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 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:15,800 Good to see everybody this morning. 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,520 January the 11th failed to announce that I booked him a 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,080 year ago and forgot about it actually till I got the looking 8 00:00:23,080 --> 00:00:25,480 through. But January the 11th Justin Todd 9 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,760 Herod great. He's won that. 10 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,320 He's won a lot of awards, songwriter, singer and the 11 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,560 Gospel Music Association. So a great preacher, a good 12 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,920 friend of mine, he's going to be here the 11th singing and and 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:39,880 blessing us a song, word and song. 14 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,520 So that'll be January the 11th. And that's about all now since I 15 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,320 got this morning. But I'd like to welcome a a new 16 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,560 edition here at Cross Power. We've been having babies, Amen, 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,600 And we haven't. They have, but but she said the 18 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,680 third time's the charm. This is the best one. 19 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,280 He's sleeping, Amen. I may remember kids. 20 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,160 That's his blessing when they sleep, huh? 21 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,400 But we'd like to welcome Kenneth Layton this morning. 22 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,920 Couch and stand up and let's see. 23 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:18,000 All right, y'all pray for them. Amen. 3 under 3, isn't that 24 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,280 right? Three under 3. 25 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,000 When you kick back in your chair today, when you get home, 26 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:29,600 realize how blessed you are. But they're blessed too. 27 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:31,920 They're just blessed while you're young, when you're when 28 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:33,520 you're old, it's not quite the blessing. 29 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,920 Don't seem like this, but good to be in the House of the Lord. 30 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,640 Good to see everybody not going to call and they got some family 31 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,320 here it came today. Good to see y'all and and I 32 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:45,880 don't have time to call all the names, but good to see everybody 33 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,440 this morning. And you know, I, I've been 34 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,000 preaching the last couple weeks on Christmas and the Christmas 35 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,720 story, but Christmas is a little different. 36 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:57,400 There's 4 gospels and the birth of Christ as mentioned in two 37 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,880 and you've been at the same place for nearing on 20 years 38 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,640 and you know you probably heard everything like I have on 39 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,840 Christmas, but so I'm going to take a different different walk 40 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,360 at it this morning. But it's good to be in the House 41 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,960 of the Lord. It's good to to preach the 42 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,880 gospel Amen. It's always good. 43 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,440 It's better when I find glasses I can see with so. 44 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:26,480 But as we approach Christmas, there's the minds of people 45 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,240 begin to think in directions. Maybe they haven't thought many 46 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,040 in a year, many in quite a while. 47 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,800 We tend to turn toward the baby, the sweet baby Jesus, and maybe 48 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:41,240 the nativity scene, maybe the activity that was around the 49 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,840 major scene, or maybe we go a little deeper. 50 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:48,720 And as I said, it's found in two of the four gospels and Matthew 51 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:53,160 and Luke tell the story of Jesus in the birth, but and Mark and 52 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,640 John focus on the ministry of Jesus. 53 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:58,680 But I'm going to kind of tie it all in today with some thoughts 54 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,280 that I had. But but I heard the other day 55 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,120 that church attendance in December and April are at an all 56 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,280 time high across America. And I was thinking about 57 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:12,200 Christmas. A baby in a Manger named Jesus 58 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,480 Christ sent to save the world. We know the story. 59 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,800 A lost and dying world, I might add. 60 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,560 And his parents had obeyed. I preached on that last week of 61 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,920 Joseph and how he obeyed and how he lived it, had lived through 62 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:31,040 some very hard things that he had to obey God about and the 63 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,000 things he had to do. But I want to share with you 64 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,880 some things today the Lord has laid on my heart. 65 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,280 And let's stand in the reading of the word in Luke's Gospel, 66 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,800 chapter 2. This is beyond the Manger. 67 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,680 This is the early life, the preteen years of Jesus before he 68 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,680 was 12 years old. The only childhood stories about 69 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,160 him. After the Manger was in the 70 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,720 temple at 12 years old, he got lost for three days. 71 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:07,440 They could not find Jesus. And I begin to think about those 72 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:12,360 years between 12 and 30. What happened? 73 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:17,480 As we read scripture, we know that he was no ordinary man, 74 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,920 that he could open the blinded eyes with one touch of his 75 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,280 hands. He calls the blind to see. 76 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:27,080 Can somebody say man? And at the sound of his voice, 77 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,840 people got up and walked out of an old tomb that was wrapped. 78 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:34,520 And dead and already had a a stitch to him, he said. 79 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,800 Lazarus come forth and he came back to life. 80 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:40,520 He told some men that were fishing. 81 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,560 He said if you'll leave it all behind, I'm going to I'm not 82 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,480 going to change what you do in life. 83 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,760 I'm just going to change what you're fishing for. 84 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:49,600 Amen. Come and follow me and I'll make 85 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,280 you fishers of men. What an awesome God. 86 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,200 But between 12 and 30, what happened to Jesus? 87 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,120 There's, you know, it's a mystery. 88 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:03,960 He told him follow me but I want to look today from the Manger to 89 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,520 the cross. I titled this from 12 to 33. 90 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,600 Something happens in the life of Jesus that I want us to look 91 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,840 about in the. Gospel of Luke chapter 2 and 49 92 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:17,960 Jesus was missing. The parents had journeyed a 93 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,560 day's journey and they had to journey a day back and Scripture 94 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,440 says that for three days they Jesus was lost and he was in the 95 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,040 temple teaching some educated folk. 96 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,200 It seems today we think you got to be educated to teach the 97 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,880 Bible. I tell you what, if you get a 98 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,880 Bible and put in your hand and you go out and you get about 99 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,480 your Father's business, you will get educated. 100 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,760 You will let the Holy Spirit lead and guide you into the 101 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,320 direction. You will be an educated person 102 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,960 for Jesus Christ, because if not, the world will destroy you 103 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,320 today. But I want to look at what Jesus 104 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:57,200 said here in Luke 2 and 49, as I can picture Mary and Joseph 105 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,280 finally looking for three days to find Jesus and walking and 106 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:03,520 trudging, and they finally come up on him. 107 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,120 He's at the church, kind of a strange place. 