WEBVTT 00:00:07.690 --> 00:00:10.169 Thank you for listening to this message from 00:00:10.169 --> 00:00:18.629 Lifehouse Church. It's good to have you here. 00:00:18.769 --> 00:00:21.390 I got a friend with me. This is James Kozer. 00:00:21.429 --> 00:00:24.789 Say hello, everybody. All right. Well, today, 00:00:24.929 --> 00:00:28.149 it's long overdue getting James here. He is the 00:00:28.149 --> 00:00:30.710 executive director at Carlisle Christian Academy. 00:00:30.949 --> 00:00:33.549 And if you don't know where that school is, just 00:00:33.549 --> 00:00:35.570 take a look around you. You're sitting in it. 00:00:35.770 --> 00:00:38.250 Okay. Carlisle Christian Academy is right here. 00:00:38.590 --> 00:00:42.409 We coexist in this facility, and it's been an 00:00:42.409 --> 00:00:44.429 amazing journey, honestly, for a little better 00:00:44.429 --> 00:00:47.490 than a year now. They've been so gracious with 00:00:47.490 --> 00:00:50.189 us as a church, and we work together for the 00:00:50.189 --> 00:00:52.990 kingdom of God, and we share this facility. And 00:00:52.990 --> 00:00:56.270 I've been, again, long overdue getting James 00:00:56.270 --> 00:00:58.090 here so that he could share with you a little 00:00:58.090 --> 00:01:00.350 bit about the school. And James kind of does 00:01:00.350 --> 00:01:02.990 it all. He's a teacher, preacher, leads a school. 00:01:04.390 --> 00:01:06.109 Athlete, I don't know. It goes on and on and 00:01:06.109 --> 00:01:08.670 on. He does quite a bit. He's got a wife and 00:01:08.670 --> 00:01:11.450 children. Maybe he can mention that, his children 00:01:11.450 --> 00:01:14.189 and his wife. And they're wonderful. I've met 00:01:14.189 --> 00:01:16.950 his family. So it's so good to have him here. 00:01:17.069 --> 00:01:18.370 And, again, he's going to tell you a little bit 00:01:18.370 --> 00:01:21.230 about CCA, and then I'll come back and share 00:01:21.230 --> 00:01:23.530 a message. So would you give him a warm welcome 00:01:23.530 --> 00:01:31.670 from LifeHouse? Thank you, Kev. Appreciate that. 00:01:32.090 --> 00:01:34.810 welcome. It is an absolute pleasure to be here 00:01:34.810 --> 00:01:38.370 among you this morning to talk about Carlisle 00:01:38.370 --> 00:01:40.849 Christian Academy. I am James Kozer. I'm the 00:01:40.849 --> 00:01:45.170 executive director here. I'm wrapping up my 11th 00:01:45.170 --> 00:01:49.060 year. at Carlisle Christian Academy. As executive 00:01:49.060 --> 00:01:51.159 director, basically what that means is I get 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:53.819 to wear a lot of hats, okay? So when you're in 00:01:53.819 --> 00:01:56.280 a small school setting, pretty much all your 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:59.939 staff wears a lot of hats, so we can be doing 00:01:59.939 --> 00:02:02.760 anything from meeting with staff to jumping in 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:05.879 a classroom to fill in for a missing teacher 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:09.639 to, hey, when the toilet gets clogged and there's 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:12.539 nobody around, sometimes you got to do what you 00:02:12.539 --> 00:02:16.409 got to do. Like I said, wrapping up my 11th year, 00:02:16.729 --> 00:02:20.250 you know, Carlisle Christian Academy is super 00:02:20.250 --> 00:02:22.770 special to me because actually my oldest son, 00:02:22.830 --> 00:02:25.550 Elijah, started in Carlisle Christian Academy 00:02:25.550 --> 00:02:28.650 when he was in kindergarten, which was prior 00:02:28.650 --> 00:02:31.650 to me working here. And he is now a senior, will 00:02:31.650 --> 00:02:34.449 be graduating in just three weeks along with 00:02:34.449 --> 00:02:39.949 River Reynolds, who's here. Since that time then, 00:02:39.990 --> 00:02:42.349 I became executive director and have been able 00:02:42.349 --> 00:02:45.090 to have my other two children, Iriana and Alvin. 00:02:45.530 --> 00:02:49.550 Iriana is here this morning. They're in ninth 00:02:49.550 --> 00:02:51.750 and eighth grade. And it's such a blessing to 00:02:51.750 --> 00:02:54.830 be able to have my children in a school, not 00:02:54.830 --> 00:02:57.629 just that I work at, but a school that has been 00:02:57.629 --> 00:03:00.610 focused on proclaiming the gospel and making 00:03:00.610 --> 00:03:05.090 disciples since 1981. If we want to go to the 00:03:05.090 --> 00:03:10.259 second slide. I just want to first just be here 00:03:10.259 --> 00:03:13.020 to say thank you for this great partnership. 00:03:13.419 --> 00:03:17.120 You guys have an awesome pastor in Pastor Kip. 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:20.840 And I could tell just from some of the initial 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:25.719 meetings with him that, you know, we are like 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:29.460 -minded ministries that just want to build God's 00:03:29.460 --> 00:03:34.360 kingdom. We really dovetail together when it 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:36.879 comes to making disciples. And so being able 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:39.319 to have a space that we get to share and partner 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.620 with, obviously that helps both organizations 00:03:42.620 --> 00:03:46.340 with cost. You guys have been incredibly gracious 00:03:46.340 --> 00:03:49.449 with... putting in a new sound system, allowing 00:03:49.449 --> 00:03:52.129 us to have use of that for our chapels, our worship 00:03:52.129 --> 00:03:57.569 team. Your sound people helped last year with 00:03:57.569 --> 00:04:00.349 our graduation to live stream it, things like 00:04:00.349 --> 00:04:03.069 that. And so this is an incredible partnership 00:04:03.069 --> 00:04:08.050 that... You know, I think it's just one of those 00:04:08.050 --> 00:04:09.849 things that's mutually edifying, right? It's 00:04:09.849 --> 00:04:12.830 both organizations striving for the same thing 00:04:12.830 --> 00:04:16.850 and working together for the unique call of God 00:04:16.850 --> 00:04:19.750 to make disciples. Christian school is a unique 00:04:19.750 --> 00:04:22.329 vehicle for disciple making. I mean, when you 00:04:22.329 --> 00:04:26.949 run the numbers, right? So if we had a student 00:04:26.949 --> 00:04:31.430 with perfect attendance, 180 days of school equates 00:04:31.430 --> 00:04:36.389 to about 1 ,170 hours. per year, right? When 00:04:36.389 --> 00:04:40.430 you do the math there, 1 ,170 hours per year, 00:04:40.529 --> 00:04:43.029 plus on top of that, a lot of extracurricular 00:04:43.029 --> 00:04:47.290 activities, some sports teams, after school activities, 00:04:47.550 --> 00:04:50.170 those types of things. And so it becomes a really 00:04:50.170 --> 00:04:56.670 unique opportunity to really expose students 00:04:56.670 --> 00:05:00.350 to the knowledge of God. If we go to the third 00:05:00.350 --> 00:05:02.970 slide here, you know, we are a duly accredited 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:07.339 organization. We serve kids in kindergarten through 00:05:07.339 --> 00:05:10.139 12th grade. We're super excited because starting 00:05:10.139 --> 00:05:12.120 next year in August, we're bringing our elementary 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:14.600 campus here, and we're going to be one unified 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:16.939 campus. We've been in here for about three years 00:05:16.939 --> 00:05:19.759 with our secondary students, grades 6 through 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:22.180 12, and so we're excited that we are finally 00:05:22.180 --> 00:05:24.120 at the point where we can pull this all together, 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:28.040 unify our student base, and we're excited because 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:30.579 we got a lot of plans to get the older kids serving 00:05:30.579 --> 00:05:35.910 with the younger kids. types of things. We serve 00:05:35.910 --> 00:05:37.870 students from all over, but one of the unique 00:05:37.870 --> 00:05:40.810 distinctives about us as a Christian school is 00:05:40.810 --> 00:05:44.149 we're actually a mission -focused school. What 00:05:44.149 --> 00:05:47.730 that means is that we actually do not require 00:05:47.730 --> 00:05:51.329 parents to sign agreement to our statement of 00:05:51.329 --> 00:05:53.829 faith, and that's actually pretty unique for 00:05:53.829 --> 00:05:56.670 a Christian school. They do sign agreement understanding 00:05:56.670 --> 00:05:59.250 we will teach according to our statement of faith. 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:02.819 But at the end of the day, if you're maybe just 00:06:02.819 --> 00:06:05.540 looking for a place where they're going to get 00:06:05.540 --> 00:06:08.709 some different. individualized instruction, a 00:06:08.709 --> 00:06:12.209 safe place where your kids are going to be safe 00:06:12.209 --> 00:06:15.769 from bullying, or for whatever reason, it's an 00:06:15.769 --> 00:06:18.750 opportunity for us to bring in families who maybe 00:06:18.750 --> 00:06:21.250 have no church background, no church exposure, 00:06:21.449 --> 00:06:24.850 and get those kids in, give them a great education, 00:06:25.029 --> 00:06:27.509 but have that education be centered around the 00:06:27.509 --> 00:06:30.069 knowledge of God and the truth of Jesus Christ. 