1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,560 Alright, good morning everybody. 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,160 A lot of faces. 3 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,400 Alright, I do want to share something is I don't always have jokes. 4 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:10,240 It's not always about joking. 5 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,960 You know, sometimes it's serious and this is one of those moments. 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:19,360 You know, in Hawaii they have a thing that nobody's allowed to laugh really loud. 7 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,480 So they say you got to give a little aloha. 8 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:27,080 So that's not a joke. 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:28,080 It's not a joke. 10 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:29,760 It's being very serious. 11 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:35,360 Anyways, as Pastor Nathan said, my name is John and I do have the privilege to give the 12 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,160 message this morning. 13 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:43,480 The title of my message, I don't really give titles, but I have a title for you guys. 14 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:47,600 The title of the message is What is Truth? 15 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:53,040 You know, Jesus said in John 832, you will know the truth and the truth will set you 16 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:54,040 free. 17 00:00:54,040 --> 00:01:00,640 And we know that today there claims to be many truths in this world. 18 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:02,480 Many many truths. 19 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,440 You know, the world says your truth isn't my truth. 20 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,000 And they say it's okay, just don't offend me. 21 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:15,880 Don't say anything that disagrees with me because my truth is my truth and your truth 22 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:16,880 is your truth. 23 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,400 And we know that's not true, right? 24 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,120 They can't be multiple truths. 25 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:28,480 So I mean, it's just like try driving down the street at 85 miles per hour on a 25. 26 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,000 Cop pulls you over and they say, you know, you're going 85. 27 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,360 No, I wasn't. 28 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:33,360 That's your truth. 29 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:34,360 That's not my truth. 30 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:35,600 See how far you get. 31 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:36,900 But they will never do that. 32 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:39,160 They will never try to test that. 33 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,960 But you know, society or the world, they mix all these things up. 34 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:47,080 They mix up subjective truth with objective truth. 35 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:53,000 Now, subjective truth is based on our feelings and opinions. 36 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,880 You know, for example, is like the Democratic Party. 37 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:01,460 Now the Democratic Party, they say, well, you know, we have the truth. 38 00:02:01,460 --> 00:02:04,200 Everything that we do, it's all true. 39 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,960 They say vote blue no matter who. 40 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,480 They say just, you know, we're for the people. 41 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,040 We want to do everything for the people. 42 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,320 And they say that's true. 43 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,360 And then we have the Republican Party. 44 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:23,420 Now the Republican Party says, you know, we're for the people and we have the truth. 45 00:02:23,420 --> 00:02:25,540 You know, we're the business side. 46 00:02:25,540 --> 00:02:28,000 We like to keep everything going. 47 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,600 You know, we want to support everybody. 48 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:37,200 And you know, one Republican president once said, Republicans believe every day is the 49 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:43,600 Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15th. 50 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:48,080 And for those of you who don't know what April 15th is, hell on earth. 51 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,440 I'm just kidding. 52 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:51,960 But it is coming. 53 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,400 That's tax season for those of you who don't know. 54 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,920 But then we have objective truth, right? 55 00:02:56,920 --> 00:03:03,580 Now objective truth is what exists and can be proved by its physicality. 56 00:03:03,580 --> 00:03:09,460 For example, Dairy Queen is the best ice cream because if you try it, it's actually the best 57 00:03:09,460 --> 00:03:10,460 ice cream. 58 00:03:10,460 --> 00:03:11,460 No, that's not objective. 59 00:03:11,460 --> 00:03:17,440 The objective truth is if I say my car is gray, we can all just get up, go outside, 60 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,200 and look and check and make sure my car is gray. 61 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,560 I didn't mention Dairy Queen because I love Dairy Queen, by the way. 62 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,400 I just want to throw that out there. 63 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,080 But when it comes to religion, what is truth? 64 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:29,920 What is truth when it comes to religion? 65 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:32,680 I do want to point out something. 66 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:33,680 Christianity is not a religion. 67 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,020 It's a relationship with Jesus Christ. 68 00:03:37,020 --> 00:03:38,020 It's a relationship. 69 00:03:38,020 --> 00:03:40,000 It's not a religion. 70 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,680 But there's many different religions and cults out there that say we have the earth, but 71 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,680 they have the truth. 72 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:53,120 You know, the Jehovah's Witnesses, they say that we are the true followers of Jehovah God. 73 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,600 They say that Jesus Christ is not God. 74 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:00,240 They say Jesus Christ is actually Michael the Archangel. 75 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,520 We know that's not true. 76 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,580 It's completely false. 77 00:04:04,580 --> 00:04:09,240 And then once you try to talk to them about it, you bring up John 1-1 and then of course, 78 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:10,240 what do they do? 79 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:12,600 They just bring up all these false things. 80 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,900 That's what cults and religion and other different religions do. 81 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:18,840 They like to add things to the Bible. 82 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:23,640 Instead of take things from the Bible and teach it, they either add or subtract the 83 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,280 things from the teachings. 84 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:27,640 And that's what they do. 85 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,160 And then we have the Latter-day Saints or the Mormons. 86 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:34,520 You know, they say Jesus is a created being. 