1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,440 Thank you for listening to this message from LifeHouse Church. 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:12,440 Good morning. 3 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:13,440 Good morning. 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:19,440 It is good to see you at LifeHouse. 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,720 You know, as we were worshipping God, I thought crossed my mind, I don't know how many you 6 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:28,080 came into the doors this morning, maybe came through the front doors or maybe even started 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:29,180 in a parking lot. 8 00:00:29,180 --> 00:00:32,880 But how many of you came through the front doors expecting God to do something? 9 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,840 Yeah, about three of you. 10 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:36,840 Awesome. 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:37,840 All right. 12 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,760 Listen, expectation is faith. 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,160 And when you come to God's house, you should expect to meet God. 14 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:47,740 When you go to prayer at your home, you should expect to meet God. 15 00:00:47,740 --> 00:00:51,400 When you get in His Word, you should expect to meet God there. 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:52,900 You should listen. 17 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:54,000 God is a giving God. 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,880 He wants to give you something today, something in your head, something in your heart, right? 19 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,800 Something that you might need even physically. 20 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:03,440 And He's there to do that. 21 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:08,160 And I don't know why I feel prompted to say this this morning, but you just listen, gear 22 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:09,160 up now. 23 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:10,160 It's not too late. 24 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,160 Amen. 25 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:12,480 I mean, it's good when it's not too late. 26 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,160 It's not too late. 27 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:15,720 Just come. 28 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,160 Sit there this morning. 29 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:18,160 Stand later. 30 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,400 But expect God to do something in your life. 31 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:21,960 I believe that with all my heart. 32 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:25,440 Yeah, I think God just is sitting up there waiting sometimes for us to expect Him to 33 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,640 do something and expect Him to step in and He'll do it. 34 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,280 He meets us every time. 35 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:31,280 God always meets faith. 36 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,280 I'll never stop saying that as long as I live. 37 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,840 You can see it all through His Word and it's just true. 38 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:36,840 Amen. 39 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:37,840 Amen. 40 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:38,840 That was a mini sermon. 41 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:39,840 That's not going to cost you a thing. 42 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:40,840 All right. 43 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,600 Well, listen, more than once, I've heard this saying, I've heard that the only people who 44 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:49,400 really like change are babies when their diapers are full. 45 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,520 They're the only ones that like change. 46 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:56,120 And while I believe that is generally true, I actually am a little more from the school 47 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:01,360 of thought that the only people or the only thing that people like about change is if 48 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,640 it is bite sized. 49 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:09,640 OK, people like change if it's bite sized, if it's small enough that they can chew on 50 00:02:09,640 --> 00:02:10,640 it, right? 51 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:15,960 If it's sample size in nature, people are kind of OK with change. 52 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,360 It's a little bit like going to the ice cream shop. 53 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,760 How many of you thinking about ice cream right now? 54 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:21,760 Just said it right. 55 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,680 If you go to the ice cream shop and it's a good ice cream shop, you can walk in the 56 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:30,520 door and there's going to be a glass case and there's going to be all these flavors 57 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:31,520 of ice cream. 58 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:32,520 Right. 59 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:33,520 There's vats of it. 60 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,560 You can go down to Leo's or Massey's here in Carlisle and you might see flavors of ice 61 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,600 cream and you know, and you'll stand in if you're going to change it up. 62 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,280 I know some of you won't because you eat the same thing every time you go there. 63 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,680 But if you're going to change it up, you got a sense of adventure, you go in and there's 64 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:50,560 a change that's going to take place. 65 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,840 How many know you stand there and stare for a while? 66 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:53,840 Right. 67 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:55,880 They like, do I get the rocky road? 68 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:57,080 Do I get the chocolate? 69 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,680 You know, the vanilla dipped in chocolate. 70 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,360 Do I get the jalapeno cornbread ice cream? 71 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,360 Yeah, come on. 72 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:06,360 Like who? 73 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:07,360 It's a real thing. 74 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:08,360 All right. 75 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,160 Is it raspberry chocolate that I get? 76 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:12,720 And you'll stand and stare. 77 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,640 And when you finally decide you're going to actually make a change, you'll say, can I 78 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:18,280 have a little bit of that? 79 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,620 And they bring out this little itty bitty spoon. 80 00:03:20,620 --> 00:03:21,880 It's about this big. 81 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:22,880 Right. 82 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,480 You put a little bit in there and you throw that thing in your mouth and you got a napkin 83 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:27,480 in one hand, right. 84 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:28,900 The sample in the other. 85 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:32,160 And you take a taste of that thing because it's a change, right. 86 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:33,160 It's bite size. 87 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,080 And you know, if you don't like it, you can do one of two things. 