00:06:31.790 --> 00:06:33.889 One of the things I try to make clear to people 00:06:33.889 --> 00:06:37.850 is that we aren't just a school that does some 00:06:37.850 --> 00:06:41.790 chapels and some Bible stuff. But we really integrate 00:06:41.790 --> 00:06:45.050 Bible into all course content. Our entire curriculum 00:06:45.050 --> 00:06:49.829 is just infused with God's truth. So even when 00:06:49.829 --> 00:06:51.769 you're in a science class, we are talking about 00:06:51.769 --> 00:06:55.550 God's design, God's creation, and what that means 00:06:55.550 --> 00:06:58.470 for us, right? What that means for us as believers 00:06:58.470 --> 00:07:02.329 and how we need to care for that world and care 00:07:02.329 --> 00:07:06.389 for the people around us. You can go to the next 00:07:06.389 --> 00:07:10.970 slide. We have so many stories of God's faithfulness, 00:07:11.029 --> 00:07:13.810 and I could go on and on and on, but Kip said 00:07:13.810 --> 00:07:16.230 some of you need to go to work tomorrow. So we're 00:07:16.230 --> 00:07:19.089 going to limit the stories here. And I was praying 00:07:19.089 --> 00:07:22.949 this morning, Lord, what story do you want me 00:07:22.949 --> 00:07:26.029 to tell? Because I feel like I could tell so 00:07:26.029 --> 00:07:29.529 many. And we have so many kids who are going 00:07:29.529 --> 00:07:33.300 on to do great stuff. But I want to tell the 00:07:33.300 --> 00:07:35.160 story of a kid named Paul, and I've changed his 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:39.160 name. But Paul was a student who came to us from 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:43.199 a public school setting. Paul was one of those 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:45.060 kids who was just a little different. He was 00:07:45.060 --> 00:07:49.560 a little socially awkward, really struggled to 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:53.519 fit in with other kids. If you diagnosed him, 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.240 you'd say he's probably on the spectrum. And 00:07:57.240 --> 00:07:59.980 Paul had a horrendous experience in school where 00:07:59.980 --> 00:08:02.699 he felt like he was constantly picked on. He 00:08:02.699 --> 00:08:06.040 felt like his teachers weren't helping him out, 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:08.779 these types of things. He came to us in 11th 00:08:08.779 --> 00:08:14.860 grade. We had two years to work with Paul. I 00:08:14.860 --> 00:08:17.959 remember Paul coming to me in the middle of his 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:19.720 senior year. He said, I got great news for you, 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:22.540 Mr. Kozer. I said, what's that, Paul? And he 00:08:22.540 --> 00:08:25.240 said, the doctor said I can come off my anxiety 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:27.720 meds and my high blood pressure meds. And he 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:31.040 said, it's all because of CCA. And it was just 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:38.379 like, it hit me so hard. Thank you. It hit me 00:08:38.379 --> 00:08:41.559 so hard because, I mean, isn't that what it's 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:43.899 about? You know, working with these kids and... 00:08:44.269 --> 00:08:46.529 and getting them into a place where they can 00:08:46.529 --> 00:08:49.809 find out who they are, right? Find out who God 00:08:49.809 --> 00:08:51.950 has designed them to be. Find out what God has 00:08:51.950 --> 00:08:54.570 called them to be. He would not be your typical 00:08:54.570 --> 00:08:57.929 success story about a kid going off to a high 00:08:57.929 --> 00:09:00.830 -end college, these types of things. But what 00:09:00.830 --> 00:09:03.149 I tell people, success at Carlisle Christian 00:09:03.149 --> 00:09:06.870 Academy looks like getting students to understand 00:09:06.870 --> 00:09:09.169 that they are a unique child of God and that 00:09:09.169 --> 00:09:12.490 God has a specific call on their lives, that 00:09:12.490 --> 00:09:15.399 God wants to use them. for his kingdom, right? 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:17.620 And it looks different for every kid. We'll have 00:09:17.620 --> 00:09:20.179 some kids going off to college. We'll have some 00:09:20.179 --> 00:09:22.620 kids who are going right into the workforce, 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:26.120 so on and so forth. But our heart and our desire 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:30.500 is we want every kid after graduating at Carlisle 00:09:30.500 --> 00:09:32.840 Christian Academy to understand that they are 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:34.720 a part of God's kingdom. And that's even greater 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.500 than becoming a doctor. It's even greater than 00:09:37.500 --> 00:09:40.820 becoming a teacher or a plumber or whatever, 00:09:40.980 --> 00:09:44.230 that they are called. by God to be a part of 00:09:44.230 --> 00:09:49.669 his kingdom. We can go to the last slide here. 00:09:49.789 --> 00:09:52.769 I will be in the back afterwards, and I would 00:09:52.769 --> 00:09:55.149 love to talk to you more about who we are and 00:09:55.149 --> 00:09:58.149 what we do. I'll have information specifically 00:09:58.149 --> 00:10:02.330 about our school, as well as if you're a parent 00:10:02.330 --> 00:10:05.289 and you are interested in any summer camp options, 00:10:05.549 --> 00:10:08.600 we're going to be running an 11 -week summer 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:12.480 camp, day camp here in this building. If you're 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:13.940 interested in learning more about the summer 00:10:13.940 --> 00:10:15.860 camp as well, I'll have that information in the 00:10:15.860 --> 00:10:20.100 back. But just some simple ways that as we are 00:10:20.100 --> 00:10:24.240 partnered together, if you want to support us 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:26.379 in our mission, we're always looking for prayer 00:10:26.379 --> 00:10:28.860 partners. Prayer matters. Prayer makes a huge 00:10:28.860 --> 00:10:32.440 difference. And I've seen it. We've got incredibly 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:35.659 faithful people praying for the ministry of Carlisle 00:10:35.659 --> 00:10:40.259 Christian Academy. We're big on word of mouth. 00:10:40.419 --> 00:10:42.419 If you get opportunity, just tell someone. If 00:10:42.419 --> 00:10:45.620 you're with someone and they're talking about 00:10:45.620 --> 00:10:47.620 the struggles their kids have at school, just 00:10:47.620 --> 00:10:51.100 say, hey, maybe you want to check this out. We're 00:10:51.100 --> 00:10:54.419 not for everybody, but for some, we make a huge 00:10:54.419 --> 00:10:57.759 difference in their lives. If you're interested 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:01.200 in volunteering at all ever, you want to spend 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:04.519 some time with kids and impact their lives, touch 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:08.299 their lives, we would be happy for that. We have 00:11:08.299 --> 00:11:10.480 a golf tournament coming up June 5th. If there's 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:13.059 any golfers, I show up and embarrass myself. 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.940 I'm actually really horrible at golf, but I do 00:11:16.940 --> 00:11:20.580 my best. And that golf tournament helps. with 00:11:20.580 --> 00:11:22.779 our fundraising and i'll just give this real 00:11:22.779 --> 00:11:24.720 quick plug i want to turn this into a marketplace 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:27.759 but if you're interested in directing your pennsylvania 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:31.460 state tax dollars to a scholarship that can help 00:11:31.460 --> 00:11:34.919 make cca affordable to a family there's actually 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:37.700 a way you can do that and get a direct money 00:11:37.700 --> 00:11:40.659 to a scholarship organization that will help 00:11:40.659 --> 00:11:43.740 fund someone a student's tuition and you will 00:11:43.740 --> 00:11:48.019 get a 90 tax credit it's called the eitc tax 00:11:48.019 --> 00:11:50.950 credit program I'd be happy to talk with you 00:11:50.950 --> 00:11:53.730 about that. It's an easy way to give and support 00:11:53.730 --> 00:11:57.009 Carlisle Christian Academy. I just wanted to 00:11:57.009 --> 00:11:59.730 close with this verse. I was sitting here this 00:11:59.730 --> 00:12:01.730 morning. Lord, is there a verse you'd want me 00:12:01.730 --> 00:12:05.169 to share? And it's from Psalms 145, verse 4. 