WEBVTT 00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:04.750 The whole idea of food and how that navigates 00:00:04.750 --> 00:00:09.210 and works, and anybody just enjoy food? Anybody? 00:00:10.009 --> 00:00:14.369 Okay. The rest of you are liars. And then there's 00:00:14.369 --> 00:00:16.250 probably about 10 % of you that just have a really 00:00:16.250 --> 00:00:17.949 conflicted moment right now because you're like, 00:00:17.989 --> 00:00:22.250 I'm not a liar. I really don't like it. But inevitably, 00:00:22.390 --> 00:00:24.250 you will eat, right? And so food is a part of 00:00:24.250 --> 00:00:28.010 our life. It's part of what we do. Anybody in 00:00:28.010 --> 00:00:30.530 the room? I would ask men, but... That doesn't 00:00:30.530 --> 00:00:33.710 feel right. So anybody in the room or even online, 00:00:33.990 --> 00:00:36.590 Paulding, Baghdad, that's you. Anybody smoke 00:00:36.590 --> 00:00:39.210 meat? Enjoyed the process of smoking meat? And 00:00:39.210 --> 00:00:41.570 hey, you can always tell somebody who smokes 00:00:41.570 --> 00:00:44.469 meat. They're like, yeah, that's me. That's me. 00:00:45.109 --> 00:00:47.270 Let's do this again. People that smoke meat. 00:00:47.409 --> 00:00:50.630 You got it? Some of you are unsure. Some of you 00:00:50.630 --> 00:00:53.789 are like, I think I do. Like I put it in the 00:00:53.789 --> 00:00:55.950 smoker, but I don't know if it qualifies for. 00:00:56.649 --> 00:00:58.850 And then you meet the person that actually does. 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:01.740 Like they are into it. You ever met that person? 00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:05.799 And they're like, they're like, hey, man, I did 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:08.799 a brisket, but it was I just missed it. It was 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:13.000 one degree off. I'm like, good Lord, I'm glad 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:14.959 if the thing comes off and still tastes good, 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.510 you know, but but. A couple of months ago, somebody 00:01:18.510 --> 00:01:20.709 gave me a smoker. They were trading out theirs, 00:01:20.790 --> 00:01:22.109 and they're like, do you want mine? I'm like, 00:01:22.170 --> 00:01:25.290 yeah. And I've been like, do I really want to 00:01:25.290 --> 00:01:27.489 get into it? So for two months, it's been kind 00:01:27.489 --> 00:01:29.590 of this journey of discovering, wow, this is 00:01:29.590 --> 00:01:34.069 life -changing. So with that, we'd done some 00:01:34.069 --> 00:01:36.890 wings, and on Monday, my wife's like, she's like, 00:01:36.950 --> 00:01:39.170 hey, can we do something easy for dinner? Like, 00:01:39.170 --> 00:01:41.150 what could we do? And I'm like, let's do wings. 00:01:41.349 --> 00:01:43.250 I'll just throw them on, super simple. We'll 00:01:43.250 --> 00:01:46.430 just do it. So I come home and I'm a little late. 00:01:46.489 --> 00:01:48.609 So I already feel crowded, kind of anxious, like 00:01:48.609 --> 00:01:51.670 we were cutting it close on time. It's going 00:01:51.670 --> 00:01:53.670 to be late for dinner, that kind of thing. But 00:01:53.670 --> 00:01:56.849 I'm like, we'll do it anyways. So so I go out, 00:01:56.870 --> 00:01:59.430 you know, light the smoker, get get it going. 00:02:00.609 --> 00:02:02.530 Preheating all of that good stuff. Did it right. 00:02:02.629 --> 00:02:04.829 The lids up, then the lids down, that whole thing. 00:02:05.129 --> 00:02:07.829 And and come back in the house. Got the wings. 00:02:08.490 --> 00:02:10.909 Got the seasoning that we wanted to try. And 00:02:10.909 --> 00:02:13.490 so they're looking awesome. So take them out. 00:02:13.530 --> 00:02:16.330 We're preheated now. Put them on and go back 00:02:16.330 --> 00:02:18.169 in the house. Close the lid. Go back in the house. 00:02:18.349 --> 00:02:21.389 And I'm like, hey, Alexa, set a timer for. And 00:02:21.389 --> 00:02:25.870 so now Alexa's, I can jettison it from my brain 00:02:25.870 --> 00:02:27.349 because Alexa's got it. You know what I'm saying? 00:02:27.629 --> 00:02:30.729 And so a little bit of time passes and I'm like, 00:02:30.770 --> 00:02:32.800 oh, I got to go. I got to go put the water on 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:34.400 and the trees in the front. So I go out front 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:36.379 and I'm turning the water on. I'm like, man, 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.699 it smells awesome out here. One of my neighbors 00:02:39.699 --> 00:02:43.520 must be like smoking meat, too. So I start to 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:45.599 look around my neighbors, my neighbors, see who's 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:49.340 grilling. Nobody's out. I'm like, oh, that's 00:02:49.340 --> 00:02:51.740 weird because I definitely smell it. So turn 00:02:51.740 --> 00:02:53.259 the water on, go back in the house. I tell my 00:02:53.259 --> 00:02:55.479 daughter, I'm like, man, it smells so strong 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:58.680 outside and so good. And she's like, you did 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:03.139 like the smoker. And so I go out back, and my 00:03:03.139 --> 00:03:05.460 smoke is down the side of my house. I go out 00:03:05.460 --> 00:03:08.159 back, and I just look out, and it's just a plume 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:11.219 of smoke, and the backyard is full of smoke. 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:13.659 And I'm like, that's not normal. I don't know 00:03:13.659 --> 00:03:16.099 much about smoking, but that's not right. And 00:03:16.099 --> 00:03:19.419 so now I'm like, I don't know. Nobody told me 00:03:19.419 --> 00:03:21.900 what to do now, so I got a fire in my, like. 00:03:22.539 --> 00:03:25.759 So, so I did like, there's a source. So I yanked 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:27.379 the thing out of the wall because it's a pellet 00:03:27.379 --> 00:03:29.120 smoker. I'm like, okay, if I kill that, maybe 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.280 it'll kill what's happening. The smoke continues, 00:03:31.419 --> 00:03:33.680 right? So, so now I go and get gloves that, you 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:35.319 know, those gloves that you can touch the sun 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:37.560 with, you know, those gloves. So I go get those 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:40.280 gloves. And now I, I know enough to go, don't 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:42.830 just. overwhelming with oxygen, boom, right? 