1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:21,040 Appreciate these songs. This morning I got a message on 6 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,560 that I started to preach today. That's a very song. 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,360 I'll finish it later. Hey man, I got another one. 8 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,120 Do you know it was prophesied that there was a savior coming 9 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:42,320 in Malachi that had healing Ware in his wings. 10 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,360 Jesus wore a rabbi coat because he was Jewish, right? 11 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:50,040 He wore a robe that had the tassels on it were called wings 12 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,440 in the Hebrew and the Greek. And I believe the lady with the 13 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,400 issue of blood knew that she had heard that when my little cow 14 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,360 prophesied there's healing in his wings. 15 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,720 Can I tell you it's still there this morning? 16 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,280 Amen. It's still there this morning. 17 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,319 Have your Bibles. Good to see everybody. 18 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:10,320 We survived the holidays. Hebrews chapter 4. 19 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,600 God woke up in the wee hours of the morning with these words and 20 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,640 just built a message. You know, when the Lord wakes 21 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,320 you up, I figure He wants you to preach on it. 22 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:25,080 So I don't know. I can't tell you I got it 23 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:29,440 figured out. Still figuring, I guess, but I 24 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,680 try to let out what's in me is all I can say. 25 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,440 But let's stand the reading of the Word in Hebrews chapter 4. 26 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,560 The Bible is full of. Thrones. 27 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,920 Mentions the throne room. Of heaven it mentions a throne 28 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:48,280 that Jesus sets up, it mentions 12/12 Thrones which the 29 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,040 disciples will set up on and judge the 12 tribes of Israel 30 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,080 and. Every time I think about all of 31 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:55,560 those. Thrones, you know I. 32 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,160 I think about it and I think about one of those Thrones would 33 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,480 have. Probably had Judas's name on it. 34 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:08,440 But he messed up, but yet there was something significant about 35 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,440 how he messed up because the Bible is full of people that 36 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:16,040 messed up, but some overcame, some didn't, right? 37 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,520 We've all messed up, but some of us has overcome and we're going 38 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,800 to overcome and some of us aren't, right. 39 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,080 And I want to, I want you to get that in your mind today. 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,440 I want to teach you how to overcome today. 41 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:32,760 But to overcome you have to learn this one thing in life is 42 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,440 you will approach your throne. I'm going to mention to you 43 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,280 several Thrones today, but the the greatest throne that you can 44 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:44,000 ever approach is, is the one with the king setting up on it, 45 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,760 Amen. The throne that the writer of 46 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:52,080 Hebrews says here in Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 14, it says 47 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,240 seeing then that we have a great high priest, how many know who 48 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,800 that's talking about? It's not a cardinal, it's not 49 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,120 some priest that's over in the Roman Catholic Church, it's the 50 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,000 high priest, Amen. He said we have a high and a 51 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,920 great high priest, he said, who has passed through the heavens, 52 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:18,000 Jesus, the Son of God, who let us hold fast the confession for 53 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,880 we do not have a high priest. Well, I love that right there. 54 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,360 I'm not serving someone today that did not walk this earth and 55 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,800 go through everything that I'm going through and you're going 56 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,480 through today. But he walked this earth and he 57 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,440 can sympathize with your weakness. 58 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,320 Boy, that should get you going this morning. 59 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:39,720 Maybe you ain't got a weakness. I got them can sympathize with 60 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:46,560 our weaknesses plural, but was in all points tempted as we are 61 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,680 yet say that with me yet without sin. 62 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,880 So what what that so that's what leads us to verse 16. 63 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,960 So let us therefore, and I want you to focus on this word. 64 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:00,880 Come boldly. I'm going to be back to that 65 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,520 word many times during this message. 66 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:08,400 Therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may 67 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,440 obtain mercy. Well, we need mercy this. 68 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,320 Morning and find. Grace to help. 69 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,680 In our time of need. Father, we thank you for your 70 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,279 word this morning. We thank you for a great high 71 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,760 priest named Jesus Christ. We thank you for a throne that 72 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,640 we can approach with boldness today and find. 73 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,520 Mercy in our time. Of need. 74 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:30,280 Father, we thank you for that today. 75 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,400 We thank you for Jesus Christ that made the preaching of this 76 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:38,000 gospel possible and the the redemption of our sin so real in 77 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,640 our life and ultimately ends us at a home in heaven, a home in 78 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:43,760 glory, where we will see these Thrones. 79 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,800 That is in the very throne room where you're seated at the 80 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:48,400 right. Hand of the Father, right? 81 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,560 Now interceding for each and every. 82 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:52,720 One of us. We ask for the anointing to 83 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,240 receive and to preach this gospel as never before in 2026. 84 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:58,360 It's in your son's name. We. 85 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,080 Ask and pray. Amen. 86 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,680 So we read, we have a high priest, we have a great. 87 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,280 Throne. But see, there's a problem 88 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:11,240 there, because it's hard for some people to approach 89 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,960 something with boldness when they haven't accepted what he 90 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,080 did. And he who sets up on the 91 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,160 throne, Can I get a witness? But when you accept it, you can 92 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,040 approach that throne of grace with some boldness. 