WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.780 We are in the last week of the critical journey. 00:00:01.820 --> 00:00:04.580 We've made it. We've rounded the corner. We are 00:00:04.580 --> 00:00:07.320 on the last week of the critical journey. If 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:10.119 you have been here for all seven weeks, well 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:13.359 done. Good and faithful service. If you listen 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:15.800 to a podcast, there should be a sound for you 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:17.300 right now because you made it to the end of the 00:00:17.300 --> 00:00:22.579 club. This is a monumental moment where we understand, 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:24.760 hopefully everything comes full circle today, 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:28.460 where you understand, you get to catch, if you 00:00:28.460 --> 00:00:30.579 like, the glimpse of what this is all about. 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.060 If you're here and you go, I don't know about 00:00:33.060 --> 00:00:34.820 this church thing, you came to a great day. You 00:00:34.820 --> 00:00:36.700 know why? Because you're seeing where this is 00:00:36.700 --> 00:00:39.460 going. If you hang out here, this is where it's 00:00:39.460 --> 00:00:42.799 going. And so we started week one. We have a 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.179 graphic to kind of remind us of where we've been, 00:00:45.219 --> 00:00:47.299 but we started week one with recognition of God. 00:00:47.780 --> 00:00:50.560 And so recognition of God was I give my life 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.179 to Jesus, both as Savior and Lord at some point, 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:56.869 right? Like I give my life to him. And in giving 00:00:56.869 --> 00:01:00.810 my life to him, what happens is I discover, hey, 00:01:00.869 --> 00:01:04.189 I need people who have done the same thing. I 00:01:04.189 --> 00:01:06.849 need to be around a community that has had the 00:01:06.849 --> 00:01:09.349 same experience. And so what happens is within 00:01:09.349 --> 00:01:11.890 the recognition of God, you begin to join community 00:01:11.890 --> 00:01:14.310 and you start to realize quickly, hey, you know 00:01:14.310 --> 00:01:16.790 more than I do. You live different than I do. 00:01:16.870 --> 00:01:19.370 Would you teach me? And you kind of naturally 00:01:19.370 --> 00:01:24.930 move into that next stage of the life of discipleship. 00:01:25.510 --> 00:01:29.790 And the life of discipleship is best summarized 00:01:29.790 --> 00:01:33.109 with you are just learning everything you can, 00:01:33.230 --> 00:01:35.950 right? Like you are just taking in everything 00:01:35.950 --> 00:01:38.510 about this new life you've been given. And at 00:01:38.510 --> 00:01:40.549 some point you realize, hey, I've got gifts to 00:01:40.549 --> 00:01:42.769 give. And you're like, I got to give them away. 00:01:42.849 --> 00:01:45.129 God made me in a unique setting. I got to give 00:01:45.129 --> 00:01:46.950 that way. I got to use it for the kingdom. And 00:01:46.950 --> 00:01:49.829 so what happens is you begin to give this life 00:01:49.829 --> 00:01:53.840 away. You step in and you begin to serve. And 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.299 at some point within serving, you naturally progress. 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:59.739 You naturally start to ask questions. The longer 00:01:59.739 --> 00:02:02.599 you hang around God, you start to ask these deep 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:06.299 internal questions. You start to wrestle with 00:02:06.299 --> 00:02:10.680 who is God and why am I here? Like you start 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:13.639 to wrestle with, do I really believe this Jesus 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:15.620 thing for myself? You start to wrestle with, 00:02:15.699 --> 00:02:18.479 is he really trustworthy? Is he really good? 00:02:19.060 --> 00:02:22.590 You start to wrestle with identity. And what 00:02:22.590 --> 00:02:25.210 happens is sometimes people talk when they get 00:02:25.210 --> 00:02:27.569 to this point, they talk like, hey, I'm losing 00:02:27.569 --> 00:02:30.530 my faith. These questions are so intense that 00:02:30.530 --> 00:02:32.930 I'm not even sure what I think about God anymore. 00:02:33.550 --> 00:02:36.710 And so out of that, then at some point you emerge 00:02:36.710 --> 00:02:39.490 on the other side, if you just keep going and 00:02:39.490 --> 00:02:43.150 you step into this journey outward. And the journey 00:02:43.150 --> 00:02:46.490 outward is you step into serving God again, but 00:02:46.490 --> 00:02:49.599 it's completely different. Because now it's no 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:52.219 longer about you. The ego has died. There's been 00:02:52.219 --> 00:02:57.159 a death to self. And in the death to self, what's 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:59.360 happened out of that is your motivation is others. 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:02.259 And I got good news for you, right? Like all 00:03:02.259 --> 00:03:04.000 the other ones feel like there's this huge step 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.259 you got to take. The last one here, the life 00:03:07.259 --> 00:03:11.379 of love. You just keep doing stage five. And 00:03:11.379 --> 00:03:13.319 at some point you just kind of ride off into 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:17.300 the sunset. At some point, your life just looks 00:03:17.300 --> 00:03:22.520 like Jesus. You love like Jesus. At some point, 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:27.319 when people spend time with you, they feel like 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:31.300 they were in the presence of Jesus. I mean, come 00:03:31.300 --> 00:03:34.680 on. Does nobody want a friend that it feels that 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:38.400 way, right? I got the opportunity to observe 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:41.319 a memorial, a celebration of life for a gentleman 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:46.379 named Rodney yesterday. And those close to him 00:03:46.379 --> 00:03:49.479 called him Pops. But one of the things I loved 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:51.860 was family member after family member after family 