87 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:40,120 You know, they say that Jesus in heaven was trained by God. 88 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,320 He was trained and taught by God to do all these things. 89 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:47,920 And so what God did was when Jesus was a baby in heaven, he would teach him all these things 90 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,760 and say, you know, you're going to be God one day. 91 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,080 So he trained Jesus until God said, oh, you know what? 92 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:55,320 He's ready. 93 00:04:55,320 --> 00:05:00,580 And so what they do, Jesus, I'm going to make you God of earth. 94 00:05:00,580 --> 00:05:02,760 And so then they go from there. 95 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,080 And that's what they say. 96 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:08,400 Joseph Smith, who's the founder, he actually wrote in a book called Teachings of the Prophet 97 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,040 Joseph Smith. 98 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:15,680 He said, you have got to learn how to be God's yourselves and to be kings and priests to 99 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:20,880 God the same as all gods have done before you. 100 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,480 That's completely false. 101 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,560 He's claiming that we're all going to be God's one day of our own planets. 102 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:28,560 That's completely incorrect. 103 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:34,560 Then, of course, we have the Seventh-day Adventists who say that they also have the truth. 104 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,640 Now the Seventh-day Adventists, they say that Saturday is the true Sabbath day, which we 105 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:43,040 not we don't go against because, you know, that's what the Jewish culture teaches. 106 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,060 The Sabbath day is on Saturday. 107 00:05:45,060 --> 00:05:50,960 And they say going to church on Sunday only started in 321 A.D. 108 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:58,280 They say that a guy named Constantine is the one that made the law to go to church on Sunday. 109 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:01,160 And they say that's false. 110 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:06,440 They say that for those of you who go to church and worship Jesus on Sunday, you are actually 111 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,280 receiving the mark of the beast. 112 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:10,280 And that's completely false. 113 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:11,800 And that's what they try to say. 114 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:16,340 And to that I say, well, I'm going to read Romans 14 verses 5 to 6. 115 00:06:16,340 --> 00:06:23,140 It says, one person judges one day to be more important than another, another day. 116 00:06:23,140 --> 00:06:26,040 Someone else judges every day to be the same. 117 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,280 Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind. 118 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:35,080 Whoever observes the day observes it for the Lord or for the honor of the Lord. 119 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,440 Whoever eats, eats for the Lord. 120 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:43,520 Since he gives thanks to God and whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not 121 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:44,520 eat it. 122 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,100 And he gives thanks to God. 123 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:48,720 So it doesn't matter on what day. 124 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,680 We just choose to worship on Sunday, which is the day that Jesus rose. 125 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,040 We saw that last week. 126 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,880 And so that's what they say. 127 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,080 But let's go ahead and turn our Bibles to John chapter 8. 128 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:06,720 If you guys got your Bibles, John chapter 8. 129 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:12,760 In John chapter 8, actually all throughout John, the Jews believed that they had the 130 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:13,760 truth. 131 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:18,720 You know, the Jews said that the truth is in the law. 132 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:25,200 In John 19, during Jesus' sentence, which again we saw last week from Resurrection Sunday, 133 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:33,800 on the sentencing of Jesus by Pilate, the Jews were singing, crucify, crucify. 134 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:39,800 Pilate responded, take him and crucify him yourselves since I find no grounds for charging 135 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:40,800 him. 136 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,720 And the Jews respond, we have the law. 137 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,560 According to that law, he ought to die. 138 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:51,520 So the Jews said that, well, we have the law and now we can judge Jesus by the law. 139 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:57,040 But they completely missed the fact that Jesus Christ came to fulfill the law. 140 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,720 And they tried to live a different law. 141 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:06,640 But here, we're going to start in John chapter 8, verse 30. 142 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:12,400 Now John chapter 8, verse 30, Jesus was speaking to some of the Jews and around this time, 143 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:17,760 Jesus was performing many miracles and signs and he was doing all these things. 144 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,320 He was giving sight to the blind. 145 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,320 You know, he was healing the sick. 146 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:24,320 All these miracles. 147 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:28,440 So naturally, once all these things happened, what did the Jews do? 148 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,000 What did the people do? 149 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 They gathered around. 150 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,920 They wanted to see what was going on. 151 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:38,340 So starting in verse 30 to 31, it says, as he was saying these things, many believed 152 00:08:38,340 --> 00:08:39,720 in him. 153 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:45,000 And Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, if you continue in my word, you really 154 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,280 are my disciples. 155 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:52,000 Jesus talking to the Jews who started to believe him after they started seeing all these signs 156 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,800 and wonders and all these things, they started actually listening to Jesus. 157 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:56,800 They started believing him. 158 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,880 And Jesus said, here, continue in my word. 159 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:03,140 What does it mean to continue in Jesus' word? 160 00:09:03,140 --> 00:09:07,920 You can take that, you know, when it says continue in my word, you could also say teachings. 161 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,360 What does it say or what does it mean? 162 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,360 Continue in Jesus' words. 163 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:20,560 Jesus is saying to remain in his words, to be present, to endure in his word. 164 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:22,040 So what does that look like? 165 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:27,000 Well, some of you may remember that when we first became Christians, most of us were on 166 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,640 fire for the Lord, right? 