00:03:42.930 --> 00:03:45.550 So I'm like easing this thing up. Okay, we're 00:03:45.550 --> 00:03:47.750 good. I can get it open. And the smoke is just 00:03:47.750 --> 00:03:50.349 like intense. It's just intensifying. And I'm 00:03:50.349 --> 00:03:54.330 like, oh my goodness. Now the hopper is like 00:03:54.330 --> 00:03:56.930 everything, every place that smoke could come 00:03:56.930 --> 00:04:00.090 out of, it is coming out of, right? So much so 00:04:00.090 --> 00:04:01.289 that my neighbor's coming over. He goes, you 00:04:01.289 --> 00:04:03.569 know, there's a fire ban right now, right? And 00:04:03.569 --> 00:04:09.129 so that's not true. So now I'm taking it apart 00:04:09.129 --> 00:04:11.030 piece by piece, right? Like trying to settle 00:04:11.030 --> 00:04:13.009 this thing down. I'm saving the wings because 00:04:13.009 --> 00:04:14.849 you know we have them wings. So they're safe. 00:04:15.349 --> 00:04:21.069 And it slowly dies down. And I'm like, okay, 00:04:21.089 --> 00:04:24.509 I think we're okay. But it also delayed dinner 00:04:24.509 --> 00:04:26.769 by a long shot. Like I go back in the house. 00:04:26.790 --> 00:04:28.410 I'm like, I don't think we're eating at the right 00:04:28.410 --> 00:04:32.529 time. And here's what's interesting. I got home 00:04:32.529 --> 00:04:36.089 and I went to the same video I did the first 00:04:36.089 --> 00:04:39.759 time. when I knew nothing, you know, that video. 00:04:39.860 --> 00:04:43.019 So I went, how to get the best wings, right? 00:04:43.100 --> 00:04:46.399 So watch the video. So I was like, when I got 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:48.160 home, I'm like, I'll go back to that video and 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:49.720 just get how, because I couldn't remember the 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:52.379 timing. So I just needed timing. I turn on that 00:04:52.379 --> 00:04:56.240 video and the guy goes, be very careful that 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:00.079 you don't create a fire. And here's how you create 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.300 a fire. You could have a grease fire or you could 00:05:02.300 --> 00:05:04.420 have a hopper fire, depending on if you've done 00:05:04.420 --> 00:05:06.660 these things. And here's what's clear. Here's 00:05:06.660 --> 00:05:09.110 what's very, very clear to me. I did not listen 00:05:09.110 --> 00:05:14.449 to his warning. Agreed? Because here's how I 00:05:14.449 --> 00:05:16.829 know. I had a grease fire and a hopper fire. 00:05:17.250 --> 00:05:22.730 I had both. And so there's a deep connection 00:05:22.730 --> 00:05:27.610 that I did not listen because of the outcome 00:05:27.610 --> 00:05:30.870 that came from it. There is a deep connection 00:05:30.870 --> 00:05:36.439 to I was told something, right? And yet I still 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:41.300 missed it. Why? Because I didn't put into action 00:05:41.300 --> 00:05:45.019 what I was told. If you were here last week, 00:05:45.060 --> 00:05:49.720 we talked about Jesus is calling. And I got a 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:52.420 really catchy title for you. Jesus is calling 00:05:52.420 --> 00:05:56.860 part two this week. That's where we're heading. 00:05:57.100 --> 00:05:59.300 I thought we were moving on and Jesus says, no, 00:05:59.379 --> 00:06:02.199 we're staying. And so if you weren't here, I 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:04.449 got to catch you up real quick. What we talked 00:06:04.449 --> 00:06:08.790 about last week is the parable of the sower, 00:06:08.870 --> 00:06:12.189 right? The farmer, it's a story about a farmer. 00:06:12.250 --> 00:06:15.269 A farmer goes out and he's got seed and he's 00:06:15.269 --> 00:06:18.290 going to plant and he begins to scatter seed. 00:06:19.069 --> 00:06:21.509 Now, what we took from that was some of that 00:06:21.509 --> 00:06:24.230 seed fell in different places, but he still scattered 00:06:24.230 --> 00:06:26.670 it. And we're supposed to learn something about 00:06:26.670 --> 00:06:30.160 the farmer in this as well as the soils. So a 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.060 lot of people interpret just the soils and this 00:06:32.060 --> 00:06:34.040 is what it's about. I actually think that any 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:36.019 story in the Bible is about Jesus because Jesus 00:06:36.019 --> 00:06:39.160 is the superhero. Jesus is the one that the whole 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:41.579 story is about. It's pointing to him. It's telling 00:06:41.579 --> 00:06:44.060 us who God is because if you see Jesus, you see 00:06:44.060 --> 00:06:47.600 God. And so as this farmer is scattering, what 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:49.740 we're supposed to see about Jesus is this, that 00:06:49.740 --> 00:06:53.990 Jesus is generous and gracious. That Jesus is 00:06:53.990 --> 00:06:56.970 scattering seed. And here's what's crazy. He's 00:06:56.970 --> 00:07:00.449 scattering seed where he knows the devil is coming. 00:07:02.149 --> 00:07:06.170 He's calling, right? A little later in that story, 00:07:06.250 --> 00:07:09.629 it says that he called out. That word called 00:07:09.629 --> 00:07:12.670 out is where we get our word for phone. And we 00:07:12.670 --> 00:07:16.269 talked last week that Jesus essentially is calling. 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:20.379 calling the crowd and going, if you have ears 00:07:20.379 --> 00:07:23.339 to hear, then hear. And what he means by that 00:07:23.339 --> 00:07:26.240 is I need you to not only use your physical, 00:07:26.259 --> 00:07:30.199 but spiritually engage with this call. And what 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:33.060 we're told from that is that Jesus is constantly 00:07:33.060 --> 00:07:36.180 calling. I know this for a fact. He's calling 00:07:36.180 --> 00:07:41.180 you today because that's who he is. That even 00:07:41.180 --> 00:07:42.959 if you walked in here and you're like, John, 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:45.170 I was here last week. I haven't thought about 00:07:45.170 --> 00:07:46.990 Jesus for a week. He's still calling you today. 00:07:48.209 --> 00:07:49.990 Right? Like even if you were here and you're 00:07:49.990 --> 00:07:53.750 like, oh yeah, we did talk about that. He's still 00:07:53.750 --> 00:07:57.269 calling you today. Just because you didn't do 00:07:57.269 --> 00:07:59.370 what he said last week doesn't mean he's not 00:07:59.370 --> 00:08:02.970 calling you today. It's proof positive that his 00:08:02.970 --> 00:08:05.430 story about the soils is true. That there's different 00:08:05.430 --> 00:08:08.129 responses for different people. And as he goes 00:08:08.129 --> 00:08:11.430 through the narrative, it's this farmer who sows. 00:08:11.870 --> 00:08:14.569 And what's stunning with it is he says this, 00:08:14.569 --> 00:08:18.029 that I'll give you what you want. I'll throw 00:08:18.029 --> 00:08:21.610 the seed. But if you choose to reject it, I'll 00:08:21.610 --> 00:08:24.670 tell you to clean your smoker. But if you reject 00:08:24.670 --> 00:08:28.870 it, enjoy the fire. Right? That's the story. 