108 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,560 If you go looking for your 12 year old today or 13 year old, 109 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,080 they're probably not going to be at the temple, Amen. 110 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,040 They're probably not going to be at the church house, especially 111 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,320 teaching anything because I believe sometimes we fail to 112 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:19,640 teach them. Amen. 113 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,000 So they don't they're they're so. 114 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,400 Confused today? Hello. 115 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,800 But look what Jesus said. He was astonished. 116 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:32,480 He said why don't you seek me? I think this should be the reply 117 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,040 for every born again believer today. 118 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,280 Why are you worried about why? I'm happy? 119 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,560 But what would it be like to be a preacher and have a lot of 120 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,400 folk like Jesus? Why do you pray for me? 121 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:43,840 Why do you? Seek me. 122 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,920 Did you not know that I must say that with me, That I must be 123 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,520 about my Father's business? Father, we thank you for your 124 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,800 word today. We thank you that your word's 125 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,640 real, that it's alive. We thank you that you're sitting 126 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,520 at the right hand of the Father today, making intercession for 127 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,800 us. I pray that every word spoken 128 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,600 would bring glory and honor to your name. 129 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,200 I pray I'd be able to to to speak this. 130 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,120 Word, the way you. Showed it unto me this week that 131 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,520 lies would be changed. God, that you would challenge us 132 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:17,000 that we must be about the Father's business in the last 133 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,720 days that we're living in. Father, that you would quicken 134 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:21,440 our hearts and quicken our spirits. 135 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,880 God, and help us to open our Bible and get it off the shelf 136 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:29,440 and begin in 2026 to be about the Father's business. 137 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:33,560 In Jesus name we pray. Hey man, you may be seated. 138 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:42,080 Do you not know that I must be about my father's business? 139 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:46,400 And in verse 50, as we read on, it says but they did not 140 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:51,600 understand the statement which he spoke to them. 141 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,600 I dare say it would be no different today if someone asked 142 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,280 what are you doing? Do you not know that I must be 143 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,720 about my father's business? They wouldn't understand. 144 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,800 Most of them would think he was working for your earthly father. 145 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,800 They would not understand Jesus parents that was raising the 146 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,640 King of the world did not understand. 147 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,440 But we must be about the Father's business. 148 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,800 See, that's the unique thing about Jesus Christ from the time 149 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,040 Jesus was. Born in Bethlehem, till he 150 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,480 probably left the temple, he left the Carpenter shop from 151 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:28,160 where he was helping his father or framing houses, whatever they 152 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,480 were doing. He probably worked with Joseph 153 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:35,039 and and, but his mind was often wandering off because he knew 154 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:39,240 that he must. Be about the Father's business 155 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,600 from the Manger in Bethlehem to the cross of Calvary. 156 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,440 His heart was what it was right on target. 157 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:49,120 And we read in Luke 19 and Lukes gospel of 19 and 10. 158 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,320 He said, Do you not know that the Son of Man came to? 159 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:56,240 Seek and to save that which was lost. 160 00:08:56,560 --> 00:09:00,240 Jesus said I must be about my Father's business. 161 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,360 What would the Kingdom of God look like today if we as his 162 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,600 children was about the Father's business and we were seeking to 163 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,560 save those which are lost? Sometimes we forget about the 164 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:12,840 lost. The church has become very good 165 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,800 at forgetting about the lost. When they don't dress like us, 166 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,480 when they don't look like us or maybe smell like us, we forget 167 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,200 about the lost. Sometimes a man can I get a 168 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,320 witness? We must never forget about the 169 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,840 loss because that's what Jesus said that he came to do was to 170 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,480 seek. Not they may not come to you if 171 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,240 you sit around. I ain't LED nobody to Jesus this 172 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:34,600 year. They didn't just come. 173 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:36,400 You might have started to do a little seeking. 174 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,160 Hey man, because I promise you there's lost people. 175 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,120 There's lost people in the church house. 176 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,480 There's lost people at your job. There's lost. 177 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,200 People in the community and Jesus knew that. 178 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,400 That's why he said I must be about my father's business. 179 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,400 See, he left the cradle, but from the cradle to the cross, 180 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:59,320 from the cross to the tube, he. Knew that I must be about my 181 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,120 father's business. We get that way for a little 182 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,200 while. There's times in our life we're 183 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,840 on fire, man. We're seeing people saved and 184 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,520 we're witnessing the people. But there's all those also so 185 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:14,720 many times that we compromise. Jesus did not once compromise 186 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,360 and see the coolest thing about Jesus? 187 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,840 He had no money. He had to go fetch it from the 188 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,920 had to get one of his disciples to go get it from the fish 189 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,920 mouth, mouth of the fish because he had no money to tote around. 190 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,320 He had no computers. He had no jets. 191 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,960 He had he had no administrative assistants. 192 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:40,600 Hello. He had no associate pastors, yet 193 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,120 Jesus did. What many of us fail to do, He 194 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,160 kept his life right on track, right on course. 195 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:52,200 I believe that Jesus looked across the portals of time. 196 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:56,240 He could see many opportunities. Can you imagine what Jesus could 197 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,120 have been? He could have been a doctor 198 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,840 without a degree. He could have touched them and 199 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,680 they could have all been healed. He could have been the great 200 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:06,480 peacekeeper. He could have solved all the all 201 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,480 the world's problem. Jesus had so many things. 202 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,240 He could have been a peacemaker, but yet he chose to be a savior, 203 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:18,000 to save souls for eternity. He came to seek and do what save 204 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,600 that which was lost. I love that. 205 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:22,440 He didn't just come to seek you and let you stay the same way 206 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,400 you are. He came to seek and save from 207 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,480 our sin, save from a place called hell. 208 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:33,240 To seek and save that was which was lost. 209 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:35,640 He could have been a national leader, he could have been a 210 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:40,640 teacher, a physician, A peacemaker, but yet he chose to 211 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:43,640 be what? A savior of souls to seek and 212 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:45,880 saved. See, the heart of Jesus was so 213 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:50,600 focused on every task that he went up against, as I said, the 214 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,040 day he left the Carpenter shop of Nazareth, He had one goal in 215 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:54,960 mind. What was it? 216 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,040 Help me The cross of Calvary. He knew he had to get to the 217 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,680 cross to do what to say it is finished. 