1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Welcome to the podcast. 2 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:40,000 As I am trying something new, if you wonder why I have headphones on, I am trying to at some point this year start a podcast. 3 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:51,000 So I have my laptop here and trying to record this one so I can just test it and see how it goes. 4 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:57,000 But I wanted to share something. I want to try to do more of this this year. 5 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Branch out a little bit more and dive into the technical part. 6 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:09,000 I am hoping my audio is picking up on the phone because this is my first time trying this like this. 7 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 I have a background and everything set up. 8 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:24,000 I have had something on my heart that typically I would have just typed something up but it could have been a long post. 9 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000 So I wanted to do a quick video to touch on this. 10 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 It just hit me. 11 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:45,000 I have heard this for years, this verse, but here just in the past couple of years has it hit me differently for what it is saying. 12 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 I have been doing a new Bible reading plan this year. 13 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 I have already made it through the Gospel of Matthew and now I have started the Gospel of Mark. 14 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:59,000 I am also probably this week done with the book of Genesis. 15 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 I was reading Mark last night. 16 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Mark chapter 1 and then Matthew 3 and then another other Gospel has mentioned the same thing. 17 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000 I want to read it out of Mark 1 first. 18 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Mark 111 and it is the Passion Translation. 19 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 It says, at the same time, a voice spoke from Heaven saying, 20 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:29,000 You are my Son, my cherished One, and my greatest delight is in You. 21 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Matthew says it this way. 22 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:42,000 He says, then suddenly the voice of the Father shouted from the sky saying, This is my Son, the beloved, my greatest delight is in Him. 23 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Matthew has him almost like he is talking to the crowd to let the people know my greatest delight is in this man, Jesus. 24 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Mark writes it in a way that he is talking directly to Jesus. 25 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:08,000 What I find fascinating with this is Jesus hears his Father say this before any type of ministry has ever started. 26 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 He has not performed the first miracle. 27 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 He has not even went to start ministry. 28 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:20,000 He has no disciples yet, no apostles yet, no followers yet. 29 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Yet his Father in this moment of being baptized by John says, This is my Son, the beloved One. 30 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,000 The Passion writes it, My greatest delight is in Him. 31 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,000 He gets all of this before He ever starts doing anything. 32 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 I think that is important. 33 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:52,000 I have read this before many times over the years, but it hit me differently in the past couple of years. 34 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:05,000 I read it in Matthew just a few weeks ago, a few days ago, and reading it in Mark again last night, it just struck a heart-port with me. 35 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:16,000 I find it fascinating that he gets this and immediately following the baptism, it says, the Holy Spirit led him to the wilderness. 36 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:24,000 To where we read at the end of the 40 days, he is tested by the devil. 37 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:32,000 You hear the enemy begin to quote things such as, If you are the Son of God. 38 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,000 If you are, then you can do this. 39 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:42,000 But Jesus, number one, he responds with the word. 40 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 But number two, he knew who he was. 41 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 He did not need to convince himself. 42 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 He did not need to convince the enemy of who he was. 43 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 He already knew who he was. 44 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 It is the same tactic, and I find this fascinating. 45 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,000 It is the same tactic that he used in the garden. 46 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,000 If you read Genesis 1, 26, and 27, this is the Passion Translation again. 47 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:16,000 It says, God said, Let us, Father, Son, Spirit, make a man and a woman in our image to be like us. 48 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Then it says, God created man and woman and shaped them with his image inside them. 49 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:32,000 He created man and woman and shaped them with his image inside them. 50 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:37,000 In his own beautiful image, he created his masterpiece. 51 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Yes, male and female, he created them. 52 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:48,000 But then if you go to Genesis 3, it is when the snake enters the scene. 53 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:56,000 And he says, Did God really tell you you must not eat fruit from any tree of the garden? 54 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:09,000 And he replies and says, No, we may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden, except the tree in the center of the garden. 55 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:15,000 God told us, Don't eat its fruit, or even touch it, or you'll die. 56 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 But the snake said, You certainly won't die. 57 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:24,000 God knows that the moment you eat it, your eyes will be open and catch this. 58 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,000 You will be like God. 59 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Now, if you go back to Genesis 1, when Father, Son, and Spirit are having a conversation, 60 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:40,000 let us make man and woman in our image. 61 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:45,000 And God created them and shaped them with his image inside of them. 62 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:56,000 In this moment, when Eve was having a conversation about God just knows that you'll be like him when you eat this, 63 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:02,000 the image of God is already inside of Eve. 64 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:15,000 And so we need to understand as people and children of God that the image of God is already inside of us. 65 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:28,000 I'm looking at and studying right now, working on Ephesians chapter 1, where it begins to talk about every spiritual blessing is already inside of you. 66 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 You're not looking for anything more. 67 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:39,000 God's already placed everything you need for the current situation that you're facing inside of you. 68 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Anything that you need. 69 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:53,000 If you think about it and go back through, again, I almost done with Genesis and read the story of, excuse me, that's not in Genesis. 