00:12:06.389 --> 00:12:09.389 And it says, one generation shall praise your 00:12:09.389 --> 00:12:12.620 works to another. and shall declare your mighty 00:12:12.620 --> 00:12:15.360 acts. I think if I had to sum Carlisle Christian 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:18.299 Academy up into one verse, it'd probably be this, 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:23.139 that I have a team of teachers who want to just 00:12:23.139 --> 00:12:25.700 declare the faithfulness of God, declare the 00:12:25.700 --> 00:12:28.019 mighty acts of God, declare the works of God 00:12:28.019 --> 00:12:30.759 to another generation so that they'll raise up 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.360 and they'll be the next generation to tell their 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:38.629 children. Again, thank you for the partnership. 00:12:38.789 --> 00:12:43.610 Thank you for not just being sharers of the building, 00:12:43.730 --> 00:12:46.269 right, co -tenants. We're so much more than that. 00:12:46.470 --> 00:12:48.870 We are co -laborers in Christ who are working 00:12:48.870 --> 00:12:52.190 towards building his kingdom. And so let me just 00:12:52.190 --> 00:12:55.509 pray for you guys real quick, and then I'll step 00:12:55.509 --> 00:12:58.539 off here. Lloyd, thank you so much. For Lifehouse 00:12:58.539 --> 00:13:00.820 Church, the ministry here, Pastor Kip, Pastor 00:13:00.820 --> 00:13:04.480 Alyssa, all those on the ministry team, and those 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:08.840 who faithfully come and are a part of this church. 00:13:08.940 --> 00:13:13.620 Lord, bless them. Continue to grow this church. 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:16.840 Grow them as disciples of Jesus Christ who go 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:19.720 forth and really have a true, meaningful impact 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:25.460 for God's kingdom. And Lord, just continue to... 00:13:26.250 --> 00:13:28.470 to reach into the hearts and minds of the people 00:13:28.470 --> 00:13:30.990 here, that they would be used for you as a light 00:13:30.990 --> 00:13:33.370 right here in Carlisle. And we pray this all 00:13:33.370 --> 00:13:37.769 in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Would you give him 00:13:37.769 --> 00:13:44.710 a hand? Thank you for being here again. James 00:13:44.710 --> 00:13:46.230 is going to be at the Connection Station. If 00:13:46.230 --> 00:13:48.330 you want to get more information, please stop 00:13:48.330 --> 00:13:50.549 by and talk with him. You can find more out about 00:13:50.549 --> 00:13:52.570 the school and all the great work that they do 00:13:52.570 --> 00:13:56.850 here at CCA. Super excited for that relationship 00:13:56.850 --> 00:13:59.269 just to continue and build all along the way. 00:13:59.330 --> 00:14:01.470 And I have found the secret to being a better 00:14:01.470 --> 00:14:04.330 golfer. The couple times a year I go out, I just 00:14:04.330 --> 00:14:06.549 find people who are worse than I am, and I go 00:14:06.549 --> 00:14:10.720 with them. And I feel great. But, yeah, I'm with 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:13.600 you. I'm a hacker. It's terrible. Well, listen, 00:14:13.700 --> 00:14:17.659 a few weeks back, I attended my grandsons, one 00:14:17.659 --> 00:14:20.019 of my grandsons. Two of them play ball. They 00:14:20.019 --> 00:14:22.080 both play baseball. And I went to a Little League 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:25.779 game, and we arrived at the field, and it was 00:14:25.779 --> 00:14:28.679 in the evening, and we began to get to the respective 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:30.379 sides of the field that we were going to sit 00:14:30.379 --> 00:14:33.299 and watch Bennett play. And I remember sitting 00:14:33.299 --> 00:14:35.539 down. We get our chairs, right? You take all 00:14:35.539 --> 00:14:37.320 your stuff. You got your chair. You got your 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:40.330 drink. hat, you got your sunglasses, you take 00:14:40.330 --> 00:14:41.830 everything that you're going to need, snacks, 00:14:42.049 --> 00:14:43.570 the whole nine yards because, you know, you're 00:14:43.570 --> 00:14:46.470 going to be there for days. And you get parked. 00:14:46.649 --> 00:14:49.269 And I remember sitting down at this field and 00:14:49.269 --> 00:14:51.570 looking across the field and realizing that the 00:14:51.570 --> 00:14:54.649 sun was directly across from us. So we were going 00:14:54.649 --> 00:14:57.250 to be staring out into the field at the sunshine, 00:14:57.350 --> 00:14:59.929 and the sun was beginning to go down. And the 00:14:59.929 --> 00:15:01.570 further it went, you know, we began to pour our 00:15:01.570 --> 00:15:04.090 hats down further and got our sunglasses. Everybody 00:15:04.090 --> 00:15:07.129 had their sunglasses on. And I was trying, all 00:15:07.129 --> 00:15:09.350 of us, We're over there trying to make out where 00:15:09.350 --> 00:15:11.350 Bennett was, you know, when he went out into 00:15:11.350 --> 00:15:13.269 the field. Because all these little boys, they're 00:15:13.269 --> 00:15:15.769 all dressed the same. They got the same uniform 00:15:15.769 --> 00:15:17.750 on. They're all about the same age. They're all 00:15:17.750 --> 00:15:19.889 about the same height. And they're going out 00:15:19.889 --> 00:15:21.730 into the field and scattering out across the 00:15:21.730 --> 00:15:24.169 field. And they teach these kids to bat and to 00:15:24.169 --> 00:15:26.330 catch and play different positions. They move 00:15:26.330 --> 00:15:28.850 them around sometimes. So we're looking for Bennett. 00:15:29.049 --> 00:15:31.289 And I can't see his back because he's facing 00:15:31.289 --> 00:15:33.610 us. Or I'd have known his number or his name 00:15:33.610 --> 00:15:36.090 on the back of his. And because the sun was so 00:15:36.090 --> 00:15:38.580 bright, we're screaming. and we're looking and 00:15:38.580 --> 00:15:40.460 we're like, I think that's Bennett out in right 00:15:40.460 --> 00:15:42.120 field. You know, one's like, nah, I think he's 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:44.379 on second base. Nah, I think he's on right field. 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:47.340 And we just watched for a little bit of time 00:15:47.340 --> 00:15:50.919 and we began to realize that in fact was Bennett 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.460 out in right field. How did we know that? We 00:15:54.460 --> 00:15:56.259 couldn't make out his facial features because 00:15:56.259 --> 00:15:59.019 of the sunshine in our eyes. We couldn't see 00:15:59.019 --> 00:16:01.039 his name or number on the back of his shirt. 00:16:01.220 --> 00:16:05.200 But what we saw was how he carried himself. I 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.120 saw how he stood. I saw how he moved around and 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:11.899 walked. And it was his, as we looked, it was 00:16:11.899 --> 00:16:14.820 his movements. It was what he was doing that 00:16:14.820 --> 00:16:19.139 began to unmistakably understand that this is 00:16:19.139 --> 00:16:21.840 in fact Bennett out in right field. Couldn't 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:24.000 see his face. Couldn't see his jersey number. 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:27.840 Couldn't see his name. But we saw Bennett because 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:30.299 of how he was standing, what he was doing with 00:16:30.299 --> 00:16:33.940 his hands. We're like, oh, unmistakably that. 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:37.799 is Bennett. And it is the same way if you follow 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:41.879 Jesus Christ. If someone, anyone is watching, 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.259 there should be a defining quality that people 00:16:45.259 --> 00:16:48.620 see in you that gives you a way as a Jesus follower 00:16:48.620 --> 00:16:51.570 every time. If you got your Bibles, I want you 00:16:51.570 --> 00:16:53.710 to go to John chapter 13. We're going to start 00:16:53.710 --> 00:16:55.490 off at verse 31. We've been working through the 00:16:55.490 --> 00:16:58.049 book of John now for some period of time. And 00:16:58.049 --> 00:17:00.669 Jesus names a characteristic in the book of John 00:17:00.669 --> 00:17:03.809 that is a dead giveaway if you are a follower 00:17:03.809 --> 00:17:07.630 of Jesus Christ. A defining feature of you that 00:17:07.630 --> 00:17:10.410 will let others know who you belong to. And I 00:17:10.410 --> 00:17:13.250 can tell you this. It's not a jacket. It's not 00:17:13.250 --> 00:17:17.450 a uniform. It's not a tattoo. It's not a flashing 00:17:17.450 --> 00:17:19.690 neon sign that's above your head pointing down 00:17:19.690 --> 00:17:21.869 to you saying that this is a Jesus follower. 00:17:22.730 --> 00:17:25.410 There's a quality that if someone's watching, 00:17:25.710 --> 00:17:29.119 they'll know. So as you turn to John 13, 31, 00:17:29.299 --> 00:17:30.660 I'm going to pray. If you would, bow your heads. 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:32.740 Father, thank you for this time. God, I pray 00:17:32.740 --> 00:17:34.859 right now that you would anoint our ears. God, 00:17:34.940 --> 00:17:36.680 that you would anoint our hearts, our minds, 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.019 that we would hear. God, that we would understand, 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:41.000 that we would receive your word in Holy Spirit. 