93 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:29,720 We read in Second Corinthians chapter 5 and 10 and Romans 14 94 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,120 and 10. It speaks of a judgement seat of 95 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,440 Christ or the bema seat of Christ. 96 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,920 And he will be setting up on a throne and we're all believers 97 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,400 will appear before Christ and give an account. 98 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,360 Are you ready for that? A lot of people, a lot of 99 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,360 preachers says we don't have to answer what's all under the 100 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,240 blood, but but Second Corinthians 5 and 10, in Romans 101 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:55,240 14 and 10, it's where all believers will be before Christ 102 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,840 and give an account of their earthly lives, not to be 103 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:00,880 condemned. Salvation is sealed. 104 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,920 You're in Christ Jesus at this point, but he's going to 105 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,080 evaluate and reward us based upon our deeds. 106 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:12,160 The Bible says that some will be as wood and some will be as hay 107 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,200 and some will be as straw. I think of a lot of church folks 108 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:16,840 when I read that Scripture, Amen. 109 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,800 They have good intentions. They want to help somebody but 110 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,160 they never follow through. Can I get a witness? 111 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,120 I think of a lot of folk like that. 112 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,920 But he said yet there's going to be some that's going to be 113 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,640 tested. Y'all ain't preaching with me. 114 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:32,880 And that's going to be tested as far as silver and as gold. 115 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:38,640 And we will be rewarded that day revealing what was done in the 116 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,960 body, whether good or bad. See, God knows the intention. 117 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,320 But yes, in this life, we will approach the throne of grace to 118 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,640 make it to the judgement of Christ, right to the judgement 119 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,840 seat to the bima. We will stand before Christ. 120 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,960 But changes a lot of the way we think, a lot of the way we act, 121 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,440 a lot of the way. We live a lot of the places we 122 00:06:58,440 --> 00:06:58,720 go. A. 123 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,800 Lot of the things we say and take in every day. 124 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,520 When you think about that, you will give an account. 125 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,600 I'll never forget when I was trying to figure out how to live 126 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,760 a Christian life, I heard the. The very, the the voice of. 127 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,280 God and speaking to me said if I was right there with you, would 128 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:15,400 you do it? Because I. 129 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,240 Am it changed my life because he's always with us. 130 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,760 He says I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you. 131 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:22,200 It doesn't matter what you're going through. 132 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:26,440 This morning I came by to tell you he has not left, but you 133 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,840 will approach the throne of grace at some point. 134 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,440 Some people don't, but I like to think that everybody has the 135 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,800 chance, right? See the judgment seat of Christ. 136 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,840 It's for those that have approached the throne of grace 137 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,120 with boldness. Ask for forgiveness, right and. 138 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,520 Accepted Jesus as their personal savior. 139 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,640 Yes, that's what it's for. And in the afterlife we will 140 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,240 approach a throne with a savior setting up on it. 141 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,280 How many is ready for that day? That's why it's very important 142 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,360 to know which throne you're approaching, right? 143 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,200 We have to know this for those that refuse to approach the 144 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,920 throne of grace. With boldness. 145 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:07,440 I I just wonder why it says that word. 146 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,000 Boldness. Somebody explain that here in a 147 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,920 minute. My opinion on it, but it's 148 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:12,560 important to approach the throne. 149 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,280 Of grace with boldness. That we're talking about in 150 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:20,120 Hebrews 4 because there is also called a great White Throne. 151 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,600 Judgment right in Revelations chapter. 20 We read of this. 152 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:28,680 Let's go to Revelations 20 and verses 1111 through 15. 153 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,600 John the Revelator says, Then I saw a great white throne, and 154 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:38,360 him who said on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens 155 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,320 had fled away, and there was found no. 156 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,920 Place for them, boy. And I saw the dead, the small, 157 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,160 and the great standing before God, and the books were opened, 158 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,440 and another book was opened. This is a very important book. 159 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,960 Can I get a witness which is the book of life? 160 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,720 And it was open, and it says, And the dead were judged 161 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,720 according to the works by the things which were written in the 162 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:02,720 books. The sea gave up the dead that 163 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,600 were in it, and death in Hades delivered up the dead that were 164 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,680 in it, and there were, and they were judged. 165 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:13,800 Nobody's escaping judgment. Nobody. 166 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:15,120 Well, what if they died in the ocean? 167 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:17,160 Just said they the ocean give it up. 168 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,240 He put the pieces back together right and we will be judged each 169 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,440 one according here it is again. But we seem to live in the in 170 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,480 the church age and as forgot about works, Amen. 171 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:31,680 We say that there's no way to get to heaven. 172 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:33,800 I don't have to do works. I don't do well. 173 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,200 What did James say? He said faith without works is 174 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,680 dead, right? So if you don't have works, your 175 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:42,560 faith is dead this morning. And he says, you show me your 176 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:44,600 works and I'll show you your faith. 