00:08:28.970 --> 00:08:31.610 That's the narrative. The focus is on that Jesus 00:08:31.610 --> 00:08:34.950 is speaking. God is calling. God's word is being 00:08:34.950 --> 00:08:38.149 thrown out like seed. And you have a choice what 00:08:38.149 --> 00:08:41.820 you do with it. Which is why he makes the emphasis 00:08:41.820 --> 00:08:46.019 on listening. That he is good and he is gracious 00:08:46.019 --> 00:08:48.120 and he is kind and he will keep coming back and 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:49.940 keep coming back and keep coming back and keep 00:08:49.940 --> 00:08:52.200 coming back. And maybe it's 20 years and you've 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:54.100 had a fire for 20 years and he's coming back 00:08:54.100 --> 00:08:56.059 and going, hey, you know, it's because you got 00:08:56.059 --> 00:08:59.840 grease in your thing. See how much I know? I 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:06.139 don't even know what it's called. And I just 00:09:06.139 --> 00:09:08.539 wonder, I just wonder. that within the narrative 00:09:08.539 --> 00:09:10.500 that Jesus is talking about, within listening, 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:12.879 if we've missed something in Luke chapter eight. 00:09:14.059 --> 00:09:19.480 If you have a Bible, you can turn there. And 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:20.759 I want you to do something if you got a physical 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:23.440 Bible. You got a pen and a physical Bible? Our 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:25.279 students, by the way, you guys have been amazing 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:28.080 me lately because when I have been up here doing 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:30.279 this, I look down and there's like Bibles on 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:32.460 laps and notepads and like different highlighters 00:09:32.460 --> 00:09:34.779 and you guys are like all in, right? Like you 00:09:34.779 --> 00:09:43.250 guys are amazing. So well done. But if you have 00:09:43.250 --> 00:09:45.669 a pen, cross out for me, if yours is like mine, 00:09:45.789 --> 00:09:50.309 between verse 15 that says, but the seed on good 00:09:50.309 --> 00:09:52.629 soil, so he's talking about the seeds that fall 00:09:52.629 --> 00:09:54.490 on the good soil, stands for those with a noble 00:09:54.490 --> 00:09:56.830 and good heart who hear the word, retain it, 00:09:56.870 --> 00:09:59.330 and by persevering, produce crop. So there's 00:09:59.330 --> 00:10:02.070 a harvest. If you have a Bible like mine, there 00:10:02.070 --> 00:10:03.789 is a subheading that comes in the way that says 00:10:03.789 --> 00:10:06.690 a lamp on the stand. You just cross that out. 00:10:06.889 --> 00:10:09.549 That's not helpful. Because what it does is it 00:10:09.549 --> 00:10:13.080 breaks the story. It breaks the narrative. But 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.000 this narrative doesn't belong broken. It belongs 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.399 together. And here's what I mean. The next verse 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:20.279 says this. So he just talks about the soil, talks 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.299 about the harvest. No one lights a lamp and hides 00:10:24.299 --> 00:10:27.460 it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, 00:10:27.659 --> 00:10:29.980 they put it on a stand so that those who come 00:10:29.980 --> 00:10:34.960 in can see the light. And now you may go, we 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:36.080 were just talking about soils. Now we're talking 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:39.409 about lamp. This feels different. But everything 00:10:39.409 --> 00:10:44.570 that is in the story of the sower is found in 00:10:44.570 --> 00:10:48.529 this one little section of the lamp. And here's 00:10:48.529 --> 00:10:50.669 what I mean. It says that nobody lights a lamp. 00:10:50.730 --> 00:10:53.389 How did you light a lamp? Well, in those days, 00:10:53.409 --> 00:10:55.149 the lamp was made out of clay. It had a hole 00:10:55.149 --> 00:10:57.710 in the top. You poured in oil and it had a space 00:10:57.710 --> 00:10:59.490 for the wick. You put something dry that was 00:10:59.490 --> 00:11:02.470 kind of woven together that would hold the wick 00:11:02.470 --> 00:11:05.909 in place or touch the oil and suck up the oil, 00:11:05.970 --> 00:11:08.580 but also. like act as a wick, then what would 00:11:08.580 --> 00:11:12.519 happen, what would happen is you would take an 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:16.580 ember from the fire. Why an ember? Because fires 00:11:16.580 --> 00:11:19.899 were hard to create. It took a lot of work. It 00:11:19.899 --> 00:11:22.960 was tedious. So they always tried to keep embers 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:24.980 hot. They always tried to keep something. So 00:11:24.980 --> 00:11:27.899 you would take an ember and you would take... 00:11:28.409 --> 00:11:30.529 take that ember and put it to the wick and the 00:11:30.529 --> 00:11:33.309 lamp would ignite from the ember to the wick. 00:11:33.370 --> 00:11:36.330 Now, if you have a fire and you take an ember, 00:11:36.370 --> 00:11:39.129 how big is the ember compared to the fire? It's 00:11:39.129 --> 00:11:42.370 itty bitty. That's just like the seed that's 00:11:42.370 --> 00:11:46.250 being thrown out. The seed is small. The harvest 00:11:46.250 --> 00:11:49.580 is large. And so in this moment, what you have 00:11:49.580 --> 00:11:52.860 is you have the picture of something small going 00:11:52.860 --> 00:11:56.460 into flame. But notice the rest of the story 00:11:56.460 --> 00:11:59.940 that the idea of the ember going to a flame is 00:11:59.940 --> 00:12:03.220 so that it's a hundred X harvest of light to 00:12:03.220 --> 00:12:06.500 the entire house. Right. Whatever room it sits 00:12:06.500 --> 00:12:09.360 in, it's going to be exponentially larger. Why? 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:11.399 Because the harvest is always larger than the 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:15.899 seed. And so what happens is now it says that. 00:12:16.730 --> 00:12:19.389 No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar. 00:12:20.549 --> 00:12:22.490 Okay, if I take a lamp, I light it and I put 00:12:22.490 --> 00:12:24.450 it in a clay jar and cover it, what happens? 