1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 the Lord good praise for that cleansing flood. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Hallelujah. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Thank you for being in the house of the Lord today. 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Turn with me to Matthew's gospel, chapter 22. 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,000 It's good to have little Lucas. 6 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,000 He's had to take a break, but it's little Lucas's first day 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 at Hope Well this morning. 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 So it's good to have him. 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000 He'll be up in the balcony to my right later on. 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,000 We'll have a dedication here before long for Lucas. 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Give the Lord thanks. 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Dedicate him. Amen. 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Good to see you in the house of the Lord today. 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Matthew's gospel, chapter 22, 22 verse 42. 15 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Matthew 22, you're there, say amen. 16 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,000 If you're not, say wait just a minute. 17 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Here we go. 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Verse 42. 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Saying, what think ye of Christ, whose son is he? 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:27,000 They say unto him, the son of David. 21 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,000 With the help of the Lord, just pulling this passage out. 22 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000 I want to speak to us on the thought this morning for a little bit. 23 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Opinions matter. 24 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Opinions matter. 25 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 I'll pray for you if you pray for me. 26 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 We'll be expedient this morning. 27 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Lord, we love you. 28 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 We thank you. 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 I pray, Lord, that you would help in this house today. 30 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Lord, I need your help. 31 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,000 I need your strength. 32 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Stir that unction and anointing that you've placed upon me. 33 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Lord, I thank you for those who are in this house today. 34 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Lord, none of us here by accident, but by reason and purpose. 35 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Your reason and your purpose. 36 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 So I pray, Lord, before we leave here, 37 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 that we leave touched and we leave blessed. 38 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Blessed by being with each other. 39 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Blessed with our worship corporately. 40 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Blessed by being in your presence. 41 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 You be praised forever. 42 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 In Christ's holy name. 43 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 That's what you're saying? 44 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Amen, amen. 45 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 You can be seated this morning. 46 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Opinions matter. 47 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:43,000 There's a lot taking place in the text this morning. 48 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Pharisees are gathered. 49 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:53,000 They've come together. 50 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Jesus poses a question to them. 51 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,000 They so often are questioning him about who he is and what he's about, 52 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,000 what he's doing. 53 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,000 But he poses a question to them in our text this morning. 54 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 And yes, them will. 55 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,000 What do you think about me? 56 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,000 That's dangerous, isn't it? 57 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Isn't that dangerous sometimes? 58 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 You'll pick a certain crowd to ask that question, 59 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:28,000 and you won't just ask that question to anyone. 60 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Sometimes we might be afraid we'll get an honest answer. 61 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 So we want to find that crowd that's going to be favorable toward us. 62 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:42,000 But I assure you with Jesus asking the Pharisees, 63 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,000 what think you of Christ, whose son is he? 64 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,000 I guarantee you it wasn't a very popular question at the moment. 65 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,000 When we think about opinion, 66 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:03,000 opinion is a judgment, a viewpoint, a statement that is not concise. 67 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 But opinions are important. 68 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 They have a bearing on most of us, 69 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,000 and they have a bearing on our lives and how we go about life. 70 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 An opinion being defined as the view or the judgment or appraisal 71 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:22,000 formed in the mind about a specific matter. 72 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Politicians live and die by the opinion polls. 73 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Corporations have been built and destroyed by the opinions of people, 74 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:42,000 so much so noted in our council culture of our day. 75 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Webster says it's that appraisal, that formation in the mind 76 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:51,000 about a particular matter. 77 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Fashion, style are determined by opinion. 78 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Movies, success or failures are determined by opinions. 79 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Songs, successes are determined by opinions. 80 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Those opinions determine the outcome of our choices. 81 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,000 They are formed throughout a various process in our hearts and lives. 82 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,000 How many of you are first impressionists? 83 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Anybody? 84 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:35,000 I mean, you pretty much form your opinion in about 90 seconds. 85 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 I've got you beat. 86 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000 I'm about a 32-second opinion former. 