218 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,880 He had to get to the cross from the from the Manger to the 219 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:05,520 cross. He had to do it. 220 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,400 But with all the misery, with all the ridicule. 221 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:12,520 How could? How could? 222 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:17,120 Jesus say that it was finished. Ever thought about that it was 223 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,520 still the same world that he walked around in. 224 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,720 He was just a savior that had came that they had not believed 225 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,000 in right? Many had not believed in them. 226 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,960 And He came preaching good tidings and love and joy and 227 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,120 peace, and yet they. Killed him. 228 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,320 We get sold out as Christians. Well, I stepped out and I tried 229 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,400 to save and help somebody, but they didn't believe it. 230 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,320 So I'm not doing it anymore. And they didn't build me a big 231 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,560 church as a pastor. They didn't do this. 232 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:44,720 They didn't do that. The. 233 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,840 Story goes on and on. What about Jesus? 234 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,000 He was the greatest preacher, the greatest teacher, the 235 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,080 greatest healer that ever lived. But what did they do to him? 236 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,680 They didn't just ridicule him. They didn't just talk. 237 00:12:56,680 --> 00:12:58,320 About him. They killed him and hung him on 238 00:12:58,320 --> 00:12:59,840 a cross. Why? 239 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:03,360 Because he spoke the truth and people don't like the truth. 240 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,000 Why do people not like the truth? 241 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,640 Because most don't. Won't set free. 242 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:09,760 Hey man, they'd rather live in their misery. 243 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,480 If not, get up. Get out, child of God, because 244 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,240 your redemption draws nigh. But how could he say this? 245 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,720 There were still hungry to feed, there were still the sick, there 246 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,760 were still people to instruct. But something happened. 247 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,920 The sin debt had been paid in full. 248 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,280 That's why he could say that it is finished. 249 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:30,720 Hey man, that's what Christmas is about to me. 250 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,440 It's about the sin debt. See. 251 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:36,600 I owed a debt that I could not pay, and he paid a debt that he 252 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,920 did not owe and I owe it all to him. 253 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,480 Aren't you glad? Give him praise in the house if 254 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:43,720 you're glad. He paid that debt this morning. 255 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:49,280 Wouldn't you love for someone to say the same thing when they 256 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:54,160 stand behind your casket? They done what they were called 257 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:58,920 to do just as the heart of Jesus. 258 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,720 They were right on target. I asked you today, when you look 259 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,120 at your heart, when you look at your soul, who y'all ready for 260 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:07,720 this? I don't know why he gave me this 261 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,080 message today, He does. I don't have to know, I just got 262 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,920 to preach it. When you look at your heart 263 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,760 today and you look at your soul, see many never do that. 264 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,640 We never search our soul. It's easier to search somebody 265 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:26,000 else's. Hello, search your own soul this 266 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,200 morning. And when you do it, ask yourself 267 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:33,000 the question, what do I see? What do I see? 268 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:38,360 Many are so distracted, intrigued by 1 trend until 269 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,720 another comes along. That's us suckers for the latest 270 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:48,000 craze, the the new bestseller from one project to another, 271 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:53,880 living lives with no spiritual strategy, no spiritual goal 272 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,360 really in mind. That's not why Jesus came. 273 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:57,920 He came hot. Why? 274 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,120 That we might have life, That we might have it more abundantly. 275 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:05,440 Jesus didn't stay in the Manger. He got up, and as he grew, he 276 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,520 said I must be about my father's business. 277 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:12,440 Jesus had a longing. I must be about my Father's 278 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,440 business, but. Many are easily. 279 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:18,120 Distracted by small things and forget the big things that last 280 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:23,880 for eternity. So many long to feed the poor. 281 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,080 Enjoy leading churches. Relish singing, teaching and 282 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:33,880 counseling the confused, praying for the sick. 283 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,520 Those are all good things. Because in Ephesians 2 and 10, 284 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:42,320 it says we are the workmanship created in Christ Jesus to go 285 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,160 around doing crazy things and wander around lost all of our 286 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:49,080 life. No, it says, we say, we look at 287 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:55,520 your neighbors say I am the workmanship created in Christ 288 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,800 Jesus to do good works. And you know, there's something 289 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:00,640 neat about that. It says it goes on to say that 290 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:05,240 God prepared them beforehand, that we should walk in those 291 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:09,040 good works. If not, start doing it today. 292 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:13,080 It's never too late, right? The ripple of the ripple of 293 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,560 today's lie is tomorrow's wake in next year's flood. 294 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,160 Start today. Why not start today? 295 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,040 How do we do this? Proverbs 4 and 23 explains it 296 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,800 well. It says keep your heart with all 297 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,040 diligence. The King James translation says 298 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:37,560 guard your heart, for out of it flow the forces or the issues of 299 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,600 life. How do we do this? 300 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:47,720 Think with me for a moment. Everybody should know that you 301 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:52,720 reap or you harvest what you sow Jesus spoke of that, right? 302 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,400 He often spoke in principles. That was so easy to understand 303 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,600 if you put it in the ground and you water it. 304 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:00,880 That was what they had for an example. 305 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,320 Now, now. We put it in Google and we 306 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,560 Google it. And we don't even know who's 307 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:10,400 teaching us the Google. We don't know what them people 308 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,040 have done. We don't know what all they've 309 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,440 who's even teaching us that right? 310 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,800 But we believe it and many speak it for truth. 311 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:24,319 Jesus was very simple. He said, put it in the ground, 312 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:27,880 something that I created that's able to nurture, that's able to 313 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:29,880 grow it and put a little water on it. 314 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:35,520 And you see what comes up. Well, this is a heavy Ravi right 315 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:36,840 here. Think with me about this. 316 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,640 Everybody knows or should know that you can't walk by what you 317 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,640 planted in the spring and a few months later you can't plant a 318 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,840 pepper and you come back and there's a tomato. 