44,280 and some parents and children and his disciples. 180 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:45,980 What did he mean? 181 00:07:45,980 --> 00:07:48,720 By whoever does not receive the kingdom of God 182 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,820 as a little child will by no means enter it. 183 00:07:51,820 --> 00:07:54,920 Does that, you know, as you think about it, 184 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,700 does that mean that we need some spiritual parents, right? 185 00:07:57,700 --> 00:07:59,760 Does that mean that we need a spiritual father 186 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,600 or a spiritual mother that will help us get to Jesus? 187 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:04,300 Well, that's a good thing, I can tell you that, 188 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:05,640 if you have that, right? 189 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:06,800 Does it mean that? 190 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,040 Does it mean that I should have childlike faith? 191 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:10,400 How many ever heard that, right? 192 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:11,980 I gotta have childlike faith. 193 00:08:11,980 --> 00:08:14,140 You gotta have the faith of a child, right? 194 00:08:14,140 --> 00:08:15,920 Is it a blind kind of faith? 195 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,640 Is it childish in my actions? 196 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:18,920 Most of you got that covered, 197 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,960 you self-admitted that this morning, right? 198 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,560 Is it childish in my actions, right? 199 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,860 Is it being kind of kiddish in some way? 200 00:08:25,860 --> 00:08:28,500 How exactly do I be like, 201 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:31,400 how exactly do I become like a child 202 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,260 so that I can get into the kingdom of God? 203 00:08:35,260 --> 00:08:37,940 Because if I don't, I miss it. 204 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,740 I miss the kingdom, I miss Jesus, 205 00:08:41,740 --> 00:08:44,540 I miss the inheritance, I miss the blessing, 206 00:08:44,540 --> 00:08:45,640 I miss it all. 207 00:08:46,980 --> 00:08:49,380 How do I get into the kingdom like a child? 208 00:08:49,380 --> 00:08:51,420 Turn to the person beside you, see if they got the answer. 209 00:08:51,420 --> 00:08:55,060 Ask them, how do I get into the kingdom like a child? 210 00:08:55,060 --> 00:08:56,780 Are they staring at you blindly? 211 00:08:56,780 --> 00:08:59,620 Come on, how do I get into the kingdom? 212 00:08:59,620 --> 00:09:02,360 Well, I think the key to understanding this passage 213 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,800 is twofold, I think you gotta understand a child 214 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,660 and you gotta understand the word of God. 215 00:09:06,660 --> 00:09:08,800 You gotta understand how a child functions, right? 216 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,260 And then you gotta understand the word of God. 217 00:09:10,260 --> 00:09:11,600 You gotta have good theology. 218 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,640 You gotta make sure the scripture backs up scripture. 219 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:15,400 You gotta make sure it lines up, right? 220 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:16,740 You gotta understand a child 221 00:09:16,740 --> 00:09:18,640 and you gotta understand the word of God. 222 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:19,480 Because when Jesus said, 223 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,680 "'Surely I say to you, whoever does not receive 224 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:23,820 "'the kingdom of God as a little child 225 00:09:23,820 --> 00:09:25,320 "'will by no means enter it.'" 226 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,780 Jesus was not saying that to be, 227 00:09:27,780 --> 00:09:29,680 he was not saying you should be childish. 228 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:31,960 He was not saying that you're supposed to be immature. 229 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,160 He wasn't saying that you're supposed to be oblivious 230 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:35,200 to the world around you. 231 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:36,700 How many know little kids are innocent, 232 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:39,420 they're wonderful, but they're completely oblivious, right? 233 00:09:39,420 --> 00:09:40,860 To what's happening around them. 234 00:09:40,860 --> 00:09:42,960 They're just worried about their own little world, right? 235 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,300 Jesus wasn't saying you just need to stay 236 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:46,900 like a child in every way. 237 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:48,780 Jesus said something in that scripture. 238 00:09:48,780 --> 00:09:51,500 And if you look close, he said the one thing, 239 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:54,520 the one way that you need to act like a child 240 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:59,520 is you need to receive the kingdom like a child. 241 00:10:00,380 --> 00:10:01,580 It says it right into verse. 242 00:10:01,580 --> 00:10:04,780 Receive the kingdom like a child. 