00:17:41.660 --> 00:17:44.740 Make alive the truth of God within us, that we 00:17:44.740 --> 00:17:46.740 might walk in the ways of God. And we pray this 00:17:46.740 --> 00:17:49.420 in Jesus' name. Everybody say it together. Amen. 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:52.279 Are you with John? John chapter 13, say amen. 00:17:52.990 --> 00:17:55.430 All right, good, good. Well, let me, just before 00:17:55.430 --> 00:17:57.690 we go into that scripture, real quickly, I want 00:17:57.690 --> 00:18:01.970 you to picture this. Jesus has trained his mentees, 00:18:01.970 --> 00:18:04.490 the 12 disciples that he's been walking with 00:18:04.490 --> 00:18:06.470 and talking with for three and a half years. 00:18:06.589 --> 00:18:09.390 They are now trained. They go and they spend 00:18:09.390 --> 00:18:12.109 a last supper together, the Passover meal, before 00:18:12.109 --> 00:18:14.930 Jesus would go to the cross and die and resurrect 00:18:14.930 --> 00:18:17.630 from the grave. And as soon as they leave the 00:18:17.630 --> 00:18:21.349 Passover meal together, Jesus begins to speak. 00:18:21.900 --> 00:18:24.500 to his disciples. He begins to give them some 00:18:24.500 --> 00:18:27.900 instruction. So John 13, 31 says this. So when 00:18:27.900 --> 00:18:30.359 he had gone out, Jesus said, now the son of man 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:34.180 is glorified and God is glorified in him. If 00:18:34.180 --> 00:18:36.819 God is glorified in him, God will also glorify 00:18:36.819 --> 00:18:41.259 him in himself and glorify him immediately. Jesus 00:18:41.259 --> 00:18:43.140 starts off talking to them, and he's talking 00:18:43.140 --> 00:18:45.900 prophetically in nature. He's talking about himself. 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:48.819 He's saying that once the plan of God unfolds, 00:18:48.819 --> 00:18:51.200 once I go to the cross, once I rise from the 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:53.759 grave, I'm going to be glorified. My body's going 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:55.720 to be glorified. I'm going to go back to my glorified 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.059 state. And like so many things in life, right? 00:18:59.220 --> 00:19:01.759 The disciples who are walking with him and are 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:04.259 listening to Jesus probably didn't fully understand 00:19:04.259 --> 00:19:06.579 what he meant by this. They probably didn't fully 00:19:06.579 --> 00:19:08.740 get their head around what Jesus was talking 00:19:08.740 --> 00:19:10.240 about when he said, I'm going to be glorified. 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:12.940 How many know many times we do not understand 00:19:12.940 --> 00:19:16.240 sometimes what God is speaking to us on the front 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:19.099 end of whatever we're going through? Amen? Sometimes 00:19:19.099 --> 00:19:21.660 you get a word from God. Sometimes you read a 00:19:21.660 --> 00:19:23.960 scripture. Sometimes something stands out to 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:25.640 you, and you're on the front end of something, 00:19:25.700 --> 00:19:27.539 but it just, you know, you know what relates. 00:19:27.740 --> 00:19:29.859 You know what's for you. You know the Holy Spirit's 00:19:29.859 --> 00:19:31.559 problem, but you just don't fully know what it's 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:34.339 for. You know it's God's party. How many know 00:19:34.339 --> 00:19:37.099 spiritually as well as in life, hindsight is 00:19:37.099 --> 00:19:39.900 20 -20? When you get on the other side of something, 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:44.259 you're like, oh, yeah, that's what that was about, 00:19:44.420 --> 00:19:48.519 right? Oh, now I see what God was doing. Oh, 00:19:48.900 --> 00:19:52.640 right? We do that. And what I'm saying is, sometimes 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:55.039 you need to hear the Word of God, grab a hold 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:56.720 of what He's telling you on the front end, and 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:58.950 don't let go of it. Whether it's a scripture, 00:19:59.170 --> 00:20:01.250 whether it's a word, grab a hold of whatever 00:20:01.250 --> 00:20:03.829 God is speaking prophetically in your life, because 00:20:03.829 --> 00:20:04.990 you're going to need it, because you're going 00:20:04.990 --> 00:20:07.589 to go through the fire sometimes. And how many 00:20:07.589 --> 00:20:08.890 of you know when you're in the fire, you can't 00:20:08.890 --> 00:20:11.349 see? When you're in the fire, everything's fresh, 00:20:11.529 --> 00:20:13.849 everything's hot, everything's right in front 00:20:13.849 --> 00:20:16.950 of you, everything's distracting you, everything's 00:20:16.950 --> 00:20:20.309 against you. Hang on to the word of God. Now, 00:20:20.349 --> 00:20:22.829 I know this is a little sidetrack I got on, but 00:20:22.829 --> 00:20:24.849 I felt like this morning somebody needs to hear 00:20:24.849 --> 00:20:27.250 what I'm talking about. It is the word of God 00:20:27.250 --> 00:20:29.390 that gives us hope. It is the word of God that 00:20:29.390 --> 00:20:31.190 holds us up when everything's pulling us down. 00:20:31.309 --> 00:20:33.250 It is the word of God that will build you up 00:20:33.250 --> 00:20:36.509 and keep you from crumbling. And Jesus' disciples 00:20:36.509 --> 00:20:39.210 will not fully understand what he's talking about 00:20:39.210 --> 00:20:42.150 with his glorification with him and one day with 00:20:42.150 --> 00:20:45.289 us until they get on the other side of the crucifixion 00:20:45.289 --> 00:20:48.059 and the resurrection. Let's go back to verse 00:20:48.059 --> 00:20:50.319 33. If that word was for you this morning, grab 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:52.440 ahold of that and write it down, all right? John 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:55.859 13, 33, Jesus continues, and he says this. Little 00:20:55.859 --> 00:20:58.299 children, I shall be with you a little while 00:20:58.299 --> 00:21:01.440 longer. You will seek me, and as I said to you, 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:06.640 as I said, and as I said to the Jews, where I'm 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:09.519 going, you cannot come. So now I say to you. 00:21:10.059 --> 00:21:12.740 a new commandment I give to you, that you love 00:21:12.740 --> 00:21:15.900 one another as I have loved you, that you also 00:21:15.900 --> 00:21:19.720 love one another. By this, all will know that 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:24.400 you are my disciples if you have love one for 00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:28.500 another. Jesus says that there is something, 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:32.099 there is something that people observe, there's 00:21:32.099 --> 00:21:34.980 something that people see that will make you 00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:39.609 unmistakably his. There's an identifying mark 00:21:39.609 --> 00:21:42.549 that truly makes you a follower of Jesus Christ, 00:21:42.690 --> 00:21:45.230 and everybody knows it. There's an attribute 00:21:45.230 --> 00:21:48.009 that is so pronounced in your life that when 00:21:48.009 --> 00:21:50.190 people see it, who are on the outside looking 00:21:50.190 --> 00:21:51.950 on the inside, they're going to be like, yep, 00:21:52.089 --> 00:21:55.670 I know who they belong to. I know who they're 00:21:55.670 --> 00:21:57.769 a part of. These are Jesus people I'm looking 00:21:57.769 --> 00:22:01.289 at, right? What is that unmistakable attribute? 00:22:01.730 --> 00:22:04.829 Jesus says it clear, right? By this, all will 00:22:04.829 --> 00:22:07.500 know that you are my disciples. My followers, 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:10.880 if you have love, right, if you have love for 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:14.319 one another, if we love our brothers and sisters 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:18.779 in Christ, we are unmistakably his. If we love 00:22:18.779 --> 00:22:21.819 the way that Jesus says we should love, if we 00:22:21.819 --> 00:22:26.299 love the way Jesus did love. If you love me and 00:22:26.299 --> 00:22:28.500 I love you, I almost broke into the Barney song 00:22:28.500 --> 00:22:31.019 when I started thinking about this. How many 00:22:31.019 --> 00:22:35.200 remember Barney? Yeah. It's over and over in 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:38.259 my head again and again and again, right? But 00:22:38.259 --> 00:22:40.799 it is. It's the way you love me and I love you. 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:45.059 People will know us by that. When those who are 00:22:45.059 --> 00:22:47.920 on the outside of the church, staring on the 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:51.460 inside of the church, what does it look like? 00:22:52.259 --> 00:22:55.700 It is not your Jesus t -shirt. It is not your 00:22:55.700 --> 00:22:57.859 Jesus bumper sticker, and I'm all for all that. 00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:00.720 It's not even because we meet in this building 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:03.940 a couple times a week or at our other location 00:23:03.940 --> 00:23:06.180 a couple times a week. They should know that 00:23:06.180 --> 00:23:10.220 we belong to him because of how we carry ourselves. 