319 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:52,360 You can't plant a pea and come back and there be a banana. 320 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:56,760 We we know that, we grasp that mentally, but do we grasp it 321 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:01,600 spiritually? Jesus said that whatsoever you 322 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,680 sow, you shall reap or you shall harvest. 323 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:10,400 But yet strangely, what? We know that we know that, but 324 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,560 we forget it when it comes to the Spirit man. 325 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:17,520 What's getting quiet in here? When we cultivate our hearts or 326 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:21,160 we plant things, who's planting them? 327 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,000 Who's planting your thoughts every day? 328 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,480 Can I give you a heavy revving? Mostly it's what you're 329 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,880 listening to or who you're listening to or who you're 330 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,360 hanging out with. That's what puts those things 331 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:35,760 within you. And for few people, it's the 332 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,760 word of God every day that we're putting in it. 333 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,000 But think about this. We cultivate our hearts. 334 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,200 We plant things that are within us. 335 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,120 Many times we let the world plant it. 336 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:50,480 We let politics plant it. We let somebody that we think's 337 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:54,120 educated that knows the Bible front and back, but have never 338 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:57,360 lived the Bible when we may even let them plant it. 339 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:00,600 We don't know the the Bible says be assured of the Scriptures and 340 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,320 know from whom you've learned them from. 341 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:08,760 I think that's a big deal. But what we know, we forget when 342 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,240 we cultivate our hearts and we let the world plant things 343 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,920 within us. We let thoughts plant thoughts. 344 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,800 We let music plant. We let the time we hang out with 345 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,880 others plant things within us. Hey man, I'm telling you how to 346 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,080 live a life like Jesus today. He didn't let other people plant 347 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:28,400 within him. Every time the enemy tried, he 348 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,120 had a word that said it's already written. 349 00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:32,080 It doesn't matter what you say, enemy. 350 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,800 It doesn't matter what the first Church of the religious whatever 351 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,760 is. It doesn't matter what you say, 352 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,400 it's what the word of God says because it's written. 353 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:43,560 It's forever settled in heaven and I ain't got to walk around 354 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:45,800 this life lost and wonder where to go. 355 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:47,760 All I got to do is. Dive in it. 356 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,520 Consider your thoughts for a moment. 357 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:53,600 You ever thought? Of them as a seed. 358 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,360 Some thoughts become flowers. It's a good thought. 359 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:58,800 It becomes a beautiful thing, right? 360 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,240 It become a flower. Others become weeds. 361 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,800 Either we sow seeds of hope and joy and optimism and all these 362 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:10,040 things. Or we sow seeds of doubt, 363 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,520 expectation. Well, I'll see that at 364 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:18,680 Christmas. The gift I get. 365 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,640 You shouldn't determine what you think of me. 366 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,960 Hello, how many of you are going to think if I give them this 367 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,520 little cheap thing? Oh, it's just a whirlwind. 368 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,760 Then you spend all your money and you're broke and you kick 369 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,400 and yourself. I shouldn't have spent that much 370 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,360 on them, but oh, it goes on and on. 371 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:42,240 Give them Jesus, Amen. Give them a scripture, something 372 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:46,240 that'll last forever, but we drive ourselves crazy. 373 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,040 Keep your heart with all. Diligence for out of it flow the 374 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,960 forces of life. But think about this. 375 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:58,520 We sow seeds of doubt. You doubt they're going to like 376 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:05,280 the gift anxiety insecurity. People go to shaken when they 377 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:06,720 hope you know what if they don't like it? 378 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,920 You ever searched for that hard gift for your kid? 379 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,760 Boy, you shopped. I mean, you thought and or maybe 380 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,440 it was a relative and they open and then people have the 381 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,720 audacity to say, I already got one of these. 382 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:21,920 If you've done that, you need to repent. 383 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,520 Had that sucker act like you never seen one. 384 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,200 Hey man, you'll pick somebody up that day. 385 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:30,520 But we're very good. Anybody ever had that happen? 386 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,160 Already got three of these. They probably. 387 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:33,840 Already got 1 whatever you're going to get them. 388 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,520 Hello. But yet we get all insecurity 389 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:41,960 and anxiety up about it right Like I told you all when my wife 390 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,280 wasn't here last week, she's got me. 391 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,280 She don't need nothing now I'm telling you that. 392 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:52,080 But you know what my next scripture is. 393 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:57,400 Do not be deceived. I was deceiving myself. 394 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,680 Galatians 6 and seven, it says do not be deceived. 395 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:08,160 How many is deceived? The world will deceive you, your 396 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:12,400 family will deceive you, friends will deceive you, but God will 397 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,560 never deceive you. But we're deceived sometimes in 398 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,000 thinking that God is malt. But in Galatians it says, be not 399 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,320 deceived. God is not malt. 400 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,720 For whatever a man sows, he shall also reap. 401 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,720 Well, that's powerful. I think of that verse every day 402 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,560 of my life. For he who sows to his flesh, 403 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:39,040 will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows of 404 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:43,360 the Spirit of the Spirit. Will reap everlasting life. 405 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,640 And I think we get good at sewing. 406 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,680 A lot of times Christians get good at sewing. 407 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:52,080 Good thing we want to give good things to people, but sometimes 408 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,400 we don't see the results of it. They open it and they say 409 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,080 already got it. We stand up and preach it and 410 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:58,960 they say I already heard somebody preach it better. 411 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,360 We stand up and we we God, I did this for you. 412 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:05,680 I give you my heart and soul and it didn't even touch the people 413 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,760 and sometimes we grow weary right. 414 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,840 There's a lot of Christians today growing weary because from 415 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:15,840 2025 years ago when Jesus came as a baby in a Manger coming 416 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,400 back and saying he was coming back to save a lost in the dying 417 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,360 world. Come on people get a little 418 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:23,600 weary. Hey, man, I pray it everyday. 419 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,560 Lord, I'm getting a little weary because the things that I see 420 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,160 around me are leading to the tribulation period. 