167 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,040 We wanted to do everything. 168 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:31,600 We wanted to talk about Jesus. 169 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:32,920 We wanted to give Jesus. 170 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,760 We wanted to always give the gospel. 171 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:37,240 That's what we wanted to do. 172 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:42,880 I remember when I first became a believer, I told everybody about who Jesus was because 173 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,720 I thought it was the greatest thing. 174 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,920 For the first five years of my marriage, my wife told me she was trying to tell me I wasn't 175 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:49,920 saved when we got married. 176 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:51,600 And she tried to tell me all the time. 177 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,080 I'm like, okay, don't care. 178 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:57,600 But then all of a sudden, Jesus spoke, hey, I'm like, oh, hey, you know what? 179 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,840 Let me tell everybody who Jesus was. 180 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,960 Even when I was working, it didn't matter. 181 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:09,320 You know, I would talk to the higher bosses that I had, hey, do you know who Jesus is? 182 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,080 Even though they would say never talk about religion. 183 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:12,080 Cool. 184 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:13,440 But do you know who Jesus is? 185 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:14,960 And I would always do that. 186 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,200 And even at that time, I was a manager of my own store. 187 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,320 And so once we hired people, I didn't tell them if you knew Jesus in the interview, but 188 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,160 I would like, cool, if I hired them, hey, guess what? 189 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,800 You're going to know about Jesus today because that's what I thought. 190 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,760 But they always say that there's one thing you should never do when you're with family 191 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,520 or family get together or whatever. 192 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,000 Never talk about politics or religion. 193 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000 I didn't care. 194 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,600 I live life on the edge, by the way, if you guys didn't know. 195 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,040 I live a rough life. 196 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:45,500 No, just kidding. 197 00:10:45,500 --> 00:10:51,760 But when Jesus says, continue in my word, continue in my teachings, that meant, you 198 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:56,640 know, for me, what it looked like for me is I continued to read my Bible. 199 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,880 You know, I studied my Bible constantly. 200 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:01,560 I wanted to know more about the Bible. 201 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:03,960 I wanted to know more about Jesus. 202 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,200 That's what it looks like when you continue in the word. 203 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:12,960 You want to know and live your life and know who Jesus is and know what Jesus did for our 204 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:13,960 lives. 205 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,680 That's what it looks like continuing in the word. 206 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:22,000 You know, I took Jeremiah chapter 15 verse 16 to heart. 207 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:27,040 It says, your words were found and I ate them, if you didn't notice. 208 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:32,040 Your words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart. 209 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:33,360 I took that to heart. 210 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:40,280 I really did because the words became a delight to me when I listened to them. 211 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:41,480 That's what the word does. 212 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:42,880 That's what Jesus does. 213 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:47,360 Becomes the delight and the joy of our hearts. 214 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,200 But there's one thing that Jesus didn't say. 215 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:58,280 He did not say continue in my word until you're about five years into being a Christian or 216 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,480 ten years into being a Christian. 217 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,280 No, Jesus didn't say that. 218 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,120 Jesus said to continue. 219 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:12,600 That word continue means meno in the Greek, which means to continue the process, not to 220 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,080 perish. 221 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:20,040 So Jesus is always saying to continue, always continue forever in the words. 222 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:26,760 And sometimes as we're Christians, you know, we tend to say we're a little too busy, right? 223 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,280 We say, oh, I'm too busy to go to church this week. 224 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:30,280 I'll go next week. 225 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,680 And I'm not condemning anybody. 226 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:37,600 But you know, some of us say, you know, it's we get too busy to do all these things. 227 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:43,000 We're too busy to volunteer for the media and to control the lyrics and the lighting 228 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,000 and all that. 229 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:50,960 You know, Second Peter three eighteen says, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our 230 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:58,340 Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. 231 00:12:58,340 --> 00:13:00,200 We should want to know more Jesus. 232 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:06,680 We should want to know and grow closer to Jesus and his glory. 233 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:12,200 Then Jesus says, if you continue in my word, you really are my disciples. 234 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,080 Now, what is a disciple? 235 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,200 I'm glad you guys asked. 236 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:23,720 There's a community group for men and women that are going through a transforming discipleship. 237 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,760 You also learn that, but I'll give you a little little sneak peek. 238 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:33,760 A disciple is a learner, a pupil of the things concerning Jesus Christ. 239 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:41,000 In other words, a disciple is one who responds in faith and obedience to follow Jesus Christ. 240 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,120 It's literally a lifelong process. 241 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:51,360 It's a process that will take up until the day we see Jesus face to face. 242 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:56,840 So in our text here, Jesus was telling the Jews who believed in him, he said to continue 243 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:04,560 in my word forever, continue to to just listen to my teachings, follow everything that I've 244 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:05,560 done. 245 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:09,840 And once you do these things, you will I will know that you are my disciple. 