88 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,920 You can either swallow fast and chuck the spoon or you can act like you're coughing and 89 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:39,920 spit into the napkin. 90 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:40,920 Right. 91 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,520 And chuck that right back out of your mouth. 92 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:43,920 But that's how we like things. 93 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,200 We like things in a bite size. 94 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:47,200 Right. 95 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,320 Easy to swallow kind of change, you know, and low commitment. 96 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:53,320 Low commitment. 97 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:54,320 Say low commitment. 98 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:55,320 Right. 99 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,120 Easy out in the change. 100 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,040 You like quick, quick route of escape in whatever we're doing. 101 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:06,160 We like bite size change. 102 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,040 Retailers have caught on to this food retailers. 103 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:12,520 If you go into somewhere like Sam's Club, you and you wander around the store long enough, 104 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:16,360 they'll have somebody will be standing behind a little kiosk and they'll have little sample 105 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:17,360 cups. 106 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:18,360 Right. 107 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,680 And they're trying to get you to change the food that you're eating and they'll give you 108 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,440 a little sample of some something or other. 109 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:25,440 Right. 110 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,440 Listen, if you walk around Sam's Club long enough, you can have a meal. 111 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,040 You just keep going around in circles. 112 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:31,040 Right. 113 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,320 Keep trying to samples out and they're on to it because they know people like change 114 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,640 as long as it's bite sized. 115 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:39,800 Tell somebody beside you, I like bite size change. 116 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:40,800 Just admit it. 117 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:41,800 Confess it. 118 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:42,800 Right. 119 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:43,800 Come on. 120 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:44,800 I like bite size change. 121 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:50,400 And the new thing is my friend, as long as it's bite size. 122 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:58,360 But Jesus tells some scribes and Pharisees that if you're going to have Jesus, if Jesus 123 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:03,280 is the new thing in your life, it can't be sample size and it can't be bite size. 124 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:07,280 If you got your Bible this morning, I want you to turn to Luke chapter five. 125 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:11,120 We're going to go to verse 27, Luke chapter five, verse 27. 126 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,360 And I'll give you just a moment to get there. 127 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,200 Give you a second to flip pages. 128 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,160 Luke chapter five, verse 27. 129 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,840 I say that three times because I know when I used to sit out there, they'd say it once 130 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:25,840 and I was like, I know he said Luke, but I can't remember where I was supposed to go. 131 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:26,840 Luke five, twenty seven. 132 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:32,360 If you're listening online, thank you for being with us this morning at East Shore. 133 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:37,800 Luke five, twenty seven says this after these things, he went out and saw a tax collector 134 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,640 named Levi sitting at the tax office and he said to him, follow me. 135 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,120 So he left all rose up and followed him. 136 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:49,200 And Levi gave him a great feast in his own house and there was a great number of tax 137 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:54,040 collectors and others who sat down with them and their scribes and their Pharisees complained 138 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,440 against his disciples saying, why do you, Jesus, right? 139 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,880 Why does Jesus eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? 140 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:06,120 Jesus answered and said to them, those who are well have no need of a physician, but 141 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:07,320 those who are sick. 142 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,600 I've not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 143 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,560 And they said to him, why did the disciples of John fast often? 144 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:18,080 They start questioning Jesus and the disciples and making prayers and likewise those of the 145 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,520 Pharisees, but yours eat and drink. 146 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,480 And he said to them, can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom 147 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:25,720 is with them? 148 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,080 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. 149 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,360 Then they will fast in those days. 150 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,440 And then he spoke a parable to them, just like Jesus does. 151 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,140 He tells them a story and he says this. 152 00:06:38,140 --> 00:06:41,920 No one puts a piece of a new garment on an old one. 153 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:47,240 Otherwise the new makes a tear and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not 154 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:48,920 match the old. 155 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:54,240 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins or else the new wine will burst the wineskins 156 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,200 and be spilled and the wineskins will be ruined. 157 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:03,280 But new wine must be put into new wineskins and both are preserved. 158 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:11,040 And no one having drunk old wine immediately desires new for he says the old is better. 159 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:12,280 I'm asking you bow your heads and pray. 160 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,000 Father we thank you for this day. 161 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,120 God for your word Lord that is so powerful. 162 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,680 And Lord we ask today, God that you will guide us and direct us. 163 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,800 Lord help us to see what you say in your word. 164 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,840 And Holy Spirit I pray you speak into hearts and minds this morning and we give you praise 165 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:27,440 and glory in Jesus name. 166 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,760 And everybody said together amen. 167 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:37,840 Sometimes we may be very comfortable with a bite-sized portion of change. 