421 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,280 They're leading to hunger and famine, and I'm your child and 422 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,160 you need to Get Me Out of here. Amen. 423 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,520 That's what I believe and that's what I pray. 424 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:42,040 I get a little weary. But right there in the Bible and 425 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,640 in the next verse, in verse 9, it says, But let us not grow 426 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,560 weary. While doing good. 427 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,720 It's not my season. The Rapture's not my season. 428 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:52,960 It's his season. Amen. 429 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,480 I just got to be ready in season, out of season. 430 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:00,800 Because he says in due season we shall reap if we do not lose 431 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,320 heart. Don't lose your heart this 432 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,160 morning. See from the Manger to the 433 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,760 cross. Jesus didn't lose his heart and 434 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,840 even on the cross he could have lost. 435 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,400 Hang in between. Think about sweet baby Jesus 436 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,600 where his ministry landed him hanging in between two thieves. 437 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,880 Well some pastors there would have to loosen their tie today, 438 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,920 wouldn't they? God, I haven't done this for you 439 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,440 and you go hang me and kill me between two thieves. 440 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,200 Who are you, God? But Jesus said nevertheless not 441 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,800 with my will, but dying. And then one spoke up. 442 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,160 He said, I found a little faith in the day. 443 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,840 You can be with me in paradise. Do not grow weary child of God, 444 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,080 while doing good for a due season. 445 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,720 You will reap if you do not lose heart. 446 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,800 The proof is everywhere. The proof is everywhere. 447 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,880 Driver's struck in traffic 1 gets to thinking about a busy, 448 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,880 messed up schedule. Gets mad. 449 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,040 I did that this week. Guy just kept cutting me off. 450 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,920 I got mad. I had to confess I didn't see 451 00:24:55,920 --> 00:25:00,120 him, but I got mad. But one is angry. 452 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,160 The other says it's a good chance to slow down and breathe. 453 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:06,600 I don't like to breathe when I'm mad to. 454 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:12,400 You just. You go past. 455 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,400 It used to be the lake over there, now it's Kettle Mills. 456 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,800 This doesn't move this way. You go past Kettle Mills. 457 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,120 You can get angry if you're a driver. 458 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,240 If you used to. Poke it around like we do. 459 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,760 You know, you see that red light? 460 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,000 I say, man, I ain't got a red light between me and Walmart. 461 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,680 We're blessed. But you have to get in a 462 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,640 different mentality over there. It's everywhere. 463 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,440 Two people face a tragedy. 1 is destroyed. 464 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:45,160 I'll never, I'll never get out of this, but the other one is 465 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,160 determined that God will get me through it. 466 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:53,600 Two people face success. We see it all the time. 1 Pats 467 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,640 himself on the back and grows cocky. 468 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,520 That's all they used to do, but now they post it. 469 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,960 They post it. On Facebook and have to let 470 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,000 everybody know how good they are. 471 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,200 I remember Bob's brother Chuck. He wouldn't have 50,000 at 472 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,320 Calgary called Bob said Chuck do I don't know. 473 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,680 He ain't calling. Nobody didn't have cell phones 474 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,000 then, but you can see Chuck. You wouldn't know if he wouldn't 475 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,960 first or fell off, would you? When 50,000 Calgary didn't call 476 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:24,120 his dad while you know, but when you're good, you don't have to 477 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:27,200 advertise it, right? When you're living for God, you 478 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,040 ain't you just got to live for God. 479 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,040 Everybody else will notice it. You ain't got to post it all. 480 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:40,680 Hey man, the other gives credit to God and see when we give 481 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,840 credit to God, we grow grateful. Guard your heart, stay on 482 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,800 target. Jesus guarded his heart and his 483 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,400 mind because he had one goal in mind. 484 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,040 What's your goal today? Our hearts are so trashed out. 485 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,560 Let any riff raff knock on the door, we throw it open. 486 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,200 Anger shows up. Many let it in. 487 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,760 We let the revenge start. It needs a place to stay. 488 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,920 We pull it up a chair, don't we? Pity wants to have a party, so 489 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:18,120 we join in. Them are bad places to be pity 490 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:20,560 parties. They just beat you down. 491 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,800 They make you feel worthless and you know you can find plenty to 492 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:30,680 party with you in your pity. Can I say that again? 493 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,680 You can find plenty. You may be having a bigger pity 494 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:39,000 than they are, but they'll join in the party and they may not 495 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,600 even be as sick and as hurting as you are. 496 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,480 Before they're done, they're going to have some greater than 497 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,960 what you got. It's like our lifelong goal to 498 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,800 be sicker. It's like our lifelong goal to 499 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,320 hurt more. Hello. 500 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:56,040 We're trashed out. Don't let pity have a party. 501 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,760 Lust rings the bell. We open the door. 502 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,400 I know that hurt. Can I say it again? 503 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,960 Lust rings the bell, We open the door. 504 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,680 Shut the door. We must be a like a soldier at 505 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,160 the gate of the city. Stand at guard. 506 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,000 When that scripture says that, it says. 507 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,240 Guard your heart, for out of it flow the forces of life. 508 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,240 Amen. Out of it flow the forces of 509 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,160 life. At the conclusion of Matthew's 510 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:27,400 Gospel in 28 and 18, Jesus said an amazing thing. 511 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,960 Think about the baby, the sweet baby Jesus. 512 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,120 He had accomplished what he was sent to do. 513 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,760 At the end of Matthew's Gospel, he, Jesus, said all authority 514 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,240 has been given to me in heaven and earth. 515 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,440 That sounds like a Savior. All authority, not some. 516 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,120 He's not just authority over the sinner's prayer you prayed that 517 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,840 made you feel like you're going to heaven. 518 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,240 He's got the authority to change his sin in your life and to turn 519 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,680 your feet around and to fill you with the Holy Ghost and to wake 520 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,040 you up in heaven at the end of this life. 521 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,120 He has all the authority. Satan has none. 522 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,560 We have to stand on that authority. 523 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,960 God help us show some of his authority in our life. 524 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:09,840 But the problem is we don't know the. 525 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,840 Authority because we can't take time to read the word of God. 526 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,000 When we know. The Word of God, we know the 527 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,920 authority. We have, we know, the gospel in 528 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,840 which we stand upon. Amen. 529 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,480 Your answer is there. Why does every Christian say 530 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:25,440 read the. Word. 531 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,120 Because they read the word and that's how they got to where. 