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:13.200 When they're squinting into the sun, right, and 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:15.460 looking from a distance, and they can't even 00:23:15.460 --> 00:23:18.619 see your face, but they see how you carry yourself. 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:21.440 They see what you do. They see the rhythm in 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:25.039 your life. They see how you treat other believers. 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:29.819 If we do this right, they should squint and stare 00:23:29.819 --> 00:23:33.019 and then declare that we follow Jesus. I worked 00:23:33.019 --> 00:23:36.420 on that all week, all right? It rhymes, right? 00:23:36.579 --> 00:23:39.799 They should squint, stare, and then declare that 00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:44.059 they follow Jesus, truly. Church, this is not 00:23:44.059 --> 00:23:47.980 optional in God's Word, right? Loving other Jesus 00:23:47.980 --> 00:23:52.119 followers like Jesus loved me is not optional. 00:23:52.970 --> 00:23:55.390 Jesus said, this is a new commandment that I 00:23:55.390 --> 00:23:58.750 give you, that you love one another as I have 00:23:58.750 --> 00:24:01.730 loved you, that you also love one another. A 00:24:01.730 --> 00:24:05.089 commandment is a law. A commandment is an order. 00:24:05.170 --> 00:24:08.809 It is not a suggestion. It wasn't Jesus making 00:24:08.809 --> 00:24:11.230 a nice suggestion like, this would be super nice, 00:24:11.329 --> 00:24:14.109 church, if we would just all get along and love 00:24:14.109 --> 00:24:16.289 one another. That's not what he was saying. This 00:24:16.289 --> 00:24:19.529 is a command. This was not a symbolic utopian 00:24:19.529 --> 00:24:22.250 idea of some kind that would be super nice, right? 00:24:22.349 --> 00:24:24.410 And it would look great if it looked like this. 00:24:24.470 --> 00:24:26.289 That was not what he was saying. He said, this 00:24:26.289 --> 00:24:28.329 is a commandment. This is what it's supposed 00:24:28.329 --> 00:24:30.250 to look like. This is what we're supposed to 00:24:30.250 --> 00:24:32.569 do. And he didn't leave anything to chance when 00:24:32.569 --> 00:24:34.750 he said this. He told us what we were supposed 00:24:34.750 --> 00:24:37.410 to do, right? I'm supposed to love you and you're 00:24:37.410 --> 00:24:39.910 supposed to love me. Then he said, this is how 00:24:39.910 --> 00:24:42.259 you're supposed to do it. He didn't even leave 00:24:42.259 --> 00:24:43.920 that to chance. He said, you're going to love 00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:46.819 others like I love you. That's what it's going 00:24:46.819 --> 00:24:49.279 to look like. He told me what to do and how to 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:52.640 do it. Complete clarity in this command. No room 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:55.339 for shifting this way or shifting that way or 00:24:55.339 --> 00:24:59.359 adding my own definition. And many times, right, 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:02.339 as individuals, we're completely down with the 00:25:02.339 --> 00:25:04.960 first part of this scripture. Well, I love you, 00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:08.759 but. But we won't even consider the first part, 00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:11.920 the second part of it. I can love you. Now, I 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:14.740 don't mind loving you if I can love you my way. 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:17.900 We're all about that my way kind of generation, 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:21.559 right? I love you, I just have to do it my way, 00:25:21.660 --> 00:25:24.059 right? I did determine what the extent of those 00:25:24.059 --> 00:25:27.279 parameters of my love will be. I make sure that 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:30.539 my love for you fits my lifestyle, right? My 00:25:30.539 --> 00:25:34.220 personality, maybe my schedule. That I love you 00:25:34.220 --> 00:25:37.420 means I determine how close to you I get or I 00:25:37.420 --> 00:25:41.400 don't get. I decide how much loving you is gonna 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:44.140 cost me. And how much I'm not really willing 00:25:44.140 --> 00:25:49.940 to spend. I love you if I want to. That's not 00:25:49.940 --> 00:25:52.839 what he's talking about. And when I hit my limit, 00:25:52.940 --> 00:25:55.799 right? When I hit my limit of loving you, peace 00:25:55.799 --> 00:26:00.359 out. I'm out of here. I don't mind loving you 00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:03.119 like that. But that's not what Jesus was talking 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:06.900 about. That's not what he was saying. It's a 00:26:06.900 --> 00:26:09.700 whole other thing to take the second part of 00:26:09.700 --> 00:26:13.759 this. That means that my stuff, my style, my 00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:16.740 ridiculous considerations or limitations, they're 00:26:16.740 --> 00:26:19.839 garbage. They don't mean a thing. You can forget 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:22.059 my opinions. I know everybody's got an opinion 00:26:22.059 --> 00:26:24.400 online these days, probably multiple opinions, 00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:27.180 but my opinion doesn't matter. My judgments do 00:26:27.180 --> 00:26:30.640 not matter, right? How I view a relationship 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:32.900 does not matter. This is, Jesus said, this is 00:26:32.900 --> 00:26:34.660 how you're going to do it. This is what it's 00:26:34.660 --> 00:26:36.980 supposed to look like. This is what he spoke 00:26:36.980 --> 00:26:41.099 to us. This is required behavior of the church, 00:26:41.140 --> 00:26:44.000 and it is not optional. It's mandated by our 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:47.599 King, by our Lord, by our Savior. And this is 00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:51.359 the unmistakable identity of a Jesus follower, 00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:56.319 that we love each other. Now, as I read this, 00:26:56.460 --> 00:26:59.359 this should probably terrify us just a little 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:03.579 bit, right? If you're thinking like me, this 00:27:03.579 --> 00:27:06.549 seems like almost an impossible mandate. This 00:27:06.549 --> 00:27:09.309 seems like a very hard thing to fulfill. How 00:27:09.309 --> 00:27:13.670 can I love you as much as Jesus loves you? Right? 00:27:13.750 --> 00:27:16.569 How do I do that? This doesn't even seem like 00:27:16.569 --> 00:27:19.630 a reasonable request by Jesus. I can't love others 00:27:19.630 --> 00:27:22.630 like Jesus loves them. I can't even get close. 00:27:22.690 --> 00:27:25.250 I'm not even sure I love myself like Jesus loves 00:27:25.250 --> 00:27:28.009 me, let alone loving you like Jesus loves you. 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:32.039 And as I look at this, I feel like sometimes 00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:34.200 when I'm looking at this, I'm like, ah, right? 00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:37.799 If I try to do this, I might be a fake. I might 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:43.079 be a fraud of some kind. I came across this little 00:27:43.079 --> 00:27:46.319 article this week. And just when you think you 00:27:46.319 --> 00:27:48.400 heard it all, how many know you haven't heard 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.039 it all? Yeah, I came across this article. And 00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:53.759 it's just a little strange article. It says, 00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:57.039 models who look like Jesus are in high demand 00:27:57.039 --> 00:28:01.200 in Utah. True story. All right. A growing number 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:04.380 of people in the state of Utah feel like a picture 00:28:04.380 --> 00:28:07.319 isn't complete without Jesus. They're hiring 00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:10.299 Jesus lookalikes for family portraits and wedding 00:28:10.299 --> 00:28:12.819 announcements. Models are showing up to walk 00:28:12.819 --> 00:28:15.480 with newly engaged couples through a field, play 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:18.240 with young children in the Bonneville salt flats, 00:28:18.339 --> 00:28:21.079 and cram in with a family for the annual Christmas 00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:24.210 card. Bob Sagers, this is one of the guys, was 00:28:24.210 --> 00:28:26.990 walking around at an indie music festival in 00:28:26.990 --> 00:28:29.390 Salt Lake City when a friendly stranger approached 00:28:29.390 --> 00:28:32.430 and asked for his number. Has anyone ever told 00:28:32.430 --> 00:28:35.890 you that you have a Jesus look to you? The man 00:28:35.890 --> 00:28:38.769 asked. According to Sagers, a 25 -year -old who 00:28:38.769 --> 00:28:41.500 works at a grocery store. It wasn't a pickup 00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:44.039 line. The man's wife was an artist looking for 00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:46.819 religious models. I didn't really get that a 00:28:46.819 --> 00:28:49.180 lot, he said. This is what Sager said to him. 