168 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:44,320 We'll take the old thing and we'll slap a new thing that's just small enough that we're 169 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,880 okay with it. 170 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:50,080 We'll take the new patch and put it on an old garment. 171 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:54,440 We'll slap the old thing into the new thing and we think it's going to do the trick. 172 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:59,760 We might take a little bit of the new and put it in the old container. 173 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,560 We might mix them together. 174 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,800 We might feel like it's more palatable if I can get a little bit of the new in with a 175 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,200 whole bunch of the old that I've got going on right here. 176 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:15,680 And Jesus talking to these groups of scribes and Pharisees, these kind of hypocritical 177 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:22,760 religious leaders that Jesus was doing, he's letting them know I'm doing a new way of ministry. 178 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:26,640 And you guys are having trouble getting the old mixed with the new. 179 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,680 You're having a difficult time because they were watching Jesus. 180 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,880 They're looking at Jesus and Jesus is meeting with sinners. 181 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,360 He's meeting with tax collectors who were hated and despised in their culture. 182 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:42,080 Imagine this, Jesus actually built a relationship with these people. 183 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,740 He actually sat down and had a meal with them. 184 00:08:44,740 --> 00:08:48,120 He actually learned who they were to bring them to God. 185 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:49,560 Can you imagine? 186 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:50,560 Relational evangelism. 187 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:51,560 Isn't that something? 188 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:54,960 And the Pharisees and the scribes say, this is brand new. 189 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:56,840 We don't do this. 190 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,000 We don't do it this way. 191 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,200 We do it the old way. 192 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,320 They stay over here and we stay over here. 193 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:11,080 And Jesus told this group of stuffy, unaffected religious leaders, new wine requires a new 194 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:12,320 container. 195 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:13,480 Tell someone that. 196 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,040 New wine requires a new container. 197 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,800 New wine requires a new container. 198 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,120 Jesus was the new wine. 199 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:27,520 He's talking about himself and he was letting these crusty, hard-hearted scribes and Pharisees, 200 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,680 hypocritical religious leaders know that if you're going to consume the new wine, if you're 201 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:38,040 going to take me, Jesus, I'm God's son, if you're going to take me in, then some things 202 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,440 got to change and it can't be just a little bit. 203 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,760 It can't be just a little bit on the inside. 204 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,760 As a matter of fact, I am brand new. 205 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:46,120 I've got the new covenant. 206 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:47,800 I'm the New Testament. 207 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,240 I am the new promise between God and man. 208 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,080 I am the new way. 209 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:53,320 I am the bread of life. 210 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,000 I am the way, the truth, and the life. 211 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,840 That's what Jesus said. 212 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:02,240 I'm the new way, the new plan to reconcile God back to man. 213 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:03,240 All those things, I'm new. 214 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,640 If you're going to drink the new wine, if you're going to take me in, then you've got 215 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,080 to change the wine skin. 216 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,720 It has to become new inside and out. 217 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,800 New wine requires a new wine skin. 218 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,920 Bite-sized change won't cut it. 219 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:26,040 A little sip of the new mixed in with all that old won't work. 220 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:29,280 You've got to understand Jesus was speaking in something that they would understand. 221 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:30,600 He's given them the parable. 222 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:32,600 He's given them a little picture. 223 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:37,480 We don't do this so much anymore because we have modern conveniences and we have glass 224 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,240 containers for liquid and those kind of things. 225 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:46,160 Back in that time, when they had new wine, when they had squeezed the grapes, they would 226 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,040 put it into wine skins. 227 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:51,240 Wine skins were leather pouches. 228 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:56,840 They were leather containers that contained the wine, the new wine. 229 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:01,480 They would put new wine in there and they would do it with new leather because fermentation 230 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,240 causes gases to be released. 231 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:10,200 When they would seal this, the gases would release and the wine skin had to stretch. 232 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:15,680 It had to be soft leather where it would stretch out as the gases were released. 233 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:20,760 If they put it in an old wine skin, if they put it in something that was crusty, and how 234 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:29,160 many of you saw an old piece of leather that gets stiff and it's been used and it's been 235 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,960 worn and it's dried out and it's just hard. 236 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:38,960 If they would take that same wine, that new wine, and put it in an old wine skin and it 237 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:44,400 would begin to ferment, it would begin to expand and expand and eventually it would 238 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:50,120 split and the wine would be spilled out and the wine skin would be ruined and the wine 239 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:51,120 would be ruined. 240 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:56,520 For these scribes and these Pharisees that Jesus was talking to, He said, look, you can't 241 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:03,320 shove just a little bit of me inside and stick with all the old ways that you're doing things. 242 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:07,480 You can't make religion, and listen, for the scribes and Pharisees, they weren't really 243 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,840 following God. 244 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,800 They had made this whole religious system. 