177 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:48,600 Amen. We're judged according to what 178 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,120 our works, not what we've said, but our work. 179 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,000 See, when you confess Jesus as Lord, there's going to be a work 180 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,600 that's done in your life and, and you're going to notice the 181 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:59,920 difference when you walk around in the flesh, right? 182 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:02,680 Because it's the finished work at Calvary, Amen. 183 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,160 If you're still living like the world, the finished work of 184 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,520 Calvary has not manifested in your earthly body and you have 185 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,120 not been transformed. Maybe you had a little bit of 186 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,760 the renewing of the mind, but inside you have not been 187 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,000 transformed into the likeness of Christ. 188 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,560 Somebody abortion with me this morning and it goes on to say, 189 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:22,840 and they were judged, each one according to his works. 190 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,640 Verse 14. Then death and Hades were cast 191 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,800 into the lake of fire. The final judgment. 192 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,280 This is the second death and anyone not found. 193 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,840 What a day that's going to be written in the Book of Life. 194 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,240 Was. Cast into the Lake of Fire. 195 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,320 Which throne are you approaching this morning? 196 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,920 See, Jesus will set up on here on this throne, and he will be 197 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:46,400 the. Presiding Judge. 198 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:48,960 And justice will be served. That day and that. 199 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,440 Going to be cool. Nobody's going to get away with 200 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:52,200 it. We're not. 201 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,920 You know, if the glove don't quit that fit, there ain't going 202 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,200 to be no acquittal and all this crazy stuff that we hear in 203 00:10:58,200 --> 00:10:59,520 courtrooms. Amen. 204 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,080 Justice will be served. You know, I live a life in peace 205 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,560 knowing that if I do what God's called me to do, I will stand 206 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:09,800 before a just God and I'm going to get what's coming to me. 207 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,200 Amen. You're going to get what's 208 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,280 coming to you. That's a cool deal because in 209 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,440 this life we are not treated that way. 210 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:19,120 It's unjustice in this life many times. 211 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:23,040 But let's look at these Thrones. How many how many Thrones do we 212 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:25,640 approach? There's so many Thrones we read 213 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,640 in the Bible that we were created what in the image of 214 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,840 God, not Satan, but in the garden. 215 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,200 Because sin entered in disobedience said it really 216 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,000 wasn't a bad sin. I mean, there wasn't no adultery 217 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,080 committed. There wasn't a grade of sin 218 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,200 here. It was just the one sin that we 219 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,560 all commit called disobedience, right? 220 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,320 But because of that, sin was committed. 221 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:54,920 It was placed upon us this term that the wages of sin is death 222 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:59,600 as we walk through this life. So what really happens to a 223 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:04,880 human as I begin to look at this and pray and study it, What 224 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:08,200 happens to a human if we were created in the image of God? 225 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,200 Why don't we act like God? We accept Jesus, we pray the 226 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,640 sinner's prayer. Why don't we act like God? 227 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:16,080 Why aren't we? Why don't we? 228 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,840 Jesus said greater things than than he did on this earth. 229 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,240 We can do, but yet we're not doing them right. 230 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,000 So let's look at this this morning because the wages of sin 231 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,480 is death. So as we walk through this life, 232 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:32,360 what really happens is, and I believe this is so true, is we 233 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,320 lose our identity. We lose who we identify as a 234 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,800 child of God. We're still God still created us 235 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,640 in his image, but we have lost the identity. 236 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,560 What did the one prayer that Jesus prayed upon this earth? 237 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:51,800 What was he trying to do? He said die Kingdom come, let it 238 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,840 be on earth as it is in heaven. So ever since the fall of man, 239 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,880 Christ came to try to get the dominion that was in heaven and 240 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:04,200 our place of dominion to put us back into our place of dominion, 241 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:06,920 not take us out of something. You know, I see a lot of 242 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,360 Christian folk, they think God's trying to take him out of 243 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,080 something. No, He's trying to put you back 244 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:12,760 in the place that he meant for you to be. 245 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,720 He's trying to put you back in the place of dominion and cannot 246 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,520 tell you where God put us to, to have domain. 247 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,320 It was a great place. There was no kucka birds. 248 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,760 There was no weeds, there was no sickness, there was no sorrow. 249 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,400 There was no work and sweat of the brow and all those things 250 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:30,840 went on. There was no lust. 251 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,640 There was no greed. There was no poverty. 252 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:37,880 It was a great place to to to have as a dominion place, right? 253 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:43,120 But we lose our identity as a child of God, but yet we were 254 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,600 created in him. We identify ourselves in our 255 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:53,400 mind as a fallen sinful person and that's the truth. 256 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,200 That is a truth. I cannot come to you today and 257 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,040 tell you that you have never sinned because the Bible says we 258 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,560 say we have not sinned that we're a liar and the truth is 259 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:05,720 not in US, right? But see, we can't, we have to 260 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,320 approach this throne. So how do I approach it? 261 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,680 How do I approach a savior? How do I do this with boldness? 262 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:18,120 But see, we identify ourselves as unworthy as unworthy and, and 263 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,920 we walk through life identifying ourself like that. 264 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,440 So how do we approach it? If I ask you, how do you 265 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,960 approach the throne? How do you pray? 266 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,200 Man, I bet if I, I give this mic to so many people, their prayers 267 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,840 start like God, I need this God. Would you Amen. 268 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,920 We do. We're guilty all at all times. 