00:03:51.860 --> 00:03:56.280 member got up and talked about Pops. And what 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:58.419 they talked about is how he moved through this 00:03:58.419 --> 00:04:03.300 life. He was never in a rush. It was more about 00:04:03.300 --> 00:04:07.000 you than it was about him. He couldn't go into 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:09.860 a room and not talk to everybody there and slow 00:04:09.860 --> 00:04:17.459 down and see them. abundantly to help people, 00:04:17.540 --> 00:04:21.800 both time and resource. And it's one thing to 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:23.860 do that to your family. It's another thing when 00:04:23.860 --> 00:04:26.120 everybody gets up and says, this is what it looks 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.160 like. And maybe that's an image of what the life 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:33.220 of love looks like, is those people in your life 00:04:33.220 --> 00:04:37.759 that you go, they look like Jesus if he was here. 00:04:39.500 --> 00:04:44.000 The easiest version of this, And the life of 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.319 love and kind of moving into it is if you've 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.480 ever been around someone, like if you're a parent 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:53.420 and you've had now, like in my case, my daughter's 00:04:53.420 --> 00:04:56.519 now had a baby. You know, when before the baby 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:59.339 arrives, everything's like baby moon. This is 00:04:59.339 --> 00:05:01.300 going to be amazing. Everything's like glossy. 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:06.839 And all you're thinking about is, yep. Welcome 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:10.660 to sleepless nights. Right? Like you've got reality 00:05:10.660 --> 00:05:13.720 beyond that. But what I loved watching my daughter 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:17.399 step into motherhood is to watch her naturally 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.939 begin to die to herself. To watch her naturally 00:05:21.939 --> 00:05:25.139 begin to put the needs of this baby before herself. 00:05:26.300 --> 00:05:28.699 Right? That's how this is supposed to work. That 00:05:28.699 --> 00:05:31.180 the closer you get to Jesus, the more you hang 00:05:31.180 --> 00:05:33.939 around Jesus, the more that you just naturally 00:05:33.939 --> 00:05:39.399 begin to give your life away. That you begin 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.920 to love like him. And so if Jesus, if we're going 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:44.819 to love like Jesus, then Jesus has to be the 00:05:44.819 --> 00:05:48.519 model. And as Jesus is the model, then we have 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:51.160 to look at the things of, okay, what made Jesus 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:55.339 anchored? What made Jesus hold true north? Because 00:05:55.339 --> 00:05:59.160 his life wasn't easy, right? Like his mission 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.959 wasn't easy, but what allowed Jesus to love at 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:04.939 a pace that wherever he went, he was interruptible. 00:06:05.850 --> 00:06:09.689 Wherever he went, he had time and compassion 00:06:09.689 --> 00:06:11.850 for those around him. How did he anchor that? 00:06:12.129 --> 00:06:17.689 And in John, John chapter 14, Philip has asked 00:06:17.689 --> 00:06:23.329 him a question. And the question has to do with 00:06:23.329 --> 00:06:27.350 the father, right? And Philip goes, hey, show 00:06:27.350 --> 00:06:30.730 us the father, right? And that'll be enough for 00:06:30.730 --> 00:06:33.490 us. To which Jesus then responds in verse nine, 00:06:33.550 --> 00:06:37.040 Jesus answered. Don't you know me, Philip? Even 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:39.560 after I have been among you such a long time, 00:06:39.660 --> 00:06:44.879 anyone who has seen me has seen who? The Father. 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:49.860 So to see Jesus, to see Jesus was to see God 00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:53.160 the Father. So if you knew Jesus, you knew God 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:57.800 the Father is what he's saying. How can you say, 00:06:57.860 --> 00:07:00.079 show us the Father? Don't you believe that I 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:05.160 am? In the Father. Key words, I am in the Father. 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:11.579 And the Father is in me. The words I say to you, 00:07:11.620 --> 00:07:14.339 I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it 00:07:14.339 --> 00:07:18.759 is the Father living in me who is doing the work. 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:22.819 Believe me when I say I am in the Father. Okay, 00:07:22.860 --> 00:07:26.360 you guys, is it hot in here? Okay, can we do 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:29.360 something about that, please? I was like, I don't 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:31.379 know if it's just that I got a fever right now 00:07:31.379 --> 00:07:37.980 or like, but it's hot. Okay, sorry. Let's go 00:07:37.980 --> 00:07:42.040 back. Verse 10. Don't you believe that I am in 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.180 the Father and the Father is in me? The words 00:07:44.180 --> 00:07:46.579 I speak to you, I do not speak on my own authority. 00:07:46.860 --> 00:07:50.139 So he's going, when I speak, it's not even about 00:07:50.139 --> 00:07:54.660 me. He goes, it's not on my authority. It's the 00:07:54.660 --> 00:07:57.529 Father's. So it's the father working in me. Rather, 00:07:57.629 --> 00:08:00.730 it is the father living in me who is doing the 00:08:00.730 --> 00:08:06.410 work. Okay, so what Jesus is getting at is that 00:08:06.410 --> 00:08:08.709 if you have seen him, you've seen the father. 00:08:09.629 --> 00:08:12.689 Now connected to that as he goes, my identity 00:08:12.689 --> 00:08:17.350 is I am in the father. We are one. Well, if you 00:08:17.350 --> 00:08:19.029 have been on this journey and you've had recognition 00:08:19.029 --> 00:08:22.389 of God, right? Like you have given your life. 