87 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,000 First impressions, what did you say, true? 88 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 I can hear. 89 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,000 I lay heavy upon my first impressions. 90 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Three times I've been proven wrong. 91 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000 I'm trying to break it up. 92 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Y'all are cold as ice in here. 93 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 I'm just about to give an altar call and let you go. 94 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:16,000 We'll try it again next week. 95 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Have it, thank you. 96 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:22,000 He needs it, Lord. 97 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Character studies form opinions through the sorting out of information 98 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:36,000 and all of these combine to help form a knowledgeable opinion about a subject matter. 99 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:44,000 We have opinions concerning your favorite people, places, cars, food, clothes, music, 100 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,000 so many other things in life. 101 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 However, the most important opinion you will ever form 102 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:58,000 is the opinion you form concerning Jesus Christ. 103 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,000 The Pharisees are put to the test and they have the question posed to them. 104 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:07,000 What think ye of the Christ? 105 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:13,000 What is your opinion of the Christ and whose son is he? 106 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:18,000 That's a powerful deep subject to begin to ponder. 107 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,000 But I think for each of us we must have a reevaluation. 108 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,000 I do it quite often. 109 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,000 I evaluate in my own life what it is I think of Christ 110 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:37,000 and what he means to me and how much my need of him really is. 111 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:42,000 I don't know about you, but I really need Jesus in my life. 112 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,000 I really need him every day just so that I can cope and make life happen 113 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 and live what life brings toward me day in and day out. 114 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,000 I need Jesus. 115 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:57,000 So today for you to ask me my opinion of who the Christ is 116 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,000 and what my opinion of the Christ really is, 117 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 he's my all in all. 118 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,000 He's my everything, the existence of myself, and the reason of my being. 119 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,000 It took me a little over 20 years to find out that the reason of my being 120 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 was for his purpose and his purpose alone. 121 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,000 That the surrender of my life was for his will and for his good pleasure 122 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 and for him to do with me and in me as he pleases. 123 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,000 I don't know how long it's taking you to get there. 124 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,000 You may not be there yet, but let me just assure you, 125 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,000 the quicker you get there, the quicker you form your opinion 126 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,000 and have it informed by the Word of God and the power of God. 127 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:42,000 As we would ponder this same question, he still stands on trial today, 128 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,000 some 2,000 years past the asking of this original question. 129 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:52,000 He is still an opinionated character in our culture 130 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 because many people form opinions about him. 131 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Listen to this, a Barna study in 2014 said 93% of the people in the US 132 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,000 believed Jesus was a real person. 133 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Just go figure, I don't know what the other seven are thinking about, 134 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:15,000 but you know, what kind of proof they need to know that he was a real person. 135 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Americans who identify as Christians are most likely to say, 136 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,000 listen to this, this is an opinion, they are most likely to say 137 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:28,000 that they find Jesus, number one, as Savior, 53%, 138 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 as the Son of God, 50%. 139 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,000 When you think of the pick three from the list that they had provided, 140 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:42,000 they picked this, Messiah, 21%, Lord is 20% and healer, at 17%. 141 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,000 It might actually shock you to believe now and to hear 142 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,000 that only about 53% of Americans actually believe, 143 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,000 I'm talking about out of that 93% Christian rate, 144 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:00,000 that only about 53% according to Pew Research believe that Jesus Christ 145 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:05,000 is the Son of the Living God and that he is divine, 146 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,000 not was but is because he continues still to be. 147 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Are you with me this morning? 148 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 So now look at the decline of this nation, look at where we are, 149 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,000 look at how people are still forming their opinion. 150 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:23,000 29% of adult Americans in the United States, 151 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:30,000 29% identify themselves as none when it comes to religious affiliation. 152 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:35,000 They're either atheists or agnostic or they're just nothing in particular at all. 153 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,000 They don't even believe there's a God or if they even believe there's a God, 154 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,000 they don't believe that you can know that God. 155 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,000 So the question that was posed to the Pharisees 2000 years ago 156 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:54,000 is a relevant question here on this 24th day of September in the year of our Lord 2023. 157 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,000 It's still a valid question, it's an important question, 158 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 and it's one that we will all have to form an answer to. 159 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,000 You have to develop an opinion of who Christ is. 160 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Is he the Messiah? Oh, 21%. 161 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Is he Lord? 20%. 