269 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:39,240 We have to stop and, and thank him, you know, and, and thank 270 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:42,720 him for for health is the very first thing because without it, 271 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,360 we're nothing right? And we overlook it so many 272 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,760 times. We have people ingesting things 273 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,120 all into their body. I, I talked to a friend of mine 274 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,800 the other day and he, he went to prison when he was young for 275 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,480 drugs and selling drugs. And he told me, he said I had a 276 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:57,040 friend call me. He said I've been off of that 277 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,480 stuff for years. He said, I did my time, I've 278 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,360 sold them, I've done them, but I no longer do those things. 279 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,360 But I have people call me and say, hey, that my, my child is 280 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,480 addicted to this thing. And, and he said, well, where 281 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:08,440 did he get it? What is it? 282 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,240 He said, you're asking the wrong person. 283 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:14,240 I don't identify as that anymore, But yet he was wanting 284 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:15,520 to know. And he said, where'd he get it? 285 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:17,920 He said, you can get it in any gas station. 286 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,920 It's a pandemic and I can't even call the name of it. 287 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,440 But I've had people that have done all kinds of, of things to 288 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,960 their body and they say this stuff that you can buy over the 289 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,800 counter that's got in the it's in the vape shops, It's 290 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,920 everywhere. He said when mixed and done with 291 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:34,960 the right things, they said it's worth in anything you could ever 292 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,240 do to your body and it'll give you a high like you've never 293 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,200 had. And it's right over the counter, 294 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,680 right over the counter. I'm not going to go into all the 295 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,080 names. I'll mess it up. 296 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,800 But see, we don't have to. Go very far to find that we're 297 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,280 fallen. That we're in need of a savior. 298 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:54,640 How do you approach a throne? With a great high priest. 299 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,360 How do we do this with the only begotten Son that God? 300 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,080 Sent to this Earth to save us. I would say approach it like you 301 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:06,520 do the things of the world pretty. 302 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,440 I bet it'll work. If you approach the throne of 303 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,600 grace with the boldness that you approach your job every Monday 304 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,400 morning, If you approach the throne of grace like you like 305 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,400 you do retirement, come on, somebody. 306 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,920 If you approach the throne of grace like the almighty dollar 307 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,920 that we think we have to have to survive, if we approach the 308 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,760 throne of grace with that kind of boldness, we're going to get 309 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:30,120 some results. Amen. 310 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:34,840 I would say when you approach the throne of grace, want it #1 311 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,360 work for it, strive for it, contend for it. 312 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,440 Amen. Approach the throne of grace 313 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,000 with boldness. We're so good at approaching 314 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,480 Thrones in this life and things that we have set up on a throne 315 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,840 or a pedestal. We're so good at that, right? 316 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,560 At all cost. We're good at attaining the 317 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,400 things that giving. Even if it cost us some family 318 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,120 time, even if it cost us some church time, even whatever it 319 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,840 cost us, we're good at going after the things of the world. 320 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:04,319 Why don't we get good at going after the things of God and look 321 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:07,760 at the enemy and say, hey, I'm too busy for the world today. 322 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,119 I'm going to fix my mind on things above and not things on 323 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,319 this earth. What would what results would we 324 00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:17,319 get? I ask you, what a throne are you 325 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:18,680 approaching? And how do you approach? 326 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:23,720 It giving up time acknowledging God many people don't even 327 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:25,960 acknowledge. God because they're too busy. 328 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:27,480 Or the first little thing comes up and. 329 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,520 We put it before God. Start taking some time out for 330 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:32,400 God and see what he'll do for you. 331 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,040 We say God do this for me. But yet I believe God screaming. 332 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,400 What have you done for me? I would say approach it like you 333 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,200 do the world. Come on, somebody. 334 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,560 Get too busy for the world? Be about the Father's. 335 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,720 Business. What will it? 336 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:47,920 Cost. That's the first thing. 337 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:53,000 We want to know, I promise you will gain 100 more times, he 338 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:53,920 says. I'll replace it. 339 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:57,080 Let's go to Matthew 19 and 20. 8 I had a runaway when I read the 340 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,680 scripture. I'm talking it's good y'all 341 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,000 Matthew 19 and 28. You got to get. 342 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,360 This this morning, Jesus was telling his. 343 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:12,160 Disciples which were doubting. He was trying to tell them 344 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,160 something they didn't get and we still don't get. 345 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:19,680 With God all things are possible, but in verse 27 I'll 346 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,160 back up and read what Peter. Had asked. 347 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,640 Peter answered. And he said to him, see, we have 348 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,600 left all what sounds like church, folks. 349 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,560 I didn't go to my work thing to come to church. 350 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,480 What you going to do? God, I miss work. 351 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,520 I did this, I did that. Wasn't that what Peter was 352 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:39,160 doing? Man, we've left all to follow 353 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,960 you. What was Peter really saying? 