70 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 I am crazy. I believe that's going to be in Exodus. 71 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,000 But you read the story, you know the story about Moses and his staff. 72 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:08,000 When God begins to lead the people of Israel and begins to talk to Moses about delivering his people from the hands of Pharaoh, 73 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,000 he asked Moses, what is in your hand? 74 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:18,000 And I've taught this to teenagers. I found this fascinating because if I'm Moses, I'm thinking it's a stick. 75 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:23,000 I have a staff, Lord. I have a stick with the Pharaoh with armies. 76 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 I have a stick. 77 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,000 I have a staff is all I have. 78 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 And that's all he needed. 79 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Everything that you need. 80 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Because see, here's the thing. 81 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Before you go and do all the great things in God, 82 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,000 hear the words of when he speaks to Jesus. 83 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000 This is my beloved son. 84 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,000 My greatest delight is in him. 85 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,000 You are his greatest delight. 86 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:02,000 This is my beloved daughter. My greatest delight is in her. 87 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Everything you need is already inside of you. 88 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 And why? 89 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,000 Because you are his greatest delight. 90 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Before you do all the things, you are already his greatest delight. 91 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 But you don't know what I've done. It doesn't matter. 92 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 You're already his greatest delight. 93 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:28,000 If we could just push past all the religion, all the gimmicks, 94 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,000 all the shame, all the guilt, all the condemnation 95 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:38,000 and understand that he is for you and not against you. 96 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 If we could ever let that get settled in us, 97 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:48,000 because I read this and I believe it, 98 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 but I don't know how much I believe it. 99 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,000 I'm kind of like to the point of, 100 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 God, I believe, but help my unbelief. 101 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Because how would we really live if we believed 102 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,000 that I am his greatest delight? 103 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 That I am the beloved one? 104 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:12,000 That the image of God is already inside of me? 105 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 What would that do to you? 106 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,000 What would that do to the situation that you're in? 107 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,000 What would that do to those that you encounter? 108 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,000 What would that do to cancer when you're around it? 109 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:31,000 What would that do to the hopelessness when you're around it? 110 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:36,000 I think we have the need, I guess is the word I'm looking for, 111 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,000 to ask ourselves that question. 112 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,000 What would change in life, in my life, in your life, 113 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 in your circumstances, in our situations, in our whatever, 114 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:57,000 if we really believe that I am his greatest delight? 115 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:04,000 What would stand in your way in that moment? 116 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 What would make you feel like you couldn't do it? 117 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:14,000 What would make the next step, make the next move? 118 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:20,000 If God be for you, who could be against you? 119 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 There's something to ponder about, friends. 120 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Think about it. 121 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 His greatest delight is in you. 122 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:34,000 The image of the Almighty is inside of you already. 123 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:40,000 You don't know what I've done, you know in my past, I don't care. 124 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,000 He said it to the woman who's caught in adultery, 125 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 go and send no more. 126 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:54,000 We've got to understand what all these words really mean. 127 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Just think about it. 128 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,000 I hope to do more of these in the future. 129 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Maybe do some different teachings and stuff of that nature. 130 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 My goal was hopefully at some point this year, 131 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,000 if I cleaned the Holy Spirit and tried to teach myself 132 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,000 and Google how to do this stuff, 133 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:16,000 I would like to start a podcast, do more inspirational videos. 134 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 I'm at 12 minutes already according to my phone. 135 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Not so much as long, maybe just 60 second encouragement things sometimes, 136 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 but maybe also some stuff like this. 137 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,000 If you enjoyed this, if it meant something to you, 138 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:38,000 drop a comment, let me know, and we'll see how this goes. 139 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 I pray God blesses you. 140 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:48,000 May this thought just simmer inside of you, that He delights in you. 141 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,000 You are His greatest delight. 142 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Don't forget that. 143 00:12:53,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Be blessed.