532 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,480 They are today. God didn't just plop something 533 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,000 down magical on them. You're going to pay the price, 534 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,840 say man. If you want the anointing. 535 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,600 If you want the authority that Jesus had, you're going to pay 536 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,400 the price. There ain't no other way. 537 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,680 God help us show some authority in our life. 538 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,520 Read the word, see what it says about your situation. 539 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,560 Don't see what the neighbor says, Amen. 540 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,160 He don't know, she don't know. See what the word of God says 541 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,960 because all authority has been given to him in Jesus name. 542 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,200 You know how much God thought about this Manger over here, the 543 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,760 God of all creation that spoke and the waters were divided and 544 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,440 all these things happened. You know what he. 545 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,560 Said he said, I don't care how smart you are, I don't care what 546 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,880 you do in this life. There is no way to me except 547 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,680 through him that's powerful. Why? 548 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,400 Because all say that with me all authority. 549 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:26,160 See your mind is the doorway. I want you to go with me today 550 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:27,680 for a little bit. I want to tell you this little 551 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:32,480 story. Suppose you come to my house and 552 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,120 I said I want you to come with me over here. 553 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:41,000 I got a greenhouse. Neither is my house green nor my 554 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,800 thumb green. What I usually try to grow dies 555 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:48,000 because I forget to water it. Hey man, I've planted some of 556 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:53,080 the Oh yeah, you're supposed to water that days later, but I can 557 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,680 leave 1 going in a water through for two or three days and never 558 00:30:55,680 --> 00:31:02,480 turn it off and water all the. Ground if I ever do that and the 559 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,920 older I get the worse it gets. Set the alarm. 560 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,400 I said I can't remember to set the alarm. 561 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,200 So I got to where you stand there and hold it now and pray 562 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:16,240 while I'm holding it. But I want you to imagine that 563 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,480 you come to my greenhouse and I had this beautiful greenhouse. 564 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,760 And I tell you, look, we're going to plant some stuff in 565 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,040 this greenhouse and we're going to grow it and we're going to 566 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,040 come back in a few months. We're going to see how beautiful 567 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:31,080 it is. It's got the right climate, it's 568 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,400 got misters in it that shares the right amount of water at the 569 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,080 same time of the day. It's a state-of-the-art. 570 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,600 It's a greenhouse. And I get a bucket and I said 571 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,800 now come with me and I go out in this field. 572 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,360 You know a lot of the fields around here, they grow the goat 573 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,040 weed. Tell me like the goat weeds. 574 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,120 And I walked by the goat weed. I grabbed me a few seeds and I 575 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,680 put it in my bucket. Oh, we can't forget cocoa bears. 576 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,080 I pull them out of horses tails, regular. 577 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,080 I spray them suckers and you can't kill them. 578 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:05,240 I want faith like a cocoa bear. I'm going to preach that one 579 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,440 day. I took one of them suckers one 580 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,080 time and turned my torch on hot and put it on a piece of of 581 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,000 thick sheet metal. And I melted that thing and all 582 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,640 the little birds burned off it. You can't burn that seed. 583 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,840 I want faith like a cocoa bear, but I don't want it in my 584 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,000 garden. But I grabbed me some cocoa bird 585 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,280 seeds back to my bucket, and I began to throw them in my 586 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,400 bucket. And I go over here and I got 587 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,760 some big old things. They look like gourds that grow 588 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,120 sometime. You ever seen them? 589 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,040 And I was like, where did this thing come from? 590 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,000 God, I ain't planted that. Ain't that just comes up. 591 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,200 You know what he said? He said that's how your soul is. 592 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:44,000 There's some things you ain't never seen in 2026. 593 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,880 Come on. Somebody that's going to come 594 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,400 your way, that the devil's going to invent it to distract you, so 595 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,480 you better be ready for whatever's coming up. 596 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,680 But I throw all these seeds in my bucket and I say, OK, come 597 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,080 on, let's go with my greenhouse. We're going to plant these. 598 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,160 We're going to plant these seeds. 599 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,360 You'd be asking me something probably. 600 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,120 Why do you want to plant a Kuckleberg? 601 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,520 Why do you want to plant these things? 602 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,600 Because see, the the mind is the doorway to your heart. 603 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,400 It's a strategic place where you determine which seeds are sown. 604 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,800 Can I say that again? Quit looking at your neighbor 605 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,240 and blaming your neighbor. It's you that determine which 606 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,720 seeds are so, which ones that you're going to cast out there. 607 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,080 But if it's all you got in your bucket, it's all you went out 608 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:43,200 and gathered is a bunch of weeds and a bunch of cockle birds and 609 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,640 a bunch of distractions. And it's in your bucket and you 610 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,240 walk in this beautiful greenhouse. 611 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:54,720 It can grow anything because he has all authority whatever you 612 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,200 put in it. Is going to. 613 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:00,120 Grow. And Jesus said farther than 614 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,880 that. He said it's not that just that 615 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,560 goes in you, but when it goes in you, something begins to happen, 616 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,000 right? And then it's what's going to 617 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,159 come. Out of you, Let's see. 618 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:13,760 The Holy Spirit is ready to help you manage and filter the 619 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,480 thoughts that try to enter. That's the key. 620 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:19,600 That's the key. If it wasn't, the Apostle Paul 621 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,159 wouldn't have said it. He can help you this morning. 622 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:23,719 He can help you guard your heart. 623 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,880 He can stand with you on the threshold and as a thought 624 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:32,719 approaches, that's questionable. What happens in 2nd Corinthians 625 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,280 10 and five as we read this, one of my greatest scriptures, me 626 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,480 and brother Jarman used to share it all the time. 627 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,320 I miss that. I miss sharing this with him. 628 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:44,280 We shared it all the time in 2nd Corinthians 10 and five because 629 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,639 I believe that is the key to the Christian life. 630 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:51,679 In 2nd Corinthians 10 and 5, it says, I'm going to go to verse 631 00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:54,120 310 and three. It says for though we walk in 632 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,280 the flesh, you're going to get up and you're going to walk in 633 00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:00,080 the flesh, but you do not war according to the flesh, but 634 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,840 you're going to try to fight the flesh because the church has 635 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,200 told you if you can get control of that flesh, you're saved. 