245 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:18,680 In some respects they were, but in other ways, they were caught up in the prestige of who 246 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:25,600 they were in amongst the temple and who they were in their education and they were all 247 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:27,600 caught in this and they didn't understand. 248 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,080 They weren't even after people who were lost. 249 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,200 That's why they were cutting on Jesus while He's out there talking to people who didn't 250 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:35,200 know God. 251 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,720 And Jesus told them, guys, this isn't going to work. 252 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:44,960 If you want God, if you want me, if you want new life, if you want the new covenant, if 253 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:52,080 you want the new way to God, it's all got to change inside and out. 254 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:59,480 Jesus on the inside of me means that there's going to be evidence on the outside of me. 255 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:06,720 If there's change, new wine inside of me, it's going to show up in a spiritual expansion 256 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,680 in my life. 257 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:13,280 If Christ is in me, I'm going to spiritually expand and it's literally going to begin to 258 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:14,640 spill out over me. 259 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:15,640 It's going to begin. 260 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,400 You're going to there's going to be evidence of that on the outside. 261 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,080 You're going to see me begin to expand spiritually. 262 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,240 You're going to see me begin to grow. 263 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,160 It's not a bite size, sample size, kind of like a little dab will do you. 264 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:29,640 I remember that right. 265 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,240 Little dab will do you kind of change. 266 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,120 It's not that at all. 267 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,720 It's all new. 268 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:42,680 And we can't claim to have Jesus on the inside and don't see any outside renewal taking place. 269 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:43,680 It's just not true. 270 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:49,240 Second Corinthians 511 says this because we understand our fearful responsibility to the 271 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:50,240 Lord. 272 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,800 We work hard to persuade others. 273 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,840 This is Paul writing to the Corinthians. 274 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,880 God knows we are sincere and I hope you know this too. 275 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,040 Are we commending ourselves to you again? 276 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:04,520 No, we are giving you a reason to be proud of us so you can answer those who brag about 277 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:08,860 having a spectacular ministry rather than having a sincere heart. 278 00:14:08,860 --> 00:14:12,280 If it seems we're crazy, it is to bring glory to God. 279 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,320 And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit. 280 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,880 Either way, Christ's love controls us. 281 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:25,160 Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our 282 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,560 old life. 283 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,840 The old wine skin, the old sinful man. 284 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:36,520 He died for everyone so that those who received this new life will no longer live for themselves. 285 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:42,640 Instead they will live for Christ who died and was raised for them. 286 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:44,600 Jesus paid the price for your sin. 287 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,480 He prays for the covering of your sin. 288 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,920 But we die to that old life. 289 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,960 Jesus on the inside shows up on the outside. 290 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,360 There's evidence of that taking place. 291 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,680 If there's new wine inside of you, it's going to expand you spiritually and some of that 292 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:05,960 old crusty stuff is going to bust off of you and something new is going to take place on 293 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:06,960 the outside. 294 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:12,560 Verse 16 says this, so we've stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. 295 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,400 At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. 296 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,280 How differently we know him now. 297 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:23,200 This means anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. 298 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,300 Say a new person. 299 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:28,240 Other translations say a new creation. 300 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:33,560 The old life is gone and a new life has begun. 301 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,400 The old life's history. 302 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:36,960 It's gone. 303 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:42,080 My life in Jesus does not look like my old life in the world without Jesus. 304 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:43,160 There's change. 305 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,280 There's a noticeable difference that begins to take place. 306 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:51,720 And Paul told the Corinthians if you want new wine in Jesus, if you want Christ in your 307 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,400 life, there's going to be evidence it's going to show up. 308 00:15:54,400 --> 00:16:00,580 What's on the inside is going to come on in the outside and there's no dabble in this. 309 00:16:00,580 --> 00:16:03,260 There's no bite size to it. 310 00:16:03,260 --> 00:16:05,560 You can't stay the same. 311 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:11,040 Romans 6.5 says this, for we have been united together in the likeness of his death. 312 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:15,880 Certainly we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this that the old man 313 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,000 was crucified with him. 314 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,240 How many know what happens at crucifixion? 315 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,120 Y'all are church people. 316 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,120 Alright, come on. 317 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,360 Do you know what happens when something's crucified? 318 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:31,080 It dies. 319 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,440 We know that from Jesus dying on the cross, right? 320 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,580 And the old man was crucified with him. 321 00:16:37,580 --> 00:16:40,560 That old man needs to die off. 322 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,540 Just like Jesus died on the cross, there's crucifixion. 