162 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Oh, is he just whatever? Is he healer? 163 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Only 17% of the people believe that he is healer. 164 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:22,000 But I'm here to tell you today, he's 100% of all of the above. 165 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 And the verification is written throughout history, 166 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,000 and history proves it, and history validates it, 167 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,000 and you have to form your opinion here on this day in the year of our Lord. 168 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,000 And as we seek out character weaknesses through the Word of God. 169 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,000 It's a question about God's ability and not only his ability, 170 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 but it's about his existence. 171 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,000 If you look in 1 Kings 18 and 21, and Elijah came unto all the people, 172 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,000 and he said, how long halt you between two opinions? 173 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,000 If the Lord be God, then follow him. If Baal, then follow him. 174 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,000 And the people answered him not a word. 175 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 So I'm posing that question to you today. 176 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 If the Lord is God, if there is a God, 177 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,000 you've got to form an opinion about him quick today. 178 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,000 And if he is Lord, then you must follow him. 179 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Are you going to choose to follow him? 180 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,000 There's a line that gets drawn in the sand. 181 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,000 There's one in eternity that's awaiting you to approach. 182 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,000 And the only way to cross that line is to accept the fact 183 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,000 that God is God and there is no other. 184 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 And he is the creator of all things. 185 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,000 And because of him, all things are into existence. 186 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,000 So what is your opinion? What is your thought today? 187 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 You've got to have an answer. 188 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,000 You can't be like the Israelites of that day and not have an answer. 189 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,000 You must form an opinion and have an answer. 190 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:52,000 And if he is Lord, then you must choose him. 191 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:58,000 In our culture today, it's like going to the Bass Pro Shop 192 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,000 and going down to Fish and Eye. 193 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,000 There's just way too much stuff. 194 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Hello? 195 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Just way too much. 196 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:15,000 They've got an aisle and a section designated to whatever it is you desire to catch. 197 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,000 And when you get there, you're scratching your head saying, 198 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 well, I wonder which one's the best? 199 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Huh? 200 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Unless you weigh a lot better off than I am, 201 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:31,000 you can't just afford to get a pack of each and find out for yourself. 202 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:36,000 It works that way in the religious system of this world in which you and I are living. 203 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Because of man's perversion in his heart, 204 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,000 there are so many options that are out there. 205 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,000 People do not know what to believe. 206 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,000 But I'm here to tell you there's only one correct answer, 207 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000 and that is who is the Christ? 208 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 The answer to that question. 209 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,000 If you'll remember, Jesus not only posed this question to the Pharisees, 210 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 but he asked his disciples, 211 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? 212 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,000 And Peter gives that wonderful, powerful answer. 213 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 214 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,000 And then we hear Jesus retort to him, 215 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Blessed art thou, Simon Parchon, 216 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 For flesh and blood has not revealed this unto you, 217 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 But my Father, which is in heaven. 218 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Oh, and he didn't just stop there. 219 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:24,000 He said, Whatsoever you bind on earth, you'll be bound in heaven. 220 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 And whatsoever you loose on earth is going to be loosed in heaven. 221 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 And how does that happen? 222 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:34,000 He said, Because, behold, I give unto you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. 223 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Here's the key to the kingdom of heaven. 224 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,000 It is that Christ is the Messiah. 225 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Hallelujah. 226 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,000 And that Jesus is the Redeemer of lost humanity. 227 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,000 And you've got to form that opinion correctly. 228 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Character witnesses throughout Scripture 229 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Validate the authenticity. 230 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:06,000 If you don't take his word for it, at least take the Father's word. 231 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:12,000 John 1 and 1, in the beginning, was the word, and the word was God. 232 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Colossians 1 and 17 declares, He is before all things, 233 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,000 And by Him all things consist. 234 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:25,000 John 3 and 17, we hear this voice from heaven as the Father begins to speak. 235 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:32,000 This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, hear ye Him. 236 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,000 If you don't take my word for it this morning, 237 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:40,000 If you won't take the Bible's word for it, then take God the Father's word for it. 238 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:45,000 This is my beloved Son, who is the Christ, and whose Son is He. 239 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:51,000 He is the Son of the Heavenly Father, the only begotten upon this earth of the Father. 