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.100 then at the point of giving your life to Jesus 00:08:25.100 --> 00:08:28.279 as Savior, the New Testament writers used language 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.759 about you. And guess what that language was? 00:08:31.220 --> 00:08:36.039 You are now in Christ and Christ is in you. You 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:39.580 are in Jesus and Jesus now lives in you. So much 00:08:39.580 --> 00:08:41.659 so that the apostle Paul goes, hey, it's not 00:08:41.659 --> 00:08:44.940 even my life anymore. The life I live is no longer 00:08:44.940 --> 00:08:48.889 mine. The life I live is Christ in me. And so 00:08:48.889 --> 00:08:51.230 there's this reality that's happening in the 00:08:51.230 --> 00:08:54.009 life of Jesus where he connects the exact same 00:08:54.009 --> 00:08:57.029 dots. Where he goes, hey, you're looking at me. 00:08:57.149 --> 00:09:00.889 It's the Father in me doing these works. And 00:09:00.889 --> 00:09:04.529 then what we're told is for you, as you live 00:09:04.529 --> 00:09:06.830 the life of love, guess what your identity is? 00:09:07.330 --> 00:09:11.389 You are in Christ and Christ wants to work through 00:09:11.389 --> 00:09:14.830 you. The journey of the life of love is that 00:09:14.830 --> 00:09:18.929 you become more and more and more. where you 00:09:18.929 --> 00:09:23.350 die and Christ lives. That's that sailing off 00:09:23.350 --> 00:09:26.769 into the, and then along with that in John chapter 00:09:26.769 --> 00:09:31.809 six, John chapter six, verse 38. For I have come 00:09:31.809 --> 00:09:36.269 down from heaven, not to do my will, but to do 00:09:36.269 --> 00:09:38.509 the will of him who sent me. So Jesus goes, hey, 00:09:38.570 --> 00:09:41.710 my purpose, my purpose is to do the will of God. 00:09:42.299 --> 00:09:44.379 Do the will of the Father. So the Father has 00:09:44.379 --> 00:09:47.220 sent me here. So now put yourself in the context. 00:09:47.500 --> 00:09:50.740 You said yes to Jesus. Now what has happened 00:09:50.740 --> 00:09:54.620 with your life is you are sent, you are sent 00:09:54.620 --> 00:09:58.720 into your life now by Jesus for everyone around 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:03.440 you, right? So your response, your purpose, if 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:05.919 we're looking at Jesus at the model, my identity 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.340 is in Jesus and my purpose, my purpose is what 00:10:09.340 --> 00:10:12.899 Jesus did, to do the will of God. to do the will 00:10:12.899 --> 00:10:16.419 of the Father, which sounds really easy, right? 00:10:17.500 --> 00:10:19.980 And so if we're going to look at Jesus as the 00:10:19.980 --> 00:10:22.240 model and we're going to live a life of love, 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:24.860 then there's just some things that we've got 00:10:24.860 --> 00:10:27.779 to just slow down and catch. And one of them 00:10:27.779 --> 00:10:30.539 is this, that if you're going to live a life 00:10:30.539 --> 00:10:32.059 of love and you're going to look like Jesus, 00:10:32.340 --> 00:10:37.799 you got to live like Jesus. You got to live like 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:42.149 Jesus. You know what Jesus lived his life with? 00:10:43.549 --> 00:10:49.789 Radical obedience. There's a phrase I've come 00:10:49.789 --> 00:10:53.389 to love kind of in this whole conversation that 00:10:53.389 --> 00:10:58.409 it's this idea of obedience regardless of the 00:10:58.409 --> 00:11:03.669 consequences. Isn't that beautiful? That I know 00:11:03.669 --> 00:11:09.289 my identity so much that I am in Christ. And 00:11:09.289 --> 00:11:12.769 that means that that is my identity. My identity 00:11:12.769 --> 00:11:18.090 is not attached to any nationality. It transcends 00:11:18.090 --> 00:11:22.070 it. My identity is not attached to any specific 00:11:22.070 --> 00:11:24.809 group. My identity is not attached that I like 00:11:24.809 --> 00:11:27.409 to go to the players' championship. I enjoy golf. 00:11:29.450 --> 00:11:34.309 My identity is not there. Rather, my identity 00:11:34.309 --> 00:11:36.730 is in Christ. What this means is this. You've 00:11:36.730 --> 00:11:38.669 got to live like Jesus, which means you've got 00:11:38.669 --> 00:11:40.789 to be obedient even when it's not convenient. 00:11:43.929 --> 00:11:46.250 Right? You've got to be obedient even when it 00:11:46.250 --> 00:11:50.970 means it's the opposite of what I want. How do 00:11:50.970 --> 00:11:52.370 we know that? You look at Jesus. He's in the 00:11:52.370 --> 00:11:56.120 garden. What does he do? He submits himself to 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.039 the will of God. Even later it captures it in 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:02.320 Philippians. It says he became obedient to death 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:07.879 on a cross. Church, we don't even grasp this. 00:12:07.940 --> 00:12:11.940 If we're honest, we don't even grasp our faith 00:12:11.940 --> 00:12:16.779 costing us something. We don't even grasp. There's 00:12:16.779 --> 00:12:19.259 people on the planet today that will give their 00:12:19.259 --> 00:12:22.220 life in the name of Jesus because they will not 00:12:22.220 --> 00:12:28.149 renounce him. There's people on this planet that 00:12:28.149 --> 00:12:31.009 today will become obedient unto death. Why? Because 00:12:31.009 --> 00:12:33.809 they are so convinced that they what? They want 00:12:33.809 --> 00:12:40.250 to look like Jesus. And we struggle. We struggle. 00:12:40.269 --> 00:12:44.809 I struggle. We've just given up Starbucks because 00:12:44.809 --> 00:12:49.350 Jesus asked me to. All right, let's get honest. 00:12:52.659 --> 00:12:54.460 Hey, John, I don't want you to watch that show 00:12:54.460 --> 00:12:58.580 anymore, but I like that show. Yeah, well, that 00:12:58.580 --> 00:13:01.980 show doesn't lead you closer to me, but I like 00:13:01.980 --> 00:13:07.100 it. Right? That's where the rubber meets the 00:13:07.100 --> 00:13:12.980 road. But I really, really, really have become 00:13:12.980 --> 00:13:15.960 good friends with this person. And I think I 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:17.879 like him. I think we're going to move in together. 00:13:20.059 --> 00:13:23.309 Jesus isn't leading you to do that. Just so we're 00:13:23.309 --> 00:13:27.309 clear. Right? Because there's a dying to self 00:13:27.309 --> 00:13:29.409 that happens. If we're going to live and look 00:13:29.409 --> 00:13:31.690 like Jesus, then there's a point where we go, 00:13:31.769 --> 00:13:34.769 I am going to be radical in my obedience even 00:13:34.769 --> 00:13:38.610 at the cost. Even at the cost that is inconvenient. 