243 00:10:04,780 --> 00:10:08,320 He said, whoever does not receive, say receive. 244 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,120 The kingdom of God as a little child 245 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:11,760 will by no means enter it. 246 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,760 It's about reception of the kingdom. 247 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,400 It's about how you receive the kingdom of God 248 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,240 and you receive Christ and you receive the Holy Spirit. 249 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,580 It's how you embrace the kingdom. 250 00:10:23,580 --> 00:10:25,400 And I wanna give you a couple pictures 251 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,680 of what I'm trying to say here, some word pictures. 252 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:29,940 If you've ever watched a football game 253 00:10:29,940 --> 00:10:32,220 and even if you've never really watched a football game, 254 00:10:32,220 --> 00:10:33,420 you're gonna understand this. 255 00:10:33,420 --> 00:10:37,320 It's not deep football knowledge of any kind. 256 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,320 But in the football, there's a quarterback, right, 257 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,760 who throws the ball and then there's a receiver 258 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,660 who's out there running to catch the ball, right? 259 00:10:45,660 --> 00:10:46,860 Pretty simple concept. 260 00:10:46,860 --> 00:10:48,100 And the guy that's out there running, 261 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:49,660 they call him a receiver. 262 00:10:49,660 --> 00:10:51,600 He's gonna receive it, right? 263 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,140 And what does the receiver do when he runs out 264 00:10:54,140 --> 00:10:54,980 to get the ball? 265 00:10:54,980 --> 00:10:56,980 The quarterback winds up, he throws the ball, 266 00:10:56,980 --> 00:11:00,440 the receiver doesn't run out there like this, right? 267 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,280 He's got his arms out. 268 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:03,880 He's ready to catch that thing. 269 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:05,140 He's ready to receive. 270 00:11:05,140 --> 00:11:06,880 He's got his arms open wide. 271 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:08,480 He's ready to catch the ball. 272 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:09,860 Sometimes they're running with their arms 273 00:11:09,860 --> 00:11:10,980 just out like this, right? 274 00:11:10,980 --> 00:11:12,560 Ball's thrown over them, they're just running 275 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:13,520 for everything they got. 276 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,100 And what happens when he catches that ball, right? 277 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:18,760 When he catches that ball, he pulls that thing in 278 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:20,640 and he tucks that thing in tight 279 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:22,400 and he clamps that down, you know why? 280 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:23,860 Because the other team's trying to strip the ball 281 00:11:23,860 --> 00:11:24,900 out of his arm. 282 00:11:24,900 --> 00:11:27,400 He'll hang onto that thing for everything he's worth. 283 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,540 He'll wrap it up with two arms, right? 284 00:11:29,540 --> 00:11:31,700 It's how he receives it. 285 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:33,380 It's how he pulls it in. 286 00:11:33,380 --> 00:11:35,520 It's about reception of the kingdom. 287 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,380 It's about how you're pulling it in. 288 00:11:37,380 --> 00:11:38,440 It really is. 289 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:40,920 If somebody hands you a baby, you receive a baby 290 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:43,620 different than you receive anything else, right? 291 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:45,580 If I hand you a baby or hand you a frying pan, 292 00:11:45,580 --> 00:11:47,520 how many notes can be a little different, right? 293 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,260 Especially if it's hot, frying pan's out here, whatever. 294 00:11:51,260 --> 00:11:52,760 But too hot, you just drop it. 295 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:54,660 You don't do that with a baby, right? 296 00:11:54,660 --> 00:11:56,700 When you get a baby, you receive the baby. 297 00:11:56,700 --> 00:11:58,640 You pull the baby in, right? 298 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:00,040 You walk with the baby. 299 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,640 You make sure nothing bumps into the baby. 300 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:04,200 Right, if you're walking on the ice 301 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,640 and you slip on the ice, do you drop the baby 302 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:07,980 and put out your hands? 303 00:12:07,980 --> 00:12:09,280 No. 304 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,140 You sacrifice yourself. 305 00:12:11,140 --> 00:12:14,520 You wrap that baby up and take the hit, right? 306 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,060 It's about how you receive. 