323 00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:45,560 That body of sin might be done away with it. 324 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:48,580 We should no longer be slaves to sin. 325 00:16:48,580 --> 00:16:51,160 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 326 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:55,920 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, knowing that 327 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,400 Christ having been raised from the dead dies no more. 328 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,280 Death no longer has dominion over us. 329 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,800 For the death that he called, he died to sin once and for all. 330 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,520 But the life he lives, he lives to God. 331 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,640 Likewise, say likewise. 332 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:15,220 Likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin. 333 00:17:15,220 --> 00:17:20,380 But alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord, therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal 334 00:17:20,380 --> 00:17:25,000 body that you should obey it in its lusts. 335 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,220 New wine requires a new wine skin. 336 00:17:29,220 --> 00:17:30,800 Not bite-sized change. 337 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,480 There's not a bite-sized change. 338 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:40,620 If we see change on the outside, or no change on the outside, and Jesus is on the inside, 339 00:17:40,620 --> 00:17:43,520 we should start to question ourselves. 340 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:48,880 If we say Jesus is on the inside and there's nothing different going on on the outside, 341 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:50,660 maybe something's wrong. 342 00:17:50,660 --> 00:17:56,760 If we don't got an urge in us to begin to reject sin on the outside because Jesus is 343 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,600 on the inside, maybe something's off. 344 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:05,960 The old man of sin, maybe he's not dying away, but maybe we're feeding that man of sin. 345 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,240 We don't crucify that old man. 346 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,280 How many of you got to do that on the regular? 347 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,040 This isn't a one-shot deal. 348 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:13,880 Jesus comes and washes us clean. 349 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:14,880 It's his blood. 350 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,400 But man, I got to crucify this flesh over and over again. 351 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:22,860 I don't know if you've ever got carnal, but once in a while I get carnal. 352 00:18:22,860 --> 00:18:24,120 That means I get sinful in nature. 353 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:27,760 Did you ever get really angry and just say some things you really shouldn't have said? 354 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:28,760 Amen? 355 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:29,760 Anybody do that this morning? 356 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,800 Come on, confession's good for the soul. 357 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:38,040 Sometimes you got to, listen, we got to crucify that old man. 358 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,200 There's no such thing as a camo Christian. 359 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,320 I don't know if you know that or not. 360 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:48,800 You wear camo in the woods so that you blend in, so that you look like a tree. 361 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,360 So when you crawl up in a tree, you got camo and you just look like the tree that's around 362 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:53,360 you. 363 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:54,360 There's no such thing as a camo Christian. 364 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:57,080 What's on the inside's got to come out on the outside. 365 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,100 If Jesus is on the inside, something's going to look different on the outside. 366 00:19:00,100 --> 00:19:01,100 There's no camo Christians. 367 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:02,100 It's not a thing. 368 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:03,940 It's not in scripture, right? 369 00:19:03,940 --> 00:19:10,040 We've got to grab hold of this reality because if I don't, if I don't let Jesus change all 370 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,560 of me, it will ultimately tear me up. 371 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:15,280 It will ultimately tear me up. 372 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,440 The wine skin will tear. 373 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,520 Everything will begin to spill out. 374 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,120 I won't die to that old sinful self. 375 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:27,080 I don't let God begin to transform me from the inside out. 376 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:30,840 I will live in a state of hypocrisy. 377 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:32,880 I'll live in a state of hypocrisy. 378 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:37,440 I'll live in a state where Jesus is on the inside, but I am willfully sinning on the 379 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,040 outside and it'll tear you up eventually. 380 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,640 It'll begin to tear you apart. 381 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,580 You'll blow up inside. 382 00:19:45,580 --> 00:19:48,200 When you're struggling with this dichotomy, right? 383 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:53,520 I know we're always in that struggle, but if we've got Jesus on the inside and we're 384 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:59,280 intentionally sinning on the outside, that hypocrisy will begin to build up inside of 385 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,280 you and it'll begin to rip you up. 386 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,880 You're saying, well, Pastor, does that mean that you're saying if I have any sin in my 387 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:06,760 life, right, that I'm going to blow up? 388 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,000 No, not at all, right? 389 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:12,720 The word of God says all of us sin and fall short of the glory of God. 390 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,320 It tells us that in Romans. 391 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:20,000 What I am saying is my attitude towards sin should change, right? 392 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,240 It should shift. 393 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:28,200 I should begin to hate sin because it separates me from God, right? 394 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,360 If I don't hate sin, why don't I? 395 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:35,400 If I've developed this heart where I'm no longer hating sin and the thing is separating 396 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:41,200 me, why am I not hating what separates me from God, right? 397 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:46,040 It's where we're at in our spirit, our attitude. 398 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:51,640 Do I just accept that I'm continuing on in sin and I keep working the things that are 399 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:57,920 not godly in my life or do I begin to die to some of those things? 400 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:04,560 And if you don't, if we don't make that shift, it will eventually tear you up. 401 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:09,840 The wine skin will tear because you're mixing the old with the new. 402 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:14,560 If I could give you a picture of this, how many of you have ever driven by like an old 403 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:18,960 field somewhere and there's an old rusty car sitting out in the middle of the field? 404 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,320 Raise your hand if you've ever done that. 405 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:26,800 You go by a farmer's field somewhere and there's this car and it might have been from the 70s, 406 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:35,120 way back in the 70s or way back in the 50s or way back in the 80s, that kind of thing. 