00:12:25.389 --> 00:12:28.210 It goes out. Why? Because just like my smoker, 00:12:28.269 --> 00:12:31.389 you got to kill the fuel source, right? It goes 00:12:31.389 --> 00:12:36.450 out. It's starved of oxygen. That sounds an awful 00:12:36.450 --> 00:12:39.529 lot like seed that falls in spaces where the 00:12:39.529 --> 00:12:41.850 devil comes and takes it away. Seed that falls 00:12:41.850 --> 00:12:44.029 in places and I'm joyful for a minute. Like I 00:12:44.029 --> 00:12:47.799 was in church and man, it was good. And then 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:49.639 I get out and I'm like, oh yeah, I don't remember 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:51.240 any of that. I don't remember what we talked 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:54.480 about. I'm not saying yes to that. And before 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:57.539 long, the joy is gone and it withers. That's 00:12:57.539 --> 00:13:00.940 the same as if you put a lamp into what was intended 00:13:00.940 --> 00:13:03.179 to be a harvest for the entire house. What was 00:13:03.179 --> 00:13:06.539 intended to be 100x fold is now smothered and 00:13:06.539 --> 00:13:10.480 out. The next one, it sounds a little weird, 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:14.259 but makes sense or puts it under a bed. You ever 00:13:14.259 --> 00:13:15.500 gone to your friend's house and you're like, 00:13:16.119 --> 00:13:20.159 Why is your lamp under your bed? The imagery 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:21.899 is that you light the lamp and then you put it 00:13:21.899 --> 00:13:25.779 under the bed. And you kind of go, well, the 00:13:25.779 --> 00:13:28.179 lamp is kind of doing what it's supposed to, 00:13:28.220 --> 00:13:30.139 but that's kind of weird. Doesn't seem like, 00:13:30.179 --> 00:13:32.799 that sounds like. That sounds like what he was 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:35.019 talking about before. The person's taking it 00:13:35.019 --> 00:13:37.039 and they're taking the word of God and they're 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:39.179 stepping into it, but they get crowded, right? 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:41.820 They get crowded. And it says that as they get 00:13:41.820 --> 00:13:44.019 crowded by life's worries and pleasures, that 00:13:44.019 --> 00:13:47.159 it smothers what is there. And a light under 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:51.360 a bed, it smothers the illumination of the harvest 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:58.480 that's intended. Instead, they put it on a stand. 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:02.159 So that those who come in can see the light. 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:06.200 Why would you put a lamp on a stand? Why would 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:08.059 you put a stand on a stand? That's weird. Don't 00:14:08.059 --> 00:14:10.100 do that. Why would you put a lamp on a stand? 00:14:11.980 --> 00:14:15.019 So that it illuminates and does what it is supposed 00:14:15.019 --> 00:14:19.279 to. But you started with an ember and you ended 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.360 up with an illumination of the entire room. So 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:25.220 what this is getting at is there is a proper 00:14:25.220 --> 00:14:28.879 action for lighting a lamp and where you place 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:32.379 that lamp, you will know if that lamp has been 00:14:32.379 --> 00:14:34.519 placed in the right place or not by what you 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:37.179 see. Now, here's what's interesting. The harvest 00:14:37.179 --> 00:14:39.500 of light, because if you've been around church 00:14:39.500 --> 00:14:41.700 some, this is how this goes. You are the light 00:14:41.700 --> 00:14:43.759 of the world. And we go to this verse and we're 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:46.220 like, okay, no one hides a lamp. So don't hide 00:14:46.220 --> 00:14:49.799 your, okay, that's fine. But that's not the context 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:53.269 of this story. The context of this story, the 00:14:53.269 --> 00:14:56.549 context of the lamp is that you do something 00:14:56.549 --> 00:15:00.429 in such a way that it illuminates. And when people 00:15:00.429 --> 00:15:04.529 come in to your house, which you, if we're going 00:15:04.529 --> 00:15:05.889 to live like Jesus, right, we're going to be 00:15:05.889 --> 00:15:08.809 hospitable like Jesus. And so people coming into 00:15:08.809 --> 00:15:12.950 your house now, they see what you did with the 00:15:12.950 --> 00:15:14.889 lamp. Why? Because when they walk in your house, 00:15:14.889 --> 00:15:20.200 they're like, look how bright it is. Which makes 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.840 me think that the harvest, the harvest initially 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:28.659 is for you. But then anyone you come into contact 00:15:28.659 --> 00:15:31.460 with, right? Because sometimes we teach this 00:15:31.460 --> 00:15:32.799 and we're like, okay, so you've got to go on 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:35.820 mission to save the world. I don't think that's 00:15:35.820 --> 00:15:37.519 what this is saying. I think what this is saying 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:40.799 is when you step in, the harvest, the harvest 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:44.279 is evident to everybody around you that's happened 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:48.139 in your life. So then you get to the next verse, 00:15:48.220 --> 00:15:51.649 verse 17. For there is nothing hidden that will 00:15:51.649 --> 00:15:53.750 not be disclosed and nothing concealed that will 00:15:53.750 --> 00:15:56.509 not be known or brought out into the open. We 00:15:56.509 --> 00:15:59.929 read this. And if you've been around church a 00:15:59.929 --> 00:16:02.789 little while, this is how it's gone for me. God 00:16:02.789 --> 00:16:04.950 is going to take everything that you have hidden 00:16:04.950 --> 00:16:07.070 and he is going to put it on a big screen and 00:16:07.070 --> 00:16:09.669 we're all going to watch it someday. Anybody 00:16:09.669 --> 00:16:12.830 ever had that teaching? Right. Anybody have the 00:16:12.830 --> 00:16:14.710 fear of God put in you because it was like, oh, 00:16:14.909 --> 00:16:17.850 what you did in secret, you just wait. Right. 