307 00:12:17,060 --> 00:12:19,960 It's about how you receive the kingdom of God. 308 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,700 How does a child receive somebody they love? 309 00:12:25,220 --> 00:12:26,560 Come on. 310 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:29,000 We got kids everywhere around here. 311 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,560 How do they do it? 312 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:32,300 Open arms, right? 313 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:34,780 Wide open, they'll run towards you. 314 00:12:34,780 --> 00:12:38,040 If they're receiving you or you're receiving them 315 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,280 and there's love there, they'll run 100 mile an hour 316 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:44,880 and just jump into your arms and latch onto you, right? 317 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,020 If they're standing on the countertop, whoop, whoop, whoop, 318 00:12:48,020 --> 00:12:50,920 they'll run, right, dive right off the end. 319 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:52,260 Catch me, right? 320 00:12:52,260 --> 00:12:54,220 They'll do it off a table. 321 00:12:54,220 --> 00:12:56,960 They're all in, there's nothing reserved. 322 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,440 That's how they receive. 323 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,360 But if they don't wanna receive you, 324 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:02,660 how's it all work out? 325 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:05,740 Yeah, that's exactly right. 326 00:13:05,740 --> 00:13:07,900 They'll run the other way, right? 327 00:13:07,900 --> 00:13:10,680 Yesterday, I went to pick up my niece's daughter, 328 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:12,340 Cora, she's less than a year old, 329 00:13:12,340 --> 00:13:15,240 and she was in the stroller and I unstrapped her 330 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,380 and she looked at me and how many of you 331 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:19,860 ever seen the stranger danger look with kids? 332 00:13:19,860 --> 00:13:22,920 The stranger, she screamed bloody murder, okay? 333 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:24,820 I was like, I'm outta here. 334 00:13:24,820 --> 00:13:27,900 All right, I'm not touching this kid, right? 335 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:31,560 It's rare you get a courtesy hug from a child, right? 336 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:33,160 You know, unless a parent makes them, 337 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:34,860 come on, go over there and I want you 338 00:13:34,860 --> 00:13:36,440 to hug crusty Uncle Joe. 339 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:40,340 You know, they're doing that kind of thing, right? 340 00:13:40,340 --> 00:13:42,180 Come on, if they love you, 341 00:13:42,180 --> 00:13:43,680 if they wanna receive you, 342 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:46,120 they'll run straight off of the table. 343 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,220 They'll wrap you up, they'll hug you. 344 00:13:48,220 --> 00:13:50,320 You can't even bribe a little kid. 345 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,560 You can have a stack of $1,000 bills 346 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:53,920 and you say, kid, that's all yours, 347 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:54,760 have you hugged me? 348 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:55,580 They don't care, right? 349 00:13:55,580 --> 00:13:57,220 They're not, no. 350 00:13:57,220 --> 00:13:58,460 I'm not hugging you, right? 351 00:13:58,460 --> 00:13:59,920 I ain't doing it, I'm not doing it today. 352 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:02,060 Not gonna happen, right? 353 00:14:02,060 --> 00:14:03,500 They won't. 354 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:05,360 Some of you violated a stack of $1,000 bills, 355 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,040 you'd hug a grizzly bear, right? 356 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,240 Come on, but a child won't. 357 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:10,760 A child won't. 358 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,140 A child will run over hot coals to get to their parents, 359 00:14:14,140 --> 00:14:16,540 to get to their mom, to get to their dad, right? 360 00:14:16,540 --> 00:14:18,880 They will bite, kick, claw, scream, 361 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:20,840 whatever they gotta do, right? 362 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,020 They'll run under anything or over top of anything 363 00:14:24,020 --> 00:14:27,980 just so they can receive mom or receive dad 364 00:14:27,980 --> 00:14:30,120 if they love him, right? 365 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,220 Jesus was telling his disciples, 366 00:14:32,220 --> 00:14:34,300 the way into the kingdom of God 367 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:37,900 is that you gotta receive me like that. 368 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:39,340 It's gotta look like that. 369 00:14:39,340 --> 00:14:41,500 You want heaven, you want the kingdom, 370 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:43,540 you want Jesus Christ in your life, 371 00:14:43,540 --> 00:14:45,140 you gotta wrap it up, man. 372 00:14:45,140 --> 00:14:46,580 You gotta run towards him. 373 00:14:46,580 --> 00:14:47,540 You gotta be able to, 374 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:50,440 you gotta look like a little kid, right? 