407 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:40,200 So and it's sitting out in the middle of the field and it's got rust all over it and it's 408 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:46,600 rusted through and some of the panels and there's holes in it and from the outside, 409 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:47,600 right? 410 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:52,200 Something and it rusted through and eventually the rust made its way maybe to the frame of 411 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:58,040 the car or something mechanical in the car and it was never serviced and it began to 412 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:03,280 rust out and sooner or later it just died and they stuck it on blocks or they drug it 413 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:08,120 down to the middle of a field or that's where it quit and it's just sitting there rusting 414 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:09,240 it, right? 415 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,720 Age wasn't the issue. 416 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,320 Age wasn't the problem with the car because there's a lot of beautiful old cars running 417 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,280 around that were maintained. 418 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,160 The problem was that the rust wasn't dealt with, right? 419 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,840 The rust on the outside wasn't dealt with. 420 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,220 It wasn't knocked off. 421 00:22:23,220 --> 00:22:26,240 It wasn't maintained. 422 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:27,520 Somebody along the way, right? 423 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,240 Somebody was going down the road and they're like, I hear something whistling. 424 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,880 You know, there's a hole in my car somewhere, right? 425 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:34,920 And they get out and look and they see the rust, you know what they do? 426 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,400 They get in and turn the radio up. 427 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:37,400 Yeah. 428 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:38,400 And they just keep on going, right? 429 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:43,480 And it just keeps eating the panel away and then it works its way to the frame. 430 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:47,880 Rust is a violation of the car's structural integrity. 431 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,860 Sin will be a violation of your spiritual integrity. 432 00:22:51,860 --> 00:22:54,680 If you let it remain, it'll grow. 433 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,800 If you don't deal with it, it'll continue to grow. 434 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:02,440 It'll continue to grow and sooner or later you're going to get in this struggle and 435 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:08,720 something's going to tear if you don't deal with it because unchecked sin separates us 436 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,720 from God. 437 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,520 We got to die to sin. 438 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,400 We got to kill it off before it kills us. 439 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:20,400 I need to cop an attitude with the rust in my life. 440 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:27,360 I need to get angry about the rust in my life and come on, push it away. 441 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:30,520 How many of you got to get an attitude sometimes about sin? 442 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,520 You got to say, I'm not talking about the sinner, I'm talking about the sin in our own 443 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:35,520 lives. 444 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:36,520 We got to say no. 445 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,960 You got to get ruthless in removing it. 446 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:40,960 Charlie's sitting right here in front. 447 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,480 He owns an auto body shop, shameless plug. 448 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,800 He's got an auto body shop. 449 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,480 But do you know what they do to cars that are all rusted when they come in? 450 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,480 One of the first things they do to prep, and I know this because I used to work in a garage 451 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:57,400 a hundred years ago, they get a grinder out and a grinder is a high speed mechanism that 452 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:03,960 has a hard grinding wheel on it and it runs at thousands of rpms per minute. 453 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,400 And they grab a hold of that thing and they go to the rust and they begin to grind. 454 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,720 And you'll see sparks flying and there's rust flying and they've got goggles on and shields 455 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,000 and gloves on because it's a violent thing. 456 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:22,740 And they're just grinding that rust right off that car. 457 00:24:22,740 --> 00:24:25,560 You got to get serious about removing the sin. 458 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,080 You got to get the rust out of your life. 459 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:29,440 They use another method. 460 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,800 Sometimes they'll sandblast the car. 461 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,860 And what that is, is it's an air hose. 462 00:24:33,860 --> 00:24:39,380 It's a high pressure air hose that sucks up sand and it draws up into this nozzle and 463 00:24:39,380 --> 00:24:41,200 you shoot it at the car. 464 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:46,600 And man, if you have a good sandblaster, when you hit that rust, it pulverizes it. 465 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,200 It blows it apart. 466 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,600 It takes it right down to the metal. 467 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:51,600 It's clean. 468 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:57,240 In our lives, we've got to be aggressive about removing sin. 469 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:01,760 Be radical about knocking the rust out of our lives. 470 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,280 Relying on the Holy Spirit. 471 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:08,000 Asking God to forgive us and let the blood of Jesus remove the sin of our lives. 472 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,400 We got to get radical. 473 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,280 And God's got some methods for getting radical with this thing. 474 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:15,600 You know what the first one is? 475 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:16,600 It's confession. 476 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:17,600 Oh, confession. 477 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:18,600 Confession. 478 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:19,600 How many know confession? 479 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,240 Confession is a radical thing. 480 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,000 Oh, it is. 481 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,640 Confessing our sin. 482 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaking our sin out loud is hard. 483 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:36,920 Admitting what's going on in our lives and speaking that out is difficult, but it is 484 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:37,920 powerful. 485 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,280 It is powerful. 