00:16:18.750 --> 00:16:23.830 That's not what this is saying. The context of 00:16:23.830 --> 00:16:28.889 a harvest, a harvest is visible. Here's what 00:16:28.889 --> 00:16:31.269 I know about a harvest. When we were in Canada, 00:16:31.370 --> 00:16:33.529 you'd have cornfields on both sides of it. And 00:16:33.529 --> 00:16:36.690 when those cornfields grew into harvest season, 00:16:36.889 --> 00:16:40.330 those cornfields were so visible and so tall 00:16:40.330 --> 00:16:43.350 that as you drove down the road, you felt like 00:16:43.350 --> 00:16:47.039 you were in a tunnel of cornfield. You didn't 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:50.000 have to tell me that it was harvest season. I 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:52.059 knew it was harvest season because a harvest 00:16:52.059 --> 00:16:55.100 is visible. You don't have to tell me the harvest 00:16:55.100 --> 00:16:57.620 of light when you put it on a stand because the 00:16:57.620 --> 00:17:01.000 harvest is visible. You don't have to tell me 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.960 if when Jesus calls you say yes or not. You know 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:08.019 how I know? It's obvious by your life. You don't 00:17:08.019 --> 00:17:09.680 have to tell me. You don't have to tell the people 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.859 around you. You don't have to tell, right? Actually, 00:17:13.420 --> 00:17:16.220 I put my light under the bed. It's obvious when 00:17:16.220 --> 00:17:18.500 I come into your house and I see a glow from 00:17:18.500 --> 00:17:21.619 under your bed. You don't have to tell me you 00:17:21.619 --> 00:17:24.680 hid it in a jar. It's obvious because I come 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:29.299 in and it's dark. Isn't it fascinating that when 00:17:29.299 --> 00:17:32.339 it comes to this concept of what will be revealed, 00:17:32.420 --> 00:17:34.740 you are already revealing what you were doing 00:17:34.740 --> 00:17:38.470 with the words of Jesus. When you came and you 00:17:38.470 --> 00:17:40.349 were so excited because you said yes and you 00:17:40.349 --> 00:17:44.869 got in the bathtub. Wow. Maybe you got baptized 00:17:44.869 --> 00:17:47.990 in the bathtub. Could be. Maybe God's really 00:17:47.990 --> 00:17:51.369 speaking specifically to someone. But you got 00:17:51.369 --> 00:17:54.670 into the tub and you said yes to Jesus. You were 00:17:54.670 --> 00:17:57.130 baptized. Your testimony was like, I just can't 00:17:57.130 --> 00:17:59.890 wait to make my whole life about Jesus. And then 00:17:59.890 --> 00:18:03.710 I see you two years later. And when I see you 00:18:03.710 --> 00:18:05.430 two years later, you look nothing like Jesus. 00:18:06.859 --> 00:18:10.200 You don't have to tell me that you stop listening 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:11.779 to Jesus. You don't have to tell me you stop 00:18:11.779 --> 00:18:14.660 saying yes to Jesus. Why? Because your life is 00:18:14.660 --> 00:18:18.559 evident. What is hidden will be like everybody 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:23.940 is going to see it. And what we want to do is 00:18:23.940 --> 00:18:25.720 make this about God. And God is like, he's going 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.759 to come down on you. No, he's generous and he's 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:33.640 calling and he continues to try. And what we 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:36.910 get to see is like, wait a minute. There's a 00:18:36.910 --> 00:18:38.970 disconnect between the seed that is being sown 00:18:38.970 --> 00:18:48.009 and the harvest that I am seeing. Verse 18. Therefore, 00:18:48.089 --> 00:18:52.990 so based on all that, consider carefully how 00:18:52.990 --> 00:18:59.950 you listen. The essence of that word listen in 00:18:59.950 --> 00:19:02.869 the original is that you listen with intentionality. 00:19:04.740 --> 00:19:07.299 You listen with the intention of doing something 00:19:07.299 --> 00:19:11.539 with what you hear. So Jesus says, Jesus' words 00:19:11.539 --> 00:19:16.279 are in red. Be careful, be careful how you listen. 00:19:17.299 --> 00:19:19.319 Whoever has will be given more. Whoever does 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:21.099 not have, even what they think they have, will 00:19:21.099 --> 00:19:24.220 be taken away from them. So again, we take this 00:19:24.220 --> 00:19:26.240 and we go, okay, God's going to take away from 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:28.180 you if you don't do. That's not what this is 00:19:28.180 --> 00:19:30.059 saying. It's pretty obvious that if you get a 00:19:30.059 --> 00:19:31.799 seed and you choose not to plant the seed, you 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:35.259 ain't going to have a crop. It's pretty obvious 00:19:35.259 --> 00:19:37.740 that if listening is in focus and listening with 00:19:37.740 --> 00:19:39.640 intentionality, that the seed that God has given 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:42.160 you, if I am putting that seed into action and 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:44.299 saying yes to that in my life, there's going 00:19:44.299 --> 00:19:47.319 to be a harvest that follows that. And when that 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:50.059 harvest follows, that's going to give more life 00:19:50.059 --> 00:19:52.779 to the things. So what it's saying is that those 00:19:52.779 --> 00:19:55.420 that have and produce a harvest, whenever you 00:19:55.420 --> 00:19:58.660 produce a harvest, it produces more. But those 00:19:58.660 --> 00:20:03.230 that take a seed from Jesus, And they just keep 00:20:03.230 --> 00:20:05.430 saying, no, no, no. I'm not going to listen. 00:20:05.549 --> 00:20:06.789 I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do 00:20:06.789 --> 00:20:08.349 that. That's too hard, Jesus. I don't want to 00:20:08.349 --> 00:20:10.109 step into that. And you can just keep pushing 00:20:10.109 --> 00:20:12.410 it to the side. What happens is you lose what 00:20:12.410 --> 00:20:15.789 you have. This is not a threat from Jesus, even 00:20:15.789 --> 00:20:20.289 in the slightest. Verse 19 then. So again, if 00:20:20.289 --> 00:20:21.690 you have a physical Bible, you can just cross 00:20:21.690 --> 00:20:23.529 out Jesus, mother and brothers. That's not helpful. 00:20:24.970 --> 00:20:27.730 Now, Jesus, mother and brothers came. I mean 00:20:27.730 --> 00:20:29.930 this subheading, not the verse, just to be clear. 00:20:30.589 --> 00:20:32.410 Now Jesus' mother and brothers came to see him, 00:20:32.509 --> 00:20:35.349 but they were not able to get near him because 00:20:35.349 --> 00:20:36.990 of crowd. There's a very physical problem. They 00:20:36.990 --> 00:20:40.529 can't get close to him. Someone told him, your 00:20:40.529 --> 00:20:43.490 mother and brothers are standing outside wanting 00:20:43.490 --> 00:20:48.410 to see you. Verse 21, he replied, my mother and 00:20:48.410 --> 00:20:52.849 brothers are those who hear God's word and put 00:20:52.849 --> 00:20:57.569 it into practice. Like if there is a mic in Jesus' 00:20:57.650 --> 00:20:59.130 hands, which there wasn't, but if there was, 00:20:59.309 --> 00:21:03.690 this is a mic drop moment. And here's why. Everything 00:21:03.690 --> 00:21:06.470 in this culture, the people he is talking to, 00:21:06.549 --> 00:21:09.809 who you are, your identity, your inheritance, 00:21:10.150 --> 00:21:14.170 your obligations to life, everything you have 00:21:14.170 --> 00:21:18.410 is centered around where your blood lineage came 00:21:18.410 --> 00:21:21.839 from. So depending on your blood lineage depended 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:23.920 on a whole bunch of things that you could or 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:26.359 couldn't do. It depended on your identity, who 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:28.859 you were, and how that gave you a standing in 00:21:28.859 --> 00:21:31.519 the community. Everything was dependent on your 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:34.460 lineage. And Jesus goes, hey, actually, my family 00:21:34.460 --> 00:21:41.440 are the ones that listen, who receive God's word, 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:45.359 and they put into practice, which is to make 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:49.019 something happen from it. They receive it. He 00:21:49.019 --> 00:21:52.480 goes, this is who my family is, are the ones 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:56.319 that take what I've said and they put it into 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:00.440 practice. They take, they listen, and they do. 