354 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,040 And we've had to sleep on the ground. 355 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:45,480 We've been hungry. We've been cold. 356 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:47,240 We've been that. They don't tell them what they 357 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,080 went through. I'm at Jesus Saint Peter. 358 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,000 I told you that when you struck out with me. 359 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,960 I warned you of that. But hear what Peter said, what 360 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:00,960 Christians are screaming today, therefore, because I've left all 361 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:02,560 of this stuff. What can I have? 362 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,560 What? Are you going to give me God? 363 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,240 And then most Christians sit back and wait for God to give. 364 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,880 And depending on what God gives. Is the degree of how they will 365 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,280 worship. It's the degree. 366 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:18,720 Of what they will give. Back to God. 367 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,600 But see, the problem with that is that's the wrong throne 368 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,880 because that's not the throne that he's sitting on. 369 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,600 That's the throne that you have been taught in this world when 370 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,080 you lost your identity and left your place of dominion because 371 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,200 of the sin in our life, right? So we're not we're not even 372 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,760 looking up the right throne because I'm here to tell you God 373 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,800 does not operate like that. He says you give me your life 374 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,120 and you trust me with your life and I'm going to make it 375 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:47,040 something beautiful that you could never imagine. 376 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:48,840 But you're not going to know what it's going to be. 377 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:50,720 You're not even know what you're going to be doing. 378 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,600 You're probably going to change careers and the destination that 379 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,040 you thought you was going to be. It's probably not going to 380 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:57,280 happen that way. It could. 381 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,120 But he says give it to me and then I'll show you what I'll do. 382 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:03,960 But no, we're like Peter, we've left all to follow you. 383 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:05,800 Therefore, what are you going to give me? 384 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:09,480 Who? It's the wrong throne. 385 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:12,840 Can you say, man, it's the wrong throne? 386 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,440 How would you answer? How did Jesus answer that? 387 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,800 He said assuredly. I say to you, he automatically 388 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:24,920 goes from the here and now to the regeneration to where we're 389 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,880 regenerated to where we're in the in the heavenly Rams. 390 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,720 Jesus never he would take the earth and turn it right around 391 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:34,640 to his Kingdom, to his throne. He said assuredly. 392 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,680 I say to you that in the regeneration, when the Son of 393 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,000 Man, whoa, that's on his throne, I'm ready. 394 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,840 He sits on the throne of his glory. 395 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,320 You who have followed me, he was looking at the disciples. 396 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:50,880 You know, you, you have a bunch of old. 397 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:52,440 I'm not going to call the denominator. 398 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,200 God help me to bite my tongue and not call the denomination, 399 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,840 but they think that the only person Jesus was talking to was 400 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,560 the disciples. Every time there's a worker 401 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,880 every time God's really trying to do something they say wow, he 402 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:05,760 was talking to the can't do that to me. 403 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:10,480 God, that was for the disciples. You ever been told I just want 404 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:14,440 to back just shake them and wake them. 405 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,880 OK, but let's get real. He was talking to the disciples 406 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,080 right here. He said in the regeneration when 407 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:24,000 the son. Of man sits. 408 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,400 On the throne of his. Glory. 409 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:27,800 He looked at them, he said. You who? 410 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:35,360 Have followed Me will also set on the 12 Thrones judging the 12 411 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:36,960 tribe. He was looking at 12. 412 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,440 He called the 12 and that is true. 413 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,160 But let's look on a little bit farther. 414 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,720 Thank God he wasn't just talking to the disciples. 415 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:49,640 Look what he said here, He said. And everyone who has left his 416 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,880 house or his brothers or his sister, come on, Holy Ghost, 417 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,560 help me this morning. Or his father, or his mother, or 418 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:01,080 his wife, or his children, or his land, for my name's sake 419 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,600 shall receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life. 420 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,720 But many who are first will be last, and the last will be 421 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,200 first. I want to be one that follows 422 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:13,960 him, Amen. I want to be something that 423 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,200 gives up something in this life for Jesus Christ, because he 424 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,760 said I'm going to replace it a hundredfold, Amen. 425 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,480 He wasn't just talking to the disciples that day. 426 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:27,560 We go to Revelations 3 and 21. It says to him who overcomes, I 427 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:32,520 will grant to sit with me when I read that this morning, then 428 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,680 we're going to be granted to set with him when we overcome. 429 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,640 He said on my throne as I also overcame and sat down with my 430 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,480 father on his throne. Which throne are you 431 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,960 approaching? A lot of Christians never even 432 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:50,400 think about the Thrones. Revelations chapter 4 you can go 433 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:51,800 home and read. I'm not going to read it all 434 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:56,040 Nine and 10 speaks of 24 elders on the Thrones around God's 435 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,720 throne and describes the throne room of heaven. 436 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,640 You can go home and read it in Revelations 4 about the throne 437 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,680 room of heaven. Look at your neighbors. 438 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,600 Say I'm about to approach a throne of grace. 