375 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,140 Just running, arms flopping. 376 00:14:52,140 --> 00:14:54,020 You gotta, and I know some of you 377 00:14:54,020 --> 00:14:55,380 aren't gonna do that physically, 378 00:14:55,380 --> 00:14:57,720 but I'm telling you in your heart and in your spirit, 379 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,920 you gotta run, kicking, you gotta kick, scream, 380 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,800 do whatever you gotta do to get to Jesus. 381 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,700 That's what Jesus was telling the disciples, right? 382 00:15:06,700 --> 00:15:08,800 We got all kind of little running around here. 383 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,100 We got all kind of little reminders 384 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:12,200 of what Jesus was saying. 385 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,140 And just to drive it home, 386 00:15:14,140 --> 00:15:16,900 this enormous truth that Jesus was trying to convey 387 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:18,140 to his disciples, 388 00:15:18,140 --> 00:15:20,340 you only need to read the next few verses, right? 389 00:15:20,340 --> 00:15:21,940 We said we're gonna take a look at children, 390 00:15:21,940 --> 00:15:22,780 we're gonna look, right? 391 00:15:22,780 --> 00:15:24,020 We're gonna do good Bible theology. 392 00:15:24,020 --> 00:15:25,980 We're gonna put scripture against scripture. 393 00:15:25,980 --> 00:15:27,820 You only gotta look just a little further, 394 00:15:27,820 --> 00:15:29,020 a couple more verses down, 395 00:15:29,020 --> 00:15:30,560 you start to see what he's talking about. 396 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:32,480 Because Mark 10, 17 says this, 397 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,420 now as he, Jesus, was going out on the road, 398 00:15:35,420 --> 00:15:38,120 one came running, knelt before him, 399 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,560 and asked him, good teacher, what shall I do 400 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:42,540 that I might inherit eternal life? 401 00:15:42,540 --> 00:15:44,700 So Jesus said to him, why do you call me good? 402 00:15:44,700 --> 00:15:47,080 No one is good but one, that is God. 403 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,340 You know the commandments, do not commit adultery, 404 00:15:49,340 --> 00:15:51,380 do not murder, do not steal, 405 00:15:51,380 --> 00:15:53,640 do not bear false witness, do not defraud, 406 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:55,420 honor your father and your mother. 407 00:15:55,420 --> 00:15:56,620 And he answered and said to him, 408 00:15:56,620 --> 00:15:59,320 teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth. 409 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,420 Then Jesus looking at him, loved him, 410 00:16:01,420 --> 00:16:04,220 and said to him, one thing you lack, 411 00:16:04,220 --> 00:16:06,300 go your way, sell whatever you have, 412 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:07,620 and give it to the poor, 413 00:16:07,620 --> 00:16:10,620 and take up the cross and follow me. 414 00:16:10,620 --> 00:16:13,500 But he was sad at his word and went away, 415 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:16,860 sorrowful for he had great possessions. 416 00:16:18,260 --> 00:16:20,140 This is a rich guy. 417 00:16:20,140 --> 00:16:22,200 This is a guy who's got some stuff. 418 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,340 And he comes running up to Jesus, 419 00:16:24,340 --> 00:16:26,900 just like a child, running up to Jesus, 420 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:29,420 falls on his knees, right? 421 00:16:29,420 --> 00:16:32,580 And says, Jesus, how do I inherit eternal life? 422 00:16:32,580 --> 00:16:34,640 How do I get into the kingdom? 423 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:36,420 How do I receive the kingdom? 424 00:16:36,420 --> 00:16:38,520 And he says, what do I gotta do? 425 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,720 What do I gotta do to get eternal life? 426 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:44,360 To be in the kingdom, to be a part of your crew, 427 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:45,620 whatever you wanna call it. 428 00:16:45,620 --> 00:16:48,220 He humbly falls to the ground, 429 00:16:48,220 --> 00:16:50,600 just like a little kid might do. 430 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,300 And when Jesus says it first, 431 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:54,340 it's complete music through his ears. 432 00:16:54,340 --> 00:16:57,140 Because he says, do you know the commandments? 433 00:16:57,140 --> 00:16:58,600 And Jesus starts commanding, 434 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,580 he starts actually quoting some of the Ten Commandments, 435 00:17:01,580 --> 00:17:03,580 do not commit adultery, do not murder, 436 00:17:03,580 --> 00:17:06,180 do not steal, do not bear false witness, 437 00:17:06,180 --> 00:17:07,540 he starts naming some of the commandments. 438 00:17:07,540 --> 00:17:09,380 And inside this guy's getting a little giddy. 439 00:17:09,380 --> 00:17:11,480 He's like, man, I grew up in the church, right? 440 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:12,880 I've been going to synagogue. 441 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,560 I'm Jewish, I know the Torah, right? 