00:13:41.169 --> 00:13:45.250 Another point that picks up on this is as you 00:13:45.250 --> 00:13:50.149 live the life of love, you recognize that you 00:13:50.149 --> 00:13:54.299 grow in struggle. You grow in struggles and hardships. 00:13:54.740 --> 00:13:56.639 We talked about it last week, right? That Paul 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:00.480 delights in hardships and beatings and persecutions. 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:04.179 It's like, sign me up for that, please. Let's 00:14:04.179 --> 00:14:07.440 go there. And yet I love that we're a church 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:11.360 that has a theology of pain. What I mean by that 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:13.240 is that pain has a purpose in our life. It's 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:16.000 not wasted by God because he is a good father 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.019 and everything that comes from him is good. And 00:14:20.019 --> 00:14:23.419 so the reality around this idea of there's within 00:14:23.419 --> 00:14:26.340 the struggle, when you are in a life of love, 00:14:26.379 --> 00:14:29.379 when you are moving towards a life of love, you 00:14:29.379 --> 00:14:34.000 welcome struggles because you recognize the struggle 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.299 is for growth and it is to help you die more 00:14:37.299 --> 00:14:42.080 to yourself and look more like Jesus. Sign me 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:48.159 up for that. That's how I know you guys. I know 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:50.879 I'm not in the life of love. You know why? I'm 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:54.179 still a pansy. I don't want hardships. I like 00:14:54.179 --> 00:14:57.820 comfort. And what is God doing? He's working 00:14:57.820 --> 00:15:02.799 that out. He's working that away. Why? Because 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:05.419 in hardships, what you realize the further you 00:15:05.419 --> 00:15:08.580 get, because now you can trust him and you can 00:15:08.580 --> 00:15:12.740 trust him even in that. I mean, think about it 00:15:12.740 --> 00:15:15.539 for a second, right? Peter. Peter writes in 1 00:15:15.539 --> 00:15:19.139 Peter, he goes, hey, you know what? Blessed are 00:15:19.139 --> 00:15:26.120 those who suffer for the name of Jesus. The life 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:30.500 of love goes, man, I am blessed. Why? Because 00:15:30.500 --> 00:15:34.700 the goal of my life is to look like Jesus. What 00:15:34.700 --> 00:15:39.590 did Jesus do? He showed up and suffered. And 00:15:39.590 --> 00:15:42.230 so it's this idea that as we move through this, 00:15:42.269 --> 00:15:45.710 these markers of maturity. Another one is this, 00:15:45.750 --> 00:15:49.230 that you live a life of compassion. You live 00:15:49.230 --> 00:15:51.350 a life of compassion. You look at Jesus. If he's 00:15:51.350 --> 00:15:53.629 the model, what you see of Jesus is he moved 00:15:53.629 --> 00:15:57.409 everywhere with compassion. Right? He was interruptible. 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:02.340 You could read story after story after story. 00:16:02.460 --> 00:16:04.500 There's one in particular. It's a really long 00:16:04.500 --> 00:16:06.759 day. And at the end of the day, there's a knock 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:10.460 on the door. And he's exhausted. And the knock 00:16:10.460 --> 00:16:13.399 on the door is the town has brought all of the 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:16.840 sick. They brought all of the demon -possessed. 00:16:17.419 --> 00:16:19.840 You guys, this is how I know I'm not in this 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:22.220 stage yet. If you show up at my house at eight 00:16:22.220 --> 00:16:24.500 o 'clock at night with all of the people, with 00:16:24.500 --> 00:16:26.620 all of the needs, I'm going to be like, you can 00:16:26.620 --> 00:16:31.740 call Jenny and set up appointments. I'm not there 00:16:31.740 --> 00:16:37.700 yet. But the life of love lives out of compassion 00:16:37.700 --> 00:16:43.480 all the time. And it's beautiful. If you look 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:50.320 at Luke, Luke chapter six, Luke chapter six, 00:16:50.379 --> 00:16:58.679 Luke chapter six, verse six. On another Sabbath, 00:16:58.940 --> 00:17:01.679 he went into the synagogue and was teaching. 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:05.200 And a man was there whose right hand was shriveled. 00:17:06.140 --> 00:17:09.339 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law were 00:17:09.339 --> 00:17:12.619 looking for a reason to accuse Jesus. So they 00:17:12.619 --> 00:17:15.779 watched him closely to see if he would heal on 00:17:15.779 --> 00:17:19.920 the Sabbath. But Jesus knew, What they were thinking 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:22.779 and said to the man with the shriveled hand, 00:17:22.900 --> 00:17:26.880 get up and stand in front of everyone. So he 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:30.579 got up and stood there. Then Jesus said to them, 00:17:30.619 --> 00:17:33.400 I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath to 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:37.440 do good. Or to do evil. So the Sabbath, just 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:39.079 so we're in the same conversation, the Sabbath 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:41.859 was a list of rules and regulations that they 00:17:41.859 --> 00:17:45.420 believed you had to keep. God blessed the Sabbath. 00:17:45.500 --> 00:17:47.839 And so they told you how to live the Sabbath. 00:17:47.940 --> 00:17:50.220 And it was all these rules that you had to keep. 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.279 And so Jesus is now challenging. He says, I ask 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:55.119 you, which is lawful on the Sabbath, to do good 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:57.740 or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it. 