246 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:16,720 So when we abide and follow Jesus and we obey the calling that he has on our lives, we can 247 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:22,600 understand how to become a disciple of Jesus Christ. 248 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,200 And we can see a little bit of that. 249 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:30,040 But being a disciple of Jesus is more, it's much more than just believing. 250 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:35,240 You see later in chapter eight, the one the ones who started believing, the ones that 251 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:41,480 were looking at all the signs, all the miracles later on at the end, they started trying to 252 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:42,600 crucify Jesus. 253 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,080 They tried to kill him. 254 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:51,520 And you know, it's the one thing that we can pull out from here is don't trust Jesus when 255 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:53,800 it benefits you only. 256 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:58,200 Don't just listen and trust in to Jesus and follow and continue in his word when when 257 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,480 life is really bad. 258 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,920 You know, trust Jesus in the good. 259 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,840 Don't just be like, oh, well, I'm having a hard time. 260 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:11,280 You know, I'm you know, I have a family member who's sick or, you know, I'm just going through 261 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:12,280 whatever. 262 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,640 Trust in Jesus even during the good times. 263 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:16,700 Jesus doesn't want to just hear the bad problems. 264 00:15:16,700 --> 00:15:19,480 He wants you to rejoice with him in the good. 265 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,320 And Jesus wants you. 266 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:22,820 He always wants to know you. 267 00:15:22,820 --> 00:15:25,120 He wants to always be with you. 268 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:26,120 Good and bad. 269 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,920 That's what he wants. 270 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:34,560 But when it talks, when it comes here, he wants us to believe and have faith in him. 271 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:39,120 Now believing is the acceptance of truth from facts. 272 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,940 In other words, believing is acknowledging something is true. 273 00:15:42,940 --> 00:15:48,400 Now if we read in James 2 19, Jesus talking to the church, he says, you know what, even 274 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:55,460 demons believe in God, even the demons believe in God and they listen to God. 275 00:15:55,460 --> 00:16:00,960 But Jesus wants us to also have faith in him, you know, because if the demons believe in 276 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,960 them like, why can't we? 277 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:07,720 I mean, we have people today, there's atheists who don't believe, but I'm like, even the 278 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:09,100 demons believe. 279 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:12,120 But now what is faith? 280 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:17,880 According to Hebrews 11 1, faith is the reality of what is hoped for and the proof of what 281 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,620 is not seen. 282 00:16:19,620 --> 00:16:26,840 Now having faith in Jesus means so much more than just trusting him to him. 283 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,920 In Mark 5, there was a woman who was bleeding for 12 years. 284 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,240 She did everything she could. 285 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,400 She went to many physicians. 286 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,160 Even the physicians couldn't even help her. 287 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,880 She probably spent all the money that she had. 288 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:43,000 She was going to everybody to heal her because she kept bleeding for 12 years. 289 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,800 And so what did the Jews do? 290 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,440 The Jews around the town says, well, you know what, you're unclean. 291 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:49,440 There's nothing we can do. 292 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,880 We don't want you around here. 293 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,260 So she was kicked around and she was pushed around. 294 00:16:55,260 --> 00:16:57,520 And what did she do? 295 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:58,520 There's Jesus. 296 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:03,320 There's a man going around doing miracles, signs and wonders. 297 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,000 I need something. 298 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,220 There's something for me there. 299 00:17:06,220 --> 00:17:07,220 So what did she do? 300 00:17:07,220 --> 00:17:08,580 We all know the story. 301 00:17:08,580 --> 00:17:15,060 She went through the crowd, walking through the crowd with Jesus and she touched Jesus. 302 00:17:15,060 --> 00:17:23,320 She touched Jesus' robe and instantly, the Bible says instantly she was healed. 303 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:28,800 And Jesus said in Mark 5, 34, he said, daughter, your faith has saved you. 304 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:32,900 Go in peace and be healed from your affliction. 305 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:36,200 So it's the faith that saved her. 306 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:41,120 She had the, ultimately what it was, was the faith. 307 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:47,480 Jesus wants us to do the same as that woman did, is to believe and have faith, trust Jesus. 308 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,640 Now faith is literally something that we cannot see. 309 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,360 Jesus wants us to trust him in every walk. 310 00:17:54,360 --> 00:18:00,680 It says faith is not a physical thing that you can't see, but it does give you something 311 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:01,680 physical. 312 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:06,560 Faith, there is an action with faith and that faith is keep walking. 313 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,820 Keep walking in faith. 314 00:18:08,820 --> 00:18:12,400 And that's what, you know, that's what they say. 315 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:18,720 Then when we go to verse 32, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. 316 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:23,220 So back to our original question, what is truth? 317 00:18:23,220 --> 00:18:28,280 When we continue in Jesus' word and Jesus' teachings, when we believe that he is the 318 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:34,040 Messiah, and when we believe that he died on the cross for our sins only to defeat death 319 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:42,400 and sin, only to raise three days later, and not only that, but to be seen by over 500 320 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,160 people, that is truth. 321 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:47,720 That is truth. 322 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,700 And the truth will set us free. 323 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:56,860 You know, in John 14, 6, Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. 324 00:18:56,860 --> 00:18:59,960 No one comes to the Father except through me. 325 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:03,600 Jesus is the only way to the Father. 