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:06.720 Now, some people think that this was mean of 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:10.599 Jesus to say this because his physical, biological 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:16.859 mama was outside. This is not Jesus. being mean 00:22:16.859 --> 00:22:21.660 to his biological mama. In fact, the way Luke 00:22:21.660 --> 00:22:25.059 is recorded, it is speaking of her and gives 00:22:25.059 --> 00:22:28.259 moment and verses to her all the way through 00:22:28.259 --> 00:22:30.720 that she has listened to him and she is doing. 00:22:30.819 --> 00:22:32.900 She is listening and believing. She is listening 00:22:32.900 --> 00:22:34.940 so much so that when he goes to the cross and 00:22:34.940 --> 00:22:37.839 he dies, she is present there and she is present 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:43.440 beyond that. He is reiterating even my own biological 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:49.589 mama is family because of this. Listen and do. 00:22:50.190 --> 00:22:54.069 Listen and do. And here's where it gets a little 00:22:54.069 --> 00:22:58.329 hard for us. Because Jesus is out here. He's 00:22:58.329 --> 00:23:01.329 throwing seed, right? So this is an apple seed. 00:23:02.210 --> 00:23:05.569 You probably barely even see it. Maybe, right? 00:23:06.650 --> 00:23:09.990 And I'll just put it this way. This isn't unique 00:23:09.990 --> 00:23:11.589 to me. I heard this from somebody else. But when 00:23:11.589 --> 00:23:17.970 I heard it, I was like, that's it. looks like 00:23:17.970 --> 00:23:24.089 the harvest. The seed rarely looks like the harvest. 00:23:26.569 --> 00:23:28.690 I don't know what salvation looked like for you, 00:23:28.769 --> 00:23:32.329 but salvation for me came in this form. That 00:23:32.329 --> 00:23:34.730 Jesus went to a cross, he died for my sins to 00:23:34.730 --> 00:23:36.789 pay the punishment between me and God, right? 00:23:38.670 --> 00:23:41.970 And that he paid that punishment for all of eternity 00:23:41.970 --> 00:23:44.589 so that I could be with him for all of eternity. 00:23:45.579 --> 00:23:48.380 That was the seed that was planted, that Jesus 00:23:48.380 --> 00:23:52.119 wants to save you. But you know what the harvest 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:56.460 is when I said yes to that? Jesus, through his 00:23:56.460 --> 00:24:01.480 blood, made me family. Jesus made you family 00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:03.599 through his blood. Now that looked nothing like 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:06.559 the seed that I said yes to. But the harvest 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:10.680 is that I am a son of the God Almighty today 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:14.829 and forever. That you are forgiven. Right? Like 00:24:14.829 --> 00:24:17.289 forgiveness was in that moment. I didn't realize 00:24:17.289 --> 00:24:21.690 I'm forgiven for everything forever. I didn't 00:24:21.690 --> 00:24:23.930 realize that my identity completely changes and 00:24:23.930 --> 00:24:30.130 I'm no longer me. I am now in Christ. I no longer, 00:24:30.250 --> 00:24:34.390 that moment of you say yes to Jesus and all of 00:24:34.390 --> 00:24:41.609 a sudden I have an inheritance. Why? Because 00:24:41.609 --> 00:24:45.849 the seed, the seed, rarely looks like the harvest. 00:24:47.109 --> 00:24:48.470 I mean, you think about it for a second, right? 00:24:48.529 --> 00:24:51.329 Like this little seed right here, it's kind of 00:24:51.329 --> 00:24:55.569 dull. It's hard. Somebody told me if you chew 00:24:55.569 --> 00:24:58.150 enough of them, there's cyanide in them. You'll 00:24:58.150 --> 00:24:59.849 be surprised to know that was the safety team 00:24:59.849 --> 00:25:01.009 that told me that. I think they were saying, 00:25:01.069 --> 00:25:08.009 don't do it on stage. It looks a lot different 00:25:08.009 --> 00:25:14.259 than the shiny, colorful, And if you don't like 00:25:14.259 --> 00:25:19.900 green apples, make it a red one. That if you 00:25:19.900 --> 00:25:25.859 bite into it, there's something sweet. Something 00:25:25.859 --> 00:25:30.339 good. Well, the seed doesn't represent the harvest. 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:35.400 And it rarely does. I had a moment this summer. 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:41.000 My wife had gotten up. And it wasn't a great 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:44.069 day. She didn't sleep well. She didn't feel well, 00:25:44.130 --> 00:25:46.710 and she had a couple of appointments stacked 00:25:46.710 --> 00:25:48.890 up that I knew would just take a lot out of her. 00:25:49.690 --> 00:25:52.750 And so she leaves the house, and my 15 -year 00:25:52.750 --> 00:25:55.710 -old Bailey, she comes downstairs, and she's 00:25:55.710 --> 00:25:58.089 kind of moving into summer mode, right? Things 00:25:58.089 --> 00:26:00.390 are just kind of moving slow. She's easing into 00:26:00.390 --> 00:26:02.009 her day, which is the beautiful part of summer. 00:26:03.529 --> 00:26:05.109 And so I'm getting ready to leave, and before 00:26:05.109 --> 00:26:08.250 I leave, I just go over to her and go, Hey, Bailey, 00:26:08.329 --> 00:26:10.529 your mama... Wasn't feeling great when she left. 00:26:10.589 --> 00:26:12.130 And she has a lot of things stacked up today. 00:26:12.490 --> 00:26:15.089 And she's doing me a favor. Could you just be 00:26:15.089 --> 00:26:19.609 helpful? And that was it. I go out the door. 00:26:20.190 --> 00:26:24.349 I get a text from my wife. She was done with 00:26:24.349 --> 00:26:26.009 the appointment she had. She was kind of filling 00:26:26.009 --> 00:26:29.529 me in. And she goes, but then I got home. And 00:26:29.529 --> 00:26:34.890 she goes, the house had been cleaned. Because 00:26:34.890 --> 00:26:39.319 my 15 -year -old had got up. and spent her morning 00:26:39.319 --> 00:26:43.440 cleaning the house to be helpful to her mama. 