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:01.559 He looked around at them all and then said to 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:05.559 the man, stretch out your hand. He did so and 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:09.940 his hand was completely restored. But the Pharisees 00:18:09.940 --> 00:18:12.480 and the teachers of the law were furious and 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.079 began to discuss with one another what they might 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:21.519 do to Jesus. Okay, so Jesus moving with compassion, 00:18:21.779 --> 00:18:25.799 right? I love that if you're going to move with 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:30.900 compassion in your life, you see people, you 00:18:30.900 --> 00:18:35.910 see their pain. You feel their pain first before 00:18:35.910 --> 00:18:41.910 you see the issue. I'll be honest with you. In 00:18:41.910 --> 00:18:46.210 America, in Western society, we're not good at 00:18:46.210 --> 00:18:49.869 this. We want to make it about the issue and 00:18:49.869 --> 00:18:53.369 miss the person. What you see with Jesus when 00:18:53.369 --> 00:18:55.950 he lived a life of compassion, he never missed 00:18:55.950 --> 00:19:01.089 the person. And so in this setting, he has, I 00:19:01.089 --> 00:19:04.250 love it. He has him stand up in front of them 00:19:04.250 --> 00:19:08.809 all. You couldn't miss what he was doing. This 00:19:08.809 --> 00:19:14.609 moment is like drop the mic moment because he 00:19:14.609 --> 00:19:18.910 can tell how mad they are. And I love that this, 00:19:18.990 --> 00:19:22.670 Jesus sees the person, he stands up and his hand 00:19:22.670 --> 00:19:28.799 is healed in front of them. Why? Because Jesus 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:32.000 chose to see the person, to see the pain, to 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:35.640 step into the pain and to bring healing, even 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:38.900 at the expense of what? The opinion of those 00:19:38.900 --> 00:19:43.259 around him. Church, maybe we just need to rally 00:19:43.259 --> 00:19:45.519 around that as we move towards the life of love, 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.480 we're going to be people that make a bunch of 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:51.700 people uncomfortable and unhappy because we don't 00:19:51.700 --> 00:19:53.839 look like them anymore. We don't sound like them 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:56.440 anymore. The things that they care about, we 00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:58.359 don't care about anymore. What we care about 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:00.960 is that you would see Jesus in everything that 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:03.839 I do, that you would feel like you had been with 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:08.200 Jesus, that we move like Jesus. There's another 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:14.220 story in Luke chapter seven and verse 11. Soon 00:20:14.220 --> 00:20:17.400 afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain and 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:19.759 his disciples and a large crowd went with him, 00:20:19.779 --> 00:20:22.930 along with him. As he approached the town gate, 00:20:23.049 --> 00:20:25.369 a dead person was being carried out. The only 00:20:25.369 --> 00:20:30.549 son of his mother and she was a widow. Like culturally, 00:20:30.690 --> 00:20:33.750 we don't have time to unpack it. This is a massive 00:20:33.750 --> 00:20:35.970 moment in this woman's life. This is a massive 00:20:35.970 --> 00:20:38.710 loss. This is not just the loss of a child. This 00:20:38.710 --> 00:20:42.930 is above and beyond that. And a large crowd from 00:20:42.930 --> 00:20:46.150 the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, 00:20:46.289 --> 00:20:49.750 his heart went out to her and he said, don't 00:20:49.750 --> 00:20:54.200 cry. Then he went up and touched the buyer they 00:20:54.200 --> 00:20:57.119 were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. 00:20:57.339 --> 00:21:00.559 He said, Young man, I say to you, get up. The 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.660 dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus 00:21:03.660 --> 00:21:09.839 gave him back to his mother. No? Doesn't do it 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:13.920 for you? Isn't it funny? Isn't it funny? We can 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:15.200 read this. I was thinking about this earlier 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:17.700 because we do run -throughs and make sure all 00:21:17.700 --> 00:21:19.900 the verses are on screen. And I'm reading this 00:21:19.900 --> 00:21:22.400 and I'm like, I just read about the dead coming 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:24.839 back to life and we read it like, yeah, and he 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:28.579 came back to life. Right? But that's who Jesus 00:21:28.579 --> 00:21:32.099 is. And I love this setting, right? Because there's 00:21:32.099 --> 00:21:35.839 this funeral procession happening. And as the 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:39.089 funeral procession is happening, The people are 00:21:39.089 --> 00:21:42.309 doing the work of love. They are mourning for 00:21:42.309 --> 00:21:44.509 this lady. They are doing the work of love alongside 00:21:44.509 --> 00:21:48.470 her. I find it fascinating that their work of 00:21:48.470 --> 00:21:52.369 love was from a distance because they didn't 00:21:52.369 --> 00:21:56.430 have true compassion. Because there was still 00:21:56.430 --> 00:21:58.529 a distance because if they came into contact, 00:21:59.009 --> 00:22:03.650 they would become unclean. So there is a, I will 00:22:03.650 --> 00:22:07.089 be with you to a certain point, but I will not. 00:22:07.170 --> 00:22:09.630 And I love that Jesus' act of love, if we're 00:22:09.630 --> 00:22:11.849 going to look like Jesus, then we've got to do 00:22:11.849 --> 00:22:14.730 the things that Jesus did. And what you see about 00:22:14.730 --> 00:22:17.509 this life of love is you move with compassion 00:22:17.509 --> 00:22:20.589 in everything you do. And I love that Jesus steps 00:22:20.589 --> 00:22:25.609 into this moment with her. And it says the reason 00:22:25.609 --> 00:22:30.250 he did it is his heart. His heart, the seat of 00:22:30.250 --> 00:22:38.130 his emotions, the seat of his soul went out to 00:22:38.130 --> 00:22:43.130 her. And what does he do? He does the unthinkable. 