439 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,160 That's the one group, one throne we got. 440 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,920 We can't see the throne room of heaven, but I can see the throne 441 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,200 room of. Grace, how about you? 442 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:13,560 I'm going to approach the throne. 443 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:18,200 Of grace with boldness. How do I do it for summits like 444 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,360 this? They think they're bold for 445 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:23,480 confessing all the sin they committed. 446 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,160 Hello, we come before God. We have to tell him everything. 447 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,440 He already knows summits like this. 448 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,800 Lord, I I know that I'm just an old Sinner. 449 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,720 Boy, it gets real dignified in some churches. 450 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,960 I've been. I'm just an old Sinner saved by 451 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,320 grace. I can't do nothing. 452 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:42,520 Else. And I struggle every day. 453 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:48,080 I'm on sin every day and I'm going to come back and I'm going 454 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,280 to cry. My prayers that's about to 455 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,400 extend them is asking God to forgive me. 456 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:58,200 Hello, y'all been there? I've been there, but I ain't 457 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,320 there no more. I learned to approach it with 458 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,040 boldness. I didn't like coming up with a 459 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,600 whoopin. I'd done taking, oh God forgive 460 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,880 me, and crying and snotting and figuring out that it really 461 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,840 didn't move God much. He says go back and do your 462 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,880 first works over again and get it right, and then come up here 463 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,880 and we'll talk about it. I still love you, but you can't 464 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,280 have none of this thrown until you realize where you're at. 465 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:28,400 The throne's up, we're down. So how do we approach it? 466 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,680 So when we beg, we're not really. 467 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,800 Approaching with boldness, right? 468 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,920 But remember this, and this is the most important thing if 469 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,400 you're trying to approach the throne this morning, most of 470 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,200 all, remember this. Write this down. 471 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:46,200 Do not let your sin and condemn, condemnation and your guilt keep 472 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,280 you from approaching the throne because we've all sinned. 473 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,880 We've all had condemnation, We've all had these things. 474 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,720 But don't let it stop you from approaching your throne because 475 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,480 that's the easiest plan of the enemy. 476 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,360 If he can get you to stop approaching the throne because 477 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:02,400 you feel guilty of something you already did, well, guess what, 478 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,320 devil? That's what the blood is for. 479 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,840 Hey, man, so I can approach the throne of grace with boldness, 480 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,880 even when I've fallen, even when I'm tempted, even when I'm weak. 481 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,080 That's what he, that's what he means here in Hebrews. 482 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,040 Approach that throne of grace with boldness and say, God, I 483 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,560 know I messed up. Don't make an excuse for your 484 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:20,960 mess up. That's the worst thing you can 485 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:25,480 do. God, I messed up, but don't let 486 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,240 your sin, your guilt, your condemnation keep you. 487 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,800 This will change your life because that's what happens. 488 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,040 We let our sin, oh, I've been doing this this week. 489 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,000 I can't go to church. That's why you need to go to 490 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,360 church. I can't do this. 491 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:38,160 I can't pray. That's why you need to pray. 492 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,120 Hey, man, you need to approach with some boldness and say, God, 493 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,520 I need this out of my life to where I can communicate with you 494 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,760 and get back on the heavenly stage. 495 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,120 Amen. Keep approaching. 496 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:51,120 Look at your neighbor. Say keep approaching. 497 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,400 Don't let your sin, your car. I got to back up and teach this. 498 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,080 You ready? Don't let your sin, your 499 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,880 condemnation, your guilt keep you from approaching the throne. 500 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,880 Bring it all. Keep approaching. 501 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,560 Aren't you glad you kept approaching when the enemy told 502 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,080 you you was down to your last leg? 503 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,600 You'd went through hell on earth, but to come on, somebody 504 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,520 give him praise in the house. You just kept approaching that 505 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:16,120 one more time and he reached down to where you was at and He 506 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:19,040 delivered you. We got to keep approaching with 507 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:23,040 boldness in your time of need. When it seems there's no answer, 508 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:25,840 keep approaching it. When it seems that God is 509 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,320 adhering, keep approaching. When you want to run, turn to 510 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,880 run to the cross. Just keep approaching because I 511 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,520 can make you this promise He will meet you there. 512 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,080 There ain't nothing he ain't seen before. 513 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,680 Bring it all to the table. Keep. 514 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,400 Keep approaching. And the third thing is this. 515 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,160 Keep approaching because God can fix it. 516 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:50,600 Isn't that cool? I can't fix it. 517 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,480 You can't fix it. Confessing to a priest? 518 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:58,320 Sure I ain't going to fix it. I had a buddy come to me one 519 00:26:58,320 --> 00:26:59,800 time. He confessed to a priest. 