636 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,320 But it says we don't really war according to the flesh. 637 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,040 I challenge you, go deeper than the flesh. 638 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,560 Get off in the flesh, get to the heart and the soul of your 639 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,320 being, and when you defeat it there, Amen. 640 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,760 When you defeat it there, you don't have to worry about the 641 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:27,800 flesh when you defeat it there. OK, how do we do that? 642 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:31,000 How did Jesus do it? From the Major to the cross, He 643 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,200 was. So on target, how did he do it? 644 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,760 Because the same word he give Apostle Paul. 645 00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:40,560 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the 646 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,760 flesh. For the weapons of our warfare 647 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:44,880 are not carnal, but they're mighty. 648 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,760 They're mighty in God for pulling down. 649 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:53,080 For pulling down the strongholds, casting down 650 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:58,080 arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the 651 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,080 knowledge of God. Everything we see today, I dare 652 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:05,920 say 90% of the airwaves, maybe more percentage than that is 653 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,520 trying to exalt itself against the glory of God. 654 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,840 We look at the churches today, I was showed a huge Christmas play 655 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,680 that take thousands of people to produce at Christmas and I 656 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,960 didn't see a lot of God in it. Why? 657 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:25,520 Because even the church today we try to exalt ourselves but come 658 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,440 on, I cannot preach this thing against the knowledge of God. 659 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,480 Jesus never one time tried to exalt himself above his heavenly 660 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,600 Father. He submitted to the will of the 661 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,960 Father. He said, nevertheless, not my 662 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:41,720 will, but thy will be done. Let your Kingdom come upon this 663 00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:45,200 earth as it is in. Heaven cast down every argument 664 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,720 and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of 665 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:52,160 God. Well, we can do that. 666 00:36:52,160 --> 00:37:00,080 But here's the hard part. Bringing every thought I got to 667 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:05,600 grab it from here to here from an average of 18 inches. 668 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,040 You know these people going to miss heaven by 18 inches? 669 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,080 It's an average of 16 to 18 inches. 670 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,600 I've heard from the head to the heart, a lot of people's going 671 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,200 to miss heaven about 18 inches. Isn't that sad? 672 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:23,040 18 inches because they never learned to cast down arguments 673 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,040 and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of 674 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,960 God, bringing every thought into captivity. 675 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:31,720 When's the last time you'd done that? 676 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,680 I got to do it every day. If I got to do it every day, or 677 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:37,960 I'll lay this mic down, if I begin to listen to the things 678 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,800 the devil's telling me, and about my future, and about I'll 679 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,560 do, I got to do it every day. I got to bring that thought 680 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,560 captive. But that ain't all we got to do 681 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,160 when we captive. When we get it stopped, we got 682 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:55,480 to bring it to the obedience of Christ. 683 00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,840 We got to learn how to never let it in there again. 684 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,760 That's how Jesus made it from the cradle, from the Manger to 685 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,120 the cross. You ready for this next part? 686 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:08,400 Apostle Paul wasn't easy to follow. 687 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,640 He didn't lift, no, no IS undotted, no T's uncrossed. 688 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,440 He said you got to bring it captive. 689 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,600 You got to bring into the obedience of Christ, and then 690 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:21,920 you got to be ready to punish all disobedience. 691 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:28,080 When your obedience is full, punishing disobedience is hard. 692 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,000 Because see, when you go do. It again, you didn't punish 693 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,120 nothing. You didn't learn from your 694 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,680 mistake. You didn't learn how to never be 695 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,120 there again. You didn't punish your 696 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,560 disobedience. It's easier to just say, oh, 697 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,640 grace has got me, let me do it again. 698 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,680 Grace has got me let me do it again. 699 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,040 Grace has got you see what's happening when I keep leaning. 700 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,560 Grace is a great thing, but it says that by doing again, there 701 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,400 comes a time that we can walk on the blood of Jesus and we can 702 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,320 make the cross of Christ have no effect in our life because we're 703 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,240 turned over to a debase mind. We didn't think anything about 704 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:01,800 guarding the heart, guarding the mind. 705 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,760 Jesus did. But yet as we walk through this 706 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,160 greenhouse. As fertile as it. 707 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,640 Is I walk in there and I put the cockle birds and I put the 708 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,480 ragweeds and I put all those I mentioned in there. 709 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,280 What do you think happened? What do you think happened to my 710 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,160 greenhouse? The atmosphere was perfect, the 711 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,000 light was exact, the temperature was suited for any kind of 712 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,440 flower. I wanted to plant anything I 713 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,680 wanted to do. But as I asked. 714 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,520 You to join me as I collect these things. 715 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,400 Wouldn't you think I was a little bit crazy? 716 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,880 This sucker's planting A greenhouse and he's putting all 717 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:46,040 this stuff in it. I fill the bag with all the 718 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,840 negative, all the weeds, and then I walk around saying God. 719 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:55,720 What you going to grow well? It's probably going to look 720 00:39:55,720 --> 00:40:00,080 something like a cockle bar. She going to do like Swayze? 721 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,120 I'll be pulling them out of a horse. 722 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,360 She got their little gloves on their furry and I'll throw them 723 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,840 at her and they just stink. She has a fit. 724 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,320 Cockle bears. They're from hell. 725 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:17,520 But yet I ask you join me, you're going to think I'm a 726 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,840 little bit crazy. Don't you think you ought to 727 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,600 plant some flowers? Don't you think you ought to put 728 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,080 something pretty in there, maybe a little fruit, something you 729 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,280 need on later when your spirits should get a little bit of 730 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,800 dryness going on? But you know, this is what 731 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:34,440 Christians do. Stay with me and I'm going to 732 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,720 close the story I heard about the greenhouse. 733 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:41,120 You know what he said? And they said, why won't you 734 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,280 plant a few flowers? Why wouldn't you plant a few 735 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,560 seeds? Why wouldn't you? 736 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,400 And this is where the God spoke to me in there. 