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:51.160 I don't really get this a lot because I'm six 00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:53.880 foot five, dirty blonde, shoulder length hair, 00:28:54.019 --> 00:28:56.579 and a beard who says I kind of have an Irish 00:28:56.579 --> 00:29:00.299 Scandinavian vibe. I'm a pretty tall Jesus, he 00:29:00.299 --> 00:29:03.819 said. And so it was that Sagers began a side 00:29:03.819 --> 00:29:07.450 hustle as a savior. Since being recruited about 00:29:07.450 --> 00:29:10.410 four years ago, Sagers has posted as Jesus nearly 00:29:10.410 --> 00:29:13.190 a dozen times. Others have done so charging $100 00:29:13.190 --> 00:29:16.950 to $200 an hour to get pictures with children, 00:29:17.089 --> 00:29:20.170 family, couples, and various locations in the 00:29:20.170 --> 00:29:23.029 beehive state, right? I don't think that's what 00:29:23.029 --> 00:29:25.819 Jesus had in mind. I don't know about you. I 00:29:25.819 --> 00:29:28.579 don't think that's what, you know, and I don't 00:29:28.579 --> 00:29:31.200 think Jesus called us to be posing, you know, 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:33.779 as Christians are certainly not posing as little 00:29:33.779 --> 00:29:36.660 Jesus, right? Frotting it up, making it look 00:29:36.660 --> 00:29:39.559 good. But I got to say, when I read the scripture 00:29:39.559 --> 00:29:41.900 sometimes, you know, Lord, I don't want to be 00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:45.099 a poser in this because you mandated this. You 00:29:45.099 --> 00:29:48.400 called me. How in the world do I love others 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:52.720 like Jesus loves me? How do I do that? How do 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:56.460 I fill this mandate? I mean, seriously. And I 00:29:56.460 --> 00:29:58.559 know, right, we can do what we normally do. We're 00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:00.460 just going to give it our best shot, right? We're 00:30:00.460 --> 00:30:02.180 going to get all inspired in the Sunday message, 00:30:02.259 --> 00:30:03.880 and we're just going to give it the old college 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:06.400 try. We're going to give it our best shot, right? 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:10.000 Or maybe I put on a robe, right, and a sash and 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:13.200 go charge $100 an hour to get pics, right? Maybe 00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:15.359 I need to get in character to do all this. How 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:18.759 do I do this? And the problem is, honestly, as 00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:20.200 I look around this room, I don't see any Jesus 00:30:20.200 --> 00:30:22.849 lookalikes. I really don't. Toby, you're the 00:30:22.849 --> 00:30:24.769 closest. Right back there, all right? He's got 00:30:24.769 --> 00:30:28.430 the beard. He's the closest I got. How do I do 00:30:28.430 --> 00:30:32.490 this? Because it's not optional. It's mandated 00:30:32.490 --> 00:30:35.710 by Jesus. I think Jesus gave us the answer in 00:30:35.710 --> 00:30:39.089 Matthew 11, 25. It says this, at that time, Jesus 00:30:39.089 --> 00:30:41.369 answered and said, I thank you, Father, Lord 00:30:41.369 --> 00:30:43.190 of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these 00:30:43.190 --> 00:30:45.230 things from the wise and the prudent and have 00:30:45.230 --> 00:30:47.930 revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for 00:30:47.930 --> 00:30:51.119 so it seemed good in your sight. All things have 00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:53.559 been delivered to me by my father, and no one 00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:55.859 knows the son except the father, nor does anyone 00:30:55.859 --> 00:30:58.660 know the father except the son, and the one to 00:30:58.660 --> 00:31:01.799 whom the son wills to reveal him. Come to me, 00:31:01.839 --> 00:31:05.099 all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I 00:31:05.099 --> 00:31:07.819 will give you rest. The word of God says, take 00:31:07.819 --> 00:31:11.460 my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am 00:31:11.460 --> 00:31:15.000 gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:18.660 rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and 00:31:18.660 --> 00:31:24.019 my burden is light. Jesus said this. Every time 00:31:24.019 --> 00:31:27.700 I get what looks like an impossible mandate from 00:31:27.700 --> 00:31:31.319 scripture, from God himself, I need to remind 00:31:31.319 --> 00:31:35.180 myself of this verse. The only way I can love 00:31:35.180 --> 00:31:38.019 you like I'm supposed to love you so it looks 00:31:38.019 --> 00:31:41.900 like Jesus is that I have to be first yoked to 00:31:41.900 --> 00:31:45.910 Jesus. I've got to be connected with Jesus. Willpower, 00:31:46.150 --> 00:31:49.710 self -empowerment, cheering myself on, sticking 00:31:49.710 --> 00:31:52.470 up sticky notes of scriptures, and I highly recommend 00:31:52.470 --> 00:31:54.710 you do this, but sticking up sticky notes of 00:31:54.710 --> 00:31:56.670 scriptures on your mirror are not going to cut 00:31:56.670 --> 00:31:59.109 it when it comes to this. It is so much more 00:31:59.109 --> 00:32:01.670 than that. Self -help never gets me anywhere 00:32:01.670 --> 00:32:04.509 in the kingdom of God. It really doesn't, except 00:32:04.509 --> 00:32:06.609 frustrated and dwelling in the land of failure 00:32:06.609 --> 00:32:10.839 many times, truly. If we try to do what Jesus 00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:14.680 says to do on our own power, we will only wear 00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:18.720 ourselves out and fail. We will get disillusioned. 00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:21.859 We will get frustrated. And Jesus made it so 00:32:21.859 --> 00:32:25.799 clear and so simple in these verses. You want 00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:29.319 to do what seems impossible to do? Because loving 00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:31.759 you like Jesus kind of seems impossible, right? 00:32:31.859 --> 00:32:35.119 Doing that all the time. All you have to do is 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:41.029 get yoked to me. who I'm tied to, who I'm connected 00:32:41.029 --> 00:32:45.589 with, who I'm abiding with and in. He said it, 00:32:45.630 --> 00:32:50.170 right? Come to me, all you who labor and are 00:32:50.170 --> 00:32:53.869 heavy laden, the difficult, the impossible thing, 00:32:53.910 --> 00:32:57.029 and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you 00:32:57.029 --> 00:32:59.789 and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly 00:32:59.789 --> 00:33:02.730 at heart, and you will find rest for your souls, 00:33:02.809 --> 00:33:07.329 for my yoke is easy. Say easy. And my burden, 00:33:07.710 --> 00:33:12.750 It's light. He says it's light. Doing the impossible 00:33:12.750 --> 00:33:16.529 and making it all look easy is not about all 00:33:16.529 --> 00:33:19.589 your extra effort in something. It really isn't. 00:33:19.930 --> 00:33:22.789 You're not going to get there that way. It's 00:33:22.789 --> 00:33:26.390 not me upping my personal gain. Right? I just 00:33:26.390 --> 00:33:29.349 got to get my game on. It's not about me looking 00:33:29.349 --> 00:33:31.829 in and being the man or you, the woman in the 00:33:31.829 --> 00:33:34.289 mirror, whoever you are. It's not about my education 00:33:34.289 --> 00:33:36.410 or knowledge, and I'm all for education and knowledge 00:33:36.410 --> 00:33:40.089 and expanding. I read all the time. But it really 00:33:40.089 --> 00:33:42.190 is about getting yoked with the one who has all 00:33:42.190 --> 00:33:45.390 the power. Sometimes it's about getting yoked 00:33:45.390 --> 00:33:48.089 with the one who has all the power and just breathe 00:33:48.089 --> 00:33:50.410 it, relax it. I'm going to get you to do this 00:33:50.410 --> 00:33:52.150 right now. Ready? We're going to take a breath 00:33:52.150 --> 00:34:01.980 in together. Ready? Do it again. You can't even 00:34:01.980 --> 00:34:08.000 do that by yourself. It's him. Right? We never 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.619 do this beyond ourselves. We're not capable. 