442 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,220 And I've been following this stuff since I've been a kid. 443 00:17:18,220 --> 00:17:20,200 My parents were on the right side of the tracks, 444 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,400 they went to church, they raised me right, 445 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,400 I've been living right, I wasn't like those sinners. 446 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,160 He's getting all giddy inside, right? 447 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,900 He's just saying, oh man, I'm in, I'm in, right? 448 00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:31,400 Then Jesus says something to him 449 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,300 that he's not expecting at all. 450 00:17:33,300 --> 00:17:35,800 He says, go your way, sell whatever you have 451 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,140 and give it to the poor, 452 00:17:37,140 --> 00:17:39,080 and you'll have treasure in heaven. 453 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:43,040 And come take up the cross and follow me. 454 00:17:44,580 --> 00:17:45,420 Ooh. 455 00:17:47,220 --> 00:17:49,680 Suddenly, he gets off the ground. 456 00:17:50,580 --> 00:17:52,780 He dusts himself off, right? 457 00:17:52,780 --> 00:17:57,020 His position has changed, his posture has changed, right? 458 00:17:57,020 --> 00:18:01,000 And he sadly turns away and walks away. 459 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:06,000 And walks away from Jesus, he walks away. 460 00:18:07,140 --> 00:18:09,800 The word of God says it, but he was sad at this word. 461 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,240 Part of him wanted it, and then he went away sorrowful 462 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:14,740 for he had great possessions. 463 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:21,080 A child, they will abandon anything and everything 464 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:23,320 to get to their parents. 465 00:18:24,780 --> 00:18:28,260 To the one that they want to receive and they want received 466 00:18:28,260 --> 00:18:31,600 by, they will drop anything and everything. 467 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:33,360 They will leave it on the ground, 468 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:34,700 they will leave it behind them, 469 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:38,640 they put no value on it whatsoever, not one bit. 470 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:41,300 They throw it down, they never look back, 471 00:18:41,300 --> 00:18:45,100 they bite, they kick, they scream, they claw, 472 00:18:45,100 --> 00:18:48,640 and they run to the one that will receive them. 473 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,040 But not this rich man. 474 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:52,480 He was the one thing. 475 00:18:53,380 --> 00:18:55,320 One thing, right? 476 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:59,280 The one thing can keep us from Jesus in the kingdom. 477 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,160 The one thing can keep us from there. 478 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,720 The one thing that I refuse to walk away from, 479 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:05,960 to follow Jesus, right? 480 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,220 The one thing that makes me stand up, dust myself off, 481 00:19:09,220 --> 00:19:10,700 right, and head the other way. 482 00:19:10,700 --> 00:19:13,660 The one thing that keeps me from taking up the cross, 483 00:19:13,660 --> 00:19:16,900 right, following Jesus and doing what God called me to do. 484 00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:18,100 The one thing can do that. 485 00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:21,900 For this guy, in this particular scene, it was his stuff. 486 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:23,180 It was his possessions. 487 00:19:23,180 --> 00:19:25,440 Whatever those possessions are, he doesn't really tell us, 488 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,520 he just says he has great possessions. 489 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,420 Whatever that is, it was his bank account, I don't know, 490 00:19:30,420 --> 00:19:33,680 maybe he just had a warehouse or a barn full of stuff, 491 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,360 whatever it was, he wasn't willing to sell it. 492 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:38,520 He was not willing to let it go. 493 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,720 There was no way he was gonna do that, right? 494 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,860 And it was the one thing that kept him. 495 00:19:43,860 --> 00:19:45,700 And it can be all kinds of things. 496 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:47,800 It can be our stuff, right? 497 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:51,160 It could be success, it could be the lack of success, 498 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,440 it could be a relationship could be the one thing 499 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,640 or the lack of a relationship, it could be possessions, 500 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:01,580 it could be pleasure, it could be a position in something, 501 00:20:02,220 --> 00:20:04,360 right, it can be the one thing. 502 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:06,520 It could be something that's the lust of our eyes, 503 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,480 something that we see, that we're not willing to let go. 504 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,020 It could be something that's the lust of our flesh, 505 00:20:11,020 --> 00:20:13,900 something that we desire and we're not willing to let go, 506 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:18,840 right, or it can be just straight up pride in something. 