326 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:07,400 Jesus said these words and these words are true. 327 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,440 So when Jesus is truth and he speaks the words of truth, what does that mean? 328 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,680 Jesus is truth and the words are truth. 329 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,280 So it says Jesus is truth. 330 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:23,400 John 1, 17 says, for the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus 331 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,400 Christ. 332 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,760 Well, we know that grace means it's an unearned gift. 333 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:34,080 It's an unearned gift because of the sacrifice that Jesus Christ has done for us. 334 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:38,880 The truth that came through Jesus Christ is that he took on all the sins of the world, 335 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,600 so we wouldn't have to do that. 336 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:46,960 He took our sin, so we wouldn't have to die that horrible death and to feel that complete 337 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,400 separation of God. 338 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,800 So we can also have that hope in heaven. 339 00:19:53,800 --> 00:20:00,000 And then John 18, verses 37 and 38, Jesus testified before Pilate. 340 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,120 Says, you are a king then, Pilate asked. 341 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:07,440 You say that I am a king, Jesus replied. 342 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:13,440 I was born for this and I have come into the world for this, to testify to the truth. 343 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,320 Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice. 344 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,880 What is truth, Pilate, or said Pilate. 345 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:25,080 Jesus here was declaring, I am the truth. 346 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,240 I am the truth, Jesus said. 347 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:33,500 Trust and truth is standing right in front of you. 348 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:40,300 So if we look at Jesus' life, he proved that not only is he truth, but he lived the way 349 00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:42,180 of truth. 350 00:20:42,180 --> 00:20:44,280 He lived a sinless life. 351 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,520 He is the example of how we should live. 352 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,040 He is the true example of how we should live. 353 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,720 Now there is a lot of, as I mentioned, there is a lot of cults and religions that say that 354 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:54,720 we have the truth, right? 355 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:55,840 I mentioned that. 356 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:02,440 I went to Costco a few months ago and I met this guy from this cult called World Mission 357 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,760 Society Church of God. 358 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:08,360 And I am not going to explain too much about them, but if you guys want to research that 359 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:11,000 after or come talk to me after, that is fine. 360 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:18,860 But this guy is from a cult who believes that Jesus Christ is in Korea and you should pray 361 00:21:18,860 --> 00:21:22,320 to this guy and there is a mother God. 362 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,000 She is also in Korea. 363 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 And then they go and meet them. 364 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,840 So what I did is I kind of looked like a weirdo that day because I heard him talking to somebody 365 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,680 and I am like looking around, like trying to get him to talk to me. 366 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,800 I am acting like I am looking at the table that he is at, but I was hoping he would talk 367 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:38,800 to me. 368 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:39,800 And so finally he did. 369 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,080 And so he said, hey, do you know the Bible? 370 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:43,080 Are you a Christian? 371 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,080 I sure am. 372 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:45,080 Why you ask? 373 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,080 And then we got into it. 374 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,800 And then that is what he told me. 375 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:52,880 He says, yeah, God, yeah, Jesus, he is in Korea. 376 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,880 Mother God is also there too. 377 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:55,880 Mother God is there. 378 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,040 And I am like, no, that is completely false. 379 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:03,200 But they believe that you have to put your trust and your faith in that man in Korea. 380 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,680 That trust and faith in that woman in Korea, mother God. 381 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,120 They say that is the only way you can be saved. 382 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:14,760 No matter what you do, no, that is completely false. 383 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:15,760 It is Jesus Christ. 384 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,360 That is the name I am going to proclaim. 385 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:20,960 I am not going to proclaim another name in Korea. 386 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,000 But you cannot expect to stand outside grocery stores, right? 387 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,000 You cannot go to the grocery stores, stand out there to five to six hours a day with 388 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,720 your magazines on the rack and not even talk to anybody. 389 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,720 You are just hoping that somebody will approach you. 390 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,600 And you cannot say, well, I am doing the Lord's work. 391 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,000 I am putting my faith and trust in Jesus. 392 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,160 I am doing the Lord's work by just standing here. 393 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,120 You know, I am doing something. 394 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:45,400 But that is not what God wants. 395 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,160 God does not want you just to stand out there. 396 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,240 God wants you to give the truth. 397 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,200 He wants you to trust in the truth. 398 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:53,200 God does not care about that. 399 00:22:53,200 --> 00:23:00,000 He cares only if you know the only way to the Father is through Jesus Christ. 400 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,760 That is what he wants everybody to know. 401 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,840 But here at Hosanna, we all should know this, right? 402 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,200 And if you do not know this, you are going to learn it for the first time. 403 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:14,260 The mission here at Hosanna is know the truth, live the truth, share the truth. 404 00:23:14,260 --> 00:23:16,760 So what does that mean? 405 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:21,000 Know Jesus, live Jesus, share Jesus. 406 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,760 Now knowing the truth, knowing the truth looks like this. 407 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,160 Knowing the truth of what Jesus Christ has done for our lives. 