00:34:11.460 --> 00:34:14.579 We can't do it. Your willpower isn't going to 00:34:14.579 --> 00:34:19.539 do it. It's not what I can do. It's who I'm yoked 00:34:19.539 --> 00:34:24.480 with. Worship team, if you'd come. Yoked means 00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:31.559 this. Yoke means tied to. Yoke means connected 00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:37.539 to. Yoke means strapped together with. Yoke means 00:34:37.539 --> 00:34:40.449 abiding. And if I had to give you a picture, 00:34:40.590 --> 00:34:42.670 some of you maybe have seen that old picture 00:34:42.670 --> 00:34:45.190 of maybe two oxen together, and they got that 00:34:45.190 --> 00:34:47.309 wooden yoke that goes across their back and ties 00:34:47.309 --> 00:34:49.949 them together. Or maybe something that might 00:34:49.949 --> 00:34:52.050 be a little more relevant or modern is a team 00:34:52.050 --> 00:34:53.889 of horses that are pulled together with straps 00:34:53.889 --> 00:34:57.250 and bars, and they're tied together. And it is 00:34:57.250 --> 00:35:00.090 the power, right, of them being yoked together 00:35:00.090 --> 00:35:02.849 that they can do the impossible. They will tell 00:35:02.849 --> 00:35:04.570 you if you take one horse and hook up weights 00:35:04.570 --> 00:35:07.329 to it and get it to pull, it can pull X amount 00:35:07.329 --> 00:35:09.730 of weight. If you hook up two horses, you think 00:35:09.730 --> 00:35:11.190 it would be double the weight that it would pull, 00:35:11.230 --> 00:35:13.289 but it actually triples or quadruples the weight 00:35:13.289 --> 00:35:16.090 that two horses can pull. Well, in this case, 00:35:16.190 --> 00:35:19.449 you're yoking up to somebody who has unlimited 00:35:19.449 --> 00:35:23.730 power. Unlimited. As a matter of fact, my power, 00:35:23.829 --> 00:35:25.750 if you take my power compared to Jesus' power, 00:35:25.969 --> 00:35:29.500 I have no power. If I could give you a picture, 00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:31.679 it'd be like Jesus putting on the yoke and then 00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:33.480 I get on the yoke and my feet are just dangling. 00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:35.559 I'm just hanging from it. That's what it looks 00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:39.880 like, right? It's all him. It's the power of 00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:43.380 being yoked. I experienced this idea of being 00:35:43.380 --> 00:35:46.019 yoked in high school. I sat beside this girl 00:35:46.019 --> 00:35:48.719 named Barb who was intellectually superior to 00:35:48.719 --> 00:35:52.159 me in school. She really was. And Barb and I 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:53.780 were friends. And the reason we were friends 00:35:53.780 --> 00:35:56.039 is because back then when you went to class, 00:35:56.059 --> 00:35:58.239 they sat you alphabetically and her last name 00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:00.960 was close to mine in last name. So we had multiple 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:03.980 classes together and Barb was always sitting 00:36:03.980 --> 00:36:05.940 somewhere right around me. So we got to know 00:36:05.940 --> 00:36:07.719 each other and we got to be friends. And Barb 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.849 was smart. She really was. And we had these two 00:36:10.849 --> 00:36:13.349 particular classes that we were both in. And 00:36:13.349 --> 00:36:15.369 actually in the one class, she was intellectually 00:36:15.369 --> 00:36:18.630 superior to me. But in the other class, I was 00:36:18.630 --> 00:36:21.010 intellectually superior to her. And we came up 00:36:21.010 --> 00:36:23.269 with this great idea. We need to help each other 00:36:23.269 --> 00:36:26.210 out just a little bit, right? And I don't recommend 00:36:26.210 --> 00:36:30.039 this, but you know. Through that semester, Barb 00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:32.139 really helped me out with a class that I thought 00:36:32.139 --> 00:36:34.480 I was going to miserably fail. And I helped her 00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:36.400 out with a class that she thought she was going 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.699 to miserably fail. And together, we got an awesome 00:36:38.699 --> 00:36:42.059 grade in both classes. We really did. But the 00:36:42.059 --> 00:36:45.739 point was this, right? The point was that if 00:36:45.739 --> 00:36:48.780 you're connected with somebody that has superior 00:36:48.780 --> 00:36:52.159 power, superior intellect, superior in every 00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:56.190 kind of way, You can do the impossible, not because 00:36:56.190 --> 00:37:00.050 of you, but because of them. And Jesus came and 00:37:00.050 --> 00:37:04.809 he said, my yoke is easy and my burden is light 00:37:04.809 --> 00:37:07.949 because when you connect, when you abide with 00:37:07.949 --> 00:37:11.650 me, I have all the resources you need. I have 00:37:11.650 --> 00:37:14.329 all the power you need. I have all the answers 00:37:14.329 --> 00:37:18.449 that you need. I've got it all. All I have to 00:37:18.449 --> 00:37:22.650 do is abide. All I've got to do is stay yoked. 00:37:23.659 --> 00:37:26.719 And it gets easier and it gets lighter. I'm not 00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:28.000 going to tell you everything's going to be easy 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:32.340 in life. I'm telling you, if you get yoked, think 00:37:32.340 --> 00:37:35.480 about being yoked to somebody. Pretend you're 00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:40.019 that animal, right? When you're yoked to somebody, 00:37:40.300 --> 00:37:44.219 they're right next to you. They're right beside 00:37:44.219 --> 00:37:48.380 you every step of the way. If you're yoked with 00:37:48.380 --> 00:37:52.500 somebody, you hear every word. that is spoken 00:37:52.500 --> 00:37:56.500 with the one that's beside you. If you're yoked 00:37:56.500 --> 00:38:00.199 with somebody, you feel the pull of the other 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:04.039 person. You feel the power of the one that's 00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:08.039 beside you. You will have reverence for the sheer 00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:11.679 ability and knowledge of the one you're yoked 00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:14.400 to. If you're yoked to somebody, you're in a 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:18.500 safe spot, right? If you're yoked, you do exactly 00:38:18.500 --> 00:38:25.099 what he does. Exactly. It is in the yoke where 00:38:25.099 --> 00:38:31.139 it becomes easy, squeezy, lemon breezy. With 00:38:31.139 --> 00:38:35.420 Jesus. My nephew used to say that all the time. 00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:41.440 It's in my head. It's in the yoke. It's in the 00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:47.760 yoke. I'm going to ask you to stand. When Jesus 00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:51.989 gives us commands, and he does, in Scripture 00:38:51.989 --> 00:38:54.489 that are not optional for followers of Jesus 00:38:54.489 --> 00:38:57.670 Christ. And you think it's an impossible thing 00:38:57.670 --> 00:39:02.130 to do. It is on your own. In your own power, 00:39:02.250 --> 00:39:05.690 in your own strength, in your own whatever you 00:39:05.690 --> 00:39:07.909 got, motz, right? Whatever you got, beat your 00:39:07.909 --> 00:39:12.409 chest all you want. It is not until you yoke 00:39:12.409 --> 00:39:15.389 with the Master that you'll begin to walk step 00:39:15.389 --> 00:39:18.739 in step. It's not until you yoke with the master 00:39:18.739 --> 00:39:20.739 that the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit begins to 00:39:20.739 --> 00:39:25.079 speak into your spirit. You start to step where 00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:28.320 he steps. You start to hear what he speaks. You 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:31.239 start to know which direction he'll go. You start 00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:34.880 to understand the safety that's in this right 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:37.539 beside the master. I never said it was going 00:39:37.539 --> 00:39:41.739 to be easy. I just said his yoke is easy. He'll 00:39:41.739 --> 00:39:43.639 carry you through the hard thing. When you're 00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:47.579 in the fire and you can't see. When the flames 00:39:47.579 --> 00:39:49.760 are all around you and the heat's on you and 00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:51.699 the pressure's on, and it's easy when you're 00:39:51.699 --> 00:39:53.260 not in the pressure, but when the pressure of 00:39:53.260 --> 00:39:55.340 life comes and the situation, circumstances, 00:39:55.579 --> 00:39:57.300 I don't know if you've ever gotten a place where 00:39:57.300 --> 00:39:58.699 you're like, how in the world did I get here? 00:39:59.059 --> 00:40:01.000 How in the world am I in the middle of whatever's 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:02.800 going on? It might not even be your mess. It 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:05.380 might be somebody, how did I get here? What am 00:40:05.380 --> 00:40:08.059 I supposed to do with this? It's in that spot. 00:40:08.179 --> 00:40:10.280 You need to understand, you're yoked to the master. 