507 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,060 We're not willing to even get down on our knees 508 00:20:21,060 --> 00:20:27,860 in front of them, it can be the one thing, it only takes one thing to stop you from pursuing 509 00:20:27,860 --> 00:20:35,260 the kingdom of God, it only takes one thing to keep you from, come on say it, one thing, 510 00:20:35,260 --> 00:20:41,220 one thing, it only takes one thing to keep you from receiving the kingdom of God as a 511 00:20:41,220 --> 00:20:46,740 child, Jesus even comments on it, in Mark 10 23 says, 512 00:20:46,740 --> 00:20:51,180 when Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, how hard is it for those who have riches to 513 00:20:51,180 --> 00:20:52,940 enter the kingdom of God? 514 00:20:52,940 --> 00:20:56,820 And the disciples were astonished at his words, but Jesus answered again and said to them, 515 00:20:56,820 --> 00:21:01,660 children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God? 516 00:21:01,660 --> 00:21:10,860 This one thing, this God's one thing was riches, he cared for, he trusted in riches, he wasn't 517 00:21:10,860 --> 00:21:16,700 turning that trust over to Jesus, he trusted in the riches, remember when I said a child 518 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:22,100 will run right off a table, he'll run right off a countertop, he or she, they'll bail 519 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:24,380 right off, why do they do that? 520 00:21:24,380 --> 00:21:29,200 Because they trust the person that's on the other end, there's this deep abiding trust 521 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:35,220 and they will leap, they will hop, they'll jump off a cliff to get in your arms, and 522 00:21:35,220 --> 00:21:42,740 I can tell you today, the complete confidence, your one thing needs to be Jesus, forget everything 523 00:21:42,740 --> 00:21:47,220 else, the one thing you need, the one thing you can have complete confidence in, the one 524 00:21:47,220 --> 00:21:50,740 thing that will take you from here to there, and I'm talking from the beginning to all 525 00:21:50,740 --> 00:21:54,020 of eternity, what is Jesus Christ? 526 00:21:54,020 --> 00:22:00,140 Everything else could fail you, everything else could leave you down, come on, and this 527 00:22:00,140 --> 00:22:05,740 guy, there was no way, he wasn't doing it, he said I'm not leaving this one thing, you 528 00:22:05,740 --> 00:22:12,700 can have complete confidence in Jesus Christ and he will never fail you, the trust, trust 529 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:17,660 to run off, Proverbs 3, 5 and 6 says trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not 530 00:22:17,660 --> 00:22:22,180 on your own understanding in all your ways to acknowledge him and he will direct your 531 00:22:22,180 --> 00:22:29,620 path, it's all in, it's all in, if you look at the word of God, it's always all in, everywhere 532 00:22:29,620 --> 00:22:34,060 you go, and God's word is like all in, all in, all in, can't have the one thing, all 533 00:22:34,060 --> 00:22:39,140 in, all in, it's everywhere you go, Pastor Rick preached about it last week, we've got 534 00:22:39,140 --> 00:22:44,300 to have supreme confidence in Jesus Christ, you're going to have supreme confidence in 535 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:49,460 someone or something, it needs to be Jesus, if you're going to jump off the cliff, man, 536 00:22:49,460 --> 00:22:54,420 only do that with Jesus by the way, don't do that with anybody else, somebody else tell 537 00:22:54,420 --> 00:23:03,780 me jump off a cliff, I'm like no, you go first, I'm not doing that, only Jesus, if we're going 538 00:23:03,780 --> 00:23:10,260 to do it like a child, we've got to drop it all behind us, counter to his rags, for this 539 00:23:10,260 --> 00:23:15,580 guy in this scene, he wanted to follow Jesus, he would have never been in that place, he 540 00:23:15,580 --> 00:23:20,580 would have never ran up to Jesus and fell down on his knees and said Jesus how do I 541 00:23:20,580 --> 00:23:25,460 get eternal, there was something, there was a desire in him to follow Jesus, he wanted 542 00:23:25,460 --> 00:23:32,540 the kingdom, he wanted to follow Christ, it's why he got so sad, but the one thing kept 543 00:23:32,540 --> 00:23:39,100 him, the one thing held him back, can I give you another scripture just to go along those 544 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:44,580 lines, Matthew 10 39 says this, he who finds his life will lose it and he who loses his 545 00:23:44,580 --> 00:23:50,900 life for my sake will find it, he who finds his life will lose it and he who loses his 546 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:57,580 life for my sake, he who puts his premier trust in me ahead of trusting all others and 547 00:23:57,580 --> 00:24:04,860 everything else, and 40 goes on, he who receives you receives me and he who receives me receives 548 00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:08,620 him who sent me, come on, you hear about the receiving part here, right, he who receives 549 00:24:08,620 --> 00:24:12,960 a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward and he who receives a righteous 550 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:17,460 man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward and whoever gives 551 00:24:17,460 --> 00:24:22,580 one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, surely I 552 