408 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:33,640 He has died on the cross, as I mentioned, for all of our sins. 409 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,360 Raising again three days later. 410 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:39,120 Defeating death and sin. 411 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:41,480 That is truth. 412 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:48,280 It has been, you know, there is so much evidence that proves that Jesus Christ died, that there 413 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,360 was a man named Jesus Christ. 414 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:57,760 Not only biblical truth, but there are biblical evidence, but there is also historical evidence. 415 00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,920 And that all comes to truth. 416 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:01,160 That is truth. 417 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:07,560 Jesus said in John 321, but anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light. 418 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,000 Jesus Christ is that light. 419 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,680 Jesus proclaimed that in John 812. 420 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:16,320 Jesus declares, I am the light of the world. 421 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:22,320 Anyone who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. 422 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:27,320 So when we walk in darkness, Jesus will be there. 423 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,840 And that is what the truth is. 424 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:35,360 That is what, you know, knowing the truth is that Jesus Christ is that light. 425 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:37,120 Now live the truth. 426 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:44,360 If we live according to the new command that Jesus gave all of us in John 1334, Jesus said, 427 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:47,980 love one another just as I have loved you. 428 00:24:47,980 --> 00:24:52,180 You are also to love one another. 429 00:24:52,180 --> 00:24:57,000 To know Jesus Christ's love surpasses knowledge. 430 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:06,360 And just that, just to see all that, just to see everything that Jesus has fulfilled, 431 00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:10,800 that's the fullness of God that Jesus has done. 432 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,100 That's the complete fullness of God. 433 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:20,920 In the next verse, Jesus says, by this, anyone will know that you are my disciples if you 434 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:22,200 love one another. 435 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:26,120 It goes back again to disciple. 436 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:27,720 Jesus talks a lot about that. 437 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:34,840 You know, we see that Jesus talks about loving one another and disciples and all that. 438 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,440 So we should be Christ-centered. 439 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:42,640 We should be followers of Christ, living the way that Jesus would want us to live. 440 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,840 Not lying, not cheating, not stealing. 441 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:53,100 First Corinthians 11.1 says, Paul said this to the church, he says, imitate me as I also 442 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:55,160 imitate Christ. 443 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,840 Paul was saying that he's living like Christ. 444 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,000 He's imitating Christ. 445 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,040 And we should be doing the same. 446 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,840 We should walk in the same way that Christ did. 447 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:11,880 I mean, you know, Christ did everything, you know, he died on the cross for us. 448 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:16,840 We should want to live a sinless life. 449 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,200 We should want to not lie, cheat, steal. 450 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:28,000 We should, you know, imitate Christ all the time, all the time. 451 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:35,000 First Peter 2.21, Peter said this to the believers, for you were called to this because Christ 452 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,800 suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his steps. 453 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,680 Again, following Christ's steps. 454 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,520 Live the way that Christ wants us to live. 455 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:53,280 And then finally, the last scripture that I have for living the truth is 1 John 2.6. 456 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,240 The one who remains in him should walk just as he walked. 457 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,680 John is saying walk is just as Jesus walked. 458 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:01,680 It's simple. 459 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:05,120 I mean, well, it's not simple to walk that way, but it's simple that that's what the 460 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:11,940 truth is, is imitate Christ, walk as Christ walked. 461 00:27:11,940 --> 00:27:15,720 And that's what it looks like when we live the truth. 462 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:20,040 Now sharing the truth, sharing the truth is vital. 463 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:25,080 It's something that, that's the most important thing because in Matthew 28 verses 19 and 464 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,800 20, Jesus gave all of us that command. 465 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:34,480 He said, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them, baptizing them 466 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:39,520 in the name of the father and the son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe 467 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,720 everything I have commanded you. 468 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:46,960 And remember, I am with you always to the end of the age. 469 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,880 So Jesus tells us to give the gospel and gospel means the good news. 470 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:56,640 We're to give the gospel to everyone. 471 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,480 We are to not just hold the gospel close and say, the gospel is so close to me. 472 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:01,480 I'm not going to give it. 473 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,680 No, no, that's, that's not what Jesus is saying. 474 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:10,720 Jesus says, once you know the gospel, give the gospel, give the gospel to everybody. 475 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:11,720 Everyone you know. 476 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,240 And like I said, when I first became a believer, that's what I wanted to do. 477 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,640 Give the gospel to everybody, tell everybody what the truth is. 478 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:19,800 And now what is the gospel? 479 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:25,680 The gospel is Jesus died on the cross for our sins, rose again three days later, you 480 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,840 know, and to be seen by over 500 plus people. 481 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,960 That's the gospel. 482 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:38,120 Psalm 96, three says, declare his glory among the nations, his wondrous works among all 483 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:39,840 peoples. 484 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:44,380 The Psalmist writing about the King of the, King of the earth declared. 485 00:28:44,380 --> 00:28:49,000 So it's declare the Lord's name with praise. 