00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:15.039 More than ever, you stand. quietly yoke to him. 00:40:15.099 --> 00:40:17.699 You stand as close as you can, and you wait for 00:40:17.699 --> 00:40:20.300 his instruction. You look where he says to go, 00:40:20.460 --> 00:40:23.559 right? When he points that way, you go that direction. 00:40:23.679 --> 00:40:26.000 When you feel his pull, you move with his pull. 00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:29.019 That's how the Spirit guides us and directs us. 00:40:29.139 --> 00:40:34.659 We're people of the Spirit. When it's impossible, 00:40:34.780 --> 00:40:41.960 what makes you unmistakably his is that we hear 00:40:41.960 --> 00:40:45.659 his voice, We stay yoked and we love one another 00:40:45.659 --> 00:40:50.059 like he loved. Amen? I'm going to ask you to 00:40:50.059 --> 00:40:53.380 bow your heads. Now, here's what I know for sure. 00:40:54.420 --> 00:40:56.800 As God began to bring this alive in my heart 00:40:56.800 --> 00:40:59.059 and in my spirit, as I began to look at these 00:40:59.059 --> 00:41:03.699 verses, there are some in the house. You're either 00:41:03.699 --> 00:41:06.139 in the fire, you've been in the fire, you're 00:41:06.139 --> 00:41:08.380 walking into the fire, or you're somewhere on 00:41:08.380 --> 00:41:12.920 your way out of the fire. But you're tired, you're 00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:15.920 weary. You've been fighting something on your 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:19.880 own, maybe something hidden in your life, and 00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:21.940 you've been fighting, and you've been fighting, 00:41:22.059 --> 00:41:24.059 and you've been fighting, and you're wore out. 00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:30.380 Good. Because when you get wore out, you stand 00:41:30.380 --> 00:41:33.440 still. When you get wore out, you start to look 00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:37.599 up instead of looking in. If that's you in the 00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:41.480 house, That's you in the house this morning. 00:41:43.860 --> 00:41:45.780 You're never going to be able to love like you 00:41:45.780 --> 00:41:47.880 need to love. You're never going to be able to 00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:50.780 walk like you need to walk if you don't say yote 00:41:50.780 --> 00:41:55.079 to the master. And our first inclination as humans, 00:41:55.179 --> 00:41:57.619 I don't know why it is, but when we get in the 00:41:57.619 --> 00:42:00.159 heat, we tend to run from God and say the exact 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:03.340 opposite that we need to do. So if you're here 00:42:03.340 --> 00:42:04.820 in the house and your head's bowed and your eyes 00:42:04.820 --> 00:42:07.039 are closed, I want anyone looking around, if 00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:09.909 that's you, And you know this message is speaking 00:42:09.909 --> 00:42:11.510 and pulling on you. I want you to raise your 00:42:11.510 --> 00:42:12.750 hand up, put it right back down. I'm just going 00:42:12.750 --> 00:42:14.650 to pray for you this morning. Just going to pray 00:42:14.650 --> 00:42:17.050 for you. That's all. Thank you. Thank you for 00:42:17.050 --> 00:42:20.070 all the honesty in the house. Thank you for the 00:42:20.070 --> 00:42:27.849 honesty. Thank you. I want you to look back up, 00:42:27.949 --> 00:42:34.550 church. I'm going to pray in a moment. Stay yoked. 00:42:35.769 --> 00:42:39.869 Now more than ever. Man, I am reading about what's 00:42:39.869 --> 00:42:42.389 taking place in the world around us. I'm reading 00:42:42.389 --> 00:42:45.369 what's taking place in AI. I'm reading about 00:42:45.369 --> 00:42:47.309 the shifts that are about to take place in the 00:42:47.309 --> 00:42:50.150 next 18 to 24 months in the world around us. 00:42:50.170 --> 00:42:53.309 You better stay yoked up to Jesus, right? The 00:42:53.309 --> 00:42:55.309 Word of God tells us that in the last days, great 00:42:55.309 --> 00:42:57.570 delusion is going to come. There's going to be 00:42:57.570 --> 00:42:59.250 great delusion. There's going to be things that 00:42:59.250 --> 00:43:03.590 will draw and pull on us, and we'll get deluded 00:43:03.590 --> 00:43:06.829 in our thinking. Don't do it. If you stay near 00:43:06.829 --> 00:43:08.710 the master, you're going to hear him speaking 00:43:08.710 --> 00:43:11.610 in your ear the truth of God. You're going to 00:43:11.610 --> 00:43:13.570 be able to wade through some of the garbage that 00:43:13.570 --> 00:43:15.710 you're going to see, that the enemy is going 00:43:15.710 --> 00:43:20.030 to put in front of you. And if you're here, draw 00:43:20.030 --> 00:43:24.289 in. Submit to God. Here's the big deal, right? 00:43:24.590 --> 00:43:27.030 You've got to submit to get yoked. I don't know 00:43:27.030 --> 00:43:28.369 if you've ever been tied in the middle of something 00:43:28.369 --> 00:43:30.829 or tied up to somebody, maybe handcuffed to somebody. 00:43:30.889 --> 00:43:34.750 Don't raise your hand. But you've got to submit. 00:43:35.739 --> 00:43:40.139 You can't fight. Let's pray. Father, I thank 00:43:40.139 --> 00:43:41.480 you for each person in the house. I thank you 00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:42.840 for those who are listening online this morning. 00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:45.920 God, your word is quick and powerful, and it 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:48.219 is sharper than a two -edged sword. Lord, we 00:43:48.219 --> 00:43:50.980 draw in today. God, we pull in close to you. 00:43:51.420 --> 00:43:53.880 God, we submit our hearts, our lives. God, if 00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:55.559 there's been an area where I've just been fighting 00:43:55.559 --> 00:43:57.579 you, I've been fighting it on my own. I've been 00:43:57.579 --> 00:43:59.739 looking to myself. I've been trying to self -improve. 00:43:59.940 --> 00:44:01.840 I've been trying to do all these things. I'm 00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:04.760 just letting go, God, and I'm tying to you. Lord, 00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:07.159 I'm gonna do what you say to do. I'm gonna live 00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:09.500 like you say to live. I'm gonna walk like you 00:44:09.500 --> 00:44:11.699 say to walk. I'm gonna pray like you tell me 00:44:11.699 --> 00:44:14.519 to pray. I'm gonna speak how you tell me to speak. 00:44:14.739 --> 00:44:17.480 Lord, I'm just gonna, I'm not leaving your side 00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:21.079 because I gotta abide in you. If I'm going to 00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:22.920 make it through this thing, if I'm going to get 00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:26.099 through and come out the other side, Lord, alive. 00:44:26.460 --> 00:44:27.920 God, if I'm going to come out the other side 00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:30.000 in you, God, I'm going to stay right next to 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.780 you. I'll make that commitment in my heart. God, 00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:35.239 I confess, Lord, that I've been trying to do 00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:38.199 this on my own. I repent today. I turn and go 00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:40.659 a different direction today, which is right beside 00:44:40.659 --> 00:44:44.860 you. I'm going to love like I'm supposed to love, 00:44:45.019 --> 00:44:47.599 not because I got it in me, but because I'm in 00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:53.500 you. And I thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen 00:44:53.500 --> 00:44:57.820 and amen. The defining mark of a believer that 00:44:57.820 --> 00:45:01.800 makes you unmistakably his is that you are yoked 00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:05.960 to Christ. You walk like he walks. You talk like 00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:08.679 he talks. And when the world is looking into 00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:14.320 the sunlight, squinting, squinting. For some 00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:17.019 reason, I go saying, man, something about that 00:45:17.019 --> 00:45:22.099 person. I think they know Jesus. Amen? It's true. 00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:25.119 I want you to sing one last song with Zach. He's 00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:27.219 going to close us out in prayer. Give you an 00:45:27.219 --> 00:45:28.659 opportunity in the house. If you don't know Jesus, 00:45:28.739 --> 00:45:30.880 he's going to give you that opportunity. You 00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:43.719 can know him today. Thank you for tuning in to 00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:47.230 this message from Lifehouse Church. We pray that 00:45:47.230 --> 00:45:49.550 you were impacted powerfully by this message. 00:45:49.909 --> 00:45:52.909 If you have been personally affected by our ministry 00:45:52.909 --> 00:45:55.670 and you would like to partner with us as we love 00:45:55.670 --> 00:45:58.809 God, love people every day, visit our website 00:45:58.809 --> 00:46:03.409 at www .lifehousecog .com.