486 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:45,280 When we confess to Christ, when we confess to another individual who's a trusted person, 487 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,840 another believer that we can trust and that they'll pray together with us and not judge 488 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:49,840 us, right? 489 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,880 They'll just come together beside us. 490 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,440 When you begin to confess that, you know what happens with confession? 491 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:56,880 You expose the metal, right? 492 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,360 You expose the rust. 493 00:25:58,360 --> 00:25:59,800 You expose the sin. 494 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:04,880 You put it out there and it's the first step of grinding that rust out of your life. 495 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:05,880 And it's confession. 496 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,120 And then you go to step two in the preparation. 497 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:15,400 Which, you know, in this aggressive approach to get rid of sin in our lives, it's repentance. 498 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:16,400 Right? 499 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,840 Repentance means I was going this way and I repented. 500 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:20,840 I confessed. 501 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:21,840 I repented. 502 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:22,840 Now I'm going this way. 503 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:23,840 Right? 504 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,680 I was heading this direction in sin and now I decided, you know what? 505 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,400 Jesus said, that's not the way to go. 506 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,400 So I'm going to go this way in righteousness. 507 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,760 It's a complete opposite change. 508 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,120 So you confess and then you repent. 509 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:37,640 And can I help you out a little bit on the repentance side? 510 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,120 It's not an easy thing to do on your own. 511 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:41,520 It's a hard thing to do on your own. 512 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:46,240 As a matter of fact, probably if this sin's been going on in your life for a while and 513 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,200 you've struggled with it and you've hung on to it and you can't seem to get rid of it, 514 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,200 you know why? 515 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,280 You probably need some help getting rid of that thing. 516 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:54,280 Right? 517 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,280 You know what? 518 00:26:55,280 --> 00:27:00,840 This crazy thing I've observed in life, cars don't grind the rust off themselves. 519 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:01,960 Strange thing. 520 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,960 I've never seen a car pick a grinder up and grind the rust off its own body panel. 521 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:06,960 Right? 522 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,560 It needs someone else. 523 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,320 So when you get to confession and then you get to repentance, that same person maybe 524 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,120 that you confess with and you trust and they can walk beside you, you need to walk and 525 00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:17,120 repent with that. 526 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:18,120 You got to stay accountable. 527 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:19,120 Right? 528 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:21,760 You got to have somebody asking you, hey man, you still messing with that thing? 529 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:22,760 Right? 530 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:23,760 You still going that direction? 531 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,560 Because it's going to tear you up eventually. 532 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,680 The hypocrisy in your life, you're going to bounce back and forth. 533 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,040 You're going to be like a wave of the sea. 534 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,040 Right? 535 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,040 James talks about that. 536 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,720 You're going to go back and forth and it'll rip you up. 537 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,560 Don't do it. 538 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,480 See sin separates us from a sinless God. 539 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,280 And a lot of people, they struggle with that. 540 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:50,320 A lot of times I'll say, well sin separates you from a sinless God. 541 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,280 And they're like, well that's not very nice. 542 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:53,360 You know, why do I understand that? 543 00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:54,360 I don't get that. 544 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:58,080 Well that's really funny because in our society we completely accept that. 545 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,400 You know, if you sin in society, right? 546 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:06,520 If you go rob a bank, if you go kidnap somebody, if you get caught murdering somebody, guess 547 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,120 what happens to you? 548 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:10,120 You get separated. 549 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:12,280 You get put in jail, right? 550 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,200 And everybody's going hallelujah, right? 551 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,920 The murder is off the street. 552 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,160 And you get separated. 553 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,400 Sin separates us from God. 554 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:21,400 It did at the beginning. 555 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,200 Go to the Garden of Eden. 556 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,080 It separated Adam and Eve from God. 557 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,720 Knock that thing out of your life. 558 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,180 Get away from it. 559 00:28:31,180 --> 00:28:35,820 Get somebody on board with you because it will separate us from God. 560 00:28:35,820 --> 00:28:37,800 It's not bite-sized change. 561 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,960 It really isn't. 562 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,920 God calls us to radical change, man. 563 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:50,720 But new wine must be put in a new wine skin and both are preserved. 564 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:51,720 Last thought for the day. 565 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,080 Last thought about bite-sized change. 566 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:59,760 The Word of God says in verse 39, it said, no one having drunk old wine immediately desires 567 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,120 new for he says the old is better. 568 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:09,520 People may need bite-sized samples before they buy the meal. 569 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:14,120 People who do not know Jesus, I'm not talking about people who have accepted the Lord. 570 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:19,160 People who do not know Jesus as Lord and Savior, they might need some samples of Jesus. 571 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,540 How many know you're the sampler? 572 00:29:21,540 --> 00:29:22,800 You are the sample. 573 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,240 They might need a sample. 