486 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,400 Jesus is Lord. 487 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:52,400 Jesus is Lord. 488 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,000 We should proclaim that we should shout that. 489 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:04,080 And we are to share that to the world, proclaim the truth to the world, share the truth for 490 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:10,440 it says for God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in 491 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,120 them should not perish, but have eternal life. 492 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,120 That too is the gospel. 493 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,640 That is also the gospel. 494 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:24,600 But again, don't be afraid to proclaim and to declare that Jesus is Lord of all. 495 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:25,600 Don't be afraid. 496 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:32,240 And first John two, four, uh, says the one who says I have come to know him and yet doesn't 497 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,980 keep his commands is a liar. 498 00:29:34,980 --> 00:29:39,080 And the truth is not in him. 499 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,440 So what do we have at the end of John eight? 500 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,020 Jesus tells the Jews who were arguing with him. 501 00:29:45,020 --> 00:29:50,400 He says, you know what, you guys are the father or your father is the devil. 502 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:55,520 And Jesus declares that there is no truth that can come from, come from him. 503 00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:00,840 And John declares in his epistle there, he says, no lie can come from the truth. 504 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,400 No lie can come from the truth. 505 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,840 So when we know the truth and live the truth and share the truth, we will be set free by 506 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,640 the son of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. 507 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:19,240 When we, when we're in verses 33 to 35, it says this, we are descendants of Abraham. 508 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,440 They answered him and we have never been enslaved to anyone. 509 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,280 How can you say you will become, uh, you'll become free? 510 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:32,680 Jesus responded, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. 511 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:37,640 A slave does not remain in the household, but a son does remain forever. 512 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,440 So the Jews right here was responding negatively. 513 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,080 When Jesus said you will be set free, they responded negatively. 514 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,760 They responded with, we're descendants of Abraham. 515 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,880 We have never been enslaved. 516 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,840 Well, the Jews missed the point. 517 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:57,360 It seems that they actually forgot what their descendants went through when they were enslaved 518 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,640 by the Egyptians and then the Assyrians, the Babylonians. 519 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,920 And it seems like they also forgot that they were enslaved by the Romans at this point. 520 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:11,160 So it's like, well, they were in bondage and how dare they say that we've never been enslaved 521 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,840 by anybody. 522 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,760 But sometimes we, we get the same way, right? 523 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:21,520 Sometimes we're so far into sin that we don't even realize what we're doing. 524 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,920 You know, we, we tend to forget that and we forget a lot of the things that Jesus and 525 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:31,300 that God has done for us because we're so far into our sin and we even forget the blessings 526 00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:34,840 that God is doing for us in that moment. 527 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,560 And that's what the Jews were forgetting here. 528 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,840 The Jews were, they were so far into thinking that they weren't enslaved to anybody. 529 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:48,360 But in fact, they, at the end of Jesus being crucified, they said, Caesar is our king. 530 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:49,360 And it's like, what? 531 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,720 No, that's not true. 532 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:57,760 And then verse 34 says, truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin of is a slave of 533 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:03,920 sin and a slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever. 534 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:11,400 You know, we, you know, in second Samuel 12, the prophet Nathan came to King David and 535 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,120 he says, Hey, David, there's a problem. 536 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:21,380 You know, there's a rich man who has a very large flock and many, many herds. 537 00:32:21,380 --> 00:32:25,120 And he says, this man is very, very rich. 538 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:32,000 And then he says, but there's also a poor man, a poor man who has one sheep or one lamb 539 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,680 and that lamb is like a daughter to that man. 540 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:40,560 And so Nathan tells David says, there's a traveler who's, you know, the traveler came 541 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,760 to town and says, Hey, prepare some food. 542 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,960 And the rich man says, I don't want to give up any of my sheep. 543 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,640 You know, take that one from that, that poor guy. 544 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,820 So they took that one and sacrificed it. 545 00:32:54,820 --> 00:32:58,480 And David, you know, the poor man was, he was very, very sad. 546 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,440 He was very distraught. 547 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,280 And then when David heard this, he says, he was furious. 548 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,560 He's like, that man must be put to death. 549 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:13,200 And then that's when the prophet Nathan says, that man is you, that man is you. 550 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,600 He says, you know, that's, that's what David was. 551 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:24,640 David got his, one of his soldiers wives pregnant and he tried to, you know, and he put him 552 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,960 in the ward and got him killed. 553 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:28,240 And that was David. 554 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,080 We can too relate to that. 555 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:35,320 Sometimes when we're so far into sin, as I mentioned before, once that, once we're in 556 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:41,240 the middle in the act of sin and the, we have the light shine on us, we hate it, right? 557 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:45,960 We hate when that sun is shining on us because we're so far into our sin and we're just doing 558 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,680 whatever, whatever you guys are dealing with. 559 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,000 And then once Jesus Christ comes into your life and starts shining, Hey, what are you 560 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,240 doing over there? 