00:22:43.730 --> 00:22:49.730 He reaches out and he touches. Why? Because compassion 00:22:49.730 --> 00:22:53.450 will move you towards people and their pain every 00:22:53.450 --> 00:22:58.000 time. If we are going to love, and live a life 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:00.740 of love like Jesus, we're going to have to move 00:23:00.740 --> 00:23:03.579 into the pain. Here's an example, just because 00:23:03.579 --> 00:23:06.160 we've been talking about it. You guys, the 200 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:09.539 ,000 that we've been talking about, that 200 00:23:09.539 --> 00:23:15.480 ,000, like it could become just, okay, I gotta 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.660 go pray about that. But if you pray about it 00:23:18.660 --> 00:23:20.940 and you miss the people, which is why we've spent 00:23:20.940 --> 00:23:23.559 weeks talking about the people that show up in 00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:28.339 those spaces, I would encourage you that before 00:23:28.339 --> 00:23:31.359 you make a decision, show up at Park Collective 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:35.799 and the Commons and go see on a Thursday night 00:23:35.799 --> 00:23:40.920 what's happening with the youth over there. I 00:23:40.920 --> 00:23:42.539 would encourage you, show up on a Wednesday. 00:23:42.660 --> 00:23:46.440 Go sit with the recovery people. There's Bible 00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:48.119 studies that are happening. They would love to 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:51.819 have you, but hear some of the stories because 00:23:51.819 --> 00:23:55.490 it will transform your heart. We're transformed 00:23:55.490 --> 00:23:58.930 by people, not by issues. We're transformed by 00:23:58.930 --> 00:24:02.150 people, not simple. I've got to wrestle with 00:24:02.150 --> 00:24:06.210 this thought. I would encourage you to show up 00:24:06.210 --> 00:24:09.990 over here on a Wednesday and just look at the 00:24:09.990 --> 00:24:12.609 amount of students that are showing up because 00:24:12.609 --> 00:24:15.609 they have a passion to know Jesus and we have 00:24:15.609 --> 00:24:19.109 the opportunity to change their lives forever. 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:23.779 By having them step into a recognition of God, 00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:26.380 by having them get on this journey way sooner 00:24:26.380 --> 00:24:30.779 than some of us wish we would have. We have the 00:24:30.779 --> 00:24:33.200 chance to do that, but you won't step in and 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:35.720 you won't be moved with compassion if you don't 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:42.420 see people. You have to see people. Another way 00:24:42.420 --> 00:24:44.799 that Jesus is our model is he was detached from 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:48.339 things. You know what I love about people in 00:24:48.339 --> 00:24:52.380 the life of love? is they don't renounce things. 00:24:52.460 --> 00:24:53.920 It doesn't mean that all of a sudden they're 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:58.579 like, oh, I just don't like stuff anymore. Instead, 00:24:58.819 --> 00:25:01.359 what's happened is their heart's no longer attached 00:25:01.359 --> 00:25:03.440 to it and they've learned that they can live 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:06.960 without it. It's this beautiful thing that happens. 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:10.819 It doesn't mean that they're not going to tell 00:25:10.819 --> 00:25:13.819 you what's nice and what's not and what they 00:25:13.819 --> 00:25:18.309 would love and what they have. But the life of 00:25:18.309 --> 00:25:20.690 love is this beautiful detachment from things. 00:25:20.750 --> 00:25:24.430 Another thing about the life of love is level 00:25:24.430 --> 00:25:27.450 doesn't matter. What do I mean by that? Where 00:25:27.450 --> 00:25:29.990 they serve doesn't matter because the question 00:25:29.990 --> 00:25:37.009 they are now asking is what do you want me to 00:25:37.009 --> 00:25:40.509 do? What do you want me to do, God? And it's 00:25:40.509 --> 00:25:43.680 radical obedience. And what I love about people 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:45.460 in the life of love, right, because you think 00:25:45.460 --> 00:25:47.380 about the critical journey, they're the most 00:25:47.380 --> 00:25:50.839 mature people we have in our church family. But 00:25:50.839 --> 00:25:54.259 what I love about it is they're probably serving 00:25:54.259 --> 00:25:58.400 in places you never see them. They're behind 00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:00.380 the scenes because none of that matters anymore. 00:26:01.019 --> 00:26:03.440 What matters is they're serving where God has 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:08.400 called them to serve. We have an elder in the 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:13.279 church. That for many, many years, as long as 00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:18.539 I have been at Heights, he has showed up on a 00:26:18.539 --> 00:26:23.559 Wednesday night to put a melody to memory verses 00:26:23.559 --> 00:26:26.759 for our kiddos. I think it's second and third 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:30.480 graders, not positive on that. Sometimes he raps. 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:35.539 You would never know that if I didn't say that. 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:40.019 Because it doesn't matter to him. He's an elder. 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:45.480 He could pull rank and go, that's too low for 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:50.220 me. You know what I love about Jesus? There's 00:26:50.220 --> 00:26:52.980 a moment around the table where Jesus takes off 00:26:52.980 --> 00:26:57.220 an outer garment and picks up a towel. And he 00:26:57.220 --> 00:27:01.460 does the most menial task. He gets down and he 00:27:01.460 --> 00:27:05.960 washes the feet of the disciples. What is the 00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:09.440 model of the life of love? It's an act of service 00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:13.839 that you will sit in the most menial spot because 00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:16.119 none of that matters anymore. It's beautiful. 