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:50.599 Now, all I said was, just be helpful. But the 00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:53.700 harvest was exponential. I was not even in the 00:26:53.700 --> 00:26:55.440 slightest going, you should clean the house. 00:26:56.220 --> 00:27:00.000 And yet she took it and went, this is how I can 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:05.359 say yes. Why? Because the seed rarely looks like 00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:10.170 the harvest. I mean, think about it in your own 00:27:10.170 --> 00:27:12.710 life. The amount of seed that Jesus throws your 00:27:12.710 --> 00:27:18.970 way. The things he tells you to do. And at the 00:27:18.970 --> 00:27:22.809 time you're like, I can't see the harvest. I 00:27:22.809 --> 00:27:24.750 only see the seed. And when I see the seed, I 00:27:24.750 --> 00:27:26.650 go, you're not very impressive. You're kind of 00:27:26.650 --> 00:27:28.809 dull. In fact, you got cyanided and you saw him 00:27:28.809 --> 00:27:32.690 leaving you there. Right? Because we can't get 00:27:32.690 --> 00:27:36.440 a glimpse of what the harvest is. And yet what 00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:39.319 he says is those that listen and those that say 00:27:39.319 --> 00:27:42.980 yes and put into action the things of God. I 00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:44.900 think you guys, I think we've made discipleship 00:27:44.900 --> 00:27:48.799 so complicated. I think it's as simple as this. 00:27:49.059 --> 00:27:52.819 What did Jesus say? What did Jesus do? Go do 00:27:52.819 --> 00:27:57.400 that. I think it's that simple. Here's what I 00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:05.660 mean. In Luke chapter 22, familiar scene. Depending 00:28:05.660 --> 00:28:07.099 on your church background, this might have been 00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:09.259 the Lord's Supper, the communion table, right? 00:28:09.339 --> 00:28:12.500 The Last Supper, like whatever language, Eucharist 00:28:12.500 --> 00:28:14.940 that you have. But that's the table that they're 00:28:14.940 --> 00:28:17.500 sitting around. And as they're sitting around 00:28:17.500 --> 00:28:21.339 that table, listen what Jesus does. Verse 19. 00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:26.039 And he took bread, he gave thanks, and he broke 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:29.700 it. And he gave it to them. Now I want to pause 00:28:29.700 --> 00:28:31.619 here because we've been talking about the Jesus 00:28:31.619 --> 00:28:33.240 that is calling. We've been talking about the 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:36.279 Jesus. that is generous, and he is gracious, 00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:39.960 and he keeps, like the farmer, throwing out seed. 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:42.359 And what I want you to see in this moment is 00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:46.500 this is a picture for us to remind us of who 00:28:46.500 --> 00:28:49.059 Jesus is. Think about who's sitting at that table. 00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:51.920 Sitting at that table is Judas. Judas, in a little 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:55.079 bit, it will say that Satan himself entered Judas. 00:28:55.539 --> 00:28:57.700 That sounds an awful lot like the devil is coming 00:28:57.700 --> 00:29:00.210 for what God has thrown out. And yet at that 00:29:00.210 --> 00:29:03.849 table, at this meal, Jesus still, still what? 00:29:04.009 --> 00:29:07.930 Throws seed Judas' way. Because he's generous 00:29:07.930 --> 00:29:11.869 and he's kind and he's calling. Then, then you've 00:29:11.869 --> 00:29:13.730 got Peter. Peter's going to deny him shortly 00:29:13.730 --> 00:29:17.869 after this meal. And he still throws seed to 00:29:17.869 --> 00:29:21.890 Peter. He still includes Peter. The rest of them 00:29:21.890 --> 00:29:25.750 are going to scatter. Why? Because Jesus is generous. 00:29:25.869 --> 00:29:30.589 Your God is generous. And he continues to call 00:29:30.589 --> 00:29:34.009 and he continues to call. He took bread, he gave 00:29:34.009 --> 00:29:38.049 thanks and broke it and gave it to them. Saying, 00:29:38.130 --> 00:29:44.849 this is my body given, given, given. Why? Because 00:29:44.849 --> 00:29:51.390 he's generous. Given for you. Do this in remembrance 00:29:51.390 --> 00:29:54.150 of me. You don't got to panic. Don't get your 00:29:54.150 --> 00:29:58.769 stuff yet. We're not there yet. I just want you 00:29:58.769 --> 00:30:02.769 to see, just a little piece of bread. I think 00:30:02.769 --> 00:30:07.230 it's fascinating that in this moment, Jesus, 00:30:07.549 --> 00:30:11.430 first of all, is taking something that has come 00:30:11.430 --> 00:30:14.029 from seed to harvest. What do I mean? He took 00:30:14.029 --> 00:30:18.789 bread. Bread is the harvest. I think the stories 00:30:18.789 --> 00:30:21.210 we followed, I want you to catch something. It 00:30:21.210 --> 00:30:25.269 goes from a field, which is all out there, to 00:30:25.269 --> 00:30:31.420 a house with a lamp. To a family. And then they 00:30:31.420 --> 00:30:33.619 sit around the table and what do they enjoy? 00:30:33.859 --> 00:30:36.500 The harvest of Jesus. What do I mean by that? 00:30:36.619 --> 00:30:38.759 He is the bread of life that has been broken 00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:44.400 for us. He is the bread of life. So the harvest 00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:48.079 is Jesus has taken his father's words and he 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:49.920 has put them into action, put them into action, 00:30:49.980 --> 00:30:52.480 put them into action so that he can sit and go, 00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:57.119 this is the harvest for you. And then he says 00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:04.019 this, do this in remembrance of me. You know 00:31:04.019 --> 00:31:05.920 what I haven't seen? I've done this a long time 00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:09.519 in a room like this with people like this. And 00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:11.779 we get to this point and I go, so he broke bread, 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:13.660 gave it. And he says, do this in remembrance 00:31:13.660 --> 00:31:16.619 of me. I've never seen somebody go, nah, not 00:31:16.619 --> 00:31:23.240 today. I don't like that seed. No, you know what 00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:25.900 everybody does? Do this in remembrance of me. 00:31:28.339 --> 00:31:32.799 He says it and we do it. I think it's a model 00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:36.000 of what life's supposed to be like. That it's 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:39.059 