240 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:56,000 John 3 and 16, it's because of the begotten one that whosoever believes in Him 241 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 should not perish but have everlasting life. 242 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 I don't know if you've looked around you lately, 243 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 but this whole world's going to hell in a handbasket. 244 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,000 That's the world. 245 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,000 I may be in this world, but I am not of this world. 246 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 And by virtue of not being of this world, 247 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,000 I'm not going to hell in any basket or bucket or anything else. 248 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,000 There's a place being prepared for me, and that is where I'm going. 249 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 I'm here to encourage somebody today. 250 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Your opinion does matter. Your opinion does matter. 251 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Your opinion of He being the Christ and the Lord of your life and the Messiah, 252 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,000 of the saving, redempting Worker of all of humanity. 253 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,000 It really does matter. 254 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,000 It does not matter what the devil thinks about it or what people think about it, 255 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:45,000 but it matters what you think about it this morning. 256 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,000 The angels weigh in on the matter. 257 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Luke 2, 11, they declare in the heavens, 258 00:16:53,000 --> 00:17:01,000 unto you is born a Savior, which is called Christ the Lord. 259 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Now, the Pharisees are not going to have a good answer, 260 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 but the angels had a good one. 261 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:12,000 John the Baptist would come on the scene, the last of the Old Testament prophets. 262 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,000 He's standing ways deep in Jordan baptizing converts, 263 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:21,000 and he looks up on the hillside and sees Jesus coming down. 264 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,000 And it was there he would make that declaration. 265 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sins of the world. 266 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Come on now. 267 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,000 I know you may not think you need him to take him away, but you do. 268 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 And the sooner you realize it, the better off you're going to be. 269 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 It took me a while to realize that I was raised in church, 270 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 cut my teeth on an oak pew and a redback hymn cover. 271 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Amen, but that still didn't give me what I needed. 272 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Just because I was raised in it and surrounded by it, 273 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:59,000 did not do the work in my life until the day that I realized that I was lost and dying 274 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 and on my way to a devil's hell. 275 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:06,000 But there was a hope extended to me through who is this, who is the Christ. 276 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,000 He is the Redeemer, he is the Savior, he's the lover of my soul. 277 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:16,000 And when I realized and recognized my own, oh, my own unworthy condition 278 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:22,000 and realized that I was a sinner and the only escape from my sin was the sinless one, 279 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,000 who is the Christ, the Lord of all. 280 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:28,000 And upon him I called, and at his feet I fell. 281 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,000 That's what I think about him. 282 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,000 That's what I think concerning him. 283 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:39,000 The angel said a Savior is born, which is called Christ the Lord. 284 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,000 John said he's the lamb that takes away the sins of the world. 285 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:50,000 The best answer that scribes and Pharisees could give found Matthew 7 and 29. 286 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 All they could say is, well, he just speaks as one having authority. 287 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Yeah, well, that's the best you got. 288 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,000 He did have authority, right? 289 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,000 All authority in heaven and in earth have been given to him. 290 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000 That's all they can answer. 291 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Simon said he is the Christ. 292 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Judas is Caryat. 293 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Remember what Judas said in Matthew 27 and 4? 294 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,000 He said, I have betrayed innocent blood. 295 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,000 Oh, I'm telling you, he had an opinion, but he formed it way too late, didn't he? 296 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:29,000 He formed it after he had already sold out the Christ for 30 pieces of silver. 297 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 He found it out after he is crucified. 298 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:37,000 He come to that knowledge way too late, my Lord, and I'm encouraging us today. 299 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Don't come to that knowledge way too late. 300 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 You hear me this morning? 301 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Jesus loves you. 302 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,000 We used to sing it as we were little children, and I hope they still sing it today. 303 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. 304 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Amen. 305 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,000 Little ones to him belong. 306 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Come on, somebody. 307 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,000 We need to know that Jesus still loves us. 308 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,000 What is your opinion? 309 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:05,000 Is your opinion as the enemy convinced you and got you to believe that he's abandoned you in your trouble, 310 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:10,000 as he left you and forsaken you in your darkest hour, then the devil is a lie. 311 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,000 He has never forsaken you. 312 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,000 Why, pastor? 313 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000 Because he said, I will never leave you. 314 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 I will never forsake you. 315 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,000 But, lo, I will go with you always, even to the end of the earth. 316 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:33,000 My God, this morning, understand that your opinion really matters. 