00:24:22,580 --> 00:24:30,660 say to you he shall by no means lose his reward, receive him, trust him, turn it over to him, 553 00:24:30,660 --> 00:24:36,620 don't let the one thing get in the way, whatever that is, don't let it get in the way, this 554 00:24:36,620 --> 00:24:46,300 rich man who knelt before Jesus, he was a fool, he was a fool, he traded rags for riches, 555 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:52,940 what he had was rags in comparison to what God has, it's rags, anything we possess, anything 556 00:24:52,940 --> 00:25:00,740 I have is rags in comparison to Jesus, it's rags, it's nothing, don't trade it, don't 557 00:25:00,740 --> 00:25:05,300 put it in front of them, right, there's not one thing in your life that is worth trading 558 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:11,260 for the kingdom of God and for Jesus Christ, I'm gonna bring us all home and move towards 559 00:25:11,260 --> 00:25:14,820 the closing, I said move towards, I didn't say I was closing yet, all right, towards 560 00:25:14,820 --> 00:25:20,860 the closing in Mark chapter 10 verse 25 and it says this, it was easier for a camel to 561 00:25:20,860 --> 00:25:24,940 go through the Ivan needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God, this is Jesus 562 00:25:24,940 --> 00:25:28,860 he continues talking, and they were greatly astonished saying among themselves who then 563 00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:33,380 can be saved, but Jesus looked at them and said with men it's impossible, it's impossible 564 00:25:33,380 --> 00:25:39,040 but with God for all things, for with God all things are possible, then Peter began 565 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:44,100 to say to them see we've left all and followed you, so Jesus answered, I love how Peter just 566 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:48,860 goes up, hey Jesus we left all and followed you, right, sticks puts his hand up, right, 567 00:25:48,860 --> 00:25:53,420 so Jesus answered and said as shortly as I say to you there is no one who has left house, 568 00:25:53,420 --> 00:25:57,740 that's things, right, or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wives or children, 569 00:25:57,740 --> 00:26:03,040 that's people, or lands, more stuff, for my sake and the gospels who shall not receive 570 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:07,460 a hundredfold now and this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children 571 00:26:07,460 --> 00:26:13,220 and lands with persecutions and in the age to come eternal life, but many who are first 572 00:26:13,220 --> 00:26:21,340 will be last and the last will be first, wow, why did I read that, because anything you 573 00:26:21,340 --> 00:26:26,500 give up for Jesus, anything you lay on the ground to get to him, he'll make it more than 574 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:31,580 worth it in the future, okay, he'll make it more than worth it in the future, there's 575 00:26:31,580 --> 00:26:37,420 a cost to following Jesus, I don't come pretending that there's not a cost with following Christ, 576 00:26:37,420 --> 00:26:40,780 right, the word of God says we should count the cost, you're going to lay some things 577 00:26:40,780 --> 00:26:44,300 down, you're going to put some things down beside you, behind you, in front of you, you're 578 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:46,820 going to drop it, if you're going to follow Jesus you're going to get to the kingdom, 579 00:26:46,820 --> 00:26:49,380 right, and you're going to receive it like a child, you're going to have to put some 580 00:26:49,380 --> 00:26:53,380 things down, you're going to have to lay it down, there's a cost, but it is nothing, it 581 00:26:53,380 --> 00:27:00,340 is rags, there is exponential, say exponential, come on, there is exponential reward in the 582 00:27:00,340 --> 00:27:04,060 future and the word of God says in this particular scripture, we don't have time to unfold all 583 00:27:04,060 --> 00:27:08,900 that but it says in this scripture that some of that's going to happen now in this life, 584 00:27:08,900 --> 00:27:13,460 right, some of it's when you're in this kingdom right now, but some of it's going to be over 585 00:27:13,460 --> 00:27:17,800 here in the next life, some of it's on this side of heaven where God's going to bless 586 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:22,220 you beyond measure and some of it's going to be on that side of heaven and I can tell 587 00:27:22,220 --> 00:27:26,420 you this, the word of God talks about good success, there's success in this life, you 588 00:27:26,420 --> 00:27:30,660 can say well I know lots of evil people who are successful, absolutely, but it is not 589 00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:35,500 good success, there's a big difference between success and good success, good success has 590 00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:40,660 God's blessing on it, good success has God's hand on it, good success has God's peace on 591 00:27:40,660 --> 00:27:46,420 it, good success will cause growth in your life and I'm telling you, I know plenty of 592 00:27:46,420 --> 00:27:50,940 people that have by the world's terms success and they have nothing but turmoil, they have 593 00:27:50,940 --> 00:27:55,300 nothing but frustration, they have division, they have all these things and they're going 594 00:27:55,300 --> 00:28:02,740 to ultimately lose it all and have nothing in the future, less than, they'll have the 595 00:28:02,740 --> 00:28:12,940 kingdom of darkness, hell, amen, oh man like a child, don't let the one thing get you, 596 00:28:12,940 --> 00:28:18,020 I'm going to ask you to stand