574 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:28,400 Before they fill up with Jesus, before they say Jesus is going to come into my life and 575 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,280 they're going to turn it all over to them, right? 576 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,720 And inside and out it's going to get all brand new. 577 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,720 They might need a little taste of who he is. 578 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,560 They might need a little taste of what he's about. 579 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:42,360 They might need just a smidge of what he can do in their life. 580 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,480 They're going to need a bite-sized sample of who Jesus is and you're the bite-sized 581 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,480 sample, right? 582 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,680 And it might convince them to go all in. 583 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:55,880 It might convince them to like, hey, this is what you need in your life. 584 00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:01,840 I remember years ago for the first probably 40 years of my life, I think it was around 585 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:06,080 40 some, my wife will help me with the numbers on this, but probably the first 40 some years 586 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,160 of my life, I didn't drink any coffee at all. 587 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,680 And in fact, if somebody offered me a coffee and I had sipped some before I'm like, you 588 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,720 know, drinks that garbage, you know, it's black coffee. 589 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,160 You know, I didn't drink any coffee at all and I just didn't want anything to do with 590 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:20,160 it. 591 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,280 I want to spend one dime on buying a coffee. 592 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,360 And then one time I was out with my friend named Larry and Larry said, you know what? 593 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:27,360 You need to try this. 594 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,040 I'm like, I don't know. 595 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,040 I don't know. 596 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,040 Yeah. 597 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,040 I've never had one before. 598 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,040 It's awful. 599 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,040 It's terrible. 600 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:35,040 He goes, no, you got to try my coffee. 601 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:41,000 And I'm like, ah, you know, and so he made me this Fufu vanilla latte, something or other 602 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,440 coffee, right? 603 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:43,440 Never had one before. 604 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,200 I always got that black stuff. 605 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,540 You know, he made me some Fufu thing. 606 00:30:47,540 --> 00:30:48,540 And I took a sip of that thing. 607 00:30:48,540 --> 00:30:51,440 I'm like, this is all right. 608 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,400 You know, I'm like, what is different with this? 609 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,320 And I took some samples of that thing and I took a few more sips. 610 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,440 And then I drank the whole thing. 611 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,740 And then we got multiple coffee makers. 612 00:31:04,740 --> 00:31:08,240 This happened to my wife a little later in life with iced coffee. 613 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,440 And then we bought multiple different kind of coffee makers. 614 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,480 And I built a coffee bar in my kitchen. 615 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,520 I have a whole countertop dedicated to coffee. 616 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:18,520 All right. 617 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,680 And it has cabinets below with all the coffee stocked inside of it. 618 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,300 Sometimes people need a sample. 619 00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:26,120 They need a sip of Jesus. 620 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,040 If they don't know Jesus. 621 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:33,400 If Jesus is not Lord of their life, you need to give them a sample because until they get 622 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:38,600 a sample, until they get a bite size of Jesus, they're not ready to go all in. 623 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,200 And you've got to, right? 624 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,100 Whoever's had the old wine, who's ever lived in the old sin, they don't know what it is 625 00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:45,280 to live a new life. 626 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,600 They don't know what it is to experience Jesus. 627 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,600 They don't know what it is to have the joy of the Lord inside of them. 628 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,980 They don't know what it is to be free, right? 629 00:31:52,980 --> 00:31:56,080 If you've never been free, you don't know what it is to be free. 630 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,540 And you got to give them a sample. 631 00:31:57,540 --> 00:32:00,000 You got to give them a taste of freedom in Jesus Christ. 632 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,520 You got to give them a taste of what it is to have God's joy in your life and in your 633 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,620 spirit. 634 00:32:05,620 --> 00:32:10,040 And then, then they'll go all in. 635 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,700 They'll drink the whole thing. 636 00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:17,160 And then they can begin to knock the stuff, right? 637 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,000 Jesus will come in, wash them clean. 638 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,980 But how about you know it's an ongoing work in our lives. 639 00:32:23,980 --> 00:32:27,820 We'll step back into it again and you're going to have to start knocking it off. 640 00:32:27,820 --> 00:32:31,880 And listen, when you get saved, the Holy Spirit comes into your life and the word of God tells 641 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,160 us that it gives you power over sin. 642 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:39,000 What you were powerless to do before Jesus, you have the power to do in Jesus. 643 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,800 And He said, knock it off, right? 644 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:42,240 Just start chipping it off. 645 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,240 Get rid of it. 646 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,440 And when it comes back and you step into it again, just knock it off. 647 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,700 Ask Jesus, forgive you because it's His blood and only His blood that can cleanse you and 648 00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:52,020 make you free and cover you in sin. 649 00:32:52,020 --> 00:32:54,680 But there's something on your part that you got to do. 650 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:55,960 You got to start stepping in. 651 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:56,960 Amen. 652 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:58,960 I'm going to ask you to stand this morning. 653 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:06,560 Thank you for tuning in to this message from Life House Church. 654 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,360 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 655 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:15,200 If you've been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with 656 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:24,080 us as we love God, love people every day, visit our website at www.lifehousecog.com.