520 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,160 I know I'm on tape, but I don't care. 521 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:08,680 He confessed to a priest. A priest used some choice words, 522 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,200 explained this situation. He said, Can you believe my 523 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,520 priest said that? I said, yeah. 524 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,880 I said, because he must think he's God if he thinks he can 525 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,960 confess and talk to him and he can do something about it. 526 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,320 I said, you going to find you can go to that little booth 527 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,000 every day and that situation ain't going to change until you 528 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:30,360 give it to Jesus. It might help your feelings, it 529 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:33,080 might make you arise to some level in the church 530 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,320 denomination. But it really ain't going to do. 531 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,080 Nothing in here. I learned a long, a long time 532 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,800 ago, the outside, we can dress it up, we can clean it up. 533 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,800 But what did Jesus say? He said you can wash that old 534 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,080 tomb like they did and you can make it look real good on the 535 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,160 outside. But inside, if you're full of 536 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,680 dead man's bones, there's going to be no life. 537 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,800 A man keep approaching because Jesus can fix it. 538 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,440 I often think of David going through a trial. 539 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,720 My God, if, if David, if I did what David did, I'd have to lay 540 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:03,960 the. Mic down today. 541 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,560 Hey, man, I, I would, I would have to quit. 542 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,560 I mean, it would be on Facebook. I'd be in jail. 543 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,160 But think of David. He was the king. 544 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,720 I mean, I guess he could pardon himself. 545 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,320 I don't know. But I know one thing he did no 546 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,000 matter what he. Did in his life. 547 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:23,920 He kept approaching, he kept approaching, he kept 548 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,400 approaching. I think of old Peter, even 549 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,520 though he, even though he was a murderer, had he committed 550 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,040 adultery and lost his child, what did he do? 551 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:34,840 He kept approaching it. David knew how to overcome the 552 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,000 enemy. That's why I do. 553 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,880 That's why God said he's, he's after my own heart because he 554 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,000 may fall, but he knows how to get up. 555 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,240 Amen. Being a Christian is not just 556 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,360 about falling. It's not just about stay. 557 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:51,240 It's how many times you get up. I think of Peter warming his 558 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,440 hands by the fire and they said you're that dude that was 559 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,840 hanging with the with the Nazareth, with Jesus and 560 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,160 Nazareth. He said no, it wasn't me. 561 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,240 He even went on to ask again. He said. 562 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,200 I don't. Even know the man you're. 563 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,360 Talking about they said you even talk like him. 564 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:10,280 We've seen you with no, I don't know the man Peter denied when 565 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,200 they came to Judas and he and he kissed him on the cheek. 566 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,120 What did Judas do? He denied Christ. 567 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,440 Same sin, two different outcomes. 568 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,840 Why? Because Peter, when he's sin, he 569 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,680 went to that throne of grace with boldness. 570 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,080 Amen. And grace hadn't even really hit 571 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,040 yet, but he had heard a little bit about it. 572 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,560 He had heard just a little bit. If you've heard a little bit 573 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,560 about the grace of God, you ought to shout today because 574 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,680 it's enough to pick you up. Just a little bit of it'll pick 575 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,800 you up and it'll carry you from the place you are to where you 576 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,240 thought you never could be. Peter denied Christ, he messed 577 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,680 up, but he continued the ultimate sin, deny and cry. 578 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,240 Do you know I think of Peter when he when he the minute he 579 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,920 said, I don't know the man. Do you think he remembered them 580 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,720 words that Jesus said? Jesus said, if you deny me 581 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,560 before men, I'll deny you before my Father in heaven. 582 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,080 Peter had every reason to say, man, it's over this Christian 583 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,160 life, I can't live it, I'm going to give it up. 584 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,080 It's over. I can't do it God. 585 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,800 But no, Peter had something in him. 586 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,680 He had some boldness. He remembered a few. 587 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,240 Words. That he had heard Jesus. 588 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,800 Say. Approach the throne of grace 589 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,040 with boldness. Are you getting this? 590 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,920 This morning? I also think of Judas. 591 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,240 What did he do? He went out and took matters. 592 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,480 Into his own hands, that's what we do. 593 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:35,960 We don't hang ourselves. But we do it with. 594 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,120 Drugs. Alcohol. 595 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,480 Lustful things of the world. We we do. 596 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:41,680 We do. Those things right? 597 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,720 What a millionaire's do they go buy something else they think 598 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,840 will he'll that'll that'll. Release the endorphins. 599 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,840 Is that the right word? Or whatever it is that causes 600 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,840 the good. Feeling so they go buy something 601 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,600 else only to find the next day or two they're down again and 602 00:30:53,760 --> 00:31:00,200 going to buy something else. But see Judas, he comes to mind 603 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,960 because he did the same thing that Peter had. 604 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,680 Done. He denied Christ. 605 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,040 He took. Matters into his own hands. 606 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,760 I challenge you in 2026, quit taking matters into your own 607 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,240 hands. Approach the throne of grace. 608 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,280 I know I've messed up. I know I've done wrong. 609 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,160 We all have. But I got to keep approaching 610 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:24,760 the throne of grace with boldness. 611 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,600 Why? Because there's help there. 612 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:31,320 In my time of need. Go to Hebrews chapter 12 and I'm 613 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,560 going to close Hebrews chapter 12. 614 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:48,640 It's good to surround yourself not with just people that live 615 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,120 their own life on a throne and never do any wrong. 616 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,520 It's good to surround yourself with people. 617 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:59,080 That have been there. Hello I didn't get the. 618 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,080 Privilege of going to seminary and being around all the godly 619 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,240 people that were at seminary. How was that thought? 