737 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,200 This is where where it hit me hard. 738 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,200 The owner of that greenhouse, it wasn't me. 739 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:56,560 You figured that out, but he said no, they cost too much. 740 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:01,640 That's the way we are as Christians, to have those pretty 741 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,640 flowers. You know, churches too far. 742 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,720 The preacher preaches too long. The songs, I've heard them 743 00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:10,200 before. Well, you know what, I got news 744 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,800 for you. You've heard this gospel that 745 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,200 I'm preaching this morning before. 746 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,440 But you know what God referred to you as? 747 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:17,680 What are you? You a sheep? 748 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:25,240 You dumb hey man sheep are dumb. You don't believe me go hurt you 749 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:29,640 herded some they dumb that's why they need a shepherd. 750 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,520 That's why Jesus did it all through it. 751 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:35,640 We dumb he can do it. Over and over again in our. 752 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,760 Life and we forget about it. We just keep running back to the 753 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,960 lines and getting out from under the cover. 754 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,560 That's why we need a shepherd. That's why he's the great 755 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,760 Shepherd. Because we dumb, we're Saddam, 756 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,520 we plant these things when we're body is a temple of the Holy 757 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,200 Ghost, a man, our body. The Bible even says that the 758 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:58,760 same power that raised Jesus from the dead dwells inside of 759 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,440 me. Whatever I put in it, he's able 760 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,800 to prosper it. Come on, give him a praise in 761 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,320 the house. He's able to grow it, he's able 762 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,120 to sustain it and he's able to keep it. 763 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,560 So I ask you, why do you keep putting weeds? 764 00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:19,040 When you're in your greenhouse, you have this vessel, you have 765 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,160 this treasure. Why do we keep putting in it? 766 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:23,640 Plant. Flowers. 767 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,600 But yet it's because we say that you have any idea how much that 768 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,320 cost? Yeah, I know what it costs. 769 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,640 It's going to cost you eternity. One of these days, that's called 770 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,640 forever. And if you don't put the right 771 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,240 things in there, you're going to spend forever somewhere. 772 00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,360 But it's easier to listen to a preacher that won't preach you 773 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,960 the truth. It's easier to hear a man tell 774 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,560 you how God's going to prosper you if you'll give. 775 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:53,000 It's easier to do all those things because true worship cost 776 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,680 you something. Ask Jesus. 777 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,400 Ask the apostle Paul. Ask all the disciples that got 778 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,320 boiled, got their heads cut off, got hung upside down. 779 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,720 Come on, we ain't ready for what's about to happen in 26. 780 00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:11,880 We ain't ready. We don't want any convenience. 781 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,200 Those seeds cost too much. Do you have any idea? 782 00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,400 Yeah, I know what they cost. I know what the anointing cost. 783 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,520 It ain't cheap and it ain't easy. 784 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,960 But yet it's easier to take the easy, right easy way out. 785 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,080 But remember this as you stand to your feet. 786 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:39,160 A seed from a weed will not produce something beautiful. 787 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,520 A seed from a weed will not produce a church that divine 788 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:50,440 healing takes place in. A seed from a weed will not 789 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:56,120 produce anything beautiful. So what are you saying this 790 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:57,600 morning? What am I saying is they come 791 00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:03,360 and sing this morning. The point is a Proverbs 4 and 23 792 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:10,960 guard the doorway to your heart. Submit your thoughts to the 793 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:15,880 authority of Jesus Christ. Will you listen to me for one 794 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:22,040 last minute? Be very selective about the 795 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:26,320 seeds that you plant, because they will. 796 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:29,480 Grow. They will grow. 797 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:36,200 I begin to think about this. From the Manger to the cross. 798 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:41,000 Jesus was right on target. I want to be on target. 799 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,400 How about you? I got to guard my heart, preach 800 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,680 to you a lot of things. But I want you to remember that 801 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:53,040 a seed from a weed will not produce something beautiful, but 802 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,720 yet we sow them every day. Take those thoughts captive. 803 00:44:56,720 --> 00:45:00,480 I can't do that. You ever hear somebody talking a 804 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:04,520 certain way on the job and you just maybe it ain't. 805 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:08,080 It ain't got to be a dirty word. It's just got to be a negative, 806 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,880 something that's going to pull you down. 807 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:17,160 I deal with it with preachers. Hey man, most time telling me I 808 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,520 can't preach like I preach them and run them all off. 809 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,720 Oh, we can't do that. Yeah, we can. 810 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:24,960 I can preach the Word as a preacher. 811 00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:32,320 Can I preach the Word? If you leave, you're the one 812 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,280 lost out because I'm preaching the Word. 813 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:42,920 But from the Manger to the cross, his life was so on 814 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,400 target. Think about it. 815 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,040 I wonder what Jesus must have felt when he was placed in 816 00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,720 between two thieves. You know what have been very 817 00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:54,680 easy to plant that seed in that grain. 818 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:58,480 But he knew that whatever goes in here, my God, so powerful. 819 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,400 I mean, all I did was walk by the tomb of Lazarus. 820 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:02,280 He'd been. Dead 3. 821 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,520 All I did was say Lazarus come forth and he jumped. 822 00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:11,160 Out of them grave clothes. All I had, all I had to do was 823 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,080 walk by. Can you imagine having that much 824 00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,240 power that Jesus had to watch what he said? 825 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,960 Because it would happen. It would happen. 826 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:24,720 But from the Manger to the cross, He never got off target. 827 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,560 Father, not my will be done. But then let's worship with this 828 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,080 song. It was on my heart when I woke 829 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:32,640 up this morning. Think about it. 830 00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,640 This song speaks the message. If you need prayer, these altars 831 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,600 are open, but we're going to sing this beautiful song and 832 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,400 we're going to close. We wish everybody a Merry 833 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,200 Christmas. Don't let the anxiety fill your 834 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,600 heart. Don't try to please people. 835 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:49,800 Just think about Jesus. Say man, tell them about Jesus. 836 00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,240 Thanks for listening to the Cross Powered Church podcast. 837 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:57,200 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 838 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,600 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 839 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,760 would love for you to join us in person. 840 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,320 You can find service times at crosspoweredchurch.com.