317 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:41,000 I already preached that page anyway. 318 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Some of you just formed an opinion of that, and I and not even will go there. 319 00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Pilate said, I find no fault in him. 320 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000 His opinion mattered, didn't it? 321 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Pilate's opinion mattered. 322 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Upon the word of Pilate, Christ could have went free. 323 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:26,000 And he tried every way in the world, every way possible to get him out of it, to keep from Christ being crucified. 324 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,000 He took a picture and had him pour water over his hands. 325 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 I wash my hands. 326 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:38,000 I'm innocent, hoping that the gesture would make sense and convince them not to crucify. 327 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 He said, well, I'll really do it for him now. 328 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Oh, it's your tradition that on this day that we release one from prison. 329 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000 You remember? 330 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,000 So I can just see him in his conversation with his guards. 331 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Find me the dirtiest, rotten, meanest scoundrel down in the lower, the lowest part of the prison, 332 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,000 and bring him up here tomorrow and I will let them choose. 333 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Knowing, Pilate, knowing there's no way they're going to take this man, Barabbas, over this innocent man, 334 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:13,000 a murderer, a thief, a conniver, over one who'd raised the dead. 335 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,000 Are you with me this morning? 336 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:21,000 One who had opened the eyes of the blind, one who'd opened deaf ears, who had untied the tangleman of the tongue, 337 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000 of the mute, come on, and the leper who had been washed clean. 338 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 That was his charge against him. 339 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 That was all they had. 340 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:34,000 And then he presents them with Barabbas and here they cry because their opinion had been formed. 341 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000 He was a blasphemer. 342 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,000 Their opinion had already been stated in their mind. 343 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 He is claiming to be God. 344 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 There is no other but God. 345 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Oh, he's transgressed the law. 346 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 He's picked fruit on the seventh day. 347 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 He's washed his hands on the Sabbath. 348 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000 He's healed. 349 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:55,000 My, my, my, he reached out and healed on the seventh. 350 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:01,000 Give us Barabbas. 351 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Opinions matter. 352 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Opinions matter. 353 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Had it not been piloted, what ultimately ended up being Caesar? 354 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Why, pastor? 355 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Because he had to die. 356 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Why did he have to die? 357 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000 To save you and me. 358 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:31,000 That's why. 359 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Thomas. 360 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:41,000 We call him Doubting Thomas, but that's not really fair. 361 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,000 He wasn't there the day that Christ presented himself after the resurrection. 362 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:52,000 He wasn't there in the midst, in the crowd with the others when Jesus showed his hands in his side 363 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 and they accepted and believed. 364 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,000 All he got was their testimony. 365 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,000 Are you here? Hang on here now. 366 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,000 All Thomas received was their testimony. 367 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,000 We have seen the Christ. 368 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 He is risen. 369 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,000 And like most of us doubters, come on. 370 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Like most of us will say, well, unless I see him with my own eyes, I'm not going to believe it. 371 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Until I put my finger where they drove the spikes into his wrist, I'll not accept it. 372 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Until I can put my hand in his side where I know that spear lacerated his flesh, until I can do that, I won't believe. 373 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 But one day he was in the house. 374 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Come on, somebody. 375 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Oh, Thomas was there with the rest and Christ comes before them. 376 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,000 And he said, look, Thomas, here's my hand. 377 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Oh, Thomas, you say and you got to get this. 378 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 I hope you're not missing it. 379 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,000 He wasn't there when he said it, but he knew it. 380 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:54,000 He wasn't there when he testified to the fact of doubt and disbelief. 381 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000 But it was there that he stood with his side open. 382 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,000 Put your hand here. 383 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Put your fingers here. 384 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Oh, no, Thomas fell. 385 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000 There's your faith. 386 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:13,000 My Lord, sometimes in life when things look so unbelievable, we can't even acknowledge the fact that God is working on our behalf. 387 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 But you hear me this morning. 388 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 I don't care how bad it is or how bad it looks. 389 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:24,000 God is still at work on your behalf. 390 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:31,000 He's seeing, he's knowing, he's hearing, he's understanding. 391 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Even at your weakest faith moment, he knows what's on your mind and knows. 392 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,000 Here's the good part. 393 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:57,000 He knows what you need to see. 394 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:12,000 I just formed an opinion, but I'm not going to express it. 395 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:19,000 I wish you could feel what I'm feeling while I'm trying to preach this to you. 396 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:29,000 I wish you could experience just a little bit of what's going on inside of me as I'm trying to relay to you the opinions matter. 