this simple. That the harvest of Jesus allows 00:31:39.059 --> 00:31:43.220 him to cast seed. It allows him to build for 00:31:43.220 --> 00:31:45.880 a harvest in your life. And all you have to do 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:51.809 is he goes, do this. And you go, yes. And it's 00:31:51.809 --> 00:31:53.869 a continuous. And here's what's amazing. When 00:31:53.869 --> 00:31:56.650 you take the bread and you take the cup and you 00:31:56.650 --> 00:31:59.569 partake in them, guess what you do? By your doing, 00:31:59.690 --> 00:32:01.950 by your doing and your listening, you affirm, 00:32:02.369 --> 00:32:05.089 you affirm the story that's true of you, that 00:32:05.089 --> 00:32:08.029 the harvest in you is that you are sons and daughters 00:32:08.029 --> 00:32:13.630 of God Almighty. You affirm it. You affirm by 00:32:13.630 --> 00:32:17.529 listening and doing. And so I got a question 00:32:17.529 --> 00:32:19.430 for you. And then we're going to reflect and 00:32:19.430 --> 00:32:21.079 then we'll take it all together. Here's my question. 00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:26.940 Jesus is calling. We've established that. He's 00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:30.920 calling you today. What does Jesus need you to 00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:36.160 say yes to today? As simply, as simply as you 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:39.819 would, as simply as you would when he says, do 00:32:39.819 --> 00:32:43.519 this in remembrance of me and you partake. What 00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:49.259 is Jesus calling you and asking you? And telling 00:32:49.259 --> 00:32:52.819 you, what seed is he casting to you today? Because 00:32:52.819 --> 00:32:55.619 he's calling. And he wants you to spiritually 00:32:55.619 --> 00:32:57.500 engage him. And the way that you spiritually 00:32:57.500 --> 00:33:01.700 engage him is you say yes. You ask a question. 00:33:01.839 --> 00:33:04.619 You gain understanding. You put into action what 00:33:04.619 --> 00:33:07.299 he is giving. So what is it for you? What is 00:33:07.299 --> 00:33:12.440 Jesus calling you for today? It may be as simple 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:14.589 as... You're tired of the way that you treat 00:33:14.589 --> 00:33:17.009 somebody. And Jesus is going, today, I'm calling 00:33:17.009 --> 00:33:18.769 and telling you it's not okay that you treat 00:33:18.769 --> 00:33:20.690 that person that way. And I'm asking you to stop. 00:33:22.509 --> 00:33:26.910 What are you going to do? What is he asking you 00:33:26.910 --> 00:33:31.910 to let go of? Maybe you got a grudge. Maybe you're 00:33:31.910 --> 00:33:34.769 in a role at a job. Maybe it's a friendship. 00:33:36.049 --> 00:33:38.049 Maybe it's a thought pattern. Maybe it's an action 00:33:38.049 --> 00:33:41.849 pattern. And he's calling today and he goes, 00:33:41.890 --> 00:33:44.490 today's the day that you just, I'm asking you 00:33:44.490 --> 00:33:46.490 that you will never have the harvest you want 00:33:46.490 --> 00:33:49.170 in your life. I'm asking you to put the lamp 00:33:49.170 --> 00:33:53.789 on a stand today. I'm asking you to say yes today. 00:33:56.950 --> 00:33:58.849 I'm asking you to follow what I'm asking you 00:33:58.849 --> 00:34:03.410 to do. Do this. What is he asking of you today? 00:34:05.509 --> 00:34:07.150 And then we'll take it all together. The next 00:34:07.150 --> 00:35:57.500 moments are yours. Jesus's words are, my family 00:35:57.500 --> 00:36:06.480 are those who listen and put into practice. He 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:11.380 took bread. He broke it. He said, this is my 00:36:11.380 --> 00:36:17.300 body given for you. Do this in remembrance of 00:36:17.300 --> 00:36:29.460 me. And we all say yes. He took a cup and the 00:36:29.460 --> 00:36:34.260 Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians captures what he 00:36:34.260 --> 00:36:36.639 received from the Lord when it comes to this 00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:40.559 meal, the communion meal. And what he connects 00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:44.079 for us with the cup is that the language of do 00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:49.139 this in remembrance of me is still present. And 00:36:49.139 --> 00:36:52.500 within that, it says before that this is a new 00:36:52.500 --> 00:36:57.329 covenant in his blood. So in the blood of Jesus, 00:36:57.449 --> 00:36:59.909 there's a new lineage. In the blood of Jesus, 00:36:59.989 --> 00:37:06.150 there is a new way forward. And so he takes a 00:37:06.150 --> 00:37:09.050 cup and he goes, remember, remember, don't forget. 00:37:10.590 --> 00:37:13.309 But then he also gives the same command, do this. 00:37:13.309 --> 00:37:17.110 When you take this cup and drink it, do this 00:37:17.110 --> 00:37:27.059 in remembrance of me. And we just say, yes. Church, 00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:29.079 there is a response, right? Like when we sit 00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:32.639 at the communion table, there's a response. We 00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:35.000 partake. We have an action that goes with it. 00:37:35.659 --> 00:37:38.460 I believe that when we receive from God, when 00:37:38.460 --> 00:37:40.760 God is stirring within us, when God is working 00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:44.039 within us, when God is moving, that there is 00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:46.340 a response and it's a response we call worship. 00:37:47.579 --> 00:37:49.559 That the hope would be that God has been doing 00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:51.880 something in you and stirring in you that the 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.760 next natural response is that I stand and I just 00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:57.199 go, hey, I got to give some glory to God because 00:37:57.199 --> 00:37:59.599 I can't believe how good he is. I can't believe 00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:02.619 how much he loves me. I can't believe that his 00:38:02.619 --> 00:38:08.619 name is the only one I need. That Jesus, your 00:38:08.619 --> 00:38:10.940 name, your name be the one that gets the glory 00:38:10.940 --> 00:38:15.989 for my yes. That Jesus, I can't believe you're 00:38:15.989 --> 00:38:18.190 that good that you continue to scatter seed my 00:38:18.190 --> 00:38:21.510 way when I know where I've been. God, I can't 00:38:21.510 --> 00:38:23.269 believe you're that good that you forgive me 00:38:23.269 --> 00:38:25.869 even though I don't deserve it. God, I can't 00:38:25.869 --> 00:38:28.510 believe that you are my savior. So Jesus be the 00:38:28.510 --> 00:38:31.809 name that gets the glory. So would you stand 00:38:31.809 --> 00:38:33.130 where you are and we're going to sing together.