620 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,880 That was all there for the right motives. 621 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:14,360 They were all called to preach. I didn't have that opportunity. 622 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,160 I heard the voice of God and told me to tell people about 623 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,880 Jesus and give me a Bible. Put me on the rodeo circuit with 624 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,600 a lot of unbelievers at that time. 625 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,400 I got some real lessons in life on what worked and what didn't, 626 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,800 what run them off and what kept them listening. 627 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,200 Learn a few things the hard. Way. 628 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,080 But I have learned this in Hebrews chapter 12. 629 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,160 I've learned to surround myself with clouds. 630 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:48,080 Witnesses not. Witnesses about how they failed 631 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,200 yesterday or today or tomorrow, but those that have failed but 632 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,040 kept getting up and kept going on. 633 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,040 It's always been amazing to me how Jesus did not go to the 634 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,480 synagogue. To pick the 12. 635 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:06,720 That would spread the gospel. Me, and you said it many times, 636 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,040 give me somebody that's never rode a horse and I can teach 637 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,320 them to ride faster. Than somebody that's got a bunch 638 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,280 of garbage from everybody else that really didn't know what 639 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:15,840 they were. Doing either and you can teach 640 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,400 that person that much faster. It's no different in the Bible. 641 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,840 You can take someone that don't know anything about this Bible 642 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,320 and just chooses to believe it and ain't got a bunch of old 643 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,360 dumb. Doctrine mixed up in it. 644 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,720 If you think all the churches are right, go leave. 645 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,720 Read the first 3 chapters of Revelations. 646 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,280 Jesus condemned them. We got some stuff messed up if 647 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:45,520 we ain't going by this, but I challenge you in 20. 648 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,600 Six, Don't take matters into your own hands. 649 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,520 If you don't understand, look around especially. 650 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,840 If you're in the House of God and a Bible, believe in church. 651 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,760 Look around because I know some people. 652 00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,920 Here that keep getting up. I know some people here that 653 00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:02,440 keep fighting for the fake Give me somebody that'll fight. 654 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,680 Hey man, give me somebody that'll overcome. 655 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,720 Give me somebody that's striving. 656 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,760 We don't need the perfect if you're perfect, you'll mess it 657 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,440 up. But in Hebrews chapter 12, we 658 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,159 stand our feet. I want you to get this verse 659 00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:18,239 today. In verse one it says therefore 660 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:24,120 we. Also, since we are surrounded by 661 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:31,480 so great a cloud of witness, let us lay aside every weight. 662 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,639 See the Thrones of. This life, the Thrones of this 663 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:41,800 world, are nothing but weights. And the sin which so easily. 664 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:48,239 Ensnares us and let. US run with endurance the race. 665 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,679 That is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author. 666 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,360 And the finisher. He didn't just. 667 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,720 Start it he who started a. Work in you is able to bring it 668 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:01,880 to completion. He's a finisher. 669 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,480 Are you a finisher? What throne are you looking to 670 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,320 of our faith? Who for the joy that was set 671 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:11,960 before him? And I read that a lot. 672 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,400 I'm like, what? What joy? 673 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,600 There was no joy. In Jesus. 674 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,160 Life really up on this earth I'm sure when he touched those that 675 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,080 were deaf and. And raised the dead that. 676 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,600 Brought some joy to his life, but that's not the joy he was 677 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,040 talking about. It said that this joy was set 678 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,560 before him because it was set. Up in heaven. 679 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,920 And he knew he had to fulfill what was on this earth. 680 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,520 It's no different for you and I. To get to heaven, we had to 681 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,200 fulfill Our Calling upon. This Earth. 682 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,920 Amen. It's not as easy as just praying 683 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,720 a little prayer and living your own life the rest of your life. 684 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,040 I hope it is because I know a lot of folks, that's all. 685 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:49,040 They do it. I hope it is, but when I read 686 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:57,920 this Bible, I see that it ain't. We got to finish for he Who for 687 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,840 the. Joy that was set before. 688 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:04,800 Him endured the. Cross despising the shame, and 689 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:10,160 has sat down at the right hand of God on the throne of God. 690 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,680 Isn't that awesome? What throne are you aiming for 691 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,360 this morning? You know he can turn your. 692 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,960 As you bow your heads this morning, I want you to know that 693 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,920 he can turn your mess into a message. 694 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:29,200 He can turn your storm and your. Troubled sea into a calm sea. 695 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,040 But you got to bring it all. I said you got to bring it all 696 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:35,800 in 26. You got to bring it all. 697 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,400 This could be the year that the Lord returns. 698 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,560 You got to bring it all to the table. 699 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,080 Would you tell the enemy I'm not ashamed of it. 700 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,760 I'm going to bring it all and I'm going to get it out in 26 701 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,360 right now. I'm going to give it to him. 702 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,720 Thanks for listening to the Cross Powered Church podcast. 703 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,680 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 704 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,120 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 705 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,240 would love for you to join us in person. 706 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,840 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.