397 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,000 I can't express to you the war that's going on. 398 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,000 I wish I could. 399 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:40,000 I wish you could feel it some Sundays you wouldn't be as out to be as distracted as you are. 400 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:51,000 I wish you knew the war that was going on the inside so that the word of God goes forth so that faith can be encouraged and faith could be built. 401 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:58,000 You really think the devil wants me to stand up here with ease and tell you that your opinion matters? 402 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:04,000 You really think the devil wants you to just hear that the power of Christ is what makes you, 403 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:11,000 what strengthens you, encourages you, and is grace that's added to your life and enables you to make it another day? 404 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000 No, he doesn't want that to go forward. 405 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,000 He wants you as distracted as you can possibly be. 406 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:21,000 He wants me as frustrated as I can possibly get, but I've got news for him. 407 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,000 I've seen it all. 408 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,000 It's all happened. 409 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,000 It's been done. 410 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,000 Batteries have died. 411 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Cords have went out. 412 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Youngins have screamed and people have got up and in and out, and you wonder if they don't need to be on dialysis? 413 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Surely, bladders can't be this week. 414 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:53,000 I have foreign opinion and I'm trying to keep it to myself because they matter. 415 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Because if I really express mine, some of you probably won't be back, so I'll not do that. 416 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:06,000 You've got to understand, me and the devil have nothing in common. 417 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000 You hear me? 418 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,000 I rub him wrong and he rubs me wrong. 419 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,000 So my frustration is not always with you, it's with him. 420 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Always with him. 421 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:24,000 But sometimes to those who yield themselves as instruments, I get a little aggravated. 422 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:33,000 Moving right along, Thomas declared, my Lord and my God. 423 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:39,000 Upon simply seeing he didn't have to touch, remember? 424 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Not one finger went in one nail. 425 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000 Not one hand went in one side. 426 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:52,000 Just simply upon making it available, he fell and made his opinion known, my Lord and my God. 427 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,000 That's what happens in our weak faith moments. 428 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 He will reveal himself to us. 429 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000 He will reveal himself to you. 430 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:05,000 When your faith is at its weakest and life is at its lowest, he can come to where you are. 431 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,000 And when he gets there and he arrives there, when we have our earthly complaints, 432 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,000 Lord, where were you? 433 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,000 Why didn't you show up there when I was with them then? 434 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,000 It doesn't matter. 435 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,000 That's not the point. 436 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:21,000 The point is when you need him the most, that's when he arrives. 437 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000 You always have to know that God's always on time. 438 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,000 He's never late. 439 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,000 He's never early. 440 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:35,000 But he always shows up precisely when and where you need him, my Lord and my God. 441 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:41,000 Revelation 19 and 16, John declares him king of kings and lord of lords. 442 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:49,000 Paul's confession in Philippians 3 10 would be this, that I might know him and the power of his resurrection. 443 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:55,000 And to be a partaker and fellowship in his suffering. 444 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,000 We don't want none of that. 445 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,000 I don't want none of that. 446 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000 Do you? 447 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,000 I don't want the suffering. 448 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,000 I long for the glorification to be with him. 449 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Amen. 450 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,000 That's us. 451 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Opinions express the man that was born blind in John 9. 452 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,000 They call him to court. 453 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,000 When you born blind. 454 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000 Yes, sir, I was. 455 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,000 Who's made you whole? 456 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,000 Well, I really couldn't see him. 457 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,000 I don't know who did all this. 458 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,000 Get his mother and dad, bring them into court. 459 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,000 Is this your son? 460 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,000 Yes, our boy. 461 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,000 Was he born blind? 462 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,000 He was born blind. 463 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,000 Well, then how can he see right now? 464 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,000 Listen to this. 465 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,000 You need to go back and read it. 466 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:51,000 John chapter nine, the Pharisees had already said that if anyone confesses him as the Christ, 467 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000 they would be thrown out of the synagogue. 468 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,000 What's that mean? 469 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:59,000 Kicked out of church. 470 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,000 They'd already said that. 471 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,000 So here they are standing before a packed court. 472 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,000 Right? 