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:20.900 And again, this is how I know I'm not at the 00:27:20.900 --> 00:27:24.960 life of love yet. Because there's all these things 00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:27.059 that I go, man, God is still working on me. God 00:27:27.059 --> 00:27:29.079 is still working on me. God is still working 00:27:29.079 --> 00:27:33.630 on me. Can I encourage you? I don't know how 00:27:33.630 --> 00:27:35.450 you feel about the critical journey, how you 00:27:35.450 --> 00:27:37.849 feel about where you are, but remember, the whole 00:27:37.849 --> 00:27:42.369 kind of point of this, excuse me, the whole kind 00:27:42.369 --> 00:27:53.109 of point, the whole point of this was that you 00:27:53.109 --> 00:27:55.809 would find your home base. You would find your 00:27:55.809 --> 00:27:59.529 stage. And you would recognize, God, this is 00:27:59.529 --> 00:28:02.700 where I'm at in my journey with you. And you 00:28:02.700 --> 00:28:04.660 would have an active way to begin growing and 00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:09.559 step forward. I don't know if you've seen it 00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:13.440 or not, but there's these eagles from Big Bear. 00:28:14.140 --> 00:28:17.839 No? Yeah, some do. Shadow and Jackie, right? 00:28:18.900 --> 00:28:20.680 It's pretty amazing. They got their babies now. 00:28:20.779 --> 00:28:22.559 It's pretty phenomenal. A couple of years ago, 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:26.599 a friend of ours got us watching it. If you ever 00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:28.240 want something relaxing in the morning, by the 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:30.319 way, just put it on and watch the sunrise come 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:32.750 up. with an eagle sitting on a nest. That's pretty 00:28:32.750 --> 00:28:37.930 incredible. What's incredible about the eagles 00:28:37.930 --> 00:28:43.670 is how they continue to build their nest. They 00:28:43.670 --> 00:28:46.950 continue to come back and strengthen. They continue 00:28:46.950 --> 00:28:48.890 to come back and clear out the bottom and put 00:28:48.890 --> 00:28:51.789 new bedding down. They get rid of the old food 00:28:51.789 --> 00:28:55.509 and they bring in new twigs, sticks, whatever's 00:28:55.509 --> 00:28:57.750 needed. And they continue to reinforce it and 00:28:57.750 --> 00:29:01.170 build it up. And the nests become quite large. 00:29:03.849 --> 00:29:05.750 When you think of the critical journey, think 00:29:05.750 --> 00:29:11.279 of a nest. You are reinforcing. You may be in 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:13.700 a productive life, but it does not mean that 00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:16.640 you're not stepping back and continuing to learn 00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:19.720 and continuing to put rhythms in your life. And 00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:22.380 what you're doing is, even though my home base 00:29:22.380 --> 00:29:24.920 is stage three, what I'm actually doing is I'm 00:29:24.920 --> 00:29:27.559 just shoring up the nest. I'm adding to it, right? 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:31.140 And you may find yourself further on the journey. 00:29:31.740 --> 00:29:33.880 I love that during COVID, one of the things I 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:36.180 realized is I needed better rhythms in my life. 00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:39.960 And I spent a journey with God where things that 00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:42.259 I thought I knew, I didn't know. And so it was 00:29:42.259 --> 00:29:44.000 back to the life of discipleship. And it was 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:46.619 all these rhythms that I needed to get more secure 00:29:46.619 --> 00:29:50.400 in my life. But you cycle back and you cycle 00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:52.799 through. It's not just like you just weave on 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:56.619 a journey. It's like a nest. You keep going back 00:29:56.619 --> 00:29:58.599 and you keep building up that part because you 00:29:58.599 --> 00:30:01.940 realize it got weak. You keep, even though, even 00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:05.119 though your stage may be one of the others. And 00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:09.059 so I got a question for you as we close. Where 00:30:09.059 --> 00:30:13.140 are you stuck? We're all stuck. Where are you 00:30:13.140 --> 00:30:15.240 stuck? Where do you need to reinforce the nest? 00:30:17.339 --> 00:30:18.839 All right, here's what I mean, that if you're 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.579 in a recognition of God, right, so you've said 00:30:22.579 --> 00:30:26.099 yes to Jesus, then one of the common places for 00:30:26.099 --> 00:30:30.339 you to get stuck is you need community. And so 00:30:30.339 --> 00:30:32.000 I would just encourage you, if you feel like 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.380 I've said yes to Jesus, but you haven't stepped 00:30:34.380 --> 00:30:36.480 into community, step into community. That's the 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:41.319 next natural progression of your growth. Those 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:43.119 of you that go, I'm in the life of discipleship. 00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:47.380 I'm learning all this stuff about Jesus. You 00:30:47.380 --> 00:30:49.619 know how you get stuck in the life of discipleship? 00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:51.720 You think you're right and everybody else is 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:56.279 wrong. You just keep consuming information. You 00:30:56.279 --> 00:30:58.339 keep reading books and the more books you read, 00:30:58.380 --> 00:31:00.680 you read them by the same authors, right? You 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:02.660 read them from the same stream and they just 00:31:02.660 --> 00:31:04.759 back up everything you think. That's dangerous, 00:31:04.819 --> 00:31:08.680 by the way. And so what happens then is you think 00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:10.319 you're right and everybody else is wrong and 00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:13.700 you can get stuck by just being consumed by proving 00:31:13.700 --> 00:31:18.980 your point and building your knowledge. Another 00:31:18.980 --> 00:31:22.220 way that you get stuck within the life of discipleship 00:31:23.410 --> 00:31:25.230 As you're here and everything's great, right? 