this morning, I told you I was getting towards closing, 597 00:28:18,020 --> 00:28:23,020 I know Pastor Eric's coming at the East Shore campus and if you're listening online, honestly 598 00:28:23,020 --> 00:28:29,180 you need to get somewhere where you can pray, you need to get somewhere where you can pray, 599 00:28:29,180 --> 00:28:34,260 I want you just in your mind to picture a child running, some of you have experienced 600 00:28:34,260 --> 00:28:39,220 this in your own families just running to you, arms wide open, that's what Jesus is 601 00:28:39,220 --> 00:28:44,380 looking for, that's what Jesus wants, every day we get up, every morning we get up in 602 00:28:44,380 --> 00:28:51,340 the morning, he wants that childlike approach for the kingdom, for eternal life, for him, 603 00:28:51,340 --> 00:28:55,620 he wants us to chase him down like that and here's something you need to know, all the 604 00:28:55,620 --> 00:28:59,060 enemy wants to do, listen the enemy is probably not going to come and just totally try to 605 00:28:59,060 --> 00:29:02,260 take you out at once because you'll recognize that, but what the enemy will do is he'll 606 00:29:02,260 --> 00:29:06,940 put the one thing in the way and he'll get you just lukewarm, he doesn't want you hot 607 00:29:06,940 --> 00:29:11,540 chasing after God, he doesn't want you dropping stuff and running to Jesus, he wants you just 608 00:29:11,540 --> 00:29:18,140 lukewarm, you know why, do you know what follows lukewarm coffee, 10 minutes later what is 609 00:29:18,140 --> 00:29:27,700 it, it's cold, it's nasty, that's what he wants, he's okay with you hitting lukewarm 610 00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:31,660 because he knows if you stay lukewarm you're not going to chase God, you're not going to 611 00:29:31,660 --> 00:29:36,300 chase after Jesus, that's not going to be your single focus, you'll get everything, 612 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:40,460 he'll get the one thing in the way and he's perfectly fine just letting you hit lukewarm 613 00:29:40,460 --> 00:29:44,500 because the enemy has been around a long time and he knows if you stay lukewarm long enough 614 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:50,100 you'll slide right over into cold and you'll walk, you'll dust yourself off and you'll 615 00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:58,700 walk, amen, and he'll keep you from the kingdom and you'll trade rags for riches, he really 616 00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:08,460 will, I'm going to ask you to bow your heads, I want you to picture it in your mind, picture 617 00:30:08,460 --> 00:30:17,900 it in your mind this morning, I want you, I don't want you to picture a kid, I want 618 00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:24,300 you to picture yourself, if you had to picture yourself in the scripture would you be running 619 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:31,420 after Jesus like a child runs after a parent, are you kicking and screaming and scratching 620 00:30:31,420 --> 00:30:36,060 and clawing to get to whatever God has for you and what God wants to do in your life 621 00:30:36,060 --> 00:30:46,940 and what God is speaking to you, are you just letting the one thing get in the way, listen 622 00:30:46,940 --> 00:30:51,500 the devil doesn't want you kicking and clawing and screaming and approaching the kingdom 623 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:58,600 like a child because he can't stop that, he has no power over that, he's got to get out 624 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:05,460 of the way when you get like that, all of hell cannot hold you back when you get like 625 00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:14,340 that, so he does everything in his power to keep you from there, distractions, stress, 626 00:31:14,340 --> 00:31:23,700 problems, issues, Father we come to you right now in the matchless name of Jesus Christ 627 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:30,100 and God I pray for a stirring in our spirit this morning, God I pray that desire begins 628 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:36,740 to stir in our hearts, God I pray God that we set resolve and God we make our minds up 629 00:31:36,740 --> 00:31:41,260 that no matter what the enemy throws at us, no matter what he continues to pelt us with 630 00:31:41,260 --> 00:31:45,380 that it is not going to be the one thing that gets in the way, God I pray right now God 631 00:31:45,380 --> 00:31:49,660 for a stirring in our souls that the Holy Spirit would begin to stir within us and God 632 00:31:49,660 --> 00:31:53,300 that we would come to the place of resolve where we are going to chase God, we are going 633 00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:58,100 to go down swinging, man here's the thing church we are not going to go down, so Lord 634 00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:04,860 I pray God that you help us, stir us on our spirits God till we cannot stand still, God 635 00:32:04,860 --> 00:32:11,380 till we move forward in you, God till we chase you with everything that is within us, God 636 00:32:11,380 --> 00:32:17,620 this is not about us, this is about you and your kingdom, and Lord I want your kingdom, 637 00:32:17,620 --> 00:32:23,580 I want to know it, I want to experience it and I do not want to trade rags for riches 638 00:32:23,580 --> 00:32:34,820 in you, God make me like a child, in this one aspect make us like a child, in Jesus 639 00:32:34,820 --> 00:32:35,820 name, amen. 640 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:06,300 Amen. 641 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:34,780 Amen.