473 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,000 So now how we going to answer this? 474 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,000 Oh, I got it. 475 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,000 Boy's old enough. 476 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,000 He'll answer for himself. 477 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,000 Thank you, your honor, and they leave. 478 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,000 They didn't want kicked out church. 479 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000 So they pull the boy back up. 480 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,000 How then do you see? 481 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000 He has formed an opinion. 482 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,000 I don't know how. 483 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,000 I really don't know who it was. 484 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000 But what I can tell you is this. 485 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,000 I was blind. 486 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,000 But now I can see now. 487 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,000 I see you sitting there judging me as Pastor Brian's already made mention. 488 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000 I see you now. 489 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,000 I couldn't see you before, but I see you now. 490 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:54,000 So it really to me doesn't matter who it was or how he done it or what day of the week he'd done it on. 491 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:59,000 The fact is that he had the power to do it and the compassion to extend it toward me. 492 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,000 It really doesn't matter, child, of God, when or where or the how. 493 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:14,000 The simplicity is this, is that your opinion matters and your faith is built, and he does it for you. 494 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000 You good? 495 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,000 The leper? 496 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,000 Luke 5? 497 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:30,000 Just come to thank him. 498 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:36,000 I know you go on and on and on, but I'll digress this morning. 499 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:47,000 The apostles centered their preaching and teaching around the person and the centrality of Jesus Christ and no other message. 500 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:53,000 I fear today that our message has gotten too far from Calvary. 501 00:32:53,000 --> 00:33:03,000 The hope that many try to portray to others is a self-hope. 502 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,000 It's not self-hope that I offer you today. 503 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:19,000 It's the hope that Paul offers to young Timothy when he said, Jesus Christ, which is our hope. 504 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,000 That's what I offer you today. 505 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000 That's what I extend to you today. 506 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:35,000 That's the focal point of the message, the Son of God, the heart leader of the preaching and our preaching from then to now. 507 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:56,000 It always will be the focus on what do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he? Knowing that he is the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent one. 508 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,000 He is the hope that exists in our life. 509 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:06,000 He's the hope in an otherwise hopeless society. 510 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:14,000 It is he who is the hope of humanity. 511 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,000 So opinions matter. 512 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:33,000 The enemy tries to alter our opinions of who Christ is and what he means to us. 513 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:42,000 That's the reason you can't form opinions in and through and during worship. 514 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:55,000 Remember the lady with the alabaster box who brought the little box that was full of a year's wages of perfume, a year's wages. 515 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:02,000 And she comes into where Christ is at, a sinner woman who had been forgiven. 516 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:09,000 She takes that box, breaks it. That's the only way in. You break it. 517 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:14,000 The man is soft, almost like chalk. 518 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,000 And pours it on his feet. 519 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:25,000 And the disciples had the nerve to form an opinion and become indignant, angry. 520 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:32,000 We could have sold that and fed men. 521 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:43,000 I want to tell you, you can't form an opinion on someone else's worship and the worth that they pour out on him. 522 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:52,000 Because one thing we don't know is what he has really done for them. 523 00:35:52,000 --> 00:36:01,000 We catch an outward glimpse, but we don't know what he has done for them. 524 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Opinions matter. 525 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000 Stand with me this morning. 526 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:15,000 So what is your opinion of Christ today? 527 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:27,000 I'll not be so bold as to ask your opinion of myself this morning. 528 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,000 What is your opinion about Jesus? 529 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:36,000 What is your opinion of him? 530 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,000 I pose the question that Peter had to answer. 531 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:45,000 Who do men say that I, the son of man, am? 532 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:56,000 And then when they begin to answer, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Elijah, one of the other prophets, Lord, that's what the popular opinion is. 533 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,000 But then it comes down to this. 534 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000 Who do you say? 535 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:07,000 Father, I love you this morning. 536 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,000 Lord, I thank you today. 537 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:18,000 I so thank you for your help this morning. 538 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:27,000 Opinions matter. 539 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:33,000 Opinions matter, Lord. 540 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,000 So what is yours today? 541 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:43,000 If he's not Lord of your life, if he is not your Savior, 542 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:51,000 I've already quoted to you, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, 543 00:37:51,000 --> 00:38:01,000 that whosoever believes in him should not perish without everlasting life. 544 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,000 Have you asked him to forgive you of your sin? 545 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:13,000 Have you asked him to cleanse you and be Lord of your life? 546 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,000 I have not, preacher. 547 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,000 I have not. 548 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000 I've not done that. 549 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:36,000 I feel like I need to.