561 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,720 And once somebody comes around and says, Hey, I'm trying to correct you. 562 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:57,960 That's that light shining. 563 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:58,960 And then they hate it. 564 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,720 We have to remember one thing. 565 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,680 We are not the only ones that are getting hurt. 566 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:10,380 It's also the ones who feel the repercussions of our sins are also our loved ones as well. 567 00:34:10,380 --> 00:34:14,600 We have to remember when we're going through those sins, they're the ones who feel it as 568 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,260 well. 569 00:34:16,260 --> 00:34:17,260 But it's same thing. 570 00:34:17,260 --> 00:34:21,160 It's like a thief breaking into somebody's house, stealing all this stuff and doing everything. 571 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,840 But as soon as it happens to him, it's the end of the world. 572 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,000 How dare they? 573 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,280 But it's like, that's what you're doing. 574 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:36,240 But you know, if you're stuck into sin today, just remember if first John one nine tells 575 00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:42,480 us if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse 576 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,000 us from all unrighteousness. 577 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:51,740 If we're stuck into our sin today, just trust in the Holy Spirit and pray in the Holy Spirit. 578 00:34:51,740 --> 00:34:54,440 Pray that the Holy Spirit guides our lives. 579 00:34:54,440 --> 00:35:00,760 When we do that, we won't be doing what our sinful nature craves. 580 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,960 We will be doing what Jesus intended us to do. 581 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,240 And then Jesus says this back to our text. 582 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:12,920 Jesus says, a slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain. 583 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:18,120 What Jesus is saying is that we cannot free ourselves if we're slaves. 584 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:26,840 We cannot free ourselves, but the only one who can free us from this slave or being slaves 585 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,400 is the son. 586 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,320 And that son is Jesus Christ. 587 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:36,680 Only Jesus can free us from our sins because the son remains in the house of God. 588 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:42,540 And the only truth that can be made and the happen is from Jesus Christ. 589 00:35:42,540 --> 00:35:50,320 So if we're stuck in our sins, if we're slaves to sins, seek Jesus, continue and confess 590 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:57,560 Jesus and confess Jesus because what does Jesus say in verse 36? 591 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:04,440 So if the son sets you free, you really will be free. 592 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:09,820 Since Jesus is the only one that can set us free, we will be free indeed. 593 00:36:09,820 --> 00:36:11,100 So what now? 594 00:36:11,100 --> 00:36:13,600 What can we take from this? 595 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:14,600 We know the truth. 596 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,640 All right, well, what do we do? 597 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,480 Well, Jesus Christ is the truth. 598 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,800 The son sets us free. 599 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:23,800 So what do we do? 600 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:30,100 Paul says this in Romans 6 22, but now since you have been set free from sin and have become 601 00:36:30,100 --> 00:36:38,460 enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification and the outcome 602 00:36:38,460 --> 00:36:40,280 is eternal life. 603 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,320 It's beautiful. 604 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,720 We have been sanctified in Christ Jesus. 605 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:50,180 Now sanctified means that we've been set apart from something and that being set apart from 606 00:36:50,180 --> 00:36:52,160 something is of sin. 607 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,880 His blood makes us holy and righteous. 608 00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:00,800 Not because we deserve it, but because Jesus loves us. 609 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,380 Jesus doesn't want us to stay stuck. 610 00:37:03,380 --> 00:37:07,960 Jesus doesn't want to stay stuck into our sins and he wants us to repent. 611 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,400 He wants us to repent from our sins and turn from our sins. 612 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,200 You say, John, I'm too far into my sin. 613 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,400 There's I'm way too far. 614 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,360 I can't, I can't get out of my sin. 615 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,800 There's nothing I can do. 616 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,320 And to that I would say, well, Jesus died for your sin today. 617 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,720 Jesus died for your sin yesterday. 618 00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:30,560 He died for your sin last week and he's even, he even died for your sin that you're going 619 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,400 to commit or that we're all going to commit. 620 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:40,160 And John 3 17 says, for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but 621 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,880 to save the world through him. 622 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,440 And that's, that's important. 623 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,400 That's very important. 624 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:53,040 But in conclusion to all of this is Christ is the truth. 625 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,400 Jesus paid it all. 626 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,120 All to him we owe. 627 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:03,640 Sin had left a crimson stain and he washed it white as snow. 628 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,720 Let's pray. 629 00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:14,440 Father, we just thank you so much for sending your son. 630 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:20,200 Thank you for sending your son so we can, so we can be free indeed, Lord. 631 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:25,680 Lord, I just pray that if anybody's in here that is struggling with sin, Lord, I just 632 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:29,080 pray that we just all can confess our sins, Lord. 633 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:34,000 And if they need somebody to talk to, Lord, I just pray that they talk to somebody. 634 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,320 Lord, I just thank you for everything. 635 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,960 Thank you for blessing all of us. 636 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,040 Please bless everybody in this room. 637 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,880 I pray that everybody in this room takes the truth and they proclaim the truth and they 638 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:47,880 give the truth, Lord. 639 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:54,360 I pray that everyone here knows the truth, lives the truth and shares the truth. 640 00:38:54,360 --> 00:39:01,560 Lord, please fill us, bless us and be that light unto our path as always and please bless 641 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:02,560 this church as well. 642 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:03,560 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 643 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:24,560 Pastor Nathan.