00:31:25.349 --> 00:31:27.349 And then you realize, hey, something I think 00:31:27.349 --> 00:31:29.970 is right, they don't think is the same way. And 00:31:29.970 --> 00:31:31.869 so I'm gonna go somewhere else. And here's what 00:31:31.869 --> 00:31:35.509 happens. You get to the next place and you get 00:31:35.509 --> 00:31:37.670 to the next place. You're so excited. This is 00:31:37.670 --> 00:31:39.289 the best church I've ever been at. You're the 00:31:39.289 --> 00:31:43.190 best communicator I've ever heard. I don't mind 00:31:43.190 --> 00:31:45.829 it when you say that. Just kidding, just kidding. 00:31:47.259 --> 00:31:49.480 Right, but you get there and you're like, everything's 00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:52.420 so good. And seriously, when people show up that 00:31:52.420 --> 00:31:57.099 way, you know what I think? Give it four months 00:31:57.099 --> 00:32:01.259 and we're gonna make you mad. We're gonna hurt 00:32:01.259 --> 00:32:05.119 you and you won't be here anymore because you'll 00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:07.279 be onto the next group that you need to find 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:09.619 the group that thinks just like you because you've 00:32:09.619 --> 00:32:12.619 become so rigid. And that's how you get stuck. 00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:15.960 If you find yourself becoming rigid, You need 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:17.920 to spend time in community and allow community 00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:21.500 to work through that stuff. If you're in the 00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:24.119 life of production, meaning you're doing work 00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:26.059 for God and you feel like, man, I'm serving and 00:32:26.059 --> 00:32:29.960 I'm going, here's the thing. Ambition, ambition 00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:32.720 is how you get stuck. What do I mean by that? 00:32:33.059 --> 00:32:35.680 Oh, you're climbing forward, right? Like if I 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:37.319 do this, then I'm gonna end up there and I'm 00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:38.799 gonna end up there. And what happens is you create 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:40.779 a false identity. Instead of your identity being 00:32:40.779 --> 00:32:44.319 in Christ, it's now in you. And then you burn 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:47.240 out. And so if you find yourself burning out, 00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:49.859 there's a good chance that you need to step back 00:32:49.859 --> 00:32:52.640 and go, hey, I've held on to some stuff here. 00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:55.539 Stage four, the way you get stuck in that if 00:32:55.539 --> 00:32:58.759 you're in the inward journey. Here's the thing, 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:00.680 you guys. Stage four is a needed part of your 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:02.940 growth. You have to go through the pain of wrestling 00:33:02.940 --> 00:33:08.630 with God. You have to. But here's the thing. 00:33:08.630 --> 00:33:10.930 We can get stuck looking internally. We can get 00:33:10.930 --> 00:33:14.250 stuck making it about us. We can get stuck looking 00:33:14.250 --> 00:33:18.569 at who we are. We can get stuck looking for answers 00:33:18.569 --> 00:33:21.410 that just don't exist. There are some questions 00:33:21.410 --> 00:33:23.170 that you will never have answered this side of 00:33:23.170 --> 00:33:26.490 eternity. And I think sometimes when we get to 00:33:26.490 --> 00:33:31.069 eternity, we won't care. I got good news for 00:33:31.069 --> 00:33:33.930 you. When you get to stage five, you don't get 00:33:33.930 --> 00:33:36.650 stuck. You know what you do in stage five? You 00:33:36.650 --> 00:33:38.829 just drift off into the future and look like 00:33:38.829 --> 00:33:46.410 Jesus. You love like Jesus. Can you imagine, 00:33:46.589 --> 00:33:55.369 you guys, a group of people who every single 00:33:55.369 --> 00:34:01.829 time people spend time with them, they go, it 00:34:01.829 --> 00:34:07.930 was like being. with Jesus. Can you imagine a 00:34:07.930 --> 00:34:11.530 place where people come and sit with you and 00:34:11.530 --> 00:34:17.670 they go, it was about everyone else. It was about 00:34:17.670 --> 00:34:20.050 looking and living and loving like Jesus and 00:34:20.050 --> 00:34:23.530 not like us. That's why this journey is so critical. 00:34:23.690 --> 00:34:28.809 Do not give up. Keep walking forward. Keep asking 00:34:28.809 --> 00:34:32.929 questions. Because the end goal is that we will 00:34:32.929 --> 00:34:38.690 look and we will love like Jesus. Would you pray 00:34:38.690 --> 00:34:41.909 with me? God, thanks for loving us the way you 00:34:41.909 --> 00:34:49.849 do. God, thank you that you are the God that 00:34:49.849 --> 00:34:53.210 does the impossible. You are the God that takes 00:34:53.210 --> 00:34:58.690 the broken, the fragmented of humanity and you 00:34:58.690 --> 00:35:04.960 put it back. God, you take dead things and you 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:11.860 bring them to life. God, as you continue to take 00:35:11.860 --> 00:35:14.760 us from dead and you continue to move us to live 00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:18.380 the life of love you created us for. That we 00:35:18.380 --> 00:35:21.000 would look and reflect you in everything we do. 00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:24.840 God, the image is that you are taking it from 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:27.280 a grave and you are making it a garden. You are 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:30.780 bringing life where there was once death. And 00:35:30.780 --> 00:35:34.239 so God, we just celebrate that today. We just 00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:36.360 celebrate you today. We celebrate what you're 00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:38.980 doing in our lives today. God, help us to know 00:35:38.980 --> 00:35:42.300 where we're stuck. Speak to us, we pray. But 00:35:42.300 --> 00:35:44.440 God, as we just give worship back to you because 00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:47.019 you are worthy. Thank you for bringing life. 00:35:47.630 --> 00:35:52.369 from death today. We are grateful, and everybody 00:35:52.369 --> 00:35:53.929 said, amen.